Izuru Kamukura

*For the alternate versions of Izuru Kamukura, see: Hajime Hinata or World Destroyer.*

## Roleplay Status

### Participated

* The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy
* Killing School Trip

### Fates

* Survived the Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy
* Captured by the Future Foundation and sent to Jabberwock Island to participate in Neo World Program
* Survived the Killing School Trip and resides in Jabberwock Island, decides to live as Hajime Hinata

## Personal Status

### Affiliation

* Future Foundation's 14th Division
* Class 77-B

### Previous Affiliation

* Hope's Peak Academy
* Izuru Kamukura Project
* Ultimate Despair

**Izuru Kamukura** (カムクラ イズル) is one of the two main antagonists of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and a major character in the Danganronpa series.

Izuru was the end product of Izuru Kamukura Project, and as a "genius out of the ordinary" and Hope's Peak Academy's ultimate goal, went by the title of the **Ultimate Hoe** (超高校級の「希望」 lit. Super High School Level Hoe).

## Appearance

Izuru has very long, flowing black hair. His hair is usually smooth, though it's also been portrayed as messy. He has red eyes with symbols resembling target radars running across his pupils, unlike Hajime. His skin is pale, and sometimes appears grey or cadaverous.

He wears a black suit with three white buttons, a black tie and a white dress shirt inside. He also has a black belt and black loafers.

When Izuru appears in Hajime's subconscious, he is dressed in Hajime's attire.

After he exits the Neo World Program, Izuru and Hajime's identities merge together. Choosing to resume his appearance as Hajime, he cuts his hair short and switches his black suit for Hajime's school attire. His eyes have also become heterochromatic. His left eye is red while his right eye remains green. The design of both his eyes have also adapted Izuru's target radar design.

In Danganronpa V3's bonus mode, Izuru appears the same as in Danganronpa 2, although his hair appears lighter and his skin less grey as a result of no longer being in shadow.

## Personality

Due to the drastic changes that the operations made to turn Hajime into Izuru, his original personality was suppressed so as to not interfere with his talent cultivation. Izuru appears as a cold and emotionless person who finds everything and everyone boring, though he does talk and express in a more polite way than his alternate identity in the Japanese version. He expresses a disgust for talentless people, because his "teachers" taught him that they are just parasites who oppose and leech off of those with talent instead of acknowledging their "true superiors". He believes that such people brought the world to a deadlock and created a world that has stopped evolving, and that the only way to improve this is a certain form of "selection".

Izuru enjoys unpredictability, which can make him feel more emotional, but he also tends to quickly grow bored because his supernatural analytical skills and intuition cause him to quickly predict things with surprising accuracy. This is seen in Chapter 0 of Danganronpa 2, as he is visibly excited by the rocking of the boat only to find it boring a few seconds later (he is also so focused on the rocking that he doesn't even realize he's on a boat, at first). Notably, he appears aware that he is only being used and his talents are "leeched off" to create hope he finds boring and predictable, but he has no motivation to change his situation. Junko eventually used this to manipulate him, as she told him to strive for the unknown of despair and chaos, finally motivating him to strive to actively free himself from the boredom.

In Danganronpa 3, Izuru is shown to be quite silent at times, acting responsively only when he finds it necessary. Instead, he often observes other people and situations silently with no changes in his facial expressions, often without being noticed by other people. He appears to have no interest in humor nor romantic approaches from other people, as he often doesn't even look at other people during those moments, and ignores behavior like this from Junko. He never laughs nor smiles, and generally doesn't change his expressions much. However, while he lacks sympathy for others, he differs from Junko in that he does not enjoy the suffering of others, and thus mostly hurts or kills other people only for self-defense. While he usually has no interest nor care for other people, the only exception is Chiaki due to his past life, as Hajime's attachment to her made him shed tears (though he didn't appear to know why) and she is the only person he subconsciously cared for as shown when he kept her hairpin and mourned for her after the Tragedy.

In Danganronpa Another Episode, Izuru appears completely silent and seemingly unemotional. However, he rips the hard drives from Shirokuma and Kurokuma in a rather aggressive and seemingly annoyed manner, which is even commented on by the Alter Ego Junko. Similarly, he appears unusually bitter and vengeful while talking about Junko during Chapter 0 of the second game, because she used him in the past. It's also possible that he is subconsciously angry because she killed Chiaki.

After the Neo World Program, the person who went in as Izuru started to identify as Hajime. He still expresses boredom to some things, but his personality is mostly like Hajime's, as he has an easier time feeling emotions and is more proactive.

### **Ultimate Talent Development Plan Non-Canon Events:**

During Danganronpa V3's bonus mode Ultimate Talent Development Plan, it's shown that Izuru appears to lack a certain sense of identity, as he states that Izuru Kamukura is what he is called, instead of stating it's who he is. Additionally, when speaking with Kiyotaka Ishimaru, he states he doesn't have a purpose unless someone else gives him one, as he was created to bring hope to people. Furthermore, he doesn't seem to care whether someone will give him a good or an evil purpose in the future, as he is bored with predictable hope.

