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111-511: Hajime Hinata ( Japanese : 日向 創 , Hepburn : Hinata Hajime ) , also known as Izuru Kamukura ( 神座 出流 , Kamukura Izuru ) , is a character from the Spike Chunsoft visual novel action-adventure game series Danganronpa . The character has two identities: Izuru first appeared in the 2011 light novel prequel Danganronpa Zero by Kazutaka Kodaka as a mysterious high school student whose actions resulted in genocide , while

222-468: A computer avatar copy of Hajime appeared as the protagonist of the 2012 video game Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair , as a high school student with no memory of his past, forced to investigate murder cases involving high school students who are trapped on a group of tropical islands. The prequel anime Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School further explores the past of the human Hajime and how he volunteered to undergo experimentation to become

333-582: A computer avatar copy of the childhood memories his real self: Izuru Kamukura. Originally part of the Reserve Course, a section of Hope's Peak Academy for students without ultimate talents, the original Hajime had volunteered to become a test subject in the Hope Cultivation Project, becoming a superintelligent superhuman soldier and acquiring multiple talents at the cost of his original personality and sense of self. Renamed after

444-478: A "beautiful, elegant dance" while his hair was stiffer than in early materials. Kodaka was glad with the character's design, especially with how emotionless his eyes were. Due to how powerless the famous Junko Enoshima is in comparison to Izuru, the scenes involving how the former manipulates the latter were written to show Junko at her lowest, since she could not defeat Izuru in combat. So, the writers focused on psychology involving their passions. Famitsu found that

555-470: A "weaker" lead for the next game. Kodaka thanked the Lerche staff from the anime for how faithful Izuru was to his original version. Having been briefly explored in the light novel and Goodbye Despair , Kodaka wrote Hajime's darker persona as somebody who ironically finds everything boring, since Hajime wants to become special like the students from Hope's Peak Academy. His design was carefully revised to have

666-471: A DJ, Takayama enrolled in the theater department of Nihon Kogakuin College to continue her acting career, but she became worried about her future and dropped out to stop acting altogether. At one point, she was working at an office, but when a caller praised her voice, she decided to become a voice actor at the age of 22. In 1985, she joined the voice acting division of Sun House Music, but after that, she met

777-637: A benefit from the in-group to the out-group) means "[I/we] explained [it] to [him/her/them]". Such beneficiary auxiliary verbs thus serve a function comparable to that of pronouns and prepositions in Indo-European languages to indicate the actor and the recipient of an action. Japanese "pronouns" also function differently from most modern Indo-European pronouns (and more like nouns) in that they can take modifiers as any other noun may. For instance, one does not say in English: The amazed he ran down

888-472: A detective ( Kyoko Kirigiri ) investigates him. Izuru is described as a student of indeterminate gender hiding on the grounds of the school, and the perpetrator of "The Tragedy", an event involving mass murder that resulted in the decay of mankind. It is believed Izuru was allied with the antagonist of the first Danganronpa game, Junko Enoshima , whom he aided in the Tragedy. Ryoko Otonashi learns that Izuru

999-414: A distinct language of its own that has absorbed various aspects from neighboring languages. Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version. Elongated vowels are usually denoted with a line over the vowel (a macron ) in rōmaji , a repeated vowel character in hiragana , or a chōonpu succeeding the vowel in katakana . /u/ ( listen )

1110-574: A girl." After failing three times in a row, she consulted with her manager and decided to audition for the role of a boy, thinking that heroine might not be suitable for her. She made her debut in 1987 as a female student in Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon . After that, she started getting boy roles and got her first starring role as Youichi Ajiyoshi in Mister Ajikko the third time around. In 1989, she

1221-419: A glide /j/ and either the first part of a geminate consonant ( っ / ッ , represented as Q) or a moraic nasal in the coda ( ん / ン , represented as N). The nasal is sensitive to its phonetic environment and assimilates to the following phoneme, with pronunciations including [ɴ, m, n, ɲ, ŋ, ɰ̃] . Onset-glide clusters only occur at the start of syllables but clusters across syllables are allowed as long as

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1332-415: A kindred spirit, along with subtitle manipulation, Izuru allies with Junko who arranges a killing game and the tragedy of hopes peak academy, with the ultimate goal of causing the fall of human civilization. Upon the death of Chiaki and successfully instigating a worldwide apocalypse, Izuru adopts a neutral stance to observe the "unpredictability" of despair and hope, promising to take a more active stance when

1443-484: A listener depending on the listener's relative social position and the degree of familiarity between the speaker and the listener. When used in different social relationships, the same word may have positive (intimate or respectful) or negative (distant or disrespectful) connotations. Japanese often use titles of the person referred to where pronouns would be used in English. For example, when speaking to one's teacher, it

1554-434: A major contrast between Hajime's white clothing and Nagito Komaeda 's dark clothing. His relatable characterization was meant to give him a notable character arc , as throughout the story he shows weakness due to his lack of talents despite his attempts to act as an ordinary person. Hajime's final appearance differed from that in early sketches for the series, as his hair was originally meant to be longer, and, at one point, he

