

Disillusioned with the concept of hope and despair, Shuichi chooses neither, convincing the audience to allow him and his classmates to abstain from voting and form a Suicide Pact to end Danganronpa once and for all with a deliberately disappointing ending. He is then forced to choose whether to end the killing game by escaping but sacrifice two friends to partake in the next Danganronpa in the name of hope, or stay in the academy and prolong the killing game in the name of despair. His real identity is unknown and it's implied that everyone involved in the killing game was a fan of the franchise that signed up for it of their own will Shuichi included, who was a fan of the series' Ultimate Detective characters but wanted to experience the thrill of making his own unsolvable murder. In the final chapter, he discovers that the killing game they are a part of is in fact a reality TV show based on the Danganronpa franchise itself and that the "Ultimate Detective" Shuichi Saihara is a fake identity implanted into his personality and memory for the sake of the show. Solving the murder was apparently just luck, however, and Shuichi has trouble considering himself worthy of his Ultimate title.Īfter Kaede dies in Chapter 1, he takes the role of the protagonist and is determined to uncover the truth of the killing game, forming a close friendship Kaito Momota and Maki Harukawa in the process. While his uncle's office normally only dealt with things like infidelity investigations, there came a day where Shuichi happened to solve a murder before the police could, earning him the title Ultimate Detective. Voiced By: Megumi Hayashibara (Japanese), Grant George (English)Ī boy who learned how to investigate crimes by assisting his uncle with his private eye business.
