| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-'''''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}''''' | [[Characters/{{Danganronpa}} Main Character Index]]\ |
| 2 | [[Characters/DanganronpaMonokuma Monokuma]]\ |
| 3 | '''''Characters/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''''' | [[Characters/DanganronpaMaleStudents Male Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaMakotoNaegi Makoto Naegi]] | [[Characters/DanganronpaByakuyaTogami Byakuya Togami]]) | '''Female Students''' ([[Characters/DanganronpaKyokoKirigiri Kyoko Kirigiri]] | [[Characters/DanganronpaTokoFukawa Toko Fukawa]] | [[Characters/DanganronpaCelestiaLudenberg Celestia Ludenberg]] | [[Characters/DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima Junko Enoshima]])\ |
| 4 | '''''Characters/DanganronpaZero'''''\ |
| 5 | '''''Characters/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''''' | [[Characters/Danganronpa2MaleStudents Male Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaHajimeHinata Hajime Hinata]] | [[Characters/DanganronpaNagitoKomaeda Nagito Komaeda]]) | [[Characters/Danganronpa2FemaleStudents Female Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaPekoPekoyama Peko Pekoyama]])\ |
| 6 | '''''Characters/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'''''\ |
| 7 | '''''Characters/KillerKiller'''''\ |
| 8 | '''''Characters/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool''''' | [[Characters/Danganronpa3FutureArc Future Arc]] | [[Characters/Danganronpa3DespairArc Despair Arc]]\ |
| 9 | '''''Characters/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''''' | [[Characters/DanganronpaV3MaleStudents Male Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaKokichiOma Kokichi Oma]]) | [[Characters/DanganronpaV3FemaleStudents Female Students]] ([[Characters/DanganronpaMiuIruma Miu Iruma]])-]\ |
| 10 | ]]]] |
| 11 | !!Subjectives and audience reactions should go on the [[YMMV/DanganRonpaTriggerHappyHavoc YMMV page]]. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | !!'''Warning! All spoilers below are unmarked.''' |
| 14 | --> It's virtually impossible to list tropes for these characters without spoiling everything or creating [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler Self-Fulfilling Spoilers]] because of the many surprising reveals and murderer/victim exclusive tropes this game contains. |
| 15 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 17 | [[folder:Sayaka Maizono]] |
| 18 | [[WMG:Sayaka Maizono]] |
| 19 | !!!Ultimate Pop Sensation |
| 20 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maizono_art.png]] |
| 21 | [[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm psychic. Kidding! I just have really good intuition."'']] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MakikoOhmoto (Japanese), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (game), Creator/MonicaRial (anime - English) |
| 24 | ->'''Played by:''' Hinako Tanaka, Kaoru Goto (stage) |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Sayaka is the lead singer of an incredibly popular [[IdolSinger idol group]]. She and Makoto were classmates; he caught her eye one day when he freed a crane that was stuck in the school pool, but they've never spoken. Recognizing him from that day, she asks Makoto if she can be his sidekick during Monokuma's game. She's the first murder victim, stabbed to death by Leon after trying to kill him first. |
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| 28 | * AbortedDeclarationOfLove: Sayaka's second Free Time Event with Makoto starts with her seemingly confessing her feelings only to then abruptly cut it short and mention that they can follow up on the conversation once they all manage to escape. Given that she is the first character to die, it makes it all the more tragic. |
| 29 | * AdvertisedExtra: Promotional materials, openings, and endings often portray her as the female lead next to Naegi's male as well as his primary (or at least secondary) ImpliedLoveInterest. In reality, she is killed off in the very first chapter. [[EnforcedTrope This is likely intentional]], on account of being the [[DecoyProtagonist Decoy]] {{Deuteragonist}}. |
| 30 | * AmbiguousSituation: It isn't clear how much of her words were meant to manipulate Makoto, and whether or not she really loved him. It's implied that she left Leon's name at the crime scene to help clear Makoto's name or to punish Leon, though; Kyoko mentions the theory, and when Makoto wonders if she actually did it out of revenge against her murderer, she adds that she still wants to believe Sayaka did it as a last apology to him for what she had done. The manga does indeed confirm that Kyoko was right in this regard. |
| 31 | ** Her Trigger Happy Heart Event in School Mode (a situation with significantly less tension than the main story) pretty much confirms that she genuinely likes spending time with Makoto. |
| 32 | ** To further add ambiguity, some players forget that she died before the class trials were explained in the original game. In other words, she had no way of knowing that anyone besides her intended victim would have to die. So presumably, she thought that her FrameUp of Makoto would be temporary, as after she graduated it would be obvious he didn't do it. |
| 33 | * ArcNumber: [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/danganronpa/images/e/ee/Danganronpa_1_CG_-_Sayaka_Maizono_writing_the_bloody_message.png/revision/latest?cb=20180301064300 The dying message]] of hers resulted in a misinterpretation of "11037". Come the sequel's fifth chapter, and this number is recycled by Makoto Naegi for the ancient ruins on the second island. This is characterized as an arc number solely due to it being a combination of two significant characters' significant will of causality (her last-second redemption through her killer's identification, Leon Kuwata's independent murder and confrontation of her). Recycling it is only something a company conscious of its works would bluntly do. |
| 34 | * AscendedExtra: [[DownplayedTrope A very mild example]]. She manages to get brief appearances in ''Super Dangan Ronpa 2.5'' and in both sides of ''Anime/DanganRonpa3'', and she has speaking roles in all of them. And in all of these appearances, Sayaka is either portrayed as a love interest or TheLostLenore. For the record, Kyoko neither appears in ''Super Dangan Ronpa 2.5'' nor does she get any speaking roles in ''Side:Despair''. |
| 35 | * TheAtoner: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She may have left Leon's name at the crime scene to clear Makoto's name once her plan went south, but we'll never know if this was truly motivated by wanting to protect him from suspicion, although the manga version shows that it was by letting us see her dying inner monologue. |
| 36 | * BerserkButton: In the manga, she doesn't take it well when people make light of the entertainment industry, which she had to make a lot of personal sacrifices to succeed. This is implied to be one of the reasons why she tried to kill [[InnocentlyInsensitive Leon]]. |
| 37 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She's outwardly a pleasant and kindhearted individual, but is the first to snap and attempt murder after learning that harm may have befallen those dearest to her. She also manages, before she goes out, to reveal that Leon is the murderer by ''using her own blood to write his name on a mirror''. |
| 38 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: {{Subverted|Trope}} — she does successfully manage to be a ManipulativeBitch toward Makoto and use him to set up a murder that she intends on framing him for, but as Kyoko points out later, there is evidence that she was remorseful and conflicted about all of it and her hesitation helped lead to her death. So essentially, she's a Sheep who ''tried'' to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and failed. |
| 39 | * BrokenAce: She's the first person to demonstrate how talent doesn't necessarily bring personal fulfillment or stability; she is an ''exceptionally'' good idol singer, but implicitly traumatized and emotionally dependent on her bandmates. |
| 40 | * BrokenBird: [[DownplayedTrope Implied to have shades of this]]. She mentioned to Makoto that she had to do "some terrible things" to achieve her dream. Also, her bandmates were [[LivingEmotionalCrutch incredibly important to her]], and evidently to her emotional stability. The implication that they may have been harmed causes her to become desperate enough to hatch a plan to murder somebody and pin it on her only real friend in Hope's Crest, since their relationship made him the easiest to manipulate. She was evidently regretful about doing it, if not the whole while, then at least in her last moments. |
| 41 | * TheCanKickedHim: When her plan went south, she tried to hide in the shower, but Leon broke in and murdered her there. |
| 42 | * CommonalityConnection: |
| 43 | ** She bonds with Ibuki and Kaede in ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'', thanks to all of them having talents relating to music. |
| 44 | ** She befriends Kotoko in ''Summer Camp'' thank to both being idols. |
| 45 | * CouldntFindAPen: She wrote a DyingClue in her own blood on the wall of Makoto's shower. |
| 46 | * CrashIntoHello: Runs into Makoto in this manner before deciding to become his assistant. The situation is thoroughly [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] as a "scene out of an old manga". |
| 47 | * CrushBlush: During her second Free Time Event, she looks straight at Makoto after saying she's interested in someone, and Naegi can swear her cheeks are tinted red. |
| 48 | * DeathEqualsRedemption: After her plot to frame Makoto for Leon's murder fails, she uses her last moments of life to leave a DyingClue to clear his name of guilt. In the manga certainly, at least. Elsewhere, it's never clarified whether spelling out her killer's name in her blood was done to protect Makoto from suspicion or if she was just ensuring she had the last laugh on the one who killed her, although most material leans towards the former. |
| 49 | * DecoyDamsel: Asks to switch rooms with Makoto because she was scared somebody might hurt her. She's lying through her teeth -- the ''real'' reason she needs his room is that she wants to [[FrameUp frame him for murder]]. |
| 50 | * DecoyProtagonist: Starts out as the female lead of the game... for about one chapter, following which she's murdered and replaced by Kyoko. |
| 51 | * DespairEventHorizon: Monokuma's personalized "inspirational" video showed Sayaka's idol group collapsed on a stage, to an uncertain fate, with Monokuma taunting her that she and her group will never be singing again. Considering she stated her bandmates are stated to be her LivingEmotionalCrutch and singing is her dream, she [[HeroicBSOD emotionally broke down immediately]]. |
| 52 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: Justified, in that she ''really'' wasn't in the state of mind to think anything through, but Leon, of all people, was a ''very'' poor choice in murder victims, given that he's an athlete and strong enough to defend himself and subdue her. |
| 53 | * DisproportionateRetribution: {{Downplayed}}. While it's hardly something she would have done under normal circumstances, the manga implies that she decided to target Leon because, when they were transporting an unconscious Makoto to his room, he talked to her about him wanting to enter the music industry as a rock singer, and she was secretly resentful at him not taking the industry seriously enough due to her own experiences in it. |
| 54 | * DoubleSpeak: In their last conversation, after Makoto explains how the bathroom door doesn't lock, she mentions "using" the shower in the morning once the water turns back on (without explicitly saying she'd be having a shower). This could be taken as shorthand for cleaning up the crime scene. |
| 55 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Give her credit for managing to write Leon's name with her own blood in English without him(granted Leon isn't the smartest person) noticing all while she was bleeding to death in order to save Makoto(Well at least that's Kyoko's theory). |
| 56 | * EveryoneHasStandards: When deciding who to kill in the manga, she immediately dismisses Makoto because he's her friend. However, it's entirely possible she was thinking about the possibility of becoming a suspect because she's the closest person to Makoto. And if Sayaka succeeded, it'd mean the death of everyone else, including Makoto. (Not that she lived to discover that particular fact.) However, considering her genuine feelings for Makoto it's more likely than not she didn't choose him based on her feelings rather than just logic. |
