Karen Kisaragi

Karen Kisaragi (如月 かれん Kisaragi Karen) is a character featured in Danganronpa/Zero and Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Side: Despair and a participant in The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy.

Karen was the Student Council Secretary and was the one who started the Student Council Killing Game after she read the motive that Junko Enoshima presented to her. Karen was killed in the process.

Appearance
Karen has short brown hair, which falls just above her shoulders and is slightly curled. She has blue-green eyes and wears glasses. She wears the standard uniform of Hope's Peak Academy.

Personality
While she only appeared for a short time in Danganronpa 3, it is implied that Karen cares for her mother deeply while being somewhat weak-willed or easily manipulated, as she was driven to start the Student Council Killing Game after she found out something bad happened to her mother.

Episode 07 - The Biggest, Most Atrocious Incident in Hope's Peak High School's History
Karen was one of the student council members called by Junko to participate in her new killing game. Karen was initially as reluctant as any of the council members, but she became the first to fall victim to Junko's "motivation"; when she looked in her file, she found a photograph showing something horrible happening to her mother.

Overcome with fear, Karen seized a katana and quickly impaled one of her friends, becoming the first student council member to kill. Crying incoherently about her mother's fate, she furiously tried to attack Soshun Murasame, only to miss and get her katana lodged in a desk.

Karen later appeared in the hallways, covered in blood and wielding a chainsaw. She smiled evilly at another member breaking down over the bodies of his latest victims before presumably murdering him in turn. She eventually returned to the classroom where the carnage began, where she was killed by one of the other survivors - possibly the bespectacled brown-haired boy, as he was seen holding her chainsaw after becoming the apparent sole survivor of the killing game.