Byakuya Togami

1. Canonical ending:
   In the canonical ending, Makoto Naegi finds out that Kyoko Kirigiri has a plan to destroy the instigator, and she must survive the trial in order to finally defeat him. Putting all his faith in Kyoko, Makoto sacrifices himself and takes the blame for the murder upon himself. He is subjected to execution, but at the last second, remnants of the artificial intelligence Alter‑Ego appear and stop the crusher. Makoto is saved; he goes down the garbage chute into a pit under the school, where, a few days later, Kyouko rescues him. She reveals that she is not only the “Unrivaled Detective,” but also Kyouko Kirigiri, the daughter of the headmaster of Hope’s Peak Academy, Jin Kirigiri. During the final lesson, it turns out that the students’ memories of the two years at Hope’s Peak Academy that preceded the murder game have been erased.
2. Alternative ending (“bad”): If, during the investigation and at the “Class Trial,” the player catches Kyoko in a lie (for example, she tries to shift the blame onto Makoto, even though she is not the killer), the following happens. Kyoko is executed: she is tied to a chair and placed on a conveyor belt that leads to a hydraulic press. Monokuma seems satisfied with this verdict: the other students remain locked in the academy and continue the “Murder Game.” However, this does not lead to a stable outcome. In the subsequent scenes, it is shown that in this alternative timeline, no more murders occur, and the survivors (Makoto, Hina, Hiro, Byakuya, Toko) eventually form something akin to a family — and even become fathers. The game in this version simply ends with a hint that the story has taken a dead‑end path.
3. A bad ending: the wrong choice of the murderer at the trial, and therefore everyone is executed except for the murderer.

Chihiro’s alter ego is a laptop with a neural network that looks like Chihiro himself; he left it behind after his death, and it can communicate with the students. Eventually, it is destroyed during the execution by Monokuma, but now it is in the locker room by the bathhouse. There are no cameras in the locker room by the bathhouse, so the students decided to hide it there.

Rule #1: Students must stay at school. Leaving the premises is an unacceptable pastime.

Rule #2: “Nighttime” is the period from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. In some places, the lights will be turned off at night, so be careful.

Rule#3: Monokuma does not help with murders.

Rule#4: If more than 3 people discover a body, a message about it will be played throughout the school.

Rule #5: Sleeping outside of your room will be treated the same as sleeping in class, and therefore will result in punishment.

Rule #6:Given the minimal restrictions, you are free to explore the Academy as you wish.

Rule #7:Using violence against Monokuma the principal is strictly prohibited, as is destroying surveillance cameras.

Rule #8:Anyone who kills a student will “graduate” if they are not discovered.

Rule #9:Additional school rules may be added if necessary.

Ground floor:
The first‑floor hall is completely sealed off. Here you’ll find the school shop, the video surveillance room, and classrooms 1A and 1B. In front of the gym is a room with awards. On the ground floor, there’s an entrance to the “Hotel Despair” dormitory, which has rooms for students, a dining room, a warehouse, a sauna, an incinerator, a nurse’s office, and an entrance to the gym. And finally, there’s an unnamed room with an elevator that leads to the Class Courtroom.
Second floor:
Here you will find an indoor swimming pool, a library, and two changing rooms (one for men and one for women). Classes 2A and 2B are located opposite each other. In the men’s restroom, there is a secret room where secret documents about the Hope's Peak Acamedy are hidden.
Third floor:
Opposite the staircase leading to the second floor is the recreation room. To the left are the art room and the storage room. To the right is the physics laboratory, which has an air purifier and another storage room. Also located here, next to each other, are classrooms 3A and 3B.
The fourth floor:
On this floor, there is a music hall, a teachers’ room, the headmaster’s office, a chemistry laboratory, and classrooms 4A and 4B. There is also a data processing room, which is tightly sealed because it is connected to the control room where Monokuma is located.
The fifth floor (will open after the next murder and trial):
On the top floor, there is a dojo and a biology classroom that looks like a morgue. There is a greenhouse with artificial sunlight and sprinklers. On this floor, there are three classrooms instead of the usual two: 5A and 5B are located close to each other, while 5C is next to the biology laboratory. In classroom 5B, there is blood everywhere, desks are overturned, and there are chalk outlines of bodies on the floor. Perhaps it was here that the Tragedy of Hope’s Peak Academy occurred.

1. Death: Sayaka Maizono, killer: Leon Kuwata.
2. Death: Chihiro Fujisaki, killer: Mondo Owada.
3. Death: Hifumi Yamada, Kiyotaka Ishimaru, killer: Celestia Ludenberg

1. He appears to be fluent in French.
2. He enjoys reading, watching movies, and pool games.

Though, considering the low success rates of fortune-tellers, 30% is not terrible. Interestingly, while often ambiguous, Yasuhiro really does possess real supernatural future-telling skills, though not entirely accurate.

However, he really hates it if someone compares his fortune-telling to the occult, frequently insisting that they are not the same. He is also afraid of ghosts and would freak out if such a subject comes up in a conversation. Whenever he "senses" one, he swiftly recites a chant, casts a spell, or begs for help from a hero, a god, or a famous person (often random, even multiple ones). Furthermore, he is stated to be absolutely horrible with women and has bad hygiene, claiming that he washes his hair once a season.

