Rantaro Amami

"Life's never easy, huh?"

- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Rantaro Amami (天海 蘭太郎 Amami Rantarō) is a student in Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles and a participant of the Killing School Semester featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Rantaro's talent is currently unknown. He claims that he does not remember his talent and is not particularly concerned about discovering his talent. Thus, he is dubbed Ultimate ??? (超高校級の「???」 chō kōkō kyū no “???” lit. Super High School Level ???).

Early Life
{{spoiler/for|Danganronpa V3|
 * Participating Danganronpa

Rantaro Amami is a normal talentless high school boy who participated in the 52nd Season of Danganronpa, a famous worldwide reality show made by Team Danganronpa. In this Killing Game season, he was executed and that form of execution is to participate the next killing game, which is known as the Killing School Semester or the 53rd Killing Game Season and thus, giving him the title of Ultimate Survivor (超高校級の「生存者」 chō kōkō kyū no “Seizon-sha” lit. Super High School Level Survivor), replacing his original talent as the Ultimate Adventurer (超高校級の「冒険家」 chō kōkō kyū no “Bōken-ka” lit. Super High School Level Adventurer)

When participant of the 53rd killing game came to the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles for the first time, Rantaro was the only one who could maintain his composure and somehow know something about the situation.

Rantaro's memory about his talent as the Ultimate Survivor hadn't been erased by Team Danganronpa, who had only erased his true and actual talent as the Ultimate Adventurer. After that, through Monokuma and his children, Rantaro and the others officially began the 53rd killing game.

Before he was forced into participate the 52nd Killing Game, he attended Hope's Pass High School (望峠高校). However, it is unclear if this memory of her is a part of the fabrication made by Team Danganronpa.


 * Fabricated Past

After he successfully joined Danganronpa as a Killing Game participant, Rantaro's memories and past were fabricated by Team Danganronpa as follows.

Rantaro claims he comes from a very rich family and he has multiple younger sisters, most of them step sisters. He also has an unknown amount of brothers. It's implied his father might be a big womanizer, explaining the large amount of children. The family also had a kind maid when Rantaro was a kid, who took care of the children and was like another mother for them. For Rantaro, she was an amazing person who could do anything. The siblings sometimes had disagreements over silly things like who gets to read a picture book first.

Rantaro felt responsible over his younger sisters and wanted to help them and take care of them, to the point that he apparently learned a lot about make-up and other things that are often called feminine, and he claims that he frequently helped his sisters with nail art. He was especially close with his youngest sister, who always followed him around.

Many years ago, him and his entire family went on a boating trip. It was Rantaro's first one. He liked traveling and once they reached a port, he got off the ship and went on an adventure. His youngest sister followed him off the boat without him realizing. She disappeared and was never found. Rantaro blamed himself, believing he is a terrible brother and feared that his sisters might hate him.

However, Rantaro was determined to find his sister and with his father's permission, he traveled around the world on a boat searching for her. He believed that she was alive, unless he was proven otherwise. The traveling was dangerous, especially when he had to cross territories. Rantaro's family told him to give up, but Rantaro wanted to reunite his siblings no matter how many years it would take him.

The Gofer Project
Part of the fake backstories created for Rantaro and the other fifteen students was The Gofer Project, which supposedly happened before the killing game started. It was initiated by the government after countless meteorites crashed into Earth. To try and preserve the last vestiges of mankind before the Earth’s destruction, the government decided to select a number of excellent human beings, put them in a spaceship, and have them escape.

Rantaro and fifteen other high school students were chosen to participate. Not wanting to abandon their loved ones, they attempted to escape from the plan.

Around that time, an extremist cult came into power. They believed that the meteor crashes were a punishment humanity brought upon itself, and having heard of The Gofer Project, they tried to stop it. As a result, the “Ultimate Hunt” started and spread throughout the world, and the sixteen students were hunted down.

The government then decided to counter the situation by faking the students' deaths, calming down the “Ultimate Hunt” while providing protection to the students. The Gofer Project was then put into action while the Earth was being destroyed. Rantaro and the others went to the space in a massive colony spaceship, the true form of Ultimate Academy of Gifted Juveniles.

Kokichi Oma who declared himself as a member of Junko Enoshima's Remnants of Despair said that he is the mastermind behind the Killing Game who let Monokuma entered the spaceship, effectively forcing Rantaro and the others to participate in the Killing Game. }}

Killing School Semester
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Investigation
During the 53rd killing game, Rantaro lied to all students about him forgetting his talent. He is full aware that he holds the title of the Ultimate Survivor since the beginning because he had a survival perk mono-pad which was given to him as a reward for surviving a previous killing game. The survival perk mono-pad contained an entire map of the school, which is only known by himself and the Mastermind. However, his memories of the past killing game didn't return, and he must return to square one to discover the identity of the mastermind.

After Monokuma presented the time limit motive, Rantaro decided to investigate the school alone. He reassured everyone that he would bring an end to the killing game and that he understands why they wouldn't believe someone who couldn't even remember their own talent. Such as when he tried to convince Ryoma Hoshi not to sacrifice himself in order to save everyone from the time limit motive. He also warned everyone not to do something reckless while he tried to stop the killing game alone.

