Hiyo again, spoiling my Angie analysis, huh? First the ship thoughts, and now this. However, I feel like this is something among the fandom that needs to be addressed. Angie Yonaga is a participant student in the killing game of NDRV3, she could be considered more so a side character since her relevancy isn’t as big as others. But hey, at least she has more screentime and relevancy than Kirumi and Ryoma.

I have to say, Angie is one of the most misunderstood characters in the franchise. And by that, I mean both her fans, haters and even people indifferent to her all seem to misunderstand Angie in different ways individually.

So I thought making this post would help clarify a bit more about her character so she can be understood at least a little better.

This isn’t going to be an Angie defense post, nor is it going to be an Angie rant post, by the way. It will be a pure inbetween. Now, fair warning, some mature themes and language will be included in the following, and a spoiler warning from Chapter 1, 2 and 3. With those warnings, let’s cut straight to the chase and begin:

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Angie on the surface

Angie Yonaga is the Super High school Level Artist, and upon introduction, makes it incredibly clear that she’s religious. She immediately asks for Kaede’s blood in both the prologue and the demo, and every five seconds in the game, she prays her to her god, now known as Atua in the NISA localization.

Angie presents herself as very quirky and bubbly, but also really ditzy and weird. She does and say peculiar things, and makes it clear that she’s a foreigner. Her voice is really soft, yet high pitched giving off a perfect exotic vibe, or at least in the Japanese version. We haven’t heard enough of her English voice to be able to tell.

From what you can guess, Angie is downright adorable with her constant quirkiness, creative sprites, soothing voice and her constant prayers. She’s definitely a cutie. However, Angie also shows a dark side to her. Like I said, she asked for Kaede’s blood to use as sacrifice, she has a “so sweet and happy it’s creepy” vibe where she plays a blind eye to death itself and she constantly has those snaps at people who don’t trust god.

In her FTEs, she also says she sells organs online for art supplies and she performs orgies on her island as a ritual. This also implies that she’s either on par with Korekiyo with having the most sex out of the cast, or she really did have the most sex of the cast. Angie is an impure loli. (Note: the game implies that Korekiyo doesn’t actually engage in sexual experience)

A lot of her ditziness, snaps and lines also… Well, to be frank, make her kind of a cunt. Throughout the game, she uses her cutesy nature to sugar coat things which Saihara picks up on, like not wanting to open the crate thinking it’s dangerous and constantly telling Saihara god chose him to open it until he actually opened it.

During the second trial, she wouldn’t stop talking down to Tenko, claiming she’s betraying that of god for not suspecting Yumeno showing that she hates people going against her ideals. She also does this while making an unsettling face.

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Angie’s actions

So with a personality like that, Angie seems like the type to cause some havoc among the group, and that is true. Angie’s story role really was cut short and I think she deserved a better arc, but that’s just my personal opinion.

In Chapter 2, Angie brainwashes Yumeno into becoming her little puppet, and the two perform a magical show together, with Yumeno obviously being nervous about it. She plays a blind eye to what could happen to Yumeno if this goes wrong which worries the group to the point where Gonta runs onto the stage worried.

Something to note is that Angie didn’t make it look like brainwashing, but as a friendly convincing in order to try and fool everyone.

That doesn’t sound too bad, but then there’s Chapter 3 where her actions and behaviour get out of hand for a few people. In Chapter 2, she mentioned the group should stay in the school and adapt to their new lifestyle, so here, she tries to create a student council to keep the group together.

By doing that, she decided to brainwash Tsumugi, Gonta and somehow Kiibo into her student council, with Yumeno as a member already been brainwashed, and it seemed like more of a cult than a student council. Sahara, Kaito, Maki, Ouma and Tenko were opposed to this idea while Korekiyo didn’t mind it. The other five seemed to have picked up on the brainwashing actually.

However, Angie brainwashing Yumeno played with Tenko’s heart a lot. Tenko knew Yumeno was under some sort of brainwashing, or at least accused Angie of brainwashing, but couldn’t do anything to convince Yumeno to stop trusting Angie and her god. In order to protect Yumeno from Angie’s brainwashing, Tenko joined Angie’s cult willingly to keep an eye on her.

However, Angie found out about this and saw Tenko as a straight up traitor, which caused a huge discourse between Tenko, Angie and Yumeno. Angie’s behaviour was seen as cruel and malicious towards Tenko who was just trying to keep Yumeno safe.

Later on, the group is given the next motive, a ritual book that can revive the dead. Angie immediately takes this booklet for herself claiming she can help out. Ouma sneakily asks Angie who she intends to revive, and before Kaito can answer for her, Angie says she’ll only intend to revive Amami.

She claims Ryoma, Kirumi and Kaede brought their deaths upon themselves in one way or another and that means they don’t deserve another shot at life. The group is horrified by this decision but she continues with her plans to revive Amami.

