Leon Kuwata

Leon Kuwata, also known as Ultimate Baseball Star, is a character from the Danganronpa series.
== Charactah Account ==
The star player of Japan's champion high-school baseball team who, oddly enough, doesn't care much for baseball. Leon stays on the team so he can rake in athletic scholarships and attention from girls. His real dream is to become the lead vocalist for a punk rock band, and change his title to Ultimate Musician. He is the culprit of Chapter 1, stabbing Sayaka to death (after she tries to kill him first) and is found guilty at the school trial. Despite his argument that he acted in self-defense, he is executed by Monokuma, bludgeoned to death by a barrage of one-thousand baseballs.
Leon is a passionate, hot-blooded young teenager. He often slacks off from studying and baseball practice; however, his baseball skills were never diminished due to his status as Ultimate Baseball Star. Leon is also very determined to change his current title to Ultimate Musician. In Leon's Free Time sequence, the reason for that determination is revealed: to win a heart of a girl that he happened to meet at the hair salon. Later, Leon himself states that he somewhat missed playing baseball; something that he used to do every day since he was young. He even invited Makoto to play baseball with him once they get out of their current situation.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc
* Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Future Arc
* Danganronpa: The Animation
=== Light Novels ===
* Danganronpa 1 ・2 Beautiful Days
* Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF
* Ultra Despair Hagakure
=== Manga ===
* Danganronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair
* Danganronpa: The Animation
* Danganronpa: The Demo
* Small Danganronpa 1・2 Light
* Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy - 4 Frames KINGS
=== Video Games ===
* Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
* Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
* Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
* Danganronpa: Unlimited Battle
* Identity V
== Trivia ==
* Notable trivia specifically about his execution, The 1,000 Blows:
** Due to the brutality of it, it was censored in the Danganronpa: The Animation when it first aired on television. However, on the anime DVD, the execution can be seen uncensored.
** The design on Leon's shirt foreshadows his fate, as it depicts a skull being shattered from a heavy blow.
** The execution is the same execution he undergoes in DISTRUST, the prototype of the first Danganronpa game. This explains why his execution is more brutal and gruesome compared to the others.
* Leon's former high school, LL Academy, might be a reference to the Little League.
* In the Danganronpa 1 (Trial Version), unlike the actual Bullet Time Battle with Leon that happens in the end of the first class trial, the player will engage in a Bullet Time Battle at the beginning of the trial when Leon accuses Makoto of being the killer because he stutters multiple times.
* Leon's English voice actor, Grant George is married to Sakura Ogami's English voice actress, Jessica Gee-George.
** His voice actor also voices Shuichi Saihara in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Leon Kuwata at Danganronpa Wiki
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