Danganronpa (video game)/Characters

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Characters from Danganronpa (video game) include:

The Students

Makoto Naegi

Super High-School Level Good Luck (Bad Luck?)

Voiced by Megumi Ogata

An altogether Ordinary High School Student, with the exception of his less-than-stellar luck. Things appeared to be looking up for him when he got into Hope's Peak Academy alongside his childhood crush, Maizono Sayaka, but Monokuma's games quickly turned the blessing into a curse. Heavily suspected of being behind the first murder, he ends up taking charge during the investigations and trials so that no innocent students are executed.

  • Amateur Sleuth: As the main character in a mystery game, he tends to be the one pulling the students through the trials, with some help from Kirigiri whenever he gets stuck.
  • Born Lucky/Born Unlucky: The reason he was accepted into Hope's Peak; he was randomly chosen from all the ordinary students in Japan. This is why he is considered to have "Super High-School Level Good Luck", but he himself believes he has super-bad luck.
  • Catch Phrase: "You've got that wrong!" whenever he points out a contradiction during trials.
  • Clear My Name: After Sayaka's body is found in his shower.
  • The Dulcinea Effect: He's been pining after Sayaka for a long time, and swears to stay by her side throughout Monokuma's game. Cruelly deconstructed when it's revealed that this is exactly why she was setting him up to take the fall for her.
  • The Everyman: Which is why his title is based on Luck: he is so normal that he only got in due to the luck of the draw.
  • Friend to All Living Things: He was in an animal-rearing club when he was younger, and was able to calm down a large crane that ended up in the school pool. While hanging out with Mondo, the options for his favorite animal include bears.
  • Meaningful Name: One meaning of makoto is truth/honesty.
  • Ordinary High School Student: In contrast to all the other students who are at Hope's Peak due to their extraordinary talents, Makoto's "talent" is simply being an ordinary student who was randomly chosen by lottery. Which is what makes him extraordinary in this particular setting, believe it or not. He does note that he's slightly more optimistic than other people as well. "Hope" and optimism are kind of the same thing, too, and it's because he never gives up on hope that he's able to derail Junko's scheme in the end.
  • Ridiculously Average Guy: He thinks this about himself.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru

Super High-School Level Hall Monitor

Voiced by Kosuke Toriumi

Ishimaru prizes one thing above all else: order. He's constantly preaching the virtues of exercising, respecting your elders, etc. He takes a role of leadership amongst the students, encouraging them to stick together, but not everybody listens or takes him seriously. He initially has a fierce rivalry with Mondo, but the two end up becoming Blood Brothers over their mutual passion. His body is found dead shortly after Hifumi's in Chapter 3 - though it's revealed he was killed first. By Hifumi, no less.

  • The Ace: Subverted and Played for Laughs. He'd probably be spearheading the trials if not for his idealism, which prevents him from really suspecting anyone. And some of the students just ignore him.
  • Broken Pedestal: At first, he refuses to believe that Mondo is a murderer, but is forced to confront the truth. He doesn't take it well.
  • Determinator: To the extent that he insists on following school rules and guidelines to maintain order despite Hope's Peak Academy being a school in name alone at this point.
  • Fusion Dance: With Mondo's soul, turning him into a white-haired mashup of both their personalities called Ishida. He becomes TWICE as Hot-Blooded as a result.
  • Heroic BSOD: After Mondo is outed as Chihiro's murderer and executed, he shuts down.
  • Hot-Blooded: Which is both why he and Mondo's disagreements escalated so quickly and the similarity that allowed them to bond. As Kiyondo, this trait is taken Up to Eleven.
  • Innocently Insensitive: He tries to take Mondo and Chihiro under his wing, not knowing that they have issues about being seen as weak.
  • The Leader: A type III.
  • No Indoor Voice: Often shouts enthusiastically about rules and good conduct.
  • No Social Skills: He confides to Naegi that due to his rigorous dedication to studying and proper conduct, he has never been able to make friends or even hold an idle conversation with someone.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted. He's one of the nicest students.