1665-436: A manager who asked her if she wanted to work as a voice actress, and she joined 81 Produce , where she was told that if she didn't make any progress in two of her three years as a rookie, she should give up. She decided to try to bear fruit in one year. Initially, Takayama auditioned for the role of the heroine, but even though she tried to read the lines in a cute way, she was told by different sound directors to "be more like

1776-501: A new crossover illustration drawn by Tokyo Chronos illustrator and character designer LAM, who drew Hajime alongside other characters from the series. During 2016, in Tokyo, as part of a collaboration between Danganronpa and Absolute to promote the anime, fans could interact with the voice actors, with Takayama reprising her role of Hajime. In a 2021 poll, Hajime was voted as the fourth best Danganronpa character. Critical response to

1887-408: A sentence need not be stated and pronouns may be omitted if they can be inferred from context. In the example above, hana ga nagai would mean "[their] noses are long", while nagai by itself would mean "[they] are long." A single verb can be a complete sentence: Yatta! ( やった! ) "[I / we / they / etc] did [it]!". In addition, since adjectives can form the predicate in a Japanese sentence (below),

1998-428: A single adjective can be a complete sentence: Urayamashii! ( 羨ましい! ) "[I'm] jealous [about it]!". While the language has some words that are typically translated as pronouns, these are not used as frequently as pronouns in some Indo-European languages, and function differently. In some cases, Japanese relies on special verb forms and auxiliary verbs to indicate the direction of benefit of an action: "down" to indicate

2109-488: A student, the original Chiaki Nanami , about how talents are not necessary for him to stand out, Hajime decides to take part in the Izuru Kamukura Project with his parents' consent, sacrificing himself to become Izuru. While finding himself lacking a true sense of purpose and connection to the world, Izuru meets Junko and Mukuro Ikusaba after thwarting their attempt to assassinate him. Recognizing Junko as

2220-603: A wide range of generations. In 2005, she was chosen to play Suneo's mom in the renewed Doraemon anime, in 2007 she voiced Kitarō in the fifth series of GeGeGe no Kitarō , and in 2010 she voiced Taiki Kudō in Digimon Fusion . Takayama is also active in music as ES CONNEXION, Two-Mix , Miru Takayama with TWO-MIX, and M★TWO-MinaMiru-, a unit with her cousin Miru Takayama. She has sung the theme songs of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing , and has also composed music. In

2331-680: Is compressed rather than protruded , or simply unrounded. Some Japanese consonants have several allophones , which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic. For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence /ti/ was palatalized and realized phonetically as [tɕi] , approximately chi ( listen ) ; however, now [ti] and [tɕi] are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī [tiː] "Western-style tea" and chii [tɕii] "social status". The "r" of

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2442-421: Is topic–comment . Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or form questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender , and there are no articles . Verbs are conjugated , primarily for tense and voice , but not person . Japanese adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has a complex system of honorifics , with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of

2553-429: Is a rival of Nagito Komaeda , who suspects there is a traitor in the group working for "World Ender". When Nagito fakes his suicide to apparently expose the traitor by tricking them into unknowingly killing them, Hajime realizes his friend Chiaki Nanami is the traitor and culprit, and she is executed. After Chiaki's execution, Hajime uncovers the truth behind Jabberwock Island being a simulated reality and himself being

2664-448: Is also seen in o-medetō "congratulations", from medetaku ). Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan ("bread") and tabako ("tobacco", now "cigarette"), both from Portuguese . Modern Japanese is considered to begin with the Edo period (which spanned from 1603 to 1867). Since Old Japanese,

2775-527: Is also used in a limited fashion (such as for imported acronyms) in Japanese writing. The numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals , but also traditional Chinese numerals . Proto-Japonic , the common ancestor of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages , is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from the Korean peninsula sometime in the early- to mid-4th century BC (the Yayoi period ), replacing

2886-440: Is appropriate to use sensei ( 先生 , "teacher"), but inappropriate to use anata . This is because anata is used to refer to people of equal or lower status, and one's teacher has higher status. Japanese nouns have no grammatical number, gender or article aspect. The noun hon ( 本 ) may refer to a single book or several books; hito ( 人 ) can mean "person" or "people", and ki ( 木 ) can be "tree" or "trees". Where number

2997-701: Is associated with comedy (see Kansai dialect ). Dialects of Tōhoku and North Kantō are associated with typical farmers. The Ryūkyūan languages, spoken in Okinawa and the Amami Islands (administratively part of Kagoshima ), are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family; not only is each language unintelligible to Japanese speakers, but most are unintelligible to those who speak other Ryūkyūan languages. However, in contrast to linguists, many ordinary Japanese people tend to consider

3108-578: Is best known for her roles in Detective Conan as Conan Edogawa , Kiki's Delivery Service as both Kiki and Ursula, Ranma ½ as Nabiki Tendo , Moomin as Moomin , Yaiba as Yaiba Kurogane, Shaman King as Hao Asakura , Nintama Rantarō as Rantarō Inadera, Danganronpa series as Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamukura, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood as Envy, and Honkai Impact 3rd as Fu Hua. From an early age, Takayama studied ballet , Japanese dance , and vocal music . When she

