Danganronpa — Peko Pekoyama / Characters

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Peko Pekoyama

Ultimate Swordswoman

"My destination has already been decided. Protect who I must protect, cut who I must cut. That alone is the original purpose of the sword. Wielding a blade in its truest sense is my aim... That is my reason for existing."

Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Janice Kawaye (English)

Played by: Yu Hamagashira (Stage)

A master swordswoman and kendo champion whose skill at swordplay surpasses even the strongest adult fighters. A stern yet polite woman, Peko carries herself with an intimidating aura. She was an orphan taken in by the Kuzuryu clan and serves Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu as a bodyguard to repay their generosity. She is the culprit of Chapter 2, beating Mahiru to death with a baseball bat on behalf of Fuyuhiko. Though she implicates herself so that Fuyuhiko can claim responsibility and win freedom from the island, she is found to be the sole guilty party and is stabbed to death and then slashed apart by an army of samurai.

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General

Abusive Parents: She was raised by Fuyuhiko's parents, who drilled into her mind the outlook of being not more than a tool whose purpose is to be Fuyuhiko's hitman. Her birth parents weren't much better as they abandoned her as a baby.
Adopt-a-Servant: Adopted by the Kuzuryu clan when she was just a baby, raised to be Fuyuhiko's bodyguard and a servant of his will.
Alliterative Name: Her full name is Peko Pekoyama.
Bespectacled Cutie: Although Peko is certainly intense, she's mostly a kind-hearted young woman who can be rather adorable at points; her glasses only add to this, especially as shown with her two smiling sprites, which are really cute. In her final Free Time, Hajime mentally notes that she looks really cute when smiling.
Bodyguard Crush: What her final Free Time and her Dangan Island ending more or less reveals her to have towards Fuyuhiko. It just makes the events surrounding Chapter 2 all the more tragic.
Braids of Action: She keeps her long silver hair tied up into two braids on each side of her head, so they won't get in her way if she needs to use her sword skills.
Bodyguard Babes: One for Fuyuhiko, having been raised by the Kuzuryu clan to protect him.
Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: To an extent, she's the gentle girl to post-development Fuyuhiko's brooding boy. Peko is intense but is actually a sweetheart deep down; Fuyuhiko, after his transformation away from an abusive Hate Sink, becomes a level-headed young man with a tendency to brood over his guilt. Alas, we never see this in 2 due to Peko being dead by chapter 3, but with Peko ultimately surviving as a result of Danganronpa 3 it's likely they had this dynamic after she woke up.
Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a well-endowed figure which causes Ibuki to ogle and comment on her chest size when she sees her in a bikini.
Child Soldier: CGs in the second trial shows that she was trained in combat almost since birth.
Childhood Friends: Played With. She was raised alongside Fuyuhiko and trained to be his personal bodyguard and attendant. While they grew to be close, the power dynamics of their relationship made them unable to see each other as normal friends.
Childhood Friend Romance: Implied to have feelings for Fuyuhiko. In her last Free Time event, she tells Hajime that she intends to ask out a "childhood friend" once they get off the island.
The Comically Serious: Peko is generally very stoic and blunt and isn't the best at understanding humor, which leads to some amusing moments, like when Hajime tries to make a joke about a panda that "walks into a restaurant, eats, shoots, and leaves," to which Peko very seriously says "I already know they do that". In Ultimate Summer Camp, Miu calls her a "gloomy uggo" and insults her looks several times, but Peko never really reacts to them, other than when called gloomy. Miu then replies: "You may gaze upon me if you please! Behold my brilliance, akin to Sol's light!", which Peko actually does. She notes that her mood does feel lightened and that there is a fine line between seriousness and gloomy before thanking her and leaving, leaving Miu annoyed that she didn't look at her longer.
Face of a Thug: Well more like the face of an intense samurai, she's certainly very beautiful but at the same time has a constantly stern and rather overwhelming presence making her come across as pretty scary at times, to the point where animals are scared of her presence. In actuality, she's a lovely young woman who just wants to make friends and is deeply saddened by the whole animal scaring thing as she wants to pet them.
Genius Bruiser: As the Ultimate Swordswoman it's a given that she's a badass, but Peko is also a brilliant and philosophical young woman who spends a lot of her free time in the library. She's also managed to come up with a convincing murder plan on the fly.
Hidden Depths: In Ultimate Summer Camp, she plays a fighting game with Chiaki and Akane. Akane taps out soon, but Peko and Chiaki play for quite a while, long enough for Akane to doze off and then decide it was too late to go back to her cabin and they then have an impromptu slumber party. Peko also notes that she was closing in on Chiaki's win count, by the end of it.
Hidden Heart of Gold: Despite her upbringing as a Yakuza assassin and her stoic personality, Peko has a very gentle heart. Her interaction moments reveal that she loves fluffy animals and dreams of asking out Fuyuhiko when she escapes the island. Before the second case's events, she constantly urges Fuyuhiko to join her for breakfast, showing she wants him to spend more time with her and befriend the class. Her final words are a remorseful apology over Mahiru's murder and a plea for the students to forgive Fuyuhiko and kill no one else, taking back her earlier words that their time together meant "nothing" to her.
Huge Schoolgirl: Downplayed in the localisation. Peko's height is listed as 172cm in the Japanese version, and 172cm is the height average of adult Japanese men. In the English version, however, she is 5'6; which is not uncommonly tall for a woman.
Knight in Sour Armor: Peko was very evidently hardened by being raised from infancy to be a servile killing machine, and of the cast, she is among the ones most prepared to use force if necessary, even telling Hajime in her Free Time events that having to fight and use force is a grim necessity in the world. Yet likely partially in tandem with all of this, she's very sternly against the meaningless loss of life and one of the class most prepared to take action to prevent murder. Her absolute loyalty towards Fuyuhiko as his "tool" leads her to assist and ultimately enact a senseless murder for his sake, but Peko takes the opportunity before her own execution to ask that the others avoid repeating the tragedy in the hopes no-one else will meet such a pointless demise.
Lady of War: Peko is still a teenager, but she's a hardened assassin with a vast knowledge of sword fighting techniques and has a stoic and very intense personality as a result, yet she's also very elegant and graceful.
Master Swordswoman: She's Ultimate Swordswoman for a reason. This also translates into gameplay as no matter how well the player does during her Rebuttal Showdown in the second trial, they still have to perform a Cross Swords Duel in order to get to the rebuttal's second phase.
Meaningful Name: When the term "peko" is repeated ("Pekopeko", just like what her name forms when said Western style), it can mean obsequious/servile, and Fuyuhiko's family raised her to be his tool. It can also mean "hungry," which also plays in with her stomach issues during Chapter 1, making it a double.
Nice Girl:
- While she can be a little intense and distant, Peko is kind, soft-spoken, and polite, trying her best to help the class and make many friends. She's very non-confrontational, often stepping in to stop arguments between fellow students (most notably Fuyuhiko and Mahiru, besides the time it mattered the most), and her Free-time Events and side content show her to have a love for animals (though she is sadly resigned to how they don't often like her company). She's also the only person in the class who tries to tell off Hiyoko for her treatment of Mikan and actually tries to get Fuyuhiko to mellow out and spend time with the class, and the girl still mourns the death of Teruteru, despite how badly he treated her. Finally, while her murder of Mahiru was obviously not nice, it's telling that she ensured Mahiru a quick death and that after her plan failed, the first thing she did was tearfully apologize and outright ask of the others to prevent anything so senselessly cruel happening again. Peko is a gentle soul trained from birth to play a cruel profession, and she spends her last moments admonishing this. The class, particularly Fuyuhiko, Hajime, and Nekomaru, remember both her and Mahiru fondly.
- In Ultimate Summer Camp, when she sees Hifumi and notices he's acting odd (well odd-er), she deduces he has heatstroke and calls for Mikan immediately.
Odd Friendship: For one of the most low-key and introverted members of the cast, it's quite surprising how many of these Peko is part of.
- In general, her friendship with Fuyuhiko is quite unusual and would seem downright improbable until The Reveal, considering just how different the soft-spoken and graceful Peko is from the loud and abrasive Fuyuhiko, and even after his arc he seems like a total opposite of Peko - but evidently, Opposites Attract. The most hilarious contrast between the two is the fact that Peko doesn't swear once throughout the game, whereas Fuyuhiko can't go a sentence without incorporating "fuck" or "bastard".