| 57 | * {{Expy}}: Her role as a perky, self-proclaimed assistant with "psychic powers" makes her initially seem like the Maya Fey to Makoto's Phoenix Wright. Emphasis on ''initially'', because she's actually [[BitchInSheepsClothing the first to attempt murder]]. |
| 58 | * FaceDeathWithDespair: Granted, Leon was the only one who would've seen her face just before she died, but the re-enactment of the murder paints her with a look of absolute terror. |
| 59 | * FamilyOfChoice: She says that her bandmates are like this for her. It proves true enough that the possibility of them being endangered is worse to her than anything happening to her actual family (like her father). |
| 60 | * FatalFlaw: Her emotional dependence on her friends and her fear of abandonment. When Monokuma implies that her bandmates might be in trouble and that she needs to get out ''right now'' or she'll be left alone and forgotten, she snaps and decides to play the game almost immediately, even being willing to use her friend Makoto as a scapegoat in order to do so. |
| 61 | * FeminineWomenCanCook: Likely the girliest of the female students, and she brings up the fact that she's a good cook too (though she also gets in a joke about [[OneNoteCook specializing in chili oil]]). |
| 62 | * FreakOut: When she sees Monokuma's "motivational" DVD, which shows her band breaking up and everyone forgetting about her. |
| 63 | * TheGadfly: She has an impish, teasing sense of humor. She often makes cracks about how she's psychic, secretly a crane, specializes in cooking with chili oil, and so on and so forth. |
| 64 | * GenerationXerox: Motivated by an unloving home life thanks to her {{Workaholic}} father, she ends up becoming something of a Workaholic herself, to the point of not knowing what to do with the abundant free time the students have inside the academy. |
| 65 | * TheGenericGirl: Her design is one of the least outlandish, and her quirks are tame compared to things like Fukawa's obsession with Togami, Celestia's {{Chuunibyou}} tendencies, Fujisaki's crossdressing, et cetera. Of course, it's subverted with the BrokenBird side she hints at during her talks with Makoto, and how she ultimately proves to be the ''least'' mentally stable student. |
| 66 | * GirlNextDoor: Her design seems to invoke this image to give her a sense of humble innocence. This makes her betrayal both more and less shocking. More shocking by how it clashes with her idol image, and yet less shocking because it proves how good of an idol she was to project that image so well. There's also the matter of her being the literal girl next door to Makoto. |
| 67 | * GirlNextDoorTurnedSuperstar: Makoto went to middle school with Sayaka, and though he had a crush on her, they never spoke because they were in different classes. When Makoto enrolls in Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Lucky Student, he's put in the same class as Sayaka, who has since become the leader of a prominent idol group and enrolled as the Ultimate Idol. To Makoto's surprise, Sayaka actually remembers him from middle school, because she greatly admires him for the time she saw him help an injured crane that had gotten trapped in the school pool. Sayaka plays a big role in Makoto's motivation to survive when the killing game begins, even after she gets herself killed trying to frame him for the first murder. |
| 68 | * GirlyGirl: The most feminine one out of all of the females in her class. Most of her liked gifts are very feminine; she absolutely loves the cherry blossom bouquet, the Rose in Vitro, the Kitten Hairclip, Love Status Ring, and Everlasting Bracelet. |
| 69 | * GoneHorriblyWrong: Her attempted murder of Leon Kuwata only ends up [[HoistByHisOwnPetard getting her killed by the same weapon she tried to use on him]]. Similarly, the scenario in which she succeeded would've GoneHorriblyRight as she would've ended up executing everyone else thanks to her FrameUp of Makoto, which would've certainly led her to realize the ''moment'' that Monokuma announced the class trial to the students after keeping it secret prior to the first murder (in a plot to instigate that first murder) that she made a huge mistake in successfully framing him (the alternative scenario is that no one would believe the claims that she framed Makoto which is brought up in Leon's trial), and wouldn't be able to go back on it either. |
| 70 | * GutFeeling: Presumably the explanation behind her supposed ESP. She likes to say exactly what Makoto is thinking, then claims she can read minds, giving him time to react before saying it's just "good intuition". On the other hand, her ''School Mode'' ending suggests that Sayaka might be telling the truth when she said that she's psychic. |
| 71 | * HeartIsAnAwesomePower: States that she's actually pretty athletic because she often dances onstage as an idol. And after she dies, the other students speculate that she was planning on using her talent to get away with murder; idols are trained to portray an innocent and wholesome public image at all times, so it'd be easy for Sayaka to fake innocence and and look more trustworthy than Naegi, though the point becomes moot as she dies. |
| 72 | * HiddenDepths: She tries to present herself as a perky GirlNextDoorTurnedSuperstar who retains a friendly, down-to-earth attitude, but both her in-story conversations and free time events with Makoto have her reveal that she's quite lonely and values her friends deeply, feels burnt out on the music industry (especially the unethical things she had to do to make it big), but also has a deep fear of her fans forgetting her and desires to keep at being an idol because it was her childhood dream and she wants to inspire others like idols inspired her. All these things are unfortunately used by Monokuma to break her by hammering her TraumaButton of being abandoned, resulting in her deciding to kill a stranger who gave her a bad first impression (Leon, by not taking the music industry seriously) to chance being let out. |
| 73 | * HoistByHerOwnPetard: Devised a plan to kill Leon and frame Makoto for it... only for Leon to defend himself, break her right wrist, and kill her instead. She in turn ensures Leon is HoistByHisOwnPetard by spelling his name out in her own blood before dying, as had Leon not pursued her to take her life after having broken her wrist, this would not have happened. |
| 74 | * IdolSinger: Self-explanatory — it's even her Ultimate "title" in the Japanese version. |
| 75 | * IJustWantToBeLoved: Very sadly and cruelly {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Sayaka, raised by a {{Workaholic}} father and always alone, threw herself into her IdolSinger career--partially to get the love and attention she lacked and get over her lonely past, and partially because when she was a child, the idol singers on television cheered her up and she wanted to offer little girls who were like her someone to look up to in turn. When Monokuma's Educational DVD showed her that she'd be forgotten and abandoned if she didn't "graduate" soon from Hope's Peak, Sayaka snapped hard enough to ''try killing someone else and attempt to frame Makoto for it''. |
| 76 | * InnocentBlueEyes: A major part of her image, which makes her true nature all the more impactful. [[CurtainsMatchTheWindow It also happens to match her hair.]] |
| 77 | * IronicDeath: A rather painful and cruel example. On top of the obvious fact of being murdered by the guy she was planning to murder, the girl who became the greatest IdolSinger for love and attention, bleeding and screaming to do so, [[DyingAlone bleeds out alone]] [[UndignifiedDeath in a]] ''[[UndignifiedDeath bathroom]]'' by the hand of the BrilliantButLazy Leon who never really worked for his success and wanted to be a rock singer, [[InnocentlyInsensitive clearly unaware of the struggles she went through]]. Monokuma couldn't have orchestrated a worse way for her to go out if he ''tried''.[[labelnote:Note]] Granted, he probably could, but still. [[/labelnote]] |
| 78 | * {{Irony}}: Had she actually succeeded in killing Leon and framing Makoto for murder, she ultimately would have killed Makoto as well, considering the nature of the class trials, something Sayaka would not have wanted to do had she known about the consequences beforehand. |
| 79 | * KillingIntent: Inverted; despite her best efforts, she's too nice for cold-blooded murder and can't summon any, no matter how much she wants to escape. This leads to her hesitating at the last moment while ambushing Leon, allowing him to fight back and ultimately kill ''her''. |
| 80 | * KillTheCutie: A rather admirably charming idol girl of a blue color scheme, with an innocent demeanor of a NiceGirl and an alluring temptation surrounding her, engraved in altruism. This infectious charm of hers is used to her own advantage, and she ends up dead in the killing game as the series' first victim due to how irresponsibly said advantage was managed. |
| 81 | * TheLostLenore: It's stated in the sequel that Makoto remembers her fondly. In ''Anime/Danganronpa3'', Makoto's despair-induced hallucination demonstrates that he's still haunted by his failure to uphold his promise to protect her during the Killing Game. |
| 82 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: A platonic example. She resisted the temptation to kill until she saw her "motivational" DVD, which shows her idol group unconscious on a stage. |
| 83 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Sayaka frequently says exactly what Makoto is thinking and claims to be a psychic, then admits that she is just putting him on. On the other hand, her ending in ''School Mode'' suggests that Sayaka might indeed be a psychic. |
| 84 | * MissingMom: Her mom died when she was young, which is part of why she craved attention so much and became an idol. |
| 85 | * NiceGirl: Although she snaps and tries to commit murder and frame a friend for it, other appearances in the franchise, such as V3's ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'', show that her kindness before then was genuine. She won't even retaliate in kind when someone like [[TheBully Hiyoko]] antagonizes her. She's also a pop idol, and there's no way she would have gotten a reputation if she ''wasn't'' nice to her audience or her friends. The anime adaptation shows a flashback of her time as a pop idol, and she's quite cheerful there with no signs that she's deceiving anyone. |
| 86 | * ParentalNeglect: She explains to Makoto that she was raised solely by her {{Workaholic}} father, hence why she clings so much to her career and fans. |
| 87 | * PatientChildhoodLoveInterest: {{Subverted|Trope}} in that she and Makoto weren't actually that close when they were in school, but otherwise she plays the "[[ChildhoodFriends childhood friend]]" role to a T. Until she backstabs him, at least. |
| 88 | * PosthumousCharacter: |
| 89 | ** In the sixth chapter of ''Trigger Happy Havoc'', she appears in the school photographs provided by Monokuma to Makoto, Aoi, Yasuhiro, Toko, and Byakuya. Along with the photographs, she also appears in the interview films where Jin Kirigiri (Hope's Peak Academy's headmaster, and the subject executed by Monokuma in the prologue) asks the students if they will vow to live and imprison themselves in the school for eternity to preserve themselves from The Tragedy occurring on the outside, all of them agreeing to. |
| 90 | ** She yet again appears in [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair the sequel]], but as the password to the ancient ruins on the 2nd island (the island where Mahiru Koizumi is murdered by Peko Pekoyama under Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu's serendipitously professed command). Particularly, the password is a numerical five-figure line of "11037" (revealed by Nagito Komaeda after the fifth class trial), what her dying message is initially misinterpreted as, until Kyoko recommends the survivors of the first chapter rotate the message 180 degrees to reveal the word "LEON"; or Leon Kuwata, the culprit of the first chapter who subjects Sayaka to her PlotTriggeringDeath. |
| 91 | * ThePowerOfFriendship: Tells Makoto that she believes anyone can achieve their dreams with the help of their friends. It takes on a somewhat darker turn when it's revealed that Sayaka's friends are her emotional crutches, and she's willing to kill for the possibility of seeing them again. |
