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Ryoma Hoshi (星 竜馬 Hoshi Ryōma) is a student in Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles and participant of the Killing Game Semester featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
His title is Ultimate Tennis Pro[1] (超高校級の「テニス選手」 chō kōkō kyū no “tenisu senshu” Super High School Level Tennis Player). Despite his promising career, he killed a whole mafia organization and became a prisoner on death row before being shut in Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles,[4] earning him the nickname Killer Tennis.
History
Early life
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Ryoma Hoshi is a normal talentless high school boy who participated in the 53rd Season of Danganronpa, a famous worldwide reality show made by Team Danganronpa. Ryoma and the other talentless fifteen students undergo the fabrication process, where all of their past memory and personality were heavily fabricated. He also received the talent and title of Ultimate Tennis Pro. All of this were done for the sake of satisfying Danganronpa's audience from all around the world. After the fabrication process done, Ryoma and the others entered the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles as a whole different person, officially commencing the 53rd killing game season known as the Killing Game Semester. Ryoma attended Fog Heights High School (霞ヶ丘高校). However, it is unclear if this memory of him is a part of the fabrication made by Team Danganronpa.
After he successfully participated in the 53rd Killing Game, Ryoma's memories and past were fabricated by Team Danganronpa as follows. Ryoma was a tennis player with a promising future, world famous since his middle school days and winning many international matches. He used to be a positive individual with a family and a lover. However, they were murdered by the mafia and he decided to avenge them. He began to kill mafia members by hitting them in the head with his custom-made steel tennis ball. The entire organization was annihilated and as a result he earned the alias Killer Tennis. He ended up a prisoner on death row, seemingly throwing his whole future away.[4] Being an animal lover since a young age, he owned a pet cat he loved very much. However, he had to give it for an acquaintance after becoming a prisoner. Due to losing his loved ones and becoming a murderer, Ryoma believes his former self is gone and he doesn't have much will to live, believing that even his beloved cat must have long forgotten him. It is unclear how much, if any, of Ryoma's past before participating in the 53rd Killing Game was real, and which was fabrication by Team Danganronpa. The Gopher Plan
Ryoma and fifteen other high school students were chosen to participate. Not wanting to abandon their loved ones, they attempted to escape from the plan. Around that time, an extremist cult came into power. They believed that the meteor crashes were a punishment humanity brought upon itself, and having heard of the Gopher Plan, they tried to stop it. As a result, the “Ultimate Hunt” started and spread throughout the world, and the sixteen students 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 Gopher Plan was then put into action while the Earth was being destroyed. Ryoma and the others went to the space in a massive colony spaceship, the true form of Ultimate Academy of Gifted Juveniles. Kokichi Oma who declared himself as a member of Junko Enoshima's Remnants of Despair said that he is the mastermind behind the Killing Game who let Monokuma entered the spaceship, effectively forcing Ryoma and the others to participate in the Killing Game. It should be noted that Ryoma has no complete recollection of the event, as he was murdered before he actually received a complete memory about The Gopher Plan by the Flashback Light in Chapter 5.
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Killing Game Semester
- Main article: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
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As the time passes, no one including Ryoma intended to start the killing game. However, Monokuma's first motive that threaten all of the lives of the trapped students, made Ryoma allow himself to be killed so the others could survive and escape from the academy. Reason to LiveAfter Monokuma Kubs gave everyone the second motive, Ryoma's MonoPad was misplaced and was held by Maki Harukawa. Ryoma paid her a visit and begged her to give him his MonoPad. This way was the only way to build his own spirit in living, as he wanted to know the people that love him. Seeing his determination, Maki had no choice but to give him his MonoPad. It was revealed that nobody appears on Ryoma's MonoPad, meaning he doesn't have a person that considered him precious. This managed to break his spirit of living completely. Kirumi who wanted to escape from the academy decided to choose Ryoma as her prey because she thought he is the weakest person among the others, since he have already lost his ambition to continue living. Ryoma was invited to visit his own Research Lab by Kirumi in the middle of night. In the end, he showed no resistance and gives up his own life to Kirumi.  It was first shown that Ryoma's body was floating in the fish tank while being surrounded by piranhas, but were blocked off by a pane of glass. After Angie Yonaga and Himiko Yumeno performed their magic show, the glass was removed and piranhas begin to eat Ryoma's body until all that's left is his bones. Later in the class trial, it was revealed that Kirumi Tojo was the one who killed him by hitting him with a plank and drowning him in the sink.
