Kayoko Kotohiki
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Kayoko Kotohiki (琴彈 加代子 Kotohiki Kayoko?) is a character in the novel Battle Royale, and the film and manga of the same name. In the film she was played by Takayo Mimura.
Kayoko has a blood type of B.
[edit] Pre-Program
Kayoko Kotohiki is one of the class of third-year students at the fictional Shiroiwa Junior High School in the fictional town of Shiroiwa Shiroiwa (the novel and manga set the town in Kagawa Prefecture, while the film sets the town in Kanagawa Prefecture). Kayoko was a member of the tea ceremony group at her school, but was described as being playful and energetic rather than elegant, which is what would be expected of someone performing in a tea ceremony. She had a huge crush on one of the masters of the tea ceremony, who was also the 19-year-old grandson of the school's headmaster. Kayoko only had two encounters with him. The first was when he took charge at a tea ceremony being held for a government official, when the original master took sick. Afterwards, Kayoko asked if he was okay, and he seemed impressed by her maturity. The second was when he ran into her in the temple gardens, and had a chat with her about tea ceremony.
Kayoko had black shoulder-length hair, which she always held back with a dark blue hair clip when she was dressed in her kimono for tea ceremony, and she never wore make-up. Kayoko had an older sister. Hiroki Sugimura was in love with Kayoko, but she was unaware of this. In the Manga he first noticed Kayoko when he saw her taking a flower arranging class in the same building where he practiced martial arts and afterwards everyday he would stop outside the room she worked in and watch her both Sugimura's martial arts teacher and Shinji Mimura noticed this. In the manga Kayoko helps Sugimura in a flashback with a kitten he found abandoned on the way to school that morning which is having problems, Sugimura has no idea what is wrong with it and it causes an embarrassing scene in the class which results in everybody except Kayoko laughing at him, during that lunch while he is trying to figure out what's wrong Kayoko walks in and relaises what caused the scene that morning and also quite easily solves the problem revealing that the kitten is a female and explains to Sugimura she is so young that she cannot yet urinate by herself and that her mother would normally lick her to help her do this, she also reveals she has three kittens at home and then tells him she was scared of him because of the fact his dojo was right above the place where she did flower arranging and all the banging and shouting scared her but then tells him that he is a nice person.
[edit] During The Program
Kayoko had spent much of the game hiding, and had, as yet, avoided confrontation. Unbeknownst to her, Hiroki had spent most of the game searching for her to tell her he loved her. When Hiroki eventually found her and approached her, Kayoko panicked, thinking he was trying to kill her. She ran away, but when he followed, she turned round and shot him in a panic, with her designated weapon - a Smith & Wesson M59 Automatic. As Hiroki died, he told her how he felt about her, and he warned her to run because someone would be attracted to the gunshots. He also gave her instructions of how to meet up with Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, and Shogo Kawada, who he said would help her off the island. However, she was shot dead by Mitsuko Souma shortly after Hiroki's death. In the novel, Kayoko is shot twice in the right temple, while in the film she is shot once on the heart.
In the manga version of the story, Hiroki and Kayoko have quite a different meeting. When they finally meet, Kayoko who had gone a day and a half without seeing anybody else threatens to shoot him but to prove he is a friend Sugimura throws his bag and pole away and then tells her about the kitten incident and explains that he kept the kitten which he named after her flower arrangement, Kayoko goes along with him for a while. The two light the two fires so that the two can meet up with Shuya Nanahara's group. The two sit and talk about things before moving on. Kazuo Kiriyama, now unknown to Kayoko and Sugimura, is hot on their trial and soon catches up with them. Sugimura fights him while Kayoko looks on helplessly. Finally she realises Sugimura needs her help; she then grabs his Colt M1911 and shoots at Kazuo who then attacks her. Sugimura then saves her. Kiriyama fakes his death, he really has a Kevlar vest on. Sugimura uses indirect words to admit he loves her. Kiriyama gets up and fatally shoots them both.
