So let’s go through these Ultimates, talents, and some interesting facts and sketchiness applied to each of them. Background, history, real life reference, etc.



Please note: this is not quite everything, but with so much stacking up, it should be clear that something weird is afoot in this game. The general matter with these folks is that there is a lot of strangeness that happened to them that hasn’t been explained with the memories given, but there are connecting points and recurring issues, as well as theming.

In bold are names, Ultimate titles and possible avenues to the shadowy organisation, whether by a suspect or a resulting action. In italics are (possible) relevance to real world history, people and such.

*Overall content warning* applies so watch your step. It’s also rather long, so there’s that too.

Kaito Momota: Ultimate Astronaut. Kaito, with the help of an unknown ‘crafty friend’, forged his way in and got his title even after he was found out due to his ‘interesting’ talent and persona. He mentions to Kaede that aliens could possibly exist - a possibility brought up in DR1 and DR-K (even if the latter is non-canon) - and that they could be reached through music. Kaito’s birthday aligns with the launch of the first man in space - Yuri Gagarin - during the Cold War Space Race. Space flight is a huge theme in the game, while the V-2 rocket - a missile from Germany - was the first man-made object to reach space; on top of this, as the ‘meteorites’ have not been fully confirmed, they could also have been weapons applied with a deadly (alien) virus. Kaito divulges what appear to be fantastical tall tales of adventures at sea. He also remarks that he was involved with the Prime Minister, and taught him politics. Shuichi comments that the people he’s trained sound like they’d be older than him, so the very idea of that sounds unbelievable. It’s possible Kaito knows something we don’t about Shuichi, since he persists on making him his sidekick around the time motive videos were released. Kaito was afflicted by the virus, but not in his memory. Kiibo: Ultimate Robot. A robot with military attributes and a lab full of heavy artillery, with no memory whatsoever of his pre-reset life. He also has the ability to utilise infrasound, a psychological warfare technique that causes blunt symptoms in Shuichi. He is the only one fully evidenced to have a literally rewritten backstory, which his supposed professor Iidabashi is capable of, owing to a function he describes in Salmon mode. Kiibo’s fullest potential is suppressed throughout the game via an antenna, as he is ‘coded’ as a robot designed purely for comfort, unable to fully maintain himself. Kiibo’s birthday is the same as the launch of the oldest person to travel in space, while Kiibo himself oddly refers to his body as having the ‘strength of a strong senior citizen’. Miu Iruma: Ultimate Inventor. She is capable of making items for war such as chaff grenades, cutely named Electrobombs. She is also capable of upgrading Kiibo with ease, noting that ‘whoever made him definitely knew what they were doing’ (you could say… he is an Ultimate Invention). She is said to be augmented, and has had a particularly special brain alteration after an incident. Her clinic is unknown, and Miu doesn’t even know what happened to her brain and why, notably considering it very strange this even happened at all. Nonetheless, she believes her inventions will do the world a great service. One of her inventions is known to Kaede, the contact lenses. Strangely, she has an invention capable of teleporting underpants, while the game’s meta mechanic does this. Miu’s birthday falls on the Venera 3 space probe launch towards Venus. Kirumi Tojo: Ultimate Maid. A super-maid who can accomplish nigh any task and at super speed, except strangely, anything to do with cutting konjac. She is known to have advised politicians at many points in the past, and can ascertain the potential of another. She notes that she can see a great potential in Shuichi, and persists to become his maid, in a manner not dissimilar to how Kaito pursues Shuichi into him becoming a sidekick. She eventually becomes a maid for and advises the Prime Minister, meaning she was connected to him in a very similar way to Kaito. She even became a shadow Prime Minister, while her namesake is the disgraced wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who was responsible for orchestrating horrific war crimes. As the PM, she was tasked with ‘averting an impending crisis’, but ended up running away, implying that a crisis overcame the country regardless. Her birthday falls on the launch and successful flight of an American V-2 rocket. Gonta Gokuhara: Ultimate Entomologist. He comes from a famous/noble family that has a reputation, and is under pressure to earn the family name. For some reason or other, they cannot accept reptites for having raised Gonta, despite themselves having left him over ten years for lost. Similar to Gundam, Gonta is capable of communicating with animals, and appears to control bugs- incidentally, an instrument of torture. Gonta himself appears to have had some unexplained, curious modifications that enhance his body [see: Kokichi Ouma] in at least two ways: his superhuman eyesight, and ‘Super Saiyan’ level strength and chase skills capable of knocking someone out (or possibly worse…). The ‘Goku’ part of Gonta’s name means ‘hell’, Ouma describes his lab as ‘hell’, while Ouma suffers terribly from having bugs swarm him. As Gonta chases the Ultimates down for the Meet and Greet, he ominously says that ‘it’s for their own good’. Gonta’s birthday falls on Operation Hannibal, a mass-evacuation at sea by the Germans. Korekiyo Shinguji: Ultimate Anthropologist. He is associated with underground culture, aware of the dark arts, while also on the receiving end of torture by a village. Notably, Korekiyo’s outfit has a militaristic theme. Anthropologists in wartime were responsible for conducting inhumane experiments up to and including forced incest, and the occult was a common theme of Nazism. Meanwhile, Korekiyo was