- With Gundham, the downright theatrical Supreme Overlord of Ice, all due to their mutual love of animals. They sometimes get together to watch animals play. In Ultimate Talent Development Plan, it shows he's nicknamed her "She Who Commands Asura"^note, though she doesn't care for the nickname.
- She's also often seen hanging around Ibuki, who is just about the polar opposite of her in temperament. Although Peko at times seems exhausted with Ibuki's antics, she still seems to genuinely have fun while around her. Ibuki is deeply heartbroken by Peko's death and is touched by her and Fuyuhiko's bond.
- In addition, she gets along rather well with Mahiru, despite Mahiru being by far the most outspoken and argumentative towards her "young master". Peko even states in her Free Time events that she loves Mahiru's photos, and Mahiru stands up for her during the first trial - her attitude towards Mahiru is perhaps the single most blinking piece of evidence that Peko has autonomy and personal judgment far beyond being some "tool" of Fuyuhiko's. Tragically, her desire to save and protect the latter leads to her interrupting his attempt on Mahiru's life to do it herself, and it's apparent at the end of the resulting class trial that she's deeply remorseful for all of it and loathes the fact she gave Mahiru such a senseless death, or that Mahiru had to die at all, to the point of outright agreeing with Chiaki and Hajime that Mahiru's killer should never be forgiven.
- Finally, she's shown to have a good relationship with Nekomaru, even asking Hajime if she and Nekomaru look like cosplayers, while Nekomaru and Peko are both kind-hearted warriors with a level head and very noble and brave, Nekomaru is the loud guy and incredibly spirited while she's The Quiet One and The Stoic. After Peko's death, Nekomaru even ensures that Fuyuhiko understands her sacrifice and is clearly saddened by her and Mahiru's fate.
- In Ultimate Talent Development Plan and Ultimate Summer Camp she develops one with fellow animal lover Gonta. Gonta, due to being able to understand the Devas, can translate some of Gundham's more obscure turns of phrase for her.
- With Ryoma also in Ultimate Summer Camp, considering his past with the yakuza, but they get a long well due to their love of animals. He talks about and shows her pictures of his cat, which she enjoys. It's probably helped by the fact that it was a rival yakuza clan that he wiped out.
- With Rantaro in Ultimate Talent Development Plan and Ultimate Summer Camp, also over animals. Shows her pictures of animals that he's seen in his travels.
One-Woman Army: The name of her execution, as she faces an army of samurai puppets controlled by Monokuma.
Orphan's Ordeal: All Peko has is her role in the yakuza, and she is extraordinary lucky even to have that. Her dialogue about being a tool "[giving her] a reason to exist" implies that she accepts that role so completely because it allows her to rationalize negative or confusing feelings away.
Parental Abandonment: Her biological parents abandoned her as a baby, and she was taken in by the Kuzuryu clan and raised as a bodyguard and assassin.
Playing Against Type: In-Universe, when Mondo casts her as Momotarō in Ultimate Summer Camp, she says that having her as the sword wielding Momotaro would be too close to her talent range, and that they were to try new things for the Summer Festival. Mondo counters that it's stepping out of her talent by being the main character in a stage play, so she accepts it. By everyone's accounts later, she made a great Momotaro and was a capable actress.
Proper Tights with a Skirt: Fitting her personality and action-oriented talent.
Punch-Clock Villain: Peko is a Yakuza hitman who follows the orders of Fuyuhiko, but lacks the sociopathic glee of killing that comes with it. She kills who he tells her to kill, which is unfortunately Played for Drama during Chapter 2 of the second game when she uses her status as a hitman who follows orders as part of her scheme to kill Mahiru and give Fuyuhiko the opening to escape the Killing School Trip alone. However, he never actually ordered her to kill Mahiru, with her killing Mahiru without being told as part of being his "tool", but this ends up getting her killed, since she wasn't following orders, even if that were to be an excuse for Monokuma. Fuyuhiko would never want to kill her to get off the island (despite the fact that his plan would have done so if he had successfully become the blackened and won the trial).
The Quiet One: By far the quietest student of the second game and speaks very softly. This makes her brief role as Sparkling Justice all the more jarring as her Large Ham tendencies and shouting are the complete opposite of her usual self. One funny interaction in Ultimate Talent Development Plan has her watching a sports festival with fellow quiet stoic, Kyoko. Half the dialogue is ellipses.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Averted. She's certainly dangerous and kills Mahiru, but she's not evil and deeply regrets her actions. Other interactions with her also reveal she has a gentle heart under her stoic and stern demeanor.
Repetitive Name: Peko Pekoyama.
Ship Tease: There's a lot of this between Fuyohiko and herself, especially in their final conversation together. Fuyuhiko also mourns for her in his Free Time events, and the "childhood friend" she mentions wanting to ask out in her final Free Time and her Island Mode ending is all but stated to be Fuyuhiko. She gets some with Hajime in Free Time and Island Mode, though it's mostly one-sided on Hajime's part, and she's notably the only girl who doesn't get a romantic ending with Hajime, although they do form a very special platonic bond.
Shout-Out: The expression◊^note of the 'Sparkling Justice' mask includes the signature smile of Peko-chan, the mascot of the Japanese confectionery company Fujiya. Looking at some of her concept art◊, Pekoyama herself had a face drawn in basically the exact style as Peko-chan's, to the point she would have been as distinctly cartoonish as Teruteru. It would seem this influence was instead translated more into the mask she dons in the final draft, and the remnant of this Peko-chan mimicry is mainly only seen in Peko's canon design having twin ribbons in her hair.
Shrinking Violet: Not to the same extent as Mikan, but Peko can sometimes become extremely shy, particularly during awkward situations. This is especially evident when she's deeply embarrassed having to talk about having bowel issues during the first trial.
Single-Target Sexuality: She only has eyes for her young master Fuyuhiko. She's also the only girl who can't obtain a romantic ending with Hajime at all.
Socially Awkward Hero: And also a Humble Hero, Peko is definitely amongst the most deferential characters in the series, and is also endearingly shy. She doesn't have any self-worth problems that would make her obnoxious, unlike most characters, though that's only in terms of having a high opinion of herself (at best, she has a neutral opinion; at worst, she loathes herself and thinks she has no personal agency). Of course, as the second game shows, these traits of hers are, in reality, exaggerated and Played for Drama to the point that she commits a Thanatos Gambit while in the Neo World Program in her misguided attempt at protecting Fuyuhiko because she doesn't see herself as having personal agency, which ends up biting her back hard when she only ends up getting herself (or rather her avatar) executed because she actually has it, but, of course, doesn't have the self-worth to realize she has such.
Statuesque Stunner: At 172cm/5'8", she's the third-tallest girl, and Fuyuhiko gets a lot of Ship Tease with her, and Hajime becomes very smitten with her in their Free Time and Island Mode events.
The Stoic: Very straight-faced and calm. Her stoic expression cracks during the second trial when she shows a range of emotions, such as sorrow over murdering Mahiru and then hearing Fuyuhiko's confession to her.
Stoic Spectacles: Even during the trials, she remains calm and collected, pretend split-personality notwithstanding.
Subordinate Excuse: Aside from gratitude, her loyalty to Fuyuhiko is all but stated to be fueled by romantic feelings.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Peko starts serious and reserved, but as Hajime spends more Free Time with her, she opens up and even smiles a little.
Tyke Bomb: Was raised in the Yakuza from an early age to serve as a bodyguard and hitman to the clan's heir, Fuyuhiko.
Undying Loyalty: She was trained to be utterly loyal to Fuyuhiko, and it took, though it's implied to be partly because he was the only one who treated her with some degree of kindness when they were growing up.
The Unsmile: She rarely smiles, so when she tries to force it, her face becomes intense and scary◊.
Violently Protective Girlfriend: She will do anything to protect Fuyuhiko, even if it means beating a defenseless Nice Girl to death and plotting to get the rest of the students executed... even going down with them.
Warrior Poet: She is rather philosophical about being a 'tool'- see her page quote- and stakes Fuyuhiko's life on the belief that she can convince Monokuma her ideals are correct.
"Then you just don't know. You don't know that there are people who only exist to be tools."
Yakuza: Raised from birth to serve one.

