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60 free Danganronpa trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
47 free Danganronpa trivia questions with answers, written for players who have sat through every class trial. It covers the whole franchise: Trigger Happy Havoc and the fifteen Ultimates locked inside Hope's Peak, Goodbye Despair on Jabberwock Island, the third-person shooting of Ultra Despair Girls, and V3: Killing Harmony with its fake protagonist and its ending nobody agrees about. Expect questions on the meaning of the word Danganronpa, why the blood is pink, which Doraemon voice actress first played Monokuma, who really killed whom in each case, the minigames that make up a class trial, Izuru Kamukura, the Monokubs, Tsumugi's reveal, sales milestones and the two anime series by Lerche. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia before publishing and each question links to its source. Difficulty runs from easy questions about Monokuma's colours to expert ones about first-week sales figures and Vita release dates, and the whole thing is spoiler-heavy from the first question, so finish the games first.
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Q 01Which company develops and owns the Danganronpa series?
Spike Chunsoft
Spike Chunsoft owns it; creator Kazutaka Kodaka wrote the original scenario, aiming for what he called a twisted adventure game.
Q 02On which platform was the first Danganronpa game originally released in 2010?
PlayStation Portable
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc launched on the PlayStation Portable in Japan on November 25, 2010; the Vita version reached North America in February 2014 and both early games later came to Steam and PS4.
Q 03The word Danganronpa combines the Japanese words for what?
Bullet and refutation
Dangan means bullet and ronpa means refutation, which is why you fire Truth Bullets at contradictions during class trials.
Q 04What kind of creature is Monokuma?
A robotic teddy bear
Monokuma is a robotic teddy bear, half white and half black, with a jagged red eye on his black side; he installs himself as headmaster of Hope's Peak Academy.
Q 05Monokuma's name is a mash-up of the Japanese word for bear and which English word?
Monochrome
Monochrome plus kuma, the Japanese for bear, reflects his black-and-white colour scheme; his English game voice is Brian Beacock.
Q 06Monokuma's original Japanese voice actress, Nobuyo Oyama, was famous for voicing which beloved character?
Doraemon
Japanese audiences were shocked to hear the robot cat's voice coming from a sadistic bear; Tarako took over the role later.
Q 07What is the name of the elite school at the centre of the series?
Hope's Peak Academy
Hope's Peak Academy scouts students who are the best in the world at something and calls them Ultimates; its Japanese name is Kibōgamine Gakuen.
Q 08What is the Japanese term that Western localisations render as 'Ultimate'?
Super High School Level
Chō-kōkō-kyū, literally Super High School Level, became 'Ultimate' in the Western localisation; Makoto Naegi's Japanese title is Super High School Level Good Luck.
Q 09Which company localised the Danganronpa games for Western release, starting in 2013?
NIS America
NIS America's first two releases sold more than 200,000 copies combined on Vita in Europe and the US by April 2015.
Q 10What colour is the blood in the Danganronpa games?
Pink
The fluorescent pink is part of the deliberate pop-art look, and it also helped with age ratings.
Q 11Which filmmaker does Kazutaka Kodaka cite as a major inspiration for the games?
David Lynch
Kodaka has cited David Lynch, Twin Peaks in particular, as a key influence; producer Yoshinori Terasawa was thinking more of Saw and Cube, and the original concept was rejected as too gruesome before a retool.
Q 12Who composed the music for the Danganronpa games and anime?
Masafumi Takada
Masafumi Takada, formerly of Grasshopper Manufacture, composed the series' music; Rui Komatsuzaki designed the characters whose look helped the first game stand out.
Q 13Who is the protagonist of the first game, Trigger Happy Havoc?
Makoto Naegi
Q 21What is the name of the mastermind's fraternal twin sister who impersonated her?
Mukuro Ikusaba
Mukuro Ikusaba, the Ultimate Soldier, is impaled by Monokuma's spears for 'breaking a rule' when she attacks him while posing as Junko.