Yasuhiro is quite gullible, and at first acts laid-back about the killing game, thinking it's some sort of a prank. However, after realizing it is real, he turns much more panicky and he is generally considered useless by the other students. However, he does treat his fellow classmates with general friendliness, going so far as to add the suffix "-chi", an affectionate term for dear friends in Japanese, to the end of everyone's last name (except for Sakura Ogami, whom he is afraid of and just calls with the insulting nickname "Ogre"). This habit of his is also shared with his mother. In English translations, he tends to call other people "dude".

Yasuhiro has quite a cowardly personality and often attempts to trick other people to get rid of his massive debts, charging incredibly high prices for his readings that, according to other people, often do not fit the accuracy of his fortune-telling. Yasuhiro also seems to possess a smarter, more cunning side despite regularly appearing slow-witted. During his Free Time Events, he attempts to get Makoto to donate his organs so he could pay off a debt without having to dip into his own savings so he could retire in comfort, which causes even the usually trusting Makoto to feel that he cannot let his guard down around Yasuhiro. Talent:
Ultimate Clairvoyant. As the Ultimate Clairvoyant, Yasuhiro is supposed to have amazing clairvoyance powers. Despite this, Yasuhiro's powers only have a 30% success rate.

Yasuhiro Hagakure (葉隠 康比呂), also known as Hiro, is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th. His title is the Ultimate Clairvoyant. Due to the memory loss he suffered along with the other participants, Yasuhiro is actually two years older than he believes. He states he is 21 (20 in Japan) but still in high school because he was "held back a few times", meaning he flunked, which makes him considerably older than his classmates. He has light brown skin, stubble on his chin and thin dark brown eyes. His dark brown hair is styled in large, spiked locs that bend backward.
As his uniform, Yasuhiro wears three layers of shirts. The top layer is a green Japanese male uniform jacket that he wears draped over his shoulders. Underneath, he has an unbuttoned white shirt, and beneath that, a small yellow short-sleeved shirt. He wears a brown haramaki and uses a yellow rope as a belt to hold up his large black pants, which are rolled up past his ankles. He also wears sandals. On his left wrist, he wears a brown beaded bracelet featuring the symbol of his Former High School on each bead. Personality:
Yasuhiro is one of the more cheery, laid-back students, though a bit odd as well. However, he is generally not well-liked and he himself has openly admitted that he has no friends, being quite cowardly, lazy, slow-witted, and having a habit to act selfishly. Notably, he is mentioned to be very clumsy with money and he has constant problems with massive debts. This trait is especially apparent when he stated that he bought his crystal ball (which is made of glass instead of crystal) at the price of 100 million yen due to it being used by Napoleon, Genghis Khan, and George Washington in the past. He has also bought multiple items related to fortune-telling, despite not actually having any use for them. He tends to talk absurdly about subjects such as conspiracy theories and the one time aliens stole his hamburger.

Along with learning martial arts, she learned to respect nature and animals, being particularly fond of rabbits as they never seem to get frightened when she holds them. Along with protecting her legacy as her sworn duty, Sakura wants to prove that a woman can be the Strongest Person Alive. She also believes that she must work harder than men to achieve this goal. As a result of striving to be strong, Sakura is embarrassed about her own softer feelings and being feminine, assuming that other people would laugh at her if they knew. She is especially embarrassed about having romantic feelings for Kenshiro, thinking that it doesn't fit someone like her. However, she appeared to grow out of these insecurities after gaining real friends in high school. Despite her gentle nature, Sakura has trouble socializing with others due to her intimidating appearance and aloof nature. Spending most of her time training, she didn't have any real friends until she attended Hope's Peak Academy. Because of this, she also has a somewhat poor knowledge of modern popular culture. For example, she knows quite little about popular modern music and doesn't understand the live music culture, or know how to sing and dance. Instead, her father taught her to appreciate traditional enka. Talent and Abilities:
Ultimate Martial Artist. As the Ultimate Martial Artist, Sakura has powerful fighting abilities. She has accumulated a 400-win streak and won a martial arts tournament in America despite her gender. She even defeated her own father at a young age. The only opponent that she has never been able to defeat in a fight is her crush and rival, Kenshiro. Sakura is proficient in many types of martial arts. She has stated her favorite is mixed martial arts (MMA) because it combines every type of martial art.

Sakura Ogami (大神 さくら), is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th. Her title is the Ultimate Martial Artist. Sakura appears to be a young high school-aged teenager, but due to the memory loss she is two years older than she believed. She is 6'4" and weighs 218lbs, making her the largest of her classmates. Her large build, deep voice and stern appearance often causes Sakura to be mistaken for a man. She has long white hair, reddened-dark skin; very pale blue eyes, and a scar on her face and right shoulder. She often wears her expression with a slight frown. Her school uniform consists of a traditional seifuku style Japanese school uniform comprising of a white shirt a blue sailor collar, a short blue skirt, and a red tie. The sleeves on the uniform are torn off to make room for her muscular upper arms. She wears bandages wrapped around her calves and forearms. Her shoes are grey and resemble Uwabaki, with the kanji for her last name on the toe box. Personality:
Contrary to what her appearance might suggest, Sakura is a quiet, kind and level-headed girl. She rarely loses her nerve and seems able to maintain clarity in any situation. At times she can grow slightly annoyed and upset, like when people assume things like she isn't a good cook due to her looks. During more rare moments, she can lose her temper completely and become terrifying to those around her, particularly when her friends get hurt. She also gets impatient if she cannot properly train for a long period of time. She is known for her love of protein and protein coffee and enjoying exercising early in the morning before a large breakfast. Due to her more old-fashioned upbringing, Sakura has a habit of talking in an old-fashioned, formal manner. Being raised as the sole heir to a dojo with a three-hundred-year history, she believes that being a martial artist is simply her destiny.