Thanks to his survival perk mono-pad, Rantaro discovered that the library in the basement contained a secret and made his way there. He was initially a part of Kaito Momota's strategy meeting members, but left by lying to Kaito that he needed to use the bathroom, in order to check the secret room in the library.

While in the library, Rantaro discovered a door into the hidden room behind a book shelf, which he promptly moved out of the way. This triggered Shuichi Saihara's sensor on top of the shelf, and Kaede Akamatsu's hidden camera, whose flash led him over to it. It was around this time that Kaede had thrown her shot put into the air duct that led into the library. The ball rolled along the books on top of the shelf that she had set up, but failed to hit Rantaro.

The Mastermind of the Killing School Semester, which is none other than Tsumugi Shirogane, meanwhile, witnessing Kaede's plan fail through the hidden room, immediately left it and made their way into the library. Rantaro was stunned as to why an iron ball fell from up above and, while he was distracted, he was instantly killed by Tsumugi with her own shot put.

Tsumugi took Kaede's shot put that failed to hit him, replaced it with her own, then stole Rantaro's survival perk mono-pad and made their way back into the hidden room, completely covering up his murder and making it look like Kaede accidentally killed him in her plan to reveal the mastermind.

Later on, when everyone came upon Rantaro's body, everyone was mystified as to why and how he was killed. Kaede was horrified that she thought that she accidentally killed a dear friend, while the truth is that The Mastermind, Tsumugi, was the one who killed Rantaro. Everyone was fooled into believing that Kaede was the culprit during the class trial, including Kaede herself. Monokuma openly mocked Rantaro, claiming that he may have stood out more as a character had he discovered his talent. The full truth of Rantaro's murder would not become clear until much later.

Uncovering the Truth
Rantaro's talent as the Ultimate Survivor was discovered by Shuichi and Himiko Yumeno for the first time in Chapter 6, where they found a disc containing a recording made by Rantaro himself inside his Research Labs.

After the investigation had concluded, Himiko, K1-B0, Maki Harukawa, Shuichi Saihara, and Tsumugi Shirogane decide to rethink Rantaro's case after discovering a new truth related to his murder. Upon finding out Rantaro's talent as the Ultimate Survivor, and proving that Kaede did in fact not murder him and was executed unjustly, Shuichi realized that the mastermind has to be one of them. By double-checking everyone's alibis during Rantaro's murder, Shuichi honed in on Tsumugi as the true culprit and mastermind of the Killing School Semester.

The clues that Rantaro had left behind would later be used by Shuichi to disprove their own supposed memories, such as even though he had participated in a previous killing game, he was not present for the Killing School Life or the Killing School Trip. In the end, Rantaro could achieve his goal to defeat the mastermind as his and Kaede's deaths were avenged after Danganronpa finally come to it ends in the last execution.}}

Name
天海 (Amami), consists of the kanji (天) "heaven" and (海) "sea". It also means "love me" in Italian. His given name consists of 蘭 ran, meaning "orchid" and 太郎 tarō, a common suffix for Japanese boys' names which literally means "healthy son" and is usually given to the eldest son in the family.

Alternate Fates
In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version), Rantaro first seen in front of the classroom where Kaede Akamatsu awake. When he encountered Kaede and Makoto Naegi he asked whether they remembered being here before. He speculated that all of them have an amnesia after being brainwashed or group hypnosis. He states that he doesn't remember his talent and looking forward to remembering it. Strangely enough, his talent doesn't list on the freshman document and Makoto commented that he probably one of the student that doesn't want his talent to be known so easily.

As a student named Yasuhiro Hagakure's body being discovered, Rantaro and the others investigate his death and attend the class trial to search for the culprit. However, Rantaro and K1-B0 were sat out from the trial due to the sit doesn't accommodate more than 16 students. He agreed to for being sat out after everyone promised him to discover the identity of the blackened.

Appearance
Rantaro is a tall young man with greenish blond hair and two small ahoges. His eyes are green and have notably long eyelashes. He wears a dark blue striped sweater with gray pants and shoes. His sweater has a big dark symbol resembling his former high school, Hope's Pass High School.

Rantaro has a necklace with a crystal accessory on it. He wears a silver bracelet on his right wrist and a different, larger bracelet on the left. He also has multiple silver rings: one on his left index finger, one on his right thumb, and one on the right index finger. His right middle finger has a one bigger and darker ring. His right ear has six piercings, while his left ear only has one, and one in his eyebrow.

He is relatively good-looking and it is noted in the game that he looks like a "playboy."

