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57-507: The following is a list of characters from the Spike Chunsoft video game series Danganronpa . The series follows the students of Hope's Peak Academy who are forced into a life of mutual killing by a sadistic teddy bear named Monokuma . The series consists of three games, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (2010), Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (2012) and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (2014), along with

114-399: A cameo appearance in the third main series installment, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony , in the bonus minigame "Ultimate Talent Development Plan", with the game's main storyline, set in a world where-in a Dangaonronpa reality television show based on the fictional Danganronpa franchise has been hosted yearly for 53 years within an otherwise violence-free futuristic utopia , seeing

171-414: A "fully unsympathetic" villain, due to his at the time personal dislike for the popular trope of being a sympathetic villain . Kodaka later elaborated that Junko appears to have toxic love towards her classmates due to how rather than killing them, she forces them to kill each other as she believes that despair is the ultimate salvation for people. "I wanted to create a character who is bad because she

228-464: A "killing game", both actions serving to feed her desire to fuel an "ultimate despair " within herself and them. Throughout the game, Junko (in the form of a robotic teddy bear dubbed Monokuma) provides various motives to turn the students against one another, overseeing the subsequent class trials and performing the various executions while broadcasting the events to the world at large, culminating in her presenting Mukuro's corpse in an attempt to frame

285-421: A bunker to protect them from the chaos outside, while secretly preparing to have them detained to begin their killing game. After Makoto unknowingly displays his "ultimate luck", which Junko finds is hard to predict, she rejects the implication to kill him, seeing it as a challenge for her if someone as "ordinary" like Makoto could ever potentially defeat her, unknowingly setting up her own end, though poetically, it

342-928: A charismatic and hyperintelligent model of gyaru fashion who, along with her fraternal twin sister and body double Mukuro Ikusaba , forms the Ultimate Despair , ultimately bringing about the end of civilization through a movement known as "The Tragedy". In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc , Junko arranges a killing game between her former classmates to test their metrics for hope and despair, counting herself and Mukuro as participants, before having her consciousness converted into an artificial intelligence known as Alter Ego Junko on her death, left to Izuru Kamukura to continue her plans along with his own, in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair . The identity of Junko

399-575: A deep admiration for Hope's Peak Academy. Over the course of the Killing School Trip, he discovers that he is in fact a member of Hope's Peak's Reserve Course Department and has no ultimate talent. Driven by his desire for talent, Hajime agreed to take part in the Izuru Kamukura project and was surgically implanted with every talent known to man, lobotomizing him in the process. Reborn as Izuru Kamukura, he brought Alter Ego Junko into

456-520: A new manifestation of the program's former operator , Usami . In the climax of Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls , set between the first and second games, the Monokuma variants Shirokuma and Kurokuma are both revealed to be under the control of Alter Ego Junko, before they are both destroyed by Izuru Kamukura so he can bring it with him to Jabberwock Island, setting up the events of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair . Junko appears in

513-533: A playable character in a 2020 crossover event of the NetEase horror game, Identity V , alongside her Monokuma form and fellow Danganronpa characters Makoto Naegi and Kyoko Kirigiri , where she (in either form) pursues the latter pair with a hammer, with the intent of executing them. Junko Enoshima has generally been praised by critics as "a powerful and dynamic figure [whose] legacy lives on in [all] subsequent games." In 2019, Polygon ranked her as one of

570-491: A potential mastermind inspired by the character of Alyssa Hale / Mr. Bates from the 1998 video game Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within , Genocide Jack/Jill was designed with the most facial expressions in the first game, having a separate sprite file from her Toko form. This initially proved difficult in order to make a contrast between the personality of Genocide Jack/Jill and the more plain design of Toko, with Komatsuzaki having "thought it would be incredibly tough to make such

627-496: A severe personality change using the same character design, so my original plan was to base Genocide Jack on Toko's design but change it considerably. I fell back to the current transformation after being told having them look too different would be messy since she transforms back and forth so often." Elements of the original character designs were additionally incorporated into those of Junko Enoshima , Peko Pekoyama , and Tsumugi Shirogane . Toko's English voice actresses were cited as

