Mukuro Ikusaba

**Mukuro Ikusaba** (戦刃 むくろ *Ikusaba Mukuro*) is one of the characters in*Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc*, as well as a secondary antagonist in the Hope's Peak Academy Saga. She is the older twin sister of Junko Enoshima.

Mukuro is a student from Class 78th enrolled in Hope's Peak Academy as the **UltimateSoldier** (超高校級の「軍人」*chō kōkō kyū no “gunjin.” lit.* Super High School Level Soldier). She is also an important member of **Ultimate Despair**, with her and her sister going by the name "Despair Sisters". However, they are not equals, as Mukuro is simply a very close follower and often a bodyguard for Junko.

During the Killing School Life, Mukuro is the mysterious sixteenth student, as she disguised herself as her twin sister. However, right after the first murder occurred, she was punished and murdered by Monokuma (under Junko's control) after breaking the school rules.

Mukuro has a more prominent role in the prequel novel, *Danganronpa/Zero*, and the alternate ending novel, *Danganronpa IF*. She appears as a cameo in the 30-minutes long OVA, *Super Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of the World* as a part of Nagito Komaeda's imagination world.

Mukuro appeared in *Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School* - *Despair Arc* as one of the Despair Sisters along with Junko. She also returns in the spinoff manga, *Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer*as the source of inspiration behind Takumi Hijirihara's Killer Killer persona, and in the form of numerous clones of her.

## Apperance

Mukuro is a young woman who is around 19 years old. (around 17 years in *Danganronpa 3 - Despair Arc*).[2]

She and Junko share the same, average height. Her slim figure has been criticized by Monokuma in Danganronpa IF; he has specifically stated that she was "too skinny" (though it should be noted Junko tends to heavily exaggerate or even make up Mukuro's flaws). Despite being a soldier, her body does not appear particularly muscular, which could be explained by the fact that some parts of her talent have been shown to be more like a supernatural state. She is similar in appearance to her sister Junko, but there are some notable differences. Mukuro's eyes are less round, more slanted, and are also naturally blue; unlike her sister's. Her bust is also much smaller. She has short, layered, bobbed black hair and freckles across the bridge of her nose. She has a Fenrir tattoo on her right hand, which she covers up with foundation when disguised as Junko.

However, in later designs of her after *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc,*Mukuro's eye color is changed to purple and her hair is a little longer, reaching down to about shoulder length.

## Personality

Being the Ultimate Soldier, Mukuro is ruthless and can kill and harm others with no remorse. She seems completely indifferent towards other people, unless it's her sister Junko or her crush Makoto. Unlike her sister, she doesn't take any sadistic pleasure in hurting or killing people, but at the same time she show little concern for other people's suffering.

Despite being an incredible soldier, Mukuro is very out-of-touch with her own emotions. She has a notable lack of social-skills, acting emotionless and indifferent towards most people. She tends to have a cold, serious expression and a reserved personality. Despite this, she appears to portray her sister's very different personality rather well. She herself admits that she lacks skill in negotiating with others and planning tactics in advance, despite her renown as an excellent soldier. While she is completely fearless as a soldier, she is afraid of certain emotional situations.

Mukuro has been verbally and physically abused by her sister for years. She only knows how to take orders from Junko and obeys her even if she doesn't agree with her. Mukuro craves her sister's praise and acceptance and will do nearly anything to get it. Because of this, Mukuro allows herself to be constantly abused by Junko and takes her insults to heart. Mukuro believes she is the only one who truly understands her sister and she wants to make her happy, so she stays by Junko's side even when she insults her. She also finds pleasure in Junko's attempts to harm or even kill her, knowing that her sister will experience tremendous despair if she succeeds. She is sometimes portrayed even disturbingly obsessed with her sister, with her blushing and in a state of ecstasy.

According to her voice actress, Mukuro usually gives off a feminine, frail and even cute impression when in her sister's company, described with "a masochist who loves her little sister" kind of vibe. However, during fighting, her stern and grim personality comes out, and it's like she becomes a different person.

In *Danganronpa IF*, thanks to Makoto, Mukuro begins to have more interest in the world around her. While she is protective of Makoto and cares about him, she still doesn't show that much interest in other students. She decides to protect Makoto's hope and betrays Junko, though she is still very much motivated by the idea of causing her sister to feel despair. In the end, she doesn't know how to feel or what kind of future she would have.

## Talent

### Ultimate Soldier

Mukuro showed a huge interest in the military since childhood. In elementary school, she won a survival game tournament and began writing for military magazines.
She has received military training from a very young age and is highly proficient in both a variety of firearms and hand-to-hand combat. When pushed to the limit she can enter a kind of battle trance, where her speed and reflexes increase to high-superhuman levels.

When she was young she joined the elite mercenary group Fenrir and never received a single injury on the battlefield.

She managed to hold her own against Peko Pekoyama the Ultimate Swordswoman, the Madarai brothers and Sakura Ogami the Ultimate Martial Artist in *Danganronpa IF*, while she was able to defeat the first two, she was unable to defeat the latter in hand-to-hand combat.

Despite being the Ultimate Soldier, Mukuro has terrible negotiation skills, which she admits.

## Free Time

### Presents

Obtained from the MonoMono Machine.

* Rations (#11)
* Kitty Hairpin (#16)
* Rose In Vitro (#46)
* Golden Space Shuttle (#61)

### Choices

During free time conversations, the player will occasionally be given a choice on how to respond to something that is said. These are the 'right' choices.

