List of Danganronpa characters
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The following is a list of characters from the Spike Chunsoft video game series Danganronpa. The series follows the students of Hope's Peak Academy who are forced into a life of mutual killing by a sadistic teddy bear named Monokuma. The series consists of three games, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (2010), Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (2012) and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (2014), along with a standalone sequel game, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (2017), various spin-off novels and manga including Danganronpa Zero (2011), Kirigiri (2013–2020), Genocider Mode (2015–2017), Togami (2015–2017), and Killer Killer (2016–2017), and two anime television series, one an adaptation of the first game in 2013 and the other a sequel and finale, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School (2016). Where available, this article uses spellings and terminology featured in the English video games.
Overview
Key
Main character (receives star billing)
Recurring character (guest appearances in two or more case)
Guest character (appearing in one case)
This table only shows main protagonists/antagonists and characters that have appeared in two or more installments in the series.
Monokuma
Voiced by (English): Brian Beacock (game); Greg Ayres (anime)Voiced by (Japanese): Nobuyo Ōyama (2010–2015); Tarako (2016 – 2024)
Monokuma (モノクマ; lit. bear-thing or bear-person) is the antagonist of the series. He is an anthropomorphic teddy bear who proclaims himself to be the headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy and initiates a life of mutual killing among the students. He has various copies of himself throughout the academy and punishes anyone that attempts to attack him or breaks the academy's rules.
Visually, Monokuma is divided into two halves.
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