a victim of psychological abuse by his sister, eventually being forcibly bound to her by what seems to be a ritual, and developed incestuous feelings for her as well as the need to gather souls for her sake. In particular, vines, rope and red roses are associated with Korekiyo in his artwork, while vines, rope and red roses are present at Kaede’s execution. Shuichi notes that the cookie he ate in the dining hall ‘just disappeared’ while watching intently, as if it was the effect of the mask he wore. Korekiyo bizarrely has some very authentic items in his lab, such as the original Caged Child book and Anubis statue. His birthday falls on the Ranger program, bringing the first high quality, close up images of the moon. Angie Yonaga: Ultimate Artist. She uses a supernatural power to brainwash people with hypnotic hugs and artwork, which she notes is made through ‘possession by God’. She is able to access someone’s ‘ideal’ in order to trance them, similar to how the Love Hotel that Monokuma runs is done on hypnosis and ‘ideals’. Her talent is notable as Hitler was an artist, involved with the occult and brainwashing. Her lab is full of wax, something to make effigies for resurrection rituals. Her island was mostly destroyed by a disaster, while DeepSea - what sounds like a deep-web store - was regularly involved in keeping it stocked, involving items of possibly illegal trade and human trafficking. Plants that bear a resemblance to the Ultimate Botanist’s creations have spread, of which Angie has no idea. Whatever Angie says on the island goes as ‘God’ speaks to her, with the presence of strange rituals on the island, suggesting a cult has been in full swing long since the disaster. Oddly, she asks for offerings of blood, while the report cards are noted to show each student’s blood type. Angie’s birthday falls on Operation Vengeance, when a Japanese admiral was shot down and killed on an island. Ryoma Hoshi: Ultimate Tennis Pro/Player. A famous tennis player known to Kaito in middle school. He had a run in with a mafia group who blackmailed him into cooperating with them, and purportedly murdered them all with a steel ball attack, after they slaughtered his family for his going against them. As a result, he was imprisoned, strangely enough even his lab was modelled to reflect his imprisonment. His application of skill with tennis is similar to Leon Kuwata’s baseball, in which he threw a glass ball at a switch as a part of the murder (notably, the first one to apply tricks). Like Gonta, he has a bizarre fiction-made-reality situation going on with the Shukuchi method, and with another using Insight in matches, and taking away his senses. Shuichi notes this to be unbelievable, while Ryoma notes that his ‘common sense’ is simply not common to him. His title could be a nod to Battle of the Tennis Court, another notable loss of the Japanese forces in the latter part of the war. Tenko Chabashira: Ultimate Aikido Master. Aikido is associated with the police, but Tenko’s variation of this has a feature - sneak attacks - that are not usually characteristic, as noted by Tsumugi. It also has the curious application of weapons, for reasons unknown. Her version of aikido is a ‘Neo’ version, and ‘neo’ is a way of saying ‘new’ (possibly a nod to a ‘New World Order’ taking place). Along with creating this ‘new aikido’ with her, the head priest more or less controlled her moral compass, keeping her exceptionally sheltered while working as masked heroes of justice, and their aim is to spread this Neo-Aikido nationwide. Two planets are discovered on Tenko’s birthday. Maki Harukawa: Ultimate Assassin. Assassin as a government sponsored talent needs no explanation. In addition, her name partly means ‘demon’ while her body has qualities of superhuman speed, and even appears to sport demonic features and glowing red eyes. She is part of a cult organisation that raises potential assassins from an orphanage, and trains them behind the scenes. Maki is established to handle bombs in a controlled manner, as well as poisons and ropes, while knowledgeable of the endurance of torture. Shuichi suggests the cult she speaks of ‘sounds made up’, while Maki berates his naivete at points, saying that it’s odd for an Ultimate Detective to be this slow. Himiko Yumeno: Ultimate Magician. On top of being an apprentice, Himiko is notably lazy and prone to brainwashing. She is also childish and decidedly cruel, saying Miu is ‘only good for her inventions’, suggesting Kiibo can go ‘blow himself up to be useful’, and at one point saying Ouma ‘can’t cry real tears’. The latter is especially troubling as her talent title appears to reference Hitler: ‘great liars make great magicians’, a quote said about a supposed ‘villainous group’, while Himiko talks about a self-deluded ‘conspiracy to deny real magic as tricks’ (apparently referring to her parlor tricks). Her namesake is a mythical queen who brainwashed her subjects, while Tsumugi notes that Himiko is more like a wicked witch than a queen. Himiko was trained as a magician by her master and attained a prestigious title at the Magic Castle. Oddly, Himiko’s official art shows her displaying 17 cards, and she speaks of a 17th person in the final trial. Kaede Akamatsu: Ultimate Pianist. Her talent can rouse and affect peoples’ emotions, and she is noted by Rantaro to have a ‘knack for changing the mood’. Music can be used in psychological experimentation and as a form of torture, and the swaying of emotions through music is a notable pair with cinema [see: Shuichi Saihara] as a form of brainwashing, and the murderous melody that Monokuma uses. She is known to have played for a European king, who had to hide his identity for reasons unknown. Kaede’s birthday falls on the time that Iwo Jima island was secured by American forces. Rantaro Amami: Ultimate ???. Rantaro hints at being a spy (or rather, he tries to deny on the basis of being ‘regular’) and gets into dangerous situations worldwide, while his lab oddly has torture chairs. His birthday is that of the V-2 rocket’s launch from Germany into space, as well as a special day