CHIAKI NANAMI
SHSL GAMER
LAST UPDATED 1.13.19
name: nanami chiaki
------ 七海 千秋
aliases: the traitor, the observer of neo world program
affiliation: future foundation
gender: female
height: 5'2
weight: 101 lbs
chest: 35 in
blood type: O
dob: march 14th
likes: games (even crappy games)
dislikes: alarm clocks
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WARNING! if you are reading this carrd right now, please understand that it is currently under construction! meaning i am working on improving it and adding a whole lot more to it! if there are any spelling errors, cut off, broken links, or anything of the like... well.. that's why! enjoy your stay anyways!!
CHIAKI NANAMI IS MY WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD!
this page is entirely optional to read, please don't feel obligated to!! but seeing as i'm a literary arts major and dedicate so much of my time to writing about the things i love... i really wanted to use my skills in that field towards the most important entity in my life: chiaki nanami
i'll begin this by saying that the love that i hold for chiaki amounts to no words. if i were to use even the most intricate and meaningful vocabulary that all of the languages in the world hold, it would only equal a teeny tiny portion of how much i never endingly adore this girl ! it's to the point where it's ineffable. she’s very very important to me in so many ways that i could write entire novels about! (which, honestly, with all the stuff i've written about her up to this point.. i wouldn't deny that it's probably reached novel length). she's truly my everything! and i apologize if the majority of this lovemail sounds more like word vomit than anything else. i'm trying my best
chiaki nanami is the sleepy gamer girl with the hugest heart whole stole every last ounce of my uwus and has refused to give them back for years. her title is the ultimate / super high school level gamer, meaning she is the greatest gamer in the whole world!!! chiaki said gamers rise up!! she loves all kinds of games, even the crappy ones! she's always able to find the positives in even the most poorly made games. she does, however hate romance games because she is very bad at them. she always picks the wrong option and has never been able to complete one!though she is typically very out of it and not one to initiate any kind of conversation, if you happen to mention her favorite game, she will get so excited and not stop talking until she runs out of breath! she uses game references to help her get through different problem and understand her every day life! she is a part of class 77-B while attending hope's peak academy, and there's nothing she loves more than her teacher and allll her classmates and friends and hajime (except.. maybe games). her heart is filled to the brim with nothing but love for the people and environment around her and she actively tries to express her gratitude and her adoration for the world around her in any ways she can. she became the class president after uniting her previously divided class and did everything in her power to keep them safe and happy and thriving. though her story ends tragically, the impact she left on the hearts she touched shaped everyone into who they are, shaped the story into what it is, and further contributed to what a remarkable person and character chiaki truly is!
There are two seperate people who make up this character, that being chiaki nanami (human) and chiaki nanami (ai). both versions are her are so down to earth and entirely captivating! i do not at all place one chiaki over the other, both forms are perfect in their own ways and both hold the same place as #1 in my heart.
throughout the time when i first came in contact with this lovely lady nearly 3 years ago, all the way up until this present moment in time, i have dedicated so much time to expressing everything i feel for chiaki. i have lost count of the number of appreciation posts i've made for her, trying my absolute best to deeply express from the very bottom of my heart the high importance that this sweet gamer means to me. these posts range from me being ridiculously elaborate and expressing nothing but the upmost admiration for chiaki, while others are short and to the point, such as: "I LOVE YOU SO FUCKIGN MCUH". no matter in what way, shape, or form, i love preaching about my adoration! i guess you could call this lovemail here my magnum opus when it comes to chiaki loving, my chef d'oeuvre of sorts, and who even knows if anyone will actually reads this whole thing! point is that i love chiaki, and that's what i'm here to talk about. welcome to my ted talk, everyone!
on top of all the little lovemails, there's also the defense essays i've written for her against the mass amount of people who hate her because they believe she's "boring" or "predictable" or "a plot device" or "a mary sue".. all of those incorrect terms that are constantly thrown at her. the danganronpa fanbase is known to be pretty cruel to a lot of sweet characters for seemingly no reason, and chiaki honestly seems to get the worst of it. she's such an angel, and people can just be so cruel. believe me, i understand if her character is just not your cup of tea, that's simply a matter of opinion that i'll always respect and appreciate! however, the misconceptions made about her are what break my heart. i know i've changed the minds of a solid amount of people, as i've been told, and this makes me so happy! i always do my absolute best to defend her in every way i can, i love continuing to remind the world of what a dazzling, shining star she is both inside and out! i'll be adding a very large chiaki defense essay to this carrd as well!! watch out!
