Kanade Otonokoji

Kanade is a young high school girl with short stature. She has fair skin, pale pink eyes, and lavender hair which gradually fades to a rosy red color. Her hair is split into pigtails with two pink eighth note hairclips clipped to each side. She wears a pale blue sailor dress with light magenta collar and white trim, large light amber bow and four buttons pinned evenly on it, and a pale magenta lining near its hem. Over her uniform, she wears a long-sleeved dark purple cardigan. Appearance

Kanade is a young high school girl with short stature. She has fair skin, pale pink eyes, and lavender hair which gradually fades to a rosy red color. Her hair is split into pigtails with two pink eighth note hairclips clipped to each side.

She wears a pale blue sailor dress with light magenta collar and white trim, large light amber bow and four buttons pinned evenly on it, and a pale magenta lining near its hem. Over her uniform, she wears a long-sleeved dark purple cardigan. She also wears light pale blue thigh-high socks with a pink stripe near the top and coral red loafers. Her former high school symbol is printed on the flap of her uniform and both toe vamps of her shoes.

While Kanade and Hibiki look fairly similar, there are visible differences in their appearance and clothing. This includes Kanade's larger bust, rounder eyes, more condensed hair, the lack of pockets in her jacket, and her hairclips resembling combined eighth notes instead of separate ones.

Personality

At first glance, Kanade appears to be very weak-willed and has trouble expressing her opinions thanks to her sister's abuse. Whenever she says something logical, Hibiki would often thought that she making fun of her for realizing her sister's mistake. Hibiki also calls Kanade 'morbidly obese' and often play games like tickling her younger sister. Kanade, as such, seems to be dependent on Hibiki, and don't usually try to defy her, even saying to Sora that she doesn't need to be worried that she is being bullied. In contrast to Hibiki's personality, Kanade wants to protect her twin sister, rather than bash and control her. During Hibiki's outbursts, Kanade would take the time to help her throughout, taking her away from the crowds, and letting her calm down during these times, being her moral support in blunter terms.

Unlike her twin sister, Kanade appears to be smarter and more useful during cases due to her ability to spot pieces of evidence and theorize how the killer used it to help them. An example of this would be during Chapter 2, where she would spot the icicles and the carvings on them. However, during the trial, Kanade starts to show her hidden personality. She appears to become much more intimidating to others, including Hibiki, by grinning menacingly or creepily stare at the students when they started questioning her theory, blatantly saying that it is perfect. In Chapter 3, her true personality revealed itself.

Kanade is a cunning, manipulative and to an extent, psychopathic serial killer. Born being better than not just Hibiki, but almost everyone in her life at almost everything, Kanade believed that she was perfect and didn't see value in anyone, calling her parents 'things' and quickly dismissed their death which was caused by her older self, except one. Kanade has an extreme and incestuous love for her sister, believing her to be the only family member she has. Like Kanade, Hibiki realizes that she is inferior and bullies Kanade to make her remember that she is still the older sis and forces Kanade to rely on her. Because of this, Kanade faked herself to be a supportive and caring younger sister, which fooled everyone, including Kokoro, and secretly plans lots of mental shocks for Hibiki, which includes butchering her pet dog Shiro, causing her best friend Ayumi's entire body to be paralyzed for the rest of her life, giving the middle-school teacher she had a crush on an extra dose of muscle relaxant, killing the recording engineer, makeup coordinator, and manager for the band and much more, tally up to around 60 lives not counting her parents, all so that Hibiki can only rely on her. Hibiki, because of the murders, is mentally weak, and after the band coordinator's death, become a puppet that Kanade can control at will. Thanks to this, Kanade sets up an incredibly complicated murder scheme, where the victim, Setsuka, who was trying to help Hibiki over her mental health issue was killed then chop to pieces.

However, this also shows the other side of Kanade's personality. When her plan was starting to be found out, Kanade quickly became more and more furious and when back up to a corner, she shook up and turned pale, saying that her plans have never failed before and blaming it on pure rotten luck. Because of her perfect view of herself, she couldn't accept her failure and stuttered, though quickly return back to her normal self when she know she can't escape, wishing to see her sister's despairing and dying moment before she dies. Even if Hibiki hadn't bullied Kanade during their childhood, she still would've acted the same way as she does ingame[4]. If Hibiki died during the game, Kanade would've taken her life shortly afterwards[4]. Kanade doesn't have any hatred towards Void, Mikado, or Monocrow, and didn't have any plans on taking them down, as she only wanted to get off the island with Hibiki. If double kills weren't allowed, she would've planned to defeat them however[4].

For you it’s quite different she does show her obsession for You she always try to keep her nice and sweet personality infront of you so you won’t suspect a thing she loves you really well and will protect you at all cost it doesn’t matter if she had to actually kill someone to get to you,She will also insult everyone right on their faces but except you she never insulted about you

History

Early Life

Around her birth to being three or four years old, Kanade came to a realization that she was better than Hibiki in every way, whether it be talent, personality, skills, or the like. When Hibiki came to the same realization, she would, even at an early age, childishly harass and bully Kanade to forcefully get her way. Being too young, Kanade would not object or fight back to the mistreatment, instead, giving into it. While being abused constantly, she still loved Hibiki and considered her family.

