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#27: Daiya Owada
Side Character Ranking: 3/8
Ultimate Ability: None
Actual Ultimate Ability: Ultimate You Guys Waited A Month And A Half For This?

So my last character ranking was 3/24. "Oops". I'm shocked people are still interested in this! Between having a new baby, starting a new job, and moving to a new house I've had...like zero time for side projects. Which is a shame because after this I wanted to do a Demons' Souls level/boss/NPC ranking topic and now who knows if I'll even finish this! Either way, thanks for everyone who has been bumping this and keeping this topic alive. You guys are the true heroes that fill this topic with HOPE while real life obligations have been filling me with HOPE TOO BUT DESPAIR FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING AROUND FOR UPDATES.

And. Heh. Ahem. What an update to come back to, huh? Daiya Owada a.k.a. wait why the hell is Suprak even wasting his time ranking this guy? See, I wasnt quite sure who all to include in these kind of ranking topics. I knew I wanted to include Monokuma and Monomi despite not being ultimate so I was already expanding a litte. The I thought of Alter Ego, who I consider separate from Chihiro so it probably deserves its own ranking as well. Then I was like, oh, you know what, I have strong feelings on how shitty the headmaster was and I basically have a rant all written up in my head, so lets throw him in. And if I was throwing in shitty characters I wanted to rant about, I needed to throw in [that idiot girl who killed Fuyuhikos sister] because despite the fact I have since forgotten her name, I really hated her and had THOUGHTS. Put her in and I needed to put in Natsumi as well because I mean it would just be weird if I put her murderer in and not her, right? So then I was at 38 and thought lets get to 40 so I threw in Teruterus mom because I remembered her two lines being hilariously awkward and I wondered if her dying maybe sent Teruteru into despair and that was at least interesting to think about. So now I was at 39 and for number 40 I would pick

Uh

Who else is there? There has to be one more character. Think, Suprak, think! Youd look like and IDIOT if you strolled in here with a 39 character ranking. There has to be someone Im forgetting.

Enter Daiya Owada. I had mostly forgotten about Daiya entirely and had to watch a Youtube video just to see if he had any actual lines in his flashback or not. He actually does have a speaking role, which I didnt remember. For those of you that somehow dont remember the tragedy of Daiya Owada the wise (its not a story the Monokuma would tell you), he was essentially Mondo and Mondo was a BIG FAT PHONY. Daiya was the one who built up the biker gang from nothing. Daiya was the leader of the Crazy Diamonds. Daiya was the one who had everyones respect. Daiya was, for all intents and purposes, the Ultimate Biker Gang Leader. We find out that on the day Daiya was to retire, Mondo challenged him to a race in order to try and win some respect from the other members of the gang that were all basically like uh Daiya is awesome but this bullshit is straight up nepotism and that doesnt fly in classy respectable organizations like ours. Only Mondo doesnt win. He fucks up and winds up getting Daiya killed and Daiya is so awesome about the whole thing that hes basically like heh my bad right little bro? and just makes Mondo promise to keep the gang together now that hes dead.

Daiya sounds like an awesome dude, and if he was around more I am almost positive Id like him more than Mondo. He seems like he is the guy Mondo is pretending to be without all that macho insecurity attached to it, and even though he has all of three lines I still like him more than a huge chunk of the cast that seems to only be here to annoy the hell out of me and get in the way of the fun Im trying to have. He seems like a badass and an actual good guy (if you ignore the fact he started a biker gang and biker gangs tend to do a whole lot more crimes than they do genuine community improvement). I felt like Teruterus mom was a little heavy handed with her whole moms are tough speech, but for some reason I didnt get the same impression from Daiya even though his scene is a whole hell of a lot more dramatic. It might have something to do with the fact that I hate Teruteru and dont hate Mondo, but I didnt feel like Daiya was quite as blatant of a lazy attempt to tug at my heartstrings and give sympathy to a character who didnt deserve it. He has a minor part, but I feel like he fills that role well and he makes the conclusion to 1-2 a little more enjoyable because of it.

With that being said though, even though I like Daiya, this is as high as I can have him go and even this feels like a bit of a stretch. Dude has three lines then dies. There isnt much to get attached to here. I like most of the cast of these two games, so Daiya really only gets to sit above those characters that either annoyed me or that I really did feel absolutely nothing about. Hes a character who probably winds up higher if hes around for any serious length of time or has more of an impact on the story. But still, 27 isnt so bad for a guy that gets ten seconds of screen time.

next ranking I swear is someone you actually care about. Thanks for hanging in there, though!

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