Monosuke

**Monosuke** (モノスケ *Monosuke*) is one of the antagonists featured in *Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony*.

He is part of a group called the Monokuma Kubs along with his siblings Monotaro, Monokid, Monodam and Monophanie that control Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles alongside their father Monokuma. He is the straight man of the group.

## Appearance

Monosuke as a character is strongly associated with the Osakaarea of Japan.[2]

Monosuke's appearance is similar to that of his father, Monokuma, but the part that is black on Monokuma consists of yellowish brown and dark brown stripes (a reference to Hanshin Tigers, the Osaka baseball team). Likewise, his left eye is white, contrasting Monokuma's. Unlike most Monokumas, Monosuke's whole left eye occasionally glows white light instead of having a small red glow.

He has bright pink cheeks and eyelashes on his right eye. He dons a pair of round black glasses (which are a reference to the ones of Kuidaore Taro, a mechanical drum-playing clown in front of Cui-daore, a restaurant in one of the principal tourist destinations in Osaka), an abacus, and a yellow pacifier.

He is sometimes seen carrying six Monokuma bills with him.

When he was seen as a ghost in Chapter 3, his appearance mostly stayed the same but his yellow side was changed into blue and his body was more transparent. He also didn't have any legs due to him becoming a ghost.

## Personality

Monosuke is a child-like robot. He is the most cool-headed in the group, seemingly remaining calm whenever the other Monokubs are shocked and analyzes the situations. At first glance, he appears to be the most intelligent as well, being capable of having much more cohesive and intelligent conversations. However, despite this, he is neither mature nor docile, and he has a horrible mouth similar to Monokid. He is somewhat aggressive and tends to call others stupid.

With a calm nature, Monosuke acts like the straight man of a double act stand-up comedy and provides snark to the group's dynamic. To emphasize this, he speaks in Kansai dialect in the Japanese version and New Jersey accent in the English version. He tends to be the one correcting his siblings whenever they say something nonsensical and is sometimes annoyed by them. Whenever his siblings talk their usual nonsense, he tends to intervene by continuing "...more importantly".

Being a Monokuma, he enjoys killing and gore, though he acts more calm about it than overly excited Monokid. He enjoys chasing students with his Exisal. In general, he doesn't seem to get as emotional as the other Kubsーhe dislikes heartfelt moments and doesn't seem to care much about others, even calling his father useless at one point. In fact, he strongly approves of hostility and infighting among the group, believing that the Monokuma Kubs should be "awkward and unsociable" and insisting that they should be scary and nasty. Because of this, he appears quite nonchalant whenever his siblings include him in their arguments. He doesn't even seem to care about his sibling dying as he didn't care much about Monokid when Monodam killed him during the first execution, and just seemed glad that things had finally got interesting. However, he was also scared of Monodam because he killed one of the Monokubs and tried to warn his other siblings to watch out for him, though mainly appearing concerned for himself.

As a rather notable trait, Monosuke also seems to have great interest in money, success and becoming popular, as he occasionally comes up with new business ideas, like selling Monokuma Files for funerals or having merchandise of the Exisals, in hopes of becoming rich. While generally appearing smarter than the other Kubs, he might show-off (as his siblings put it) and accidentally slip out. He is also known to be very impatient whenever he feels cranky, which is notably seen when he announces both day and nighttime at the same time even though the day had just begun.

After he was rebuilt and brought back by Monokuma, Monosuke and the other Kubs were under a threat of being exploded if they didn't make good arguments, which made Monosuke panic quite a lot especially since the Kubs didn't have any memories nor knowledge of what had happened. In a desperate attempt to defend Tsumugi and not get destroyed, Monosuke even abandoned his own ideologies and tried to act cheerful and encourage everyone to smile, get along and be happy. However, this turned out to be a wrong move, as he was almost immediately destroyed by Monokuma.

## Abilities

### Controlling the Exisals

Monosuke, along with the other Monokubs, are the only ones who can control the Exisals.

Monosuke can control the Exisals on his command to manipulate the students into doing something since the Exisals carry dangerous weapons such as a saw and a gun. He also uses the Exisals to punish any students who break the school's rules.

One of the reasons he was broke back was especially because of him and his sibilings being the only ones with the ability to control the Exisals. Monotaro's ability to use the Exisals was demonstrated more clearly in Chapter 6 when he and K1-B0 were having an intense fight.

### Fixing and Rebuilding

Monosuke and his siblings seem to be able to repair and fix machines as they were the ones responsible to fix K1-B0's antenna to get a signal from the audience from the outside world and are also able to remove gear and heavy weapons around him.

## Quotes

*Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version)* (English)

**Introduction:**

* "Y'know, for a protagonist...your reaction to us was pretty boring." (*To Kaede Akamatsu*)
* "No shit, Sherlock! I mean look at us. We're clearly his flesh-and-blood cubs." (*To Kaede about Monokuma being their "Papa".*)

*Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony* (English)

**Character Trailer:**

* "What'd ya say, Jabroni?"

**Prologue:**

* "Then what if...we start peelin' off their limbs one by one, like string cheese?"
* "No, no, Monokid. You're sayin' 'hell' too much. It's ruining the hellish impact!
* "Don't worry about us. The real issue is youse bastards. Well, 'issue' is putting it mildly...This is actually a huge problem. Youse all have forgotten your talents and became generic high school students."
* "Let's do this already. No one wants to watch a bunch of generic high school whiners."
* "Shut up! We're the Monokubs! We need to be tough and whatnot!"

**Chapter 1:**

* "Who'd wanna play a game where no one dies!?"

**Chapter 2:**

* "Well, I think the threatening vibe we Monokubs give off is perfect. Cuz we're a team of scary badasses who are gonna drag you down to hell!"
* "We need youse to die in the killing game!"
* "Finally! I've been waiting for the killin' game to start up again! That means we can put all this borin' crap on hold and start playin' the blame game!"
* "Listen up! We're here to make sure the killin' game goes smoothly, capice?"
* "Y'know how it gets awkward at funerals when ya start askin' about the cause of death? If we pass out Monokuma Files, even the worst deaths will get a giggle outta the attendees!"
* "Idiots! We're not here to play! We're here to smack these bastards into the pits of hell! We're the Monokubs! The meanest, nastiest, cruelest mascots around!"

**Chapter 6:**

* "If we don't do well here...we're all gonna get blown up together!"
* "I...I don't think friends should blame each other like this, y'know!? C'mon, smile everyone! I know, we could watch a comedy special so we can all smi—"

**TMNT X Pokemon:**

* "Wha?! Monodam, you can't quit! You're one of us!"
* "You idiot! How could you lose to a cat?! A mutant turtle cat?!"
* "You want this phone? You have to come and get it."

## TMNT X Pokemon

Monosuke scolds anyone who had failed a mission to defeat the Turtles. He takes care of Shredder's money income

## Trivia

* Monosuke's official profile description on the English website was mistranslated. The original profile didn't mention that he had no patience for Monokid's foul language, it said his language was as foul as Monokid's.[3]
* Despite being a robot, he appears to have a very poor eyesight without his glasses.
* In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Monosuke the 5th most popular *Danganronpa V3* Monokuma Unit.[4]