One day, when the twins' mother told Hibiki she should play with her sister for a change, Hibiki replied that she would much rather play with their pet teacup poodle, Shiro, than Kanade, and that she loved Shiro more than her. Upon hearing those words, Kanade would become uncontrollably jealous, leading her to come to one conclusion: that she would be unable to become closer to Hibiki as long as Shiro was alive and in her way.

Kanade then took action. She took a kitchen knife and then butchered Shiro into pieces. She cut him up and washed him down the drain. Despite all the measures she had to go to as to make sure she wasn't discovered for her crime, it came excessively easily to Kanade. While she did feel a bit of guilt, once Hibiki came crying to her, unable to find Shiro, Kanade quickly dismissed any feelings of shame. The younger twin caught on quickly, instantly aware of the weaknesses of Hibiki in a low mental state. She also noticed that Hibiki would suffer from short memory loss, forgetting whatever traumatic event had taken effect. Kanade yearned to be accepted and loved by her sister, and was more than happy to do whatever she needed to have Hibiki depend on her. She schemed and planned a multitude of hellish events, setting traps to weaken her, while Hibiki continued to abuse Kanade unbeknownst of such a thing. Kanade adored this as well, using it to slowly but surely modify the energetic and cheery twin into only looking towards her for company.

Kanade found the most successful method of mentally weakening her sister was to eradicate Hibiki's most precious individual. Over the years, she severly injure or even murder anyone Hibiki had cared for. She pushed Hibiki's best friend from grade school, Ayumi, down a large staircase, causing her to be hospitalized and her entire body to be paralyzed for the rest of her life as payback for calling her creepy and telling Hibiki they should stay away from her. She gave their middle-school teacher who Hibiki had a crush on an extra dose of muscle relaxant and buried him in a hill behind the school, justifying that he was a paedophile who had indecent thoughts about Hibiki thus it was an act to save her from him. Though it's unknown exactly when, at one point, Kanade, along with her sister, created a band called Melody Rhythm, which consisted of only her and Hibiki. Kanade killed the recording engineer, makeup coordinator, and manager for the band. With this, Hibiki became so weak minded and fragile that she would break at even some of the smallest tragedies. As time passed, the guitarist killed or injured around sixty people in total. It came to the point where she would murder anyone even acquainted with Hibiki.

After massacring their coordinator into sushi who had a strong relationship with Hibiki, Hibiki came crying to Kanade as usual, when suddenly her eyes went out of focus. When Kanade spoke to her, she did everything she was told, giving no reaction or complaint. Kanade saw this as one of the happiest moments of her life. From there, enough damage would force Hibiki into such a state of mind, becoming the equivalent of a puppet. Upon realizing this, Kanade changed her training goal from Hibiki to only relying on her to becoming a lifeless doll. This mode lasted longer and longer each time she fell into it, until the point where Kanade could switch it on and off at her will with just the right amount of trauma.

At some point, she planned on murdering their parents as a finale of her plan to turn Hibiki into a puppet, but at the time, she thought it was too soon. A few years later, she executed her plan. She came to the Otonokoji home and repeatedly stabbed her parents to death. She slited her father's throat open and sliced her mother's abdomen open, causing her intestines to pour out. In a daze, she looked at a nearby mirror, covered in blood and her appearance disheveled.

Through everything, Kanade was never arrested or suspected. She claims this is a mixture of her being too perfect and the police being too idiotic. However, since several people close to them were suddenly dying, Tsurugi Kinjo started investigating and interrogating the twins, but was never able to find out she was responsible for it. Since they were interrogated by Tsurugi, they were officially "connected to the class of 79" and thus, Mikado and Syobai kidnapped the twins and put them in the Neo World Program.

Kanade and Hibiki had their memories erased and their bodies modified to when they were High School students. Their memories were also modified to make them think they had been invited by Hope's Peak Academy. With that, they were put on the first island inside the virtual world and the Killing Game began.

Utsuroshima Killing School Trip

Kanade was one of the people to introduce herself to Sora and Yuki, standing with her twin sister Hibiki as she did so, showing a somewhat shy side to herself.

After a while, all of the students par Shobai went beside the Monocruise. In this time, after a suggestion of going for a swim was given by Setsuka, all of the students, save for Sora, Yuki, Kokoro, Emma, Mikado, and Yoruko, would agree to her idea, borrowing swimsuits from the supermarket to swim, with Kanade sticking with Hibiki in this time After Yuki said he would give up, and began to enter the water, everyone including Kanade would fall unconscious. After a while, the participants would awaken, discovering that their swimsuits were removed, with them now being in their talent uniforms. Soon after, an anonymous announcement would play, telling everyone to head to the centre park.

In response, Kanade along with the other 14 participants, would head to the centre park. At arrival, Monocrow would appear. It was announced that he was the one who kidnapped everyone there, and the only way to leave was to kill someone, thus announcing the Killing School Trip.