She's also concerned that her extreme sweet tooth, particularly her love of eating donuts, is going to make her fat. Her positive attitude is truly challenged by the events of the Killing Game, and it fundamentally changes her outlook on the world and her relationships. She is extremely loyal to her friends to such a degree that, when they are harmed, it shatters her ability to emotionally cope. She very nearly falls into despair during the events of the Killing School Life, as the emotional snowball of the continuous deaths compounded her sadness exponentially, crying alone in her room in the evenings and frequently comfort eating. Aoi very quickly gravitated towards Sakura as a fellow athlete, and the two formed a very strong bond, spending the majority of their free time together and becoming very protective towards each other. She also became extremely close to Makoto Naegi. Talent and Abilities:
Ultimate Swimming Pro. Aoi's athleticism is a core aspect of her personality and sense of self, and she participates in multiple sports including track, basketball, softball, volleyball, tennis, and her favorite sport: competitive swimming. Aoi is a young Olympic cadet who aims to win a Gold Medal for swimming in future Olympic games. Her younger brother Yuta, also a very strong swimmer, admits that Aoi is a better swimmer than him. By her own admission, Aoi spends nearly all of her time training and trying to improve her fitness in some way, including wearing shorts all year round - even in winter - to build up her resistance to sickness, and practising the self-healing technique known as Kanpu masatsu. For Aoi, her love of sports doesn't come from her desire to win, but for the love of competing and striving to better herself.

Aoi Asahina (朝日奈 葵), also known as Hina, is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th. Her title is the Ultimate Swimming Pro. Aoi appears to be young high school-aged teenager, but, due to the memory loss, she is two years older than she believed, closer to her late teens or early 20s. Aoi is (160 cm) 5'3", and weighs around 50kg with a lean but curvaceous build. She has brown skin, blue eyes, and wears her brown hair in a very high curled ponytail accessorized with a paperclip-style barrette. She wears sports-branded blue dolphin hotpants and green sneakers, a white tank top, and a red tracksuit jacket with white piping and her previous high school's logo on the chest. She wears knee-length white socks, a red knee brace over her right knee, and a band-aid on her left knee. While swimming, she wears a typical high school girl blue swimsuit with her last name in kanji on the front.
Personality: Aoi is a warm, cheerful, upbeat, and outgoing girl who is friendly and welcoming towards everyone she meets, trying to make friends with everybody and include them in her activities. Aoi can be quite air-headed and forgetful, relying on the memory trick of writing people's names three times on her hand in order to remember them - a trick she also taught to her brother, Yuta. Due to being quite air-headed, she can be easily manipulated by others and jump to conclusions or take them at face value, often being one of the few to fall for killers' tricks and misdirection during Class Trials. Aoi is an extremely athletic person and considers it an absolutely fundamental part of herself, using it as an important coping mechanism in her daily life and feeling like she "might die" if she can't exercise. Although Aoi is a star athlete in the running to become an Olympic swimmer, Aoi is insecure that being athletic, which is seen as quite a masculine activity, makes her undesirable to others and might lead to her never finding love.

However, she still remains extremely disgusted at the sight of large amounts of blood and is motivated to challenge her fear more by Byakuya's words rather than her own will. Other than nyctophobia and hemophobia, Toko rarely showers for an unknown reason, causing her to be labelled as "smelly" ever since elementary school due to her body odor. She starts showering more often during the Killing School Life solely to appease Byakuya.

She describes herself "dark", "depressing", and "worthless," and only now begins to worry about being an annoying woman, to the point that she genuinely fears Byakuya will come to hate her. She continues to complain about being ugly to the point she expects others to deny her, and gets upset when they instead play along with her. Moreover, she becomes especially sensitive when asked about her true age and self-deprecates by referring to herself as "a hag", though she uses it as a justified excuse to constantly feel tired. She becomes just as agitated when the topic of "virginity" is being discussed, insisting that chastity is a virtue and expressing disdain for women who claim they are no longer virgins. Despite her inferiority complex, Toko chooses to take pride in being ugly and encourages her fellow "ugly" women to feel the same and reject makeup. She further argues that only the most "narrow-minded vermin" measure a person's worth by their sexual experience, and should one desires to adopt a promiscuous lifestyle, they should be honest and take pride in it. About Genocide Jack: Toko dislikes being compared to or being treated as the same person with Genocide Jack. The mere mention of her name makes her feel sick and instantly spoils her mood. She wishes her infamous alter had never existed and detests switching to her, claiming that doing so is equal to her forfeiting her entire identity. Toko suffers a pathological fear of the dark and blood. While she attributes a past experience as to why she has nyctophobia, she never properly explains why she has hemophobia. Unlike Genocide Jack who is unfazed by blood thanks to her murderous nature, all it takes is one glimpse and smell for Toko to black out. Due to her fear of blood, Toko rarely joins any investigation efforts, which she is self-aware about and fears that Byakuya and her classmates would find her useless.

