Danganronpa Trivia
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108 free Danganronpa trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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 the series, though the first game shipped in 2010 under plain Spike; the company only took its current name when Spike merged with Chunsoft in 2012.
Q 02On which platform was the first Danganronpa game originally released in 2010?
PlayStation Portable
PlayStation Portable hosted the 2010 original, which stayed in Japan; English-speaking players first got the game officially through the PS Vita port in February 2014.
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 04In Trigger Happy Havoc, which position does Monokuma claim to hold at the school?
Headmaster
Headmaster is the title Monokuma gives himself when he greets the students, though the robot bear is only a puppet, worked from a hidden control room by the real mastermind.
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
Doraemon was Nobuyo Oyama's role from 1979 to 2005, so Japanese players heard a beloved children's hero inside the series' villain; Tarako replaced her as Monokuma in 2016.
Q 07Which organisation of Hope's Peak alumni do the survivors of Trigger Happy Havoc join after escaping the academy?
Future Foundation
Future Foundation was formed by Hope's Peak alumni to rebuild the world; in Danganronpa 3 its own leaders end up trapped in a killing game of their own.
Q 08What is the Japanese term that Western localisations render as 'Ultimate'?
Super High School Level
Super High School Level is the literal meaning of chō-kōkō-kyū, which the English release shortens to Ultimate; one student a year gets the title by lottery instead of talent.
Q 09Which publisher first brought the Danganronpa games to the West, starting on PS Vita in 2014?
NIS America
NIS America localised the first game for PS Vita in 2014; the Japanese developer's only specific request was that Monokuma's name stay unchanged.
Q 10What colour is the blood in the Danganronpa games?
Pink
Pink was chosen first to lower the age rating, producer Yoshinori Terasawa has said, and it also softened the gore and suited the pop-art look.
Q 11Which filmmaker does Kazutaka Kodaka cite as a major inspiration for the games?
David Lynch
David Lynch is the director Kodaka cites as an inspiration, while producer Yoshinori Terasawa has said his love of Saw and Cube fed the game's grotesque streak.
Q 12Who composed the music for the Danganronpa games and anime?
Masafumi Takada
Masafumi Takada, who earlier scored killer7 and No More Heroes, wrote the series' music; in 2017 he joined Kodaka in founding a new studio, Too Kyo Games.
Q 13Who is the protagonist of the first game, Trigger Happy Havoc?
Makoto Naegi
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 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 22Which Trigger Happy Havoc student cannot remember her own talent, later revealed to be Ultimate Detective?
Kyoko Kirigiri
Kyoko Kirigiri enters as the 'Ultimate ???' and turns out to be a detective, and the daughter of the academy's principal, whom the mastermind executed before the game began.
Q 23Which of these students survives to walk out of the academy at the end of Trigger Happy Havoc?
Aoi Asahina
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 15Under Monokuma's rules, what is the only way for a student to leave the academy?
Get away with murdering a classmate
Get away with murdering a classmate and you 'graduate'; if the class votes for the wrong culprit at the trial, everyone except the killer is executed instead.
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 Trigger Happy Havoc?
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 18Who manipulates Hifumi Yamada into killing Kiyotaka Ishimaru in Trigger Happy Havoc?
Celestia Ludenberg
Celestia Ludenberg, the Ultimate Gambler, promises Hifumi they will escape together, then kills him too to cover her tracks.
Q 19Which Trigger Happy Havoc student 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 20Junko Enoshima, mastermind of the first killing game, enrols at Hope's Peak under which Ultimate title?
The Ultimate Fashionista
The Ultimate Fashionista is Junko's public face, a celebrity model's cover for a schemer who has her own twin sister impersonate her and then kills her on a whim.
Aoi Asahina, the swimmer, leaves with Makoto, Kyoko, Byakuya, Toko and Hagakure: six survivors stepping out with no idea what has become of the world.
Q 24Which class-trial minigame in Trigger Happy Havoc is a one-on-one rhythm game against a stubborn classmate?
Bullet Time Battle
Bullet Time Battle has you tap in time with the beat to shoot down a classmate's denials; once their defences run out, you fire one last piece of evidence to break their final claim.
Q 25In which trial mode do you fill in the missing panels of a comic strip?
Closing Argument
Closing Argument wraps up a trial: you rebuild the crime as a manga, panel by panel, and the finished strip plays back with the culprit named at the end.
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 Danganronpa 2 character shares Makoto's Ultimate Lucky Student talent?
Nagito Komaeda
Nagito Komaeda was built to make players suspect he is Makoto: same talent, same voice actress, and a name that is an anagram of the Japanese for 'I am Makoto Naegi'.
Q 30Whom does the Ultimate Imposter pose as in Danganronpa 2?
Byakuya Togami
Byakuya Togami is the disguise the Ultimate Imposter wears in Danganronpa 2: he makes himself the group's leader, vows that nobody will die on his watch, and becomes the game's first victim.