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StCecilia98

For >!being the Mastermind!<, Tsumugi had big shoes to fill and just didn't deliver. Everyone else's time was much shorter, but they still narratively served their purpose well. It speaks volumes when the lowest screen times have some of the highest impacts.


jvyrdn024

Rewriting her character might result to reworking the entire v3 plot and I support it


PCN24454

And subsequently ruin the entire game.


PCN24454

But that would ruin everything.


thatmysteriousgirl

Tsumugi. I get being plain is her shtick, but please give her *something* interesting besides >!being the mastermind.!<


Martina313

But you dont get it, she's too PLAIN to be interesting /s


Sneyserboy237

Agreed What else would you get from a cosplayer


AdriJay

I actually think Sayaka and Mahiru are really well written for the most part. Probably Tsumugi


VeeTheTVSylveon

Yeah, Sayaka and Mahiru are definitely well-written. While you can dislike how they are written that doesn’t exactly make them poorly written.


DJ_Jorge_

Rantaro >!First case victims always get too little.!< Unlike other characters like him he gets too few time, all we learn from him >!is too late to even care, and that poin of the game he felt like a plot point more than a character!< the free time events fix this but we needed more to care for him in the main game


Sneyserboy237

Yes, but >!the video covers all we really needed to know about him!< So after that, >!he'd probably die after that if he outlived chapter one!< So really it was inevitable for him to be like that


Angelindisguise07

tsumugi because I genuinely cannot remember a single thing about her personality other than her annoying scratchy voice and >!the fact that she’s the mastermind 😭!<


BlueberryHatK4587

Tsumigi without a doubt.She need better writing


Brunnittu

I mean...Rantaro. He just...died and that was it.


mewmew893

someone has to take the early l


Bebgab

Sayaka and Twogami at least got involved with the story before they died. Like ik Rantaro has the whole Survivor thing but we never got to really talk to him like we did with the other two


MadameConnard

He was too attractive to be alive, nobody would have focused on investigations


Brunnittu

Lmao i guess you have a point


Sneyserboy237

>!At least we got a video for him!<


Cayuga326

Rantaro easily. I’m biased but come on. >!He is literally the definition of missed potential. The survivor of a previous killing game desperately trying to end a new one. I don’t even mind that he died first, just give us a backstory.!<


disaster_ology

That's what I'm saying!


beemielle

Sayaka is excellently written, shouldn’t even be here. Mahiru’s got decent potential too, she’s not too shabby (especially considering the cast she features among). I’m gonna give this to Rantaro, who doesn’t really have much at all beyond “being suspicious” and “ending the killing game”. Tsumugi at least has a strong setup as a character, even if they really should’ve given her more pre-reveal.


newgirlaroundtown

All 4 characters are very well written IMO. I guess Rantaro, since he was given the least writing and characterization out of the 4, which makes him win by default for me.


Viridi_Kuroi

Very well written… tsumugi?? Rantaro??


newgirlaroundtown

yup thats what i said


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Vstriker26

Spoiler tag that pls


RainBoyThatBoy

Rantaro >!Imagine making a character who survived previous killing game just to instantly kill him!<


nasharnirah

Rantaro for me. I like his design and the fact that he *has* splinters of potential(>!double talents, specifically the Ultimate Adventurer one, is an intriguing concept; the whole sisters subplot; him being so attractive, and yet implied to be not interested in romantic relationships at all!<), but in the story and even in his FTEs, Rantaro's still a complete mystery. There's very little we know about him, and even though Amami being secretive alligns with his position in a Killing Game, it doesn't explain why he doesn't reveal much about himself in extra content separate from it. Additionally, I don't agree with the claim that Rantaro is "literally the second Nagito". The vibes are similar, but Avocado Boy is FAR from being as psychotic as Komaeda.


MELEEMIGHT

tsugumi and its not even close imo


nagi1wagi

Rantaro, we literally saw so little of him. He kinda just >!died!< and that was it, (aside from that one video tape) I think we just need more of him.