there's also, of course, the extremely large amount of edits i have made for her, in which i try my absolute best to accurately express to the world and to all of my followers what a marvelous girl she truly is and how significant her message is (in both the series and in real life!). because of her, i took on editing as a way to express myself, and i love it just as much as i love writing, or maybe even more than writing! this all happened back when vine was still around. i loved watching chiaki edits, and i wanted to edit her too! my first ever danganronpa edit was of her encouraging hajime in chapter 6. i had done some edits beforehand, but it surely wan't a steady hobby until she came trotting into my heart. she gave me so much inspiration to channel my creative tendencies, and she's forever my favorite muse to focus on. of course you can imagine that i especially go all out for her birthday! but even when its not some special occasion, i love editing her to my favorite songs, or songs that i think match her, or songs that contribute to expressing the importance in her story... the list goes on and on and on! as i said, editing has become a very important thing for me when it comes to expression, and that's just one of the many things i can't thank chiaki enough for!
there's many things people can do to show how much a character means to them, such as through art, cosplay, fanfiction, ect., but these are some of the things i personally do! i'd call myself dedicated, not to toot my own horn, but there is so much that i do to continue appreciating her as well as keep her inspiring message alive forever and always! i understand how some people could think this is strange, being so dedicated to a being who doesn't even exist in our physical world, but there's just so much more to her than being fictional, so much more that it extends far beyond that fictional realm and right into the hearts of many people, more than just myself. i know for sure i am not the only one who feels so strongly about who she is, what she does, and everything in between, and i find that to be something very... magical! it's difficult to truly explain why she is just that powerful, but it's surely got something to do with what her whole character represents, paired with her very charming and down to earth personality, and the initiative she takes in executing her goals that, to me, make her very very real! keeping this in mind, i use every last ounce of any skills i may posses to express her loveliness as accurately and as much as i possibly can. i hope she knows how much i love her!
it's weird to think about how chiaki has only been my favorite character for around 3 years. that's a small portion of my life, but it feels like its been so much longer. if you keep all the stuff from the previous few paragraphs in mind, you can imagine how i feel this way. my heart is entirely chiaki nanami shaped! she's always on my mind, and the positive impact she's had on me leads me to believe that time is simply an illusion. it's also funny to think about how i used to have another "ultimate" favorite character before i found chiaki. it was jon snow from game of thrones, if you're wondering! he was my favorite character for 3 years up until i met chiaki, and though jon continues to be my favorite male ever, miss chiaki nanami beats him by a landslide. i used to be so anti weeb, anti anime, whatever you wanna say, and the fact that i managed to get into danganronpa back in 2016 is just proof that i was destined to know chiaki! i am so very grateful for every little ounce of fate that went into me being able to find, know, and love her!
as i've said, she's been my universe for around 3 years now. with each passing day, or rather, each passing second, my love only continues to grow stronger and stronger.. multiply further and further... like mitosis. my love for chiaki is mitosis. sorry i'm being stupid now!! moving on: to me, she is the most glorious and incredible character to ever exist! ever!! it's impossible for future creators to fathom a character as incredible as she is. chiaki is my girl, my world, my galaxy, my sweetie, my wife, my absolute entire life! nothing could ever even begin amount to her beauty and grace. the hope and inspiration she’s given to me means more than anyone could possibly know! the entity of space and time is stumped when it comes to trying to understand what number lies beyond infinity that can be used to describe the emotions i feel for her. everything about her, from the very top strands of her sweet peachy brown hair of her hair to the tips of her toes, deserves nothing but the utmost appreciation, adoration, and respect. she's so kind, so lovely, so dazzling, and so so important. i feel as though i'm repetitive because, if i may state again, the act of conveying how much i love her can be so difficult when the english language is so limiting. but of course i love and adore her with every last fiber of my being, down to ever cell in my body. every single atom that has ever existed as a part of me, and will ever exist as a part of me, loves chiaki nanami! god i hope she is having a wonderful day today because she deserves it so freaking much