Touko Fukawa

Super High-School Level Literary Girl

Voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro

Touko has been writing famous romance novels since before she was ten years old. However, she's never had a romance of her own, much less a friend; she was bullied as a child and has a severe persecution complex, always assuming that people think the worst of her. She's pessimistic and hard to get along with as a result. She has multiple personalities, the other one being the infamous serial killer, Genocider Syo. Syo is revealed during Chapter 2 when Togami manipulates the crime scene to implicate her in the murder. Still alive in Chapter 4.

Sayaka Maizono

Super High-School Level Idol Singer

Voiced by Makiko Ohmoto

Sayaka is the lead singer of an incredibly popular idol group. She and Makoto were classmates; he caught her eye one day when he freed a crane that was stuck in the school pool, but they've never spoken. Recognizing him from that day, she asks if Makoto will become her partner and protect her during Monokuma's game. She's the first murder victim, killed by Leon after trying to kill him first.

  • Asshole Victim: She invited Leon to Makoto's room, intending to kill him and frame Makoto for it so she could escape.
  • The Can Kicked Her: When her plan went south, she tried to hide in the shower, but Leon broke in and murdered her there.
  • Couldn't Find a Pen: She wrote a Dying Clue in her own blood on the wall of Makoto's shower.
  • Decoy Damsel: At first, she looks like an ordinary love interest. Then she tries to betray Makoto and ends up getting murdered.
  • Freak-Out: When she sees Monokuma's "motivational" DVD, which shows her band breaking up and everyone forgetting her.
  • Idol Singer: Self-explanatory—it's even her Ultimate "title" in the Japanese version.
  • Running Gag: She frequently says exactly what Makoto is thinking, claims she can read minds, and then brushes it off as "good intuitions".
  • Sacrificial Lamb: Turns out to be the first victim after being set up as the Love Interest.
  • Was It All a Lie?: It isn't clear how much of her words were meant to manipulate Makoto, and whether or not she really loved him. It's implied that she left Leon's name at the crime scene to help clear Makoto's name though.

Leon Kuwata

Super High-School Level Baseball Player

Voiced by Takahiro Sakurai

The star player of Japan's champion high-school baseball team who, oddly enough, doesn't care much for baseball. Leon stays on the team so he can rake in athletic scholarships and attention from girls. His real dream is to become the lead vocalist for a punk rock band, and change his title to Super High-School Musician. He's the culprit of the first murder and is executed by Monokuma.

  • Brilliant but Lazy: When it comes to baseball. In fact, he barely shows up to practice. Makoto outright says that "God gave his genius to the wrong person." He does confess to missing the sport after they've been locked up for a while, though.
  • Chekhov's Hobby: He's a Super High-School Level Baseball Player. In the first chapter, the incinerator was activated to dispose of evidence, even though the switch to activate it was behind a locked gate. Hitting the switch with a thrown object would have required an accurate pitch... which helps to prove his involvement.
  • Chick Magnet
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Chained to a signpost and shot with baseballs from a high-power cannon.
  • Fiery Redhead: But it's not his natural color.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Not exactly villainous, but he makes some really crazy faces when he's feeling anger or despair, like when Makoto figures out he's the one who killed Sayaka. In fact, once Leon's fate is sealed, he flips out and starts repeatedly screaming the word "aho"/"stupid" over and over.

Hifumi Yamada

Super High-School Level Doujinshi Author

Voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi

An Otaku whose work sells in the tens of thousands. He disavows any interest in 3-D women and aims to become a famous sculptor (of anime figures, of course). His dialog is liberally peppered with references to anime and video games. In Chapter 3, he's apparently found dead. However, after his body mysteriously moves to another room, he regains consciousness long enough to identify his apparent attacker before expiring for real. It turns out he was in cahoots with Celestia and murdered Kiyotaka, but was then betrayed by her and killed.

