Monaca Towa

Monaca

Leader of the Warriors of Hope

Mastery of manipulation

### Goals

Spread chaos and dismay (succeeded for a while but ultimately failed).Kill her father Tokuichi Towa as revenge for his abuse towards her (succeeded).

Become Junko Enoshima's successor and continue her legacy of causing Despair to the world (failed/abandoned in "Future Arc").

### Crimes

Mass murderBrainwashing

Anarchy

Attempted genocide

Sexual assault

Identity theft

Terrorism

Instigating suicide

Burglary

Embezzlement

Weapon dealing

Smuggling

Blackmail

Patricide

“ When Monaca talks, everyone freezes... When Monaca smiles, everyone stops smiling... For Monaca, the outsider, the eyesore, to survive in that house, she did what she had to do. „ ~ Monaca Towa in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls.

**Monaca Towa** is the secondary antagonist of the *Danganronpa* franchise.

She serves as the overarching antagonist of *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc*, *Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy*, *Danganronpa: Zero*, the main antagonist of *Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls*, a minor antagonist in *Despair Arc*. and a major antagonist in *Future Arc*. She is the actual leader of the Warriors of Hope. Amongst the Warriors of Hope she has the rank of "Mage", also creating a robotic bear called "Kurokuma".

She is voiced by Aya Hirano in Japanese (who also voiced Hannah Anafeloz in *Kuroshitsuji II*, Misa Amane in *Death Note*, Miu Asakura in *Bungaku Shoujo*, and Fallen Angel Nanael in *Queen's Blade*) and Cristina Valenzuela in English (who also voiced Elsa Granhiert in *Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World*, Flame Emperor in *Fire Emblem: Three Houses*, Homura Akemi in *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*, Nightmare Ladybug in *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*, Risky Boots in *Shantae*, and Rei Hōōmaru in *Kill La Kill*).

## Appearance

Monaca has short green hair and green eyes. In her hair she wears a red ribbon with a bow. She wears a knee-length black dress. She uses an electric wheelchair due to her supposedly incapacitated legs. Later in the story, it is revealed that she can actually walk and was only faking her incapability to walk. When she's out the wheelchair, the back of her dress is shown to have a decal of a pelvis and spine. She also wears white shoes with black knee highs.

## Personality

Monaca is seemingly very amiable and caring. She appears very cheerful and has a childish way of talking, sometimes meowing and almost exclusively referring to herself in the third person.

Because of her charming personality, all of the Warriors love her and try their best to keep her happy and go along with what she wants. However, it's slowly revealed that she is actually manipulative and cunning behind her friendly facade. Her 'true' personality resembles that of Junko's. She is also mentioned to be very intelligent for her age and very skilled with robots.

When things are not going her way, Monaca will manipulate the situation by any means necessary, such as throwing fits or causing the Warriors to turn on each other. She ultimately has very little regard for their well-being, knowingly using their traumatic pasts against them and not feeling any sympathy nor sorrow for them nor anyone else. She greatly admires Junko, who seems to be the only person she ever cared about, and she hates the idea of Junko being disappointed in her.

Despite her cheerful front, Monaca has suffered from suicidal thoughts in her past and present, though she claims it's all just a joke.

In *Danganronpa 3*, Monaca has the same manipulative and somewhat childish personality. She considers Makoto a loser, because he needs the help of friends, especially since he is a boy and the said friends are girls. In the end, it's revealed that The Servant's constant ramblings about hope and despair made her feel bored and embarrassed about the whole thing. She claims she became an adult in a sense, as she turned more cynical, lazy and apathetic, not really caring about anything. She gives up on despair, knowing that it's all too complicated for her and hope would win in the end, seemingly ending her villainous days.

## History

### Prior to the Tragedy

Monaca was born an unwanted child by both her father, the president of the Towa Group and her mother, his lover out of wedlock. Monaca's mother was supposed to take care of her but instead abandoned the child soon after her birth. Because of all her actions, Monaca saw her mother as a completely selfish and pathetic person.