Q 22How long had the students actually been living inside the academy before their memories were wiped?
Two years
Two years: the class had sealed themselves inside Hope's Peak after the Tragedy, then the mastermind executed headmaster Jin Kirigiri and erased their memories.
Q 23How many students survive to leave the academy at the end of Trigger Happy Havoc?
Six
Six survive: Makoto, Kyoko, Byakuya, Toko, Aoi and Hagakure walk out into a world they know nothing about.
Makoto Naegi, picked by raffle as the Ultimate Lucky Student, narrates the first game; he and his classmates wake up locked inside Hope's Peak Academy.
Q 14How many other Ultimate students does Makoto meet when he wakes up inside Hope's Peak Academy in the first Danganronpa?
Fourteen
Fourteen others make fifteen students in total, though one of them is not who she claims to be.
Q 15According to Monokuma's rules, what is the only way to leave the academy?
Murder a classmate and avoid being identified
If the class picks the wrong culprit at trial, everyone except the real killer is executed.
Q 16Who is the first murder victim in Trigger Happy Havoc?
Sayaka Maizono
Sayaka Maizono, the Ultimate Pop Sensation, is killed by baseball star Leon Kuwata after her own plan to murder him goes wrong.
Q 17Which student kills programmer Chihiro Fujisaki in the first game?
Mondo Owada
Mondo Owada, the biker gang leader, kills Chihiro in a fit of envy after Chihiro confides in him; his execution straps him into a motorcycle cage of death.
Q 18Which gambler manipulates Hifumi Yamada into killing Kiyotaka Ishimaru?
Celestia Ludenberg
Celestia Ludenberg, the Ultimate Gambler, manipulates Hifumi into killing Ishimaru, then kills Hifumi too, hoping to walk out with Monokuma's cash motive.
Q 19Which martial artist takes her own life after being exposed as Monokuma's spy?
Sakura Ogami
Sakura Ogami, the Ultimate Martial Artist, takes her own life in Chapter 4 after being outed as Monokuma's mole; the trial has no murderer to catch.
Q 20Who is the true mastermind behind the first killing game?
Junko Enoshima
Junko Enoshima, the Ultimate Fashionista, is the real mastermind; the 'Junko' killed early on was an impostor wearing her identity.
Q 24Which class-trial mode has you shooting down specific letters to spell a word?
Hangman's Gambit
In Hangman's Gambit you shoot the right letters out of a stream to spell a key word; the Nonstop Debate and the rhythm-based Bullet Time Battle are the other shooting modes.
Q 25In which trial mode do you assemble a comic strip showing how the crime happened?
Closing Argument
The Closing Argument ends every trial by filling the missing panels of a manga-style strip; the sequel added the snowboarding Logic Dive and sword-swinging Rebuttal Showdown.
Q 26How many copies did the first Danganronpa sell in its first week in Japan?
25,564
Famitsu charted 25,564 copies in the PSP original's first week in November 2010, a modest start; the Vita remake Danganronpa 1·2 Reload followed in 2013.
Q 27Where is Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair set?
Jabberwock Island
Jabberwock Island's tropical setting turns out to exist only inside a virtual-reality program.
Q 28Who is the amnesiac protagonist of Danganronpa 2?
Hajime Hinata
Hajime Hinata learns he was Izuru Kamukura, the artificial 'Ultimate Hope' created by Hope's Peak's Kamukura Project.
Q 29Which rabbit mascot greets the students in Danganronpa 2 before Monokuma takes over?
Usami
Usami, the 'Magical Miracle Girl', hosts the field trip until Monokuma hijacks it and reduces her to a powerless mascot renamed Monomi.
Q 30Which Danganronpa 2 character shares Makoto's Ultimate Lucky Student talent?
Nagito Komaeda
Nagito Komaeda is calm but mentally unstable, and his obsession with hope drives much of the plot.