| 92 | * RapeAsBackstory: [[ImpliedTrope It's never explicitly stated]], but Sayaka ''does'' tell Makoto that she did many things to achieve her dream of becoming a pop star, including things she called "unpleasant." Given what we find out about the entertainment industry later in the series[[labelnote:Spoilers]] Specifically, what we find out about child actress Kotoko Utsugi in ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'' [[/labelnote]], it's entirely possible she could be referring to granting some sort of sexual favors in exchange for her position. |
| 93 | * RunningGag: She frequently says exactly what Makoto is thinking, claims she can read minds, and then brushes it off as "good intuition". |
| 94 | * SacrificialLamb: Turns out to be the first victim after being set up as the LoveInterest. Trope-wise, there is a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]]. Sayaka isn't a throwaway character, and she appears frequently in later sections of the series. |
| 95 | * ShipTease: With Makoto. Ends up immediately [[HoneyTrap flipped on its head]] and driving home just what [[AnyoneCanDie type of story]] [[CrapsackWorld this is]] when she becomes the [[SacrificialLamb first victim]], although according to Creator/MakikoOhmoto, she does have feelings for Makoto. Her song "Monochrome Answer" is even about Makoto. |
| 96 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite being only around as the SacrificialLamb who dies in the first chapter, her story acts as the thematic and narrative EstablishingSeriesMoment for the entire franchise. |
| 97 | ** Sayaka's death after being given much narrative buildup establishes that AnyoneCanDie, plus the series' habit of killing off someone played up as a main character in chapter 1. |
| 98 | ** Her sweet demeanor, combined with her sudden snapping, establishes that ''anyone'' could become a murderer if Monokuma presses the right buttons. |
| 99 | ** Her BrokenBird and StepfordSmiler traits establish that [[BlessedWithSuck having an Ultimate talent]] [[BrokenAce doesn't necessarily make your life better]] and certainly doesn't make you a better ''person'' than those without. |
| 100 | ** Finally, her hesitance and last act of saving everyone by identifying her killer establishes that few of the murderers are actually bad people, just ordinary teenagers driven to extremes in a desperate and emotionally taxing situation. |
| 101 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Sakura reveals in her suicide note that, originally, the Mastermind had intended for Sakura to, under blackmail, commit the first murder and jumpstart the killing game. Sayaka's unforeseen decision to try committing a murder led to Sakura's role being postponed to whenever another stalemate occurred instead, beginning a chain of events which would culminate in the end of the game and Mastermind's defeat. |
| 102 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: Due to her chickening out of her plan (which results in Yasuhiro getting killed instead), Sayaka lives through the demo. |
| 103 | * StepfordSmiler: Though she appears cheerful at first, she's the first student to crack under the pressure of Monokuma's game and attempt to kill someone. Her fear of being forgotten and abandoned is ''that'' big. |
| 104 | * TakingYouWithMe: Her final action before expiring is to write Leon's name in her own blood. Makoto speculates that she may have done it simply to spite him, although Kyoko postulates that she may have done so as an apology towards Makoto (the manga firmly goes with the latter interpretation). |
| 105 | * TheTease: She enjoys pulling Makoto's leg quite frequently early into the story. |
| 106 | * ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Her chances would've been improved if she'd taken the time to hide the replica sword before enacting her plan, or if she simply hadn't compelled Makoto to keep it in the first place (though this could be taken as a hint that she legitimately wanted him to be safe from harm). And had she known that successfully framing someone for murder would have killed everyone else, including Makoto, she may have reconsidered the choice entirely. |
| 107 | * TragicVillain: As much as her tricking Makoto into what was intended to be a XanatosGambit involving her reputation as an idol and nearly getting the class executed ''unintentionally'' can count as "villainy", all Sayaka really wanted was to get back to the outside world out of the fear that her friends may have died by the mastermind's hand and all that she had endured over the years to achieve her position as an idol would be AllForNothing, and out of desperation, she had no other ''real'' options at hand to achieve this besides the ruthless pragmatism she's shown to do in the main story. |
| 108 | * UncannyValleyGirl: Noted to have a smile that's almost too perfect. Eventually tries to knife someone. |
| 109 | * WallSlump: Her stabbed corpse is slumped up against the shower's wall with ''way'' too much blood covering her and the wall itself. |
| 110 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: As part of the "Killing Among Loved Ones" motive, Sayaka's true intention was actually so she could get back to her friends in the outside world (which she didn't know was almost completely destroyed by the mastermind). Monokuma's rules along with the total absence of information regarding the executions meant she pretty much had to deceive people in order to escape, and alongside all of that, was mostly acting out of desperation. However, the plan she came up with can be inferred as framing Makoto and killing Leon, then playing innocent in the trial, and she would've been fully committed to such a thing even ''if'' she had good intentions. |
| 111 | * {{Workaholic}}: It's not that she HatesSmallTalk; her busy schedule has simply left her no experience in how to go about making small talk, as she reveals outside the trophy case in the gym entry hall. |
| 112 | * WrongGenreSavvy: [[TheDitz In complete contrast]] to her "good intuition", she thinks 'Junko' and Toko's bickering is [[LikeAnOldMarriedCouple a sign of them getting along, like a pair of sisters]]. Naegi just thinks she's completely misread the situation. |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | |
| 115 | [[folder:Kyoko Kirigiri]] |
| 116 | [[WMG:Kyoko Kirigiri]] |
| 117 | !!!Ultimate ??? (Ultimate Detective) |
| 118 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kyoko_kirigiri_illustration.png]] |
| 119 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"If you spend all your time trying to avoid danger, you'll never move forward."'']] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YokoHikasa (Japanese), Creator/ErikaHarlacher (game), Creator/CaitlinGlass (anime - English) |
| 122 | ->'''Played by:''' Rei Okamoto (stage) |
| 123 | |
| 124 | An enigmatic girl whose "Ultimate" talent is initially unknown. She radiates a cold and unfriendly attitude and deflects any questions about her identity or past. Despite this, her insight and deductive abilities prove invaluable during the murder investigations. Her true identity is the estranged daughter of Jin Kirigiri, (former) Headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy. She is suffering from amnesia, which obscures this and her own talent as an "Ultimate Detective". When she begins to prove too meddlesome to Monokuma, he attempts to frame her for a fake murder so that she can be executed under the school rules. Along with Makoto, they work together to defeat Monokuma and lead the rest of the surviving students to freedom. |
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| 126 | [[Characters/DanganronpaKyokoKirigiri Click here to see her page]] |
| 127 | [[/folder]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | [[folder:Aoi Asahina]] |
| 130 | [[WMG:Aoi Asahina]] |
| 131 | !!! Ultimate Swimming Pro |
| 132 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aoi_asahina_illustration.png]] |
| 133 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"You don't know? If you wanna remember someone's name, you gotta write it on your hand three times!"'']] |
| 134 | |
| 135 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito (Japanese), Creator/CassandraLeeMorris (game), Creator/FeleciaAngelle (anime - English) |
| 136 | ->'''Played by:''' Reina Fujie, Nagisa Ohjima, Sumire Sato, Karen Iwata, Saki Matsuda (stage) |
| 137 | |
| 138 | A bubbly girl who takes to water like a duck. Though she is best at swimming, she is also skilled in all kinds of other athletic activities and is a member of six different sports clubs. However, she isn't the sharpest thinker and tends to be easily misled during trials. She spends most of her time with fellow fitness enthusiast Sakura, and loves donuts. She tries to get herself and the others killed in Chapter 4 after being manipulated by Monokuma, but snaps out of it after being read Sakura's real suicide note. She goes on to survive the final trial and escape the school with the others. |
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| 140 | * AlliterativeName: ''A''oi ''A''sahina. |
| 141 | * AloneWithThePsycho: In one of the creepier scenes in ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', after swimming, she comes across Korekiyo while alone. After he mentions his sister, Aoi talks about her brother and asks about his sister. Korekiyo offers to "[[DeadlyEuphemism introduce you two]]", which she says she'd be happy to meet her. Sakura then shows up, and sensing something about him glowers at him and Sakura apologizes when he mentions it. Aoi and Sakura then go off to eat with each other and Aoi apologizes for leaving and says they should talk more about his sister later, with him noting to himself that it would be [[BigSisterInstinct unwise to do so with Sakura present]]. |
| 142 | * AnimeHair: Her ponytail (which sometimes gets compared to soft-serve ice cream) points straight up most of the time and [[ExpressiveHair moves around based on her mood]]. |
| 143 | * BadLiar: When Kirigiri asks her how she created the LockedRoomMystery if she killed Sakura, Aoi ''tries'' to dimiss the question and again claim that she did it, but her response makes it very clear that she genuinely ''doesn't know'' how the room was shut and thus was not the culprit. |
| 144 | * BerserkButton: Making light of the dead. Or speaking badly of Sakura. Enjoy a slap to the face, Byakuya Togami. |
| 145 | * BerserkerTears: Downplayed. In the sprite used when she's really angry, she's also crying. |
| 146 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a sweet girl who easily makes friends and is completely loyal to them even to her own detriment. But as chapter 4 proves, she ''will'' kill if she finds a reason to truly hate someone (such as when she thought they bullied her best friend into suicide; that loyalty is a double-edged sword indeed), and her case was the ''hardest'' legit mystery to figure out (case 5 doesn't count because Monokuma cheated) because of how irrational it was; basic survival instinct means that nobody would try to get themselves voted for or complicate a suicide investigation, but Aoi ''wanted'' everyone including herself to die. |
| 147 | * BeYourself: In Aoi's last Free Time Event, Makoto teaches her this lesson after she was worried she wasn't feminine enough and tried to be more girly by asking Makoto to pretend to be her boyfriend. After two hilarious missteps, Makoto eventually tells Aoi that she's fine the way she is, and he thinks all her qualities, including the tomboy-ish ones, suit her very well. This makes Aoi very happy. |
| 148 | * BigEater: Eats lots and ''lots'' of donuts, and still retains a womanly figure. Hanging out with her enough will also reveal that outside of donuts, her eating habits are ''unhealthy''--tonkotsu ramen with lard and butter, for example. The fact that she's an Ultimate Swimmer might involve enough exercise that it could explain how she hasn't gotten fat from all the donuts. The six different sports clubs could also explain it. |
| 149 | * BigWhy: Two of her voice clips. One is a little 'why', and the other is this trope. |
| 150 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With fellow buxom, athletic, tan BigEater girl Akane in ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'' and ''Ultimate Summer Camp''. When she worries about the calories after contemplating eating "grilled squid and donuts", Akane just tells her to just go wild and Aoi notes she can just exercise it off. Another interaction has Akane wanting to spar with Aoi, but she is understandably hesitant. Aoi, after a bit, agrees to it, but tells Akane to go easy on her. When Akane bests Peko and Mukuro!Junko in a swimming contest, Akane challenges Aoi to a swimming contest and wagers Akane's double desserts if she wins. |
