Ibuki Mioda

## Character Backstory

**Warning:** The following contains spoilers for Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

Ibuki Mioda is quite the talented musician, having made herself famous through her worldwide renowned band. One of her talents is in how well and how carefully she can hear, which made for a critical piece of evidence in the first class trial of the Neo World Program. She unfortunately became one of the first to suffer from the so-called "despair disease", forcing her to be more gullible and making her vulnerable to be killed. Her murder was framed as a suicide and she became one of two victims for the third trial in the Neo World Program.

## Character Card Abilities

### Primary Active: **Listening In**

* Learn what actions/free uses affected your target.
* If talk/trade happened to your target, you are also told exactly who talked with them.

### Secondary Passive: **Enhanced Hearing**

* When using Listening In, you also learn exactly what happened to your closest living neighbors, but you won't know which one it happened to.

## Character Card Notes

### Primary Notes:

* When learning what happened to the target of Listening In, Ibuki also detects self uses but is never told where any actions/free uses came from.

### Secondary Notes:

* Ibuki also learns what actions/free uses hit her neighbors.
* If talk/trade happened to Ibuki's neighbors, she is also told exactly who talked with one of the neighbors.

## Strategy

All of Ibuki's abilities can be summarized as using the action Listening In to learn information about her neighbors and one character of her choice. Depending on how clever the blackened is, this can sometimes expose the blackened or reveal nothing of value. A wise player will take advantage of Ibuki's abilities exactly when they're needed to provide rich data for an upcoming class trial all with one action.

Unlike a majority of active abilities other characters can do, Ibuki can target the same character as many times as she likes. This allows her to adopt the strategy of using Listening In on the same character every night and essentially performing a stakeout on three characters at once (although the identities of two of them interchange). Ibuki may also want to use her active ability on a particular character if she suspects that particular character is vulnerable or likely to be targeted by the blackened or a turncoat; the ideal target for Ibuki's Listening In is the victim of the next trial because she can learn what suppressions were used and what lethal actions/items killed him/her. As Ibuki can't use her ability without learning about her neighbors, she becomes a slightly larger target if either of her neighbors are the blackened. If Ibuki becomes the blackened, her best strategy may be to accuse a character she can target with Listening In or one of her neighbors of lying about an alibi. Accusing the target of Listening In (which she probably hasn't performed) provides more confidence but casts suspicion on Ibuki if she's proven wrong. Accusing one of her neighbors requires less certainty and thus won't make her look as bad if she's wrong, but it usually isn't enough to prevent the class trial from putting a majority vote on her.