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Creation and Development
Name
His given name kanji 竜馬 Ryōma, is composed of the characters for "dragon" (竜) and "horse" (馬) while his last name kanji 星 Hoshi, means "star".
Alternate Fates
In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version), Ryoma was first seen inside the lodging area along with Kirumi and Tsumugi Shirogane. After he introduced himself to Kaede, he warned her not to get close to a murderer like him.
Appearance
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Ryoma is the shortest character in Danganronpa V3. Contrary to his soft appearance, he has a very deep voice. He has black eyes with no visible pupils and pale rosy cheeks.
He wears a black hat with two points that has a picture of two blue tennis rackets on it. He wears a black leather jacket, and a black and dark blue striped jumpsuit underneath, similar to that of a prisoner. He wears brown shoes and has a metal cuff attached to his left leg with a bit of a chain attached to the cuff.
His legs are notably much more muscular than the rest of his body. He always has a candy in his mouth, which may give the impression of a cigarette.
Personality
Ryoma is a hard-boiled dandy character.[6] Though he looks like a child, it's been said that his life experience would put an adult to shame. He has a coolness that common high school students don't have, heightened by his very deep, mature voice. He is the calmest, composed, and unperturbed person in the killing game. He isn't shaken by murders nor even if he is personally harmed.
Due to his grand past as an assassin, he considers himself a killer, the kind of person other people should not get close to. While generally not appearing very aggressive, he is apparently willing to harm and even kill people if he believes they deserve it. In the bonus mode of Danganronpa V3, he is very amused by the idea of "crushing" Nagito Komaeda.
Younger Ryoma was a big animal lover with a positive and proactive nature, but he states that he is now just a shadow of his former self and his old self no longer exists. Nevertheless, he still has certain kindness in him and retains his great love for animals. He will not stand seeing an animal in trouble, considering such situation an emergency. He empathizes with Kaede Akamatsu's wish to escape and become friends with everyone, considering it "not bad" option. However, he has a tendency to push other people away. He feels others shouldn't get close to him, because along with being a murderer he is on a death row and thus likely to die soon, which would cause his close ones emotional burden. During class trials, he generally trusts others, but doesn't hesitate to voice his doubts and use calm judgement. He is also willing to immediately apologize for incorrect doubts.
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Due to his past, Ryoma appears to be somewhat depressed and suicidal, assuming he has very little time left and is unable to have any close ones. He has little regard, if any at all, for his own life. He believes that being a death row inmate automatically makes his life worth less than anyone and he is very much willing to die for the sake of the other students. In Chapter 1, he offers to have one of the others kill him so that they may escape the school, allowing everyone to continue on with the killing game. Rantaro Amami manages to convince him otherwise, but he is still in a lot of doubt. He decided to look for a reason to live, but became even more suicidal after his motive video revealed that he apparently has nobody to care about him in the outside world, causing him to find no reason to live.
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Talent
Super High School Level Tennis Player
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Ryoma's talent as the Super High School Level Tennis Player is a fabrication made by Team Danganronpa. Due to that fact, it is unclear whether Ryoma is a tennis champion in the past.
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In other languages
Ryoma's talent as it appears in official translations of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
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| 超高校級の「テニス選手」 | Super High School Level Tennis Player |
| Tennisman Ultime [7] | Ultimate Tennis Player |
| 超高中級的網球選手[8] | Super High School Level Tennis Player |
| 超高中级的网球选手[8] | Super High School Level Tennis Player |
Relationships
- Family:
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Ryoma used to have a family he was very close with. However, they were murdered by the mafia. He avenged their murders by destroying the whole mafia, but in the end he was left alone with no close ones and a shell of his former self.