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Actor Allusion: When she claims to be the Magical Girl-themed Serial Killer, Sparkling Justice, her manner of posing and enunciating is quite reminiscent of one of her voice actress' most famous roles.
Affably Evil: Peko is a genuinely sweet and good-natured young woman who dislikes conflict most of the time and has a very defined code of honor. She's also a yakuza assassin who ruthlessly murdered Mahiru and likely killed people even before the killing game.
All for Nothing:
- None of the potential outcomes of Peko's plan would have worked out for her or Fuyuhiko; if Hiyoko were convicted, Monokuma would have declared her the winner and executed Fuyuhiko. If Fuyuhiko is convicted as the "mastermind", he dies. And even if her plan works and Fuyuhiko escapes, he is left grief-stricken because he just saw his best friend and his innocent classmates murdered. The last is what happened although Fuyuhiko didn't leave the island because Monokuma judged that she was acting on her own and Fuyuhiko didn't think of her as his "tool", but as a friend, but his difficulty in communicating that helps cause the whole situation. Essentially, the only way she and Fuyuhiko would have had a good outcome is by not murdering the kind-hearted photographer.
- This gets worse with the revelation in Danganronpa 3 that Mahiru was actually innocent the entire time, making Peko's murder of her completely meaningless. Although even if Danganronpa 3 didn't prove her innocence, Mahiru's death was completely senseless and a ruthless example of Disproportionate Retribution (covering for the culprit of the murder of a teenage bully who herself planned or at least threatened to kill both Mahiru and Sato, by faking the culprit's escape route and had zero involvement in Natsumi's actual murder, is hardly on the same level as actually beating a teenage photographer to death really, not that it mattered to Fuyuhiko). Peko clearly hated herself for murdering a genuinely Nice Girl who was nothing but kind to Peko for something she couldn't remember and clearly didn't warrant her brutal murder. Peko herself refers to Mahiru's murder as "senseless" and openly weeps while apologizing for it.
Ancestral Weapon: The description of the gift given as a reward for beating Chapter 2 reveals that Peko's bamboo sword is one of these.
Animals Hate Her: In her Free Time events, she reveals that animals are frightened of her since they can sense her fierce nature. Unfortunately, she just wants to pet them and be friends with them. When Hajime suggests that maybe Gundham's Four Dark Devas are well-trained enough that she could pet them, she runs off to try and find him.
Apologetic Attacker: In the Danganronpa 2 stage play, Peko apologizes just after striking Mahiru; in the main game, she spends most of the investigation indirectly apologizing for Mahiru's murder until the end of the trial, where she outright says sorry for taking her life.
Asshole Victim: Very, very downplayed but still has elements of this. While she is genuinely a nice person, she ruthlessly murders Mahiru and rather cruelly frames Hiyoko, her best friend, for it. Given everything revealed about how she was raised and trained and her connection to Fuyuhiko, and how the murder came to be, it's pretty clear malice held no part in any of her actions, and she outright requests that the others make sure nothing like it ever happens again and almost breaks down into tears when she apologizes over Mahiru. Given how heartwrenching and emotionally distressing the circumstances surrounding her final moments are even by Danganronpa standard, whatever Asshole is left certainly isn't the focus of the fallout of Peko's actions, although granted there's still the fallout of Hiyoko being left an emotional wreck (and that eventually kills Hiyoko) because of Peko's actions and Mahiru still being very much dead, no matter how sorry or how much of a victim Peko was, it doesn't make Mahiru's murder any less cruel or pointless. However, no one hates Peko more for what she did to Mahiru than Peko herself (besides Hiyoko of course), and Peko accepts how awful her actions were to the point of accepting her death.
Badass Bookworm: Island Mode shows that she loves libraries and books (particularly photobooks of animals) and gets very angry if Hajime calls them boring. She is overall a nice quiet girl with a passion for reading, and she's also the Ultimate Swordswoman.
Batter Up!: She swings a bat just as well as a sword, as Mahiru finds out. Unlike many examples of this trope, however, Mahiru is dead before she hits the ground.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Played With. Her kind personality isn't an act, but she hid the fact that she was willing to sell out the class for Fuyuhiko if push came to shove. Right up until her role in Mahiru's murder was revealed, she pretended to be a loyal member of the group.
Chekhov's Gag: Peko showing up in a bikini, wet and "out of breath from swimming" as Ibuki comments on her body, to Peko's chagrin, ends up being used to incriminate her in Chapter 2's trial later by proving that she never went swimming and actually came back from washing Mahiru's blood off her body with the water bottles in the beach house's refrigerator.
Combat Pragmatist: She basically steals Fuyuhiko's kill for Mahiru by literally taking the bat and whacking Mahiru with it before Mahiru even has the chance to defend herself from the blow or Fuyuhiko even gives his consent for her to do such a thing. This pragmatism is justified by her characterization, as she is actually a hitman, so she's not one for giving her opponents a chance to fight back.
Cruel and Unusual Death: She's the second culprit, and she gets one of these both physically and emotionally; she is literally controlled like a puppet by Monokuma and made to slash through an army of samurai, and then he releases control of her just long enough for her instincts to kick in and accidentally slash Fuyuhiko, the boy she loves and had sworn to protect. Upon doing this, Peko throws the fight and lets herself get slashed into ribbons.
Cuteness Proximity: She loves "fluffiness", despite or possibly because of the fact that Animals Hate Her. Watching an animal-related movie with her at the theater in Island Mode is her top response, and seeing fluffy animals in the 3-D glasses option is also her top option. For the looking at photobooks in the library option, she hopes to see pictures of fluffy animals. In her first Free Time event, she immediately runs off to find Gundham when Hajime suggests that maybe his Four Dark Devas are well-trained enough to let her pet them. In Ultimate Talent Development Plan, her working with Gonta and Gundham lets her be able to pet animals due to their help. In Ultimate Summer Camp, she sometimes asks Shirokuma if she can pet him.
Dark Action Girl: Peko dresses in a mostly black outfit, and while far from evil, she's the main antagonist of the second trial. She's also a very well-trained samurai who is so badass that her execution is named "One-Woman Army" and we see her utterly destroy Monokuma's puppets (and Fuyuhiko's eye, sadly).
Death by Irony: Ambushes Mahiru while she isn't looking, figurately stabbing her and the class in the back, and hours later, she's executed via a literal backstab. There's also a lot of tragic irony that she dies to "avenge" Mahiru's murder, when Mahiru preached the idea of second chances over people dying for their mistakes (which is why Fuyuhiko tried to kill her) and would be absolutely horrified by Peko dying even after what she did to her.
