K1-B0

Ki-Bo (キーボ Kībo), known as K1-B0 or simply Keebo in the English version, is a character featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and a participant of the New Killing School Life.

He has the title of Ultimate Robot (超高校級の「ロボット」 chō kōkō kyū no “robotto”), owing to his robot body. He is a creation of Professor Iidabashi.

Appearance
Ki-Bo is a robot, having a fully mechanical body. Most of his body is made up of black metal resembling armored plating, and he does not wear clothes. He has two glowing spots on his chest, another two on his stomach, and two on his both wrists. His waist, which resembles a belt, has a glowing red spot on the each side of his front. He also has quite short stature.

While obviously synthetic, his voice and head resemble those of a normal human. Still, he has very pale skin and his straight, platinum blond hair appears unusually sharp for a human, including a very large ahoge sticking from the top. His blue eyes are also notably mechanical and there are thick black lines around and below them. It seems he can make his eyes glow and emit some sort of beam of light from his right palm.

Ki-Bo appears to have no neck, instead his "neck" consists of a large metallic collar. The collar appears to include a black screen with moving and glowing green text. He has headphone-shaped objects instead of ears, and they also include black screen and green text.

Personality
Ki-Bo is a polite and serious teenage robot, who has some trouble with human social interaction. Nevertheless, he takes pride in his form and sometimes boasts a little about his efficient functions, and his aim is to overcome being an ordinary robot. While generally well-mannered, he is angered by prejudice against robots and sometimes threatens to sue people who make "discriminatory remarks". He considers robots a minority group among humans.

Since he is a maturing AI, Ki-Bo learns and develops similar to a human. While he has no heart nor brain, he uses his calculations to speak "as if he had a heart". Even still, he often can't read the mood around him and is oblivious to things, sometimes taking things very literally. Due to this somewhat gullible nature, he is an easy target for bullying and he is rather easy to read.

Ki-Bo seems to understand most of human emotions and many of their habits, though he can still get confused and a bit uncomfortable by his strange classmates or get some habits a little wrong. For example, like a human, he blushes when he is feeling shy and feels awkward when talking about something inappropriate. He can be very expressive with his body language, since as a robot he can move his ahoge and some other parts according to his emotions. Being a robot, he is also very innocent when compared to most teenagers, and some situations make him very nervous and shy.

Ultimate Robot
Ki-Bo has a "maturing AI" that boasts advanced learning functions and recording functions. Similar to a human, he originally knew nothing and matured by learning. He uses calculations to express emotions, but he is very socially awkward when compared to humans.

He works with electricity, and thus he does not need to and cannot eat nor drink. He also can't sleep, but he needs to reserve time for charging. He is conscious while charging and needs to do it only once a week.

He was created to have many functions and lots of energy in a small body, and for a robot he is not very heavy, as he can be lifted up like an average human. He is not very strong either and is actually quite feeble,

Unlike some machines, he is waterproof and he's more worried about sinking like a rock than suffering from a short circuit.

He has an audio recording function, but refrains from using it regularly because of its extensive energy consumption.

Past
Ki-Bo is a creation of Professor Iidabashi. Initially, he had no knowledge nor awareness, but as a maturing AI he learned and developed as his creator raised him like an own child. Eventually, the professor even sent him to attend high school and he was recognized as being Ultimate even as a robot. However, he fears that other students will discriminate him because he is a robot.

Demo - Class Trial Ver.
Ki-Bo was chased around in by Kokichi Oma in the storage room. He tried to protect himself from being touched by the Ultimate Supreme Leader. After Kaede Akamatsu and Makoto Naegi entered the room, Ki-Bo introduced himself and told his backstory as Professor Idabashi's creation. He proudly said that despite being a robot, he is a normal high schooler.

Before the class trial start, Ki-Bo found out that the stands was too few for eighteen people and Monokuma decided to get rid of two people. Ki-Bo who automatically voted out by Kokichi became flustered and asked not to decide something important all by himself. However, he eventually ended up become an observer alongside Rantaro Amami and didn't participate in the class trial until the end of the demo.

Professor Iidabashi
Professor Iidabashi is Ki-Bo's creator and raised him as their own child. Ki-Bo mentions that the professor would desperately search for him if he went missing, proving how close they are.

Kokichi Oma
Kokichi enjoys to tease Ki-Bo due to him being oblivious and a robot, thus making him an easy target. Ki-Bo is very uncomfortable with Kokichi because of this and repeatedly asks him to stop.

However, Kokichi does not really appear to have a malicious intent, as he seems genuinely interested in Ki-Bo. His behavior seems more like ignorance and innocent bigotry, as he seemingly considers robots very interesting and "cool", but he thinks they aren't people and thus he does not treat Ki-Bo like a person.

Kokichi is seen being very excited about Ki-Bo, wanting to be friends with "the robot" and childishly chasing him in an attempt to touch him, seemingly not realizing that his behavior is offensive and condescending. He also curiously asks about how the robot functions, like asking about his private parts, and seems disappointed if the answers are much duller than he expected.

While Ki-Bo is usually quite well-mannered, he acts harsher towards Kokichi because of his constant discrimination. Considering him a "robo-racist", Ki-Bo thinks Kokichi should be just ignored, yet he almost never manages to follow this rule.

Kaede Akamatsu
Although initially defensive about his robot nature, Ki-Bo decides that he is glad to be Kaede's friend after discovering that she is not a discriminatory towards robots.

Prologue Quotes

 * “I have recording functions, you know. I'll deal with your discrimination later.”
 * “My name is Ki-Bo! And I am the Ultimate Robot!”
 * “Please stop being discriminating against robots for not having a heart and a brain!”

Chapter 1 Quotes

 * “Robots can be sensitive too! I can sense the pollution in the air and---”
 * “It's certain that cooperating with each other is more reasonable than using fear and doubt to carry out an investigation we have little experience with.”
 * “No matter the circumstances, it's impossible to think someone would throw away their life to protect another.”

Trivia

 * According to Kazutaka Kodaka, Ki-Bo's design is partially based on Makoto Naegi and his name is a pun on the Japanese word for "hope" (希望, kibō).
 * Ki-Bo, along with Maki Harukawa and Kaito Momota, was one of the first new characters revealed for Danganronpa V3 in November 2015 and he was speculated as a possible main character. However, their names and talents weren't revealed until ten months later in September 2016.
 * Ki-Bo has the largest ahoge in the series.
 * Ki-Bo's gender is unknown. According to him, he doesn't know his gender and he isn't sure if robots even have genders. The school recognizes him as a male and he generally goes with that.
 * In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Ki-Bo the 7th most popular Danganronpa V3 student.


 * His dream is to have a robot idol business in the future. However, he does not appear to fully grasp how singing works, as his singing voice resembles a long, rasping sigh increasing into a higher note and shouting.

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