3219-466: Is better documentation of Late Middle Japanese phonology than for previous forms (for instance, the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam ). Among other sound changes, the sequence /au/ merges to /ɔː/ , in contrast with /oː/ ; /p/ is reintroduced from Chinese; and /we/ merges with /je/ . Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending - te begins to reduce onto

3330-586: Is briefly seen during the epilogue of the spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls , set between the events of the first and second games, while ripping out parts of the mechanical bears Kurokuma and Shirokuma while transporting them via wheelbarrow, before preparing future plans with Alter Ego Junko. Hajime appears alongside Yasuhiro Hagakure and Makoto in the game demo for Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony , with Hajime and Makoto as Kaede Akamatsu 's upper classmates, senior "protagonists", and major helpers, before being revealed to be an actor in

3441-509: Is correlated with the sex of the speaker and the social situation in which they are spoken: men and women alike in a formal situation generally refer to themselves as watashi ( 私 , literally "private") or watakushi (also 私 , hyper-polite form), while men in rougher or intimate conversation are much more likely to use the word ore ( 俺 "oneself", "myself") or boku . Similarly, different words such as anata , kimi , and omae ( お前 , more formally 御前 "the one before me") may refer to

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3552-435: Is hiding inside the old school building, but fails to find him, instead finding her boyfriend and Ultimate Despair collaborator, Yasuke Matsuda, who, briefly adopting Izuru's identity, kills Yuto Kamishiro to cover up Izuru's and Junko's roles in the Tragedy. In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair , Izuru is reintroduced under his birth name, Hajime Hinata. Having revered Hope's Peak Academy since childhood and having no memory of

3663-417: Is important, it can be indicated by providing a quantity (often with a counter word ) or (rarely) by adding a suffix, or sometimes by duplication (e.g. 人人 , hitobito , usually written with an iteration mark as 人々 ). Words for people are usually understood as singular. Thus Tanaka-san usually means Mx Tanaka . Words that refer to people and animals can be made to indicate a group of individuals through

3774-755: Is less common. In terms of mutual intelligibility , a survey in 1967 found that the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding Ryūkyūan languages and Tōhoku dialects ) to students from Greater Tokyo were the Kiso dialect (in the deep mountains of Nagano Prefecture ), the Himi dialect (in Toyama Prefecture ), the Kagoshima dialect and the Maniwa dialect (in Okayama Prefecture ). The survey

3885-420: Is often called a topic-prominent language , which means it has a strong tendency to indicate the topic separately from the subject, and that the two do not always coincide. The sentence Zō wa hana ga nagai ( 象は鼻が長い ) literally means, "As for elephant(s), (the) nose(s) (is/are) long". The topic is zō "elephant", and the subject is hana "nose". Japanese grammar tends toward brevity; the subject or object of

3996-498: Is preserved in words such as matsuge ("eyelash", lit. "hair of the eye"); modern mieru ("to be visible") and kikoeru ("to be audible") retain a mediopassive suffix - yu(ru) ( kikoyu → kikoyuru (the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period) → kikoeru (all verbs with the shimo-nidan conjugation pattern underwent this same shift in Early Modern Japanese )); and

4107-402: Is the version of Japanese discussed in this article. Formerly, standard Japanese in writing ( 文語 , bungo , "literary language") was different from colloquial language ( 口語 , kōgo ) . The two systems have different rules of grammar and some variance in vocabulary. Bungo was the main method of writing Japanese until about 1900; since then kōgo gradually extended its influence and

4218-471: Is used for the present and the future. For verbs that represent an ongoing process, the -te iru form indicates a continuous (or progressive) aspect , similar to the suffix ing in English. For others that represent a change of state, the -te iru form indicates a perfect aspect. For example, kite iru means "They have come (and are still here)", but tabete iru means "They are eating". Questions (both with an interrogative pronoun and yes/no questions) have

4329-405: Is why some linguists do not classify Japanese "pronouns" as pronouns, but rather as referential nouns, much like Spanish usted (contracted from vuestra merced , "your ( majestic plural ) grace") or Portuguese você (from vossa mercê ). Japanese personal pronouns are generally used only in situations requiring special emphasis as to who is doing what to whom. The choice of words used as pronouns

4440-690: The Japanese people . It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan , the only country where it is the national language , and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language . There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu , Austronesian , Koreanic , and

4551-462: The Japonic language family, which also includes the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands . As these closely related languages are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is sometimes called a language isolate . According to Martine Irma Robbeets , Japanese has been subject to more attempts to show its relation to other languages than any other language in

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4662-514: The Philippines , and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. As a result, many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. Japanese emigrant communities (the largest of which are to be found in Brazil , with 1.4 million to 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than

4773-790: The United States (notably in Hawaii , where 16.7% of the population has Japanese ancestry, and California ), and the Philippines (particularly in Davao Region and the Province of Laguna ). Japanese has no official status in Japan, but is the de facto national language of the country. There is a form of the language considered standard : hyōjungo ( 標準語 ) , meaning "standard Japanese", or kyōtsūgo ( 共通語 ) , "common language", or even "Tokyo dialect" at times. The meanings of

