Eiichirō Saiyama

Eiichirō Saiyama is an antagonist featured in Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer, a spin-off manga for Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy.

Eiichirō is a serial killer who has been murdering people since his debut as a mangaka. He was murdered after his crime was found by Takumi Hijirihara, the Killer Killer in chapter 3.

Appearance
Eiichirō has an average build and messy medium length hair. He wears a dark colored skirt and glasses.

Personality
Eiichirō has a massive complex on being complimented, only being complimented for his drawings once when he was a child. He is also shown to be mentally unstable as he gets mad after being found as the culprit for the murders.

Prior to the Tragedy
Eiichirō wanted to become mangaka since he was in elementary school. A girl from his class praised his drawing and wonder if he wanted to become a mangaka in future. Eiichirō overjoyed because that's the first time that someone compliment him. Ironically, until he became a success mangaka in his 32, no one praised him ever again.

Chapter 3 - Bessatsu Shounen Zetsubou Magazine
Eiichirō was a success mangaka that wrote a documentary serial manga series. The tragedy that he drew was none other than The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History.

One day, Takumi, a member of SCI and also a fan of Eiichirō's work came out from a delivery box and without permission entered his apartment. Inside, Takumi revealed that Eiichirō's corpse depictions were too realistic. Takumi revealed inside that Eiichirō has been killing people and kept their corpse inside his "assistant" room that he used as inspiration to drew corpse depictions.

Eiichirō angered at Takumi who once again, a reader who won't praised his work. Before Eiichirō could killed him, Takumi performed a copycat murder. Eiichirō was impaled by his own giant pen by Takumi, copying the death of a victim of the Killing School Life, Mukuro Ikusaba.

Trivia

 * Eiichirō's victims were depicted as crucified corpses held up by ropes, similar to the state in which Chihiro Fujisaki's body was discovered. Another victim had a knife stabbed into her stomach, lying in the same position as Sayaka Maizono did in when she died in the Killing School Life.