Top 10 Saddest Danganronpa Deaths

She never seemed to be present until the team in DR2 got like down to 8. There's something mysterious, ambient, psychedelic about her that makes me ponder about her arc every day. It might be in the end only the tradegy of the character. Her sole purpose in both anime and the game is sacrifice or death and they live up to it. She is like Obi Wan from star wars or mufasa from lion king or Olorin from LOTR. There is something super similar with that certain archetype and Chiaki. She doesn't seem to put up a significant role for herself, but in the end it'd seem like she's one of the most important, main characters in danganronpa. I don't mf get what makes me so sad to even think about her as a character and her part in the story. Every time I see the sprite or art of her I mf cry and I never cry.

In the game, having Chiaki help guide everyone through the trials and giving wisdom is amazing, until she gets executed. The worst part is that she didn't even know she is the one who killed him! And when she found out, she tried to get them to vote her for execution. And in the show, she died trying to save her classmates. Truly the saddest death.

THIS IS PAIN... this death in the anime is definitely in my top 10 saddest executions... and the fact that her classmates had to watch so Junko could spread despair is really despicable... and that Izuru /Hajime/ her closest friend was there at the exit only made this sadder... also watching izuru cry was pretty sad since being emotionless.

Despair arc: Episode 10
Man, I can understand why her death leaded everyone to despair. Her effort to survive, her last talk with Hajime Hinata/Izuru Kamukura... She had a deep character development from a shy girl to the hero who gathered all the class together. I won't be able to talk more :'(
Please Insert the Coin was a sad execution too. I mean, she didn't even do anything wrong and she decided to reveal her identity in order to save others. However, her death in 3. season was a way better!

Kaede, Kaede. Where to start? Despite the pain of her execution, let's start with the motive. She only meant to protect everyone. She only wanted the mastermind dead, and that's all. She didn't mean to hurt anyone innocent, and here's the thing. She didn't even kill anyone! Tsumugi framed her, and she died for nothing! Getting back to the execution, she claims that she only plays piano to make people smile, and she is booed and heckled the entire time. She died hearing people hate her piano playing. She definitely deserved much better.

While Kaede may have had the intention to kill, she still didn't deserve to die in that gruesome way. It's horrible how she believed she was Rantaro's killer when she died. She would never know the truth. She always believed in others, and tried to make the others life better at the academy. So, when they figured out that she "killed" Rantaro, a lot of hope was lost. That was the first person that Shuichi trusted in, after all.

Kaede just wanted to save her friends and she got one of the most brutal deaths. Getting slowly strangled whilst forced to play a piano tune for beginners incorrectly. She even said that she only played to see people smiling and all she saw was the horror on her friend's faces! And to make it worse she (SPOILER) wasn't even the real blackened!

Tragic loss for (whom may have been) my favourite danganronpa protagonist (if she had more screen time). Her execution was very disturbing, even when I had 'accepted' her as the culprit.

I loved how she unified the group together early on, and took a lot of responsibility for their welfare. Her one selfish act was to hide her 'crime' after Rantaro's body was found, because she was scared to lose her friends.

Ok, when I first saw his execution, I didn't find it as sad, but when I played the games it made me want to bawl my eyes out and DIE of sadness. Gundham is one of my favorites, and to see him die just made me sooo sad. He casted a freaking spell to protect his hamsters. What hurt me the most was when the hamsters walked over to him and Gundham smiled at them before he died. Just seeing the hamsters cry and all sad like that made me cry harder. The fact that the spirits of his pets carried him to heaven made me straight up ugly cry. This is why his death was in saddest in my opinion.

