"YOUR FIRST DAY OF CLASS WILL BE ... MURDER!!! Welcome to Hope's Peak Academy, which selects only the elite ... plus one ordinary student, chosen by lottery. Makoto Naegi was that lucky person--or so he thought! When he shows up for class, he finds the students are a bizarre cast of oddballs under the ruthless authority of a robot teddy bear principal, Monokuma. The bear lays down the school rules: the only way out of Hope's Peak is to not only murder another student ... but get away with it, in a tribunal where the survivors cross-examine each other! Provided by publisher.