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Pet cat
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Ryoma used to own a pet cat he loved very much, supposedly a Russian Blue. However, after becoming a prisoner on death row, he had to give it away for an acquaintance. He misses the cat very much, though he gloomily assumes it must have long forgotten him.
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Girlfriend
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| Ryoma used to have a girlfriend he loved deeply. However, she was murdered by the mafia along with Ryoma's family. He avenged their murders, but in the end he was left alone and a shell of his former self. His love hotel fantasy event reflects his fears of losing another loved one, either by them getting murdered due to being close with him or them mourning him after his execution.
Since most of his history was faked by Team Danganronpa, she might not exist.
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Kirumi Tojo
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After Kirumi had discovered through a MonoPad given to her in chapter 2 that she was given a small country to rule over by the Prime Minister of Japan, she made Ryoma her target in order to escape, believing him to be the weakest one among them all. When told to come to his own Study Center by Kirumi, Ryoma did not hesitate to go along with her plans and willingly turned his back to her, fueling her killing intent. She hit him over the head, cuffed him, and drowned him. Ryoma seemed to strongly respect Kirumi for her will to live when he himself had none.
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Kokichi Oma
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Kaito Momota
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Kaito is shown to dislike Ryoma due to his depressive and suicidal mood, considering him a sissy and an idiot. Believing that men should never give up, Kaito is very irritated by how welcoming Ryoma seems towards death.
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Quotes
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version) (English)
Introduction:
- "Ryoma Hoshi, the man called the Ultimate Tennis Pro... no longer exists. I'm nothing more than his empty shell."
- "Well? What do you think of the loser before you who used his talent to kill?"
- "I didn't need a future anymore... No... it's nothing. It's not like me to talk so much. Anyway... I'm warning you. It's dangerous to just walk up to a killer like me."
Investigation:
- "Instead of saying a bunch of vulgar things, why not use your brain a little?" (Ryoma telling off Miu Iruma during the Investigation)
- "Hmph... You're rather motivated to stay alive. I wish I had... No, never mind." (Ryoma wondering out loud to Kaede Akamatsu)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (English)
Character Trailer:
- "What...are they? What do they want with us?"
- "You won't be able to prove anything with weak reasoning like that."
Prolouge:
- "We may be trapped, but it's pretty cool here. Compared to prison anyway..."
Chapter 1:
- "The Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles School Regulations...So these are the rules..."
- "They wanted us to try the underground passage so we'd learn that escape is impossible."
- "We fell apart pretty quick for a group that decided to be friends and work together."
- "The rooms aren't that bad. Much better than my prison cell, that's for sure."
- "I'm not sure what's going on, but...Monokuma's in pieces."
List of Appearances
Trivia
- Ryoma has a very deep voice despite his small appearance. This contrasts Daisaku Bandai from Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, who has a high-pitched, feminine voice with a very bulky appearance.
- Ryoma's character background as a tennis player is heavily inspired by the fictional character Ryoma Echizen from the famous animanga series, The Prince of Tennis.
- He shares his first name with Echizen, "Ryoma".
- Both characters are famous and talented tennis player.
- Throughout the game, Ryoma has his own catchphrase "Mada mada dana" (まだまだだな lit. No, not yet) similar to Echizen's famous catchphrase "Mada mada dane" (まだまだだね lit No, not yet).
- Ryoma is the shortest character in Danganronpa V3, and the shortest human character in the entire Danganronpa series.
- Ryoma's English voice actor, Chris Tergliafera, also voices Gundham Tanaka in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
- In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Ryoma the 15th most popular Danganronpa V3 student.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Danganronpa US Official Site
- ↑ Translated List V3 Students' Former High Schools
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Chris Tergliafera: "YOU WIN. Nice ear! Yes, I am voicing Ryoma in DRV3" (Image of tweet) (3 July 2017)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Famitsu Scan December 15th, 2016.
- ↑ Hoshi's profile on the official website.
- ↑ Official Blog Day 18.
- ↑ @Dragii_Bus: French report cards from DRV3 Prologue at Japan Expo
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Danganronpa Wiki: Danganronpa V3 Chinese Talents translated by User "St4r dust"