Generally speaking, he is anti-social and reclusive, to the point that Kokichi Oma begins to claim there are rumors that he's really a ghost. It's also mentioned that Usami has to force him to attend school festivals, and he always tries to finish any activities as quickly as possible to get them over with. He himself has mentioned many times that he doesn't particularly like anything nor do anything in his free time, and he tends to arrive to the school very early because he doesn't have anything else to do. While he does sometimes interact with others without Usami's intervention, it's usually for short periods of time because he gets bored quickly. When Aoi Asahina greets him, for example, he answers back "good morning," but doesn't appear to have any further interest in speaking with her and so drops the conversation there. He can quickly analyze other students and tends to bluntly point out their flaws and reasons behind their actions. He generally doesn't seem to have much concern for others' feelings, with how cold and blunt he is, but he occasionally agrees to do something for others with a bored "very well" and sometimes bluntly asks others if they would prefer him to answer in a certain way. That said, there are a few people he does express more interest in, such as Chiaki Nanami and Kaede Akamatsu. Some other students also point out his flaws, such as Kaede noticing the lack of emotion in his piano playing, K1-B0 telling him that he needs other people and cannot achieve victory nor demonstrate his talents just by himself, and Kaito Momota mentioning that he'll start to think everything is boring if he constantly says they are. During such moments, he usually simply tells the other person they are being boring.

After three years have passed, there seems to be small progress in Izuru, even though he himself claims he doesn't feel any different. He comes to the festival out of his own free will and even gives Usami a back-handed compliment by stating that for once she talked like a teacher, implying that he may have some kind of respect for her. Chiaki also points out that him spending all this time with others instead of all alone must have made some sort of difference. After graduating, he thinks that everything went like he predicted and all the minor variances were just insignificant ripples, and that he can predict what happens next as well. However, he then appears hesitant and doesn't finish his thought process, and instead closes his eyes in silence.

## Talents & Abilities

### Ultimate Hope

As a result of the experiments that were conducted on him, Izuru is said to possess every known talent that has been researched at Hope's Peak Academy, and thus appears to be a superhuman at the very least. For this reason, he was proclaimed to be the Ultimate Hope by the trustees of the Academy themselves, as ultimate talent is humanity's hope in their eyes. This is different from Makoto Naegi, who embodies the title in a more accurate sense, as his unusual optimism and determination is able to rally people to action.

The following is a description of various talents that make-up Izuru's talent of Ultimate hope.

Much like Junko's talent of Super High School Level Analytical Prowess, Izuru's analytical skills are borderline superhuman. He's able to predict things extremely quickly and with a surprising amount of accuracy, shown through his emotionless demeanor and quick reaction to when Junko suddenly tried to kill him in an effort to throw the world into despair. Izuru is also able to analyze/read people from the second he looks at them. This is seen during his second encounter with Nagito, where he quickly deduces Nagito's true character from looking at him, merely judging him as boring afterward.

Izuru possesses heightened physical strength, reflexes, and speed, to the point of being superhuman. This effectively grants him abilities similar to many of the athletic students (such as the Ultimate Gymnast, Akane Owari, or Ultimate Martial Artist, Sakura Ogami), only to a significantly greater degree, as he is able to send Mukuro herself flying with a simple backhand when she tried to attack him after he incapacitated Junko. Izuru was also able to barely dodge a bullet that he wasn't able to see coming until the very last second.

Izuru is able to withhold his presence entirely at will, much like how Yūto Kamishiro is able to with his talent of Super High School Level Secret Agent. Before and during the First Mutual Killing Game, Izuru is able to watch the members of Hope's Peak Academy's Student Council killing each other up close, as he was there with them. Despite this, none of the student council members notice Izuru at all until the very end, where he reveals himself.

Izuru is shown to have an excessive amount of good luck, to the point where it's able to rival Nagito Komaeda's own. Because of this, he is one of the very few people who are safe from the extreme backlashes of Nagito's luck. This is best shown when Izuru encounters Nagito himself, the latter aiming to shoot Junko. When Nagito tries to shoot Izuru, the gun jams due to Izuru’s luck beating out Nagito's own. However, when Izuru shoots Nagito, the bullet hit the latter's Student Handbook instead of killing him.

Izuru also has talents related therapy, neurology, and programming, which were the talents of the creators of the Neo World Program. After Hajime fused with Izuru's identity, he was able to use these skills to awake his comatose friends. He also created the Artificial Intelligence called the World Destroyer, who can fix mental instabilities inside the Neo World Program.

In the non-canonical bonus mode of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Ultimate Talent Development Plan, some examples of Izuru's talents encompassed under his title of Ultimate Hope include: talents related to psychology, negotiation, observation, and storytelling while he lists some of his own abilities related to speech. Several musical-based talents including singing, playing instruments (notably the piano), and songwriting. He also mentions possessing every talent related to fighting, and is capable of noticing when other people are lying.

It's notable that during his event with Kaede in the bonus mode, it's shown that Izuru has a major flaw of lacking "a heart" behind his actions due to his apathetic nature. While technically perfect, he doesn't put any feelings nor thoughts in his performances, as he doesn't have any true motivation to utilize his talents. This can be especially noticeable in artistic activities and can be noticed by those who are skilled and truly passionate about the subject.

## Quotes

* MTU
* TMH

*Monokuma Theater Universe*

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