“ | Unless you're willing to go to extremes, it's impossible to change a normal person into a perfect genius. So naturally, they went to extremes. Seriously, it's scary how determined the researchers were to mess with the human brain *that* much. | „ |
~ Junko Enoshima about the Izuru Kamukura Project that Hope's Peak Academy performed. |
Hope's Peak Academy are major antagonists in the Danganronpa franchise.
History[]
Hope's Peak Academy was founded by Izuru Kamukura, a gifted individual who wished to cultivate talent and spread hope which would act as the message that Hope's Peak Academy spread across the world.
Eventually, The Steering Committee would take control of Hope's Peak and the original intentions of its founder would be warped into forcing people to grow into talented individuals.
The Steering Committee would start the Izuru Kamukura Project, an human experimentation project in order to turn a normal person into the pinnacle of talent. In order to get "willing" test subjects and funding, they would open up the Reserve Course, a way for non-talented people to enrol at the Academy in exchange for a fee.
Aside from the Izuru Kamukura Project, Hope's Peak would also do various other negligent deeds such as ignoring abusive parents and choosing to isolate those children in a class for "troublemakers" and allowing criminals to enrol like the heir to the Kuzuryu Clan, a member of the Fenrir mercenary group and Junko Enoshima, even if they were warned about being dangerous.
When Junko Enoshima had the first killing take place in Hope's Peak Academy with footage of Izuru Kamukura seemingly being the one to have killed the rest, Hope's Peak Academy opted to try and hide all evidence of the event happening, allowing Junko's murder spree to go uninvestigated. However, Junko had already sent the evidence out to the Reserve Course students and the culprit was made with their enrolment fee which caused them to riot against the academy.
In the end, the staff of Hope's Peak Academy would be killed by the Ultimate Despair during the Tragedy with Hope's Peak itself acting as a shelter for Class 78 and ending up acting as the location for the Mutual Killing Game.
Trivia[]
- The design of Hope's Peak Academy bears a strong resemblance to the University of Tokyo which is located in Bunkyo, Tokyo.
- The design of Monokuma's evil right eye would be taken from the Hope's Peak Academy insignia by Junko as seen in Danganronpa 3: Despair Side.