not to be over dramatic or anything, but the stuff this girl has done for me is on a whole other level. she was there for me when nobody else was! maybe that sounds weird, or like an over exaggeration, but listen. i won't get too personal when i say that i haven't had the best past, but once chiaki came into my life, it was pretty much the first time that i felt like i had hope. i felt grounded, like a light was shed on my life. i could never repay her for all the valuable lessons she has taught me. she taught me what it means to be a good person, what it means to have motivation, what it means to be there for someone, and most of all, what it means to truly live. to live among things that make you happy and to surround yourself with all the gracious things you believe you deserved. she has helped me get through the lowest point in my life through both her presence and her motivational words. i truly do mean it when i say that i love her and cherish her so incredibly deeply within my heart. any time i'm feeling down, i'll start up sdr2 and i'll instantly feel better. i've replayed the game many times now, and every single time i've been able to find something new and different and important that i love. the whole island mode was always very difficult but of course i figured it out, and i always visit her in there on her birthdays! of course when i say i love chiaki, i don't just mean game chiaki. there's so much her real life counterpart has done for me as well, even if she came into my life a bit later than ai chiaki. i love rewatching episode 2 the most. it gives ff so many warm, positive vibes and consists only of the happiness chiaki feels while she's united with her classmates. there really isn't anything more pure than that!! on top of that, i also love the hope arc episode where she speaks to hajime at the end. everything she lived for, fought for, and died for worked out in the end. she's content with everything that happened, and seeing her smile one last time at the very end always makes me smile as well. there's so many moments that make me smile. those are only a small few, but maybe you can get the idea. if not, don't worry. i'll elaborate further soon!! point is, oh my gosh, i love her and every night i wish upon the brightest star that she somehow knows about the immense gratitude i have for her <3
the importance that this adorable little gamer girl holds to me is entirely incalculable! there's no other character like her in the world, she's incomparable! there's no one to match the amount of love she has for her classmates, her never ending empathy for everyone around her and even for those who have done wrong, her everlasting will to go on in the name of hope, everything about her character is immaculate! even her simple personality traits are beyond lovely.. like how she falls asleep mid conversation, how she gets so engrossed in her gaming, how she'll talk so fast that she runs out of breath, how she doesn't understand a whole lot of basic human interaction, and so much more. even though ai chiaki and human chiaki aren't the same person, they both deserve to be respected as their own people on top of being the kind hearted girl who fights for what she believes in. their differences only add to how complex she is, she's a major character in danganronpa, arguably the most important character when it comes to saving everyone in sdr2 and a lot of survivors in other games as well. the extent that she goes to to protect her friends truly is absolutely amazing and inspiring.
on 1.3.18, my dear amazing friend kennie got me the username @chiaki_nanami (one of the only remaining active chiaki usernames) and i can never ever ever fully express my gratitude. maybe to some people it's not that deep, and you're right. its just a username. some letters on a screen. really it isn't worth anything outside of instagram but i.. love it. and i worked to get a chiaki user for so long. 2 years actually! and they're really difficult! believe me! everyone who has one doesn't want to give it up! and i am totally one of those people now. i will cherish it forever and ever because not only does chiaki mean so much to me, but the gal who was able to help me get it does too!! chiaki is literally everything to me. i can't explain how incredible it feels to finally have one of her and to get to see her name every day! sometimes i do a double take because i still can't believe i have it. my account is appointed as the chiaki lovemail center! i hope chiaki has recognized all of my efforts that i've put into appreciating and loving her, she truly wholeheartedly deserves absolutely everything good that this world has to offer.. i wonder how many times i've said that already?
on 11.8.18, my chiaki plush arrived in the mail. chiaki's plush is also something i have wanted for a very long time. the problem with this is that danganronpa plushes are not like how gacha game plushes are, and thus tracking down the plush at a reasonable price was very difficult. i also didn't have the funds for a good while. and every time i did, she was nowhere to be seen. one day after i got one of my paychecks, though, she happened to be on ebay for a really low price and you can bet that i bought her the instant i saw her!! oh my god! i was shaking when i ordered her and then when she actually came in the mail i?!?!?!? there are no words. the day i got her, i was out for the entire night and i came home completely surprised. i dropped everything to open the package. the seller was so sweet and left a handwritten note, and she left me some japanese tea as well! the actual doll is so well made. there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. it's so small and huggable, it is so nice to be able to have and to hold her. she's suuuper soft and her color pallet is so pleasing to the eye and her facial expression makes my heart melt (if you don't know what i mean don't worry i'm gonna have a whole section dedicated to plushy pics) and she seriously smells so good!! its such a comforting item and 100% my favorite piece of chiaki merch that i own. you are. my fire. my one. desire. believe. when i say. I WAAANT IT THAAAAT WAY
i really don't even know what this section of the lovemail is called. perhaps this is the core lovemail part? i don't know!! i never know what i'm doing. but i just want to say that if you read all of that? i'm really impressed. let's keep delving into the spiral of how much leonna never endingly adores chiaki nanami!!!