Monaca's father thought of giving her to an orphanage but instead took her into his family. However, Monaca was always unwanted and everyone else felt uncomfortable around her. Every time Monaca smiled or joked, the others looked at her coldly, as if she didn't deserve to laugh. Every time she spoke, the others turned silent. Her older half-brother thought of her as an alien, not part of the family. Everything Monaca did made Haiji feel sick. He had a bad feeling about her and he was quite sure that Monaca would end up destroying *his* family.

Though Monaca was happy and childish on the outside, she felt like dying. It's implied that she was physically abused, too, and one time she pretended to be badly wounded as a result. She started to pretend to be paraplegic because she was finally treated with some kindness and she could have more control over people. Believing that they caused it, her father and brother felt pity for her.

Even though Monaca was disliked in the family, she had a genius intellect and became a chief executive of Towa Group robotics branch, even surpassing Haiji.

Monaca also attended Hope's Peak Elementary School and was part of the "trouble-makers class" along with Nagisa, Masaru, Jataro, and Kotoko. She loved homeroom period where she would share and exchange opinions. Along with her fellow abused classmates, she planned a group suicide; however, Monaca never had any plans to commit suicide in the first place and was planning to let the others die as a prank. The group suicide was stopped by Junko, who took the kids in and manipulated them by treating them with kindness and love.

Monaca then helped Junko (knowing fully well that Junko was trying to use her) mass produce Monokumas for the Tragedy by using her position as a representative of the Towa Group. She lied to her father and the other adults in order to produce the Monokumas, telling them that she wanted to create futuristic robots that could be domestic helpers and emergency aid workers. Due to her separation from the family and her genius, her family decided to give her leg room to do what she wanted as long as she brought in profits to the company, and didn't delve too deeply into her plans.

### During the Tragedy

The Monokuma Units created by the Towa Group were used as killing machines during the Tragedy. Monaca also began manufacturing Monokuma-themed helmets that could brainwash their wearers into obedient slaves for her plans - by giving these to various children, she created the Monokuma Kids.

When her father learned of the Monokumas' true use, he tried to stop production. However, Monaca blackmailed him to let her continue, warning that if he stopped her, she would tell Junko to spread the fact that the ones who made the murderous Monokumas was, in fact, the Towa Group.

Monaca also gave her father the idea to make both Monokumas and weapons against them. As a result, Towa Group made even more money and looked like heroes to the public, but was forced to work together with Ultimate Despair. Towa Group gained money, honor, and protection from their alliance with Ultimate Despair, and in the end, Tokuichi Towa was corrupted and became a big supporter of Junko Enoshima, Ultimate Despair, and the Tragedy.

After the death of Junko, her influence grew weaker and weaker and Future Foundation became more powerful. Tokuichi simply said that it's all over, gave up and ended his alliance with Ultimate Despair. He was later murdered by a group of Monokumas and his throat was torn out at the command of his daughter, to prevent him from interfering with her plans. The murder was witnessed by Haiji, who escaped and decided to destroy all Monokumas to avenge his father.

Nagisa, Masaru, Jataro, and Kotoko didn't know what to do after Junko's death. Junko had taught them that they should create a peaceful paradise for children and kill all the adults - "the Demons". Monaca told them that they shouldn't give up on hope and they should continue fulfilling Junko's wishes. She manipulated them even further, telling them that the dirty Demons killed their "big sis Junko".

However, Monaca's true goal was neither paradise nor revenge. She planned to create a successor to her idol ("Junko Enoshima II") and cause a huge war, an idea she originally seemed to get from Kurokuma. Monaca was also the one who came up with the idea of the massacre game known as the Demon Hunting. The whole thing was just a game for the kids, who started to call themselves the Warriors of Hope.

When the Warriors of Hope captured and forced Nagito Komaeda to be their slave, Monaca decided to work with him despite their different goals. She asked Nagito (now operating under the name "Servant") to guide Komaru through their Demon Hunting game and bring her to their secret stronghold, a building called Towa Hills - Monaca found a certain amusing irony in making Makoto Naegi's sister the next Junko Enoshima. The Servant then made a deal with Toko, promising to release the captured Byakuya Togami if she escorts Komaru safely to the stronghold.

### Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls

#### Prologue - The Warriors of Hope

Monaca first appears in the news reporting room with the other Warriors of Hope warning any survivors that they intend to kill all adults and that they should remember them. She then says goodbye and cuts the news report.

Monaca appeared again as the Warriors of Hope welcomed and introduced themselves to Komaru Naegi in their airship, the Excalibur. She cheerfully explains her status as "L'il Ultimate Homeroom" and self-proclaimed "life of the party" of the group. She reveals the Warriors' plan to make "a paradise of children, for children, by children". Not long after the Servant arrives and set the Monokuma Bracelet to Komaru, Monaca and the other Warriors of Hope open a trap door, resulting in Komaru falling through and back down into Towa City.

#### Chapter 2 - Legend of the Revolution

After Masaru had been supposedly killed, Monaca, Kotoko, and Jataro made a shrine for him and mourn his death. However, Monaca was only fake crying.

Nagisa didn't mourn Masaru's death because his current fate was still unknown. Monaca turned angry until Nagisa agreed with her and manipulated him, using both his trauma and his crush on her against him. Monaca then decided to elevate Nagisa from vice-leader to the Warriors' new leader in place of Masaru, and later left the other Warriors of Hope because she had "some business to take care of".

#### Chapter 3 - Cute Girl's Battlefield

After the supposed death of Jataro, Monaca manipulated Kotoko as well, cruelly using her trauma to punish her for disagreeing with her.

#### Chapter 4 - The Way We Live

Monaca reveals her true goal to horrify Nagisa. She then kisses him in order to enforce the authority she knows she has over him, then degrades him by implying he is a pervert. Monaca implies she will do more 'favors' for him in exchange for a now scarred Nagisa's cooperation. Once literally backed into a corner, he slaps her repeatedly and screams for her to stop but she continues to mentally wear him down. She tells Nagisa that she has never expected a thing from him to begin with because he is just a child who isn't worth placing any expectations on, which clashes with everything he has been told his entire life. In his mental distress, she kisses him and throws him into despair.

Before the end, Monaca appeared and expected that Nagisa should have been defeated already by Komaru and Toko. Then, she began to finish her preparations for the climax.

#### Chapter 5 - Absolute Despair Girl

Komaru, Toko, and Haiji confront Monaca in the airship Excalibur. After revealing that her legs were not disabled as previously thought, Monaca and Kurokuma summoned their battle robot, which appeared to be a combination of the robots used by the other Warriors of Hope. Komaru and Toko were able to defeat them, leading to Kurokuma having his head sent flying off his body, through the window, and falling down to the ground.

Monaca then gave Komaru the Monokuma controller, which controlled all the Monokumas, for her to destroy and shut them down. However, Kotoko appeared and warned them not to break the controller, saying that it would blow up the helmets of the Monokuma Kids, killing them all. Komaru wasn't sure what to do, and Monaca showed her a video of Komaru's parents dead, in a torture room. Komaru was in complete despair, and Monaca then revealed that her true goal was to turn Komaru into "Junko Enoshima II" by despairing her and making her kill all the Monokuma Kids. The killing of the Monokuma Kids would also cause a war between Future Foundation and Towa City.

Suddenly, Toko took the controller from Komaru to prevent her from breaking it. Monaca questioned why she did that, saying it's her duty to Byakuya and the Future Foundation to eliminate all despair. Toko agreed but added that she also doesn't want to let despair spread to Komaru, the Monokuma Kids, or anywhere else. Haiji then got angry at her for refusing to destroy the controller to save the adults, even if it means killing all the kids (since they were the ones trying to kill them). But Kotoko attacked Haiji in order to help Toko.

