Your first day of class will be...murder!!! Welcome to Hope's Peak Academy, which selects only the elite... plus one ordinary student, chosen by lottery. Makoto Naegi was that lucky person—or so he thought! When he shows up for class, he finds the students are a bizarre cast of odd-balls Under the ruthless authority of a robot teddy bear principal, Monokuma. The bear lays down the school rules: the only way out of Hope's Peak is not only murder another student... but get away with it, in a tribunal where the survivors cross-examine each other! Inspired by the Danganronpa video game series from NIS America and now on Steam... based on the anime series from Funanimation! The first Danganronpa manga to be released in English has twists and turns of its own!

Where you don't drop out... you drop dead!!! Having lived through the first round of judgment in the trap that is Hope's Peak Academy, bonds are beginning to form among the surviving students. But the evil paws of Monokuma, the villainous bear that holds them captive, are stretched around them...one black, one white, signifying that at this school there's only room for two kinds of students—those found innocent—and those found guilty!

The life-or-death courtroom game continues at Hope's Peak Academy as Makoto and Kyoko work together to try to prove Yasuhiro's innocence and convict Celestia in the latest round of class trials! And Makoto has learned in his investigations that one of his fellow students is being forced by Monokuma to spy upon them—should he reveal this secret to the others, or wait for the spy to make what could be a very drastic move...?

With only six students remaining alive out of the original 15, the final trial will also reveal the mastermind behind their imprisonment in Hope's Peak Academy...and the true purpose behind the deadly game they've been forced to play! The survivors might count themselves lucky to have been right...but are they sure they've counted themselves right...? The latest Danganronpa videogame was released in 2016 through NIS America! Based on the Danganronpa anime TV show, released in 2015 through Funimation. A quirky, fun, weird, dynamic take on the high school Battle Royale genre.