Released in 2011 as a light novel in Japan, Danganronpa Zero would be the prequel tale
for events leading up to the first game.
Written by series creator Kazutaka Kodaka, the story details events of Hope's Peak Academy
and the central figures to the Incident within, one month after it happened.
The story only gets larger from here, so let's cut it down to size with a RECAPitation.
As the story begins, we are introduced to Hope's Peak Private school, where all of societies
prodigies and very best of their fields are scouted and developed in this academy said
to be the Hope for humanity's future.
However, a malicious student named Junko Enoshima has succeeded in manipulating the respected
student council into murdering each other in a mutual killing game, and inciting unrest
in the remaining students, all for the self-entertaining purpose of shattering hope and dragging it
down into despair.
It's been one month since this Tragedy of Hope's Peak, called the Incident, and the
Headmaster Jin Kirigiri is addressing the entire faculty on what the action will be
going forward.
He explains that the school must persevere as a symbol of hope for the world and continue
their research of Talent, and this incident cannot endanger that.
He reveals it is the decision of the the Steering Committee, the 4 people in charge of the school,
to cover up this incident, and continue on their march of progress, and the entire faculty
unanimously agrees.
We're now introduced to a girl named Ryoko, an amnesiac who still carries the prestige
of Ultimate Analyst, even if she cannot remember why.
She keeps a notebook with her at all times to remind her of acute observations, people
she knows, what she's doing and what she's going to do, as she also experiences short
term memory loss as well.
Still, she remains cheerful, as she goes to her regular session with her childhood friend
and one-sided crush, Yasuke, the Ultimate Neurologist.
As she enters his office he throws a blade near her head, startling her, and then immediately
changes the subject from that to her looks, and then to the manga he's reading.
He then goes back and asks her her own name, and she replies accurately though not confidently.
However, when she brings up the knife he initially threw at her, he stands to attention, wondering
how she recalled that event, as her short term memory loss usually would have lost that
by now.
She wonders if she's simply getting better, but Yasuke openly ponders if she's actually
getting worse.
Still, she's cheeful and overbearing in her attempts to appeal to Yasuke, who regards
her only as a research subject.
As he guides her through her session, he explains progressing research on brain functionality
and memory, but also talks of the protestors outside called the Parade, made up of the
Reserve Students.
As Hope's Peak is mainly used for research for talent, all the funds for that research
comes from exploiting a branch of average students called the Reserve Department, who
are allowed to attend and benefit from the school's name in exchange for outrageous tuition.
Tired of being used only for their money, and incited by Junko Enoshima during the Tragedy
a month ago, they now protest daily.
As they move to the sleep portion of the experiment, Yasuke leaves, and Ryoko does her best to
push out some hateful voices she's beginning to hear in her head.
As she sleeps, Yasuke goes to answer Headmaster Jin's summons, as he invited to sit and talk
with the 4 old men in black suits called the Steering Committee.
Yasuke is uncomfortable in their presence, as they have had him use his talent to investigate
the Student who had first discovered the Student Council Tragedy, and now they are asking him
investigate another student.
He learns they still haven't learned anything of the true culprit behind the tragedy a month
ago, but this student is an old lead they need to press, and they can only trust Yasuke
with this task, not only for his talent, but also because he is the only student officially
disclosed to know the cover-up attempt by the school.
They reveal there were actually two survivors to the tragedy.
One who was mutilated in the incident and survived, but has never recovered and is still
in a coma.
The other hid and was unhurt, but has now gone missing.
Somehow, he is tasked with extracting information from the unconscious survivor, so he returns
back to his lab and sends Ryoko away after their session.
That night, Ryoko recieves a letter, from someone who stole her old memory notebook
and demands she come to a fountain location that night.
When she arrives, she's shocked to find not only one of the Steering Committee members
dead and hanging from the fountain with a rope around his neck, but also her notebook
in a puddle of blood beneath the man.
She dashes for Yasuke's room to alert him of what she found, and instead, she runs into
another boy in his room by the name of Yuuto.
Dashing back to the scene of the murder, she's shocked again as now the body is now no longer
there.
Instead, she is introduced the wickedly evil Junko Enoshima, who is actually the one who
called her out here.