in Fullmetal Alchemist. His base Ultimate talent is only ever said by him, while he remembers the Prologue for reasons unknown. He claims that he is unable to remember his talent, but the reason for this is never confirmed or understood, and noted as highly dubious by Shuichi. Even Monokuma is unable to say what his base talent actually is, which is exceptionally odd if it really is Adventurer. He is noted to have ‘twelve sisters’ after establishing one, and curiously enough 11 members are known in DICE which adds up. Like Kaito, Rantaro’s birthday is relevant to conflict and space flight. His name would appear to reference the Amami Islands eventually separated from Japan. Also like Kaito, he tells a strange story of having met adventurers at sea. Tsumugi Shirogane: Ultimate Cosplayer. She is known to change her appearance nigh perfectly to match what she believes is fiction, and is physically unable to replicate someone otherwise; curiously, when she displays the purported ‘audition videos’, the names are inexplicably blanked out despite being spoken in the earliest Prologue. She is also known to blend into the background and suggests that success as an international spy comes from this. Though she claims she is joking, Tsumugi’s role as a spy falls neatly in line with Shuichi’s talent as a detective, and on being paired in the Virtual World, she notes that the ‘plain pair are just plain dangerous’. The way Tsumugi’s body transforms makes her akin to a perfect actor, appropriate for her role, as cosplayers are like actors, and she mentions ‘perfect reproductions’ of her subjects. This means she can also be acting the role of the ringleader. Her birthday is the day that Japan officially surrendered in the war, while her name ‘Shirogane’ could reference Naoto Shirogane, a detective from Persona 4. It also means ‘silver/platinum’, a colour for a police badge. Kokichi Ouma: Ultimate Supreme Leader. His talent title is reminiscent of a dictator, but his appearance of a mental patient bears hallmarks of insanity and torturous abuse by authority. His story establishes that he has a brother and they are both heirs to the big organisation, identical in its description to Byakuya’s organisation evidenced in Danganronpa 1. Additionally, evidence places ‘horse’ (a part of ‘Ouma’, the last name) and the star sign Gemini as significant to Monokuma, a member is mysteriously missing from the ruined DICE, and twins in WWII were frequently subjects of torturous experiments. Additionally, Ouma shows signs of being affected by strangulation and bugs - the latter severe enough to trigger psychogenic seizures - while Monokuma has the academy cleared of bugs save for Gonta’s lab. In reference to torture, Ouma notes in his Love Hotel even that ‘torture won’t work’. His suggestion of the ‘deceptive, evil mastermind controlling world politics behind the scenes’ is a known antisemitic stereotype, propagating conspiracy theories against Jewish people. With this, the symbolism of Himiko’s talent and the straitjacket symbolic of systematic oppression, it’s highly suggested for Ouma himself to be a Jewish analogue. Interestingly, Ouma notes that the organisation takes events from anime/manga, literally taking fiction and making it reality; an example: Gonta having hallmarks of Super Saiyan, glowing and superpower. Ouma is one of three who makes casual references, the others being Monokuma and Tsumugi. Ouma, on top of noting that he has a brother, notes in the Salmon mode that Shuichi could either ‘destroy the world or unmask the identity of a superhero’, while in the main mode Monokuma makes reference to his own identity connected the Ultimate Hunt. While Monokuma is curiously insistent that the resurrection ritual works, Ouma notes it to be strange that Korekiyo believes souls exist, but can’t be brought back to the living. Monokuma is notably connected with hypnosis (Love Hotel, and imprinting an idea on Shuichi) while Ouma is noted to be a mindreader, both decidedly supernatural talent. Shuichi Saihara: Ultimate Detective. At this stage he is in his memory, Shuichi is merely an apprentice. His role of detective basically fell into his lap, with his uncle having him ‘tag along’ with his own detective work and help out in exchange for his stay. Shuichi’s training involved looking for animals, investigating into cheaters and finding runaways, while he is notably pervy, his lab bears the hallmarks of mass experimentation on Ultimates who were caught, and the Love Hotel involved brainwashing students for sex (bonus: it’s unknown exactly how many people Shuichi has fucked as Miu changes the subject). Shuichi bears poison in his lab, one of which Maki uses for one of her weapons. The academy they are in is akin to a prison, while Shuichi’s talent is connected to the police. In his Love Hotel event, Ouma notes Shuichi as capable of torturing or raping him. Incidentally, detectives were Nazified, the SS were notably black-suited, began arrests of people they persecuted and tortured them. Shuichi’s parents both being associated with cinema is a nod to cinema brainwashing in Nazism to ‘boost the morale of the people’, while his uncle was responsible for training him as a detective. The content of the lab effectively becoming meaningless - thus, ‘fiction’ - is basically historical negationism, something which still happens with regard to Nazis and their atrocities. Shuichi Saihara’s initials are SS while Saishuu - taken from his name - means ‘final’, and Shuichi’s forename kanji with a double meaning of ‘end’ and ‘death’, is similar to the SS-style hat ingame, whose iconography - the totenkopf - literally means ‘death’. Kaede offhandedly notes that Shuichi is akin to a ‘shinigami detective’, a shinigami of course, being a ‘god of death’. The deadly sin of pride applicable to Shuichi, is known as the ‘root of all evil’, while the past Monokuma had said that there is ‘nothing more unethical than an unwavering sense of justice’. What’s more, pride is noted to have a fine line between its virtue and sin, similar to the fine line between a criminal and a detective.