In the few times she attends the group's breakfast meetings, she has to mentally prepare herself to ease her nervousness, and feels awkward having to eat in front of her classmates as she grows up mostly having a meal alone. She often describes herself as pessimistic, negative, and gloomy, contrasting her lovey-dovey romance novels. Her classmates reinforced this by describing her as a Debbie Downer, someone who radiates "the most negative aura", bears a "melancholic tone", depressive, and thoughtless. One of the most detrimental factors that hinders Toko from making any friends, however, is her spite and blunt honesty. She expresses herself without considering others' feelings, which makes her come across as cruel, miserable, and deplorable. Even the ones who sympathize with her plight, such as Yasuhiro and Aoi, cannot help but to find her obnoxious. Toko herself remains unbothered by how her classmates, excluding Byakuya, perceive her, having already accepted that she is an annoying person.
"Without Master, the r-rest of you are like... ...coffee with cream w-without the cream! Or c-coffee! You're totally useless! S-So...bye!" — Toko Fukawa. Likewise, Toko doesn't think too highly of her classmates, excluding Byakuya. For example, she couldn't care less about Sayaka's well-being after she crashed out over her motive video, and later even blames her for starting the killing game. Amidst the killing game, Toko is distraught, constantly panics, and curses her fate every so often. She believes that humans are scum, and emphasizes that no matter how much her classmates work together, the fear of betrayal is always imminent. Her trust issues leads her to accuse Makoto of being Sayaka's killer throughout the first class trial, and is in utter disbelief when he is proven innocent. Apart from her blunt honesty, Toko's hyper self-awareness and paranoia persist.

She becomes very self-conscious about herself, from her appearance to negative personality, so she often verbalize these thoughts before others can. She has an unusually quick tendency to self-victimize, and is incapable of thinking that others might see her from a positive light. On top of that, she constantly projects hostile intent onto others, assuming that people approach her out of pity, on a dare, or wanting to hurt her, whether verbally, physically, or otherwise. She is extra wary of others finding out her secret and the possibility of switching to her alter on accident before being outed by Byakuya. Toko has become so accustomed to verbal abuse that she occasionally responds with flustered or oddly pleased reactions. She often showcases these masochistic tendencies through her interactions with Byakuya. She appears to have a liking for being tied up as well, which leads Komaru to believe that Toko's experience of being tied to a jungle gym when she was younger was a formative one. In School Mode, she feels slightly disappointed when Makoto clarifies that he won't tie her down with a rope. It isn't uncommon for Toko to project her own perversion onto others by accusing them of thinking dirty thoughts. On top of that, she comments on other girls' bodies as often as she self-deprecates about hers. Aoi becomes her frequent target, as she not only demeans her morality out of envy for her curvaceous build, but also made many sexual and degrading jabs about her appearance. Toko also finds Aoi annoying in general, calling her "idiot swimmer girl", "sports idiot", "swimming idiot bimbo", and "stupid cow", among others. In spite of this, she seeks protection from Aoi at one point, claiming she would use her as a meat shield in case of a danger. She is self-aware that she has pronounced social difficulties and constantly stutters when speaking.

Toko Fukawa (腐川 冬子), is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant of the Killing School Life. Her title is the Ultimate Writing Prodigy.
Toko's history: Her traumatic home and school life contributed to a severe psychological pressure, and she turned these negativities into novels. Despite her best attempts, not all of her feelings could be buried with her novels. As a result, she developed DID, with one alter dubbed by the internet as Genocide Jack. Toko and Genocide Jack's memory did not carry over when they switch, but they shared their emotions. As such, Genocide Jack reacted to the humiliation caused by their first love by following him to Shikoku and killing him. While participating the Killing School Life, Toko appears to be a young high school-aged teenager, but due to the memory loss she is two years older than she believed. Toko is of average height and possesses a thin figure. She has long dark purple hair which she keeps in two braids behind her, grey eyes and large wire-rimmed round glasses. Hidden by her long skirt are tally marks carved onto her upper thighs—a count of how many men Genocide Jack has killed. On the left side of her chin is a small mole. Toko wears Riverbank Girl's High School purple sailor uniform with a noticeably lengthy skirt compared to those worn by other girls. She also sports her former school badge on her left pocket and has her school emblems embroidered on both upper sleeves. Her alter keeps her scissors in a case on their right thigh. She also wears white socks and brown loafers.
Personality: Due to the constant bullying she faced as a child, Toko developed low self-esteem and severe inferiority complex. She is highly suspicious and paranoid of others, frequently and baselessly accusing them of thinking her as nothing but disgusting, ugly, unwanted, or combined altogether.

Kyoko Kirigiri (霧切 響子), is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant of the Killing School Life. She doesn't remember her talent at the beginning of the Killing Game, so her title is the Ultimate ???
Kyoko appears to be a young high school-aged teenager, but due to the memory loss she is two years older than she believed. She has purple eyes and a pale complexion. She wears her long light lavender hair down with a single braid on her left side, tied with a black ribbon. Kyoko's outfit consists of a dark purple collared blazer jacket with six brown buttons over a zipped up long-sleeved white blouse and brown tie with a bird-like symbol on it. She also wears a black short skirt, heeled knee-high black boots with equally knee-high light purple socks. She notably wears custom-made black studded gloves to conceal the burn marks on her hands.
Personality: Kyoko is a stoic, intelligent, and mysterious girl who tends to hide her feelings. She has a calm demeanor and tends to be completely unfazed by most of the events that occur, even at the sight of a dead body. At the beginning of the game, Kyoko often keeps her distance from the other students while investigating. Prior to the investigation to find the way out with no casualties, Kyoko doesn't seem to cooperate with the other students and does most of the investigating by herself. She plays major roles in solving mysteries of the culprits in Class Trials and is also one of very few students that see things objectively and doesn't jump to conclusions in the trial, making her a valuable ally to Makoto. Kyoko is very very sensitive regarding the subject about the Hope's Peak Academy's headmaster. Behind Kyoko's stone-cold personality, she seems to easily get emotionally upset, which is masked by her strong will. Talent:
Ultimate Detective. Since she was a child, Kyoko has been trained as a detective by her grandfather, Fuhito.