She confesses to being the one who hung the Committee member, but is now also puzzled
what happened to the body, as she didn't hide it.
As Junko begins rambling on a confusing stream of consciousness, Ryoko turns to run, only
to be met with Junko around every corner somehow, cutting off her escape.
Junko explains there isn't any escaping from her as everything exists for her, and continues
reveling in the death of a Committee member who tried to cover up the incident.
A dark and slender student named Isshiki now steps in, introducing himself and speaking
to both girls, asking specifically for Junko, but now sees Ryoko and must bring her in for
questioning too.
As it turns ouw, Isshiki worked for the student council and is now investigating Junko to
avenge the incident.
Junko eagerly fights back and encourages Ryoko to use her ability to do the same, but Ryoko
can't rememeber what she is talking about.
Junko kicks Isshiki away and flees, and Ryoko begins fleeing too, while checking her notebook
and remembering her ability as the Ultimate Analyst.
Isshiki now pursues Ryoko, but somehow fails to snatch her, and Ryoko keeps dodging at
the last second as if she is able to perfectly predict things before they happen.
In fact, with her super analysis, she's able to trick him into a trap but using his own
talent as the Ultimate Bodyguard, another Isshiki is beyond, waiting to grab her and
begins to choke her out for capture.
As she loses consciousness, Ryoko sees Isshiki stop and pull back in pain with a broken arm,
as Junko now sneaks up behind him and snaps his neck killing him.
Junko then introduces herself as the Ultimate Despair and runs away again, promising to
see Ryoko later, and secretly planning to target Yasuke next.
The next thing she knows, Ryoko is tied to a bed, and is being observed by Yasuke, who
mentions this isn't the first time she's dipped into a manic state, as she's done so before
when they were children.
Ryoko can't remember any of it, and instead brings up how she met Junko and also found
a dead body.
Yasuke is suddenly more interested in hearing her mention Junko than the murder, but Ryoko
really can't help further.
He now leaves her to go investigate the other student he was asked to look into, and leaves
her to go back to sleep, still bound.
When she wakes, she's been untied by Yuuto, the boy she met earlier in Yasuke's room,
who's been here the whole time, just concealed thanks to his talent of being the Ultimate
Secret Agent.
He says its in his nature to solve problems and save people in trouble, and Ryoko decides
to rely on him a little and reveal what she told Yasuke about Junko and the dead body.
He says her name sounds familiar from a rumor involving an incident in the school that is
still being investigated.
He mentions that 14 people suddenly went missing last month, around the same time 14 students
were invited to study overseas, and finds it a little strange.
However, Junko has disappeared since the incident, so that lead is unresolved too.
He says it's too early to draw conclusions, but it seems so far Junko has deliberately
chosen to involve her.
He then claims to be on the case for her, but just like the super spies in the movies,
expects her to reward him with her body when he solves the case.
Without getting her consent he dashes off, and soon after Yasuke comes back, wishing
to speak more to her.
Elsewhere we now see Kyouko, daughter to the Headmaster Jin, and member of the academy
as the Ultimate Detective, waiting to meet a member of the Steering Commitee in order
to ask more questions, as she's been assigned to investigate the Tragedy from a month ago.
As soon as the member in question arrives, the moment he stops, a series of school desks
suddenly drop from the school roof, crushing and killing the Steering Commitee member instantly
and nearly crushing Kyouko too.
She dashes up to the school roof, but by the time she arrives, the culprit is gone, and
worse yet, the body of the victim has already been removed.
We now see Junko again on the ground floor, annoyed that Kyouko is on her case, but also
puzzled about the disappearance of the body.
Kyouko then goes to meet with her father, sharing this encounter, but also wanting some
facts verified.
With her own investigation, she believes these deaths are in protest of the decision by the
Commitee to cover up the Incident, but perhaps more importantly, cover up the person who
did it, Izuru Kamukura.
Jin is impressed by her deductions and admits they're right, but declines still elaborating
on either the Incident or Izuru.
However, he does admit his fear of this incident not ending with just the cover-up and extending
beyond even the school, starting with the Parade.
