13 Facts About Izuru Kamukura

Hajime Hinata, known as Izuru Kamukura, is a fictional character from the Spike Chunsoft visual novel action-adventure game series Danganronpa.

The character has two identities: Izuru Kamukura first appeared in the 2011 light novel prequel Danganronpa Zero by Kazutaka Kodaka as a mysterious high school student whose actions resulted in genocide, while a Computer avatar copy of Hajime appeared as the protagonist of the 2012 video game Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, as a high school student with no memories of his past, forced to investigate murder cases involving high school students who are trapped on a group of tropical islands.

Izuru Kamukura was described as a god-like entity to the point of being deemed as the strongest character Kodaka ever created in fiction.

Kodaka was satisfied with how anime staff from Lerche handled Izuru Kamukura, while enjoying his portrayal as an emotionless, silent but "elegant" character at the same time.

Izuru Kamukura's design was carefully revised to have a "beautiful, elegant dance" while his hair was stiffer than in early materials.

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Izuru Kamukura is first mentioned in the light novel Danganronpa Zero as a detective investigates him.

Izuru Kamukura is described as a student of indeterminate gender hiding on the grounds of the school, and the perpetrator of "The Tragedy", an event involving mass murder that resulted in the decay of mankind.

The real Izuru Kamukura is then briefly glimpsed by Kyoko, who mistakes him for one of the similarly long-haired Madarai octuplets.

In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Izuru Kamukura is reintroduced under his birth name, Hajime Hinata.

Izuru Kamukura is a rival of Nagito Komaeda, who suspects there is a traitor in the group working for "World Ender".

Izuru Kamukura is briefly seen during the epilogue of the spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, set between the events of the first and second games, while ripping out parts of the mechanical bears Kurokuma and Shirokuma while transporting them via wheelbarrow, before preparing future plans with Alter Ego Junko.

In Future Arc, at some point during the Tragedy, Makoto explains that he found Izuru Kamukura and captured him to place him in the virtual world, for which he is put on trial for treason by the Future Foundation for doing so, and refusing too disclose the location of Izuru Kamukura and the remaining Remnants of Despair.

The final twist in Goodbye Despair, where Hajime is revealed to be Junko's partner Izuru Kamukura, was praised by Rice Digital as one of the franchise's most striking twists, as it alters the gamers' perception regarding him alongside the rest of the cast members, who are similarly revealed to be the Remnants of Despair terrorists, rather than their previous caring personas.