Talents and Abilities:
Ultimate Lucky Student
Makoto got his talent as the Ultimate Lucky Student by winning a lottery out of completely ordinary students, which led to him joining Hope's Peak Academy as the Ultimate Lucky Student. In addition to this, he seems to have a near supernatural attraction for good fortune, which only rewards him after experiencing a few inconveniences first.
History
Prior to the Tragedy
Makoto lived a normal life with his parents and little sister, Komaru. They also had a dog during his childhood. Although sometimes he didn't get along with his sister, he had a close relationship with her. The two watched TV and shared thoughts on manga together. In a typical day with Makoto and his family, his mother would always watch the same talk show at lunchtime, and his dad wouldn't shave his beard on Saturday when he didn't have work.

In middle school, Makoto went to Blackroot Junior High with Sayaka Maizono, however he was in class 2 while Sayaka was in class 4. He found a lost crane and rescued it; this act of kindness caught her attention, and that was how she remembers him even years later. It's implied that Makoto had a crush on her, but they never talked due to them being in different social standards. Later, he went to Dusk High School. Makoto had normal school, normal friends, and a normal family. He was pretty much the textbook example of a normal high school student.

Makoto was selected to attend Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th through winning a random lottery, and on August 20, 2010 (2013 in the anime), Makoto visited a forum and looked up information about his future classmates.

Makoto Naegi (苗木 誠), is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th, and a participant of the Killing School Life. His title is the Ultimate Lucky Student. Makoto appears to be and believes himself to be a younger teenager, two years of his life having been removed from his memory. He is notably short compared to most of his classmates. He has spiky, desaturated brown hair with a prominent ahoge, and washed-out hazel eyes. He wears black jeans, a zipped-up dull green hoodie with a red stripe along the zipper, an open black jacket with gold buttons, and red sneakers with white toes. Makoto's hoodie has an image of a red gas mask in a circle printed on the back of the hood, and the zipper goes all the way up to the top of the hood. He wears a pin shaped like a four-pointed star overlaying a crescent moon; this is pinned to the lapel of his jacket.
Personality: Makoto proclaims himself to be a very ordinary person, to the point that he seems a little bit insecure about it. He does admit to having one distinguishing feature, that being his unique sense of optimism.

Makoto is very kind, supportive and forgiving, though slightly naive at times. He is friendly, polite and a lot more down-to-earth compared to the other students. These qualities could be the reason he seems to successfully approach and befriend even his most antisocial classmates during Free Time. He is a bit jumpy at times and can be somewhat of a pushover. Despite these meeker qualities, he is capable of being a very determined and charismatic speaker. Makoto is a firm believer in hope, having a positive attitude about the future no matter how bad the situation is in the present. He is also a pacifist, as he tends to believe that violence isn't the answer. While he dislikes despair, believing it to be a corrupting and negative emotion which cannot benefit the world, he is very forgiving toward those who have fallen to despair.

Monokuma generally dislikes those who don't obey him or have such optimism or intelligence that they are harder for him to manipulate, and he tends to describe these people as "annoying". Monokuma is also very arrogant and tends to treat others in a rude manner, with Junko being the only one he refers to respectfully as "Lady Junko". Fitting his arrogance, he has multiple fake stories about his past, many of them nonsensical and with a silly, dark or even thoughtful message in the end. Strangely, he takes great pride in his supposed role as the headmaster, demanding respect, authority and order in each of his killing games, reflecting the idea of society needing structure and punishing those who disturb it. He often becomes angry when he is called a teddy bear instead of the headmaster, and unlike Junko, who takes gratification in her failures, he becomes upset when he fails. Monokuma, befitting of his role as a bear, seems to enjoy salmon and honey. Notably, he appears to be strongly opposed to any shameful acts that could tarnish his respectable school, yet he himself often incorrectly accuses the students of having ulterior motives and goes into excessive detail about his suspicions. Even though he acts like he is above all that, he can aim perverted comments at his students, boys and girls alike (especially for being teens).

Junko, by contrast, exhibits frequent and drastic persona changes she attributes to her extreme boredom.

Monokuma enjoys the suffering of others, which makes him madly excited. And in turn, he gets bored and disappointed if the situation doesn't have as much despair as he hoped. Occasionally, he is so bummed out by the lack of despair that he seems to lose some of his energy and withdraws to make new plans. It's been shown that he can also get hypocritical about his ideology of despair, as he is very much willing to lie and cheat if he gets desperate enough. Still, even he seems to have some standards, as some people are so vile that they disgust even Monokuma.

