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 least appealing designs of any character in the Danganronpa series.
 * 5) His voice is also nasally (a common nerd stereotype) and can also get rather annoying.
 * 6) 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.
 * 7) While he was arguably already pretty unlikable, the moment he truly became hated by the fanbase was when it was revealed he murdered Kiyotaka, a fan favorite, in cold blood (and to make matters worse, he had was already beginning to move forward from his best friend Mondo's death) the second Celestia Ludenberg told him that he had 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!
 * 8) He serves little to no real purpose to the story. If you remove his him from the game, little to nothing would really 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. And given the situation, where if he didn't act quick it would mean both his and Alter Ego's lives would be on the line, and how highly he thought of Celeste, combined with Taka's recent odd behavior, it does make his murder more 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) While most of his Free-Time Events have him rambling on about fandom-based topics, 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.
 * 6) He's portrayed better in Danganronpa: The Stage, where Kiyotaka instead commits suicide rather than Hifumi killing him, and he and Celeste simply take the fall for Sakura's suicide and are both executed for voting wrong, with the implication that Hifumi had no idea that Celeste was innocent (for her part, it's implied that Celeste did this on purpose to escape the school by dying).

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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