Hifumi Yamada

Hifumi Yamada, is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant of the Killing School Life featured in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. His title is Ultimate Fanfic Creator.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) His basic personality is little more than a stereotypical Otaku.
 * 2) He acts perverted towards 2-D woman and has a really unsettling and creepy crush on Alter-Ego, who, keep in mind, isn't a real person, but a program.
 * 3) More often than not, what comes out of his mouth are overreactions over every little thing. This is funny at first, but soon it gets really annoying.
 * 4) His design is incredibly ugly and unappealing, and easily one of the ugliest designs of any character in the Danganronpa series.
 * 5) In his Free Time events, he mentions angrily lashing out at girls whom he believes want to spend time with him out of pity. And Makoto, the nicest and most forgiving character in the killing game, doesn't approve of it, understandably.
 * 6) While he was arguably already pretty unlikable, the moment he truly became hated by the fanbase was when it was revealed he murdered Kiyotaka in cold blood the second Celestia Ludenberg told him that he abused her with no actual proof (never asked Taka if he actually did it or anything). Worse, he was completely okay with having '''everyone besides him and Celeste killed!
 * 7) He serves little to no real purpose to the story. If you remove him, little to nothing would change. This is taken to the extreme in the manga, where most of his scenes are cut and he literally just mostly stands in the background, bar his interactions with Celeste and his death.

Good Qualities

 * 1) While he did it with no evidence, he only killed Kiyotaka because he thought he had abused Celeste, which is somewhat understandable.
 * 2) He can be pretty hilarious at times.
 * 3) In a Free Time Event, Makoto learns that Hifumi actually has an altruistic dream: because he realizes that there are some people who only read fanfic casually, or only certain kinds, he wants to inspire those people to create their own fanfics, so he can "save" those people by giving them a direction in life, as his favorite anime character Heretic Angel ★ Mochi Mochi Princess did for him, which is how Hifumi got into the fanfic business in the first place.
 * 4) A lot of his character arc shows that he rarely gets to ramble about all the fandom-related tropes he's so passionate about, save for Makoto if the player chooses to go through his Free-Time Events, and later Alter Ego. In his final Free Time Event, he chooses to call Makoto a friend.
 * 5) Despite getting accused of being unsanitary by Toko, he's actually quite nitpicky about personal hygiene according to the art book.

Trivia

 * Hifumi's Japanese voice actor, Kappei Yamaguchi, also voices Jin Kirigiri in the Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
 * In School Mode, he admits that he enjoys singing karaoke of anime themes with his online friends whenever they meet.
 * Hifumi's English voice actor, Lucien Dodge, also provides the voice for K1-B0.

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