Favorite Killer, Victim, and Survivor.

[Radio Freeman Guy man]

Of the 16 characters, 5 survived, 6 were killed, and 5 were executed. Who is your favorite character in each group?

Of the five survivors, I think Fuyuhiko is my favorite. I like Sonia and Kazuichi too, but he's pretty much the most important of the survivors other than Hajime. His character arc and relations with Peko and his little sister make him look better to me. That and there aren't a lot of male tsunderes around.

Of the victims, I really like all of them except for Nagito and Hiyoko,because Nekomaru is funny, Ibuki is fun and cute, and Mahiru is a good tsundere (as opposed to Hiyoko, a bad one.) I'm in a Mahiru mood right now, so I'll choose her. Of them, it's hard to decide.

As for the killers, Chiaki is easily the best. Gundham is cool with his 8th grade syndrome, feelings for Sonia, and he killed Nekomaru in a fair fight that lead to everyone else getting freed from the funhouse. Peko is adorable and has a good role in Fuyuhiko's character arc. Mikan is cute too, but I find her to be a bit unverving, even as her pre-despair self. Teruteru is a creep but I do understand why he agreed to kill Twogami.

[AccidentByDragon]

of survivors i agree with Fuyuhiko purely based on his character development as for favourite victim uh Ibuki purely based on having getting involved with her "music club", as for killer Gundham based on his motive and how he knew he was probably dead from the moment he did it.

[76561198218459843]

Fuyuhiko, Mahiru, Peko , heh.

[neildittmar]

Of the five survivors really none of them to be quite honest. Overall, I just didn't connect with the cast of this game the same way I did with DR1. If I absolutely had to pick one, it'd probably be Hajime simply because he was the protagonist. Sonia Nevermind might be somewhat of a second, only because of how quirky and semi-unpredictable she was. The whole "Sparkling Justice" justice thing stands out the most. In my opinion, the rest of the survivors represented various degrees of bothersome rather than interesting overall.

Of the victims Imposter Byakuya without a doubt. I understand why he was the first victim, but I really would've liked to have seen his character play out a bit more in the story proper, possibly getting "found out" by Hajime while he was still alive. Another potential plot point could've been a competition for leadership of sorts between Hajime and Imposter Byakuya with Nagito seemingly playing both sides against each other.

For the killers? Mikan, Mikan, and Mikan. If there is a character in DR2 that comes close to reaching the attachment I had for the original DR1 cast, Mikan is it. A prior post in this thread mentioned her as unnerving, but that's precisely her charm as far as I'm concerned. She's overly apologetic and timid, but "behind the mask" you can tell that she's working things out differently than her demeanor suggests, even differently than any of the other characters. Instead of her catching the "despair disease" and remembering her nature before entering the Neo World Program, I would've liked to have seen her progress naturally into despair through the course of the events portrayed in-game. It would've made for an interesting plot point once Junko shows up.

[YayPepsi]

Of the survivors, I liked Sonia best. I'm glad she made it!
Of the victims, Komaeda by a long shot, he's my favorite in the entire series too.
Of the killers Gundham. I liked him so much and when he was executed it hit me hard. He's my second favorite character in the series. It hurt to lose Gundham and then Komaeda right after each other!

[Protocol27]

Survivors: I liked Sonia and Fuyuhiko.
Victims: I liked Mahiru, Ibuki, Nekomaru, and Nagito.
Killers: I liked Mikan, Peko and Chiaki.

[Black N whitE]

From the survivors: The ones I liked the most were Kazuichi and Fuyuhiko, the first kept me laughing the whole game with his unsuccessful flirting with Sonia, and as for the second I loved his character development, going from a character that I absolutely hated to one I loved.

And from the killers/victims: I loved Nagito, Chiaki and Mikan. The first two being the reason I have the two categories mixed as I absolutely refuse to believe Chiaki was the killer in this case. (That f-ing Nagito just suicide bombed her :c)
At first I didn't like Chiaki that much, but as the plot progressed I fell more and more in love with her character, but I finally got heart-broken at the end of chapter 5 and chapter 6. She's easily my favourite along Nagito.
Mikan was the one that caught my attention from the first second and the development/plot twist that she got at chapter 3 didn't anything else but make me love the character more, specially since in the end I couldn't get to feel anything else but pity for her after learning the truth of her "remembering desease" in chapter 6; The poor girl just got manipulated by Junko.
Finally, Nagito was a mad bastard, but was performed so brilliantly that I couldn't help to love and hate him at the same time. Coming as a friendly guy in chapter 1, he just got to show how twisted he was as the game kept progressing. Also the guy showed a dedication to his ideals that finally led him to commit that suicide/murder to eliminate that hopeless despair that filled the remaining students irl.

[FLFL Koizumi]

Sonia, Mahiru, Peko.

[jo]

Fuyuhiko, Nagito and Mikan.

[Trikki Nikki]

This is less "Who I liked most" and more "My general opinions of the people in those groups", but whatever, deal with it.

Survivors: I was very unhappy with surviving cast. The only one I liked all that much was Fuyuhiko, and even then I hated him at first. Kazuichi got annoying to me, Akane not as much but still did, Sonia was pretty cute but not as much as some others. And Hajime is just kinda there, but he was really cool at the end.