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684-512: A standalone sequel game, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (2017), various spin-off novels and manga including Danganronpa Zero (2011), Kirigiri (2013–2020), Genocider Mode (2015–2017), Togami (2015–2017), and Killer Killer (2016–2017), and two anime television series, one an adaptation of the first game in 2013 and the other a sequel and finale , Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School (2016). Where available, this article uses spellings and terminology featured in

741-681: Is a series of different types of robots created by Monaca Towa for an army; in Danganronpa 3 , recordings of him are set up by Kazuo Tengan to force Ryota Mitarai into brainwashing the entire world for the sake of hope. He is the only returning character in Danganronpa V3 as a part of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles, now controlled by Team Danganronpa and accompanied by the Monokubs (Monokuma Kubs). His execution

798-728: Is also adopted by Mukuro in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Zero , by the Servant 's intended successor in Ultra Despair Girls , and by the showrunners of the Danganronpa reality television series in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony . The character has also appeared in manga and musical adaptations of the series. Junko was conceived by series' creator and scenario writer Kazutaka Kodaka originally as

855-410: Is also the main protagonist of the light novel series Danganronpa/Zero . A Japanese series of stage plays based on the series, sponsored by Kellogg's Cornflakes , cast actor Sayaka Kanda as Junko Enoshima, adapting the events of the first two games and the anime series and featuring Nobuyo Ōyama and TARAKO reprising their roles as Monokuma from the video game series. Junko

912-409: Is depicted in the 2019 Spike Chunsoft game AI: The Somnium Files , in which protagonists Date and his A.I. Aiba discover an autograph left by Junko in the titular somnium, featuring a drawing of herself with two Monokuma robots . The game is additionally implied to be set in the same fictional universe as Danganronpa in the resulting conversation between the duo . Junko is included as

969-508: Is divided into two halves. His right half is a cute white teddy bear with black details and grey shading; his left half has black fur, a red eye, and an evil smirk. The identity of Monokuma's controller, as well as his motives for bringing the students together, are central to the mysteries that the students must investigate. In the first two games, Monokuma was used as a proxy for Junko Enoshima in her trials; in Another Episode , he

1026-401: Is evil, who only desires outright desperation . With no possibility of redemption ... Another thing I wanted to do was create a really cute character who was evil. Also that she had the idea that absolute evil is something desirable and pleasant. As bad as she is, she is so powerful and charming that she draws you in. So one way I thought of showing that was to make a very cute character that

1083-431: 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. Her given name alludes to a shield with its use of jun ( 盾 ) , while her surname, Enoshima, references the offshore island of the same name Enoshima ( 江の島 ) . In Danganronpa/Zero ,

1140-454: Is named "Ultimate Annihilation". In developing Toko's characterization, writer/scenario creator Kazutaka Kodaka from Spike Chunsoft considered "[t]he easy thing [to] have been to make her the final boss , the last enemy , the culprit . But my goal in this series is to play to people's expectations, so I said, "No, no, no. Let's turn this around. Let's move to the next level with the personalities and let's go for it." Ultimately, despite

1197-460: The Despair Arc from the anime. Beckett enjoyed her return as an antagonist based on her traits. Thanasis Karavasilis from Manga Tokyo was also pleased with Junko's return but felt the other characters from the Despair Arc managed to be as entertaining as her. Kotaku claimed that Hajime's transformation into Izuru and his team up with Junko served as one of the biggest attractions from

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1254-719: The light novel Danganronpa Zero as 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. Izuru's identity is also briefly adopted by Yasuke Matsuda in snapping Yuto Kamishiro 's neck. Nagito Komaeda ( 狛枝 凪斗 , Komaeda Nagito ) / The Servant ( 召使い , Meshitsukai ) Voiced by (English): Kaiji Tang Voiced by (Japanese): Shunsuke Takeuchi Voiced by (English): Derek Stephen Prince Voiced by (Japanese): Hiro Shimono Spike Chunsoft It created games such as

1311-472: The mastermind , Junko embodies a series of personas. Junko additionally manages to cheat her own self-imposed execution by having her mind converted to an artificial intelligence at the moment of her original death. In the first game, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc , Junko fakes her death by having Mukuro pose as her so she can kill her under her Monokuma guise, using the event to encourage her former classmates at Hope's Peak Academy to participate in