Personality
When he was first introduced, Rantaro seemed like a mysterious individual. Later it could be seen that he is a carefree and relaxed person, and he is actually described as one of the more ordinary students despite his mysteriousness, with he himself stating that he can sometimes get a bit overwhelmed by the others' stranger personalities. Even though Rantaro cannot remember his talent, he doesn't seem worried about it, instead he simply looks forward to finding out what it is. He is usually seen smiling and describes himself as "not a suspicious guy". He gives off a really calm and composed vibe, and seems like a reliable person. His speech is characterized by being very friendly and colloquial, using the "～っす" copula in his sentence. Fan translations usually adapt this pattern by using teenage slang in his lines.

Despite his appearance and manner of speech, he has cold, excellent insight, and he can have even frightening expressions whenever he gets very serious. While the other students descend into confusion and chaos when Monokuma and the Monokuma Kubs state their objective, he is capable of coldly interrogating them about their motives. He also shows a deep understanding of the situation and often talks and acts like he knows something the others don't know, saying profound-sounding and enigmatic sentences, which often make him sound quite suspicious or even eerie.

People (especially girls) occasionally seem to assume that Rantaro is a womanizer and he himself is aware that he looks like "a playboy", but he always insists he isn't that kind of person and he doesn't have a girlfriend, stating that he's just a chill, friendly guy. Apparently, he dislikes it when people assume that he is a womanizer based on his looks, possibly because his father might be one. Due to of having multiple little sisters, he acts like a responsible big brother towards some of his classmates. He has great knowledge on concepts that are considered feminine, because he used to help his younger sisters with certain things like schoolwork and nail art. His behavior towards Kokichi in one of the anthology stories indicates that he can also be very soft with his siblings and possibly other young or young-looking people, as he seems to have a hard time saying no if they ask him nicely.

Talent and Abilities
{{Spoiler| Rantaro's Ultimate talent is a fabrication made by Team Danganronpa. Before joining Danganronpa, he was only a talentless ordinary high school student.

Ultimate Survivor
Due to surviving the previous killing game and participating in the current one, Rantaro gained the title of Super High School Lever Survivor. However, because he does not remember this, he goes by the Ultimate ???.

Super High School Level Adventurer
In Space Mode, Rantaro remembers that his talent is the Super High School Level Adventurer, which was most likely his talent during the previous killing game. The title fits his supposed backstory, with him having a nature of an adventurer and traveling around the world in search of his sisters.}}

In other languages
Rantaro's talent as it appears in official translations of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Analytical Skill
While Rantaro is seen as a mysterious individual, he shows a high intellect and calm composure to analyze his surroundings.

Relationships

 * Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles:

Kaede Akamatsu
As shown in one of character trailer of Danganronpa V3, Rantaro admired how Kaede could pull everyone together and is impressed with her leadership skill. Kaede thinks that he is a refreshing person and easy to talk to. Kaede was surprised how Rantaro acts so care-free and relaxed before the class trial in the demo's beginning. She states that even though things have become more complicated, Rantaro has found the way to clear the whole situation, which made her curious. She was also confused how Rantaro speaks so calmly against Monokuma during the situation and is desperate to find what Rantaro's true talent is.

Shuichi Saihara
When Rantaro met Kaede and Shuichi, Shuichi seemed confused how Rantaro mentioned about everyone gathering and getting amnesia. He thinks he is some way mysterious and has some clues about his backstory. Rantaro is shown to have strong faith in Shuichi's abilities and considers him a real detective even though Shuichi himself doesn't. Later in Chapter 1, Shuichi became quite hostile towards Rantaro based on his suspicions about him being the mastermind and forgetting his talent.

Tsumugi Shirogane
Tsumugi grows a strong hatred for Rantaro, calling him an edgy normie, and feels disgusted by his actions.

Miu Iruma
Rantaro is a bit overwhelmed by Miu's foul mouth, but doesn't seem to dislike her as much as some other students do.

When Kaede and Rantaro talk about some of their more unique classmates during his Free Time Events, Rantaro mentions that Miu's talent is beyond understanding for ordinary people like them. He mentions that he understands her thought process, though, and that she likes to be the one on top. Kaede gets confused by the wording and Rantaro laughs that he was just trying to make a joke.

Favorite Presents

 * Someone's Student ID
 * Marigold Seeds
 * Rock-Paper-Scissors Cards
 * Cuffs Button
 * Silver Earring

Liked Presents

 * Beret

Neutral Presents

 * Cool Glass
 * Solid Ice Cream
 * Ketchup
 * Ouendan Head Coat
 * Survival Flag
 * Nailbrush

Hated Presents

 * Sugar

All other presents are disliked.

Quotes

 * -|DRV3 Demo=

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List of Appearances

 * -|Games=
 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version)
 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
 * -|Manga=
 * New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shin Gakki Comic Anthology
 * New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shin Gakki Comic Anthology Volume 2

Trivia

 * Rantaro's birth flower is maple, or "Kaede" in Japanese.
 * Rantaro is the third character in the main series whose talent is unknown at the beginning, succeeding Kyoko Kirigiri and Hajime Hinata in that regard.
 * In the official Danganronpa V3 art book, Rantaro's last name, Amami (天海), was mistakenly written as Amano (天野).
 * In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Rantaro the 6th most popular Danganronpa V3 student.

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