Days later during the trip, a party would be held by Setsuka. Due to alcohol being mixed with the normal bottles, Kanade would become drunk, letting out her bottled up emotions towards Hibiki. Later on she would be helped back to the Monocruise by Iroha.

The morning afterwards, Yuri would be found dead at the bell tower. Once discovering anaesthetic was involved in the murder case, Kanade would rush to the infirmary, confirming that one of the needles had gone missing at some point. Once Sora would discovered it was used, Kanade would confirm that the substance was anaesthetic, saying that she's smelled it a lot. She also puts forward that the amount can be controlled.

In the beginning of the trial, Kanade asked Monocrow if there could be accomplices, and he explained that there can be accomplices but only the one who murdered someone can leave the island, and that if two murders happen, only the first one will count.

During the class trial, Kanade was one of the many people to accuse Yoruko of being the culprit, but eventually it was found out that the real culprit was Hajime Makunouchi. He was then executed due to the rules of the class trial. It was also revealed that he was a member of an organization known as "Void" lead by Mikado and every member was meant to kill someone at a determined time.

Soon after the first class trial, Kanade and (after being helped by Setsuka) Hibiki would perform together to the other participants. By doing so most of the participants would be distracted by Emma's and Kokoro's conversation, including Teruya who had agreed to keep watch on her. Afterwards, Kanade and Hibiki would stick together as she'd help her with multiple problems, mostly due to the stress during the killing game.

3 days later Kokoro's dead body would be discovered, leading for Kanade to investigate. Once there, she would notice that multiple icicles had been knocked down with inscriptions being carved into them. Due to this, Kanade would be able to deduce who Kokoro's killer was before the trial began. During the second trial Kanade, explained that the liquid nitrogen found in the investigation was “fake evidence” and Kokoro’s real cause of death was freezing inside the fridge. Kanade also explained the dying message: She said every icicle was meant to represent a girl, and that the penetrated icicle was meant to represent Kokoro. The penetrated icicle was also bigger than the others, meaning the culprit is the tallest girl among them. With that information, Sora was also to pin down Emma Magorobi as the culprit.

As no one believed her, she began to show her true colors, calling everyone stupid and telling Hibiki to shut up. She and Sora would attempt to prove that Emma had been the killer of Kokoro. Despite most people disagreeing with her, she would soon be able to prove that Emma was the killer, based from the dying message left behind as well as pointing out what Emma's talent could be capable of.

Talent

Guitarist

The guitarist of the duo band 'Melody Ryythm', Kanade is the instrumentalist for some of the bands most popular songs. Ever since a young age Kanade was gifted with playing the guitar and much more, and was even vocally better than her twin sister despite their respective talents. To receive 'Hibiki's love', however, Kanade began to sabotage herself for Hibiki to excel in what she was passionate about, and for herself to have a better relationship with her sister. Kanade decided to become the guitarist of their group once they decided to debut into the music scene, and even changed the type of music she wanted to play to fit with Hibiki's visions and personal taste.

After a special performance the twins perform to Sora, Sora describes Kanade as 'talented' and her performance as 'splendid'. During another special performance both of the twins perform to raise the surviving participants spirits, Sora goes into a little more detail in her thoughts such as; there being no error in how Kanade played the guitar. The twins were both able to perform through many of their songs without any rest, showing a bit of depth to their passions in music[5][6].

In chapter six it's revealed that Hibiki and Kanade aren't actually Hope's Peak students, but were still performers in the music industry.

General Skills

Hibiki proclaims Kanade as a talented dart thrower, a possible result from her many gifts since childhood, proclaiming her as a 'semi-ultimate dart thrower' in chapter three [7]. Kanade proclaims herself to have been better at everything compared to Hibiki, even if the latter had put all her effort into beating Kanade, including her own ultimate talent. Since a young age she's been gifted academically, athletically and talent-wise, and some of these skills still come into use until her death; such as using her intelligence to solve murder cases and plot out her own. However, wanting to receive 'Hibiki's love' after feeling she was being hated by her sister, Kanade would've sabotaged herself in everything to make Hibiki seem better at a young age, though it doesn't seem to have faltered her skills oddly[5].

Stats

Kanade ranks highest in reasoning power, intelligence, and behaviour, with all three of these stats ranking with an 'S', and all of her stats are based off of natural ability alone. In reference to her intelligence LINUJ states that only Yamato Kisaragi would've managed to receive an S in intelligence and reasoning from SDRA2's predecessor, and that while Rei Mekaru and the other 'brains of the class trial' may of been able to beat her with effort they still wouldn't rank up to the scores Kanade received.

On the contrary Kanade's lowest stats are human nature (E) and physical ability (C). Alike intelligence, physical ability is based on her natural strength itself, and not the techniques she used in the killing game. This is because, as stated in the Otonokoji twins free time events, Kanade doesn't train that often to allow Hibiki to "flourish" in her abilities, and that most of her killings have to be by surprise or psychological combat to actually work. If Kanade did train, LINUJ states that Kanade would've been 'unstoppable'. As for human nature, her low scores come from her own social life. Kanade doesn't care for anyone other than Hibiki, which deduces a number of points on its own, but her incestuous views on Hibiki helps make her score so low[3].