  • Almost-Dead Guy: Briefly wakes up after being mortally wounded before he is Killed Off for Real.
  • Butt Monkey: To Celeste, in particular.
  • Cargo Ship: He falls in love with Chihiro's computer program, Alter Ego. Celestia exploits this when she steals the laptop and convinces him that Ishimaru did it.
  • Cat Smile: One of his default expressions. He looks sort of harelipped, in fact.
  • Final Speech
  • Go Into the Light: He brings up such a light during his death scene.
  • Idiot Hair: A non-protagonist example, most likely due to his oddball otaku nature.
  • Nerd Glasses
  • Otaku: He interestingly considers this term a compliment.
  • Perverse Sexual Lust: For Hifumi, it's 2-D women only.
  • Unwitting Pawn: Celeste played him hook, line and sinker while he was none the wiser until it was too late.

Aoi Asahina

Super High-School Level Swimmer

Voiced by Chiwa Saitou

A bubbly (pun not intended) girl who takes to water like a duck. She loves donuts, and spends most of her time with fellow fitness enthusiast Sakura. Currently still alive in Chapter 4.

  • Ambiguously Brown: Although it could just be a tan.
  • Big Eater: Eats lots and lots of donuts, and still retains a womanly figure. Hanging out with her enough will also reveal that outside of donuts, her eating habits are unhealthy—tonkotsu ramen with lard and butter, for example. The fact that she's an Ultimate Swimmer might involve enough exercise that it could explain how she hasn't gotten fat from all the donuts. The six different sports clubs could also explain it.
  • Blue Eyes
  • The Ditz: She admits to forgetting things a lot, particularly names.
  • Most Common Superpower: Only Sakura has bigger breasts. Lampshaded by Genocider Syo.
  • Swiss Army Tears: Invoked in Chapter 3. It doesn't work because This Is Reality.
  • Tomboyish Ponytail: Well, she is a very sporty girl with issues about her own "Femininity".
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Donuts, donuts, donuts.

Chihiro Fujisaki

Super High-School Level Hacker

Voiced by Kouki Miyata

A Teen Genius currently developing AI programs for an unnamed company. Chihiro is the smallest of all the students, and ashamed of being seen as weak. Chihiro is actually a boy wearing a dress to disguise his frail stature. He's the second victim, murdered by Mondo after inadvertently pressing his Berserk Button. Shortly before his death, he installed a self-aware computer program called Alter Ego in a hidden laptop, which helps the other students.

  • Apologizes a Lot
  • Attractive Bent Gender: Genocider Syo certainly thinks so.
  • Disguised in Drag: Dressed as a girl because he was considered "too weak" to be a boy.
  • Ill Girl: Chihiro never had the strength to go out and play with others as a child. A rare male example.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Wants to train with Mondo and become stronger, but Mondo doesn't believe he's that strong and is also jealous of Chihiro for working to change. Tragically, it triggers his Freak-Out, resulting in Chihiro's death.
  • Moe: In-universe, he has a sizable fanbase due to looking like a "small, frightened animal".
  • Techno Wizard: Got into creating highly-complex computer programs as a way to pass time. And he was able to put a computer program capable of learning on a rather junky old laptop in a short amount of time.
  • Teen Genius
  • Unsettling Gender Reveal: Doesn't get much more unsettling than discovering his gender after he's been murdered and crucified. It also qualified for Mondo, specifically setting off his insecurities about never being strong enough (while Chihiro wanted to overcome his weakness).
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: A crossdresser, natch, but he's so wholesome that during a free time segment, you learn that he won't even swat a mosquito because he feels sorry for the mosquito being hungry!

Kyouko Kirigiri

Super High-School Level ???

Voiced by Youko Hikasa

An enigmatic silver-haired girl who coaches Makoto on conducting investigations. Apparently, she's trying to retrieve something that Monokuma stole from her in the past. Currently still alive in Chapter 4.