| 151 | * BreakTheCutie: The poor girl takes the deaths of the students around her very, ''very'' badly. Chapter 4 is the worst, full stop. Sakura Ogami, her close and trusted friend, is revealed as Monokuma's mole. Then Aoi gets into arguments and fights with Toko and Byakuya over whether or not Sakura should be trusted or whether she should be killed. Then Sakura is found ''dead''. |
| 152 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: She has a well-endowed figure, with only Sakura having bigger breasts, but Aoi's chest is the one that's often put into emphasis or commented on by others, especially Genocide Jill (since it triggers her ACupAngst) who refers to Aoi's breasts with odd nicknames like "Godzilla Tits". |
| 153 | * CaptainObvious: Her complaints at Monokuma for threatening the students with the Gatling gun aren't invalid...they're just horribly off. |
| 154 | -->'''Aoi:''' [[{{Understatement}} I'd bet it'd really hurt to get shot by that thing!]]\ |
| 155 | '''Chihiro:''' Um..., no, I think it'd be a little worse than that... |
| 156 | * CelebCrush: In her Free Time events, she reveals that she has a crush on Creator/JasonStatham. |
| 157 | * ComfortFood: She says in a Free-Time Event that doughnuts serve this purpose for her, telling Makoto they won't be special if she has them all the time. This turns out to be the case at the start of chapter 3, when she's seen alone crying and saying now more than ever would be the time for doughnuts. |
| 158 | * TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: Quarrels with almost everyone over Sakura's apparent betrayal in the fourth chapter, and is browbeaten every time about her hostility giving The Mastermind what they want... in spite of Byakuya doing the same thing, from a different angle (she also wasn't around to hear Kyoko telling Byakuya to have some sympathy). This probably helped her to justify wanting to kill them all. |
| 159 | * TheCorpseStopsHere: While most of the students are guilty of this, Aoi's one of the worst offenders. |
| 160 | * CovertPervert: Hinted at. When Makoto and Kyoko agree to meet in the bath dressing room alone, the others simply say their part and leave, but Hina thinks that they're going to do something illicit and spurs Makoto on. Moreover, when accosted by Genocide Jill about lewdness, she can only blush and stammer in response. |
| 161 | * DespairEventHorizon: She crosses it when Sakura dies. ''Barely'' returns from it. |
| 162 | * TheDitz: She admits to forgetting things a lot, particularly names. She also thinks practicing Yoga enough will let her [[Franchise/StreetFighter breathe fire and become stretchy]], as heard from getting the wrong answer in one of her first Free-Time Event. |
| 163 | * DubNameChange: "Hina," which keeps her on a LastNameBasis unlike everyone else in the official dubs of the games. |
| 164 | * DudeMagnet: Not terribly evident in game, but in the "Bad ending", Byakuya, Makoto and Yasuhiro all have kids with her. Of course, the other option was Toko Fukawa... |
| 165 | * DumbassHasAPoint: She's not the brightest, but she's correct when pointing out that if Monokuma is willing to reveal Sakura's status as a mole, that means he probably can no longer use her ''as'' TheMole, meaning she turned against him. |
| 166 | * EasilyForgiven: The others are [[EvilCannotComprehendGood quick to defy Monokuma's expectations and forgive her for trying to get them all killed]], recognizing that it was ''his'' fault she attempted so in the first place. |
| 167 | * EmbarrassingNickname: During the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Ultimate Talent Development Plan]] and ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she doesn't take too well with Tenko calling her "Master of the Water", "Guru of the Sea" or "Senior of the Sea". |
| 168 | * EvilGloating: The ''last'' person you'd expect to engage in this, but when Yasuhiro is being cornered in the fourth trial as the culprit, she makes sure to vindictively tell him he's going to die for killing Sakura (which becomes more disturbing if you think that she's actually talking to everyone). Her need to persecute quicker than usual like this ends up tipping everyone off that she's lying about something. |
| 169 | * ExplainExplainOhCrap: When it dawns on her that Celeste only took her to the bathroom to help her accomplice Hifumi sneak out of the nurse's office. |
| 170 | -->'''Makoto:''' Hina, you were with Celeste when Hifumi's body disappeared, right?\ |
| 171 | '''Aoi:''' Yeah, I was feeling kinda sick, so Celeste took me to the bathroom... ({{Beat}}) ...Wait! Then that was-!? |
| 172 | * ExpressiveHair: Her ponytail gets spiky when she's angry and droops down when she's sad. |
| 173 | * FalseFriend: Byakuya attempts to accuse her of being this to Sakura, driven by a selfish desire to escape. [[SubvertedTrope The opposite ended up being truer than he ever imagined]]. |
| 174 | * FatalFlaw: Her credulity; Asahina is a trusting person and doesn't question things told to her very often, especially when she's under the mental stress of the killing game. This makes it easy for Monokuma to manipulate her into thinking everyone drove Sakura to suicide just by planting a fake suicide note, with Monokuma even mocking her for [[FailedASpotCheck failing to notice that the letter in question didn't have a signature from Sakura]]. |
| 175 | * FemininityFailure: Though in a reversal, the one she goes to for advice on coming off more feminine [[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide is Naegi]]. As expected of the trope, this final Free-Time Event leads to a BeYourself [[AnAesop Aesop]]. |
| 176 | * FinalGirl: She's essentially this in the bad ending. With Kyoko's execution and Toko being KilledOffscreen, that leaves her as the only girl left. |
| 177 | * FirstNameBasis: She refers to Sakura by her first name with the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics "-chan" honorific.]] |
| 178 | * GenkiGirl: This leads to her BigEater tendencies, while also keeping her thin. |
| 179 | * GoshDangItToHeck: The worst her language ever gets is the occasional "crap." |
| 180 | * HandBehindHead: Her laughing sprite is this, even including the awkward head tilt. |
| 181 | * TheHeart: Alongside Makoto, she is the most emotionally grounded of the surviving students. |
| 182 | * HeroicBSOD: The later end of the final trial as the revelations pile up, particularly when she finds out that their friends were all killing each other [[AllForNothing over what they now know was a meaningless goal]]. With Makoto's help, she decides that Sakura would want her to challenge and overcome this adversity. |
| 183 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Sakura, and boy, does her death hit Aoi ''hard''. |
| 184 | * InnocentBlueEyes: She evokes the image well, while also being another trait she shares with Sakura (though hers are a tad [[IcyBlueEyes Icier]]). |
| 185 | * InSeriesNickname: Instead of saying "Aoi", which may be harder to pronounce, the first game's dub shortens her surname to "Hina". |
| 186 | * TheMcCoy: She is a very moral person who cares a lot about the group's general well-being and she tends to act on emotions and gut responses more than anyone else. |
| 187 | * MentorArchetype: During the [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony Ultimate Talent Development Plan]], Tenko asks her to be her swimming instructor which she enthusiastically agrees to. She admits that she actually hates it when Tenko actually calls her a mentor and would rather just be a friend. |
| 188 | * MsFanservice: Certain [[BuxomBeautyStandard attributes of hers tend to be front and center]], and she gets one of the most blatantly {{Fanservice}}y pictures. Though said picture could also be considered FanDisservice as it's of her crying after the outcomes of the first two chapters. Another example is the opening CG of Trial 1, in which you can look straight down her cleavage. The ending slide where they escape also shows that her short shorts show some cheek peeking out the bottom. |
| 189 | * MurderSuicide: Her plot in chapter 4 is murder-suicide via Monokuma. Since Sakura committed suicide, voting wrong would lead to ''all'' living students dying, Aoi included, but Aoi doesn't care because she blames all of them, herself included, for killing Sakura. |
| 190 | * NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Aoi ''hates'' it when people talk about others' deaths as though they were nothing. This causes her to clash sometimes with others in the group who postpone mourning until the crimes are solved. |
| 191 | * NiceGirl: Easily one of the friendliest and kindest students, which just makes what she goes through that much worse. |
| 192 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Because she read a fake suicide note written by Monokuma tricking her into thinking Sakura killed herself out of despair, that caused her to try to get everyone else punished in revenge. Subverted, though, because the other students decide to back Aoi up ''anyway'', and then they all decide to rally together against Monokuma, even the selfish prick Byakuya! So Aoi's scheme ended up causing something good after all! |
| 193 | * NobleBigot: {{Downplayed}}. Aoi generally comes off as a [[GenkiGirl Genki]] NiceGirl who's generally friendly with everyone, only really coming off as rude as [[BreakTheCutie the killing game goes on and more of group dies]]. However, it's also {{Implied}} that she's slightly homophobic, showing slight discomfort at Mondo and Taka's PseudoRomanticFriendship in Chapter 2. She's also hinted to possess some sexist views in Chapter 4, when she assumes Makoto, [[NiceGuy of]] [[ExtremeDoormat all]] [[TheParagon people]], was the one at fault in his falling out with Kyoko, and being quick to assume him wanting to talk to Sakura is him being some kind of womanizer moving onto her after Kyoko "dumped" him, giving him no chance to defend himself both times. However, this trait appears to largely be a product of the times and doesn't appear in later appearances. |
| 194 | * NobodysThatDumb: During the fifth trial, the students are discussing why the most recent corpse exploded when they tried to run the usual autopsy. Resident {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yasuhiro gives his take, and she calls him out on it. |
| 195 | -->'''Yasuhiro:''' I'll tell ya! I bet some unknown quantum particle caused an atomic-level spontaneous combustion!\ |
| 196 | '''Aoi:''' I might be dumb, but even I'm not dumb enough to believe that! |
| 197 | * OnlyFriend: Deconstructed with her and Sakura--out of all the students up to Chapter 4, Aoi was the only student (besides Makoto, depending on how frequently you did Free Time Events with her) who genuinely liked hanging out with Sakura, with everyone else avoiding her due to her intimidating appearance. During the trial, Aoi calls everyone out for treating Sakura as badly as they did, refusing to accept her apologies when she was revealed as TheMole and, in Yasuhiro's case, outright treating her like she wasn't even ''human''. |
| 198 | * OnlySaneMan: Disregarding her {{Plucky Girl}} personality, she becomes this later on, mostly in regards to [[CloudCuckooLander Yasuhiro]] and [[ExtremeDoormat Toko]]/[[EvilIsHammy Jill]]. |
| 199 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: While it wasn't obvious to Makoto and Kyoko at first due to them being focused on investigating Sakura's body, they both realize something wasn't right about Hina's behavior when they recall how she left the room to supposedly get everyone else, rather than be the first to run up to Sakura's body after they entered the room despite being her closest friend. This was because Hina already knew Sakura was dead and was planning her revenge on those she deemed responsible. |
| 200 | * OpinionFlipFlop: Does this in Case 4, being quick to target Hiro as the culprit when he's revealed to have had a candy wrapper she gave Sakura, only to immediately switch to Toko when he brings up his forged dying message, then back to him when it's rebuked, then back to Toko/Jill when it's proven he couldn't have done it. This is of course because she knows the truth that Sakura killed herself and, motivated by a forged suicide note, is attempting to [[TakingYouWithMe have them vote wrong and take all the students down with her to avenge Sakura]]. |