4884-806: The de facto standard Japanese had been the Kansai dialect , especially that of Kyoto . However, during the Edo period, Edo (now Tokyo) developed into the largest city in Japan, and the Edo-area dialect became standard Japanese. Since the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly. The period since 1945 has seen many words borrowed from other languages—such as German, Portuguese and English. Many English loan words especially relate to technology—for example, pasokon (short for "personal computer"), intānetto ("internet"), and kamera ("camera"). Due to

4995-461: The original video animation Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of Worlds , it is shown how Izuru/Hajime managed to restore Nagito's subconsciousness so that he and the others would return to the real world before the events of Hope , creating an artificial intelligence duplicate of himself dubbed the "World Ender". Implanted with multiple talents, he lost touch with other members of mankind and

5106-527: The 1.2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language. Approximately 12% of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12.6% of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008. Japanese emigrants can also be found in Peru , Argentina , Australia (especially in the eastern states), Canada (especially in Vancouver , where 1.4% of the population has Japanese ancestry),

5217-476: The 11th spot. In describing the "dream" Japanese cast of Goodbye Despair , Kotaku remarked on Takayama's work, mostly due to her work in Detective Conan and Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood which would attract fans from both series. Japanese language Japanese ( 日本語 , Nihongo , [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by

5328-562: The 1990s, she began to play the main and major characters in many works, mainly boys, such as Moomin (as Moomin ), Magical Taruruto-kun (as Honmaru Edojō), and Yaiba (as Yaiba), and her popularity became firmly established. In particular, her leading roles as Rantarō Inadera in Nintama Rantarō and Conan Edogawa in Detective Conan have lasted for more than 20 years since they were first broadcast in 1993 and 1996, respectively, and Takayama's voice has become recognized by

5439-560: The 81st episode of Detective Conan (broadcast on November 17, 1997), she appeared as a character with Shiina Nagano as TWO-MIX themselves, and also sang the opening theme song for the anime. In addition, in 2005, she brought in Joe Rinoie to work on the theme song for the anime Engage Planet Kiss Dum in 2007 as the unit II MIX⊿DELTA. In 2011, Takayama won the Synergy Award at the 5th Seiyu Awards . On January 9, 2017, she

5550-531: The AI based on such character. Commenters also focused on the Izuru Kamukura character, Hajime's alter ego. The Gamer listed Izuru–Hajime as the sixth best Danganronpa character, saying that despite his chaotic background, his efforts to redeem himself make him a "complex hero". Both Manga.Tokyo and Anime News Network felt that Hajime became a tragic character due to losing all of his memories following

5661-486: The Japanese language is of particular interest, ranging between an apical central tap and a lateral approximant . The "g" is also notable; unless it starts a sentence, it may be pronounced [ ŋ ] , in the Kanto prestige dialect and in other eastern dialects. The phonotactics of Japanese are relatively simple. The syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), that is, a core vowel surrounded by an optional onset consonant,

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5772-494: The Kamukura Project provided Hajime's new identity with all of the talents he could possibly have, thus becoming the most powerful character in the franchise. The Fandom Post and Biggest in Japan enjoyed the bond that both Hajime and Chiaki had in the anime. Comic Book Resources placed this relationship as the best reason why Goodbye Despair needs to be adapted as an anime since in such game Hajime also befriended

5883-736: The Old Japanese sections are written in Man'yōgana , which uses kanji for their phonetic as well as semantic values. Based on the Man'yōgana system, Old Japanese can be reconstructed as having 88 distinct morae . Texts written with Man'yōgana use two different sets of kanji for each of the morae now pronounced き (ki), ひ (hi), み (mi), け (ke), へ (he), め (me), こ (ko), そ (so), と (to), の (no), も (mo), よ (yo) and ろ (ro). (The Kojiki has 88, but all later texts have 87. The distinction between mo 1 and mo 2 apparently

5994-576: The Remnants of Despair and arranged for them to be captured by Future Foundation agent and former killing game survivor and new "Ultimate Hope" Makoto Naegi and placing him and the Remnants into a virtual reality created by the Future Foundation's Neo World Program in an attempt at rehabilitating them, into which Izuru releases an artificial intelligence copy of Junko (made at the moment of her death and dubbed Alter Ego Junko) supposedly with

6105-539: The Ryūkyūan languages as dialects of Japanese. The imperial court also seems to have spoken an unusual variant of the Japanese of the time, most likely the spoken form of Classical Japanese , a writing style that was prevalent during the Heian period , but began to decline during the late Meiji period . The Ryūkyūan languages are classified by UNESCO as 'endangered', as young people mostly use Japanese and cannot understand

6216-543: The addition of a collective suffix (a noun suffix that indicates a group), such as -tachi , but this is not a true plural: the meaning is closer to the English phrase "and company". A group described as Tanaka-san-tachi may include people not named Tanaka. Some Japanese nouns are effectively plural, such as hitobito "people" and wareware "we/us", while the word tomodachi "friend" is considered singular, although plural in form. Verbs are conjugated to show tenses, of which there are two: past and present (or non-past) which