  • Aloof Ally: Towards the group as a whole but becomes closer to Makoto as time goes on.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: She warms up to Makoto both in her free time events and in the game itself to an extent.
  • Emotionless Girl: She mentions in a Free-Time Event that all her emotions are working fine and that she actually invokes this, as not only does it make her really hard to read, but also gives others someone to mentally lean on since she comes off as calm and composed all the time.
    • Interestingly, one aspect of her character arc shows her frustrations at not being emotionless enough. Despite her occasional rudeness and doing embarrassing things fairly often, such as marching into the boy's room looking for Yamada and Ishimaru, or her reputation as a dead body enthusiast, it says a lot that the one instance where she blushes outside a Free-Time Event was while admitting to Naegi that she probably got more emotional than was necessary. Later on, she shows inward disgust at feeling such an emotional response to a dead father whose shadow she was supposed to have stepped away from in order to move on with her life. Finally, in her and Naegi's last conversation before the last class trial, she laughs solemnly at having to admit that her hatred for The Mastermind only intensified after learning how much her father suffered, and cynically declares that this haze of emotional confusion will probably never go away.
  • Meaningful Name: Kirigiri is written with the characters for "fog" and "cut".
  • The Spock
  • The Stoic: Most of the time, which helps her seem reliable and rational.
  • White-Haired Pretty Girl

Junko Enoshima

Super High-School Level Fashion Girl

Voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi

A kogal who took the country by storm with her extravagant tastes. Junko wanted to be a model ever since she was a child, but is also eager to try new things. She used to be homeless. She attacks Monokuma after Sayaka is murdered, and is killed by him as punishment.

  • Black Bra and Panties
  • Dark and Troubled Past: She used to be homeless when she was growing up, and while being homeless is bad enough, she was apparently homeless in a place where lots of men were around who preyed on innocent and helpless girls, so life was a warzone for her back then. In hindsight, life being a warzone for her was a major hint to her true identity.
  • The Fashionista: Her apparent title.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
  • Sacrificial Lamb: Like Sayaka, she was given heavy spotlight in promotional materials, but actually dies early in the story.
  • So Beautiful It's a Curse: She attracts a lot of guys who only care about her looks, which infuriates her.

Mondo Oowada

Super High-School Level Gang Leader

Voiced by Kazuya Nakaistill requires a detour through four lakes

The leader of the Crazy Diamonds, Japan's largest motorcycle gang. Mondo is foul-mouthed and doesn't take orders well, but would never hit a girl or break his promises. At first, he and Ishimaru are constantly at each others throats, but they eventually become blood brothers. He murders Chihiro and is executed by Monokuma.

  • Badass Biker: Hence his title.
  • Badass Longcoat: Which is connected to said title, see above.
  • Berserk Button: Do not call him weak.
  • Conflicting Loyalty: Between his friendship with the other students and his promise to keep the Crazy Diamonds together as long as possible.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Tied to a motorcycle and sent around an electrified cage at high speeds until he's little more than a fine paste. Which Monokuma apparently eats.
  • Death Equals Redemption: He doesn't put up much of a defense during the trial, believing he should atone for Chihiro's death (and probably Daiya's too).
  • Freak-Out: Monokuma's "motivational" DVD (which shows the Crazy Diamonds breaking up without him) and threat to reveal their darkest secrets (that Mondo indirectly caused his brother's death) puts him under some heavy mental stress. Eventually, he snaps, flying into a rage during which he kills Chihiro.
  • Gender Vocabulary Slip: Kyouko realizes he was aware of Chihiro's true gender when he starts referring to Chihiro as "that kid" rather than "that girl".
  • Hidden Depths: He loves dogs (of any size; he used to have a Maltese) and wants to become a carpenter, so he can build rather than break things.
  • Hot-Blooded: Which led to him bonding with Kiyotaka.
  • I Gave My Word: "A man's promise" is worth a lot to him. He even rearranges the changing rooms after Chihiro's death to keep his secret for as long as possible.
  • Improbable Hairstyle: His pompadour is big enough to get its own towel in the sauna.
  • I Never Said It Was Poison: Referring to Chihiro's blue sports jersey (when, aside from Celes, only his murderer could've known what color it was) is what exposes him as the killer.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: When he regains his senses and realizes that he killed Chihiro.
  • My Greatest Failure: Feeling overshadowed by his older brother, Daiya, Mondo challenged him to a motorcycle race. His reckless driving almost led to him being hit by a truck, but Daiya saved his life. He died from his injuries, and Mondo blames himself for never having been strong enough.
  • No Indoor Voice
  • Punny Name: Combined with his brother, Daiya, they form daiyamondo - diamond, the namesake of their gang.
  • Sir Swearsalot: Uses many a Cluster F-Bomb.
  • Survivor Guilt: Over his brother's death.
  • Sympathetic Murderer: He honestly didn't mean to hurt Chihiro and cared enough to try and keep his promise to the poor boy, he just had very poor self-control and snapped due to stress.
  • Villainous Breakdown: It bears mentioning that his version in-game is nowhere near as severe as the other murderers when found out, due to his status as Sympathetic Murderer, to the point the anime forgoes it completely.
  • Wouldn't Hit a Girl