| 201 | * OutOfFocus: The six survivors all enjoy some form of furthered {{character development}} post game besides her. Makoto continues to be a major figure after becoming the Ultimate Hope and has his own short story from before that new title was earned, Byakuya receives a major level of importance in both sequels along with a novel, Kyoko has her own 7-part series of prequel novels, Toko became a playable character in ''Ultra Despair Girls'' and Yasuhiro has his own short story within that game as well. As for her, besides joining Future Foundation like everyone else, her situation had remained rather static in the five real-time years since escaping the school, with the closest being her brother demonstrating their family's athleticism in ''Ultra Despair Girls'' (and even then, he wasn't nearly as important to the plot as Yasuhiro's mom). Then the very first poster revealing ''The End of Hope's Peak Academy'' finally averted this, with her given top billing next to Makoto, opposite Kyoko. [[Anime/DanganRonpa3 See the page and its subpages for more details]]. |
| 202 | * PalmFistTap: She has a sprite for this, usually used for when she's figured something out. |
| 203 | * PassionateSportsGirl: She's in ''six'' different Sports Clubs and is excellent in all of them. She's just the best at swimming. |
| 204 | * PlayfulCatSmile: Smiles like a cat when particularly excited, and often paired with her holding up her hands close to her face like paws. |
| 205 | * PluckyGirl: |
| 206 | ** In the climax, when everyone has resolved to leave the school and go into the apocalyptic world, Aoi cites as her reason that she wants to open up her own donut shop. When she's asked what she's going to do if there are no donut shops left, she says she'll just use her own donuts. Well, what if there aren't any donuts? Then she'll make donuts using flour! Well, what if there's no flour? Then she'll just make flour using wheat, and then make donuts! |
| 207 | ** Anyone playing School Mode would assume there'd be a bad reaction waiting for them when telling her she's put on weight, like with any normal girl. Not her: she takes it ''as a challenge'', then insists Makoto to join her in her exercises to be fair. This ends up being one of her ''best'' reactions. |
| 208 | * RunningGag: Several of her free time events end with Makoto telling to himself that 'almost before she was done talking, she took off like a bat out of hell." More often than not, it involves food. |
| 209 | * ShipperOnDeck: |
| 210 | ** After the trial in Chapter 3, when Makoto and Kyoko are about to enter the bath to relocate Alter Ego, Aoi mistakes them for going in for...different reasons. She then happily [[LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone leaves them alone]], but not before encouraging Makoto to make the first move. |
| 211 | ** In ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'', she is delighted when she and Makoto walk in on Kyoko tenderly speaking about Makoto's virtues to Ryota. |
| 212 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: In the bad ending, she's the only female left after Kyoko gets executed and Toko is KilledOffscreen. |
| 213 | * SpannerInTheWorks: She would've dismantled Sayaka's plan no matter who walked out of the murder scene by virtue of merely sitting in the dining hall when the knife went missing. The anime even puts her in the actual kitchen at the time, rather than noticing the missing knife while washing her teacup. She also decides to put on the Robo Justice costume to prove a point against Yasuhiro, which leads to everyone figuring out it couldn't bend at the waist. |
| 214 | * SpiritedCompetitor: Makoto believes that Aoi is such a good athlete because she lives for the competition and struggle of any given sport. |
| 215 | * SuicideByCop: Attempts this during the fourth class trial by framing ''herself'' as the killer, hoping the others will vote for her. |
| 216 | * SweetTooth: Along with her love of donuts, she keeps an industrial-sized box of candy she found in the warehouse in the room simply because she couldn't stand the thought of not being able to eat all of them. |
| 217 | * SwissArmyTears: Invoked in Chapter 3. It doesn't work, because ThisIsReality. |
| 218 | * SympathyForTheDevil: {{Implied}}. While she's DisappointedByTheMotive and calls her out on her actions, she asks how Celeste [[FaceDeathWithDignity can be so calm when she's about to be]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath executed]], even starting to cry when questioning her on it. |
| 219 | * TakingYouWithMe: She blames everyone, including herself, for pushing Sakura to commit suicide, and tries to frame ''herself'' for her death so that everyone would be punished for getting the culprit wrong. |
| 220 | * TankTopTomboy: One of the only girls in the franchise to wear a tank, and it reflects in her tomboyish nature. |
| 221 | * TomboyAngst: She confides to Makoto in her final Free Time event that she's aware she's not very feminine and wants to change it, citing that she's never even been in love before. Makoto, naturally, tells her that she's fine the way she is. |
| 222 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Her long hair was intended to invoke this, even though she wears it in a ponytail to keep it from interfering with her active lifestyle. |
| 223 | * TomboyishPonytail: Well she is a ''very'' sporty girl with issues about her own "Femininity". When Makoto asks in School Mode if she ever lets her hair out of the ponytail, she blushes and gets flustered and embarrassed almost like he's asking her to undress. |
| 224 | * TookALevelInJerkass: {{Downplayed}} and {{Justified}}. When Sayaka is murdered and Makoto becomes the prime suspect after her body is found in his room, Hina opts to take a more skeptic stance towards whether or not he is the culprit despite all the signs pointing at him, wanting there to be an investigation first before she starts flinging accusations. Later on in Case 3 after five students are dead, she tries to retain her peppy demeanor but when a mysterious masked figure kills Hifumi and Taka, the former of whom [[DiedInYourArmsTonight died in her arms]], she's quick to believe that Hagakure is the murderer when he's found in the "Robo-Justice" Suit, never giving him a proper chance to defend himself. {{Justified}} since the stress of the Killing Game is clearly getting to her and, unlike with Makoto, there is more, albeit not flawless, evidence pointing at Hiro. |
| 225 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Donuts, donuts, oh, and donuts. |
| 226 | * TraumaCongaLine: |
| 227 | ** Aoi is too much of a NiceGirl to really adapt to life in a killing game. The deaths hit her harder than most and her mental health begins to decline after the second class trial, which isn't helped by mistaking Alter Ego for Chihiro's ghost and becoming convinced she is being haunted. Then Sakura, her best friend, is revealed to be the traitor and commits suicide shortly after everyone ostracizes them. In the fourth trial, Aoi attempts to frame ''herself'' for the murder to take out everyone, believing them all responsible for Sakura's death, only to learn that she was being manipulated by Monokuma who forged Sakura's suicide note. She gets [[HopeSpot a little better]] when the remaining students rally around her rather than turn on her after the trial like she thought they would. But then in the final trial, she nearly slides over the DespairEventHorizon after TheReveal and just barely gets pulled back from the brink by Makoto. |
| 228 | ** Whilst she doesn't make an appearance, her suffering continues in ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'' when her little brother Yuta, who was the most important person in her life and in her motive video, dies in an explosion after he swims outside of Towa City's limits. |
| 229 | ** Then in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'', she gets trapped in [[HereWeGoAgain another killing game]]... |
| 230 | * TroubledFetalPosition: Does a variation where she's curled around a pillow on her bed. |
| 231 | * UnwittingPawn: In Chapter 4, to Monokuma. |
| 232 | * UndercoverAsLovers: In Aoi's last Free Time Event, she begs Makoto to ''pretend to be her boyfriend'', so she can teach herself how to act should she ever be in a romantic relationship for real. Makoto reluctantly agrees, but HilarityEnsues as Aoi seems to forget that she's just supposed to act like Makoto's "girlfriend." She messes up twice; first she acts like his ''housewife'', and then she acts like his ''mistress'', complete with demanding to know why he hasn't kept his promise to leave his wife for her! Eventually Makoto just tells her that there's no real "right way to act" in a relationship, and Aoi's great just the way she is, which cheers her up immensely. |
| 233 | * WantingIsBetterThanHaving: She declares in a Free-Time Event that success feels lonely and that she prefers the feeling of struggling towards her goal. |
| 234 | * TheWatson: Along with Yasuhiro, she tends to be the one asking for explanations on things more savvy characters like Kyoko and Byakuya understand. |
| 235 | * WeightWoe: Her weight is said to 'fluctuate' in the guidebook, and her BigEater tendencies, mixed with her self-consciousness about her femininity would suggest this. |
| 236 | * WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Very briefly, after Sakura's death. Due to Monokuma's manipulations, she comes to believe everyone in the school is responsible for her suicide and decides to intentionally convict herself, [[SuicideByCop killing her]] along with the rest of the students. After it comes out that it was a way to defy Monokuma, however, and the others reveal they blame him and not her, she gets better. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Toko Fukawa]] |
| 240 | [[WMG:Toko Fukawa]] |
| 241 | !!!Ultimate Writing Prodigy |
| 242 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fukawa_art.png]] |
| 243 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Stop staring at me like I'm some filthy creature!''"]] |
| 244 | |
| 245 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (Japanese), Creator/AmandaCelineMiller (Toko), Creator/ErinFitzgerald (Genocide Jack) (game), Creator/CarliMosier (anime - English) |
| 246 | ->'''Played by:''' Hikaru Ohsawa, Kanon Nanaki (stage) |
| 247 | |
| 248 | A famous romance novelist who has been writing bestselling books since before she was ten years old. However, she has never had a friend, much less a real romance. Having been bullied as a child, she has [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex a severe persecution complex]] and always assumes that people think the worst of her. Because of this, [[NoSocialSkills she's extremely pessimistic and slow to trust others]]. She has [[SplitPersonality Dissociative Identity Disorder]], with her other persona being "Genocide Jack/Jill", an infamous serial killer that awakens whenever she sees blood and reverts when she sneezes. Jill is a textbook maniacal psychopath, but befitting of a serial killer is highly intelligent and methodical. She survives the final trial and escapes the school with the other surviving students. |
| 249 | ---- |
| 250 | ->[[Characters/DanganronpaTokoFukawa Click here to see her page]] |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Sakura Ogami]] |
| 254 | [[WMG:Sakura Ogami]] |
| 255 | !!!Ultimate Martial Artist |
| 256 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ogami_art.png]] |
| 257 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"If you're overpowered, you must accept your death. That is the only way of my family."'']] |
| 258 | |
| 259 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{Kujira}} (Japanese), Creator/JessicaGeeGeorge (game), Creator/RachelRobinson (anime - English) |
| 260 | ->'''Played by:''' Yukie Yamaguchi, Shizuyo Yamasaki (stage) |
| 261 | |
| 262 | An MMA champion whose family has operated a famous dojo for 300 years. Despite her intimidating appearance, Sakura is level-headed and polite. She spends most of her time exercising and drinks a lot of protein coffee. Her size and strength make her a perfect candidate for guarding crime scenes. She's been nicknamed "the Ogre" online. She is blackmailed into acting as Monokuma's mole within the group. However, she decides to rebel against him and commits suicide after breaking the door to the Headmaster's Office, making her both the victim and the culprit of Chapter 4. |
| 263 | ---- |
| 264 | * ActionGirl: And one of the few with the muscles and scars to prove it. |
