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Blue - Events from DanganRonpa: Togami under a reality-altering veil. Canonically dubious.

Purple - Press the triangle button (hover) to hear me ramble more information about the highlighted topic.

Red - Events from the real world and/or events happening in the “real world” metauniverse serving as the audience for the series in V3.

Orange – Canonically-divergent events depending on different factors in Kirigirisou. Individual routes are not explored, but events preceding them may be.

Pink - Events as according to the V3 "canon."

~ – Indicates a general, estimated time period. Usually (but not always) means “give or take a year.”

> – We only know it happened specifically after this time.

< – We only know it happened specifically before this time.

~> – It was sometime after this point, but probably not by long.

~< – It was sometime before this point, but probably not by long.

All student birthdays will be calculated using the following assumptions unless explicitly stated otherwise in the text

1. No student was held back nor skipped a year.
2. All classes follow traditional Japanese class groupings wherein students from April 2nd year 1- April 1st year 2 attend the same class together.
3. Every student attended one year at a regular high school, were scouted during that year, then attended Hope's Peak starting the following year for an additional three years.

I aim toward the middle of age ranges. E.g. I consider 31-33 to be early 30s, 34-36 to be mid 30s, and 37-39 to be late 30s. 30 is not being in your 30s, that is being 30. So if a character is described as being in their late 30s, I will go with 38, with a margin of error of one. If a character is only described as being in their 30s, I will place them at 35 with a margin of error of 4. Fortunately, not too many events are predicated on having an exact number, almost exclusively the birth years are affected by this.

Regarding headshots: all pixel sprites are made by me with the exception of a few vanilla sprites from the games-- though I have edited a lot of them with minor changes. Some designs are non-canonical or based off of limited descriptions given in the light novels. The Togami siblings are completely self-made, but were too recurring to simply replace them with generic NPC faces. Some characters have been changed slightly. I have used Takaaki's beta design because it's literally just him but wearing a beanie, and it helps differentiate him from Kiyotaka aesthetically. Characters like Blue Ink have no canonical appearance, but have appeared in some capacity and are represented as such. We never see Blue Ink, but volume 3 has a picture of a princess skeleton with Borges in the eye, and she was described as Cinderella in the same volume, thus: she is represented by a skull with a tiara and a gold eye. This is a representative image of her character if not an actual depiction. Some designs are taken from (as far as I can tell) official if not canon manga.

Regarding how I will be handling real-world information: I will note the date when a piece of media was published as it is relevant to the timeline. As much as I would love to put the release date and time of each episode of Sonia's Jdramas in the timeline (which I could since I have that information) I have settled only to include the airing schedule so that at least its run period is noted. If a real-world person is canonized as a character in DanganRonpa BY BEING EXPLICITLY MENTIONED (example: I don't doubt that Agatha Christie still wrote that book, but I am not including every editor, publisher, critic, and what have you related to that book's timeline. If Christie isn't mentioned, she's not going in the timeline... unless my caprices demand otherwise.) then only their birth or any other actions mentioned will be recorded. I have opted to completely omit WWII from the timeline outside of the way it directly impacted the story vis-a-vis Japan's canon post-war economic boom. It is canon, and Hitler was referenced indirectly by Hiroyuki, but I don't feel comfortable including something that serious and with ramifications that still affect us to this day as heavily as they do into this timeline about the silly anime murder bear game. It just feels in bad taste AT BEST. Crossover characters' information will be included as fully into the timeline as is possible but only as it relates to themselves and important peripheral characters (example: If we decide that the person that fought Gonta was the actual E. Honda and not just an ambiguous reference, I am not including the entire timeline of every character in Street Fighter). Mary Crane's history was added to the timeline, but Al's wife, Mrs. Chambers, is not included because she does not have a direct bearing on the plot. I'm obviously not going to go into the whole history of, say, New York just because it's mentioned. I'll mention any relevant events if and as they are mentioned. Otherwise, New York existing is only as relevant as it pertains to a given character.

January 17th – Kazuo Tengan is born.

May 6th – Toro Inoue is born.

June 12th – Touya Tsutsumi, future host of the Twin Abilities Research Center Duel Noir, is born.

August 9th – Haiji Touwa is born to Tokuichi Touwa

August 30th – Kariyasu Karasuba, future host of the Museum of Medieval Torture Duel Noir, is born; Shouko is born 3 years earlier.

November 1st – Gunzou Arai, future host of the Goodbye BAR Duel Noir, is born

December 8th – Korisu Kakitsubata is born

Mondo’s dog, Chuck, dies at age 9.

