Hope’s Peak Academy is an exclusive private school that only accepts the best of the best. Graduates of this elite – yet enigmatic – institution have the world at their fingertips, but getting a cap and gown is easier said than done.
EPISODE 1
Welcome to Despair High School
Makoto Naegi gets a lucky break and enters the highly prestigious school Hope's Peak, but things soon take a turn for the worse when he learns the school's sinister purpose.
EPISODE 2
Normal Arc: Kill and Live
Sayaka fears someone is after her and Makoto agrees to switch rooms with her, but the next day, tragedy strikes.
EPISODE 3
Not Normal Arc: Kill and Live
The classroom trial begins as the students put forward their theories; Monokuma puts high stakes on the students finding the correct killer.
EPISODE 4
Normal Arc: Weekly Shonen Despair Magazine
The pool and locker rooms on the second floor open up and Monokuma allows the students a few days to explore; they are given 24 hours to kill someone, or he'll broadcast their most sinister or embarrassing secrets.
EPISODE 5
Not Normal Arc: Weekly Shonen Despair Magazine
Togami insists that the perpetrator must be a depraved serial killer, but his motives are questionable; tensions begin to rise as some of the students' darkest secrets are revealed.
EPISODE 6
Normal Arc: Return of the New Century Galaxy Legend! O Armored Hero, Stand upon the Earth!
Asahina discovers ALTER EGO, an AI created by Fujisaki; both Ishimaru and Yamada are taken with the programme, but neither boy is keen to share.
Megumi Ogata
Kosuke Toriumi
Akira Ishida
Miyuki Sawashiro
Yōko Hikasa
Seiji Kishi
Makoto Uezu