Monokuma is immature and childish, often acting sarcastic and mocking towards the students, and occasionally dramatically pretending to be offended when rightfully accused. In general, he cracks a lot of jokes (especially bear puns) and breaks the fourth wall often. Monokuma is usually seen impersonating a lot of pop culture character. Monokuma can be quite impatient and might attack people with his claws, his self-destruct function, threats of execution, or any other means if he is annoyed or threatened enough. However, most of the time he holds himself back, under the claim that he cannot hurt his "beloved students". His bullying and abusive nature is especially clear in the way he treats Monomi, as he gets physically and verbally abusive towards her even if he is just slightly annoyed or seemingly for no reason at all. Similarly, he is seen acting very violent towards his children if they annoy him, though originally in a very cartoony way that didn't seem to bother them. However, he turns increasingly more cruel towards his children as the game progresses, and they are shown to be quite saddened by this as they mention that Monokuma used to be much more loving towards them in the past.

Monokuma is the headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy who instigates the Killing School Life. Monokuma is a teddy bear whose face and body are split symmetrically down the middle, embodying a design reminiscent of the Yin-Yang symbol, symbolizing the balance between two opposing forces. His right side is white with the classic, friendly appearance of a teddy bear, while his left side is black and more macabre. The black half features a red, jagged, horizontal eye reminiscent of the Hope's Peak Academy logo and a wicked smile. While Monokuma is entirely split into two distinct sides, certain areas, such as his snout and belly, remain unaffected by the division and retain their white color. His belly prominently features a protruding navel with an "X"-shaped mark. Monokuma represents duality both in design and personality, with his white good side and black evil side. He can sometimes act polite or cute and innocent, even patronizing, and during rare moments he even seems to give genuine positive and wise advice. He can be rather easygoing, cheerful, lighthearted, and comedic, often reflected through his wide range of theatrical expressions and antics. However, he is mostly known for his malicious and cruel side, possessing a twisted sense of humor and a tendency to torment others and do anything for the sake of despair. He loves hysteria, violence, and chaos, summarized in one of his catchphrases "thrills, chills, kills!". He also has his own signature laughs, a sadistic "puhuhu" ("upupupu" in the Japanese version) and a mocking "ah-hahahaha". He can switch between these traits at the drop of a hat, making him unpredictable for his students to deal with. He usually gets excited about the Class Trials and does everything he can in order to make them entertaining for himself. While also unpredictable like his puppeteer, Monokuma remains more behaviorally consistent, even when portrayed as one of Junko's personalities.

"Hope's Peak Academy is home to Japan's best and brightest high school students — the beacons of hope for the future. But that hope suddenly dies when Makoto Naegi and his classmates find themselves imprisoned in the school, cut off from the outside world and subject to the whims of a strange, murderous little bear named Monokuma. He pits the students against each other, promising freedom to anyone who can murder a fellow classmate and get away with it. It's up to you to find out who Monokuma really is, and why you've been taken from the world you once knew. But be careful what you wish for — sometimes there's nothing more deadly than the truth..."
There's school Life, in which the player can explore the academy and progress through the story, and the Class Trial, in which the player must deduce the culprit of a murder.
During School Life, the students can explore the school grounds. Examining specific objects yields the student Monocoins, which can be redeemed for presents from The All-Mighty Monomono Machine located in the school's store. School Life is separated into two sections: "Daily Life" and "Deadly Life". In "Daily Life," the student converse with other students and progress through the story. When speaking with other characters, some comments can be "reacted" to to reveal new information. Daily Life also features "Free Time" segments, where the student can spend time with other students and give them presents, which in turn reveals more information about them. Once a murder has occurred, the game transitions into Deadly Life, where the students must look for clues throughout the academy. In a Class Trial, the students must discuss among themselves who the killer is. The game’s logic difficulty will determine how the facts are shown and how logical they are.

Ultimate Affluent Progeny: Byakuya's talent offered him a range of different skills. He is incredibly intelligent, as he was the first one to deduce that one of the group members had been betrayed. He also beat out all of his siblings and ran multiple branches of the Togami Empire, as well as acquiring a massive fortune for himself.

His talent helped him in his role as a high ranking member of the Future Foundation's 14th branch. Despite serving under Kyoko Kirigiri, Byakuya was always ready to take the lead when the situation called for it, and used his considerable wealth and power to assist in the war of Hope vs Despair, noteably in the rescue of the surviving Remnants of Despair from the Future Foundation and in trying to locate and rescue his classmates' loved ones who were either captive or on the run from the Warriors of Hope in Towa City.

Despite still maintaining his cold and dismissive demenour towards others, the Killing School Life did appear to alter his worldview and make him more respectful and co-operative with others, though still denies that they are his friends. (in future)
His newly developed sense of respect for others did not appear to ever extend towards Toko Fukawa, however. Toko, and her alter ego Genocide Jack, developed an extremely unhealthy obsession and attraction Byakuya not long after meeting him, and she began stalking him and calling him her "Master". Her feelings were entirely unreciprocated - in fact, Byakuya was disgusted by her, particularly the fact that she rarely bathed. Byakuya normally distanced himself from others by insulting them, but this trait actually attracted Toko even more, openly inviting him to debase and degrade her and perceiving it as simply a "lover's quarrel", which made him unable to shake her off. His attitude towards Toko highlighted his manipulative streak, taking advantage of Toko's obsession in order to make her do menial tasks for him, while having so little respect for her that he outed her identity as Genocide Jack to Makoto and the others almost as soon as she revealed her secret to him in confidence. Unlike with the other survivors, his opinion of her did not soften after the Killing School Life ended (in future), although he did appear increasingly more apathetic towards her rather than combative.