| 265 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Subjected to this after Monokuma outs her as TheMole in Chapter 4, with Aoi and Makoto being the only ones willing to spend time with and defend her. |
| 266 | * AlwaysSomeoneBetter: As strong as Sakura is, her free time events reveal that there was one person she could never beat. That person was her boyfriend, Kenichirou. |
| 267 | * ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: Watching her fight ''may'' give this impression, though she doesn't perform any feats that an actual athlete wouldn't be capable of from years of training. Amusingly, she reveals in School Mode that she generally avoids reading {{Shonen}} manga for this very reason, as not to give anyone the wrong impression. |
| 268 | * BadassBookworm: In School Mode, Sakura is shown to really enjoy libraries. |
| 269 | * BattleAura: She can create these in certain sprites. |
| 270 | * BerserkButton: Threatening Aoi is one of the few things that will get her truly angry. |
| 271 | * TheBigGirl: Sakura is easily the largest and strongest student, and tasks that require someone physically capable are typically deferred to her. |
| 272 | * BirdsOfAFeather: With fellow muscular GentleGiant Nekomaru thanks to their introspectiveness and skill at fighting. |
| 273 | * BloodKnight: Downplayed. She's far gentler than the usual bloodthirstiness implied by this trope. She simply describes fighting as her destiny. She constantly accepts Akane's challenges because she sees no real reason to turn her down. She also desires to fight [[BrokenAce Izuru Kamakura]], wanting to see how his fighting skills compare to her own. |
| 274 | * BrawnHilda: Naturally, since she looks like [[Franchise/StreetFighter Akuma]] in a schoolgirl uniform. |
| 275 | * CoolBigSis: Towards Aoi, at least, though the rest of the students find her too intimidating to see her as such until after she dies. |
| 276 | * DefiantToTheEnd: When Monokuma presents her with a conflict of loyalty she decides to TakeAThirdOption and handles the situation like a Samurai. |
| 277 | * DrivenToSuicide: "Like a Samurai" as in committing suicide (though with poison instead of {{Seppuku}}). |
| 278 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: Sakura could be said to have won the game posthumously, as her suicide is what brings the series of murders to a screeching halt, to the point where the mastermind has to ''fake'' a murder to even bring the students to another trial. Just as Sakura planned. |
| 279 | * FaceOfAThug: Looks scary as hell, is actually quite amiable and one of the nicest members of the cast. |
| 280 | * FriendlessBackground: Implied to have had this, due to her scary appearance and her overall dedication to martial arts to the exclusion of much else in her life. In her suicide note, she says that Aoi and the other students were her first real friends. |
| 281 | * GenderIsNoObject: She admits to Chihiro that a major goal of hers as a martial artist is to break gender roles. |
| 282 | * GeniusBruiser: Not only does she frequently pick up on things others do not, her suicide is also by far the hardest murder to decode, as it defies both Byakuya's expectations of the whole "betrayal of friendship" that has been applicable to every trial so far and has a total of ''4'' (counting Genocide Jill) red herrings. Of course, she had intended things to be more straightforward, but Monokuma couldn't resist planting a fake suicide note. |
| 283 | * GentleGiant: She's the tallest and physically strongest of the students, and despite her intimidating appearance and extensive knowledge of how to kick people's asses, she's actually quite a nice person, though she's quiet and somewhat aloof. There are few things that can make her angry enough to be not so gentle. |
| 284 | * GlowingEyes: Typically as a part of her BattleAura. |
| 285 | * GoodbyeCruelWorld: She leaves a suicide note for the other students explaining why she chose to kill herself. Initially, Monokuma replaces it with one that makes it appear that she [[FaceDeathWithDespair "faced death with despair"]] due to the other students refusing to trust her once Monokuma outs her, but her ''actual'' suicide note was one to motivate the students. Monokuma stole it and replaced it to kill the remaining students through Aoi's relationship with her, but [[NiceJobFixingItVillain he reads the real note regardless]]. |
| 286 | * GoodIsNotSoft: One of the calmer, gentler students, but absolutely ferocious when fighting Monokuma. |
| 287 | * GoOutWithASmile: Sakura is so sure she made the right decision with her HeroicSacrifice that when her body is discovered, she's smiling peacefully. |
| 288 | * GoodScarsEvilScars: Of the good scars variety. |
| 289 | * HandwrapsOfAwesome: A key part of her design. She even has them on her calves, going up to her knees. |
| 290 | * HeirToTheDojo: Naturally, as an Ultimate Martial Artist. Monokuma attempts to blackmail her into cooperating with him by threatening her dojo. |
| 291 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: Makoto is warned to "stay away from her at all costs" before coming to Hope's Peak, stemming from her fearsome reputation as the "Ogre". However, she's actually rather gentle and retiring in person, just incredibly dedicated to her talent. Ironically, her only actual bad action (becoming Monokuma's mole) happens ''after'' the students become trapped in the school, and furthermore she's able to avoid detection for so long because she's so likeable and honest that no-one thinks to suspect her. |
| 292 | * HeroicSacrifice: Commits [[HeroicSuicide suicide]] as a way of breaking the mastermind's hold on the other students. Noticeably, there are ''zero'' actual murders after her death. Not only did her suicide get even Byakuya (and by extension, Toko/Genocide Jill) to stand and rally against Monokuma, but she managed to break open the headmaster's lock before committing suicide which allowed Kyoko to gain access to it. |
| 293 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: With Aoi, who bordered on being her OnlyFriend. |
| 294 | * HiddenDepths: Despite her brawny appearance, Sakura is actually very calm, collected, and highly intelligent. She's also not at all averse to feminine dress and pursuits, just so long as they don't get in the way of her martial arts training. It's frequently hinted that she likes flowers, for example, making "Sakura" something of a MeaningfulName. |
| 295 | * HugeSchoolgirl: Huge is an understatement; she's a whopping 192 cm (roughly 6'3'') tall. [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6eonzW2a61qb59nf.jpg Though it seems it was a rather... recent development]]. |
| 296 | * HumbleHero: States early on that she's no good at investigations and will trust whatever conclusion the others come to. She also doesn't think of herself as the world's best martial artist, since she has yet to defeat her boyfriend Kenichiro (who is currently seriously ill and in no state to challenge her). |
| 297 | * IWasQuiteALooker: [[https://i.redd.it/g3dulgfilv851.jpg She used to be more waifish]] before gaining her iconic muscle mass. Although for her boyfriend Kenchiro and quite a few players, she's an AmazonianBeauty. |
| 298 | * IcyBlueEyes: They're intended to make her look strong and focused, while still being feminine. |
| 299 | * InconsistentSpelling: The Orenrenon translation spells her name as "Oogami" and this has stuck with the pre-2013 fandom, though in other places it will occasionally be spelled as "Ookami". In addition, NISA uses Ogami, while the anime itself uses Ohgami. |
| 300 | * ItWasAGift: [[http://s415.photobucket.com/user/TheIneffablePlan/media/DR%20Artbook%20Translations/CHARACTERPROFILING-OogamiSakura.png.html According to the art book]], the red uniform scarf she always wears was this between her and Kenichiro. |
| 301 | * LadyLooksLikeADude: Makoto and Kiyotaka mistake her for a male bodybuilder at first. |
| 302 | * LadyOfWar: In personality, though not in fighting style or appearance. |
| 303 | * LoopholeAbuse: As Monokuma ordered, she did kill someone. However, she decided to kill herself, which she not only believes will end the disharmony among the students, but will also keep up her end of the deal, ensuring the safety of her family's Dojo. |
| 304 | * TheLostLenore: Her boyfriend, Kenichirou, is this to her. He was the only person she couldn't defeat in a fight despite the fact that he was terminally ill and was given six months to live. Though Sakura states that he's still alive despite that, what makes it even more heartbreaking is that he's most likely dead by the time she commits suicide. |
| 305 | ** VideoGame/UltraDespairGirls reveals that he's still alive after ''two and a half years''. Which makes Sakura TheLostLenore. |
| 306 | * MadeOfIron: She takes not one, but ''two'' instances of GrievousBottleyHarm to the head in quick succession and ''lives''. |
| 307 | * MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: According to School Mode, she's done this at one point. |
| 308 | * MistakenForMurderer: This was the reason for Yasuhiro's retaliation with the Monokuma bottle in the fourth case, with him thinking she was going to kill him. |
| 309 | * TheMole: Was blackmailed by Monokuma into being this, as revealed by Chapter 4. |
| 310 | * NiceGirl: Despite her frightening appearance, she's one of the most calm, levelheaded and polite students in the group. Just, y'know, [[BerserkButton don't threaten Aoi]]. Even when she's revealed as TheMole, she's very quiet and apologetic over it, and even tries to make amends with Hiro, Toko and Byakuya before killing herself. |
| 311 | * NonStandardCharacterDesign: In comparison to the other students, she looks like a piece of ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' concept art. |
| 312 | * RasputinianDeath: Hit twice directly on the head [[GrievousBottleyHarm with a heavy, thick bottle]] by two different people (Yashuhiro and Toko (as Genocide Jack)) with enough force to shatter said bottle each time. Normally, that'd be more than enough to kill any normal person, but in this case, Sakura only dies after ingesting poison herself. |
| 313 | * RedBaron: In online circles, she's known as "the Ogre", a pun on her last name. Yasuhiro doesn't call her anything else. |
| 314 | * ReformedButRejected: Monokuma counts on Sakura being this in providing a murder motive in Chapter 4. Indeed, up until her suicide, only Aoi and Makoto (and maybe Kyoko) seemed to genuinely be interested in trusting her again. Aoi, under the impression that this was Sakura's motivation to commit suicide then tries to get everyone killed during the trial in response. Her real SuicideNote finally puts an end to the idea that this was her motivation. |
| 315 | * RegretfulTraitor: She really doesn't want to hurt anyone, but Monokuma has her family's dojo, which is extremely important to her, hostage. After befriending the other students, she regrets even considering killing one of them and instead betrays Monokuma. |
| 316 | * RuggedScar: She has three unexplained claw marks on her right shoulder that look like a large animal could have left them, with another going across the bridge of her nose. To say the least, all that training seems to have taken quite a toll. |
| 317 | * SacrificialLion: By choice. |
| 318 | * SailorFuku: This serves as one of the few indicators that she's female at first glance. |
| 319 | * SleevesAreForWimps: Her arms are simply too muscled for mere sleeves to contain. |
| 320 | * SmarterThanTheyLook: From her appearance alone that she might be DumbMuscle, but she's actually far more wise and mature than her fellow classmates. |
| 321 | * TheStoic: With one exception: she screams bloody murder with a shocked expression on her face when she discovers that cute little Chihiro is a ''man''! |
| 322 | * SuicideNotMurder: This is the solution to the LockedRoomMystery (and, relatedly, why she was sitting in a natural pose and was [[GoOutWithASmile smiling]]); Sakura barred the room to make it obvious that she'd killed herself, since no one could've reached her inside of the locked room. Unfortunately, due to Toko and Yasuhiro's shenanigans and Aoi's meddling, it takes a ''long'' time to prove it. The locked room ''did'' work, as part of the reason Kyoko remains suspicious of Aoi is because despite claiming to be the culprit, she can't explain how she would've created the locked room. |
