Anemone Hashira

**“**  *The mastermind behind all of this is quite a skilled event planner... Which talent that would win at the end, theirs, or mine?*  **”**

— Anemone Hashira
**Hashira Anemone** (柱 アネモネ *Hashira Anemone*) is a student in Heavenly Born Academy's Class 85th, a participant of Heavenly Life of Mutual Killing, and the holder of **Crest of Nightmare** featured in *Dangan Ronpa: Heaven's Insignia*.

Her title is the **Super High School Level Event Planner** (超高校級の「イベントプランナー」 *chō kōkō-kyū no “ibento puran'nā”*), but she often dubs herself as the **Super High School Level Evil Planner**.

## History

### Early Life

Hashira is a strongly self-reliant individual who takes pride in her ability to plan ahead. After serving on the organizing committee for her school's festival, she realized that her rigorous planning style could be put to good use in the professional world. Hashira did an amazing job organizing the festival, that it was regarded as one of the most significant festivals in the school's history, which began a century ago. Since then, she's been using her skills to advance in the event planning industry.

Hashira said her ability to do evil is the key to her success when asked about her secret. She is able to show her originality through the events she plans because she is willing to embrace the "dark side". There was a consistent theme of "evil" throughout her events, and she seems to have a special knack for getting people to like it. Most people enjoy her events because she usually includes devilish acts such as dangerous stunts to liven things up.

### Heavenly Life of Mutual Killing

*Main article: Dangan Ronpa: Heaven's Insignia*
## Creation and Development

### **Name**

Her first name is inspired from the *Anemone* (アネモネ) flower in hanakotoba, which means "anticipation, forsaken", while her last name, *hashira* 柱, means "pillar." Her name is a reference to her talent as an event planner whose job is to support event committees. Her name in Thai is written as อนุรักษ์ ฮะชิระ.

Her real first name, Anurak (อนุรักษ์), is taken from an angel's name in Thai mythology. Ironically, Anurak is a masculine name used commonly in Thai. She gives herself the nickname Anemone as she refuses to be associated with men in any form.

## Personality

Hashira is an eccentric person who advertises herself as the most villainous Super High School Level student. True to her statement, she normally behaves like the most goddamn awful person in the whole world. She has a knack for offending people with unfiltered honesty that can leave deep emotional scars. She carefully plans her nefarious scheme, using her event-planning skills to create an experience that could impress and upset her target audience simultaneously. She is also very obstinate and cares nothing for how others perceive her. The more people negatively labelled her, the more determined she becomes to prove them right; that she's absolutely insufferable.

However, her actions are not all motivated by 'pure evil.' When it comes time to punish acts of bigotry, bullying, sexual harassment, and other heinous wrongdoing, only then can she be the genuine evil.

She once permanently paralyzed her pedo teacher by putting poison in his tea after he sexually harassed one of her classmates. She doesn't stop there; she exposed the teacher's misconduct to the globe through social media, inciting a worldwide protest. Her need to quench her insatiable appetite for blood drove her to take advantage of the upheaval to encourage victims of sexual assault to come forward. Later, she used her influence to spark violent rallies around the country. That very same year, about 10.000 sexual predators were massacred by the people, all thanks to Hashira's manipulation.

What happens to the pedo teacher? After a year of what he described as \*pure torment\*, he ended up committing suicide, drinking tthe same poison Hashira had previously given him. And Hashira managed to keep her anonymity throughout it all.

## Talent

### Super High School Level Event Planner

Hashira is a person of boundless imagination who has made a career out of assisting others with event planning. She has extensive experience in every facet of event planning and coordination, including but not limited to: budgeting, scheduling, location selection, permit acquisition, transportation and parking coordination, arranging for speakers or performers, setting up decorations, and so on. Her calling card as a party planner is a focus on evil as her central theme. People hire her, perhaps unexpectedly, because of her devilishly clever and beguiling planning.