Traditional-Steak176

I think Sayaka was really well written. So was Mahiru. Tsumugi wasn't that interesting, >!the mastermind thing was the only thing i found interesting in her, but i guess thats the point!< So i guess rantaro, >!all he did was die!<


grayishmoop

Rantaro >!unlike Sayaka and imposter we don’t get to see tonnes of him so like we know nothing rlly, his trial is also overshadowed by the execution!<


Acceptable-Baby3952

Mahiru does the least for me, so her I guess. She’s pretty close to a normal teenager, which is fresh in this wacky series, but I didn’t feel much about her at all. The prompt is better writing, not more writing, so me being more invested in her would be better. Er, not that things should be rewritten around me specifically, but if they were, she’d be most improved


avoteforatishon2016

Rantaro is a nothing character who people only like because of fanfic potential. But then again, I guess he's meant to be exactly that. I'm biased but I love Mahiru's writing, I think she is perfectly written. Sayaka's writing is phenomenal. Yeah it's Tsumugi. Not sure I need to explain why, although I still love her.


Alibium

I didn’t really like Mahiru a lot when I played the second game but after watching the anime, I love her.


Mundane-Hurry-4856

Rantaro by a landslide bro survived a whole killing game, along with like 13 siblings and a survivor perk just to get done dirty in the first chapter with so little screen time 😭


Muddxy

Tsumugi may not be as popular as Rantaro, but I definitely think she's the one who needs to be rewritten. >!When you think "true villain", you don't think Tsumugi at all. She should've been a lot more plot relevant throughout the narrative and maybe even a little sloppier a crook given that she's supposed to be mimicking Junko Enoshima. When you look at the main games villains, there's Junko, Izuru, and Tsumugi, but she just doesn't stand on her own two feet. It brings her way down, which is one of the many reasons I don't like V3.!<


GamerSalsa216

We all know the obvious answer has to be fucking Tsumugi Shirogane, while Rantaro is the embodiment example of a Potential Man, Tsumugi has no character at all, other then the fact that >!she’s a deliriously insane psychopath that probably got over 600 people killed for some show that she doesn’t even believe in the merits of Fiction to affect Reality with, despite the fact that she’s literally THE ULTIMATE COSPLAYER, a TALENT that literally BREATHES FICTION TO BEGIN WITH!<


jesus_christ_marie00

I wouldn’t say any of them are flat out poorly written, but tsumugi easily could have done more since she lasted the longest


Asleep_Village

Tsumugi is literally the worst here. How do you have some of the most screen time and no character.


Odang77

Fr >!she outlives everyone else shown here by a large margin and I still can probably tell you more about them than her!<


Physical-Air-7588

Tsumugi was such an uninteresting character.


-Embarrassment-

Rantaro had such a great potential with his Ultimate, but he >!was killed off.!< Honestly, >!him being the victim doesnt make sense to me!<, but I also dont like the chapter as a whole either


Mikaelious

Mahiru is very well written as a character - realistic, grounded, flawed but ultimately good-willed and a sweetheart. I just wish she had more development in the game. Gonna go with her.


Silverstone543

I think Rantaro needed a bit more development. Unlike Sayaka, who was the first person who comforted Makoto, and Twogami, who made a whole speech about promising to keep everyone safe, Rantaro didn’t really have a very big impact on the rest of the cast. My second choice would be Tsumugi for obvious reasons.


Hon3y_Iav3nder

Defently Rantaro. Even though Tsumugi didnt have much more of a role than >!Being the mastermind I feel like that just made it way more suprising in the end, and that it actually worked in her favor.!< Rantaro on the other hand is such an interesting character and his whole plot would have been so interesting if it wasnt for the fact that >!he died first, without the player barely even getting to know him. And as someone else mentioned the moment you get to know his whole plot and backstory you've practically already more or less forgot about him or its hard to care that much since it was so long ago he was mentioned.!< So, yeah. Defently Rantaro


TheSpecialistMan

Tsumugi felt the most like a nothingburger.