Over with Yasuke, he goes to the hospital to meet with Soushun, the Student Council
President that somehow survived the Incident last month, though now lays comatose.
Soushun remains unresponsive to all of Yasuke's questions, but when he mentions Junko he catches
Soushun twitch slightly.
Now understanding what's going on, he asks Soushun how long he's been awake, only pretending
to be nonresponsive, and Soushun says since the beginning.
Still traumatized, Yasuke manages to extract that someone named Izuru is involved but not
very strongly.
However, Junko seems to be the one behind things.
Thinking about Junko triggers a violent reaction from Soushun, and Yasuke mentions to him there's
someone he resolved to protect a long time ago.
Preparing himself, Yasuke now strangles Soushun to death, silencing the loose end.
The next day, Junko knocks on Ryoko's door and continues talking to her, revealing confusing
revelations to Ryoko like she apparantly has a lot to do with the incident even if she
cannot remember that fact.
She also says Junko herself serves two purposes; the first is to crush the school's hope, Izuru
Kamukura.
The second, as she brags to her, is to kill Ryoko's beloved Yasuke.
Alarmed, Ryoko hurries over to Yasuke's lab now, intent on warning him, but instead, all
she finds is a different boy, Makoto, the protagonist from the first game, who's gifted
with Ultimate Good Luck.
It turns out Makoto found Yasuke's student ID dropped on the ground and was returning
it, and was just waiting for Yasuke.
However, they're interrupted as Isshiki now enters the room, claiming to be immortal after
having been killed by his target.
Isshiki is intent on getting Ryoko to reveal what she knows of the incident, even threatening
Makoto's life, but suddenly, Mukuro, Makoto's classmate with the talent of Ultimate Soldier,
breaks in and knocks out Isshiki, luckily saving Makoto.
Yuto is there, spying as always, but says he has business to speak about with Ryoko,
leading her away and leaving Mukuro to deal with Isshiki's unconscious body.
Yuuto then reveals so far, based on his spying around the school, he believes Izuru is behind
the Incident.
But why Junko would want to crush Izuru and who Izuru actually is, is a mystery.
There are no records of Izuru anywhere and not a single student knows of him.
So, he considers chasing a ghost a waste of time.
Instead, if they pursue Junko, then they can solve for Izuru and crack the Incident case.
He believes Junko's relation to the case is that she must be the student who discovered
the Incident after it happened.
Afterwards, she was interrogated by the school, but has disappeared since.
Suddenly, an epiphany hits him.
Yuuto now thinks if they ask the interrogater about Junko, they'll get a clue.
He heard they brought in a mystery student to lead the interrogation, running all sorts
of neurological tests to ensure honesty, and it make sense they would have asked the Ultimate
Neurologist Yasuke to do this, hence his connection to all this.
Now more of the puzzle seems clear, as Yasuke must know some secret to Junko for which Junko
wants him dead, and Yuuto leaves now to learn more.
Later, Yasuke enters his lab and sees the mess of the scuffle from earlier, but more
shockingly Junko right before him.
He aks her what she intends to do, and she explains she's not doing anything, because
everyone is already doing what she expected for her, even Yasuke murdering Soushun.
She taunts him with his past, of having an amnesiac mother who he wasn't able to save,
and he always struggled with that, now seeing the same of his childhood friend Ryoko, hence
why he does anything to protect her.
He then asks where Izuru is, and she says that while she doesn't know, she does know
where the people who know are, i.e. the Steering Committee, and thus finding Izuru is a matter
of time.
Suddenly, she kisses Yasuke, who oddly doesn't fight back, and as she pulls away she reveals
her lipstick has a paralyzing poison in them.
Ryoko then wakes up in a strange, empty, prisonlike room with only a highly decorated bed within
it.
She is surprised to be waited on by a maid wearing a mask of a two-toned bear, and when
asked, replies it is the face of something called MonoKuma.
She is introduced to a room beyond where there are a few dozen more people all wearing Monokuma
masks, maintaining this secret society in the basement below the building housing the
Reserve students and teachers, where the regular staff never come.
The maid also mentions they are preparing for their revolution, starting with crushing
the perfect fantasy world Hope's Peak wishes to make built on the sacrifice and suffering
of the reserve students, especially the Ultimate Hope Project they have created.