Declaration of Protection: Towards Fuyuhiko, as she is his sworn bodyguard and self-proclaimed "tool". This comes back to bite her hard: instead of preventing him from killing Mahiru, she does it in his place, seeing herself as no more than an extension of his will. She intended to allow Fuyuhiko to escape the island by sacrificing herself and everyone else, but what she doesn't understand (until it's too late) is that Fuyuhiko did not see her as a "tool", but a cherished childhood friend he would never want to sacrifice. And it's highly likely, if not borderline outright confirmed, that if she realized this beforehand, she would have resolved things peacefully, saving both her childhood and new friend as well as herself in the process.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: Peko serves as one for the concept of Undying Loyalty and Bodyguard Crush, showing how twisted absolute loyalty towards your employer is if taken to the extreme. Peko has no personal interests, ideas, or hopes for her own life other than serving Fuyuhiko, and she's perfectly willing to kill herself and dozens of innocent people if their deaths result in a positive outcome for him, which in the end causes her to pointlessly murder someone she considered a friend. Indeed, her fundamental worldview revolves around her conception that her loyalty to Fuyuhiko means that any outcome that results in Fuyuhiko's gain is good, and everyone else is completely irrelevant and expendable, something Fuyuhiko himself is deeply uncomfortable with.
Desecrating the Dead: After beating Mahiru to death, she carries Mahiru's lifeless body to the diner-side door to ensure that Hiyoko doesn't use that exit. It's done for a practical reason, but it's certainly a ruthlessly pragmatic move to take Mahiru's life and then use the shell of the kind-hearted photographer as a prop to frame her best friend with and follows a chapter 2 trend of someone messing with the corpse.
Despair Event Horizon: After accidentally hitting Fuyuhiko with one of her strikes during her execution, Peko ultimately gives up and just cradles him in her arms, not even trying to stop the robot army from stabbing her to death with a lot of utter despair on her face. Even before this, Peko seems unusually depressed throughout the investigation, with hindsight this is because of her self-hatred over taking the life of a friend, meaning in a sense she didn't just hurt her closest childhood friend in one day but murdered a new friend who she genuinely grew to care about.
Died in Your Arms Tonight: Subverted and Inverted. During her execution, she accidentally injures Fuyuhiko and holds him before being pincushioned by an army of robot swordsmen. However, Fuyuhiko survives, and Peko dies.
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: She tells Monokuma that she will not feel despair as she dies because she achieved her goal of saving Fuyuhiko... then when he tries to intervene in her execution, Monokuma controls her into slashing him, permanently blinding him in one eye. The Monokuma-samurai then stab her to death.
Dramatically Missing the Point: She misinterprets Fuyuhiko's desire to start over and have a relationship as classmates rather than master and tool, thinking that he hates her because he thinks she's his clan's tool, rather than his own. Fuyuhiko actually hated that she thought of herself as a tool at all and hoped that by starting anew, they could break out of the toxic dynamic the clan instilled in Peko, so he could finally have a proper relationship with his childhood friend. Although Fuyuhiko absolutely doesn't help by involving her in his plan to kill Mahiru.
Dying Moment of Awesome: Fitting for the "one woman army," Peko dies shielding Fuyuhiko from being stabbed to death by puppets, saving his life.
Face Death with Dignity: She attempts this, firstly apologizing for Mahiru's murder and asking the class not to cause another senseless killing, and then declaring that she accepts her fate (it's implied this was out of guilt for Mahiru and her betrayal of the class), which Monokuma mocks as Tempting Fate. However, she's left distraught upon hearing Fuyuhiko's Anguished Declaration of Love, and is shocked when she accidentally injures him as he tries to save her, leaving her to die heartbroken. However, her final moments are dignified as she dies stoically protecting Fuyuhiko from being ripped to pieces.
Fan Disservice: Peko gets more than a few CGs in Chapter 2 where she's clad in nothing but a bikini... and in all of them, she's in the midst of murdering Mahiru and framing Hiyoko for it. Even the very first one where she shows up to the diner soaking wet becomes this on subsequent playthroughs, where you know what she was really doing before she arrived. Also an action example of this, for those who wanted to see the Ultimate Swordwoman in action, the execution gave them their wish; sadly, she's stabbed to death and cut to pieces, and that's after wounding Fuyuhiko in the middle of her swordfight.
Fatal Flaw: Peko is unable to see herself as anything other than Fuyuhiko's tool, viewing herself and everyone else as expendable, which leads her to kill Mahiru (despite personally not wanting Mahiru to die and being fully capable of restraining Fuyuhiko) under the assumption that Fuyuhiko would be considered the true mastermind, and thus graduate after everyone else convicted her. Not only did Fuyuhiko not feel the same (and in fact hated that his childhood friend saw herself that way), but as Monokuma points out, while she was acting in what she thought was Fuyuhiko's best interest, she couldn't be considered a tool because she was acting on her own initiative. After all, Fuyuhiko would never have ordered her to die for him.
Foil: She's a foil to her murder victim. Mahiru is a hot-headed and feisty young woman who is extremely independent, and her talent is art based. Peko, in contrast, is very stoic and distant and believes she has no free agency because of her tool mindset, and her talent is combat based. However, both Peko and Mahiru are very mature people as a result of having to grow up fast because of their childhood and, as a result, have a lot of internal issues. In addition, both love photography and are highly sentimental and kind-hearted; they even end up befriending one another.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Averted with her true character, but she invokes this when posing as "Sparkling Justice", claiming Mahiru deserved death and claiming to feel no remorse for killing her, to get the others to vote for her, when the opposite was true.
Frame-Up: In Chapter 2, Peko murders Mahiru and plants fake evidence to incriminate Hiyoko.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: She uses "being made to kill who Fuyuhiko orders her to" as the justification for killing Mahiru under his presumed orders, which he never actually made in the first place. To say the least of everyone's reactions post-Chapter 2's trial, no one in the cast believes this should be used as a reason to senselessly murder someone, Fuyuhiko himself included. Peko eventually realizes the same thing for herself too.
Friendly Tickle Torture: Her best reaction to her "Shot Through The Heart" in Island Mode has Hajime planning on doing this to her when she lets her guard down. She then says she plans to do it right back.
Peko: [smiling] All right, if that's the case, I'll wait for you to leave yourself open, too.
