Aiko Umesawa

Aiko Umesawa (梅沢 愛子 Umesawa Aiko) is a minor character featured in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Side: Despair.

Aiko was part of the Hope's Peak Student Council, as well as a participant in The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy. She was murdered by Tomohiko Goryoku, becoming the third victim.

Appearance
Aiko is a small girl with short, wavy, brown hair. She has heterochromia with one blue eye and one green. She dons a yellow bunny hoodie over the Hope's Peak Academy's uniform. She also wore black socks and white slippers that have a bow on the instep.

Personality
Aiko appears to be very childish and naive, openly worrying and complaining about the meeting time being so late despite the fact that they were sent a threatening video.

She's easy prey for anyone to kill during the First Killing Game because of this. She panics easily and swings her pan randomly when Asukasei Hino tried to shoot her. She is also quick to burst into tears and very afraid of death. The fact that she was so quick to trust Tomohiko is what resulted in her own tragic death.

Episode 07 - The Biggest, Most Atrocious Incident in Hope's Peak Academy's History
Junko Enoshima gathered all of the Student Council and Izuru Kamukura in the old school building and forced them to kill each other. When the Killing Game started, Aiko picked a pan as her weapon and tried to defend herself when Asukasei shot randomly towards her. She fell to Tomohiko's words, lowering her guard for a second. This resulted in her death as he stabbed her in the abdomen and her body thrown by the killer who used her body to distract Asukasei's attention.

Tomohiko Goryoku
At first, Aiko appeared to trust Tomohiko, as seen when he "comforted" her and she let her guard down almost instantly. However, Tomohiko had actually been acting to gain her trust and murdered her immediately after she relaxed.

Trivia

 * Her given name, "Aiko" (愛子) means "child of love".
 * Her last name, "Umesawa" (梅沢) means "plum swamp".
 * Many fans nicknamed Aiko 'pikachu girl' due to her bunny hoodie that resembles Pikachu's appearance. As such the name has stuck and sometimes she is referred to as such.