Rantaro Amami

"Kill without being caught, and then survive the trial... Sounds eerily similar to the real world."

- 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 was 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 with supposedly one other person 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. As a result, he was given 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. Ultimate Adventurer)

When the participants 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 of being the Ultimate Survivor hadn't been erased by Team Danganronpa, who had only erased his true and actual talent as the Ultimate Adventurer along with all of his memories from the 52nd Killing Game. 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 his 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 came from a very rich family and had 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 with the maid.

Rantaro felt responsible for 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. He claims that he frequently helped his sisters with nail art, which would be shown in a bonus scene during the Killing School Semester when he painted Kaede Akamatsu's nails. 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 and as a result, she disappeared and was never found. Rantaro blamed himself for her disappearance, believing himself to be a terrible older 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 Hope's Peak Academy after countless meteorites crashed into Earth, spreading a deadly virus all throughout the atmosphere. To try and preserve the last vestiges of mankind before the Earth’s destruction, Hope's Peak Academy decided to select sixteen talented students that happened to be immune to the virus, put them in a spaceship colony, and have them escape. Rantaro was among these sixteen individuals.

Despite being chosen to participant however, Rantaro and the other fifteen participants had no intentions of going along with the plan, not wanting to abandon their loved ones. As a result, Rantaro chose to forget about his ultimate talent and decided to live as a normal high school student.

Around that time an extremist cult, which was revealed to the be Remnants of Despair thanks to the Flashback Light in Chapter 5, came back into power, causing the Future Foundation's influence to weaken. They believed that the meteorites 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 selected for the Gofer Project 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 by meteorites. Rantaro and the others went to space in the massive ark, the true form of Ultimate Academy of Gifted Juveniles, and were put to a cold sleep for several decades.

Much later on after the remaining participants cleared the Death Road of Despair, Kokichi Oma lied about being the mastermind of the killing game and that he was the leader of the cult bent on stopping the Gofer Project. He also lied about being the one who let Monokuma enter the spaceship, effectively forcing Rantaro and the others to participate in a Killing Game.

While Rantaro seemed to have an inkling about what was going on before his death, since he mentioned the Ultimate Hunt, it is unknown just how much he actually knew about the event, as he was murdered before he actually received a complete memory about The Gofer Project by the Flashback Light in Chapter 5. }}

Killing School Semester
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Introduction
Rantaro was among the first fourteen people gathered in the gymnasium before Kaede and Shuichi Saihara arrived. Unlike everyone else, who seemed surprised, shocked, or confused about their current predicament, Rantaro was the only person in the group who seemed to have an inkling on their current situation. He only became more suspicious after Kaede and Shuichi arrived, seeing the total number of people as an indication of what was about to transpire. Once the Monokuma Kubs arrived and revealed themselves from within their Exisals, Rantaro was confident that this was exactly what he thought it was. Despite his foresight however, it was meaningless as his memory was completely overwritten by the Flashback Light, turning him into a completely different person for the killing game.

Rantaro would later be encountered on the first floor for the first time by Kaede and Shuichi. Right off the bat, he came off as an enigmatic and mysterious individual due to not really being overly worried about their current situation, or that he couldn't remember his own talent. Despite the latter fact, he introduced himself to the duo and reassuringly promised him that he wasn't a bad guy. He later gathered in the gymnasium with everyone once the Monokuma Kubs made their announcement, where he was introduced to the five robotic teddy bears properly before their father came to break up their squabble. Their father just so happened to be Monokuma, the self-appointed headmaster of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles. Monokuma announced to the sixteen high schoolers that they would be participating in a killing game. Once again, unlike most of the others, Rantaro was one of the only ones to not show much worry or shock about the situation. With that, the Killing School Semester had officially begun.

Attempting the Death Road of Despair
After Monokuma commenced the killing game, Rantaro read the killing game rules on his MonoPad. The disturbing rules baffled all of the students, causing a discord among the group. Kaede saw this and immediately stopped them, saying that they should cooperate together instead of fighting if they wanted to escape. Rantaro listened to Kaede as she proposed a sound and straightforward argument. Everyone's heart was able to become one, all thanks to her speech. Rantaro praised her, then eerily stated that she has what it takes to win before telling her to be careful. Gonta Gokuhara, the Ultimate Entomologist, then remembered that he found a manhole inside the boiler room behind the school building. Rantaro along with with everyone else immediately followed the Gonta's lead, with hope of finding a way out.

Descending the manhole, Rantaro and the others found a tunnel leading outside of the academy. Though everyone thought that the tunnel probably ended up being a trap, they still had to test every single possibility in order to escape. However, Rantaro and the others exhausted themselves both physically and mentally as they found that escaping through Death Road of Despair is next to impossible. Due to this, Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Ruler, revolted, saying that Kaede's repeated motivational speech is the source of the group's agony, added by some of her friends giving up on escaping the tunnel, Rantaro included, the group's harmony came to a swift end. The tunnel ended up being a trap set by Monokuma and the Monokuma Kubs, much to everyone's dismay. Rantaro remained calm however, and told everyone that they should conserve their strength and head to their dorms to rest.