Sakura Oogami

Super High-School Level Wrestler

Voiced by Kujira

An MMA champion whose family has operated a famous dojo for 300 years. Despite her intimidating appearance, Sakura is level-headed and polite. She spends most of her time exercising and drinks a lot of protein coffee. Her size and strength make her a perfect candidate for guarding crime scenes. She's been nicknamed "the Ogre" online. The end of Chapter 3 reveals that she might be being blackmailed into being Monobear's mole, but she intends to rebel against him. Currently still alive in Chapter 4.

Byakuya Togami

Super High-School Level Heir

Voiced by Akira Ishida

Scion of the incredibly wealthy Togami family, Byakuya has been groomed to become a success from childhood, which includes being enrolled in only the most prestigious of schools. He has no intention of making friends with his fellow classmates, and while he does aim to escape the school at some point, he isn't above screwing around with everyone during a trial to make things "interesting". He witnessed the culprit fleeing from the scene of the crime in Chapter 2. Trying to make things "more interesting", he used the opportunity to implicate and expose Genocider Syo, which caused the others to falsely suspect him of the murder. Still alive in Chapter 4.

  • Blond Guys Are Evil: Or at the very least, huge snobs with a severe Lack of Empathy.
  • Establishing Character Moment: Introduces himself as bluntly as possible to Makoto, then calls him an eyesore and tells him to get lost.
  • Fiction 500: His family's ungodly rich already, but Byakuya at one point mentions dabbling in stocks to kill time, and making millions more in one day. He only stopped because it was too easy. He casually mentions that he has a personal account with "pocket money" for private use. Said account contains forty billion Yen, or four billion dollars in the English translation (which is even more money).
  • For the Evulz: He crucified Chihiro's body and placed the blame for his murder on Touko just to make a bigger spectacle out of the second trial.
  • Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Though he has a soul, he is very good at hiding it.
  • Government Conspiracy: His family is involved in one.
  • I'm Not Here to Make Friends: And makes sure everyone understands this, multiple times. To him this is just competition, at least until his Heel Face Turn.
  • It Amused Me
  • Jerkass: Self explanatory at this point.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: He really is one of the only actually sane people in Danganronpa 1's character cast.
  • Lean and Mean: Especially in Danganronpa 1.
  • Rich Bastard
  • Serious Business: Survival of the fittest style competition to be exact, and he plans on winning no matter what. He changes his mind later on, but doesn't really drop the attitude.
  • Smug Snake: On top of being a jerk who thinks he's better than everyone, he isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he is outside of the financial sphere.