The giant Big Bang Monokuma then began attacking the ship. Monaca claimed that it is being controlled by someone (being Shirokuma) to try and kill them all. In a panic, Haiji, Kotoko, and Toko (who dragged the despaired Komaru with her) escaped the crumbling room. Monaca, however, remained in the room and smiled insanely as the Big Bang Monokuma attacked her.

In the end, Monaca was trapped under rubble, and everyone mostly ignored her and left. Monaca was frustrated at the ending which is neither hope nor despair and she felt great despair as the ceiling started to crumble more.

#### Epilogue - The Changing World We Made

After her plans failed and she was trapped, Monaca was rescued and carried away by the Servant. The Servant suggests that Monaca herself should become Junko Enoshima II and he offers his help for some amount of time, deciding to raise Monaca to be Junko's copy and even better than the original Junko.

### Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Future Arc

#### Episode 04 - Who is a Liar

After Juzo Sakakura attacked Miaya, she fell to the ground unresponsive, cutting to a scene showing Monaca trying to reboot "it", revealing that she is controlling a robot doppelganger of Miaya.

#### Episode 05 - Dreams of Distant Days

After successfully recovering Miaya from Juzo's attack and catching up to Makoto and Aoi Asahina, Monaca is seen using a joystick to control Miaya's actions. Using Miaya, she knocked out Seiko Kimura with her wheelchair's missiles.

#### Episode 06 - No Man is an Island

Seeing Makoto in a state of despair, Monaca (who was eating some sweets behind the screen) decided to use Miaya to give a rousing speech to Makoto and Aoi about not giving up. She then calls Makoto a loser for relying on the girls help him with his situation. She finds it unbelievable how someone with an empty head like him could've beaten Junko.

#### Episode 07 - Ultra Despair Girls

At the beginning of the episode, Monaca is seen crying about how hope keeps beating despair in front of several Monokumas. However, she tells them she will continue to show the world how wonderful despair is.

It was later revealed that she is based near the outskirts of Towa City. Monaca was then seen watching Komaru and Toko, who were tasked by Byakuya to locate her whereabouts, enter her base claiming how friendship and hope disgust her, wondering how people risk their lives on those ideas. After seeing the actions of the two girls she begins wondering whether or not the world is rejecting her claiming her only choice is to run away from the Earth or destroy the world and has already made her decision in regards to it.

Komaru and Toko later found a room filled with the mechas they previously fought. Monaca greeted the two, appearing on a screen, and tells them that despair will beat hope and activates the robots along with some Monokuma before immediately giving up; blowing up her base of operations in the process.

Lying in the ruins, Komaru and Toko find a van where Monaca is staying in; living in a very cluttered situation. She tells the two that she isn't the mastermind of the Final Killing Game and only intended to join to observe Makoto up close. She also confirmed the fact that she indeed killed Miaya. She also states that due to her old pranking habits, she was the one who faked Aoi's death (even acknowledging the fact the prank didn't land well).

She claimed that she has given up trying side with either hope or despair claiming that the Servant's attempt at making her the second Junko Enoshima made her instead give up on it.

When asked who is the real mastermind, Monaca claimed she doesn't know, but told the two that a survivor of the Killing School Life will most certainly die because of Makoto's actions, and she decided to keep it a secret. She then called for four Monokumas, using their rockets, to blast her van up to space and tells Komaru and Toko that she has decided to become a NEET in space.

While blasting off into space, Monaca decided that she will finally stop thinking about hope and despair.

#### Episode 09 - You are My Reason to Die

Monaca's prophecy became "true" as Kyoko Kirigiri was poisoned after violating her own NG Code, 'Passing the 4th time Limit with Makoto Naegi Alive'. Monaca was able to predict her imminent fate since her robot Miaya contained a PDA that showed every player's NG Code.

#### Episode 12 - It is Always Darkest

Monaca is seen watching Ryota Mitarai's hope brainwashing video, from her TV screen within her van in space.

### Side - Hope: The Academy of Hope and Students of Despair

After Ryota canceled his brainwashing video, Monaca returned to her normal self and continues to live in space.

