__Height:__ 165 cm (5'4")
__Talent:__ Ultimate Nurse

A student of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B, and a participant of the Killing School Trip featured in _Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair_.

Chisa Yukizome begins her job as homeroom teacher for Hope's Peak Academy's 77th Class of Ultmate students. Meanwhile, Hajime Hinata, a student of the school's Reserve Course for students without talent, prepares to undergo an experiment to make him the Ultimate Hope. What follows is a series of tragic events which lead to the birth of the Remnants of Despair and the realization of "The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History." 
 
Aired alongside of Danganronpa 3: Mirai-hen, with Mirai-hen starting first.

**Height:** 153 cm (5'0)

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__Introduction:__
Ai Kayano is a Japanese voice actress and vocalist currently affiliated with Office Osawa.

__Biography:__
Kayano wanted to work in a job that would involve "healing people", leading to initially take up a course at a vocational school. She worked in the beauty industry and became interested in acting after having seen [Aria](https://anilist.co/anime/477/). While attending school, Kayano continued working in the industry and paid for her tuition.

Kayano began working at Pro-Fit in 2010, voicing two supporting characters in the original video animation [Princess Resurrection](https://anilist.co/anime/9159/). In 2011, she voiced [Meiko "Menma" Honma](https://anilist.co/character/40592/) in [Anohana](https://anilist.co/anime/9989/) and received the Best Rookie Actress award for said role at the 6th Seiyuu Awards. Kayano, [Haruka Tomatsu](https://anilist.co/staff/95890/) and [Saori Hayami](https://anilist.co/staff/95869/) performed the series' ending theme "Secret Base – Kimi ga Kureta Mono (10 years after Ver.)", a cover of a song originally sung by the band Zone.

She is often praised for her vocal range, having voiced a variety of characters such as [Mayaka Ibara](https://anilist.co/character/55137/), [Mashiro Shiina](https://anilist.co/character/61371/), [Darkness](https://anilist.co/character/89363/) and [Akari Kawamoto](https://anilist.co/character/24311/) for example, none of which one would connect to the same voice actress.

**Trivia:**
- Worked part-time at a coffee shop with [Chinatsu Akasaki](https://anilist.co/staff/107652/) before becoming a voice actress.
- She got around 100 suggestions for her nickname in the Anohana radio show, from which she herself picked out Kayanon.

Non-anime roles:
- Atago - Azur Lane
- Graf Zeppelin - Azur Lane
- Kaga - Azur Lane
- Renown - Azur Lane
- Y'shtola Rhul - Final Fantasy XIV

[Official Website](http://www.sarahmadeleinetusk.com) | [Synchronkartei](https://www.synchronkartei.de/sprecher/9198/2)

The Future Foundation is in shambles after the Final Killing Game and the revelation of the true culprit. As a desperate plot arises from one of the survivors to rid the world of despair once and for all, the remaining Future Foundation members must band together to stop it. Fortunately, they find themselves with help from a group of unlikely allies as they race against the clock to stop their world from being changed. 
 
As a direct continuation of Mirai-hen, Kibou-hen serves as the finale to the Hope's Peak storyline of the Danganronpa series.

Nagito Komaeda wakes up after experiencing death in the Neo World Program. What kind of world is he seeing and why did he wake up? 

Nagito appears to be in a strange world, including students who have been seen before as well as people who never existed. He is an ordinary boy with no Ultimate Luck, attending an ordinary school. Constrained by being the protagonist, he thinks that having a big talent would interrupt his happiness. He believes that living an ordinary life, being moderately happy, while watching his classmates have a normal youth is what's wonderful. 

However, one day, a boy calling himself "The Destroyer of the World" appears, having the form of red-eyed Hajime Hinata. He begins the destruction of Nagito's world... 

(Source: Danganronpa Wikia)

Manga adaptation of Danganronpa 2. 
 
Hajime Hinata, who enrolled in Hope's Peak Academy, a place where Ultimate talents gather, was excited to begin his high school life. However, he suddenly becomes dizzy and ends up on an island with 15 other "Ultimate" students... in order to escape from the island, they must kill someone and get away with it. Who kills and who gets killed? As suspicion spreads, the first murder occurs, and the Killing School Trip begins. 
 
(Source: Amazon, translated)

The events of Danganronpa 2 from Nagito Komaeda's point of view. 
 
Hope's Peak Academy is a government-approved private high school that scouts "super high school level" students with superb talent from all over the country. But when 16 new students, including the "super high school level lucky student" Nagito Komaeda, arrive on the day of their entrance ceremony, they suddenly find themselves on a southern island called Jabberwock Island as a "school excursion" with some of their memories lost... 
 
(Source: MAG Garden, translated)

Chiaki Nanami is the Ultimate Gamer, selected as one of Japan's most expert teens to attend the elite Hope's Peak High School. What could be nicer than for the semester to kick off with a class trip to the tropical resort of Jabberwock Island? And what could be more horrific than being told by the principal that now they're all trapped there, and the only way they can ever leave is to play a murder game!
 
The rules are simple: to escape, you must not only kill a fellow student but get away with it, as the survivors will then cross-examine each other in a class courtroom. If they vote the wrong person guilty, the killer goes free, and the rest of them die! With no margin for error and high stakes, the Ultimate Gamer will need to use all her playing skills to suss out the secrets of Jabberwock Island and find the "true ending" for Nanami and her friends…survival and escape!
 
(Source: Dark Horse)

An anthology light novel focusing on the characters from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Consists of illustrations and short stories about their daily lives.

The events of Danganronpa 2 from Kazuichi Souda's point of view. 
 
Super high school level mechanic Kazuichi Souda is super cowardly despite his flashy appearance. The Killing School Trip told from his perspective depicts the students' daily lives not shown in the game, we well as episodes of Souda from his middle school days! A new interpretation of "Super Danganronpa 2" is born! 
 
(Source: Amazon, translated)

Based on the games of the same name, a variety of authors and artists write a large offering of short stories starring the various characters featured in the games. The stories range from being lovingly heartfelt, packed full of comedy and gags or being downright evil or messed up sometimes!


Based on the game's island mode where Usami defeats Monokuma, the killing game never starts, and everyone lives peacefully on the island together.

Official comic anthology for Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School published by DNA Media Comics.

A series of short 4-panel manga stories centering around humorous non-canonical situations starring the cast of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

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