Yasuhiro Hagakure

Super High-School Level Fortune-Teller

Voiced by Masaya Matsukaze

A big name in Japan's fortune-telling community. He's actually 20 years old, having been held back a few times in high school. Hagakure has made a killing off of his predictions, which he charges top dollar for - even if they only have a 1-in-5 chance of being correct (a figure he takes pride in). He's easily one of the more laid-back cast members. He becomes the prime suspect for the murders in Chapter 3 after being found in the Justice Robo suit, which was being worn by the apparent culprit. Currently still alive in Chapter 4.

Celestia Ludenburg

(Taeko Yasuhiro) Super High-School Level Gambler

Voiced by Hekiru Shiina

Also known as the "Queen of Liars", Celestia is renowned for her exemplary luck in games of chance. She's accumulated a sizable fortune by robbing anyone stupid enough to challenge her blind. She speaks softly and smiles often, but in a way that tends to creep out everyone around her. She also hides a surprisingly short temper and will start shouting (usually at Hifumi) if she isn't pleased. She murders Hifumi and is executed by Monokuma.

  • Berserk Button: She has very strong feelings about how one ought to prepare milk tea.
  • Born Lucky: Which is why she is such a talented gambler, in addition to having a great poker face.
    • If you hang out with her, it's revealed that this is most of what her "talent" consists of. She even won a high-level shogi tournament despite not knowing how to play because she got lucky enough. Though, she's also referencing 81Diver. Which makes her breakdown make more sense, because she's used to things going her way enough that she doesn't know how to react when she's clearly cornered.
  • Burn the Witch: Her execution. Though subverted when she's killed by a firetruck crashing into her.
  • Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive: One sprite has her primly steepling her fingers. As for the deceive part, she tricks Hifumi into helping her and tries to frame Yasuhiro for Hifumi's murder.
  • Consummate Liar: By her own admission.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Gets burned at the stake before being crushed by a speeding firetruck flying right at her. And that's one of the tamer executions.
  • Death by Irony: Word of God stated that Celestia wanted a dramatic and romanticized death like the ones present in classic novels, such as being burned at the stake. However, Monokuma would have none of that.
  • Dissonant Serenity: She often seems very calm despite being in the middle of a murder game while trapped inside an abandoned school. Ultimately subverted when it's revealed that she's been desperate to escape from the beginning.
  • Elegant Gothic Lolita: So much that her dream is to live in a castle with manservants dressed as vampires.
  • Go Out with a Smile: Though we don't see how she reacts to that firetruck... In the manga adaptation, she's not too happy to see it.
  • Graceful Loser: Though that might be a lie.
  • Lack of Empathy: "Are you trying to make me feel guilt? You're wasting your time..." Though given her status as a Consummate Liar...
  • Mega Twintails: Those are some really huge drill-shaped pigtails she's got. The hidden bath scene and a few pieces of character art show her without the pigtails, suggesting they're detachable hair extensions, and the manga also goes with the 'detachable hair extension' interpretation as there's a panel about Celeste fixing her head to make it look like she was assaulted, but then one tail fell off.
  • Not So Stoic: She's calm most of the time, but every so often makes it apparent how much of that stoicism is a mask. The incident with Hifumi and her tea for example, when her expression turns nasty and, more importantly, her voice loses its soft and whispery quality and she sounds like a harshly-voiced grown woman. When Makoto really manages to lay pressure on Celeste during Chapter 3's trial, she freaks and spends most of the remaining trial this way until the end.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: On top of being a pseudonym itself, her name is almost always shortened to "Celes". Even the game's interface simply uses "Celes" where it would otherwise display a character's full name.
  • Professional Gambler: Her title.
  • The Smart Guy: She references many aspects of game theory, including zero sum games and the prisoner's dilemma, in her speeches.
  • The Spock: Frequently insists that the group's best course of action is to adapt to life in the school as best they can and ignore any incentive to murder. It was all an act though. She wanted to escape just as badly as the others.
  • Stage Names: Celestia Ludenburg isn't her real name.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Once she was nearly deduced as the killer in Case 3, she starts losing it. And boy, did the anime had a field day with this one, as it's not restricted with sprite limitations to animate the full extent of it. Just to give you an idea of it all, if one pays attention one can see even Monokuma visibly shocked.

