Tsumugi Shirogane

Tsumugi Shirogane (白銀 つむぎ Shirogane Tsumugi) is a character featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and a participant of the New Killing School Life.

Tsumugi's title is Ultimate Cosplayer (超高校級の「コスプレイヤー」chō kōkō kyū no “kosupureiyā” lit. Super High School Level Cosplayer).

Early Life
Tsumugi is a very popular cosplayer with a corporate sponsorship. During her high school days, she attended Lily Rose Girl's Academy (百合薔薇女子学園).

Prior to the New Killing School Life
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The 52nd Killing Game
Tsumugi was a normal, talentless high school student who was kidnapped by Team Danganronpa. It is unknown when Tsumugi was kidnapped to participate in what season of Danganronpa, as in the game implied that she participated more than two Killing Games. However, it is clear that she indeed participated in the previous season of the New Killing School Life, the 52nd Killing Game.

Tsumugi accepted the offer to participate the Killing Game whole-heartedly. She was assigned the role of the mastermind, and therefore had her memories less modified than any other students. Other than her past memory, her personality and talent as the Ultimate Cosplayer were heavily fabricated by Team Danganronpa in order to satisfy the audience from around the world.

The 52nd Killing Game resulted both Tsumugi, and a participant, Rantaro Amami, to be executed, leaving two remaining survivors to escape from the Killing Game. The execution form was a participation in the next season of the Killing Game, where Tsumugi eventually reprised her role as the mastermind, Rantaro as the Super High School Level Survivor, and K1-B0, a fellow member of Team Danganronpa continued to work as the connector of the audience in the outside world.}}

Name
Her first name is written in hiragana (つむぎ), but can be written in kanji as 紬, which refers to pongee silk. Her last name kanji, 白銀 shirogane, which consists of the kanji for "white" (白) and "silver" (銀), may refer to a few things. Shirogane is a native Japanese word for silver, which is commonly known as 銀 gin. The second definition refers to a metaphorical expression for snow.

Alternate Fates
In New Danganronpa V3 - Trial Version, Tsumugi was first seen in lodging area along with Kirumi Tojo and Ryoma Hoshi. She introduced herself as the Ultimate Cosplayer despite her normal-looking appearance. She tells Kaede that she only enjoy creating costume and prefer other people wearing her costumes. However, she often wears her own costume due to many cosplayers only wanted to make themselves famous instead of expressing the love of the character that they cosplay.

During the incident of Yasuhiro Hagakure's murder, Tsumugi testified that she sees Kirumi cleaned all of the students dormitories and said that maid work is super cute.

Appearance
Tsumugi is a tall young woman with long, knee length, cerulean hair which starts smooth and becomes wavy the lower it goes. Her eyes are soft teal and round. She wears rimless glasses with white temples.

Her uniform consists of a knee long pleated skirt, adorned with six white buttons on her waist; her skirt seems to be held by suspenders. She wears an orange bow, black socks ending under the knee, and grey shoes. Her blazer has two pockets on both sides and is adorned by the same white buttons as her skirt.

She has been shown without her blazer in her promotional artwork, which shows an insignia of sort on her left breast.

Tsumugi states as a rather normal and plain-looking.

Personality
Tsumugi is an honors type student who speaks in a docile and gentle way, but she becomes very passionate when she talks about her favorite series or cosplays, having a habit of slipping in famous quotes from various sources into conversation.

Tsumugi also tends to ignore people while she's in her thoughts, no matter how many times they try talking to her.

While Tsumugi is the Ultimate Cosplayer, she only enjoys making costumes, not wearing them. She is not really fond of people looking at her. However, she hates using cosplayers who care more about standing out than love of the series, so she wears her own costumes as well but with love. So in that case, she likes people looking at her when she wears her own costumes with love. She deeply loves cosplaying as she states that cosplaying is an expression of love.

Ultimate Cosplayer
Despite her status as the Ultimate Cosplayer, Tsumugi actually doesn't have interest in cosplaying herself. Rather, she states that she enjoys recreating costumes more. She loves to create costumes, because it is like making a fictional character real, in a way. She also has a sponsorship that makes her can create costume with expensive materials.

She is also a well versed in anime and manga references. In her promotional artwork, Tsumugi is featured with mannequins wearing lingerie and a wig, several paints and cosmetic brushes, as well as red thread and an object which could be interpreted as scissors. This could imply that her talent is multi-faceted.

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

Relationships

 * Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles Students:

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

Kaede Akamatsu
Initially thought to be a life-sized doll, Kaede didn't expect that Tsumugi has the title of the Ultimate Cosplayer due to her normal-looking appearance. She states that she could felt some sort of "pheromones" that can't stop from falling of Tsumugi because she was out of costume.

Kirumi Tojo
In New Danganronpa V3 - Trial Version, Tsumugi thinks that Kirumi's work as a maid is super cute.

Himiko Yumeno
Tsumugi seems to be one of the person among the students that responded to Himiko's saying as a mage. When Himiko states that she ran out of MP during the demo class trial, Tsumugi suggested her to sleep at the inn for one night in order to restore her MP.


 * Hope's Peak Academy Students:

List of Appearances
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 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
 * New Danganronpa V3 - Trial Version
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 * New Danganronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing Comic Anthology

Trivia

 * In her promotional art, Tsumugi owns a wig that is a reference to Hatsune Miku, a popular singing synthesizer.
 * In the original Japanese, Tsumugi states that she is sponsored by only one company, but the localization stated that she received sponsors from different companies for an unknown reason.
 * In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Tsumugi the least popular Danganronpa V3 student.

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