Danganronpa: Operation V.K.

Logo for Operation V.K., created by KinuNishimura.

> *The girl with the antenna awakens, in an unfamiliar location, with sixteen others; students, one and all, of the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy, a school to foster talent in the hearts of man. An unforgettable bear gives them the directive, of "kill, or be killed." To them, immaterial concepts such as "hope" or "despair" mean nothing. This is a battle between detective and culprit.*
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**Danganronpa: Operation V.K.** is a Fanganronpa created by KinuNishimura.

## Participants

### Host

* Monokuma
* The End

### Students

    Claus ToranosukeUltimatePrincipal
     Miria HayashiUltimateMountaineer
     Shinobu KoshimizuUltimateMystery Novelist
     Yun-Fat LuanUltimateMasseuse

### Other Characters

* Ruri Bessho - Ultimate Data Analyst
* Kotone Suzukage - Ultimate Marathon Runner
* Blake Mirabeau - Ultimate Geographer
* Natsuhi Miyashiro - Ultimate Mariner
* Reiji Ittosai, also known as Reiko Ittosai - Ultimate Attorney
* Saburo Kirihito - Ultimate Escape Artist

## Rules

* **Rule #1.** Students can't leave the Science Building; leaving campus is an unacceptable use of [your] time.
* **Rule #2.** Night Time is from 10 P.M. To 7 A.M. “Certain areas” are off-limits at night.
	+ Per Wanda and Miria's investigation, these areas included the Cafeteria and Auditorium
* **Rule #3.** Sleeping anywhere except the Housing Suite will be considered “sleeping in class,” and will be punished accordingly.
* **Rule #4.** Other than the aforementioned restrictions, [students] can explore the Science Building as [they] wish.
* **Rule #5.** Violence against Monokuma and destruction of security cameras are strictly prohibited.
* **Rule #6.** If a student kills another student and isn't discovered as the ‘culprit,’ they ‘graduate’ and can leave the school.

After Aoto's body was discovered, three more rules regarding Class Trials were added.

* **Rule #7.** When three or more students discover a body, the Body Discovery Announcement will play.
	+ Later, Monokuma clarified further: The body discovery announcement plays upon the discovery of a corpse whose death was caused by a participant in the game by three or more people. The culprit only counts towards this count if they discover the body at the same time as the first two to discover the body.
* **Rule #8.** "You guys now have to conduct an investigation to try and determine who the killer is! You have until I say so to gather up all the evidence that you can, and you will then gather for a Class Trial, wherein you will debate who you think the culprit is! Please note: Attendance is mandatory. Failure to attend will have consequences."
* **Rule #9.** At the end of the trial, you'll all vote on who you think the killer is. If you guess it right, the killer is executed! Buuut, if you get it wrong, the killer gets to go free...and everyone else is executed instead!

More rules were added after the first Class Trial.

* **Rule #10.** A single culprit can’t kill more than two people, or they’ll be executed.
* **Rule #11.** After each trial, another floor of the Science Building will be made accessible to the participants.
* **Rule #12.** The definition of littering is leaving a personal belonging in a non-designated area after you yourself have left that room.
	+ Monokuma later clarified that "it’s counted as littering if you leave your personal belongings anywhere outside of where they’re supposed to be, or a tool from one of the rooms anywhere in the main building of Compound VK that’s not where it’s from."
* **Rule #13.** If a lone student is rendered incapable of performing the regular actions needed to return to their room, Monokuma will assist them to perform any actions that an average human being may perform.
* **Rule #14.** Unless otherwise specified, the mastermind will in no way assist with a murder plot.

During the second trial, Monokuma announced he would add another rule to the handbook the next day. Though it was never explicitly numbered, it would presumably be Rule #15.

* **Rule #15.** "You're not allowed to lend your Handbook to anyone!
* **Last Rule.** [Monokuma] can add new rules whenever he wants.

During the anti-Remnant perk, Monokuma explained more rules from the mastermind, though they were not added to the handbook.