Victims: For the whole first game I HATED Byakuya, and right as the second game begins, I start to like him more, and then DEAD, and then CRY, and then it WASN'T Byakuya? I feel like I would like Mahiru way more if she lived longer, probably among my favorites, and yes, I am on Island mode and got all of her free time events, but I feel like there is more to her that I'm missing. Maybe her ending will make me fall in love or something? Ibuki was so cool, she's tied with Sans as my spirit animal. I was practically crying before I even had 100% confirmation she was the victim. Hiyoko was an annoying little ♥♥♥♥ I quickly got tired of. Nekomaru I never disliked, but didn't really care for either, like Akane. I really liked Nagito at first, and then later he got annoying with all his hope crap and I'm like "Nagito, just leave. Go." and then things happened and I'm like "OMG NOT LIKE THAT YOU IDIOT."

Killers: Teruteru's a creep, but I felt bad for him in the end. Peko reminds me of Kyoko in a few ways, but in her own way she's really kinda adorable. Especially after her first free time event. Mikan... OMG MIKAN WHY DID YOU NEED TO BREAK MY HEART LIKE THIS CRY CRY SOB WEEPING. Oh, sorry, what was I saying? Oh yea. Mikan's my favorite DR2 character, and after Chihiro destroyed my very being with feels in the first game, I didn't want who I see as her DR2 counterpart to go out the same way. It wasn't the same way, I can tell you that much. Gundham is another one of my favorites, he was pretty much the only one who started entertaining and didn't get old to me, and I think he's one of the only killers in DR history that didn't change their speaking pattern by the end. In DR1, it was way more subtle. Speaking of not changing their speaking pattern, Chiaki was another one of my favorites. Why she had to die was the one major reason I didn't like Nagito, but she was like Chihiro's appearance and some of her/his cuteness mixed with Kyoko's brain and was occasionally absentminded, but in a rather hilarious in a cute way.

[Mr. Manual]

Survivor- Fuyuhiko
Killer- Gundham. I'm not counting Chiaki since even though she was the blackened, she was tricked into throwing what just happened to be the right thing to kill Nagito. With Gundham, he had a man-to-man mortal combat with Nekomaru, and emerged victorious, then he used Nekomaru's death as a stepping stone to fill the rest of the gang with hope. There's nothing more manly in that game than that.
Victim- that's a hard one. It's between Ibuki and Mahiru. I liked both of them. Mahiru was kind but stern. Apparently she was kind to a fault if she was willing to cover up a friend's mistake for her. On the other hand, Ibuki brought so much energy to the group, something that was sorely needed.

[Ace Winterhold]

My favorite survivor is Hinata, because he is easily the best main character from the fanchise. First of he is calm, inteligent, has good imagination, great leadership, and on top of that he doesn't sound like a trainee when he is exposing the truth. Fuyuhiko is a good guy, but he is useless on the majority of the game. And the rest...bunch of useless.

My favorite victim is the Ultimate Imposter. Because he is a far better Byakuya than the Byakuya, that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ prick! His title should be Ultimate Byakuya.

And my favorite culprit is Tanaka, the Forbidden One. He is a good character, and easily one of my favorite after the fourth case ( alongside with Sakura). The fair duel to death for the sake of survivors reminds me the sacrifice Sakura done.

[vulmen.matrias]

All these spoiler tags, in an already spoiler forum. hehe =D

Survivor: Hajime. Yes, I actually liked the main char this time, a lot. He was rather relatable and down to earth, and plenty intuitive to pick up on small details frequently. I was glad he was the MC.

Victim: Ibuki. She was plenty of fun- a bit wild and crazy and not always relatable but, very sociable and friendly. It is as the group stated afterward: it's like a lot of the group spirit was ripped out after Ibuki had died. It got more quiet (in a way).

Killer: Wtf. Chiaki. The fact she's even in this category isn't fair, it's not legitimate. But...it is what it is.

[Sammy096]

Survivor: Hajime. Unlike Makoto, he is a great protagonist and his development was insane.

Victim: Hm, hard one. I guess Byakuya. Togami is one of my personal favourites and I was looking forward to spending some time with him.

Killer: Peko. While I felt bad for all of them (and I was almost crying for Chiaki), I was really depressed when she and Fuyuhiko told their backstory. It was really tragic and it felt fresh to see something like this.

[Hobbes]

Survivor: Kazuichi. He was just a very likable character to me, a lot of fun and I really enjoyed my talks with him during free time.

Victim: Nagito hands down. He was such an interesting character! He really just added so much to the game and I loved the twists that he introduced.

Killer: This one is tougher. Chiaki comes close, but it would have to be Mikan. I really enjoyed her character at the start, she was so endearing. But I also just loved the way they twisted her around during the third case. We got to see this sort of warped version of her and it made the case great. I loved it.

[Shy Monkeys]

Survivors: I'd say it's a toss up between Kazuichi and Fuyuhiko for me. Hajime would definitely come in third since he had a good personality and an actual character arc. Overall I was very satisfied with the survivors of this game and the only bad thing I can really say about them is that I kind of forget Akane and Sonia are there a lot.

Victim: Definitely Nagito for me, mostly due to his personality and how much his free time events kind of make you understand his screwed up perspective. Plus he's pretty much the only victim who's case I call Nagito's Case, instead of the name of the killer, it's usually pretty easy to forget about the victims in these cases, although that's mostly due to how he set it up.

Killer: Gundham Tanaka, I don't think I really need to explain this one.