### *Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the World Vanquisher*

Monaca appears as a cameo in the OVA, was shown having fun with members of Warriors of Hope.

## Skills and Abilities

### Li'l Ultimate Homeroom

Monaca has a strong ability to manipulate and deceive others, often by exploiting their own character flaws or past traumas. Her guise of childish innocence is strong enough to fool even her fellow Warriors of Hope except for Kotoko.

### Robotics Expert

Monaca is extremely talented at developing and programming robots, allowing her to take charge of the Towa Group's Robotics Branch, despite her young age. Some of her biggest successes include the Monokuma Units, the Original Monokuma, Kurokuma and Miaya Gekkogahara's robotic doppelganger, but it is also implied that she built the mecha used by the Warriors of Hope themselves.

### Mage Robot: Black Suspirian

Monaca's main weapon in a direct fight is her personal mecha, a large machine with six arms, four spider-like legs, and a face resembling Monokuma's own. Five of its arms carry weapons from the mecha used by the other Warriors of Hope; Masaru Daimon's drills, Jataro Kemuri's missile launcher, Kotoko Utsugi's ax, and Nagisa Shingetsu's rifle. The sixth arm holds a large staff, with a built-in chair for Monaca to sit in as she controls the mecha with the same control box that her fellow Warriors used.

Unlike the other four mecha, Black Suspirian apparently requires Kurokuma's assistance to operate, which he does by entering a secondary cockpit on the robot's lower body. As powerful as it is, the mecha can malfunction if certain weak spots on its joints are targeted, forcing it to temporarily eject Kurokuma and leave itself vulnerable.

## Relationships

### Allies

* Junko Enoshima - Idol and Sister Figure.
* Nagito Komaeda - Right-Hand Man and Big Brother Figure.
* Warriors of Hope
	+ Nagisa Shingetsu
	+ Kotoko Utsugi
	+ Jataro Kemuri
	+ Masaru Daimon
* Kurokuma † - Advisor.

### Enemies

* Komaru Naegi
* Toko Fukawa
* Byakuya Togami
* Future Foundation

## Quotes

### *Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls*

“ Monaca is called Monaca! Monaca's a Mage in the Warriors of Hope. I was known as Li'l Ultimate Homeroom while I was in elementary school. You might think there are no Ultimates and Commons in a class like Homeroom, but there are! For me, my skill isn't really about uniting people, it's about getting them all to help me. Believe it or not, I bring together a lot of wonderful people... It would be nice if you could be a wonderful person for Monaca, too... „ ~ Monaca introducing herself.

“ It! Doesn't! Have to! Make! Any! Sense! That's! All! If! Monaca! Wants! It! It! Happens! That's! How! It! Is! „ ~ Monaca throwing a tantrum about how everything should be her way.

“ Komaru Naegi... In your current situation, you don't have the right to say a thing. You cannot choose your path. Because this place you're in? It isn't a path at all. You are not on a path, you are falling into an abyss. A darkness gaping open beneath your feet. You are just going to fall and fall... Can't you feel the pull of gravity? „ ~ Monaca taunting Komaru over her current situation.

“ Rest in peace, our hero Masaru... You were a grand leader. You worked your hardest, like a real hero should, though you were a coward. „ ~ Monaca faking sadness over Masaru Daimon's "death".

“ All we gotta do is fulfill the hopeful dream Big Sis Junko gave us... We shouldn’t give up. We can't abandon hope. „ ~ Monaca reminding the other Warriors of Hope not to give up hope.

“ Pitiful children are the most powerful, don't you think? Monaca's home life was terrible... She didn't feel like she belonged there. But Monaca was more brilliant than her brother or her father, and they hated her for it... But then, I thought of a way I could counter their neglect and cruelty... All I had to do was become a pitiful figure... Then, I would have the whole world's sympathy. „ ~ Monaca talking abouther ability to gain sympathy from others by posing as a victim.