She's shocked to see the students here watching videos of killing games recorded and depicting
students killing each other for the sake of their own survival.
In madness of it all, as well as seeing the other two Steering Committee Members being
mutilated and tortured, she feels faint and falls unconscious again.
Waking up later, she's back in Yasuke's Neurology lab, though this time being met by Kyouko
who's also here looking for Yasuke who has gone missing.
As she inspects the lab, she casually drops that she suspects Yasuke to be involved in
the murders of the two Steering Comittee members, though perhaps not the actual killer, but
is likely the actual killer of the student council president, whose death was made to
look like a suicide.
To herself, Kyouko has found evidence already to implicate Yasuke's involvement with the
dead Steering Committee members, likely as the person moving the bodies.
However, with all four members missing, she wonders if Yasuke can lead her to the other
two.
Originally, she was looking into Yasuke because he is the prime suspect in the murder of the
student council president, but new evidence she found in his lab proves a connection to
the steering committee murders, but many questions now arise for why.
She tries to corner Ryoko with some questions, but its apparant Ryoko really does't know
anything.
Isshiki now bursts in, apparantly undamaged from all his previous encounters, and touting
his immortality, Kyouko calls him out, and Isshiki Madarai reveals the truth to his trick.
A twin emerges, and speaking in sync, and it's revealed they are 2 of 8 octuplet Madarai
siblings, called the Ultimate Siblings, for their uncanny mutual understanding, resulting
in them collectively being the Ultimate Bodyguard.
A third sibling emerges to surround the girls, and even when Ryoko tries to escape out the
window, two more Madarai siblings appear to cut her off.
Suddenly, Murkuro dashes in to take on the Madarai siblings, and in one fell swoop, takes
out all four brothers before her.
Ryoko notices that everything is progressing conveniently along as per a plan, and deduces
that despite them knowing, everyone involved is going along with that plan.
She asks Mukuro if she's involved with Junko in any way, and Mukuro admits Junko is her
Sister, and reveals that since she was little has always been the Ultimate Despair, finding
delight only in inflicting despair to others.
As Ryoko begins to step away slowly, Mukuro then reveals she knows where Yasuke is, but
Yasuke killed the Student Council President, and when the Madarai's find out, they will
likely kill Yasuke.
She offers an exchange, if Ryoko kills the unconscious Madarais here, then she'll be
protecting Yasuke, and Mukuro will tell her where he is.
Ryoko breaks down in refusal, and seeing this, Mukuro gives her his location anyway, as she
turns to kill the rest of the Madarai siblings.
As rain begins to fall, Ryoko dashes to the abandoned school bui1lding Yasuke's in, and
finds patrolmen around with Monokuma badges on that allow her through.
She's approached by Yuuto, who snuck in earlier after piecing together this building's involvement
with the other mysteries.
First, he explains that the Incident was the murder of all 13 members of the Student Council.
Two people lived however, the president, and Izuru Kamukura, someone who Ryoko actually
remembers, which is very odd for her.
Yuuto continues his discoveries by explaining that Izuru is the Ultimate Hope the academy
poured all of its resources into secretly making.
Thus when their prized Hope caused this despairing Incident, the Academy chose instead to protect
its interests and cover it up rather than reveal or expose Izuru.
Junko was the first to learn of the incident, and chose to leverage all of this in her endeavor
to overthrow Hope's Peak.
The deaths of the Steering Committee are definitely her doing, in her effort to force from them
the location of Izuru.
He then leads her to where he believes they have Izuru hidden, eager to claim credit for
saving the school's prized Ultimate Hope, and also believes they'll run into Yasuke
along the way.
The way he figures it, Junko is likely the mastermind behind the incident, not just the
person who discovered it.
However, she likely also had a helper, since Izuru is likely just a victim here.
Ryoko suggests Junko's sister, Mukuro, but Yuuto believes Junko's helper is really Yasuke.
Hence, why Junko was able to avoid investigation after her interrogation by him.
He also believes Yasuke helped Junko with the disappearance of the Committee members,
and as proof of their relationship, he witnessed himself when they were kissing, which Ryoko
refuses to believe.