Before we get to the end of her arc, there’s also something incredibly controversial in Angie’s FTEs where she tries to take off Saihara’s clothes which implies she wanted to have sex with him on the spot, obviously making Saihara uncomfortable. When Saihara says straight up that he doesn’t want to do it with her, she stops, calms down and greets him goodbye. A lot of people have interpreted this as attempted rape.

Anyway, if you know the story well enough, you know what becomes of Angie. She walks in on Korekiyo’s trap so he knocks her unconscious to keep her quiet. However, Korekiyo found Angie’s desire to keep the group together admirable so he carried her unconscious body to her talent room and stabbed her in the neck with a katana while she was sleeping. She peacefully bled out on the spot there, thus ending the life of Angie Yonaga.

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How Angie’s fandom sees her

Due to Angie’s cutesy and bubbly nature, Angie’s fans like to describe her as a cinnamon roll who did nothing wrong. They also seem to relate to her religion, usually being religious themselves. Others like her for the exotic textures she has and many people relate to her talent as well.

Basically, a lot of people who love Angie a lot usually waifus her, and this may sound a little harsh, but I don’t mean to when I say this: But a lot of Angie’s fans haven’t seen a full English translation of the game. And before “But the game is in Japanese!” responses come up, juicedup14 has a full non-biased translation of the game, and RKS has transcripted his translation for direct quotes, although only the chapters until after Angie’s been killed.

A lot of Angie’s fans tend to by into her cutesy and ditzy mask, and make her out to be a literal angel, which is funny enough, supported by her trial portrait after her death literally being a halo and angel wings.

Something I find amusing is Angie’s fans usually tend to either love Korekiyo or despise Korekiyo. Understandable reasons too, their characters are both similar and different in many ways, but on the other hand, he killed her. Kinda easy to see why Angie’s fans would dislike him because of that.

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How Angie’s hatedom sees her

Now, people who hate Angie tend to be the complete opposite of how her fanbase views her, it’s almost hilarious. A lot of the people who hate Angie view her as a creepy cultist with no motive or humanity to her.

They believe her creepy demeanor means she’s satan reincarnate or just downright evil. Some of her haters also spawned from the before mentioned FTE scene where she tries to remove Saihara’s clothes. This caused a lot of people to say Angie is an all around rapist.

And as you guessed, they also heavily dislike her treatment of Tenko, since she was just trying to look after a friend and Angie saw her as a traitor for it. And after that, Tenko saw herself in the wrong in the situation when she really wasn’t.

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Angie in reality and her motivations

First of all, yes, Angie is playing up her ditzy and cutesy act as a mask personality. However, despite her creepiness, Angie isn’t evil or even that bad of a person.

Angie is incredibly biased and harsh, forcing her strategies onto people as well as her god’s beliefs revolting in people who defy her or her god in any way.

This is evidenced with her goal to bring the group together to create a new lifestyle to avoid the murders. She claimed society outside is no different than their current location and circumstances, so anybody who would desire to leave is greedy. After this, she tries to convince the group to want to stay and live together in the academy for the rest of their lives, even going as far to brainwash people into her cult.

Due to this, it seems her cutesy personality pretending to be dumb is her way of trying to persuade people into her lure so she can use them for her own survival. Hence, why the cult was created in the first place. She does want to help the group but preferably for her own safety if anything.

This would make her quite the manipulative character. However, nobody can really blame her. In killing game circumstances like this, it’s best to get as much allies as you can to help protect yourself, and while she uses forceful tactics to do his, it overall works in the end and can help her in survival. This could sort of make her an Ouma 0.3 in which she uses a mask personality for her own protection out of fear of death.

However, not all of her mask personality is fake. She still seems bizarre and quirky, especially with her religion and rituals she performs throughout the game. Her slutty nature is also pretty visible at times, and she does tend to have a happy outlook on life like her mask personality implies.

About Angie’s FTE scene, I wouldn’t call it attempted rape. Angie has a lot of sexual experience, there’s no questioning that, and it may come natural to her origin. Sex is probably a thing casually done from where she’s from so her origin land’s influence rubbed off on her and she was being her usual self on Saihara. However, when Saihara said no, she stopped, realizing that it works differently in Japan.

At the end of Angie’s FTEs, Saihara figures out that maybe Angie’s so-called god is just Angie’s inner thoughts, and her way of speaking god’s words is just her way of conveying her inner thoughts. Whether she is aware of this or not is unknown.

I was speaking to another user a few weeks ago, and they theorized this line meant she had a god complex, which makes a lot of sense and makes for an interesting character. Viewing herself above the others would also explain why she desires her survival so much.

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In conclusion

Overall, I think Angie is a really interesting character with quite a few mysteries to her, but it’s unfortunately cut short and unexplained fully because of her arc and development getting cut off as soon as she’s built up by giving her the axe at the halfway point of the game.

Due to the lack of explanation and mistranslations, a lot of people tend to misinterpret Angie as either an innocent waifu cinnamon roll or an evil satanist getting in the way of Tenmiko. In reality, she really is neither.

This post has been very short, mainly because it's an informative post if anything.

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