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
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
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
That is why you fire Truth Bullets at contradictions during class trials.
Q 04What kind of creature is Monokuma?
A robotic teddy bear
He is half white and half black, with a red left eye that carries the Hope's Peak Academy logo.
Q 05Monokuma's name is a mash-up of the Japanese word for bear and which English word?
Monochrome
It refers to 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
It scouts students who are the best in the world at something and calls them Ultimates, or Super High School Level in Japanese.
Q 08What is the Japanese term that Western localisations render as 'Ultimate'?
Super High School Level
The Japanese is chō-kōkō-kyū; NIS America handled the Western localisations from 2013.
Q 09Which company localised the Danganronpa games for the West starting in 2013?
NIS America
The first two games 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
Producer Yoshinori Terasawa was thinking more of Saw and Cube; the original concept was rejected as too gruesome before a retool.
Q 12Who composed the music for the Danganronpa games and anime?
Masafumi Takada
Rui Komatsuzaki designed the characters, whose look helped the first game stand out on shelves.
Q 13Who is the protagonist of the first game, Trigger Happy Havoc?
Makoto Naegi
He is picked in a raffle and enrolled as the Ultimate Lucky Student alongside fourteen genuine prodigies.
Q 21What is the name of the mastermind's fraternal twin sister who impersonated her?
Mukuro Ikusaba
She is the Ultimate Soldier, and dies when the bear she is standing beside decides she has broken a rule.
Q 22How long had the students actually been living inside the academy before their memories were wiped?
Two years
They all knew each other already; the mastermind executed the headmaster and erased their memories.
Q 23How many students survive to leave the academy at the end of Trigger Happy Havoc?
Six
They walk out uncertain what state the world is in, a question the sequel answers.
Q 14How many other Ultimate students does Makoto meet when he wakes up inside the academy?
Fourteen
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
The pop idol is killed by baseball star Leon Kuwata after her own murder plan goes wrong.
Q 17Which student kills programmer Chihiro Fujisaki in the first game?
Mondo Owada
The biker gang leader acts in a jealous rage; his execution involves a motorcycle cage of death.
Q 18Which gambler manipulates Hifumi Yamada into killing Kiyotaka Ishimaru?
Celestia Ludenberg
She then kills Hifumi too, hoping to walk out with the promised prize money.
Q 19Which martial artist takes her own life after being exposed as Monokuma's spy?
Sakura Ogami
Her death is the fourth case, and the trial is unusual because there is no murderer to catch.
Q 20Who is the true mastermind behind the first killing game?
Junko Enoshima
The 'Junko' killed early on was her twin sister, mercenary Mukuro Ikusaba, wearing her identity.
Q 24Which class-trial mode has you shooting down specific letters to spell a word?
Hangman's Gambit
The other three original modes are the Nonstop Debate, the rhythm-based Bullet Time Battle and the comic-strip Closing Argument.
Q 25In which trial mode do you assemble a comic strip showing how the crime happened?
Closing Argument
It ends every trial; the sequel added the snowboarding Logic Dive and sword-swinging Rebuttal Showdowns.
Q 26How many copies did the first Danganronpa sell in its first week in Japan?
25,564
It passed 85,000 in three months, and by 2021 the PC version alone had sold over a million.
Q 27Where is Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair set?
Jabberwock Island
The tropical island turns out to exist only inside a virtual-reality program.
Q 28Who is the amnesiac protagonist of Danganronpa 2?
Hajime Hinata
He eventually learns he was Izuru Kamukura, the leader of Ultimate Despair.
Q 29Which rabbit mascot greets the students in Danganronpa 2 before Monokuma takes over?
Usami
Monokuma hijacks the 'field trip' and reduces her to a powerless mascot renamed Monomi.
Q 30Which Danganronpa 2 character shares Makoto's Ultimate Lucky Student talent?
Nagito Komaeda
He is described as calm but mentally unstable, and his obsession with hope drives much of the plot.