6327-415: The cast members, who are similarly revealed to be the Remnants of Despair, rather than their previous caring personas. Anime News Network felt that Hajime became famous in the franchise for how corrupted he becomes, in contrast to his initial persona, something which the critic blamed on Nagito's philosophies. Comic Book Resources listed Izuru as the most intelligent Danganronpa character, based on how

6438-512: The character he voiced. In the stage play, Ryusei Yokohama portrays the character. Kodaka described the Hajime of the anime Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School as someone who recklessly worked hard to do his best, despite his lack of an Ultimate Talent, in contrast with his past persona in the light novel and anime prequels. Kodaka felt the anime explicated the differences between Izuru and Hajime, which were not fully explored in

6549-529: The character, as both Izuru and Hajime, has been positive, with many comparing elements of the characterizations with other cast members featured in Danganronpa . The final twist in Goodbye Despair , where Hajime is revealed to be Junko's partner Izuru, was praised by Rice Digital as one of the franchise's most striking twists, as it alters the gamers' perception regarding him alongside the rest of

6660-578: The effect of changing Japanese into a mora-timed language. Late Middle Japanese covers the years from 1185 to 1600, and is normally divided into two sections, roughly equivalent to the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period , respectively. The later forms of Late Middle Japanese are the first to be described by non-native sources, in this case the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries; and thus there

6771-468: The entertainment industry, and she felt as if she was being forced to follow the rails laid out for her, and the ventriloquism was just a reason for her to study acting, not something she came up with. When she was in high school, she won a radio disc jockey contest and thought about becoming a DJ because of her love of radio and fascination with free banter and voice work. After graduating from Adachi Nishi High School in Tokyo, not knowing how to become

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6882-630: The epilogue. In the main storyline, both the Izuru and Hajime identities are adopted by the new mastermind , the Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony reality television showrunner , in the sixth chapter. Hajime appears in Despair Arc of the anime Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School as a high school student suffering from an inferiority complex as a result of his lack of talent. Despite being comforted by

6993-455: The flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly, and words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese is an agglutinative , mora -timed language with relatively simple phonotactics , a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent . Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure

7104-567: The founder of Hope's Peak Academy and dubbed Ultimate Hope ( 超高校級の「希望」 , Chō-kōkō-kyū no "Kibō" , lit. Super High School Level Hope ) , Izuru soon grew bored with the world, due to being unable to relate to anyone, and was convinced by the like-minded Junko Enoshima to join the Ultimate Despair ( 超高校級の「絶望」 , Chō kōkō kyū no "Zetsubō" , lit. Super High School Level Despair ) organization in an attempt to alleviate his boredom. Following Junko's death, Izuru took control of

7215-462: The franchise. There was also commentary with regard to the nearly emotionless Izuru reacting to the death of Chiaki, which came across as an important emotional scene, as Izuru starts crying when seeing her in her last moments. Thanasis Karavasilis, of Manga.Tokyo , felt the anime managed to give Hajime a strong finish and praised the encounter between him and the Mitarai, as in their encounter neither

7326-462: The game's narrative, despite the dark story, evidenced by how he bonds with the other cast members. Due to his dark characterization and how he lacks Hajime's humanity, Manga.Tokyo compared Izuru with Star Wars villain Darth Vader , although the reviewer felt Hajime's corruption to be more forced in comparison to Vader's. Izuru is first mentioned in the light novel Danganronpa Zero as

7437-482: The game. Izuru was described as a god-like entity to the point of being deemed as the strongest character Kodaka ever created in fiction. For the Hope Arc of the series' anime, Kodaka stated that the two minds of the character had merged under the Izuru Kamukura name. Kodaka was satisfied with how anime staff from Lerche handled Izuru, while also enjoying his portrayal as an emotionless, silent but "elegant" character at

7548-609: The genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech. Early Middle Japanese is the Japanese of the Heian period , from 794 to 1185. It formed the basis for the literary standard of Classical Japanese , which remained in common use until the early 20th century. During this time, Japanese underwent numerous phonological developments, in many cases instigated by an influx of Chinese loanwords . These included phonemic length distinction for both consonants and vowels , palatal consonants (e.g. kya ) and labial consonant clusters (e.g. kwa ), and closed syllables . This had

7659-416: The human experiments, losing the bond he formed with Chiaki in the process. Both Kotaku and Anime News Network commented on the encounter between Izuru and Nagito but had mixed feelings about the former, finding their similarities enjoyable while the latter deemed them as fan service due to the lack of impact. Gaming Trend praised Izuru's relationship with Junko, based on the latter's popularity within

7770-430: The language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese . Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords . The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo ) in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century–mid 19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853,

7881-458: The languages of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language . Because writing had yet to be introduced from China, there is no direct evidence, and anything that can be discerned about this period must be based on internal reconstruction from Old Japanese , or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects . The Chinese writing system

