Sounami

Sounami is the het ship between Chiaki Nanami and Kazuichi Soda from the Danganronpa fandom.

Canon
Kazuichi and Chiaki are both students at Hope's Peak Academy, in Class 77-B. Chiaki is selected as their class rep, with help from Kazuichi who agrees that she should take on the position. When their teacher, Chisa Yukizome is in trouble, Chiaki rallies the class together to go and save her. Unfortunately, this paints a target on Chiaki's back. She is captured by Junko Enoshima and is forced to endure a deadly maze. Kazuichi and the rest of the class must watch as Chiaki is executed. This act is what inevitably turns them into the Ultimate Despairs.

At some point the Ultimate Despair are captured by the Future Foundation and put into the Neo-World Program for rehabilitation. The Future Foundation needed someone to look over the Despairs while in the virtual world; someone the Ultimate Despairs would trust. They quickly discovered that all of the Despairs shared a memory of Chiaki Nanami, someone they trusted deeply from their school days. As such, the AI Chiaki was born.

AI Chiaki and Kazuichi have numerous differences, their most apparent being their general demeanor. While Kazuichi is known to be consistently on-edge and easily frightened, Chiaki is often calm and composed, even in the most worrisome of circumstances. In Chapter 2 when Kazuichi and Hajime Hinata try to crash the girl's beach day, Kazuichi responds very favourably to Chiaki's bikini. He notes that he is surprised by the size of Chiaki's "jugs".

In Chapter 3, the two are seen together in the hotel lobby. Kazuichi is playing one of the arcade games that Chiaki frequents, and she tells Hajime that they played a round together. However, Kazuichi got upset when Chiaki beat him. He offers to fix up one of the portable gaming devices in Electric Avenue for Chiaki to use instead of the arcade machine. During the Chapter 4 trial, Kazuichi tries to convince everyone to listen to what Chiaki has to say, rather than speaking over her with their own ideas.

Kazuichi and Chiaki share a few interactions in Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp. In one, Chiaki is looking for a way to unlock new potential in her talent. She considers designing games, but decides it is not for her. Kazuichi tries to encourage her, however, suggesting each classmate of theirs that could assist with the creation. Chiaki seems to take favourably to the suggestion, but says that it is not the time yet. She suggests that this is a project they can all undertake after graduation from Hope's Peak. Later at the end of year campfire, Chiaki, Kazuichi, and Kokichi Oma discuss video game jump scores. Kokichi points out that Kazuichi overreacts to jumpscares, while Chiaki underreacts.

In Kazuichi's "Future" event, he is bombarded by requests from Chiaki, Hifumi Yamada, and Jataro Kemuri to fix items of theirs. When Kazuichi says he'll need to pick up new parts, the three request to join him on his trip to Electric Avenue. Chiaki points out that they are a rather eclectic group, but they all seem glad to spend time together regardless.

During "Episode 3: Monodam's Hope", Chiaki approaches Monosuke to help fix her old-school gaming console. Kazuichi discovers that she turned to a Monokub instead of him, and is offended. He tells her he could have given her a full colour display instead, but Chiaki replies that she likes the black-and-white appeal of the console.

Kazuichi and Chiaki do not share any interactions in the non-canonical Ultimate Talent Development Plan.

Fanon
Sounami is considered a rarepair in the fandom, rivalled by much more popular ships such as Hinanami for Chiaki and Sondam for Kazuichi. Chiaki and Kazuichi do not share very many significant interactions throughout the game or the Danganronpa 3 anime, and so they are not often paired together. However, fans do appreciate that they have related talents, with Chiaki having a love for video games and Kazuichi being able to build video game consoles.

There are currently 10 works for this ship on AO3. Sounami is slightly more popular as a platonic ship, with 22 works.

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