* "So, you're allowed to use another person's Perk if you take it somehow, but you can't bring it back to your room, only yours can go in your room- and if your Perk gets completely removed from your room, all parts of it, it'll get replaced at the break of Nighttime, thankfully automatically and not by me."

## Motives

Like other killing games, Monokuma introduced motives to spur students to murder. Each motive remained in effect for all following murders- for example, the murderer who killed in Case 3 would be able to reap the benefits of the first and second motives as well.

* **Motive 1: Missing Memories**
	+ Monokuma revealed that each participant had a certain memory taken from them. A message was placed in their room that hinted towards what they had lost. Monokuma promised that anyone who murdered another student would have that memory returned to them. This resulted in Eriko Shigure setting a trap that resulted in the death of Aoto Maebara.
* **Motive 2: The Monokuma Note**
	+ A new feature was added to all students' Handbooks, known as the Monokuma Note. To use it, a student would select another student from the Handbook and specify their conditions for them. If they killed within 24 hours, and their selected student did not vote for them in the resulting trial, Monokuma would follow whatever conditions they had designated through the Monokuma Note, even sparing that student from being killed despite their incorrect vote. Wanda Morinaga killed Miria Hayashi in the hopes of fulfilling her conditions for Rin Hashizawa, to create a new life for the two of them free of their past memories.
* **Motive 3: Family Members**
	+ All surviving students were given one night to speak with their family members in their rooms. Daisuke Harada was pushed to murder a fellow student by his sister, who insisted that all of the "celebrities" there deserved to die anyways. However, his murder attempts failed, and resulted in his accidental death by the hands of Yayoi Murasaki.
* **Motive 4: Implied Mole**
	+ Monokuma was instructed to tell the students that "somebody in this room is secretly working for the mastermind". Truthfully, nobody was working for the mastermind apart from Monokuma, who was technically "somebody in this room". Monokuma found the motive stupid and overused, and revealed the wordplay at the same time the motive was revealed.
* **Motive 5: The Denouement Perk**
	+ Any student who visited the Chapel at nighttime would be given a tablet by The End. This tablet, known as The Denouement Perk, contained every piece of information kept secret about the killing game. However, they were required to kill the first person they saw once leaving the chapel before morning arrived, or otherwise face execution themselves. Any information written down by a student who obtained The Denouement Perk would also be considered part of the The Denouement Perk, preventing them from easily sharing this information with others. Hansuke Yasuda opted to sacrifice himself for the sake of the group, and committed suicide after obtaining The Denouement Perk, though he did not do so until after the sixth motive was revealed.
* **Motive 6: Anti-Replicant Perk**
	+ With the reveal that Rin Hashizawa was a replicant, each student was given an Anti-Replicant Perk, with the exception of Rin herself and Yashiro Narumi. These tended to be weapons, though there were some exceptions, such as documents detailing a replicant's weakness. Despite its apparent focus on killing Rin, the motive was actually geared to play to the insecurities of Jun Fukuyama, resulting in Jun attempting to make himself count as the culprit in the death of Hansuke Yasuda, hoping to be correctly identified and executed. The Perks received were as follows:
		- Chihaya Inoue - A crossbow and three arrows
		- Kazuya Okudaira - A spiked flail
		- Stella Masaki - A replica of the golden sword Sayaka Maizono attempted to kill with
		- Jun Fukuyama - A revolver with seven chambers, and a set of seven bullets
		- Gavin Sakaki - Two bladed tonfa
		- Yun-Fat Luan - A set of sewing needles
		- Hansuke Yasuda - A tazer
		- Shinobu Koshimizu - A red-hilted ceremonial dagger
		- Claus Toranosuke - A series of documents containing information about replicants

## Trivia

### Spoiler-based Trivia

* Both Operation V.K. and Danganronpa 4: Paradise on the Hopeful Planet featured the Ultimate Lucky Student as their first victim.