In Island Mode, she mentions that she enjoys horror movies because of all the blood and helpless people. During the second trial, she mentions that she finds a quick desire to kill quite understandable. Mikan's violent and sadistic side is present in her non-despair state, as well, though it is much more hidden. However, before the memory recovery, Mikan was primarily self-effacing for the benefit of others and to reduce conflict after the disease, she is cunning and deceptive in order to preserve herself, even at the cost of the others' lives. Mikan adapts quickly to her environment through altering aspects of her personality to suit what she had projected as their thoughts.
She claims that her motive for murder was simply love and she doesn't care about anyone or anything but her beloved one, as she believes that her beloved one is the only one who loves and accepts her. During the trial, she turns increasingly unstable and repeatedly asks to be forgiven in a way that resembles a mantra, but also sinisterly denies her charges and angrily pulls her hair. Unlike before, she calls the others out on it - even those who defended her, angrily asking why everyone always hates and bullies her. She is bitter and clearly aware of her maltreatment, blaming other people for her change in personality and transition to Despair. She becomes angry, manipulative and dangerous.
Despite this, she can become very attached to those who treat her kindly, such as Hajime and her beloved, developing a love like and pathological relationship with the latter.ĭuring the Chapter 3, Mikan recovers her memories, causing her to turn back into an Ultimate Despair, with a drastic personality shift. She thinks that people who don't bully her don't care about her existence at all and she is sometimes confused when others are kind to her. She frequently offers to allow others to beat, strip or do other bad things to her so that they won't hate her, as she believes it's better to be treated badly than ignored. Mikan is also ridiculously clumsy and often ends up in embarrassing and revealing poses, leading her to apologize profusely (it is heavily implied that she exaggerates her clumsiness on purpose to gain sympathy or attention).
Her fragile personality makes her an easy target for Hiyoko Saionji's cruelty. She is very skilled at reading people's faces, but she overanalyzes them and is quick to conclude that she is disliked by those around her. She constantly worries about bothering, boring, or offending others, even going as far to ask Hajime Hinata whether it would be alright to remember his name during her introduction. She is easily intimidated, cries easily, apologizes a lot, and stutters over words. Mikan suffers from extremely low self-esteem as a result of severe abuse and bullying. With the other awakened Remnants of Despair, Mikan decides to atone for her sins as the former member of Ultimate Despair. Mikan later awakens from her coma and together with her classmates helps the Future Foundation in stopping Ryota Mitarai from brainwashing the world with his Hope Video. The illusory Mikan appeared in the 30-minutes long OVA titled Super Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of the World as a part of Nagito Komaeda's world. However, due to this happening in the Neo World Program, her physical body remained in a comatose state following the end of the simulation. After she confessed that she had murdered for the sake of “ her beloved”, Monokuma dragged her to her execution. She was eventually apprehended by the Future Foundation and put into the Neo World Program for rehabilitation.Īfter catching Despair Disease in Chapter 3 and regaining her school memories in Danganronpa 2, Mikan set up a plan to murder Ibuki Mioda, who also contracted Despair Disease, but ended up murdering both Ibuki and Hiyoko Saionji after the latter witnessed her attempt to murder Ibuki. Among the members of the Remnants of Despair, excluding Izuru Kamukura, she is the first to fall into despair after being brainwashed by Junko Enoshima and becoming a part of Ultimate Despair.įollowing the fall of Hope's Peak and the beginning of The Tragedy, Mikan joined the rest of Ultimate Despair in spreading chaos across the ruined world. In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy, Mikan is a student of Class 77-B enrolled in Hope's Peak Academy with the other Remnants of Despair.