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Ah yes, a bear-y great candidate (sorry for making bear puns)
What is the work?[]
Danganronpa is a series of visual novels created by Spike Chunsoft. Excluding the spinoffs, the games focus on 16 prodigious teenagers being locked up into a school and forced to kill eachother to escape. If the culprit fails to get away with their crime, they would be executed but if they get away with it, everyone else will be.
Who is he?[]
Monokuma is the iconic mascot and a major antagonist of the Danganronpa series. He is a robotic bear who acts as the Headmaster of Hope’s Peak Academy (or Ultimate Academy For Gifted Juveniles in Danganronpa V3) and forces his students to murder each other to escape.
What makes him a shonen villain?[]
- Villainous: He plays a role in forcing the students to kill each other
- Pursues a big end goal: To get the students to kill each other, obviously
- Arrogant: He takes pride in being the self proclaimed headmaster
- Intelligent: He is good at tricking students into falling for motives to kill each other
- Ruthless: He literally executes his students brutally without a second thought
- Laughably evil: He has many comedic moments such as ranting on how much he hates Sonic the Hedgehog and calling Makoto a “cutie patootie”
- Psychopathic: He’s a remorseless sadist who even killed his “children” in cold blood
- Sinister laugh: He has an iconic signature laughter:
- ”Upupupu” (Dubbed as puhuhu)
- ”Ah-hahahaha”
- Immature: When Kyoko deduces about an inconsistency in the bio lab, Monokuma simply refutes her as “La la la! I can’t hear you! La la la!” like an overgrown manchild
- Incompetent minions: Most of the Monokuma Kubs, his “children”, are very incompetent
- Sadistic: He takes joy in people’s suffering and is obsessed with violence, hysteria, etc
- Bloodthirsty: He literally wishes his students to kill each other
Final Verdict[]
A hard yes!