Just everything... nobody had a more selfless or noble cause. He didn't deny till the end like these other jamokes... he slowly admitted, all the way until saying flatout "just tie it all together and lets go home Hajime". He awesomely looks at his actions and calmly (well... gundham calmly laughs at deaths face). He, in the face of death calmly saves his beloved hamsters and tries one last time to do what he's done his whole life in his sad Chunibyo head... and it fails. He gets massacred by the very thing he spends his life protecting and gets failed by the very thing he uses to cope. Even still in the end he gets Mufasa'd and I've never cried more in my life

Gundham was a nice guy really, he's my number one favorite... so to see him die really broke my heart. But he was so nice and loyal to his friends he killed Nekomaru who was already kinda dead... this execution is really sad but good... I miss him and he shall be fine in heaven :( /PS. No one is sure what his spell or pandemonium really was, so it may of not of been finished, was for the hamsters, or wasn't even real since their inside the virtual game.../

Gundham never deserved to die. All he was trying to do was save himself and his friends... and he picked Nekomaru because he was already kinda dead. He refused to pick anybody else... that's how loyal and kind he was to his friends. He had no choice or else everybody would've died... he even made sure to protect his hamsters from dying with him. That's how selfless he was. I can't and won't ever forgive Monokuma for putting him and the others in that stupid funhouse.

You see, for her I feel like it's a lot. She's probably lived for the longest time feeling like she's nothing, and her only purpose is to be a tool to Fuyuhiko. She then accidentally hits him during her execution, and she most likely dies thinking she's a failure. Her "job" was to protect Fuyuhiko, and she hurt him. She deserves so much better than what she got, even if she was a blackened.

Peko spent her whole existence trying to protect Fuyuhiko. She lived for him, and died for him. She would do everything for him. When she's execution happened, she saw the only person she truly cared about hurt, by her own hands. She may of even believed she killed him. The one she protected her whole life, and she likely believed she killed him.

Come on! This is one of the rare deaths that has affected me in an anime/game. Her relationship with Fuyuhiko was both surprising and emotional. Also, her execution had a big meaning. She told Monokuma that she will never feel despair since she's just a tool. However, she died by believing that she killed the person who meant her life.

She died a brutal death. What made her execution worse is how she knew she was going to die but she wouldn't give up. What made it worse was how she thought she killed her "duty" the one person she designated her whole life too.

He didn't deserve to die! He was so wholesome! He trusted kokichi. Kokichi is the best character in my opinion, but I hate that kokichi would manipulate him into I murder!

Gonta was a sweet person never deserved his death, he never meant to kill Miu. It's really upsetting that Gonta listened to Kokichi in the first place, when I first saw him I was like "He better survive! He's so adorable!". Now I want forget his execution and move on, but my mind is always glued to him.

Gonta never deserved his death. It was so sad how he was killed by the things he loved, bugs! His execution was so brutal, and he never even had meant to kill Miu, it was so sad how he had gotten such a brutal execution when he likely didn't understand what he was doing in the first place!

I found it sad just because Gonta didn't know what he was doing, he probably didn't know if they died in the game, they died in real life, or he was just trying to save Kokichi because he thought they were actually friends, when in the end, he was just being used.

Honesty felt so bad for Sakura! I know she had Asahina for her as a friend but even with her she probably felt so alone... being forced into this game to protect her family and having to lie knowing she'd eventually break and have to tell the others only to have them hate her. I can't imagine how sad she felt in the end... I know she decided to kill herself to save the others and she forgave them anyway, but the emotional toll she took in her final moments still must've broke her. I cried during her death and honestly again while writing this ;-;

I love other characters as well that have died, like Gundham, Peko, and Kaito/Kokichi, I cried for them as well; Sakura was from the original to die so she will always hold a place it my heart.

In my opinion, I had no more idea about it. She died caring for her friends! She is a noble and loving woman who is really loyal aside from her scary-looking. I hate it when she died so early, and the part that made it even worse is that her death is not an execution nor being killed, but she committed suicide just for her friends to be safe and stop killing each other anymore!

Sakura was likely the most noble of every character in the series. Rather then killing someone to save herself, she committed suicide. She was in pain, because two of her friends attacked her, and despite that, she still saved them ANYWAY. She died smiling, with no sign of blood, when the body is discovered. Respect.