1368-444: The "Ultimate Animator" Ryota Mitarai, to develop a brainwashing anime to serve her cause, which she tests on the "Ultimate Nurse" Mikan Tsumiki, who pledges herself to junko in the name of despair . Contacting Izuru once again, Junko arranges for their first "killing game" with the academy's student council , trapping them on a floor of the school and providing blackmail on their elite parents' various scandals, with Izuru partaking in

1425-417: The "Ultimate Detective" Kyoko Kirigiri without breaking the rules she set for herself for the "killing game", and ultimately agreeing to execute herself after being exposed as the mastermind . In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair , Junko is revealed to have used Chihiro's Alter Ego technology to transfer her consciousness into Monokuma at the moment of her death as an A.I. (explaining their reactivation in

1482-527: The "Ultimate Fashionista". At their entrance ceremony, Junko sketches a picture of Monokuma. Two years later, Junko and Mukuro slaughter their way to confront and destroy Hope's Peak Academy's "Ultimate Hope" Izuru Kamukura, intending to kill him, only for the pair to be easily defeated. After sharing Junkos love for despair with him and pitching that they join their cause, Izuru deduces Junko shares similar analytical abilities to himself, agreeing to join their cause, before knocking Junko out. Later, Junko manipulates

1539-495: The English video games. Monokuma ( モノクマ , lit. bear-thing or bear-person ) is the antagonist of the series. He is an anthropomorphic teddy bear who proclaims himself to be the headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy and initiates a life of mutual killing among the students. He has various copies of himself throughout the academy and punishes anyone that attempts to attack him or breaks the academy's rules. Visually, Monokuma

1596-496: The Neo World Program in order to pit hope against despair and see who would triumph. Coming to terms with his past with the aid of Makoto Naegi, Hajime rallies the remaining students to defeat Alter Ego Junko and becomes one of the survivors who manages to escape to the real world. He returns in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School , where he has retained Izuru's talent and Hajime's personality. After reviving

1653-676: The Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows release of Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate would not be released by Aksys but by their subsidiary. This table lists video games published internationally by Spike Chunsoft's American subsidiary Spike Chunsoft, Inc. since its foundation on December 1, 2017. Outside of titles from Spike Chunsoft in Japan, the company publishes titles from Mages (which

1710-476: The Wanderer established the company's good reputation. Nakamura himself had to move away from programming in order to run the company. For a time, the company's products were considered mediocre, but 3-Nen B-Gumi Kinpachi Sensei: Densetsu no Kyoudan ni Tate! was a hit that showed signs of recovery. During the development of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team , Kouji Malta, one of

1767-507: The best video game characters of the 2010s decade while Comic Book Resources ranked her as the villain with the 3rd highest body count in manga and anime in 2020. In 2013 poll from Anime Trend, Junko was voted as the ninth best female character from the year based on her appearances in Danganronpa: The Animation . In a Danganronpa: The Animation poll, Junko took the ninth place. Comic Book Resources listed her as

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1824-407: The bodies of those of her followers whose virtual selves killed each other, their real selves having arranged their capture to allow Junko a chance to return in a physical body, and from there to the watching Future Foundation and the wider world at large, to be dubbed "Junkoland". Ultimately, after her still-living followers' virtual selves decide to remain in the program, Alter Ego Junko is deleted by

1881-565: The character's fraternal twin sister Mukuro Ikusaba . The character's resurrection in Goodbye Despair was left to the player's interpretation. Kodaka compared the theory of whether or not she is dead or alive to Western villains like the Joker who are continuously brought back to life. However, Kodaka claims Junko can be killed. In retrospective, he feels like Junko could be his strongest villain ever created. Due to how powerless Junko

1938-479: The event and killing the final survivor. Junko subsequently uses Izuru's involvement in a recording which she sends along with a mass e-mail to the students of the Reserve Course exposing his existence along with the footage of her killing game and how their funding had been used for human experimentation which led to Izuru's creation, leading to a mass riot and protest dubbed "The Parade". Before said e-mail

1995-657: The first five Dragon Quest installments and the Mystery Dungeon franchise as Chunsoft, and the Conception series as Spike Chunsoft. They also developed titles such as The Portopia Serial Murder Case , the Sound Novel series (consisting of Otogirisō , Kamaitachi no Yoru , Machi and 428: Shibuya Scramble ) and the Zero Escape series as Chunsoft. Spike developed Danganronpa before

