Danganronpa is a mystery visual novel, text-based adventure game in Japan. It also has an anime adaptation, which has gained popularity thanks to its range of characters with very unique abilities that can let them manipulate persons and situations.
Here are some of the famous and notable characters in Danganronpa including their age, height, birthday, and ability.
| Character | Age | Birthday | Height |
| Makoto Naegi | 19 | February 5 | 5’3 |
| Junko Enoshima | 19 | December 24 | 5’6 |
| Kyoko Kirigiri | 19 | October 6 | 5’5 |
| Mukuro Ikusaba | 19 | December 24 | 5’6 |
| Celestia Ludenberg | 19 | November 23 | 5’4 |
| Byakuya Togami | 20 | May 5 | 6’1 |
| Hajime Hinata | 20 | January 1 | 5’10 |
| Nagito Komaeda | 21 | April 28 | 5’11 |
| Kazuichi Soda | 22 | June 29 | 5’8 |
| Tsumugi Shirogane | 20 | August 15 | 5’9 |
| Mikan Tsumiki | 20 | May 12 | 5’5 |
| Ibuki Moda | 20 | November 27 | 5’5 |
| Sakura Ogami | 19 | September 13 | 6’3 |
| Ryota Mitarai | 22 | August 30 | 5’3 |
| Ruruka Ando | 23 | November 20 | 5’4 |
| Aoi Asahina | 20 | April 24 | 5’3 |
| Kirumi Tojo | 20 | May 10 | 5’9 |
| Gundham Tanaka | 22 | December 14 | 6’0 |
| Nekomaru Nidai | unknown | February 22 | 6’6 |
| Akane Owari | 20 | July 15th | 5’9 |
1. Makoto Naegi
· Age: 19
· Height: 5’3
· Birthday: February 5
· Abilities: Ultimate Lucky Student/ Ultimate Hope
Makoto’s ability, the ultimate Lucky Student, allows him to save himself from dangerous situations. But unlike other characters who possess the luck ability, Makoto’s luck is different from them, because it has a puzzling pattern that even Junko can’t figure out how it works despite having the Ultimate Analytical ability.
However, this ability comes into play during the late scenes of the story. Having said that, Makoto’s luck is one of the weaknesses of Junko since she’s having a hard time countering Makoto.
Like Makoto’s luck being a counter to Junko’s Analytical prowess ability, Makoto’s other ability, the Ultimate Hope served as immunity to Junko’s Ultimate Despair as he possesses a never-ending optimism despite Junko’s vile plan to break their spirits and bring them despair.
This ability allows him to spread his optimism and bring hope to his allies even they already fell into despair to beat Junko.
2. Junko Enoshima
· Age: 19
· Height: 5’6
· Birthday: December 24
· Abilities: Ultimate Analytical & Ultimate Despair
Ultimate Analytical is an ability that lets Junko rapidly analyze her surroundings with superhuman speed and accurate memorization allowing her to learn new skills by just seeing them for the first time.
With her ability the Ultimate Analytical it is easy for her to manipulate others by devising a fool-proof plan even in a short time. It also allows her to predict what will be the other person’s next move is.
Being obsessed with despair, Junko can cause anyone to fall into despair with the help of her ability, the Ultimate Analytical. She manipulates everyone to obey her indulgences by exploiting and using their weaknesses.
3. Kyoko Kirigiri
· Age: 19
· Height: 5’5
· Birthday: October 6
· Ability: Ultimate Detective
It is an ability that makes Kyoko solves even difficult mysteries. Allowing her to draw an accurate conclusion to the crime that she solves by conducting a thorough investigation.
Just like Junko’s Analytical prowess, Kyoko’s Ultimate Detective heightened her analytical skills and her awareness of her surroundings that makes her excellent at finding important shreds of evidence to the crime She can notice changes in speech and behavioral patterns that make her a great detective.
4. Mukuro Ikusaba
· Age: 19
· Height: 5’6
· Birthday: December 24
· Ability: Ultimate Soldier
Mukuro Ikusaba excelled in using different types of weapons ranging from simple melee weapons, different varieties of pistols, rifles, sniper rifles, RPGs, and other warfare military weapons.