Go Out with a Smile: In the Nagito Komaeda POV manga, after Peko accidentally slashes Fuyuhiko's eye, she manages to save him from being run through, but is stabbed in the heart in the process. She's last seen faintly smiling before the rest of the puppets slash her to ribbons.
Good Is Not Soft: Outside of her actions in the second chapter, which weren't motivated by malice or cruelty but rather her tool mindset anyway, Peko is quite a moral person who hates violence and wants to look after both Fuyuhiko and new friends. She's still an extremely tough and fierce warrior who angrily threatens Monokuma when he reveals the killing game.
Graceful Loser: When Peko's plan fully fails upon Fuyuhiko rejecting her assertion that she's a tool, she isn't bitter or angry towards the class, instead she actually shows relief over the fact that Fuyuhiko isn't ruthless enough to let everyone die and that no one else will have to die after her, she then sorrowfully apologizes over Mahiru's murder and asks the class to ensure no one else dies, after that she tells Monokuma that she's ready to accept her fate(likely out of her guilt over Mahiru). Even in the face of death, Peko was still as polite and sweet-natured as ever.
Huge School Girl: In the Japanese version, her height of 172cm puts Peko at the height average for adult Japanese men; this averted in the English version, as her height of 5'6 is not at all abnormal.
Hypocrite: While she's generally morally consistent, she has double standards regarding Fuyuhiko's behavior. She urges the class to forgive Fuyuhiko and let him atone when he refused to forgive Mahiru and let her atone which she actively enabled instead of trying to tell him that his actions were screwed up (granted, her tool mindset meant that she believed she couldn't override his decisions). She also has a problem with Hiyoko bullying Mikan but has no trouble with Fuyuhiko threatening to send her to a whorehouse (in fairness, she does try to calm Fuyuhiko down at points). While she isn't exactly wrong about Fuyuhiko having a good heart deep down, she seems to ignore that he was milliseconds away from beating Mahiru to death in an abusive and malicious rage over an unreliable game and that he showed little if any remorse about her death(at least before Peko dies), she seems to have a blind spot regarding Fuyuhiko's more malicious features, although granted, she did try to no avail to keep him in line and knew he could end up decent if he dropped it, which he did, but sadly too late for her or Mahiru.
I Did What I Had to Do: She deludes herself into thinking otherwise thanks to a Dark and Troubled Past, but Peko believes that sacrificing herself in place of Fuyuhiko because she prefer he live than die during the Killing School Trip thanks to a petty revenge plot is the better outcome. The rest of the class disagree with this upon finding out, however, finding it downright absurd that she'd even do something that reckless. However the fact that she refers to Mahiru's murder as senseless after losing the case shows she has dropped this justification and realised it was utterly pointless.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In the Nagito Komaeda POV manga, she's shown being stabbed through the heart.
I Regret Nothing: Peko invokes this while pretending to be Sparkling Justice, saying she doesn't regret killing Mahiru because of "justice". It is utterly averted when the truth comes out, and Peko is only regretful about Mahiru's murder.
Just Following Orders: The lynchpin of her Thanatos Gambit—she argues that the "mastermind" of a murder should be considered the true culprit. She claims zero responsibility because she considers herself a "tool" without the will of her own and genuinely had zero ill will against Mahiru; quite the opposite as she actually openly admired Mahiru and her photography. It's a convincing enough argument that Monokuma seriously humors it for a moment, but it's ultimately betrayed by the fact Fuyuhiko cares about Peko far, far too much to show enthusiasm or take responsibility and walk away as the survivor of the trial, let alone order her to become blackened. Not to mention he was adamant about covering her as the murderer and tries his hardest, ironically, to protect his bodyguard, during the trial. Had he succeeded, he would have died along with the class, which shows how much she means to him.
Kick the Dog:
- While Hiyoko is far from a nice person, there's something very cruel about Peko's choice of framing her for Mahiru's murder, even though she's well aware of Hiyoko's love for Mahiru. To make things worse, she makes Hiyoko find Mahiru's blood-covered corpse and hears her run away in fear and grief, yet she never attempts to apologize (within the killing game, at minimum). For all of Hiyoko's flaws, it was a pretty horrible thing to put her through, even though Peko's mindset in all of it was likely one entirely of pragmatism. Of course later on Peko would discover just how wrong it is to force someone to see the person they love get hurt
- At one point during her Sparkling Justice act, she claims that she "did nothing wrong" and that Mahiru was "evil," gaining the ire of Hiyoko. While Peko evidently didn't mean a word of this given her actual feelings toward Mahiru and senseless violence itself, it still comes across as a cruel choice in words considering Mahiru's kindness towards her.
Knight Templar: Her first instinct when it comes to protecting Fuyuhiko from the killing game is to conduct a gambit to trick everyone except Fuyuhiko into being executed for misidentifying Fuyuhiko as the true culprit of Mahiru's murder by justifying her status as his "tool". Monokuma doesn't buy the story that she didn't do the murder of her own agency, when she did, and is promptly executed.
Large Ham: Normally she's reserved and The Stoic, but when whe does her Sparkling Justice routine in the 2nd Trial, she goes full ham, with plenty of Chewing the Scenery.
Laser-Guided Karma: Peko coldly leaves Hiyoko in the beach house to find the corpse of Mahiru, whom Hiyoko genuinely loved and wanted to protect, which leaves the dancer completely grief-stricken in a way she never truly recovers from. Hours later, Peko would go through a similar experience when Fuyuhiko got wounded by her own blade. In a sense, Monokuma did to her a much crueler version of what she did to Hiyoko as part of the murder cover-up in her final moments. Peko died consumed by her grief over Fuyuhiko (partially as a result of it as she let the puppets kill her), and days later, Hiyoko died consumed by her grief over Mahiru.
Last Request: After it becomes clear that only she will be executed, she asks the others to forgive Fuyuhiko and ensure that there will not be any more murders, so that no one will have to die as senselessly as Mahiru did again.
Loophole Abuse: After the students have all formally accused her, she attempts to leverage her own self-image as Fuyuhiko's tool into an argument that the others accused a mindless weapon, not the person who successfully used it.
Lost in Translation: "Kirakira Seigi" is translated as "Sparkling Justice" in the English localization. While it keeps the meaning of the name, the Death Note reference is mostly lost.
The Lost Lenore: Fuyuhiko always keeps her in his thoughts, and he really wants to see her again. Her death, as well as feeling terrible about causing Mahiru's, is what motivates him to become a better person.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair — M-Z