| 323 | * TakeAThirdOption: It's eventually revealed at the end of case 4's trial that the reason Monokuma was able to persuade Sakura to be the mole was that Monokuma was holding Sakura's family's dojo hostage. She either had to kill someone and thus lose her moral integrity, or lose her family's dojo. What does she do? She kills ''herself'', which simultaneously satisfies the dojo-saving requirement of killing someone while preserving her moral integrity by not actually killing any of the others. |
| 324 | * TeamMom: Being likely the most mature of the group, Sakura generally tends to take it upon herself to keep everyone from descending into chaos and while she has outbursts of her own, she usually keeps a level head and almost saintlike patience even with her more rowdy classmates--this includes calmly volunteering to inspect Chihiro's body when the others are reluctant during the second trial's investigation and breaking up an argument between Hifumi and Kiyondo when the two are fighting over Alter Ego. Even her death turned out to be her trying to get her friends to stop fighting and band together. |
| 325 | * ThanatosGambit: She committed suicide as part of a gambit to defeat Monokuma. |
| 326 | ** Monokuma's latest motive was revealing her identity, causing increasingly-bad fights between those who believed in her and those who didn't. By killing herself, she removes this impetus for conflict without making anyone else the Blackened. |
| 327 | ** By committing suicide with the express purpose of screwing with Monokuma, she hopes to remind everyone that the true enemy of the game is the Mastermind, and their fellow students are other victims. |
| 328 | ** Since she knew she was going to kill herself anyway, she could break rules without fear; in this case, she broke the lock on the Headmaster's door, allowing the other students (specifically Kyoko) to enter one of the few places in school that Monokuma ''didn't'' want them in. |
| 329 | ** Monokuma's deal with her was that he'd release his hostages if she killed someone. By killing herself, she fulfills her end without becoming a murderer. |
| 330 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: She shouts this when she learns someone has harmed Aoi. |
| 331 | * TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Her favored gifts are an assortment of martial arts-related things (such as a book about shoulder lock techniques, a {{Sarashi}}, and boxing gloves) and girly items (Bunny Earmuffs, Kitten Hairclip, Rose In Vitro, et cetera). |
| 332 | * WildHair: The designers did this intentionally. It gives her a 'trained-in-the-mountains' look. |
| 333 | * WorldsStrongestWoman: In-series, she's officially the strongest person in the world. However, she doesn't actually consider herself to be this; rather, she believes that the strongest person in the world is her boyfriend, Kenichirou, since she's still never managed to defeat him. When he was sick in the hospital, he gave her the title of strongest person, and she plans to hold on to it until he's well again. To back up this claim, she's shown to be the only student that can put Mukuro at a disadvantage in ''IF'', outright being described as this. Keep in mind that Mukuro is the same person who never got a single scar in battle, the same person that ''3'' states is better than Peko, ''and'' believed she could beat Jill, Kirumi and Kaito at the same time in Danganronpa ''S''. |
| 334 | * YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: How her (very formal) speech was rendered in the LetsPlay at first; it made her sound like she came out of an old samurai drama, but didn't flow very well, so this was toned down. |
| 335 | * YoungerThanSheLooks: In addition to her ridiculous physique, she has much more mature facial features and comes off as more mature than most of the cast, but she is supposedly still a high schooler. |
| 336 | * YourAnswerToEverything: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dEyXxgccLA one yonkoma]], protein is hers for everything up to Sayaka's bad case of dead. |
| 337 | [[/folder]] |
| 338 | |
| 339 | [[folder:Celestia Ludenberg]] |
| 340 | [[WMG:Celestia "Celeste" Ludenberg (Taeko Yasuhiro)]] |
| 341 | !!!Ultimate Gambler |
| 342 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/celeste_art.png]] |
| 343 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"My lies must never be too extravagant..."'']] |
| 344 | |
| 345 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HekiruShiina (Japanese), Creator/MarieveHerington (game), Creator/LindsaySeidel (anime - English) |
| 346 | ->'''Played by:''' Reina Ikehata (stage) |
| 347 | |
| 348 | Also known as the "Queen of Liars," Celeste is renowned for her exemplary luck in games of chance. She's accumulated a sizable fortune by robbing anyone stupid enough to challenge her blind. She speaks softly and smiles often, but in a way that tends to creep out everyone around her. She also hides a surprisingly short temper and will start shouting (usually at [[ButtMonkey Hifumi]]) if she isn't pleased. She is the culprit of Chapter 3, tricking Hifumi into killing Kiyotaka before killing him herself and trying to frame Yasuhiro for it. She is exposed during the trial and executed by Monokuma, subjected to a faux "witch burning" that gets interrupted when Monokuma rams a fire truck into her. |
| 349 | ---- |
| 350 | ->[[Characters/DanganronpaCelestiaLudenberg Click to see her page]] |
| 351 | [[/folder]] |
| 352 | |
| 353 | [[folder:Junko Enoshima]] |
| 354 | [[WMG:"Junko Enoshima"]] |
| 355 | !!!"Ultimate Fashionista" |
| 356 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/junko_enoshima_dr1.png]] |
| 357 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Oh, are you talking about my cover photos and junk? Ahaha, well of course! Those are totally photoshopped."'']] |
| 358 | |
| 359 | ->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MegumiToyoguchi (Japanese), Creator/AmandaCelineMiller (game), Creator/JamieMarchi (anime - English) |
| 360 | ->'''Played by:''' Sayaka Kanda (stage) |
| 361 | |
| 362 | A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogal kogal]] who took Japan by storm with her extravagant tastes in fashion. Junko has wanted to be a model ever since she was a child but confesses that she wishes to try new things. She attacks Monokuma following Sayaka's murder, and he kills her in return because she broke a rule. However, it is revealed that the late "Junko" was ''actually'' Mukuro Ikusaba, the older fraternal twin sister of the real Junko Enoshima—with whom she pulled a TwinSwitch. Her corpse is used to fake a murder in Chapter 5, and tropes specific to her true identity as Mukuro belong in "The 16th Student" folder. |
| 363 | ---- |
| 364 | * BeYourself: In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she has an interaction with "[[TheParagon Ultimate Counselor]]", as Fuyuhiko jokingly calls him in Free Time, Hajime. She was wondering what to do with herself after graduating and bumped into Hajime while in the store and was having a crisis of identity at the time and Hajime tells her this trope, which cheers her up (and also nudges her to potentially have a HeelFaceTurn). |
| 365 | -->'''Hajime:''' You clearly want to be yourself, right? I'm sure you'll find potential if you're true to yourself. |
| 366 | * BecomingTheMask: |
| 367 | ** She grows conflicted with the mastermind's plan in School Mode if you get her relationship values high enough. Even if you get her ending, she doesn't take off her disguise (though she might plan to in the future) because "Junko" is who Makoto has come to know at that point. |
| 368 | --->'''"Junko":''' When you look at me, when I feel your hand in mine... I know that... I'm real. |
| 369 | ** In ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she also grows conflicted and in her "My Future", contemplates doing a HeelFaceTurn and defending her classmates from Junko. An interaction with Mondo earlier has them discussing on if they could change their avatars, with her mentioning possibly going with a "more of a serious kind of look", implied to be Mukuro's actual look. |
| 370 | * BrutalHonesty: Aside from never censoring herself, she shows no fear of offending anyone. |
| 371 | * BunniesForCuteness: Though she's probably speaking about her sister's experiences rather than her own, she claims to have a room overflowing with bunny accessories in School Mode due to once saying she liked them in a magazine interview. |
| 372 | -->'''Makoto:''' I'd rather have rabbits than chickens...\ |
| 373 | '''"Junko":''' Yeah! Bunnies are totally cute, right? There’s even one on my hairtie. Did you notice? I even did a magazine spread where I talked about what kind of bunny presents I'd like to get. And thanks to that, my room's a total disaster zone now! Someone even sent me a rabbit bigger than me! Ya know... you're like a cute, wide-eyed, helpless little bunny. [[TheTease You mind if I... devour you?]]\ |
| 374 | '''Makoto:''' I-I'll pass, thanks... |
| 375 | * ChekhovsGunman: She's the only student to get killed '''directly''' by Monokuma outside of a class trial. Naturally, there's more to her death than meets the eye. |
| 376 | * CheshireCatGrin: Her smile is rather off-putting, though it can be nice during calmer moments like in School Mode, ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'' and ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', when you realize it's Mukuro actually having fun for the most part, considering her DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 377 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She used to be homeless as she grew up. While being homeless is already bad enough, she was apparently homeless in a place where lots of men preyed on innocent and helpless girls--prompting her to describe life as being a war zone for her back then. In hindsight, it's a ''major'' hint to who she really is. |
| 378 | * DecoyProtagonist: Much like Sayaka, she's seemingly hunted to serve as one of the deuteragonists during Chapter 1. However, she ends up killed right after Sayaka after attacking Monokuma. Her position is replaced by Byakuya. |
| 379 | * DistinguishingMark: She has a tattoo on her right hand, which proves to be important later on. Subverted in that it was easily concealed with foundation while she was alive. |
| 380 | * DumbBlonde: She reacts badly to Makoto assuming she doesn't read much in School Mode's library (even though her other dialogue options make it clear that she, in fact, doesn't). Since her hair is a wig and her natural hair color is raven black, she may just be defending her sister--who's implied to dye hers. |
| 381 | -->"[[SarcasmMode Oh yeah, I totally don't care about stuff like that. I'm just, like, a total bimbo]]. ...Seriously, don't just make stupid assumptions like that." |
| 382 | * EquipmentSpoiler: This [[http://i.imgur.com/khr476f.jpg yonkoma]] illustrates "Junko's" uncanny love of rations... |
| 383 | * TheFashionista: Her apparent title. |
| 384 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: |
| 385 | ** After he meets her for what he thinks is the first time, Makoto remarks that "Junko" looks a bit different than she appears in her modeling photos. "Junko" brushes this off by claiming that it's because of digital post-production- something that ''does'' happen a lot in the fashion industry, but isn't what's happening here... |
| 386 | ** She's one of four students who don't invite Makoto to their room at the end of their Free Time Event path, with Sayaka and Kyoko's rooms being visited in-story; as for Byakuya, he [[FriendshipDenial outright tells Makoto they're not friends]] in his final event. |
| 387 | ** Since her brief presence means she never participates in any class trial, it becomes a bit harder to see her boots from the position of the game's views of character sprites, though you can get a good view when she's stepping on Monokuma. During the fifth investigation, her boots are one of the only distinguishing features visible from underneath the white tarp. |
| 388 | ** Her favorite gifts include a set of field rations, which is a bit strange for a model... but makes much more sense for a soldier. |
| 389 | ** While most characters have ExpressiveHair, "Junko's" hair stays stiff in her portraits regardless of her current emotional state because it's actually a wig; the real Junko ''does'' have ExpressiveHair. |
| 390 | ** She's confused when she's executed and says "this wasn't supposed to happen." This implies that there ''was'' a different way it was "supposed" to go and she knew it; plus, she'd been something of an OnlySaneMan previously, so what made her suddenly decide to attack Monokuma even ''after'' he'd proven with Mondo that he's willing to kill students who do that? |