Sakura is a icon maybe not my favorite character but a icon. She was hurt by two of her friends that she wanted to have a respectful chat with. What made her death worse is how Aoi wanted to make everyone pay for "killing" her

Teruteru is honestly my favorite character. I can't seem to stop loving him. No matter how hard I try, I can't help but cry over his death.
Thinking about it makes me shiver. The poor guy got burnt alive! The fact that Monokuma treats Teru like a meaningless piece of food is what is so ironic, but what hurts the most.
He didn't even get to know ehat happened to his mother. That's all he was fighting for; his mother. Even though he's a pervert, we all appreciate a mamas boy, right?

I related to his motive. Not really the "saving" part, but the part about seeing his mother. I am very close to my family, especially my mom. If I was put in his situation, I too, would would have been worried by that.

I wouldn't say the saddest, but I agree, it was kinda sad.

I was considering playing this series, but after learning about this poor boy, I couldn't bring myself to. I cried for almost an hour. I love otokonokos. In my eyes, they are paragons of purity and happiness. The idea that someone could brutally murder someone so sweet an innocent sickens me. It was like watching someone beat a cute little puppy to death. My only way of coping was reading about the scrapped "Alternate End" where everyone survives, and pretending like that ending happened. I don't even want to know about the other games, as I fear I may experience this pain all over again. The only way I'm touching this series is if there's an entry where it's revealed that no one ever actually died in the series. Given what I've heard of the 3rd game's ending, that could very well be a possibility. I'm sure it would make the fans angry though, as it essentially removes the stakes of the whole series. Maybe have multiple endings that are all canon, and that ending be one of them.

Chihiro was bullied, likely his entire life for having looking like a girl. He dressed like a girl, so he would no longer be bullied. When Monokuma threatened to reveal their secrets if no one killed, Chihuro accepted that, and was prepared. When he shared with one of his closest friends that he was ready, Mondo freaked out, and killed him because he didn't want his own secret revealed. At least Mondo has the respect to put him in the girls bathroom, and leave him with his secrets. However, Byakuya tampered with his body, tying him up, and leaving him there. As well, as blaming Genocide Jack, which would confuse his classmates even more. His reasonings? To make it more INTERESTING .

One reason why I felt so much emotion for Chihiro was because he "changed". I originally noticed that Chihiro seemed different, but I didn't put much thought into it. Once I learned that he had disguised himself as a girl to avoid being bullied made me so sad. It was even more upsetting when he got killed, I was hoping for him to survive Danganronpa and have a good life after it was over. But of course they always take the best characters away.

I relate in a lot of ways to Chihiro, we were both bullied for being too feminine for a guy and we both try to find ways to be stronger and improve. I likes him because of Alter Ego also because he just wanted to get everyone out safely. The death of him and Alter Ego was memorable and part of the biggest twists in the whole series. Poor boy, he deserved more.

Even though he did some pretty bad stuff in V3 he still didn't deserve to die like this.
It broke my heart when I heard that he died. He was my favorite character. I can't even move on from his death.

My favorite overall character. He just wanted t save everyone. I like those childish characters, so that might be a reason why I love him s much. When he died, nobody cared. I'm sure if he and miu met in the afterlife she would literally say "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" nobody cared about his death. They were like OH NO! Anyway,

Ik he's done lots of terrible things, but his life was terrible. He was implied to be an orphan, and is in love with shuichi, who basically said nobody will ever love him. He just wanted to save everyone. Rip.

Kokichi has done some rotten things in V3. He is a liar, he convinced Gonga to kill Miu, claimed to be the mastermind, and he overall was just plain cruel to a lot of characters. However, when he is shot with the poison arrow, he reveals his plain to Kaito. He saves Kaito as well, when he is shot with a poison arrow by giving him the antidote, rather than using it himself. He tries to make an impossible case, to try and reveal the mastermind, even though he dies trying to. It was a slow, painful death as well. He tries to disguise himself as Kaito, while he pretends to be him, hiding in an exist exsisal. We don't even know Kokichi died until later on.

