Danganronpa: The Animation

Makoto Naegi, an unremarkable teenager by his own measure, is stunned to be accepted into Hope’s Peak Private Academy—an elite institution famed for gathering the most gifted students and setting its graduates on a path to success. Convinced his invitation must be a lucky accident, he steps through the academy’s doors eager to begin.

That hope collapses when he blacks out and comes to in a classroom that feels abandoned and sealed off from the outside world. As he searches for answers, Naegi discovers his fellow new students gathered in the gym, equally confused—until they’re introduced to the “principal,” Monokuma, a robotic teddy bear. Monokuma reveals the rules of their imprisonment: the only way to leave is to murder a classmate and avoid being exposed, forcing everyone to choose between taking part in the killing game or remaining trapped inside the school indefinitely.