“ The moment Monaca saw her... Monaca understood. Big Sis Junko is light itself that will shine down on Monaca's boring little world. It's a miracle! Thank you, God! At least, at the time I thought it was a miracle. But later I learned it was inevitable. She came into my life just to take advantage of me. „ ~ Monaca realizing how Junko never cared about her and was simply using her.

“ You know hope isn't always a good thing. At times, hope can be a terrible burden... It can be a drive to hurt others. Just like now. What did you think would happen if you gave people who watched their loved ones die hope? They will turn into Demons. Demons who live for revenge. „ ~ Monaca talking about how the "detriments" of hope. “

"Family love... It sounds so nice. Something I've never felt my whole life. „ ~ Monaca wondering how having a loving family would feel like.

“ The hope you felt was just for the sake of making you feel the worst kind of despair. „ ~ Monaca talking to Komaru about how the latter's hope was also her own despair.

“ Monaca tried to imitate Big Sis Junko, you tried to imitate your brother... But in the end we both failed. Neither of us could live up to expectations. „ ~ Monaca reflecting on how both her and Komaru tried to be people they admired, but failed.

### *Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School*

“ Huh? It isn't working... I guess I need to reboot it? Sheesh... That's super-duper despair-inducing! „ ~ Monaca referring to the robotic clone of Miaya Gekkogahara she used to replace the real Miaya.

“ I thought if we talked, we could understand each other. I thought we wouldn't have to kill each other! You, of all people, know that hope is infectious. You tried hard, and that gave me hope. So now, it's my turn to give hope to you! Sure, this time it didn't go well. But in the end, I'm sure everything will be fine! „ ~ Monaca talking to Makoto and his allies about how they "gave her hope".

“ Indeed! Hope is about to wipe all of us out! However, my beloved Monokumas, despair is not dead yet! Because Monaca is still here. I, Monaca Towa, who was given the despair factor by big sis Junko! A world filled with hope is boring. Everyone should learn more about how wonderful despair is... I, the second Junko Enoshima, Monaca Towa, shall drive the Future Foundation and the whole world completely, despairfully, into despair! „ ~ Monaca's speech to an plethora of Monokumas.

“ Love and friendship are so disgusting! Why can't anyone understand how wonderful despair is? It makes Monaca so sad... Sob, sob. I think that now, with big sis Junko gone, the whole world doesn't want Monaca anymore... So I can either run away from the world that's rejected me, or I can destroy it. One of the two, right? But I've already picked my answers. „ ~ Monaca explaining about how she's made her answer of what to do now that Junko was dead and the world didn't want anything to do with her.

“ I, Monaka Towa, Junko Enoshima II, am the only one who can bring the Super High School-Level Hope, Makoto Naegi, to despair! Thanks to him, I've become big sis Junko more than big sis Junko was herself! „ ~ Monaca announcing herself as Junko Enoshima's successor.

“ That guy turned me into an adult a while ago. As I listened to him talk about hope and about despair, I realize I didn't want to end up like him. That's why Monaka's done with despair. „ ~ Monaca talking about how the Servant's rambling about hope and despair turned her away from both of them.

“ Despair will win! „ ~ Monaca reveling in how she'll make despair will win against hope.

“ I figure if we fight, I'll lose. Even if I fight, hope always ultimately wins. But I don't know whose hope it'll be. So, I'm done! „ ~ Monaca deciding that she's done trying to combat hope because, no matter what, it'll always win against despair.

“ Hope... Despair... Despair... Hope... It's all too complicated for Monaca! Okay! I'm done with thinking forever! Yay! „ ~ Monaca before becoming a NEET by launching herself into space.

## Trivia

* Monaca's birthday, April 1, coincides with the beginning of the school year in Japan. However, children born from April 2nd to April 1st are assigned in the same school year, which makes Monaca the youngest possible student among her classmates. Her birthday also coincides with April Fools Day.
* Other characters who also speak in the third person within the series besides Monaca are Ibuki Mioda, Gonta Gokuhara, Angie Yonaga, and Tenko Chabashira (the latter two in Japanese only).