Manipulative Bitch: As chapter 2's killer, Peko leads the class into voting for her only to then reveal her plan as a tool that would mean the entire trial was intentionally led to a wrong verdict if successful, a downright crafty scheme for someone who usually is very shy and kind-hearted.
Mask of Sanity: She presents a stoic, calm demeanor at first, but as you discover in the second trial, she has an extremely twisted view of herself and her role in the world. This is somewhat subverted, as Peko, even in her last moments, voices a seriously sensible and empathetic detesting towards senseless violence (and through that, the role she's held itself) - her self-image is just thoroughly shattered, something she hides fairly well up to and outside of that circumstance.
Moral Myopia: A subtle one, but she rightly tells off Hiyoko for being mean to Mikan while being notably quiet when Fuyuhiko threatens her with a brothel during the first trial. It's the reverse of Mahiru rightly calling out Fuyuhiko for being shitty towards Mikan but not saying anything to Hiyoko. In addition, she rightly begs the class to forgive Fuyuhiko, the same guy who refused to forgive Mahiru for a much lesser and unconfirmed crime that she was innocent of, instead trying to beat her to death, which caused Peko to jump into action.
My God, What Have I Done?: Has three major examples of this near the end of her trial:
- The first is after her plan fails, Peko realizes that everything she did was pointless and all she achieved was senselessly murdering Mahiru, her friend, her initial relief over the fact that no one else would have to die after her turns into pure grief because even though her plan failed Mahiru was still sitting in a pool of her own blood. While she doesn't explicitly say this line word for word, her line about senseless killing is basically Peko's way of saying that she'll never forgive herself for Mahiru's murder.
- The second is right before her execution after Fuyuhiko confesses his love for her. Again she doesn't say it word for word, but it's heavily implied that she realized that there was no need for her to be a tool and that she could have had a healthy relationship with him, that her feelings for him were mutual, which would have meant that she wouldn't be seconds away from execution and that Mahiru would have never had to die.
- The third and final is a heartbreaking, non-verbal example during her execution, when she reflexively slashes Fuyuhiko's eye out and looks utterly horrified.
Not So Stoic: She finally cracks after hearing Fuyuhiko's Anguished Declaration of Love. Even before this, she seems close to tearing up when apologizing to the class. Also, in Free Time, she looks manic at the thought of touching Gundham's hamsters; the sprite used is the same as in "The Unsmile", below. A sweeter example is seeing her genuinely smile, which happens rarely but shows her inner kindness.
Platonic Life-Partners: What her route in Island Mode ultimately ends with; Hajime can't end up with her at all, but instead, they merely shake hands as a sign of friendship. This often happens in the guy routes, and Peko is the only girl who does this because she already has a childhood acquaintance she likes, but Hajime never finds out who it is. Since in Island Mode Peko brings up having originally felt like this person's "tool", and given what you learn in chapter 2 of the main game about why Peko would ever think of herself as a tool, it's clear that she is talking about Fuyuhiko.
Psychotic Smirk: After the students vote her as the culprit, as she hoped they would, she believes that Fuyuhiko is the true culprit, and they can't go back and vote for him. Although later on, this is shown to be averted as she was actually guilt-ridden over betraying the class like that, not happy. Notably, she also has this smirk while talking about having no reason or will to kill Mahiru. Turns out she actually was telling the truth about not wanting Mahiru dead.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Is the blue to her murder victim Mahiru's(who is very energetic and brash) red, Peko is reserved and graceful. In addition, she can be seen as the calm and friendly blue to the angry and mean spirited Fuyuhiko(at least prior to his arc, although he never lost the anger issues).
Reluctant Warrior: Perhaps Downplayed, in that she is willing and ready to use force - she's the group member with the martial artist talent and one of the most lethal Ultimate talents in the series. However, for (and likely because of being) someone who was literally raised to kill and accepted life as a hitwoman, Peko abhors senseless death and is vocal about it from the beginning to her very end. Her last request is that the rest of the class prevent a death like Mahiru's from ever coming to pass again.
Peko: Hajime...you speak the truth. I, too, would prefer to avoid any senseless killing. However...there are times when swords must be drawn. Whether you want that...or not.
Satellite Character: This trope is how Peko sees herself. Peko's stated purpose in life is to protect Fuyuhiko; she kills Mahiru on his behalf and becomes The Lost Lenore to him once she dies. She goes as far as to base an entire murder plan on the idea she's nothing more than a living weapon to him and the Kuzuryu clan so he can get away when she's voted. However, Peko's full character is much more of a Deconstruction of this, as her experiences have given her a complex personality independent from Fuyuhiko, and she absolutely does have her own beliefs and feelings separate from their dynamic, which shines through even shortly after her aforementioned gambit. More than anything, she's so thoroughly conditioned and used to the role that her loyalty to Fuyuhiko supersedes her own moral stance on murder and even other friendships, at least within the heat of the Killing School Trip. It's outright averted in Ultimate Talent Development Plan and Danganronpa S, where she interacts with other characters and builds up her own interests.
Selective Obliviousness: She mostly ignores anything Fuyuhiko says that conflicts with her worldview.
Senseless Sacrifice: She knew Fuyuhiko probably wouldn't take the chance her crime gave him to escape, but she had to try anyway causing not only her own death but the death of an innocent girl as well.
Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Pre-execution, she speaks fondly of Fuyuhiko's sense of noblesse oblige.
Smug Snake: Subverted. When she reveals her ultimate plan as a tool, she has an extremely smug-looking and unsettling smirk on her face; however, it rings a different tune once the plan has failed and it becomes clear she hates that she murdered Mahiru and betrayed the class, making her smirk more of a grimace.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
- Peko is a very graceful, soft-spoken, wise, book-loving, sweet-natured warrior Tomboy with a Girly Streak with long light hair, and dies sacrificing herself for her best friend, just like Sakura Ogami from the first game. The two even went to the same school before Hope's Peak.
- While Peko has the complete opposite personality as the hot-blooded Mondo Owada (who, if anything, is very similar to Fuyuhiko in this respect), as chapter 2 killers, they are very alike. Both killed a wholesome sweetheart, who they deeply cared about and were good friends with, in a moment of madness by striking them with a heavy piece of sports equipment (which killed them instantly) to protect something (Mondo's secret and Fuyuhiko respectively), but were nothing but remorseful over hurting, and ultimately accepted their fate because of how guilty they felt about Mahiru/Chihiro, leaving behind their distraught best friend in Kiyotaka and Fuyuhiko respectively.
Sympathetic Murderer: Was doing what she had thought was Just Following Orders, as she had done her whole life. She's notable among blackened across the entire series for pointedly requesting Hajime and the others to prevent any more murders from happening, voicing her displeasure for Mahiru's (someone who prior to the murder she got along well with) senseless death, and apologizing to the class in the end. It's additionally implied that she ensured that Mahiru's death would be quick and painless, showing that while she was ruthless, she wasn't sadistic or cruel.