When Leon killed Sayaka he had reasons to do so. Though if there were another possiblity of him surviving, he could have tried to escape Sayaka and hide out in his room. Though he likely would have been turned on since in the beginning he seemed a bit like an arse. Though it made me very sad once he was killed, and how before he had said he wanted to change his title to 'Ultimate Musician'. His death truly upset me, and I know it also did to others. if I were able to pick a couple of people from Danganronpa to bring back from the dead, he would be in my top 5 list.

I understand why he killed Sayaka. If he just attacked her and left, Sayaka would tell Makoto in the morning what happened and not say that she invited Leon over to kill him. Makoto will believe Sayaka over Leon's testimony and Makoto being the Protagonist, everyone will believe him and then hate Leon.

THIS IS SADDDD, Leon's death is iconic and is very brutal, but the fact that he killed "her" by self defense only makes this sadder "she" tried to frame Makoto by her killing Leon... I refuse to say her name because she tried to pull a Kokichi lie... despicable

Leon is innocent. He was just scared of dying. He really wanted to escape to save his cousin, Kanon. Poor baby boi needs protection.

Mondo's execution made me shiver what he did was terrible and I won't forgive him for what he did but the guy at least felt guilt. He was in stress about how he couldn't be honest and truthful about killing his brother. Therefor, he took his stress out on Chihiro. Now I think his execution was funny. But that doesn't mean he wasn't honorable and shouldn't be respected.

Mondo's death wasn't tragic for many, however, Kiyotaka Ishimaru was heartbroken. Ishimaru trusted Mondo, Mondo being his only friend. Ishimaru was crushed to hear that his friend killed someone and couldn't believe it. He seemed to have a hard time getting over his friend's death until Alter Ego was found.

This execution was pretty gruesome is you look into depth... I mean he got electrocuted so much he was turned into a liquid butter... and eaten by monokuma... pretty harsh... but Chirios death was also sad and unexpected so ready in peace Mondo...

Just got pissed off, and tried to get rid of his anger issue. Mondo's story about Daiya was sad.

I was watching the play-through and I knew he was going to die but I still had to wait for one week before I could mentally process his death and even after that ,I cried .I still like Himufi and Celeste still .I just found it unfair how someone like him could die. I wish that Hiro swapped places with him as it would make sense for Celeste to frame Taka for murder and Taka would be able to escape her trap. I also think that he would have been more useful than Hiro to the group once they escape.

I love Hiro but Taka deserved better.

Combining all the obvious reasons that everyone knows about, yeah, it's totally sad. But when makes it worse for me is, with the exception of Hiro, basically none of the rest of the remaining cast even liked him. He was surrounded by people who didn't like him.

Taka spent so much of his life studying that he never really got to make friends and when he tried, he couldn't. He finally had a friend, Mondo, and he lost him almost immediately! Taka deserved to be happy with lots of friends. He died sad.

The guy has so much potential, went through so much pain and then just died while most of the people that gave him a hard time got to live. Poor guy. Hope he gets to be with Mondo and Chihiro in the afterlife.

She was one of the best characters ever. 1. She was a great mom, Kirumi helped the DV3 group so much, she cooked ACUTAL food for them. And acted like such a kind mom.
2. She was very determined. I was so happy (And worried) when she ran from her execution, I was really hoping she would make it out.
3. It wasn't completely her fault that Ryoma died, he was already depressed so she just helped him cut the string.
I felt so much emotion when Kirumi died, after such a brutal death, she had so much hope when she reached the top of the vine. Then when she got there, it was all just a lie! It broke my heart when she fell and was killed.

I know that kirumi did kill somebody but seriously- did she really have to go through that execution?! she really deserved a lighter one, but of course that has a rare chance of happening, she's a good character after all.

She was best girl

This poor soul is both the Ultimate Lucky and Unlucky student. Although he was the only to trigger the first killing, I still thought perhaps he had set himself up to be killed instead. He was so set on stopping the Killing Game that he would even kill himself and try to take down all the other Ultimate Despairs with him.