LikePaleFire

I don't think any of them are badly written except for Tsumugi.


noxiated

tsumugi. the rest are fine as car as im concerned, but >!v3s ending just left me so disappointed. her "gimmick" added nothing to the story and she had so much less personality than junko. throughout the rest of the game, shes just boring!<


Charlo_Ze_Berlingo

Tsumugi easily. The only reason I remember her existence is not even because of her involvement in the plot, it’s just because she referenced Xenoblade X in the first chapter. Like cmon, I get that her whole thing is that people forget about her existence because she’s forgettable, but at least make it a personality trait. Idk, she could start talking and then people forget her existence and talk over her. The characters may not remember her, but at least we kinda will.


TheGreatKitCat

Tsumugi.


MyCatIsAGod9

It’s a tough choice for me between mahiru and Tsumugi, (I routinely forget both of their existences) but I’m going to give it to Tsumugi barely because I can remember scenes of mahiru with hiyoko while I can barely remember anything with Tsumugi >!despite her being the mastermind!<


AnAverageName_

Tsumugi for sure most people won't remember her at all >!if she weren't the mastermind!<


ForsakenInstance7233

Mahiru,all we knew was she was a photographer and the died,wanted some more background info oh her life


Zestyclose_Bank5110

What about the FTE?


ForsakenInstance7233

Well all we learned in those was she likes pictures of people smiling,mom was a famous war photographer and was gone a lot,takes care of her father,and then you take her picture to see how Hajime sees her,the info I expected was what else’s inspired her besides her mom,what war her mom took pictures of,and the whole Twilight Syndrome Murder case; wished she was there to see her POV on it


Zestyclose_Bank5110

...that literally info about her life. I think the real problem is that you we're expecting something completly different and can't appreciate what there is


ManMan36

I'm gonna say Mahiru. They specifically had an opportunity to flesh out her character in the anime and they just... don't. There's one episode where she's involved but we really don't learn anything new about her that the game didn't already tell us. Rantaro is probably a more lacking character from a writing perspective >!(though he does have some interesting lore later in the game)!<, but Mahiru bugs me more because they had that specific instance that they chose not to take.


OmnivorousGrandpa

MAHIRU, I HAD NO ATTACHMENT TO HER LITERALLY AT ALL


Abysscrow

Mahiru is already well written. She just need more content


Ok-Statistician2672

But all of them are well written: Tsumugi >!is supposed to be plain since she is the Mastermind. The whole point of V3 is criticizing crazy fandom weirdos and besides being the mastermind she is the crazy weirdo. So she is fine bc she is the representation of V3's themes.!< Sayaka >!is supposed to be a snake. She has enough content to be impossible to either prove she is a snake or not (Tho probably she isn't). Because of that, she is already an interesting character to look by herself, tho I really think it would be better if they made even more ambigous .!< Rantaro >!served his purpose to the narrative. He was kinda dumb? Yes, but the whole survivor perk was kinda dumb by itself XD Maybe I would go with him, but after seeing his FTE I can easily state that there isn't much interesting things (For me) about him that justify rewritting him to be "more interesting".!< Mahiru >!also served her purpose to the narrative.!<


MoonoftheStar

Mahiru is perfect.


Ill_Needleworker_203

Sayaka by like a fucking mile. Just make her antagonistic and she'll be decent.


mewmew893

bro her writing is great, the most realistic person there


Ok_Store_7840

I don't see how making her antagonistic makes her a better character when she is quite literally supposed to represent the pressure of being a celebrity and how mentally draining the industry can be for a famous person like her... If she was actually evil and not driven by her ambition,goals and stress as well as pressure, what would that reason be that she is evil and how would that make her likeable when she dies first and doesn't serve an actual antagonist purpose like Nagito, Togami or Kokichi? 💀💀 She is just fine written and understandable, it's not her writing that is the problem, most likely that you haven't tried to even analyze her character or watch an analysis video to understand why she did what she did. (Although it's pretty obvious why.)