our journey
i first got into danganronpa over christmas break december 2015-january 2016. vine (R.I.P) was my gateway into it, and i decided to watch it after seeing an edit of junko and celestia to that one audio that was like "sexy g i i rl it's undress rehearsal OOH LALALA LALA LALALA" and immediately my mind was like girl hot girl hot girl hot and that's when i decided to watch my first anime. well, it wasn't really my first, but all i had watched beforehand was attack on titan 3 years or so prior and then pokemon as a kid and i was never really that deep into those so junko enoshima was basically about to take my anime virginity for real. when i first watched the anime i really liked it and my standards were low since i did not know that there were games that went along with it. eventually i did find out that there was a game version, but trigger happy havoc was the only one at steam so i thought that that was the only one that existed. not even a trace of the second game. all that being said, my favorite character by the end of both the anime and the game was kirigiri!! who i still love so much. my first ever favorite was celestia, and i also really loved chihiro and junko. i was very confused for quite a while who komaeda was and where he camefrom because my friend kasper was always posting him saying he was from danganronpa and i was just kind of like "i must have missed that part..."
on march 14th 2016, chiaki nanami's birthday, i was obviously still a total noob. since i had only seen the content for the first game, pi day was a day that only belonged to chihiro in my head. i must say that danganronpa was not as popular back then as it is now in the editing community. you know how now you can look up #[character name] on instagram and hundreds of edits will pop up? that was just not the case back then. it was hard enough to find edits for the thh characters that weren't junko, celestia, or kirigiri and since there was like -2 content of the second game, there was only like a handful of edits of those characters. i was very excited to see if chihiro was going to get a bunch of edits for his birthday since there were about 4 or 5 preexisting ones and i wanted to appreciate him on that day! so there i was scrolling thru my vine feed to see if anyone had revined the goods i was seeking... and then it happened.
it was then thatmy eyes fell upon an edit of the most gorgeous girl i had ever seen in my entire life. i will now describe this edit in as much detail as possible for those who have not seen it. the audio was "froot" by marina, specifically the 6 second interval where she's singing "come on fill your cup up lookin for some good luck! good luck! good luck to you!" and that's one of my favorite marina songs so my heart was already pounding. i saved the edit and learned that it was her birthday as well, and that her name was chiaki nanami. by the end of the day my gallery was filled with chiaki nanami, and i thought to myself, "what do i do with this information?"
here's what i did with that information
i did research on all of the other danganronpa games and ultimately bought super danganronpa 2: goodbye despair as fast as i could. i already knew chiaki was going to be my favorite, and as i spent all of my time with her, i realized that she was going to be so much more than any other character. i love every character in that game, but she managed to outshine them all so drastically much. the initial connection i had with her was absolutely correct in knowing that she was going to be someone special, and she easily surpassed everyone else on my favorite character list
playing sdr2 for the first time was a magical experience. firstly because that game is incredible in every way and is absolutely the best in the series and my favorite of all time, but also because i played it without knowing any spoilers! i honestly fell in love with all the characters, my other favorites including komaeda, kuzuryuu, hiyoko, and peko, but i always felt drawn to chiaki. her freetime events were my favorite part of the game, i remember feeling a huge pang in my heart during her last event where she asked if hajime wouldn't forget about her when they all escaped. it seemed like with every word she spoke, she only seemed to become more and more wonderful! with the fact that i didn't know an spoilers in mind, you can infer that i didn't know chiaki was going to die. and you're right. i didn't.
you can imagine what i felt at the end of the game, so i won't go into detail. but i was heartbroken. in the beginning of 2016, i was not in a good place at all. i didn't expect her to help me so much, but oh my god, she did. as i said in the section above, she taught me what i means to have hope and to view the world in an entirely new way. she taught me what it means to be happy and to live a life i can be proud of. to this day she continues to help me and inspire me and that's why i'm sat here writing all these paragraphs about how important she is to me!! the message she ends the game with, her speech to hajime, how she asks everyone not to forget about her and tells them that she'll always be watching and rooting for them, it's stuff that's going to stick with me forever. her words are otherworldly in the way that she always knows the right thing to say and has so many iconic quotes that have so much power and meaning behind them. she's. incredible.
chiaki's the reason why i began editing, and why i worked up the courage to involve myself in the danganronpa community. if you asked myself from 2 years ago where i think i'd be now, i would be absolutely shocked to learn about the person i've become and the situation i've made for myself. my vine account was small, maybe 200 or so followers, but at the time i saw those people as my friends. i was not very good at all.. i hardly knew the basics of svp but i still enjoyed it and i looked forward to editing chiaki as well as my other favorite characters! as my account grew, i was able to become involved with more and more people that i was able to open my heart to and cherish the same way that i cherished chiaki! it was like a dream come true, and in present time i still have all of those people. i have chiaki to thank for that, i seriously couldn't be more thankful.