Because of her ability as the Ultimate Soldier, Mukuro also has a vast knowledge about military strategy like the art of infiltration, having medical skills by giving an emergency first-aid treatment and replicating other person speech patterns and mannerisms, and she can blend to any kind of people just like spying.
Of course, Mukuro excelled at the variety of hand-to-hand combat and if she reaches a certain limit with her body she enters a battle trance where her reflexes instantly raise to a superhuman level where it seems that it will surely double the handicap for anyone that wants to harm her thanks to her ability the Ultimate Soldier.
5. Celestia Ludenberg
· Age: 19
· Height: 5’4
· Birthday: November 23
· Ability: Ultimate Gambler & Keen Intellect
Celestia can manipulate others to do what she desires. After all, she can make other people obey her order because her lies seem believable since she can lie with a straight face. Because of that Celestia is able to control and manipulate every situation to her advantage at her will.
Being a gambler by nature, Celestia is equipped with keen intelligence and quick thinking that makes her turn every gamble into her favor. Also, she can control her emotions well which makes everyone confused with her motives that makes her unpredictable.
Celestia seems invincible with her ability but the thing that makes it strong more is because Ultimate Gambler allows her to have good decision skills so she can take a high-risk situation where it can result in her winning a high reward for herself. High risk, high reward as they say.
6. Byakuya Togami
· Age: 20
· Height: 6’1
· Birthday: May 5
· Ability: Ultimate Affluent Progeny
It is an ability that gives the owner who possesses it to excel in all aspects of life. This ability helps Byakuya to face every dangerous and life-threatening challenge in Hope Peak Academy. This ability also gives Byakuya an unmatched ego that results from him comprehending even the concept of losing.
His arrogance as he proclaimed that victory is his god-given right became the main force behind his ability to stay alive and solve the murders. Although Byakuya’s greatest strength is his unyielding spirit and a strong belief that he was destined to be victorious whatever challenge he encounters.
7. Hajime Hinata
· Age: 20
· Height: 5’10
· Birthday: January 1
· Ability: Ultimate Hope, Ultimate Analyst, Ultimate Soldier, Ultimate Gymnast, Ultimate Martial artist, Therapy, Neurology, Programming, etc.
Hajime’s able to use Izuru’s ability to use all the known Ultimate talents that have been researched at Hope’s Peak Academy. Hajime is capable of using the Ultimate Analyst, Ultimate Soldier, Ultimate Gymnast, Ultimate Martial artist, etc.
Because of his ability, he has the physical strength and speed of a superhuman being. He can easily beat anyone in a flash whether he is skilled or not. His superhuman strength was shown when he easily bent metal and ripped a human-sized hole in a sturdy wall.
Unlike others who possess the Ultimate Analyst talent, Hajime can feel others’ emotions, and of course, he is extraordinarily intelligent too, to the extent that he can predict what other people are trying to do.
He even rivaled Nagito Komaeda’s luck with his excessive amount of luck and because of his overpowered and godly abilities, he is deemed as the Ultimate Hope like Makoto Naegi.
He can also perform therapy, neurology, and programming to awaken his comatose friends. He also created the Artificial Intelligence called the World Destroyer, which can fix mental instabilities inside the Neo World Program.
8. Nagito Komaeda
· Age: 21
· Height: 5’11
· Birthday: April 28
· Ability: Ultimate Lucky Student
Nagito Komeda, the Ultimate Lucky Student, relied on the power of luck to influence the outcomes of decisions in his favor. Unlike other Ultimate abilities, which rely on their active use, the Ultimate Lucky Student is naturally lucky.
Their innate luck allows them to manifest their Ultimate ability passively, without any conscious effort. It also cannot be stopped by another ability, as luck is not something that can be controlled. Ultimate Lucky Student ability is extremely potent when used correctly.
However, despite having a useful ability the weakness of the Ultimate Lucky Student is that their luck can be countered by someone of even greater luck. Meaning, when Nagito face someone with equal or greater luck, his luck was canceled out.
9. Kazuichi Soda
· Age: 22
· Height: 5’8
· Birthday: June 29
· Ability: Ultimate Mechanic
He is a genius mechanic who can tinker and study any machine and repair or innovate it for further use. His ability as the Ultimate Mechanic allows him to fix anything and master all the tools that he needs.