However, Byakuya's emotional detachment and lack of empathy towards the others sometimes made it very difficult for him to understand the reasoning for why people would behave altruistically or based on pure emotion. Sakura's case (in future) acted as a real turning point in Byakuya's approach to the Killing School Life, going from treating the other students as his enemies in the game, to focusing his energy on identifying and destroying the Mastermind.
As described by Kazutaka Kodaka, he eventually became not just a serious character but often a butt-monkey, as he can sometimes appear comical due to how serious and dramatic he can be with his words and belief in his own superiority and how it frustrates the other students, and especially with his interactions with Toko or Genocide Jack. He constantly referred to the other students as "amoebas" and "plebeians". It also appears that he was taught strict manners by his family, as in the the first game he refused to use swear words and once said "effing" to avoid repeating Mondo's language, and is generally disgusted by vulgar words and behavior, and anything he considers barbaric. Due to his unusual upbringing, it's been shown that he has a bit poor knowledge on certain things that are considered common knowledge. He is confused by the idea of people making their own food, as his food is always prepared by a chef, and he doesn't know what toy vending machines are. As Byakuya greatly revered his family, often speaking of the vast power of the Togami Family, he initially did not take it well and had an unusually emotional reaction when Junko revealed the cessation of their existence. He would later recover from the shock to announce that they would rebuild the family from the ground up. Despite his generally cold attitude, he also does not look down upon his many half-siblings and instead feels some respect towards them.

Byakuya is a cold and self-centered person who is very reserved. He is not interested in co-operating with others due to his own sense of self-superiority, and his opinion that others are, on the whole, lesser than him. This sense of superiority and black-and-white worldview comes as a result of his upbringing; Byakuya had to prove his worth in battle against his siblings in order to earn his role in the family as heir-apparent, whereas all his other siblings who lost the battle were effectively ex-communicated from the family and cut off financially, deemed "unfit for the name of Togami". Because Byakuya was raised in such a highly competitive environment of "haves" and "have-nots", he thinks all people only think about themselves and he dismisses emotional ties as petty and unimportant, in his own words: "You're not about to claim she wouldn't kill a close friend, are you? You still don't get it, do you? The game we're playing here isn't so kind. Honeyed words like friendship don't matter here. What matters is outwitting the opponent, defeating them... Not a person alive would sacrifice themselves for another. In the end, we're all in it for ourselves."
Due to his lack of emotional ties with the other students, Byakuya was able to emotionally distance himself from the horrors of the Killing School Life, and thus proved to be one of the most competent and insightful investigators in the group due to his high level of intelligence. His compulsive competitiveness caused him to treat the Killing School Life as simply a game, and one he fully intended to win, just as he had won his battle to become the head of the Togami family - much to the disgust of the other students. An extreme example of this occured after the death of Chihiro Fujisaki, where he posed Chihiro's corpse to frame Toko Fukawa and "make things more interesting", and perceiving the dead body of Chihiro as simply "an object".

Byakuya is 185cm (6’1”) and weighs around 68kg, with a tall, slender build and strikingly long legs. He has pale skin, lapis blue eyes with noticeably long eyelashes, and has chin-length blonde canary yellow hair. He wears a black suit jacket over a white shirt and lapis blue crossover tie. He also wears black dress pants accessorized with a black belt, and black dress shoes with a slight heel. He has a silver pocket watch in his suit breast pocket and had the pin of his former high-school on his lapel.

After investigating and finding a few more clues, Byakuya took Makoto to the library and showed him the Genocide Jack case file, where Makoto learned that Genocide Jack has a case of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Byakuya told him that all Genocide Jack killings had "Blood Lust" written beside them and top-secret information from police records stated that all victims were crucified. He then split up from Makoto. During the Class Trial, he quickly exposed Toko as Genocide Jack, shocking the others. He explained that he knew because Toko had disclosed it to him, which made her faint and her Genocide Jack personality to emerge. The other students deduced that Genocide Jack couldn't have killed Chihiro, because Chihiro was a girl (Genocide Jack only kills males), and that the murder weapon was a dumbbell rather than her signature Genoscissors. Suspicion quickly turned to Byakuya due to the extension cord the students had seen him using in the library, however, it was then revealed that Chihiro had actually been killed in the boy's locker room, and was actually male; both facts Byakuya did not know, which determined Byakuya wasn't the killer. He admitted at this point to staging the crime scene; much to his classmates' disgust and anger. When asked about his motives, he called them irrelevant but said they should look for the real killer. Later Mondo was found as the killer and was executed. The group's attitude continued to sour towards him after learning what he had done to Chihiro's body and potentially could have led to them failing the class trial and being executed, despite his claim that he would have revealed the truth if they had come close to doing so. This came due to a head after Sakura was revealed to be a mole within the group; Byakuya showed no respect to Sakura, which angered Aoi so much that she slapped him across the face.