His death hit me the hardest, but at least this was all done in the Neo World Program and there's still hope for him.

Nagito was actually good, trying to kill everyone because they were Ultimate despair, and tried to make the Traitor (Chiaki) live because they were the only one who wasn't despair. He was intelligent, and he just took his opinions and truths in the wrong direction. After doing Free Time events, you really feel for him and his trama. I really wished he was there till the end.

I don't freaking know why I loved this psycho but I did. The fact that he never would go as far as to kill himself for hope was to much.

Even though he wasn't the most likeable character, it still seemed sad when I saw his death. His character seemed like he was torn between hope and the truth that he was actually an "unlucky" student. He was one of my favorite characters from DR2.

He sacrificed himself for his friends, that felt like so much. I remember hearing someone mention how just before he pushed the 'self-destruct' button, he had the most 'human look'. His death made me tear up.

Keebo is just best boi.

Our Ultimate Hope Robot.

I think he killed himself because he no longer wished to live with the existence of knowing he could be taken over again at any time. He's never truly free.

My sweet baby... he and Shuichi are my fave boys in the entire series. I'm so upset that he didn't survive, but he was selfless enough to save his friends. I really miss him.

K1B0 or Keebo... this is sad but I mean why did he blow himself up :/ he probably could've just laser cannoned it...? But I'm guessing he did it because he didn't even have a life before this danganronpa... Rest In Peace Keebo

SHE DIDN'T DESERVE TO DIE! She is my second fave V3 character right behind Miu. It makes me tear up that she died, but she died so nobly and humble knowing in heaven that she protected Himiko one last time. She would've definitely survived the killing game and it makes me want to strangle Kiyo... good thing he died and his ghost was presumably killed too. Rest in Peace bastard.

Tenko's whole "degenerate male" thing was pretty annoying but you could tell she was a good person beneath all that. It sucks Himiko didn't realise how good a friend she had until it was too late.

Tenko's death made me cry a lot. I always hated Korekiyo, but him killing Tenko just added fuel to the fire. Tenko deserved better.

I loved her but she died

Rantaro was a character with so much potential. He was interesting and mysterious and even at the end of the main game, we never truly got to know him. We also never got to see him use his perks.

As I understood, he sacrificed himself in the last Killing Game so his other two friends could be saved. That's why he said he wished for this and he had to keep pushing through. For him to be the first to die was absolutely heartbreaking.

Rantaro was one of the characters who had so much potential, if he had survived he probably would have been able to keep calm in many of the situations and help the others out. It was sad how he was the first one to die (in DV3) and it seemed that there was so much more he could have done.

GOD, I LOVE THIS CHARACTER! He was SO GOOD! I miss him sooo much and it makes me really upset that he was the first to die instead of, say, Ryoma. Rantaro had SO much potential and probably would've been a better ally than Kaito (or he would've been a fantastic fourth member to Kaito, Maki, and Shuichi's club). Rest in Peace man.

He shouldn't of been the first! He should of lived knowing who he was!

I see why people dislike Angie, but I love her so much. I knew that she wouldn't survive to the end based off of her personality but that won't stop me from being sad about her death.

Say what you want, but she was one of my favorite characters just because of how interesting she was. So sad she had to die.

She was brainwashed by Junko! She was amazing. It was so ovi when she had a crush on Makoto :> BUT STILL

I don't care what people say about how she was trying to get Kokichi killed... she was such a fun and interesting character. She also figured out Tenko and Angie's murderer (AND THE MASTERMIND) before Shuichi. As somebody who doesn't like Kokichi, I'm proud of her for trying to take one for the team LMAOOO
Besides this, I can't bare to look at her death image. It makes me tear up typing this... just seeing her look of terror, her hands reaching up for her neck trying to save herself, the sweat rolling down her face, the sheer vulnerability and despair that was going on through her head... it really makes me want to cry. I absolutely hate that image whenever I see it. I wish she never died and she could've lived a better life.

Wouldn't call this sad honestly, she tried to get Kokichi killed.