7992-449: The languages. Okinawan Japanese is a variant of Standard Japanese influenced by the Ryūkyūan languages, and is the primary dialect spoken among young people in the Ryukyu Islands . Modern Japanese has become prevalent nationwide (including the Ryūkyū islands) due to education , mass media , and an increase in mobility within Japan, as well as economic integration. Japanese is a member of

8103-427: The large quantity of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between [tɕi] and [ti] , and [dʑi] and [di] , with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords. Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has also been spoken outside of the country. Before and during World War II , through Japanese annexation of Taiwan and Korea , as well as partial occupation of China ,

8214-403: The main antagonist of the series who attempts to manipulate him for her own goals. The character is voiced by Minami Takayama in Japanese and Johnny Yong Bosch in English. Critical response to the character has been positive, in particular their interpersonal relationship with other characters and the voice actors' vocal performances. The character's role at The End of Hope's Peak High School

8325-418: The now-discredited Altaic , but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered

8436-425: The only strict rule of word order is that the verb must be placed at the end of a sentence (possibly followed by sentence-end particles). This is because Japanese sentence elements are marked with particles that identify their grammatical functions. The basic sentence structure is topic–comment . For example, Kochira wa Tanaka-san desu ( こちらは田中さんです ). kochira ("this") is the topic of the sentence, indicated by

8547-412: The original version of the heroine from the game. Nevertheless, Kodaka planned for the meeting of the human Hajime's and the human Chiaki to be integral to the narrative, based on how the two bonds when playing games. In developing the lead character of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony , Kodaka felt that both Hajime and Makoto were written to be "too strong" as video game protagonists, leading him to write

8658-470: The out-group gives a benefit to the in-group, and "up" to indicate the in-group gives a benefit to the out-group. Here, the in-group includes the speaker and the out-group does not, and their boundary depends on context. For example, oshiete moratta ( 教えてもらった ) (literally, "explaining got" with a benefit from the out-group to the in-group) means "[he/she/they] explained [it] to [me/us]". Similarly, oshiete ageta ( 教えてあげた ) (literally, "explaining gave" with

8769-415: The particle wa . The verb desu is a copula , commonly translated as "to be" or "it is" (though there are other verbs that can be translated as "to be"), though technically it holds no meaning and is used to give a sentence 'politeness'. As a phrase, Tanaka-san desu is the comment. This sentence literally translates to "As for this person, (it) is Mx Tanaka." Thus Japanese, like many other Asian languages,

8880-481: The proposed larger Altaic family, or to various Southeast Asian languages , especially Austronesian . None of these proposals have gained wide acceptance (and the Altaic family itself is now considered controversial). As it stands, only the link to Ryukyuan has wide support. Other theories view the Japanese language as an early creole language formed through inputs from at least two distinct language groups, or as

8991-422: The purpose of allowing her to download herself into a number of the other Remnants' bodies and other Future Foundation agents following a simulated killing game between their amnesiac selves to erase their minds. Ultimately, Hajime decides to delete Alter Ego Junko instead, in which a merged and content Izuru/Hajime overlooks the island. Hajime has also appeared in the manga adaptations of Goodbye Despair . Izuru

9102-459: The same structure as affirmative sentences, but with intonation rising at the end. In the formal register, the question particle -ka is added. For example, ii desu ( いいです ) "It is OK" becomes ii desu-ka ( いいですか。 ) "Is it OK?". In a more informal tone sometimes the particle -no ( の ) is added instead to show a personal interest of the speaker: Dōshite konai-no? "Why aren't (you) coming?". Some simple queries are formed simply by mentioning

9213-481: The same time. In Goodbye Despair , it is revealed that Hajime and his classmates are terrorists with amnesia, and that they used to be called the Remnants of Despair. In contrast with Goodbye Despair , Kodaka aimed for the younger Remnants of Despair to be characterized differently to reflect their original personalities; this resulted in Hajime being written in a more hatred-driven manner, due to his lack of talents before meeting another character named Chiaki Nanami ,

9324-592: The scene where Izuru steps on Junko has a great effect on his enemy. Junko's voice actress, Megumi Toyoguchi , claimed there were no notes in the script about how to perform that scene, so she acted on her own. Manga News compared him with Kyoko Kirigiri based on how both cannot remember their pasts, as well their similar talents. Koi-Nya and HardCore Gaming 101 felt he was a fitting protagonist, similar to Makoto, as both do not possess major talents and have to rely on their normal abilities to solve problems. DualShockers claimed that Hajime dramatically changed during

9435-480: The silent apathetic superhuman Izuru. Hajime was created to be a caring student who would be explored as a more tragic hero, in contrast with his predecessor, the Danganronpa protagonist Makoto Naegi . The franchise explores the themes of despair and hope; as a result of his sins, Izuru's activities involve a search for redemption. Their prequel personas were also modified to fit the narrative involving their lack of self-esteem and relationship with Junko Enoshima ,

9546-458: The situation calls for it. Izuru/Hajime has also appeared in the other story arcs in the anime. In Future Arc , at some point during the Tragedy, Makoto explains that he found Izuru and captured him to place him in the virtual world, for which he is put on trial for treason by the Future Foundation for doing so, and refusing to disclose the location of Izuru and the remaining Remnants of Despair. Subsequently, Izuru/Hajime and his former friends from

