Yuuya Kizami



“(In here...) (...getting killed by the school and getting killed by me...are one and the same.) We're all going to die here either way, after all...”

—Yuuya Kizami, Corpse Party: Book of Shadows (Episode #7; 『Tooth』)

Design
'Yuuya is a teenage boy of above average height and build. He has grey eyes and short, black hair. He wears the standard Byakudan Senior High School uniform. However, he keeps his blazer on his right shoulder, and he has his shirt partly unbuttoned and untucked with his sleeves rolled up. He also has a silver chain looped onto his pants, and a belt with a silver buckle. The younger version of himself wears a grey vest with the word "D-cross" on it, with a logo underneath that, and grey shorts.'

'As the Anatomical Model, the entire left side of his body has been skinned, exposing his muscles. His eyes are completely red, similar to Yoshikazu Yanagihori, though in Corpse Party: Tortured Souls they remain normal. His pants have been hacked off at the knees, and he still has his belt. Other than this, he wears nothing. In both Corpse Party, and Tortured Souls, he is seen with a sheet over his head.'

'In Corpse Party 2U, he briefly wears the Kisaragi Academy male uniform, wearing it a similar style to his usual one. When he is possessed by the Book of Eibon, he gains red irises and a black tattoo-like marking on the left side of his face. He also gains red irises multiple times throughout the game.'

'The live action version of Yuuya has a somewhat different appearance. His shirt is untucked, his blazer is unbuttoned but worn normally, and he wears a black shirt underneath his normal one. Later on, he removes the blazer.'

Personality
Y'uuya is a mysterious character at first, indicating nothing of his true personality. He initially appears to be a protective and strong ally, as well as sophisticated and classy with his Japanese pronouns, language, and manners, though occasionally coming across as somewhat blunt and apathetic. ''Underneath this façade, however, Yuuya is a sociopath in the truest sense, withholding no understanding or comprehension of morality, affection, social interaction, or the value of life. Violent from childhood, his acts ranged from trying to beat a student to death in elementary school to mutilating animals. Many of his feelings of disdain for others stem from his cynical perception of truth, firmly believing that everyone else was hiding behind a mask, preventing him from seeing their 'true' personality, and effectively lying to him, something he took great offense to. Eventually, Yuuya became obsessed with this idea, and became convinced that only death would reveal a person's true side. Thus, he lusted to kill those around him. Due to his lack of understanding of others and the world, he created a false front that he projected out to the world after childhood, acting as a loner who preferred to sit on the sidelines and observe while he studied others and their interactions, ironically committing the same type of deception that he himself loathed. In reality extremely egocentric, if people truly wish to be involved with him, then he expects them to put him at the center of things, and 'care' about him in the way that his family 'didn't'.  Hand in hand with this, Yuuya displays an almost absurd amount of arrogance, a trait that, unlike much of his mind's inner workings, he doesn't seem to bother to hid from most, and even flaunts it in some cases. Having been repeatedly told he'll grow up alone due to his sadistic ways, Yuuya shrugs this off on the grounds that if he is second to none, being alone won't matter. This way of thinking evolved into a nearly delusional mindset, with Yuuya not only thinking he couldn't lose, but firmly believing with every fibre of his being that such an event is flat out impossible.'' ''After coming to Heavenly Host, he at first attempted to work with his "friends" to escape the school. However, after a series of events involving the deaths and mental breakdowns of several classmates, he came to the conclusion that it didn't matter in the slightest how a person died, since they were going to anyway, essentially giving Yuuya the justification he needed to murder those around him. Ecstatic, he stripped his inhibitions away and indulged in his fantasies, putting his philosophy of truth into practice, in hopes of revealing the inner selfishness in his classmates, and finally engage in what he deemed true, honest dialogue, thus finally understanding them and, in effect, himself.'' ''However, in Corpse Party: Book of Shadows episode 6, bits of emotions such as pity, remorse, and guilt came from his interactions with Yuka Mochida. It's through these interactions that he also admitted to himself that he'd hoped that helping Yuka would give him some redemption and a means to atone for the terrible things he has done, indicating that he does at least hold some basic understanding of morals and knew, to a degree, that what he was doing was wrong. Noticeably, Yuuya always dreamed of having a younger sibling, constantly saying how he would listen and love such a person, and forming somewhat of a complex around this dream. In particular, he showed fondness towards the thought of having a little sister.'' ''He harbors a deep hatred for his family, his older brother Kouki and his older sister Haruna in particular, who he feels were always "lying" to him by telling him that they loved him and wanted what was best for him. Yuuya convinced himself that his entire family hated him and always would, and that he was living in the shadow of his older siblings, who were always taking the attention away from him. It is his intense and unresolved frustration with being the youngest child, always picked on and told what to do, that played a major factor in shaping his philosophy, and Yuuya himself theorised that had he had a younger sibling, he may have been able to understand just how his siblings truly felt when they said they loved him.''

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Trivia

 * After his death, Yuuya's name tag is found outside the science lab with an unknown whereabouts of his body.
 * It should be noted the anatomical model is found in the science lab and is most likely what became of Yuuya's body as it shares several traits, such as identical yells. In fact, in Corpse Party -THE ANTHOLOGY- Sachiko no Ren'ai Yūgi ♥ Hysteric Birthday 2U, Yuuya wears a costume designed after the anatomical body. Also, in the end of chapter 32 of Corpse Party: Blood Covered manga, the still bleeding anatomical model is shown along with Yuuya's name tag.
 * Corpse Party: Tortured Souls confirmed that he is indeed the anatomical model, as he captures Yuka and talks with her after being transformed, revealing the same voice and personality.
 * Yuuya is the only character, other than Sakutaro to have a track dedicated to them by name (i.e. Morishige's Theme of Love and Kizami's Awakening).
 * However unlike Sakutaro, 'Kizami's Awakening' is played in both Corpse Party and Corpse Party: Book of Shadows.
 * In the Corpse Party: Book of Shadows Character Contest, Yuuya ranked 4th place.
 * Yuuya is the tallest character in the entire series at 186 cm (6'1").
 * According to Kensuke, Yuuya is allergic to parsley.
 * Yuuya appears to be rather knowledgeable of the English language, often randomly sprouting English words in his particularly psychotic episodes in every game, with the exception of Blood Drive.
 * However, he does cry his trademark, "RUN, RABBIT RUN!" in the promotional audio for Blood Drive.
 * While Yuuya himself doesn't appear in the original CORPSE-PARTY, CORPSE PARTY -Rebuilt- or CORPSE-PARTY ZERO, the Anatomical Model appears in all, having a role similar to that in the new canon. Whether this Anatomical Model is Yuuya or not is unknown, although it is unlikely.
 * Despite the significance of their relationship, Yuuya and Yuka do not interact in any way with each other in Corpse Party: Blood Drive, nor are there any references to their past encounters, making it the only game where the two both appear, yet have nothing to do with each other.
 * Although Yuuya's entire role is omitted in the first live action movie, the anatomical model does make an appearance in the opening credits, though there's no proof that it is alive/undead.
 * The voice actor for Young Yuuya Kizami in Corpse Party (PC) is Sakuya Kamishiro, the main character designer for the series.