((this is getting long, so take a break with this cute gif))
but wait, there's more
a few months later there was word going around that a new anime was coming out that would be featuring all of the sdr2 kids and more! i was so excited, i couldn't wait! even if chiaki wasn't going to be in it, i was still so happy to have the opportunity to see all of those characters that i fell in love with again and to learn about the past that they had been put through.
one summer day i was at the pool with my family. it was a typical day, until checked my notifications and saw a notification from youtuber weebynewz (i don't remember subscribing to them, but whatever) and
oh my god..
chiaki was going to be in the new anime!! that meant that she once was a real person, and that also practically confirmed that her real self was going to die, but i was so happy anyways. to get more content of her was something i never thought would happen again, i can't express how happy i was when i found out!! waking up every thursday morning with the excitement of seeing the new despair arc episodes made life so wonderful, and though everything ended so awfully, i seriously can't thank kodaka enough for furthering chiaki's character and making her into something so much more than she already was
i did not expect there to be any way for chiaki to become even more loveable and special, but despair arc proved me wrong. some would argue that it ruined her character but i genuinely can't understand that point of view. what i see is the tragic story of a girl who was once a shut in, used to being alone with her games and her father, but after joining hope's peak academy, was welcomed into an environment which allowed her to love and care for so many people! she had never gotten to experience something like that before, and the way she spent her school life getting involved with everyone forming her bonds, having parties, events and bringing her whole class together shows the extent of how much she loved and cared for them. as well as seeing that (unlike the other talented students) she befriended and loved hajime as they bonded over their similarities of being a shut in and being rather lonely. it's true, she's no ordinary girl at all!
through everything i managed to find more reasons to love her, and she now holds the most irreplaceable position deep inside my heart. even though the anime's been over for a year, and since v3 minigame events are all over, its not likely that she'll be getting any canon moments ever again. i know i keep being repetitive in saying that i'm so thankful and grateful for her creation, but i really really am. her character means so much to me and i'm filled to the brim with love and appreciation for her!
i would not be as happy as i am now if it weren't for her, so thank you chiaki!
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i really don't know how to end this.. so let's consider these last little paragraphs a tl;dr section
chiaki's done more for me than i ever could have hoped. in my darkest moments, she shined a light that i'll never let go of. she's not real, but her words and her message are more than real! when i was surrounded by nothing but negative influences and trapped inside what seemed to be an endless feeling of despair, her words helped me to get through it. i never knew something with so much hope could exist, and i never knew it would have such an effect on me, but i have everything to thank her for! maybe its entirely silly to be so loving towards a fictional character, but i just can't help it
i especially want to thank her because without her, i wouldn't have met my closest friends. if i hadn't opened myself up and joined the community, i would have gone the rest of my life without knowing they even existed. they're everything to me. and on top of that, i have an edit account with 7k+ lovely and understanding followers who support me in everything i do. i don't know what i'd do without them. they mean so much to me. every friend i have now is all thanks to her being a gateway to me becoming who i am now.. and with that, i just want to say that i love her so much. i'll never ever forget about her!
((and i'd also like to say that though this page is extremely extra in literally every single way possible, i do not character claim chiaki at all! if you love her, i pretty much automatically love you for your amazing taste and i hope we can be friends! she deserves all the appreciation she can get, and any love she can recieves makes me soo happy))
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ALL OF MY CHIAKI MERCH!
feel free to click on the images for a better view!!
ahem... yes! this is my collection of chiaki items updated as of 1.13.19!! this picture was taken on my windowsill with my ugly curtain and as a consequence i just could not fit my chiaki jacket in the frame. for that i am so freaking sorry. i hope i can be forgiven. another photo will be taken eventually with the jacket included. chiaki jacket will forever be in our hearts until then
anyways!! this is a collection i've been adding onto for 3 years! i'm not much of an ita bagger since i do not go to cons or anything and i wouldn't really have any places to take the bag, and also i just do not want to confine her behind a harsh plastic coating.. she deserves to be out in the open. i guess you could say i'm more of a shrine maker than anything! typically i have all this stuff spread out throughout my room rather than all in one place but i one day hope to have a "chiaki only" shelf or something like that!! all of this stuff makes me very happy and i loe having materialistic chiaki stuff that i can have an hold in my little arms as much as i want to! just makes me feel all warm and gushy inside. so now that we've taken a gander at the images!! the rest of this page is just gonna be me crying in detail about how much i love everything here, lowkey ranked in order of stuff i love the most to stuff i still love with all my heart but not the most but that's not gonna work so well but i do have a top 3! ok i'm not making sense so here we goooO!!!!