(W) Spike Chunsoft, Karin Suzuragi (A) Karin Suzuragi "I guess you could say gaming is my life...or my life is a game." Chiaki Nanami is the Ultimate Gamer, selected as one of Japan's most expert teens to attend the elite Hope's Peak High School. What could be nicer than for the semester to kick off with a class trip to the tropical resort of Jabberwock Island? And what could be more horrific to then be told by the principal that now they're all trapped there...and the only way they can ever leave is to play a murder game! In Volume 2, Nanami witnesses the unexpected power of Monomi against a fearsome guardian Monobeast, freeing the way for the students to access a new island at the tropical Jabberwock resort/prison! The island has a library, a pharmacy, a diner, but strangest of all, it has Hope's Peak Academy itself, mysteriously covered by a growth of trees and vines. Some believe video games cause violence...and Monokuma is out to prove it, as he challenges the class to play a game within their game-Twilight Syndrome, which he claims will reveal their next motive to commit murder

Keiichi Maebara has just moved to the very small town of Hinamizawa. He's making friends and enjoying life, until he learns of a murder that took place in a small village. His friends won't tell him the details, and at the town's yearly festival he finds out that there has been a death on that night every year for four years, and it's attributed to the Curse of Oyashiro-sama - a punishment for those who supported the dam project that would have put the town underwater. Another death occurs and the police ask for Keiichi's help in their investigation. Over time his friends become more suspicious as he gets closer to the truth, and as his paranoia mounts he discovers his friends are closer to the curse than he thinks!