9657-401: The skill that landed him at the academy, he is given the title of "Ultimate ???" ( 超高校級の「???」 , Chō-kōkō-kyū no "???" , lit. Super High School Level ??? ) . Hajime and his classmates are trapped into a killing game on a group of tropical islands by the bear-like robot Monokuma . With his investigative skills, Hajime helps solve the murder mysteries and finds every murderer. He

9768-439: The speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned. The Japanese writing system combines Chinese characters , known as kanji ( 漢字 , ' Han characters') , with two unique syllabaries (or moraic scripts) derived by the Japanese from the more complex Chinese characters: hiragana ( ひらがな or 平仮名 , 'simple characters') and katakana ( カタカナ or 片仮名 , 'partial characters'). Latin script ( rōmaji ローマ字 )

9879-817: The state as at the time the constitution was written, many of the elders participating in the process had been educated in Japanese during the South Seas Mandate over the island shown by the 1958 census of the Trust Territory of the Pacific that found that 89% of Palauans born between 1914 and 1933 could speak and read Japanese, but as of the 2005 Palau census there were no residents of Angaur that spoke Japanese at home. Japanese dialects typically differ in terms of pitch accent , inflectional morphology , vocabulary , and particle usage. Some even differ in vowel and consonant inventories, although this

9990-481: The street. (grammatically incorrect insertion of a pronoun) But one can grammatically say essentially the same thing in Japanese: 驚いた彼は道を走っていった。 Transliteration: Odoroita kare wa michi o hashitte itta. (grammatically correct) This is partly because these words evolved from regular nouns, such as kimi "you" ( 君 "lord"), anata "you" ( あなた "that side, yonder"), and boku "I" ( 僕 "servant"). This

10101-503: The third spot, behind Nagito Komaeda and Makoto Naegi. To celebrate, Rui Komatsuzaki did an illustration of the top five to be featured in the re-release of the games, Reload . In late 2020, the NetEase survival-horror game Identity V launched " Identity V x Danganronpa Crossover II", the second part of its collaboration with the Danganronpa series. To mark the occasion, Identity V ' s official Japanese Twitter account revealed

10212-546: The topic with an interrogative intonation to call for the hearer's attention: Kore wa? "(What about) this?"; O-namae wa? ( お名前は？ ) "(What's your) name?". Negatives are formed by inflecting the verb. For example, Pan o taberu ( パンを食べる。 ) "I will eat bread" or "I eat bread" becomes Pan o tabenai ( パンを食べない。 ) "I will not eat bread" or "I do not eat bread". Plain negative forms are i -adjectives (see below) and inflect as such, e.g. Pan o tabenakatta ( パンを食べなかった。 ) "I did not eat bread". Minami Takayama Takayama

10323-419: The two consonants are the moraic nasal followed by a homorganic consonant. Japanese also includes a pitch accent , which is not represented in moraic writing; for example [haꜜ.ɕi] ("chopsticks") and [ha.ɕiꜜ] ("bridge") are both spelled はし ( hashi ) , and are only differentiated by the tone contour. Japanese word order is classified as subject–object–verb . Unlike many Indo-European languages ,

10434-577: The two methods were both used in writing until the 1940s. Bungo still has some relevance for historians, literary scholars, and lawyers (many Japanese laws that survived World War II are still written in bungo , although there are ongoing efforts to modernize their language). Kōgo is the dominant method of both speaking and writing Japanese today, although bungo grammar and vocabulary are occasionally used in modern Japanese for effect. The 1982 state constitution of Angaur , Palau , names Japanese along with Palauan and English as an official language of

10545-480: The two terms (''hyōjungo'' and ''kyōtsūgo'') are almost the same. Hyōjungo or kyōtsūgo is a conception that forms the counterpart of dialect. This normative language was born after the Meiji Restoration ( 明治維新 , meiji ishin , 1868) from the language spoken in the higher-class areas of Tokyo (see Yamanote ). Hyōjungo is taught in schools and used on television and in official communications. It

10656-407: The verb (e.g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the -k- in the final mora of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form (e.g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ , where modern Japanese just has hayaku , though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu "good morning"; this ending

10767-505: The virtual world return to the real world. In the anime's finale, Hope Arc , Izuru/Hajime and the Remnants of Despair locate the final mastermind Ryota Mitarai after defeating his brainwashed minions, and convince him to give up on his cause and join their group. Izuru/Hajime shares a nod of approval with Makoto as he leaves, before sending out a worldwide proclamation in order to clear the Future Foundation of responsibility for Tengan's and his Future Foundation associates' own killing game. In

10878-548: The world. Since Japanese first gained the consideration of linguists in the late 19th century, attempts have been made to show its genealogical relation to languages or language families such as Ainu , Korean , Chinese , Tibeto-Burman , Uralic , Altaic (or Ural-Altaic ), Austroasiatic , Austronesian and Dravidian . At the fringe, some linguists have even suggested a link to Indo-European languages , including Greek , or to Sumerian . Main modern theories try to link Japanese either to northern Asian languages, like Korean or