Taking You with Me: If Monokuma ruled her as just a tool and that Fuyuhiko was the true murderer, everyone else would be executed alongside her for getting it wrong, and he would've won the game. And she very much took Mahiru to the grave with her, although unlike most examples of this trope, she wasn't proud or glad about this.
Tears of Remorse: While she doesn't fully tear up due to her generally stoic personality, she still very tearfully asks the class not to cause a senseless killing like Mahiru's ever again, showing that she was truly remorseful about murdering someone she considered a friend and betraying the class when most of them were nothing but kind to her.
Thanatos Gambit: Waited until the others officially voted her the murderer before revealing that she was Fuyuhiko's tool, knowing that if Monokuma ruled he was the true "mastermind" behind the murder, he would get to graduate while everyone else was executed. It ultimately fails because while Fuyuhiko was about to kill Mahiru in a fit of rage, he didn't expect Peko to step in and do it herself. He also had nothing to do with the resulting cover-up. Monokuma would never accept Peko's arguments, rightfully claiming that a mere "tool" would never be so meddlesome.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Is the Tomboy to her murder victim Mahiru's Girly Girl, Peko is a Dark Action Girl who generally spends most of her time training or brooding, while Mahiru is more of a maternal figure who spends most of her time being the Team Mom of the group. Because of their contrasting personalities, they established a good relationship while on the island.
Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's definitely a tomboy, but she mentions that she loves cute and fluffy animals in her first Free Time Event and some of her Island Mode events.
Tragic Villain: For a given amount of villain, she's been raised since birth to be an assassin and think of herself only as his "tool". Fuyuhiko doesn't think of her that way, but has a hard time saying it. This leads to her killing Mahiru in his place despite her liking and getting along well with Mahiru, which she deeply regrets, and also leads to her own death.
Trauma Conga Line: The day of Peko's death was utter hell for her. Firstly because Fuyuhiko decided to try and kill Mahiru(one of her closest friends on the island) instead of making things right with her, due to her tool mindset Peko is forced to jump in and kill her and use her corpse as a doorstopper, then she has to lie to the entire class(Who she has grown to care about) knowing full well everyone but Fuyuhiko will die if her plan succeeds, she then takes the identity of a psychotic serial killer, pretending that she enjoyed murdering Mahiru and betraying everyone, after her plan fails, she breaks down over Mahiru's murder and begs the class not to let it happen again, she is about to take her death gracefully because she genuinely believed she deserved to die. Only for Fuyuhiko to confess his love literally seconds before the execution, making Peko realize she never needed to be a tool or kill Mahiru, so she goes to her execution crying over everything. And it only gets worse from here; Fuyuhiko attempts to save her, but Monokuma puppets her into slicing open his eye. In her final moments, she cradles his apparently lifeless body, knowing that she hurt the person she loved the most, having a resigned look on her face as she's about to be stabbed in the chest and then ripped to shreds. To say that Peko had a bad time in chapter 2 is putting it lightly.
The Unfought: She's one of two the culprits (the other being Chiaki, with Monomi doing it in her place) you do not have an Argument Armament with. instead, Fuyuhiko takes her place, desperate to prove that she's innocent before she can say anything.
Ungrateful Bitch: Mahiru inspires Peko to relearn her smile in Free Time. She also bravely stands up for her in the first trial, and Peko repays her in the nicest way possible by beating her to death and turning her into a human doorstopper. Granted, as noted before, Peko had no malice against Mahiru and was still genuinely appreciative of Mahiru, but talk about No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.
Unreliable Expositor:
- After her conviction, she declares that Fuyuhiko ordered the hit and flashes back to him smiling and congratulating her. When her gambit fails, a near-identical CG shows that Fuyuhiko was horrified, as well as showing the real conversation where he painstakingly insisted again that their "professional relationship" isn't supposed to exist anymore and eventually simply demanded she flee so he can obscure her guilt.
- While explaining their relationship to the others, she says Fuyuhiko hates her. It would be more accurate to say that Fuyuhiko hates her role as a tool but not Peko herself, but to Peko, the two are one and the same.
- She also says that the class meant nothing to her, but after her plan fails, she apologizes over Mahiru and then begs them to survive, wishing them all well, confirming that she did not believe in what she said.
- At one point, while in her Sparkling Justice persona, she claims she did nothing wrong in killing Mahiru and just "punished evil". However, once she drops the act, she claims she had no will to kill Mahiru. Then, right before her execution, she tearfully apologizes over Mahiru, calling her murder "senseless", showing that she never once believed she was doing the right thing nor that Mahiru deserved it.
Vigilante Man: Claims that she's the murderous superheroine Sparkling Justice when exposed as a murderer and that she'd chosen to kill Mahiru for the game accusing her of attempting to cover up a crime. However, this is a calculated lie to prevent the others from suspecting her true motive until it's too late.
Was It All a Lie?: Asked by the other students when she reveals her true identity. At first, she states her loyalty will always be to Fuyuhiko and no one else, and nothing else matters to her, but her final plea to the class to let no one else die puts the lie to that.
When She Smiles: Peko is the most poker-faced student of the Killing School Trip, and in her 3rd Free Time event, she reveals that she forgot how to smile in happiness (see The Unsmile). In her next two Free Time Events, she tries to relearn how to smile. When praising Fuyuhiko and attempting to say farewell to him before her execution, she gives a very bittersweet◊ and heartfelt, thankful smile◊, which would be sweet if it weren't under such heartbreakingly painful circumstances. She's finally able to smile with complete happiness in her final Free Time Event and some of her Island Mode events, and it's poignant and beautiful in both cases. Hajime even mentally notes about how cute she is when she's smiling during her final Free Time.
Hajime: As Peko reminisced about her childhood friend, she looked cuter than I'd ever seen her before.
You Did Everything You Could: During this second trial, Fuyuhiko continuously tries to protect her from suspicion, his arguments growing increasingly weak as Hajime debunks them. Eventually, Peko just tells him to be quiet because "saying anything more would be futile."
Zero-Approval Gambit: Peko invokes this in the second trial during her Sparkling Justice act, portraying herself as a remorseless psychopath who is proud of her brutal murder of Mahiru. This is in order to get the class, in particular a very vengeful Hiyoko, to vote for her as quickly as possible, which proves good for her plan, as Sonia only questions her being nothing like the real Sparkling Justice until after everyone voted. Peko in a very intelligent move made herself as hateable as possible to the class, so she could carry her plan through. Had her plan worked as intended, this would have gotten herself and the rest of the class killed so that Fuyuhiko could graduate, but Fuyuhiko doesn't see her as a tool, which, combined with the fact that Monokuma only pins the murder on her causes her plan to fail. However, the reality is Peko never believed a single word she said as Sparkling Justice and was always the kind-hearted and gentle samurai everyone thought she was prior and even seems relieved when she drops this persona.

Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School

Ultimate Swordswoman

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Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Clarine Harp (English)

The Ultimate Swordswoman, so skilled that it’s said no one can match her. She has a taciturn personality and does not engage her classmates, but appears reliable. Even when there is no club practice, she always carries her shinai sword with her.

Action Girl: Fights against Mukuro, the Ultimate Soldier.
Badass in a Nice Suit: As a member of Ultimate Despair.
The Dragon: Serves as this for Fuyuhiko during their time as members of Ultimate Despair.
Expository Hairstyle Change: After becoming a member of Ultimate Despair, she switched her braids for a side tail.
Like an Old Married Couple: Ibuki says she and Fuyuhiko act like one in episode 6.
Katanas Are Just Better: Wields one as part of Ultimate Despair.
Phallic Weapon: When Mikan is under the influence of Teruteru's aphrodisiac, Peko's wood katana becomes this to her.
Reverse Grip: Wields her sword this way several times, most notably as a member of Ultimate Despair.
White Hair, Black Heart: As a member of Ultimate Despair.
Wooden Katanas Are Even Better: As a student. Subverted, in her fight against Mukuro, the katana turns out to be real and she is just hiding it beneath a bamboo exterior. Eventually played straight, as she loses against Mukuro but in Side: Hope she fights another Ultimate using a bamboo sword and wins. Fuyuhiko then lampshades the fact that she's apparently better with a bamboo sword than a real one.
The Worf Effect: Being one of Class 77's strongest physical fighters, Peko was able to hold her own against Mukuro, but ultimately loses. Considering that Mukuro was on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle with Izuru, this definitely highlights woefully unprepared Class 77 were when they decided to face off against the Ultimate Despairs.
Workaholic: She doesn't attend class because she gets so lost in combat training that she doesn't keep track of time.

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