Height 134 cm (4'5") One of the five members of the Warriors of Hope and the head of the "Fighter" class. Her title when she attended Hope's Peak Elementary was Li'l Ultimate Drama (超小学生級の学芸会の時間 lit. Super Elementary School Level Arts Festival Period). Kotoko is a hot-headed girl who loves "adorbs" things; she collects them and seems even slightly obsessed with the concept. She acts cheerful, polite, and happy, however she is also mentioned to have a bullying nature and she can be very mean and cruel. She's one of the more intelligent members of the group and has a strict, demanding personality, with a habit of curtsying and being rather dramatic, calling to her past as an actress. Kotoko seemingly loved her stage life, but she doesn't like to talk about it and considers it far behind her. It's heavily implied that most of her behavior is an act, and her "cutesy" personality is a front created as a coping mechanism. Her Past and Trauma

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Kotoko was born and raised in Towa City. She was a child prodigy and famous child actor whose father was a dentist. However, when Kotoko was about 10 years old, her parents prostituted her to producers and it's implied that she was repeatedly raped by them. Her mother did it out of a twisted form of parental love and prostituted herself alongside Kotoko as a "mother and daughter set", claiming that this was in her daughter's best interests because it would help further her career. According to Kotoko, she endured it all without complaining because making her mother cry would've hurt her the most. Meanwhile, Kotoko's father didn't seem to care about his family at all, using the money they gained for his own benefit and cheating on his wife with his dental hygienist. Due to the trauma caused by the abuse, Kotoko has a trigger for the word "gentle" (優しい yasashii), as the men who abused her had said they would be "gentle" with her. When she hears this word, she becomes neurotic, crying and screaming in fear and unable to calm herself down until when somebody tells her that they will not be gentle with her. Despite this, she can use the word herself without any problems.

During the Tragedy

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Around the time when the Tragedy was first starting, Kotoko was on the verge of committing suicide with the other Warriors of Hope when Junko Enoshima appeared and stopped them, convincing them that the adults are wrong and that they should create a paradise for children. Junko then took the five under her wing, and shortly afterward, Kotoko murdered her parents. She tells Komaru that she does not regret it, and that they should have died more times.

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Supposedly because of Junko's teachings, Kotoko wants to make other "adorbs" girls suffer what she went through, exclusively the older ones she considers Demons. She is bitter because nobody helped her in the past and thus is very paranoid of adults, believing they're all pedophiles.

(Source: Danganronpa Wiki, edited)