10989-438: Was a child, her sense of justice was so strong that it was written on her report card. She wanted to become a police officer , which she thought she was suited for, and she thought that ventriloquism would be necessary for being a traffic safety guider, so she joined Himawari Theatre Group in 1978 when she was in junior high school, and stayed there for four years. In reality, however, Takayama's parents wanted her to enter

11100-539: Was based on 12- to 20-second-long recordings of 135 to 244 phonemes , which 42 students listened to and translated word-for-word. The listeners were all Keio University students who grew up in the Kanto region . There are some language islands in mountain villages or isolated islands such as Hachijō-jima island , whose dialects are descended from Eastern Old Japanese . Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular

11211-579: Was chosen to play both Kiki and Ursula in the animated film Kiki's Delivery Service , and the film was a hit. She tried to refuse the role because it was decided at short notice and she was too new to take responsibility, but Hayao Miyazaki told her not to worry because he would take responsibility. Despite this, there was a time when the only regular role she played was Nabiki Tendo in the Ranma ½ series, which depressed her, but she pulled herself together and started working part-time in her neighborhood. In

11322-428: Was foreshadowed in the light novel Danganronpa Zero as kanji for Hajime's full name was conceived as a hint to his other persona, as "日向創" can be read as "Kamukura". The writing staff describes Hajime as a relatable person, due to how ordinary he is in contrast to the rest of the cast from Goodbye Despair . With regard to his appearance, Hajime was the earliest character designed by Rui Komatsuzaki , who created

11433-541: Was framed for the killing of the Student Council at Hope's Peak Academy. Despite this horrific discovery of his past life, Hajime refuses to become his old self and actively works to save everyone he can. Though that darker part continues to haunt him in spite of his efforts to do good, making for a complex hero.. –The Gamer In a popularity poll ranking the franchise characters, for the collected release of Trigger Happy Havoc and Goodbye Despair , Hajime took

11544-735: Was imported to Japan from Baekje around the start of the fifth century, alongside Buddhism. The earliest texts were written in Classical Chinese , although some of these were likely intended to be read as Japanese using the kanbun method, and show influences of Japanese grammar such as Japanese word order. The earliest text, the Kojiki , dates to the early eighth century, and was written entirely in Chinese characters, which are used to represent, at different times, Chinese, kanbun , and Old Japanese. As in other texts from this period,

11655-474: Was lost immediately following its composition.) This set of morae shrank to 67 in Early Middle Japanese , though some were added through Chinese influence. Man'yōgana also has a symbol for /je/ , which merges with /e/ before the end of the period. Several fossilizations of Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu (superseded by modern no )

11766-416: Was meant to help the player in solving cases thanks to the latter's skills as a detective. In the Japanese version of the game, Hajime was voiced by Minami Takayama . As Takayama was famous for voicing the main character of the detective manga Case Closed , the staff put a reference to her career in the snowboarding minigame from Goodbye Despair , as Jimmy Kudo often surfs a turbo skateboard. Takayama

11877-480: Was picked 7th in the TV Asahi 3-hour special that voted 200 popular voice actors. Takayama was married to manga artist Gosho Aoyama on May 5, 2005 but they divorced on December 10, 2007. However, their relationship as "the author of the original story of Detective Conan and the lead voice actress" has continued to be good, and they are not estranged even now. Takayama has been keeping Aoyama's cat, Kite, which

11988-430: Was portrayed as the greater culprit. The voice actors of Hajime have been well received. Johnny Yong Bosch 's performance as Hajime in the English dub of the anime was the subject of praise by Anime News Network . In a Japanese poll by AnimeAnime , Hajime was voted as the fourth best character voiced by Minami Takayama , sharing the fourth spot with Nabiki Tendo from Ranma ½ . In another poll from 2021, Hajime took

12099-479: Was praised for the handling of his alter ego's origin story and depiction of degraded humanity. Danganronpa writer Kazutaka Kodaka created Hajime Hinata as a major contrast to his predecessor, Makoto Naegi . While Makoto's story involves his holding onto hope as a result of his morals, Hajime moves forward carrying the burden of despair as a consequence of the sins he committed with his past persona known as Izuru Kumukura. The connection between Izuru and Hajime

12210-492: Was selected to voice the character based on her popularity from Case Closed , in order to make Hajime seem like a detective. For the English dub of the franchise, Johnny Yong Bosch took the role of Hajime. Bosch recalls having difficulty becoming immersed in Hinata's role, due to the lack of artwork that featured Hinata. When a Danganronpa player asked the actor to sign a copy of Goodbye Despair , Bosch could better understand

12321-469: Was to be wearing glasses. Nagito was meant to be "an absolute rival" to Hajime, a relationship similar to that between the Joker and Batman in the 1989 film . Meanwhile, the character of Chiaki Nanami was written as a heroine with whom Hajime would often interact and bond romantically, as Kodaka claims that the relationship between Makoto and Kyoko Kirigiri , a supporting character from the previous game,

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