2052-557: The game from Mages in 2018; they have since continued publishing further games in the Science Adventure series, including Steins;Gate 0 and Chaos;Child . On July 16, 2020, NIS America announced that Danganronpa games on the Playstation Store will be removed. Spike Chunsoft subsequently announced on July 22, 2020 that they will take on publishing the Danganronpa series outside of Japan. Similarly,

2109-433: The given name of her amnesiac alias Ryōko ( 涼子 ) means "Refreshing child", while her surname Otonashi ( 音無 ) means "no sound", a play-on-words of " demure " otonashī ( 大人しい ) . At the time of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc , Junko has Mukuro pose as her so that she may die in her place in a moment of "Ultimate Despair ", while she uses her Monokuma persona to embark on her killing game. Upon being exposed as

2166-539: The guises of Shirokuma and Kurokuma , and in the prequel light novel Danganronpa Zero and anime Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School: Despair Arc , serving as the protagonist of the former as the Ultimate Analyst , Ryōko Otonashi ( Japanese : 音無 涼子 , Hepburn : Otonashi Ryōko ) . Junko is a student of Hope's Peak Academy and is the Ultimate Fashionista ,

2223-457: The loyalty of their followers by having a Reserve Course student commit suicide at Junko's command. Later, Junko addresses Chiaki via a monitor and traps her inside a test course for her "punishment" center, intended to induce the rest of Nagito's class to her cause via brainwashing. After the events of Danganronpa Zero we see her overlooking the city from the school's roof, along with Mukuro and Izuru, standing triumphant as her plan to "infect"

2280-421: The mantle of Junko be assumed by the series' showrunner each season. In the "Despair Arc" of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School , set before the events of the first game, Junko is collected from the airport along with Mukuro to a limousine after she blows up her taxi. Junko explains that the pair have been scouted to attend Hope's Peak Academy, Mukuro as the "Ultimate Soldier", and Junko as both

2337-737: The merger. Chunsoft was founded by Koichi Nakamura , a video game designer and programmer who had worked with Enix , including the popular Dragon Quest franchise until Dragon Quest V . The "Chun" in the company name is from the first kanji Naka ( 中 ) of the company founder's name; Naka is read as "Chun" in Japanese Mahjong . This name would also appear in Nakamura's first work with Enix, titled Door Door in 1983. Otogirisō marked Chunsoft's debut brand. Following that, successive genre-trailblazing titles Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon , Kamaitachi no Yoru , and Shiren

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2394-468: The most challenging to find due to the portrayal of her psychopathic personality Genocide Jill/Jack; ultimately, voice actresses Amanda Céline Miller and Erin Fitzgerald (who also voiced Junko Enoshima) were chosen to voice the characters. Hajime Hinata ( 日向 創 , Hinata Hajime ) / Izuru Kamukura ( 神座 出流 , Kamukura Izuru ) The protagonist of the second game, an amnesiac boy with

2451-601: The new company would be called Spike Chunsoft. In 2017, Spike Chunsoft established a North American subsidiary based in Long Beach, California to carry out localization and publishing of its own games, in addition to games by its sister company 5pb./Mages under a newly formed partnership. Their first game under the Mages partnership was the Microsoft Windows version of Steins;Gate , taking over publishing of

2508-468: The prior game's post-credits scene ), hijacking the Future Foundation's attempted removal of her followers' brainwashing by having the former "Ultimate Hope" Izuru Kamukura download her into their rehabilitation program "Neo World", where she places their younger virtual selves into another "killing game". In the game's climax, Junko's true plan is assumed to be to transfer her A.I self into

2565-481: The programmers for these two games, and contributed previously on EarthBound and Shiren the Wanderer 2 , stated the company went through bad business performance, as employees from Chunsoft would leave the company progressively due to this issue. The game's success not only helped giving more popularity in the Mystery Dungeon franchise, it also helped Chunsoft from avoiding bankruptcy. Later in 2005, it

2622-594: The spirit of Chisa while watching the events of the "final killing game." Junko Enoshima appears in the Japanese manga adaptation of the series, written and illustrated by Touya Hajime and published by Enterbrain , as well as the spin-off Killer Killer . The series was published in the United States by Enterbrain USA. An additional manga series, published by Ichijinsha , was released solely in Japan. Junko