Rantaro's Secret
As it turns out however, Rantaro lied to all of the students about forgetting his talent. He is fully aware that he holds the title of 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. This map even included the hidden room connected to the library, but not the hidden passageway that connected it to the girl's bathroom on the first floor of the academy. The only people to know about the hidden room were himself, Shuichi and Kaede, who came across it thanks to the former's intuition, and The Mastermind. However, Rantaro's memories of the past killing game were wiped thanks to the Flashback Lights. As a result, he must return to square one to discover the identity of the mastermind and end the killing game.

With the ominous message left on his survivor perk Mono-pad, Rantaro decided to investigate the school alone. He couldn't take the risk of trusting anybody with his information, with the threat of anyone who finds out who he really was coming after him. As a result, Rantaro decided to end the killing game by himself without aid from anyone after Monokuma presented the time limit motive, which would later prove to be Rantaro's downfall.

Rantaro's Plan
The final day of the time limit, Rantaro got into a dispute with Ryoma Hoshi, the Ultimate Tennis Pro, in the dining hall. He was joined by Kaede and Angie Yonaga, the Ultimate Artist, not long after. Ryoma was willing to give up his life for everyone else if it meant that they would survive. He wanted to escape with everyone and remain friends, but believed that they had no more time left for idealism, a such he was willing to die for them. Rantaro calmed him down and told him, along with everyone else present, that he would end this killing game himself. He warned them all not to do anything unnecessary before leaving the dining hall. His words had seemingly calmed Ryoma down for the time being.

Thanks to his survival perk mono-pad, Rantaro discovered that the library in the basement must be connected to The Mastermind and planned to make his way there. As time began to run out, the monitors began to play an ominous song in order to drive the participants mad enough to begin killing. He joined Kaito Momota, the Ultimate Astronaut, and five others for a strategy meeting that Kaito himself had proposed to fight Monokuma. Unbeknownst to him and the rest of the group, they were spotted by Kaede and Shuichi from the lookout classroom, the duo having a plan to catch the mastermind themselves while unaware of what Rantaro was planning.

During the strategy meeting, Rantaro 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 the door into the hidden room behind a bookshelf, which he promptly moved out of the way. This triggered Shuichi's sensor on top of the shelf, and Kaede's hidden camera, whose flash led him over to it. It was around this time that Kaede had thrown her shot put ball that she had retrieved from the warehouse earlier into the air duct that led into the library. The ball came out of the vent and rolled along the books on top of the shelf that she had set up. The ball failed to hit Rantaro, but shocked him greatly.

During this time, Rantaro, Shuichi, and Kaede were completely unaware that someone else was aware of their plans to end the killing game thanks to the Nanokumas around the entire campus. That someone was The Mastermind of the Killing School Semester, Tsumugi Shirogane. Witnessing Kaede's plan fail through the hidden room, she immediately left it and made her way into the library. Rantaro was baffled as to why a shot put ball fell from up above and, while distracted, was instantly killed by Tsumugi with her own shot put ball.

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

Later on, when everyone came upon Rantaro's body, everyone was mystified as to why and how he was killed. Due to the altered crime scene, and nobody other than Tsumugi knowing what really had transpired, Kaede was shocked and horrified of the thought that she killed a dear friend instead of her intended target. As a result, everyone was fooled into believing that Kaede was the culprit during the class trial, including Kaede herself, who mentally apologized to Rantaro for being unable to reveal the mastermind during the trial.

After Kaede's execution, 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 Research Lab opened up on the fifth floor of the academy after the fourth class trial had concluded, but it remained locked by Monokuma, saying that he had died before the lab was available being the main reason as to why it remained inaccessible.

During K1-B0's rampage after the conclusion of the fifth class trial, he blasted open the door that led into Rantaro's lab in order to let Shuichi investigate. He was quickly joined by Himiko and the two searched the room. At first, the room was ambiguous and it was hard to judge what Rantaro's talent was based on the room's appearance. The duo find a laptop with nothing on it, and a massive safe in the back of the room. Within the safe they find a USB stick that they put into the USB port on the laptop, which reveals a video file. Shuichi accesses it which plays a pre-recorded message by the Rantaro before he had lost his memory, intended for the Rantaro after he had lost his memory. He went on to reveal that this isn't his first killing game, that he had survived a previous killing game and earned the title of Ultimate Survivor before telling "himself" that he wanted this killing game and that he had to survive no matter what. Both Shuichi and Himiko were left baffled by this sudden revelation.

After the investigation had concluded, Shuichi, Himiko, Tsumugi, K1-B0, and Maki Harukawa, decide to reopen Rantaro's case after discovering new truths related to his murder. Upon revealing to everyone that Rantaro's talent was 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. Rantaro would be brought up one final time near the end of the trial in order to prove Shuichi's deduction that the form of "punishment" for the two who sacrifice themselves would be to participate in the next killing game, which would be the final nail in the coffin to convince everyone to abandon the vote in order to end the killing game once and for all. 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, and is the name of a species of rabbit. 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 light green hair and two small ahoge. 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 ???.

Ultimate Adventurer
In Space Mode, Rantaro remembers that his talent is the Ultimate 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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