Antagonists

Monokuma

The Headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy

Voiced by Nobuyo Ōyama

The self-proclaimed headmaster of Despair Academy. He's very eager to see society's biggest hopefuls start killing each other, so he heaps psychological torture on the students at every turn. There's actually more than one Monokuma; he's a series of highly-advanced robots, and can be instantly replaced if destroyed.

  • Action Bomb: If Monobear is damaged, he'll explode. That's not the only way he can protect himself, either...
  • Big Brother Is Watching: And he can teleport. Sweet dreams!
  • Covert Pervert: He'll accuse the students of having dirty motives in the most inappropriate situations and go into way too much detail about his suspicions. At times he even seems to be egging them on, which is really creepy considering that there are cameras everywhere.
  • Dissonant Serenity: They normally sound rather lighthearted about all the despair they want the students to suffer. If you are familiar with his Japanese voice actress it gets even worse; see the "Trivia" tab for details.
  • Everything's Worse with Bears: Considering he is the only true consistency throughout the franchise, you better believe it!
  • Evil Laugh: "Upupu~"
  • Fat Bastard
  • Faux Affably Evil: He speaks in a very easygoing manner (but still refers to the students as "you bastards"), makes a lot of really bad puns, and generally acts like an obnoxiously saccharine principal. It just underscores how incredibly screwed-up his entire game is.
  • Gonk: Due to the right half of his face looking like a cuddly polar bear while the left half of said face looks like what he actually is.
  • Nightmare Face
  • Punny Name: His name is a combination of monochrome (monokuroomu in Japanese) and bear (kuma).
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Invoked with the red eye on his black half with the Slasher Smile.
  • Scary Teeth: Are revealed on the left side of his face whenever he laughs particularly intensely.
  • Series Mascot: And it's the villain of the story.
  • Slasher Smile: The left side of his face.
  • Smug Snake
  • Torture Technician: See the execution methods they choose to use.
  • Troll: Especially in Danganronpa 1.

The Masked Man

An unknown individual who attacks Makoto in a hidden room at the end of Chapter 3.

Spoilers/Other

Genocider Syo

Super High-School Level Murderer

Voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro

A Serial Killer rumored to have killed thousands. Syo's trademark is writing BLOODSTAIN FEVER in the victim's blood and crucifying them with custom-made scissors. When Chihiro is murdered, the crime scene makes it evident that Syo is among them. She's actually a Split Personality of Touko, and changes back with a sneeze.

  • Calling Card: She actually has more than one. The second calling card - crucifying the victim with specially-made scissors - has been kept hidden from the media, which proves that she didn't murder Chihiro.
  • Evil Laugh: Comes with the territory.
  • Fan Girl: In contrast to Touko's seething hatred of anime and manga.
    • In fact, she specifically refers to herself as a fujoshi (basically "rotten fangirl", a term fans of Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei might recognize).
  • Hidden Weapons: She keeps her scissors in a leg holster at all times. It's not clear why Touko doesn't just remove them while Syo is dormant.
  • Improbable Weapon User: Her hand-made scissors.
  • Large Ham
  • Meaningful Name: Syo describes herself as a fujoshi (腐女子), the first kanji of which is the same character in Fukawa Touko (腐川冬子). Provides an interesting contrast, considering they're the kind of people who Touko hates.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: She loves her job. Let's leave it at that.
  • Overly Long Tongue
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Well, she is more pink when she's in control, but the point remains.
  • Stalker with a Crush: All of Syo's victims were men that Touko was infatuated with. This is very bad news for Togami.
  • Yandere: For Byakuya. But not to the point of wanting to kill him or anyone else for his sake, which makes him a unique case for her.
  • Yaoi Fangirl/Yuri Fan: She's very quick to point out any possible subtext between her fellow students. They really don't appreciate it.
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