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Only finished V3 yesterday so I'm joining super late.

Kokichi felt like a poor man's Nagito to me for most of the game even if there are some differences between the two. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. Kokichi probably had the most movement on my personal character ranking through the game. He spent the first third to half of the game near the bottom but kept growing on me, and around Chapter 4 is where I really started liking him a lot.

I actually thought his "pretend to be the Mastermind" stunt in Chapter 5 was silly though and hurt my impression of him. Ironically, Kaito was the best Kokichi because Case 5 "Kokichi" was the best. Although he apparently wrote most of his lines in advance so maybe it can count.

Also skimming the argument from before, I don't think Kokichi is some kind of tragic hero or anything. I really feel like I should remember more details than this having just beaten the game but looking back I'm not sure why his whole "end the game" plan required manipulating Gonta in Case 4 and pretending to be the mastermind. All he really needed to accomplish was the Case 5 scenario and honestly he was just incredibly lucky it worked out for him there as well as it did. (By contrast, Nagito had complete and utter faith in his luck - for good reason - and weaponized it, so it felt earned that he could execute plans that relied on luck)

DRV3 Case 5 was my favorite V3 case though (and 2nd in the series only to DR2 Case 5) and I did like his plan to trick Monokuma so I give him props for that, and he's probably still a Top 5 V3 character for me.
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