Kazuichi is capable of creating a top-tier invention. By being a mechanic he has great calculation skills and he is very knowledgeable in his field which helps him to create almost any machine that you can ever think of.
10. Tsumugi Shirogane
· Age: 20
· Height: 5’9
· Birthday: August 15
· Ability: Ultimate Cosplayer
It is an ability to create and use any cosplay of any fictional character. At first, it seems like a lackluster ability with almost no practical use. However, the ability proved itself to be much more potent.
The Ultimate Cosplayer was able to copy not just the appearance of the character, but also the abilities and personality as well. This ability allowed its user to become the actual character being cosplayed. By taking on the personalities and abilities of those being cosplayed, the Ultimate Cosplayer has a plethora of persona to choose from to respond to any situation.
However, the ability has very fatal weaknesses. The biggest weakness is that only fictional characters can be cosplayed. The Ultimate Cosplayer cannot cosplay anyone that exists in reality.
Additionally, the quality of the cosplay can also be affected by the Ultimate Cosplayer’s mental state. When Tsumugi was backed into a corner during a class trial, her ability to change between her cosplays steadily diminished.
11. Mikan Tsumiki
· Age: 20
· Height: 5’5
· Birthday: May 12
· Ability: Ultimate Nurse
Mikan provides an accurate autopsy report, including information on the corpse’s state, details on injuries, the cause of death, and the time of death. Furthermore, she sometimes gives (often unwanted) health advice to others. She also appears to be more confident while she is nursing.
Unlike most students, she likes being on Jabberwock Island, because her classmates acknowledge her and her talent makes her useful.
As talented as she is, Mikan’s abilities as a nurse have limits; she doubted she could keep Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu alive due to the injuries he sustained during Peko Pekoyama’s execution, One Woman Army. Nonetheless, her abilities are highly effective, as she was able to successfully revive Kyoko Kirigiri after the Final Killing Game, where she was near-death after using Seiko Kimura’s medicine to survive her Code Poisoning.
12. Ibuki Moda
· Age: 20
· Height: 5’5
· Birthday: November 27
· Ability: Ultimate Musician
This ability can defeat an army of people without them noticing. With her Ultimate Musician ability, Ibuki went on to hold despair-inducing concerts for the masses, drowning them in despair.
The Ultimate Musician was shown to have potential brainwashing powers as in the case of despair-inducing concerts or the joy-inducing concert. Ibuki was seen using her Ultimate Musician ability to defeat an army of people.
The only weakness shown for the Ultimate Musician ability is being unable to hear. As shown in the Future Arc, people who could not hear the Ultimate Musician’s music were completely unaffected.
13. Sakura Ogami
· Age: 19
· Height: 6’3
· Birthday: September 13
· Ability: Ultimate Martial Artist
The Ultimate Martial Artist was an ability that rivaled Monokuma. Like the Ultimate Detective, the Ultimate Martial Artist drove Monokuma into a corner. Sakura Ogami, the holder of the Ultimate Martial Artist title and the Strongest Human alive title, was shown to fight evenly against Monokuma during the events of Danganronpa: Happy Trigger Havoc.
One glaring weakness was that Sakura was revealed to have been working with Monokuma against her will. However, this weakness is more so a weakness of the character rather than the Ultimate Martial Artist ability itself.
As an ability, the Ultimate Martial Artist has shown no real weakness. Rivaled in power only by Monokuma, the Ultimate Martial Artist was able to stand up even after sustaining multiple head injuries.
14. Ryota Mitarai
· Age: 22
· Height: 5’3
· Birthday: August 30
· Ability: Ultimate Animator
Ryota is able to use the Ultimate Animator’s power to create a hope-inducing video that impacts the entire world. It is one of the important Ultimate abilities in Danganronpa, the Ultimate Animator could not only brainwash people but also permanently alter their personalities.
Unlike the Ultimate Confectioner, the Ultimate Animator’s brainwashing abilities would not wear off after a certain amount of time. Ryota Mitarai, one of the Ultimate Animator’s users, was shown using his abilities to show a video that brainwashed an entire army.
The Ultimate Animator was given no weakness, as its videos could not be resisted by anyone and were only undone when the Ultimate Animator willingly stopped the effects. The only exception to this is the Neo World Program, which undid the effects of the despair-inducing video that created the Ultimate Despairs.
