Kotoko Utsugi

One of the five members of the Warriors of Hope and the head of the "Fighter" class. Her title when she attended Hope's Peak Elementary was Li'l Ultimate Drama (超小学生級の学芸会の時間 lit. Super Elementary School Level Arts Festival Period).

Kotoko is a hot-headed girl who loves "adorbs" things; she collects them and seems even slightly obsessed with the concept. She acts cheerful, polite, and happy, however she is also mentioned to have a bullying nature and she can be very mean and cruel. She's one of the more intelligent members of the group and has a strict, demanding personality, with a habit of curtsying and being rather dramatic, calling to her past as an actress. Kotoko seemingly loved her stage life, but she doesn't like to talk about it and considers it far behind her. It's heavily implied that most of her behavior is an act, and her "cutesy" personality is a front created as a coping mechanism.

Her Past and Trauma: Kotoko was born and raised in Towa City. She was a child prodigy and famous child actor whose father was a dentist. However, when Kotoko was about 10 years old, her parents prostituted her to producers and it's implied that she was repeatedly raped by them. Her mother did it out of a twisted form of parental love and prostituted herself alongside Kotoko as a "mother and daughter set", claiming that this was in her daughter's best interests because it would help further her career. According to Kotoko, she endured it all without complaining because making her mother cry would've hurt her the most.