Shuichi’s commentary here is rather interesting, almost like its purpose is to draw your attention to these odd backtracks. But if it’s really a lie about a lie, if it’s not just a lie to throw Shuichi into a spin, then that means we must find evidence of its truth that links to the game’s context, if it’s to be taken seriously.

So let’s begin with the first one.

This one’s easy enough. Someone who claims to be the ruler of the world, is suggesting to have brought disaster to a whole country. Taken it out, even.

We have no means to even disprove this, either, and it refers to something that happened before the events of the killing game, something which is up in the air even after the game’s end. At minimum, it provides a link to a possible event, and it’s clear-cut enough that it doesn’t warrant reading between the lines. You can just take it as read, that Monokuma did this in the past.

As for the second… this is a bit tricky in regards to ‘living with everyone’, but the main key is what the implication of his growth is for the facility.

To begin with: on the very basic level, what kind of facility is it…?

Suggestions by Rantaro and Shuichi in an FTE…

…combined with canon evidence, point to a research institute for studying Ultimate talent. So going back to Ouma’s remarks, what would he mean by something like that, if not something to do with talent…?

After all, we have evidence of a powerful talent at work in Chapter 5:

It’s… a pretty amazing feat to write a whole-ass script for the events of a trial you’re not even going to be there for. For sure, it’s not normal.

No surprise that people have linked this to a vein of Analysis, at the very least, but what else is interesting about Analysis…?



One, it’s a supernatural talent, notably mysterious in Danganronpa.

Two, the mastermind of the first game had this kind of amazing ability.

Three, that person was a twin, whose other twin also has superhuman ability.

Though since we know Ouma can’t be behind Monokuma, and if someone powerful is behind him, there must be a trace of some supernatural talent…



…And isn’t there something like that happening through Angie? There’s no question that there’s something weirdly supernatural about her brainwashing, and how she has access to information she shouldn’t know… all the while afflicted by ‘possession by a God’. Where else have we seen this kind of hypnosis take place, other than the Love Hotel, run by Monokuma…?

So, with two separate supernatural-type talents, the idea of twin-experiments existing in Danganronpa Kirigiri, and a known goal of facilities to study unusual talents, particularly supernatural on top of that… what Ouma says could easily mean experiments for talent growth. The specifics are where it’s hazy, but really… do we need specifics just to offer up the possibility of Ouma’s words having truth, when we know so little of him and his past…?

Because the implications already suggest something weird with him and Monokuma, weird enough to doubt that we know all we need to know.