Akane Owari

Akane Owari (終里 赤音 Owari Akane) is one of the characters featured in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. She has the title Ultimate Gymnast (超高校級の「体操部」chō kōkō kyū no “taisō-bu”).

At the end of the game, she and the other survivors managed to escape to the real world.

Appearance
Akane has tan skin, unkempt, shoulder-length chestnut hair, and brown eyes. She wears a short sleeved button up shirt with the top buttons undone, revealing her large chest size, a red miniskirt, and cream-colored sockless loafers.

Personality
Akane has a fiery personality, and always jumps on the chance for a fight. She gets along very well with Nekomaru. She is very lazy and unmotivated. Akane is also a big eater. Despite her lazy and easy going personality, she is a loyal person towards her friends.

History
[Warning: Several spoilers follow this section!]

Prior to the Tragedy
In Akane's Free Time events, it is revealed that before going to Hope's Peak Academy, Akane lived a poor life, as she states that it was better than her old room when she was given the worst room in the Strawberry and Muscat Towers in Chapter 4. She lived together with her 7 siblings and unemployed father, filled with poverty and hunger. She states that her “mom or dad would change”, and that “there would be more siblings every time”. It is also revealed that she worked many part-time jobs where her customers groped her, until her father suggested that she should start doing gymnastics for money. For her, it was paradise enough on the island just to stay warm and not get rained on.

Like her fellow classmates, she too at one point fell in line with Ultimate Despair before her capture and attempted rehabilitation. Although there's no hint as to what may have caused this, it is known that some members of Despair starved themselves and considering Akane's constantly showcased love of eating, it's possible she may have been one of these individuals.

Prologue - Welcome to Dangan ★ Island! Big Panic at the Heart-Thumping Field Trip?
In this chapter, she introduces herself as the SHSL Gymnast.

Chapter 1 - Tropical Despair
In Chapter 1, her eating Teruteru's food was essential in proving the fact that it was not poisoned.

Chapter 2 - Crime and Coconuts, Punishment and Pina Coladas
In Chapter 2, She start to have a practice session a lot with Nekomaru.She refused to give up and got injured before Sonia's swimming party started. As she enters the doorway, she is seen covered in blood.

She and Hajime revealed that the window leading out of the beach house could be exited through two people getting on one or another's shoulders.

Chapter 3 - Ocean Breeze Dead End
In Chapter 3 when the others are at Fuyuhiko's welcome back party, she challenges Monokuma to a duel, where Nekomaru steps in and saves her from Monokuma's final strike. Later, she got despair fever, the motive of the third chapter. Under its influence, she became a cowardly crybaby. She refuses to admit that the culprit of the third chapter is the person that treated her when she got Despair Fever.

Chapter 4 - Do Ultimate Androids Dream of Electric Clocks?
In Chapter 4 when she and the rest of the group found out that Nekomaru turned into a robot, she didn't feel devastated or shocked, although she felt sorry for him. She believed that becuase of her recklessness, Nekomaru lost his human body.

After she and the groups trapped inside the Surprise House by Monokuma in the fourth island, she, Hajime, and the girls decided to stay at the Muscat House while the boys excluding Hajime stay at Strawberry House. She choose to stay in the poor/worst room becuase she said that she was used to live in a poor house.

Chapter 5 - You Smile at Hope They Call Despair
In chapter 5, she, Fuyuhiko, Kazuichi attempt to apprehended Nagito.

Nekomaru Nidai
Nekomaru is close to Akane due to their desire to improve themselves physically. She was the most shocked to discover that he was a cyborg and was really depressed about his death. Despite Gundham Tanaka being executed, she was still depressed, leading Kazuichi Soda to use some of Nekomaru's remains to create a mini-Nekomaru to cheer her up.

Quotes

 * “ I can't handle difficult stuff. I'll leave the rest to you guys. ”


 * “ Can I solve this by hitting it hard enough? ”


 * “ I'M NOT GONNA LOSE! ”


 * “ I hate tests, but.. Well, it's a whole lot better than having to kill someone! ”
 * “I'm starting to get pumped up! ”
 * “Shut up! None of this stuff matters if I win! All I have to do is win! ”
 * “There sure are lots of strong people in this world! ”
 * “I absolutely hate to lose. ”

Trivia

 * Akane's e-Handbook states that she likes fighting and meat, and hates working hard.
 * Akane uses the word ore (俺) to refer herself instead of watashi or atashi (私), which is a boastful form of “I” typically used by males; however, unlike Hajime, she doesn't end her sentences with the usual accompaniment of da zo.
 * Her first name can be translated to “red sounds” or “red noise”, while her last name is homophonous for the word 'owari', meaning end.
 * Her Bloodtype is B.
 * She knows a wrestling move called “Plancha Suicida”, or “Suicide Dive”.