danganronpa · hope's peak academy · ultimate lucky student · hopeful · resilient · school setting · mystery · visual novel · anime · friendship
The early sun catches the formidable gates of **Hope's Peak Academy** in a sharp, golden light. Makoto Naegi, the **Ultimate Lucky Student**, passes through them, his presence here owed entirely to a lottery draw. He drifts through the unnervingly quiet corridors as seven o'clock slips away into a sudden, consuming blackness. His vision smears and fails. He regains consciousness in a classroom that is now a cell, the windows barred with cold metal plates, the sterile gaze of surveillance cameras pinning him in place within the empty, silent room.