Kazuki Sanada and Kosuke Takaya, students from Supa Chun High School in Hokkaido, go on a school trip to Tokyo where many other banchou have congregated, most likely in the Summer of 2006. The two decide to fight all of them to become the top banchou. On the seventh day on the trip, they run into Daiya and Mondo Oowada in Asakusa. They fight from 7:20 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Kazuki and Kosuke win and Mondo demands a rematch, but Daiya admits defeat and offers to help them whenever they need it.

Between April 2003 and April 2011, late at night on weekdays and midday on weekends:

Ken Harada is killed by Genocider Shou at age 32 at his home's parking lot

Tetsuhiro Honda is killed by Genocider Shou at age 17

Shouji Gaku is killed by Genocider Shou at age 23 in an abandoned factory

Kanno Issei is killed by Genocider Shou at age 14

Takeshi Yoshida is killed by Genocider Shou at age 30

Tarou Komatsuna, Takefumi Gono, Uchida Naohisa, Takeshi Masamune, Yuuto Yumejima, and 26 others are killed by Genocider Shou.

Shikon and Suou Kyuuren are born as twins (in that order), but their father only registers Shikon. The two commit crimes using the other sibling to create an alibi.

Toranosuke Ishimaru may have attended Hope’s Peak as the Super High School Level Manager.

According to DanganRonpa the Manga: 5 students graduated from Hope’s Peak including a nondescript man in a suit, an athletic woman with a medal, a beautiful woman in a dress, a scientific woman, and a man who was most likely the Super High School Level Pilot.

Georges Diva attends Hope’s Peak as the SHSL American Football Player

Kinichi Hagiki attends Hope’s Peak as the SHSL Costume Grand Prix

• One year Kinichi tricked Japan into thinking it was October 31st on October 30th for 3 minutes.

Kumaichi Suzuki attends Hope’s Peak as the SHSL Detective

Puutarou “Aesop” Isoyama attends Hope’s Peak as the SHSL Rugby Player. He has a twin who is in the boxing club, but may not have been the Super High School Level Boxer.

• Puutarou plays a match where he evades 11 tacklers and then promptly dies of a heart defect.

The SHSL Chemist attends Hope’s Peak.

The SHSL Girlfriend, who looks like Yuriko Yoshitaka, attends Hope’s Peak.

The SHSL Jockey attends Hope’s Peak.

The SHSL Surfer attends Hope's Peak.

The SHSL Trainer attends Hope’s Peak.

• The SHSL Trainer probably trains Kumaichi who is probably ridden by the SHSL Jockey.

The SHSL Masseuse, possibly a relative of Sakura Oogami’s, attends Hope’s Peak.

Ted Chikatilo attends Hope's Peak as the Super High School Level Pyrotechnician.

Tsurugi Hitomoshi attends Hope's Peak as the Super High School Level Rock Climber

The SHSL Archer, Discus Thrower, Falconer, Fencer, Judo Master, Marksman, Nailist, Pierrot, Roboticist, Shougi Player, Spear User, Street Fighter, Street Performer, and Yo-yoer attend Hope's Peak.

Sayaka Maizono forms an idol group with Ayaka Haneyama, Satomi Aoba, and two other unnamed girls.

Fuyuhiko's uncle, known as the Overlord of the South, has a final showdown with the detective chasing him which purportedly almost resulted in the end of the world sometime before Fuyuhiko's birth.

Fuyuhiko and Peko are nearly kidnapped but escape into the nearby mountains.

Fuyuhiko picks a fight with the king of the monkeys at the zoo and Peko has to jump in to save him.

Sonia is kidnapped on two separate ocassions by political insurgents.

Novoselic once held a hide-and-seek tournament in the royal library and Sonia nearly died because no one could find her.

Novoselic once tried to ban the sale of popcorn in movie theaters. When there was almost a revolution, the royal family lifted the bans and theaters gave out free, all-you-can-eat popcorn for a while. The incident is documented in local history books.

Celeste claims to have played and won a game of Russian roulette mahjong in the basement of a mansion belonging to a half-insane billionaire. She competed against a fierce old man and a silver-haired boy with the devil's luck.

Celeste claims to have won an underground shogi tournament by randomly placing pieces against a woman dressed as a French maid.

Celeste claims to have participated in a tournament called the King of Liars and won against a duo called the Honest Woman and the Liar Genius.

Around the time of his child's birth, Ryou Ooba loses everything to Celestia Ludenberg and gives up gambling for good.