| 391 | ** During the sixth investigation, Byakuya uncovers the rest of Mukuro's profile, which includes measurements that match up with the "Junko" you've known until then. |
| 392 | * GamerChick: In School Mode, she's just about the only girl Makoto can talk about video games with, and she mentions being a fan of [[FirstPersonShooter first-person shooters]] (a notably rare thing for a Japanese gamer to like), which only serves to further hint that she's a soldier. "Junko" even asks him if the first-person graphics make him sick. |
| 393 | * GeekReferencePool: |
| 394 | ** She reveals an unfortunate level of ignorance regarding anime when the subject is brought up in School Mode. |
| 395 | --->"Ahh, are you the kinda guy who's all into {{moe}} and [[HaremGenre harems]] and junk? People like that are always super mean to me for some reason. Honestly, I don't know how to deal with them..." |
| 396 | ** An alternative interpretation would be that she's familiar enough with anime to identify moe and harem as tropes. What's more, it's difficult to deduce which option it is due to the lines' nature as throwaway lines. |
| 397 | * GyaruGirl: In Japanese, her title is the Super High School Level Gyaru. Being of the kogal variety, she wears a modified school uniform with a short skirt and long platform boots. |
| 398 | * HairColorDissonance: Said to have blonde hair and is described as such in the ''Danganronpa'' novels, but in pictures, her hair seems to appear more pink or strawberry blonde upon close examination. |
| 399 | * HeelFaceTurn: In her "My Future" sequence in ''Ultimate Summer Camp'', she considers doing this to give Junko more despair by defending her classmates from Junko, just like in ''Trigger Happy Havoc IF''. |
| 400 | * HopeSproutsEternal: An experience of this nature is alluded to in School Mode's garden. |
| 401 | -->'''Makoto:''' Do you have a favorite flower?\ |
| 402 | '''"Junko":''' Not really... I mean, to be honest... whether or not a flower is pretty depends on the situation, right? It's like... One lone flower on the battlefield, or you almost step on one but pull back at the last second. I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean... |
| 403 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: |
| 404 | ** "Junko" attacks Monokuma, breaking one of his rules. To punish her for her defiance, Monokuma summons the Spears of Gungnir... which come out of ''friggin' nowhere'' before they fatally impale "Junko" through her chest and abdomen. |
| 405 | ** In ''[[TheAnimeOfTheGame Danganronpa: The Animation]]'', "Junko" gets impaled through her chest, her stomach, her shoulders, and ''her thighs''. '''[[HumanPincushion YIKES]]'''. Furthermore, it shows some of the spears as having popped out of the gym's floor, which ''opened up in multiple places near her feet so those spears wouldn't damage it while they're deployed!'' |
| 406 | * LikeIsLikeAComma: Quite a bit of her dialogue gets translated into English like this, though it's not as overt as other examples. |
| 407 | * TheMatchmaker: If Makoto does enough free time segments with "Junko," she pegs him as a "herbivore man" (not literally; she means he's likely to be "the passive one" in relationships) and promises to hook him up with a "carnivore girl." This is because Makoto was surprisingly perceptive about how annoyed "Junko" felt in regards to having so many men lusting after her, and hooking him up is how she plans to reward him. Given her true identity and her crush on Makoto, it is possible "Junko" was trying to hook him up with herself, which could be an indication of her hidden desire for the [[DeadlyGame "mutual killing"]] to end before she and Makoto die as a result of it. |
| 408 | * MundaneLuxury: In School Mode, she tells Makoto not to be a PickyEater after he says a Japanese breakfast is the best, saying that anything edible is good enough and that a hot meal is a luxury. It's something a soldier might say about food... |
| 409 | * NervousWreck: Despite the aura of confidence her character needs to project, she also panics easily and speaks in a way likely to spread distress among the group (the number of times she bellows "This is bad!" serving as a good example[[note]]it should probably be noted that she's originally bellowing "yabai," which means annoying, inconvenient, or dangerous/risky[[/note]]). Celeste tells her early on that this attitude will get her killed, but with what gets learned about her later on, the whole thing is likely intentional. |
| 410 | * NiceGirl: An interesting case, given her [[WorldsBestWarrior actual Ultimate title]] and [[TheSociopath who she's impersonating]]. It may be Mukuro's actual kindness or how Junko acts when around people to hide her actual personality, or, more likely a combination. |
| 411 | * OddFriendship: She becomes friends with Rantaro in ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'' over having done a lot of travelling in dangerous areas and also that they look like people who ReallyGetsAround, but actually aren't. |
| 412 | * OffTheRails: If you think of the mastermind as the [[DeadlyGame killing game]]'s master and her as TheDragon HiddenInPlainSight, School Mode is this for her—as she [[SayingTooMuch says too much]] and proves how she's terrible at improvising, especially after she went so far off-script. Her Trigger Happy Heart event sees her complaining about how much their plan has been compromised. |
| 413 | * OnlySaneMan: Is one of the few students to keep their head on straight after Monokuma announces the killing game. |
| 414 | * PaperThinDisguise: Part of the reason Junko killed her off is that she ''really'' wasn't a good actor and would have given herself away sooner or later, and the disguise only worked in the first place because no one had ever met Junko in person (well, not that they remembered) and wouldn't know exactly what to expect outside of her model work, and those could be brushed off as having been photoshopped. One yonkoma comic has Makoto [[BrutalHonesty bluntly agreeing]] with Junko that she was a hopeless actor (citing her love for rations and her difficulty with doing make-up). ''Ultimate Summer Camp'' dials this back, likely because she's been playing as Junko for ''three years'' by that point, though she still occasionally slips up, like revealing superhuman reflexes in grabbing a bug for Gonta or complimenting Peko's footwork when she does a swordwork display, and Ibuki notes when she sees "Junko" in a bikini that she's got a body that could "stop a train". Akane's GutFeeling also tells her that "Junko" would be a good fight in ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'', and sometimes pesters her to spar. |
| 415 | * PetTheDog: She successfully persuades ''Byakuya'' to let her and their classmates use one of his private beaches after they graduate because, being Ultimates, they'd attract too much attention at a public beach. She also persuades him to go a long with the group as well. |
| 416 | * RedHerring: |
| 417 | ** If you looked at this game and knew that Junko Enoshima was ''at least'' a villain before playing ''Trigger Happy Havoc'', you would at first think it's ''this'' "Junko" and be confused as to why they have a difference face. Of course, it turns out that this is just Junko's twin sister in a disguise and the real Junko is completely different in both personality ''and'' appearance. |
| 418 | ** Even besides her general appearance, the death of this "Junko" is also designed to be intentionally misleading, as both the player and the students are led to believe the ''real'' Junko is dead. This ends up being wrong on many levels, considering Junko, the ''real'' Junko, turns out to have been alive the whole time. |
| 419 | * SacrificialLamb: Monokuma invokes this trope by name after killing her. Like Sayaka, she was given heavy spotlight in promotional materials, only to die early on. Subverted in that her role was bigger than it initially seemed. |
| 420 | * SarcasticConfession: In School Mode, in the garden: |
| 421 | -->'''Makoto:''' Look at those chickens!\ |
| 422 | '''"Junko":''' Wow, chickens, huh? It's not super normal, but I guess lots of schools have animals and stuff, right? So? You wanna grab'em and eat 'em? What if we did that? Just started eating 'em raw, right here? What if that was my special dish!? Just kidding! Duh! I could never [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial strangle a chicken]]. |
| 423 | * SayingTooMuch: |
| 424 | ** Talking to her long enough in School Mode can get these reactions without much difficulty. One example from the garden goes like this: |
| 425 | --->'''Makoto:''' It's super humid in here, huh?\ |
| 426 | '''"Junko":''' You think so? This is nothing compared to the tropics of southeast Asia.\ |
| 427 | '''Makoto:''' What!? You've been in the tropics of southeast Asia!?\ |
| 428 | '''"Junko":''' Oh, uh, yeah. Just once. For a photo shoot or something... |
| 429 | ** She does this a lot less in ''Ultimate Summer Camp'' and ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'', likely since she's been disguised as Junko for ''three years'' by the time of those games. Though she does slip up occasionally, like complimenting Peko's footwork during a swordplay show, then having to walk it back, or talking about her Navy Seal-like training regimen with Sayaka. |
| 430 | * SlutShaming: Gets upset when Toko calls her a whore. In her first Free Time Event, she preemptively informs Makoto she's not interested in anything sexual because most men assume she is. |
| 431 | * SoBeautifulItsACurse: She attracts a lot of guys who only care about her looks, which infuriates her. In fact, when Makoto responds to this complaint by ''acknowledging'' that her beauty is a curse (rather than mocking her), she's touched enough by his understanding that she offers to play matchmaker for him. |
| 432 | * StraightManAndWiseGuy: Since she's one of the more "normal" students in terms of personality, she tends to be the straight man in ''Ultimate Talent Development Plan'' and ''Ultimate Summer Camp'' with the more wacky students. |
| 433 | * TheTease: Likes to hit on Makoto quite a bit during School Mode, and admits at one point that she enjoys seeing him flustered. |
| 434 | * ThroughHisStomach: She makes Makoto promise to eat whatever she makes in a School Mode conversation that has him offering to pack a lunch with her. This happens to be one of her best dialogue options too. |
| 435 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: One of her 'loved' gifts is a set of military rations. She also likes the Mineral Water and Overflowing Lunch Box gifts. |
| 436 | * TwinSwitch: This "Junko" isn't the real deal. She's Mukuro—her freckled and older twin sister. |
| 437 | * ValleyGirl: Her dialogue sometimes gets translated like this similar to Yasuhiro's characterization as a SurferDude. |
| 438 | * VSign: One of her more common sprites. |
| 439 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: She's the second death, being killed shortly after Sayaka... and ''unlike'' Sayaka, she doesn't get DecoyProtagonist billing and you can only learn about her through her through her two free time events. You can complete a full free time event path for her in School Mode, but even then you're looking at Mukuro's impression of the real Junko. |
| 440 | * WeightWoe: It's possible to ask in School Mode if she likes hamburgers, and she says the calorie count is through-the-roof, yet she still loves the flavor every so often. This statement clashes with her other claim that any meal is good enough for her (see MundaneLuxury) and was probably something her younger sister (the ''real'' Ultimate Fashionista) would have said. |
| 441 | * WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture: When Makoto comments that she looks slightly different in person, she tells him her photos are touched up before they're published and taunts him for expecting a completely ''flawless'' beauty. This turns out to be a lie, as she looks slightly different because she isn't who she claims to be. |
| 442 | * WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: Subtly, but she makes some catty comments about Sayaka if she's mentioned while conversing with Makoto. For example, "Junko" suggests her face is photoshopped and that she lip-syncs. |
| 443 | * YouthfulFreckles: Has a light dusting of these over her nose and claims they're edited out of her modeling photos. It's not true because unlike Junko, Mukuro has freckles. |
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