This article is about the fictional artificial intelligence from the 2012 Spike visual novel adventure game Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. For the human fictional character and in-universe visual inspiration from the 2016 mystery horror anime series Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, see List of Danganronpa characters § "Chiaki Nanami".
Fictional character
Chiaki Nanami
Danganronpa character
Art of Chiaki Nanami by Rui Komatsuzaki
First appearance
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (2012)
Created by
Kazutaka Kodaka
Designed by
Rui Komatsuzaki
Voiced by
EN: Christine Marie Cabanos[1][2] JA: Kana Hanazawa[3]
Chiaki Nanami (Japanese: 七海 千秋, Hepburn: Nanami Chiaki) is a fictional character from Spike's 2012 visual novel Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Formally known as the Ultimate Gamer (超高校級の「ゲーマー」, Chō-kōkō-kyū no "Gēmā", lit. Super High School Level Gamer), Chiaki initially appears as an apparent high school student trapped with fifteen other students in the Jabberwock Island chain, where an omnipresent robotic bear named Monokuma forces the student to participate in a killing game in exchange for freedom. She can bond with the protagonist Hajime Hinata in both social life gameplay and the main storyline before her true persona is revealed as the artificial intelligence observer daughter of Chihiro Fujisaki, and the younger sister of Alter Ego and Usami / Monomi. Chiaki makes a cameo appearance in two episodes of the anime series Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, with an identical character the original Chiaki Nanami, the visual basis for her design, appearing in the prequel Despair Arc who bonds with Hajime.
Chiaki was created by writer Kazutaka Kodaka as the game's heroine, with her traits being based on those of "the ideal woman." She is voiced by Kana Hanazawa in Japanese and Christine Marie Cabanos in English. Critical response to Chiaki has been highly positive due to her major role in the Goodbye Despair narrative as she takes an impact in the class trials and her comfort provided to the main character, to the point of being cited as one of the best characters. The parallels between Chiaki and her human counterpart in the anime series also earned a mixed to positive response.
^"Credits". CHRISTINE MARIE CABANOS. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
^"Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School Broadcast Dub Cast Announcement". Funimation.com. July 28, 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-07-30. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
^"Chiaki Nanami Voices (Danganronpa)". Behind The Voice Actors. Archived from the original on 26 June 2021. Retrieved 26 June 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its opening and/or closing credits and/or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
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