As they stop in front of their destination, they enter a seemingly enpty room.
However, as they enter, Yuuto soon slumps over instantly dead as his neck is snapped.
Out from the shadows, steps out a man calling himself Izuru Kamukura, lamenting Yuuto should
not have been so meddling with Junko's affairs.
Looking at Ryoko, he's surprised she doesn't recognize him, but continues talking about
Junko's plans of using the incident to overthrow the academy, and how brainwashing the Reserve
students into despair, and experimenting with a mutual killing game with the student council
was just the beginning.
He then turns to Ryoko and confirms that she is remembering old details of the Incident
on her own, and forgetting other details, like Yasuke.
As proof, the man claiming to be Izuru reveals himself to really be Yasuke, proving her memory
is coming back and she's forgetting unnecessary details like him and her adoring love for
him.
She begs him to take her back and perform another session on her to restore her back
to the way she was, but he says he can't do that, for neither of them can go back.
He realizes everything he's done to protect Junko has also been per setup and plan.
He was the one who concealed her presence at first, he was the one who hid the bodies
of the Steering Committee members, and he was the one who killed Soushun and Yuuto for
getting too close to the truth.
When asked why he would go to those lengths, he explains it was because Junko offered to
be there for him when was alone as a kid and has since been an important part of his life.
At this time, Junko enters the room and Ryoko calls her out, though Yasuke is confused on
who Ryoko is talking to.
Ryoko now looks closely, and as her memory is working better, realizes the girl she has
been dealing with, thinking to be Junko, has actually been her sister Mukuro simply dressed
up as Junko.
She explains the real Junko ordered her to look like this and say certain things to perpetuate
her physically, as the real her was concealed but watching.
Yasuke begins to despair now, lamenting how he loves Junko as much as he hates her, doing
his best to remove her from everyone, and yet that still didn't matter.
As these words sink in and more memories return to Ryoko, a voice within her seems to come
out, laughing now and talking out loud to herself.
In an instant, it all becomes clear, the persona Ryoko never existed, and instead was a fake
personality made to cover her real identity, Junko Enoshima.
Smiling now, she takes out a knife and drives it into Yasuke, who while dying, still spits
back he was at least able to prevent her from remembering for a little while.
Smiling, Junko crushes him by revealing to him that the whole reason he had a terrible
childhood from his mother suffering mysterious amnesia spells till her early death and Junko
creating a dependant friendship with him since children, was all her doing in the first place.
Crushed by this last despair, Yasuke dies, his entire life completely invalidated.
To herself, Junko she actually loved Yasuke sincerely and truly, and thus killing him
in such an awful way was necessary, as she had to plunge herself deeper into despair.
Now crying tears of delight from tasting even deeper despair, she mutilates Yasuke's corpse,
now having successfully gained another skill necessary for her plan, selective amnesia.
The next day, Kyouko wakes up from being knocked out during the fight with the Madarais, and
her father Jin is there to welcome her.
He explains Junko has recovered her memory but claims to not be able to remember anything
during her amnesiac period.
He also mentions the Izuru case is being suddenly dropped and new Steering members are being
inaugurated, and they seem much more focused on secrecy.
She asks then about Yasuke and the Madarai brothers, and Jin says the Committee is claiming
they were all expelled.
Kyouko doesn't accept any of it, claiming she'll keep investigating on her own, and
Jin says she is welcome to do so, but if she gets into trouble, he won't help her.
As he turns to leave, he keeps to himself how the Izuru Kamukura project has been officially
terminated, and this is the committee's way of walking away from it all.
Elsewhere, Junko prepares for her return to regular classes, still hanging onto the notebook
in which she wrote down all her notes about loving Yasuke, a necessary heartache to keep
her in despair, and more importantly, all of the memory manipulation processes he did
to her, that she now intends to take and perfect on her own.
With her experiments of brainwashing videos, the revolting Rerserve department, Yasuke's
memory manipulation, Mukuro's successful disguise of her, and the mutual killing game, all being
sucesses, all she needed now was a mascot for her next leap forward.
For now, she is finally prepared to enact the next phase of her mastermind plan of complete
global despair.
Danganronpa Zero wil continue next into the first game, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
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