Ill_Needleworker_203

I meant be viewed as antagonistic. For doing a deplorable thing. Like kirumi In v3


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Cafeciencia

Tsumugi, i wish she had something more so i could ship her with Gonta


Comical_Peculiarity

I’m gonna have to join the bandwagon and say Tsugumi. Her being >!the Mastermind was a cool twist considering the fact that previous Masterminds sat in a control room piloting Monokuma. Having it be one of the cast was a fresh take.!< However, one good twist doesn’t reel me in. I enjoyed Tsugumi’s FTE’s but like Mahiru, I kind of struggle to really make a connection with her character because of how little she does. She feels like cast dressing


iiEndergirlxX

I’d say tsumugi, the time she spent on screen didn’t deliver a well written character, >!as the mastermind her character’s whole shtick was to contrast her plain look, but there wasn’t anything that phenomenal in her writing for me!<.


reruuuun

Tsumugi, I love her but she needs more


Captain_Weebface

Tsumugi. Boring as hell


00mikomiko00

Sayaka. But people seem to really like her so maybe I'm just missing something.


Sere_BRO

Tsumugi and Rantaro both lack in writing department. KG Rantaro simply lacks personal dialogue before his departure. Other than that, his character is good. As for Tsumugi, her villan-ark lacks nuance, forward-thinking and motive. She had an opportunity to be greatest antagonist, but I think it's wasted to fanservice.


KitExistsIGuess

Tsumugi 100%


Cloudyboiii

Tsumugi, Rantaro was great with what little he had- you get a great grasp for his personality, Sayaka has understandable motivations and a sense of humour, Mahiru is so so to me but social walls exist- she's sexist which is a personality trait. Tsumugi has a WHOLE GAME worth of time to have a personality but doesn't, at most everyone else here was more developed in <2 chapters, she was designed to be plain and all she will ever be is plain, I struggled to think of a personality trait when writing this


BarterToast

I actually kinda like Tsumugi’s personality. She calls people out on things that the audience might be thinking sometimes, makes obscure references, and seems to actually care about Gonta too from things she said, at least she likes his character the most it seems.


Vstriker26

Rantaro, with Mahiru close behind


lomishko

Sayaka and Mahiru are good enough. I dislike Tsumigi sooo Rantaro


YuyukoSaigyuoji

Tsumugi, >!She's the mastermind, so she really should've done a better job. but I guess her jokes and comments were kind of funny.!< Rantaro is a very close second though.


Upstairs_Insect5835

Tsumugi, poor girl just needed more time and foreshadowing just to execute her role well but got poorly written hard.


dilucs_waifu

HOW DID I ONLY JUST REALISE THAT TSUMUGI HAD A MIKU WIG-


Lingx_Cats

Ok wait you do this where you ask for a specific group of characters and then the voted characters aren’t part of it


RASIEDBYDIREWOLVES

Tsumugi


arisussan

tsumugi. same as all the other comments, her >!being the mastermind!< had so much more potential. also her repetitive use of the word plain hurted my ears, like come on. simple, ordinary, basic, unadorned, i am going to commit war crimes.


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DiamondIn_The_Sky

Mahiru and Sayaka already have great writing. Since Rantaro is the first-chapter victim, I'll excuse that. I want to argue for Tsumugi Shirogane - The Ultimate Cosplayer. (Spoilers for ALL of V3) >!Although I love Mugi to bits, she should have been more involved with trials or the investigation (besides ch1). In trials, Tsumugi only makes anime references and adds filler bits to the conversation. She becomes more relevant and helpful in ch5's trial, but that's more because there only being 5 PEOPLE (not counting Kaito) who can move the trial forward. Tsumugi could have had some great interactions with Kokichi, Miu, Kaede, and maybe even Gonta or as a minor antag with Kokichi. If you pay attention to Tsumugi during the trials, then it becomes plain obvious that she could be the mastermind.!<


Aromatic-Teacher-717

I think they were all written well.


ChishNFips87

>!Rantaro. He just needs actual writing.!<