The next day, instead of attending the regular morning meeting, he spent the morning reading in the library. When the other students came to look for him, he stated that he was trying to come up with something "original" for his plot, should he become a villain in the game. Mondo got angry at him again and threatened to kill him. Chihiro Fujisaki tried to mediate the argument because they do not like the idea of friends killing each other or fighting - but Byakuya shut Chihiro down by stating that they aren't friends. Mondo threatened to kill him again for picking on those who couldn't fight back but declared that he wouldn't simply cooperate with anyone anymore. Byakuya remained in the Library, refusing to talk to anyone. Later when Toko and Makoto went to see Byakuya, he told them to get out and told Toko to take a bath, commenting on her smell. This caused Toko to misinterpret it as him caring about her and she quickly developed feelings for him. Before Monokuma's second motive, Toko told Byakuya her secret: that she was Genocide Jack.
Blood lust: Whilst at the library, before going back to his room, Byakuya noticed Mondo leaving the girl's changing room and had a look inside, noticing the dead body of Chihiro Fujisaki. He decided to stage the scene to make the killing game more interesting for himself, as well as to reveal Toko's identity as Genocide Jack. Using an extension cord which would lead the other students to deduce he could be a suspect, he crucified Chihiro's body on a weight bench frame and wrote Genocide Jack's calling card "Blood Lust" on the wall in Chihiro's blood. The next morning, after the students received the announcement that someone had been murdered, Byakuya led Makoto and the others to the girl's changing room and agreed to co-operate with Makoto in the investigation, not revealing that he knew the true culprit.

Killing school life: During the Tragedy, Jin Kirigiri, the Headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy, planned to seal the school building and let the students live forever inside the Academy in order to protect them from the destruction. The class agreed to his plan, and they sealed the building together. The students lived peacefully inside the school building for a year without knowing that the Ultimate Despair members were already in their midst.

The students soon became forced into the killing game. As an incentive to murder in order to escape, the students were each given a DVD featuring a video from Monokuma which implied that their loved ones were in danger. Byakuya's butler, Aloysius, was captured by Ultimate Despair for this motive.
To survive: As the Killing Game began, Byakuya was extremely cold and dismissive towards the other students, making his dislike to them known and stating that he would not cooperate with them. He did not trust any of the other students, assuming any of them could be plotting a murder. Like the battle he had faced with to earn his place in the Togami family, he decided to treat the Killing Game as the game is claimed to be, one he intended to win. His dismissive and derogatory attitude towards the others ultimately led to Mondo snapping and attempting to attack Byakuya. Makoto tried to intervene, but became the target for Mondo's attack instead, resulting in Mondo knocking him out in a fit of rage. After the deaths of "Junko", Sayaka Maizono, and Leon Kuwata, Monokuma opened up a new floor, where Kyoko found an old, dusty letter which stated that Hope's Peak Academy had been forced to shut down. Byakuya suggested that the letter could be fake, but believed that if it was real, then the mastermind may have placed them in a different school, citing that the mastermind was powerful enough to build a trial ground and a place for execution.

Early life:
Byakuya Togami is the heir to the worldwide financial conglomerate that is the Togami family. The Togami family has a "peculiar inheritance system", in which the male head of the family does not take a wife, but instead couples with exceptional women from around the world, in order to bear as many children as possible. As such, Byakuya had fifteen half-siblings, all potential heirs to the Togami family and fortune.
Byakuya and his siblings were forced to battle against one another to become the next head of the family, and Byakuya was the last one standing, the first time in the history of the Togami family that the youngest male had won. The siblings who lost the battle were exiled from the family, considered "unfit for the name of Togami", and given a commoner life. Byakuya akins it to being killed, because being exiled is like death.
After winning the battle, Byakuya became the chosen heir apparent to the Togami family. Despite the Togami Corporation's significant reach and power (being, as he told Makoto in Chapter 2, a member of the Council of Global Controllers, a secret council which rules the world from the shadows), Togami aimed to take the Corporation to even greater heights. He began managing business operations within the family, and gained access to vast financial assets, investing his portion into day trading - selling stocks, shares and assets. Through this, he managed to amass a personal wealth of over four billion dollars, despite his young age. Within the family, the closest person to Byakuya was his butler, named Aloysius Pennyworth, who referred to Byakuya as "Young Master".
Byakuya attended Green Hills High School and was later scouted by Hope's Peak Academy as part of Class 78th as the Ultimate Affluent Progeny.

Togami Family. Pre-history: With the 'Sekai Seifuku Sengen' announced by his imposter, and with all his power being taken away from him, becoming an "enemy of the world", the "Ultimate Assassins" attack the "Ultimate Affluent Progeny", Byakuya Togami, one after another.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is in turmoil due to the eerie spread of the mysterious "Zetsubō Shōsetsu"......!
"Ultimate Affluent Progeny", Byakuya Togami declares his intention to conquer the world as its enemy, in the dark and despairful event in Prague, and intercepts assassins who are bursting with Despair High School Level talent.
In the midst of all this, the curtain of taboos and of falsities (despair) is pulled back, and the truth about the "Togami Ichizoku Saidai Saiaku no Jiken," the beginning of everything (the origin), is finally revealed......!
The culprit of the "Togami Ichizoku Saidai Saiaku no Jiken", Kazuya Togami, has finally revealed himself!
"Ultimate Affluent Progeny", Byakuya Togami, is arrested by Kazuya, who is now the captain of the World Health Organization's Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit, as the root of all evil behind the "Despair Disease" epidemic.

Likes: Coffee, French.
Dislikes: Plebeians/Commoners, Microwave meals.

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32 in (81 cm)

May 5

150 lbs (68 kg)

185 cm (6'1)

Male