17 Facts About Monokuma

Monokuma is a fictional identity adopted by several characters in the Danganronpa series, serving as the mascot and main antagonist of the series.

Monokuma first appears in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc as a disguise used by "despair sisters" Mukuro Ikusaba and Junko Enoshima during their killing game in the fictional school of Hope's Peak Academy.

Monokuma was created by scenario writer Kazutaka Kodaka and designed by Rui Komatsuzaki.

Critical response to Monokuma has been generally favorable, and he has often been listed as one of the best characters in the entire franchise.

Monokuma first appears in the opening scene of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc The character, sitting in front of a man tied to a chair, pushes a button that launches the man through the building they are in, up into the sky and then to space, reducing him to a skeleton upon his crash landing.

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Sometime later, Monokuma greets 15 "Ultimate" students of Hope's Peak Academy, introducing himself as the school's headmaster and informing them that they will be living within the grounds of the academy for the remainder of their natural lives lest one of them become "the blackened" and murder another.

Monokuma is additionally revealed to have a spy implanted amongst the 15 students partaking in the game, in addition to hiding the existence of a 16th student within the academy.

In Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, set between the first and second games, a new arm of Monokuma robots are commanded by the Warriors of Hope to kill every adult within Towa City for their acts of child abuse.

Ultimately, the Monokuma army is revealed to have been mass-produced by Haiji Towa and Tokuichi Towa for the forces of Ultimate Despair while producing weapons for the Future Foundation to fight them, war profiteering, before their factory was commandeered by the Warriors of Hope and surrogate daughter and heir of Junko Enoshima and the Towa Group, Monaca Towa.

In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, another Monokuma emerges at the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles, apparently having captured the last 16 survivors of Earth to participate in another killing game.

Monokuma appears in the second-season episode "Fate ~The Strongest Enemy Appears; A Cruel, Inescapable Destiny; Wooser is Judged~" of Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life, in which he places the protagonists and title character Wooser into a class trial, resulting in him executing him.

Monokuma appears in the Japanese manga adaptation of the series, written and illustrated by Touya Hajime and published by Enterbrain, as well as the spin-off Killer Killer.

Monokuma is included as a playable character in a 2020 crossover event of the NetEase horror game, Identity V, where he pursues fellow Danganronpa characters Makoto Naegi and Kyoko Kirigiri with a hammer, with the intent of executing them.

Monokuma robot is one controlled by the main antagonists of the Danganronpa franchise, consisting of a teddy bear with a black left-hand-side, a white right-hand-side, one black right-eye, one red-left eye containing the logo for Hope's Peak Academy, a half-smile expression, short ears and an extruding belly button microphone, with a built-in explosive device in the scenario that a student decides to fight the Monokuma robot.

Monokuma's design is meant to be basis of the black and white morality.

Since the release of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc in November 2010, Monokuma has become one of its most popular characters, with several memes being made about him.

In November 2019, a Monokuma costume created controversy in Austin, Texas after drag queen Erika Klash was denied entry to a Whataburger while dressed as the character, after performing in-character at the Austin International Drag Festival at the club Elysium for five years.