__Height:__ 179 cm (5'10")
__Talent:__ Ultimate ???

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. He doesn't remember his talent at the beginning of the Killing Game, so his title is the Ultimate ???.

Hajime seems cynical at first glance, but it would be better to describe him as a realist. He is quite skeptical and tends to worry more than the other students, but his worries are usually understandable. He is logical and smart; often annoyed by the idea of not being able to understand someone or something at all. He tends to be quite serious, but he does joke around and often goes along with his classmates' eccentric hobbies anyway, and sometimes smiles awkwardly and sheepishly while his friends engage in some of their usual weird behavior. He is sometimes annoyed by some of his classmates and can be snarky towards them in his thoughts as well as blunt while speaking to them, though he's more frank than sarcastic or mean-spirited. Though sometimes a bit submissive (especially with bossy girls), he is not afraid to speak his mind, and he can be rude if annoyed enough (for example, after enduring Hiyoko's attitude during her Free Time Events, he finally ends up stating "I don't even care anymore"). He can sometimes be short-tempered and snap at others, especially when he's tired or under pressure. He was also quite paranoid during the start of the game and didn't have much interest in friendship, but he later really wanted to believe in his classmates and felt bad about doubting them during the Class Trials, though he understood it was necessary.

~!It was revealed in Chapter 4 by Nagito Komaeda that Hajime was actually a reserve course student who had no talent whatsoever and is not an Ultimate himself.!~


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.

__Birth Name:__ Izumi Arai (新井泉)

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The female half of the musical duo [TWO-MIX](https://anilist.co/staff/102352/).

Married mangaka [Gosho Aoyama](https://anilist.co/staff/97804/) (creator of _Detective Conan_) on her birthday, May 5, in 2005. Later divorced on December 10, 2007.

**Non-Anime Roles:**
• Fu Hua (Honkai Impact 3rd)

He was the Black Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and The Green Ranger on Power Rangers Zeo and the Green Turbo Ranger on Power Rangers Turbo. He had his first role in anime as main character Vash the Stampede from Trigun, and after that, he has been voicing a plethora of roles in animes such as Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach, Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass, Zora Ideale in Black Clover, Giyuu Tomioka in Demon Slayer, and more recently Twenty-Fifth Baam in Tower of God.

**Non-Anime Roles:**
• Guy Cecil (Tales Of the Abyss)

Makoto Naegi, the Ultimate Hope who defeated the Ultimate Despair, Junko Enoshima, is under suspicion of treason against the Future Foundation for harboring the Remnants of Despair who carried on her will. As top members of the Future Foundation, including Makoto's former classmates Kyoko Kirigiri, Aoi Asahina, and Yasuhiro Hagakure, are brought together to decide on Makoto's punishment, they are all imprisoned by Monokuma, who forces everyone to participate in a final killing game. They must try to find the traitor among them who will kill them in their sleep, while also trying to avoid being mortally poisoned by personalised forbidden actions. Thrust into a game where no one can trust each other, Makoto's ideals of hope are pushed to their very limits. 
 
(Source: IMDB, edited) 
 
Aired alongside of Danganronpa 3: Zetsubou-hen, with Mirai-hen starting first.

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)

Series of humorous, animated skits bundled with the Japanese Blu-ray volume releases of Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School.

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 Comics)

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)

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

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