A few key things can be established from all this:



Organisations, cults, authority, famous/otherwise major figures being common, one time even the exact same twice- the Prime Minister!

being common, one time even the exact same twice- the Prime Minister! Links in purpose : Shuichi’s role of detective links with spies while Kaede fits with his parents (for cultivation of her talent), Kaito and Kirumi assist others in achieving greatness and indeed the same major figure, Tenko links with Shuichi owing to the police and with Ryoma and Himiko in terms of her talent being a national entertainment, Miu and Kiibo is fairly evident in that Miu is capable of maintaining him and also making items for war

: Shuichi’s role of detective links with spies while Kaede fits with his parents (for cultivation of her talent), Kaito and Kirumi assist others in achieving greatness and indeed the same major figure, Tenko links with Shuichi owing to the police and with Ryoma and Himiko in terms of her talent being a national entertainment, Miu and Kiibo is fairly evident in that Miu is capable of maintaining him and also making items for war Weird modifications happening to others, and an unknown clinic established having done this to Miu’s brain in order to enhance it, possibly in conjunction with ‘weird technology’ prevalent in the game

to others, and an unknown clinic established having done this to Miu’s brain in order to enhance it, possibly in conjunction with ‘weird technology’ prevalent in the game The outside world oddly affected by ‘fiction events’ , and these events being common sense to those involved. Also goes hand in hand with weird modifications, a la Gonta

, and these events being common sense to those involved. Also goes hand in hand with weird modifications, a la Gonta A strange sense of time lapse , with characters having instances of unexplained experiences for their supposed teenage years, or the talent experience noted in the missing memory (Shuichi, Himiko). There’s also a strange substance noted by Ouma that ‘could have bent time and space’, though it’s unknown to what capacity

, with characters having instances of unexplained experiences for their supposed teenage years, or the talent experience noted in the missing memory (Shuichi, Himiko). There’s also a strange substance noted by Ouma that ‘could have bent time and space’, though it’s unknown to what capacity Overall theming connecting to pioneering events of space travel and events/aspects of war (Kiibo being the most explicit in terms of talent)

In any event, our ‘hero’ would be decidedly not, just as the surviving group overall is sketchy. Though they aren’t the only ones, as the entirety of this group has something strange or dire evidenced about them. All of this makes up the group likely known as the Ultimate Hunt.