2679-486: The students who were killed in the Neo World Program during the Killing School Trip, he leads them in battle to stop the unhinged Mitarai from using his hope video on humanity. Afterwards, the 77th Class scapegoats themselves for the Final Killing Game in order to protect the Future Foundation's reputation and exiles themselves to the real Jabberwock Island along with a repentant Mitarai. Izuru first appears in

2736-467: The talent of "Ultimate Murderous Fiend", Toko does not kill any characters in the first game, and the game's mastermind is presented as deceased "Ultimate Fashionista " Junko Enoshima . In a subsequent interview with Siliconera , Kodaka stated: "[Toko Fukawa] is an excellent representation of the series. When I was writing the first game and figuring out what was going to happen to Junko , I started to write Genocide Jack and how different that character

2793-483: The third most intelligent character from the franchise, citing how she manipulates most of the game's characters to entertain herself even if costs her own sister's life. Kotaku praised her characterization in the Danganronpa Zero light novel for providing more depth to her characterization in contrast to her lack of screentime in the first game as a result of appearing in the final act. In a 2021 poll, Junko

2850-399: The world with despair, before sending a mass video to the Reserve Course students, brainwashing them into committing mass suicide . Sending Izuru to lead her class in bringing despair to the world, Junko prepares for the coming apocalypse . Several months later, shortly before the events of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc , Junko and Mukuro assist their class in converting the academy into

2907-465: Was also part of Spike Chunsoft's parent company Dwango until July 2019) and from other companies. Junko Enoshima Junko Enoshima ( Japanese : 江ノ島 盾子 , Hepburn : Enoshima Junko ) is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Spike Chunsoft 's Danganronpa series. Featured as the mastermind in the series' first two games as the true identity of Monokuma , in the spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls in

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2964-619: Was bought by Dwango and became a subsidiary of the company. Before the project, Sega were helping Chunsoft in developing and releasing their games for the Dreamcast . From 2005 to 2010, Sega have made a collaboration with Chunsoft titled "SEGA×CHUN PROJECT". Their goal was to provide support and sales for development funds, such as the Nintendo DS remake of Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer or 428: Shibuya Scramble . In 2012, Chunsoft merged with its sister company Spike and

3021-522: Was from Toko. While I was writing this I felt this is the kind of tension and tempo I want the series to carry. At the end of the day, I felt Toko represented what Danganronpa was and the kind of storytelling might have." — Kazutaka Kodaka The character's design was created by lead artist Rui Komatsuzaki, who considers Toko Fukawa and Genocide Jack/Jill his favorite characters, "a unique character all by herself, but with Genocide Jack included we managed to make her ten times more so." Originally designed as

3078-505: Was not Makoto's luck that caused her undoing but his heart. In the "Future and Hope Arc" of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School , set after the events of the second game, Junko makes a cameo appearance in the title sequence and in a flashback to her using blackmail to arrange to have her role in the fall of Hope's Peak Academy hidden from public knowledge. Later, a manifestation of Junko appears in Chisa's mind, talking with

3135-512: Was sent out Junko created a new brainwashing video dubbed the "Despair Video" with the intent of sharing it with the entirety of the Reserve Course and pull in further support for "Ultimate Despair", afterwards, Nagito Komaeda and Chiaki Nanami, looking for their missing classmate Mikan Tsumiki. However, after their homeroom teacher Chisa Yukizome comes across the group and creates a diversion, the pair escape, leaving Chisa to be brainwashed and lobotomized by Junko and Mukuro, after firstly demonstrating

3192-497: Was visually appealing to look at." — Kazutaka Kodaka Kodaka later confirmed Junko's motives to be rooted in her obsession for the entirety of her classmates, seeking to induce more despair on someone and herself the more they meant to them, along with subtle hints of her past and sanity slippage. Early concept art for the character depicts her with smaller pigtails, a white skirt, and an overall golden color scheme with red and black highlights, elements of which were also adopted for

3249-561: Was voted as the tenth best Danganronpa character. Since the release of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc in November 2010, Junko has become one of its most popular characters, with several memes (such as "Junko posing") being made about her. Junko and Monokuma were collectively named as the "Most Popular Game Character for Cosplay " in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition in 2018. Junko returns in

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