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#30: The Headmaster a.k.a. Kyokos Daddy a.k.a. Might Have A Real Name But I Was Too Afraid To Google It For Spoiler Reasons
Side Character Ranking: 5/8
Ultimate Ability: Dont think he has one
Actual Ultimate Ability: Ultimate Deadbeat Dad

This is the one character on the list where I dont actually know their name. I was afraid to google it in case it wound up leading me to spoilers since I havent seen the anime yet and dunno if he is going to appear in it or not. He is referenced a ton in the game, but his actual appearances are very limited. He appears in the opening scene to get murdered by Monokuma and then in the flashback tapes in the end. I think he actually does have a line of some sort where he is telling all of them that they probably cant leave the school and are they ok with that, but Im not 100% positive on that and dont feel like looking it up so maybe Im lying. That is the jist of what happens, at least. Other than that, he spends most of the game as a mystery and we dont know all that much about him. There is this mysterious aura around him up until the 5th case or so where Kyoko reveals that he is her father and the headmaster is not the mastermind, but before that you are trying to figure out who he might be and why he is doing this to you. So you dont find out all that much about him during the game. All I know about him is that he is the headmaster of Hopes Peak and Kyokos dad, and he is really, really bad at both of these jobs.

Let me see if I can rattle off some of this guys greatest accomplishments. Ill go into more of these in a moment but I think its important we see these all one after another. He abandons his daughter because he wants a different job. He doesnt speak to his daughter for years, forcing her to enroll in his stupid school just so she can talk to him in person to tell him to fuck off. He admits the following students into his school: Ultimate Despair, Ultimate Soldier (and despair), Ultimate Bike Gang Leader, Ultimate Yakuza, Ultimate Serial Killer. He forces them all into the school, bars them from leaving, and for some reason erases their memory so they dont know why theyre doing this. He lets Junko and Mukuro overpower him, getting himself killed in the process. And, either before, after, or during this, he allows them to install high tech security murderbots, surveillance feeds, and the sort of equipment needed to handle these right under his nose. I have played a lot of video games. I am not quite sure Ive encountered a character who has failed in every single way theyve tried to before like this guy has.

And I dont even know which one of his failings to elaborate on first. Maybe his chosen roster of students? Like that always stands out to me as insane. You have guys like the Ultimate Fanfic Creator walking around with someone like the Ultimate Soldier. In two classes this guy intentionally let in the Ultimate Yakuza, the Ultimate Biker Gang Leader, and the Ultimate Soldier. What kind of school are you running where you let in THE FUCKING YAKUZA? Do you know what the Yakuza does? Like best case scenario this kid is going to be trafficking drugs to like half the students in your school. Two murders actually occur at his school BEFORE the killing game happens because the yakuzas sister was bothering people and then the yakuza got mad and killed someone out of revenge. Can you imagine if your principals admission policy caused two different people to get murdered in the span of a year? How fast would they be fired? At the very least, maybe dont let in Mukuro, the Ultimate Soldier and Probable War Criminal into your class. After youve killed like your first dozen targets for your elite mercenary group, maybe high school life isnt for you. Skip geometry. This dude is just letting ANYONE in if they have an ultimate ability it feels like. Research that shit, man. Skip on the Ultimate Gang Leader and maybe just do boring stuff like the Ultimate Flutist. Itll be safer there.

And that isnt even counting the people he accidentally lets in. BOTH the Ultimate Despair and the Ultimate Serial Killer. These guys have like the two greatest kill counts of all time. These were at least by accident, so you come off as incompetent rather than intentionally malicious here. Your entire school is filled with criminals, murderers, and psychopaths so you cant just *shocked Pikachu meme* when the whole thing goes to hell. If you douse a bunch of dry branches with gasoline and lighter fluid, you are fully to blame when the arsonist that lives two doors down sets the whole thing on fire. If your specific goal was to get a group of high school kids murdered, Im not sure you could do a better job than what Kyokos dad did. Sure this was all done for the fun cast of characters that needed to appear in the game, which is fine, but it makes Kyokos dad look like an incompetent moron who is letting in the Ultimate Child Murderer and Ultimate Sex Offender because as long as they are the best at what they do, morality and safety and not getting everyone killed dont matter!

Im also a bit confused, and maybe the game just doesnt explain it, but why was he such a horrendous dad to Kyoko? Kyoko makes it sound like he just drops her off in a box at the fire station and nopes out so he can bea high school administrator? Why the hell does he need to give away the kid for that? I know he doesnt want to be a detective and that is some sort of shame to the family, but couldnt he at least hang on to the kid? Also imagine having a kid and then deciding nah I would much rather work at a high school with a bunch of other kids who arent mine AFTER having the kid. Like let me entertain some sort of wild idea where he thought you know I dont want to be a detective and it would be best for my daughter to be raised by the Kirigiri clan so she can still be a detective or whatever. But this dude apparently had the kid, then thought that, then thought the best solution was to cut of ties to his daughter forever. Like this wasnt a hey Kyoko I love you and miss you and I will visit and call but for your future you need to be raised by these people who can do what I cant. This was a BYE! and chucking Kyoko at the front door before speeding off in his 1997 Mercury Cougar so he could live that sweet life of running a school.

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