Between the times of Nekomaru becoming a manager and being scouted by Hope's Peak, he traveled to many towns to coach various sports clubs and teams. Of the athletes he's coached: He led a rugby team of high school delinquents and a baseball club on the verge of being shut down to win the national play-offs. It is rumored he is coaching a famous Japanese pitcher playing in the American leagues. He coached a baseball player who was then scouted for the major leagues while still in middle school. He coached a figure skater who performed six and a half spins. He coached a tennis player who won a match that lasted 36 hours.

During Nekomaru's training, he once met a clan of warrior women for whom forfeiting mid-match was worse than death and would presumably kill themselves instead of forfeiting.

Ibuki once shook a coconut tree and three coconuts fell on her head, nearly killing her.

Mr. Daimon sends Masaru to buy beer for him and beats him when he returns emptyhanded because children can't purchase alcohol.

At some point as a child, Nami Kaizawa accidentally sets her family's mansion on fire, or is blamed for it. The fire happened with Mrs. Kaizawa was no less than 30 years old. Nami leaves home and is presumably adopted, acquiring the surname Kikushima. Mr. Kaizawa is killed in the fire, which mortifies Mrs. Kaizawa into shock and she becomes a shut-in. Nami's twin sister, Naomi, sustains heavy burns and takes care of a dog that she perceives to be a sick brother named Naoki. Naomi reads her mother's diary, and believes she understands the truth of the fire. Naoki's condition gets worse and he pleads for Nami to rejoin them and for Naomi to euthanize him. After Naoki dies, Naomi buries him in the fishtank per what she percieved to be his final wish.

Salvador Yadorigi Fukurou and Taehime Uozumi become partners.

Salvador Yadorigi Fukurou studies ballet as a child.

Yui Samidare receives two love letters. One is from a squirrel-like girl in the handicraft club at her school, and the other was poetic but anonymous.

Rei "Licorne" Mikagami solves the Road Hill House Murder (even though Constance Emily Kent confessed circa 1865) and the Great Lakes Serial Murders.

Mikan slept on public benches overnight on days she didn't want to go home as a kid. Ibuki has screamed in 6 libraries and was promptly banned from each one. Fuyuhiko's dad would take him fishing and gut the fish to make fresh sashimi. Fuyuhiko's mom apparently got really into coconuts one year and had them just rolling all over the floor. Fuyuhiko is nearly killed during fights between his mother and father. A historical biography was written about Fuyuhiko's dad. Fuyuhiko appears to have had negative experiences with people who eat hot dogs at movie theaters. When Natsumi and Fuyuhiko went to amusement parks, she would create minute-specific schedules and drag him around. Fuyuhiko appears to have had a traumatic incident with mascots. One time Natsumi tried to kill Fuyuhiko because he said she looked like a doll. Fuyuhiko would climb trees to avoid lectures from his parents, and they would often get the dogs out and shake the tree to get him down; Peko has stated to have climbed the trees when Fuyuhiko couldn't climb down himself. Fuyuhiko had a great-grandfather in the navy whom he was on good terms with. Fuyuhiko has a cousin who shows him her weapons but won't let him touch them. When Sonia wanted to be alone, she would sneak out of the castle to hide in, presumably, the National Library. When Sonia was very little, she visited an amusement park on royal business. Nagito has hurt his neck three times and back seven times from watching movies from the first row. Kazuichi's mom once found and burned all of his porn mags.

The Nevermind royal family takes up residence in their castle in Novoselic.

May – Yasutoki Houjou sieges Kyoto in the Biggest, Worst Incident in the History of Japan, perfectly conquering Japan, according to Byakuya Togami.

>The Azuma Kagami is compiled. This is related to the Togami Family somehow.

December

1st –Daimyo Shingen Takeda is born.

Oogami Clan Dojo is established

Tokushige Touwa, the first chairman of Touwa Group, is born around this time

Descendants of Shingen Takeda maintain power until the end of WWII. They quash uprisings and are known as the Takeda Headhunters.

~< At an unknown time, Tokushige Touwa marries Tomoko Touwa.

Touwa Ironworks opens around this time. Touwa Group is established sometime afterward.

Tokushige Touwa dies around this time having established over 620 businesses.

The elite missionary school Yui and Kyouko attend is established around this time.

150 year old feud between the Oboro family and the Sawameki Nature Club starts somewhere around here.

June

29th/30th – Four year old Francis Saville Kent is ostensibly murdered by his 16 year old sister Constance Emily Kent.