* Hang out

### Skills

These will aid you, usually during Class Trials.

* Trance - Even low combos will increase the tempo. Effective during the Bullet Time Battle. Costs 4 SP.
* Charisma - Increases Influence Gauge recovery when right answers are chosen. Effective during the class Trial. Costs 5 SP.

## Quotes

*Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc* (English)

**Prologue:**

* "Hiii! I'm Junko Enoshima. Charmed, I'm sure!"
* "It's totally normal these days to photoshop the crap out of cover photos If you're surpised by that, you'd be totaly blown away by a certain dangerous little diva of ours... They make the eyes and junk super big, and tweak the skin so it looks all ceramic and porcelain."

**Chapter 1:**

* "If you wanted to go with someone, you should've just said something!"
* "Hey! Stop screwing around, all of you! Are you still asleep or something? We're prisoners here! We could all just die any second!"
* "It's like the little goth lolita said. Without something like that, we're just gonna self-destruct."
* "Well, whatever. What you're into is your business. I don't judge!"
* "Have you gone completely insane? Adapt to my new life here? Do you have any idea what you're saying?"
* "Okay, then. Maybe we should start by all just...talking. Maybe if we all just talk about what we saw, that'l help get everything out of our system. Besides, I think we're all super curious, right?"
* "Shut the hell up! Say whatever you want, I'm not gonna be part of this!"
* "You're the one being selfish! Kill whoever you want, it's got nothing to do with me!"
* "H-Huh? This wasn't...supposed to... Why...me...?"

**Free Time Events:**

* "I \*mean\* I hope you're not expecting anything from me. Gotta keep my virtue safe, ya know?"
* "I figured. You're not that kinda guy, right? Looking at you, I get a total "omega male" vibe. But still, they say even the tamest guy can turn into a wild animal. So I figured I'd say it anyway."
* "Anyway, so we all get together, but the whole group's full of dumbasses! Keeping creepos like that away is like a full-time job, ya know?"
* "I'll find the perfect girl for you as soon as we get outta here! Ehehe! I hope you're as excited as I am!"
* "God, I am seriously freaking bored...! I'm gonna die... I'm gonna die from being so bored! I'm infected! I've got terminal boredom disease! I just hate being bored. Hate it! I never noticed how much I hate it. But once we got trapped in here, it finally hit me!"
* "Seriously, if I had to choose between staying here and being homeless again, gimme the street!"
* "Oh, I don't mean literally. I mean people who attack the weak, who want to hurt you. The world's full of animals like that, ya know? But I think having to live like that made me way stronger."
* "But anyway, are you saying you were worried about me? Gotta say, Makoto... that's kinda cute. You almost killed me with cuteness here!"
* "Dreams are meant to change as you grow up, right? Depending on where you're at—kindergarten, elementary school, junior high, high school... But I've had the same dream since I was a little kid, and I've been rushing toward it ever since. So I've never really had to think all that hard about my dreams. That's what I used to think. But if it doesn't change, your possibilities can't grow, right? That's how new opportunities are born. And up until now, I never did that. I never let my dreams grow... All I saw was that one dream. I put everything I had into that one narrow little world... I feel like there's so much more I could be doing that I'm not, and I don't like that feeling... So I think I'm going to start looking for it... Is it childish of me to think like that? Am I just being a baby?"
* "Getting lost can be a good thing! As long as you're looking for it, maybe that's enough to be happy..."

**TMNT X Pokemon:**

* "I won't allow you to hurt Enoshima without going through me first."
* "Understood. I won't pursue the enemy."
* "Target acquired."
* "No reason why. Just do and die."
* "You won't escape from me!"

## TMNT X Pokemon

Mukuro is the perfect soldier of the Foot. She follows everything Shredder tells her to without fail. Mukuro wants to destroy the Turtles for the sake of Shredder

## Trivia

* "Mukuro" (as 躯) means “corpse” while the kanji for "Ikusaba" (戦刃) mean “war blade” or, sometimes, “battlefield”.
* In the demo version of *Danganronpa*, Mukuro's death at the hands of Monokuma does not occur, and so she is also present in the class trial.
* There is a considerable amount of foreshadowing that Mukuro was a soldier, while disguised as Junko. One of her favorite free time gifts is field rations and she described her early life as “living in a warzone”.
* She was killed by what Monokuma called the Spears of Gungnir. In Norse mythology, the Spear of Gungnir was the weapon Odin used to slay the monstrous wolf Fenrir, whose name is also the name of the mercenary group Mukuro was affiliated with.
* Her profile in *Danganronpa IF*states that since childhood, she always had a special interest in mystery stories, and is completely engrossed by them.
* Mukuro and her twin sister Junko are both voiced by Megumi Toyoguchi in the Japanese version and Amanda Céline Miller (who also voices Toko, Shirokuma and Seiko Kimura) in the English version.
* Mukuro's death in *Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc*is similar to Chiaki Nanami's death in *Despair Arc,* being suddenly impaled by spears. Both deaths also double as acts of betrayal from those who were closest to them (Junko, in Mukuro's case, and Chisa, in Chiaki's case).
* Apparently, Mukuro knows how to sing, as Junko made her sing Tsubasa o Kudasai during The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy.
* Mukuro is one of the characters who has shown romantic feelings towards one of her family members, the others being Kanon Nakajima and Korekiyo Shinguji.