However, the Neo World Program took the power of three Ultimates to create, and even then, it took weeks to undo the effects of the despair-inducing video.
15. Ruruka Ando
· Age: 23
· Height: 5’4
· Birthday: November 20
· Ability: Ultimate Confectioner
At first, it seems that the Ultimate Confectioner is a weak talent. Ruruka Ando, the only known holder of the Ultimate Confectioner ability, was able to create delicious sweets that provide several small health benefits, despite being sweets. Beyond that, the Ultimate Confectioner is unable to do anything more. Without much going for it, the Ultimate Confectioner appeared to be a weak talent.
However, it was later revealed that the Ultimate Confectioner’s sweets could brainwash people. By eating the sweets, the Ultimate Blacksmith had been brainwashed for his entire life. The potency of the Ultimate Confectioner’s brainwashing sweets was further shown when the Ultimate Boxer eats one and immediately falls under its effects.
Aside from Ruruka being constantly protected by the Ultimate Blacksmith, the Ultimate Confectioner ability’s only weakness was getting others to eat the sweets, to begin with.
16. Aoi Asahina
· Age: 20
· Height: 5’3
· Birthday: April 24
· Ability: Ultimate Swimming Pro
Due to her fitness and athleticism, Aoi is capable of holding her own in a fight if necessary, as was shown when she engaged in a fight with Juzo Sakakura. She was able to dodge most of his attacks despite being unarmed, and even pinned his weapon to the ground.
She is also much stronger than her small frame suggests, able to run at top speed for long periods while carrying the 52kg weight of Makoto Naegi on her back during the Final Killing Game. She was also able to move a large piece of furniture that both Makoto and Ryota Mitarai could not budge even with their combined strength.
Aoi was also able to build up her resistance to sickness, and practicing the self-healing technique known as Kanpur masatsu.
17. Kirumi Tojo
· Age: 20
· Height: 5’9
· Birthday: May 10
· Ability: Ultimate Maid
This ability was immediately presented as powerful as it allowed Kirumi to do anything asked of her by the other Ultimates. Kirumi goes as far as to bring up the time she was requested to destroy an entire nation. The Ultimate Maid ability gives Kirumi quick decision-making abilities as well as the power to multitask efficiently. Ultimate Maid could grant any request, no matter how grand or lavish.
As asked by the Prime Minister of Japan to make the country great again, the Ultimate Maid was able to grant that request and even served as the de facto Prime Minister, until she was forced into the killing game. Other people that the Ultimate Maid served in the past also included those with great influence in politics and finance.
The Ultimate Maid was shown to have the weakness of only accepting tasks that can be completed. However, there has been no evidence of the Ultimate Maid rejecting a task because of its difficulty. The Ultimate Maid has only been shown to reject tasks that are unethical or cause unfair grief for others.
The greatest weakness of the Ultimate Maid is a reduced lack of free will, as even having a conversation with Kirumi was impossible without it being a request.
18. Gundham Tanaka
· Age: 22
· Height: 6’0
· Birthday: December 14
· Ability: Ultimate Breeder
Tanaka is capable of taming any animal. Not only has he managed to proliferate an endangered species, but can talk to animals. Gundham has an empathic connection with animals, who he feels are more trustworthy than humans. Due to his understanding of animals’ emotions, he tries not to involve himself with livestock and other domesticated animals fated to be eaten.
He provides plenty of exercises, high-quality food, and shelter for his breeds. He can also tame wild animals
19. Nekomaru Nidai
· Age:
· Height: 6’6
· Birthday: February 22
· Ability: Hand-to-Hand Combat
Nekomaru was able to match the power of the robot, using his arms to block its head charge. Nekomaru overcame the robot, despite its large amount of strength, making it easy to imagine how strong he is against normal human opponents in hand-to-hand combat.
20. Akane Owari
· Age: 20
· Height: 5’9
· Birthday: July 15th
· Ability: Ultimate Gymnast
Akane was born with a natural talent as a gymnast. Her body builds, strength, agility, and endurance grew ever since she was a child. She often nimbly performed parkour on her home and her father who noticed this convinced her to join tournaments and competitions.
It turned out that she did very, very well and has kept winning many tournaments since then. She also shows an unwavering spirit as she perseveres even facing dangerous challenges.
