Each year, the elite Hope's Peak Academy selects only the most gifted and
talented students to enroll...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 elite students are a bizarre cast of oddballs 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 to not only murder another
student...but get away with it, as every murder is followed by a tribunal where
the surviving students cross-examine each other!
Inspired by the Danganronpa videogame series and