Danganronpa/Ships

= Chizo =  Chizo is the friend ship between Chisa Yukizome and Juzo Sakakura.

Canon
Chisa is a close friend of Juzo's. Juzo was frequently lumped together with Chisa, due to her closeness with Kyosuke when they were classmates. Although the two are great friends, Juzo and Chisa are the exact opposites of each other. Juzo is constantly annoyed by Chisa's carefree nature, while Chisa is easily angered by Juzo's violent side. Still the two learn to put up with each other, and become very close during their time together at Hope's Peak Academy, having immense faith and trust in wach other. In Juzo's official profile, it's stated that he is often misunderstood, but Chisa understands his true intentions.

Juzo and Chisa also work together under Kyosuke, and were partnered up for several jobs, such as investigating Hope's Peak Academy's dark nature. During this time, Juzo became the head of the school's security, while Chisa became an assistant teacher. The two worked together and shared their findings with one another, using their teamwork to uncover the school's secrets. He constantly risked his life for her, principally when he get one of the Trustee's ID Cards, even if he had stated that he could lose his job for that if someone discovered him.

He becomes frustrated every time Chisa mentions her admiration and love for Kyosuke, and is jealous of her and Kyosuke because he believes the duo no longer need him. Juzo is also jealous of Chisa, since he has romantic feelings for Kyosuke, who seems to return Chisa's affection for him instead. Due to being closeted and wanting his friends to be happy, Juzo doesn't tell them about these feelings.

Chisa seems vaguely aware of Juzo's feelings for Kyosuke, as she tells him that she won't let him have Kyosuke.

Despite their closeness, he was unable to tell she was corrupted by despair. He was shown to be regretful of her death and made the decision to avenge her alongside Kyosuke.

Fanon
Some people liked to ship Chisa and Juzo as het due the fact that they are friends and their opposite personalities, but when it was revealed that Juzo is gay, many people abandoned the romantic ship and started shipping them as friends. In AO3 the ship has 20+ gen works and only 2 romantic works.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Variations

 * Class 74th Trio refers to the ship between the two and Kyosuke Munakata

= Hope Bagels =  Hope Bagels is the cargo ship between Nagito Komaeda and bagels.

Canon
Nagito has never been seen eating or mentioning bagels in canon.

Quotes
"Hi, I'm Nagito Komaeda. My talent is Ultimate Bullshit and I love bagels."

- Nagito's English Voice Actor, Bryce Papenbrook

Fanon
The ship as well as a meme emerged as a result of NicoB's apparently out-of-nowhere joke, which eventually got promoted into a running gag. Inspired by Aoi Asahina's love for doughnuts, NicoB decided that bagels will be Nagito's favorite food, which he brought up several times in his gameplays.

According to Nagito in NicoB's series, bagels represent hope. Their opposite are waffles, which represent despair. Nagito's love for bagels is brought up not only in NicoB's gameplays and reaction videos featuring the character, but also his fan made series: Council of Voices. For example, in its third episode, Nagito's suggestion for a Bagel theme for the VoiceComing Dance wins and is executed until Monokuma interrupts it with his Despair Blits song (and waffles). In Episode 6, while talking to Byakuya Togami, Nagito once again compares hope to bagels, and despair to waffles.

It's also believed that the ship originates from Nagito's death. He has a spear going through him, making him look like a bagel, with one hole in the center.

The meme became very popular over the time. In fact, it appears to be the most popular Danganronpa meme. It's sometimes acknowledged and used by the other Danganronpa Let's Players. It was so popular that it was even acknowledged by Nagito's English voice actor, Bryce Papenbrook, and the studio behind the Danganronpa games, Spike Chunsoft.

The name of the ship comes from Nagito often comparing bagels to hope in NicoB's Council of Voices series. It also mixes this cargoship with Nagito's canon obsession with hope.

Fandom
DEVIANTART

TUMBLR

=Seesaw Effect=  Seesaw Effect is the cargoship between Korekiyo Shinguji and a seesaw.

Canon
Korekiyo used a "seesaw effect" by jumping on a loose floorboard in order to impale a hidden under-a-cage Tenko Chabashira on a sickle. He did so despite having already killed Angie Yonaga whose murder lacked enough evidence to point to the culprit. As a result, the term "seesaw effect" was brought up numerous times during the third Class Trial.

Fanon
Because Korekiyo insisted on using the seesaw trick, people have started making so many memes about it, the natural outcome was for people to jokingly ship him with seesaws. The memes and joke ship were fueled by the fact that he got greedy for another kill (due to his goal of making 100 friends for his Sister), even though he would have been uncaught due to lack of proper final evidence had he stopped at his first murder. The fans jokingly say that he got greedy for another kill because he didn't want the trick that he prepared go to waste as well as because of his love for seesaws.

The memes are also spread through some YouTubers' gameplays, with possibly the most famous one being NicoB who is known for his funny playthroughs and even is responsible for creating some Danganronpa memes. The ship may also serve as a sort of coping mechanism for a rather dark and villainous third case of Danganronpa V3.

The memes tend to mock Korekiyo for still going with the seesaw trick and killing Tenko, which made him way more suspicious, instead of stopping at killing Angie, in which case there wouldn't be enough evidence to point him as her killer. Meanwhile, fan fictions tend to explain his irrationality with a childish love for seesaws. Some even take the love much further, making him sexually attracted to seesaws.

Due to its silly yet endearing nature, his "love" for seesaws is generally considered one of the best fanon aspects of Korekiyo's character. This can be especially the case for those who want to make up for his darker or more unsympathetic qualities. This often leads to the creation of humorous videos on YouTube, among other forms of memes.

It remains as one of the most recognized memes from its parent game, as well as one of the most popular memes in Danganronpa's fandom in general. However, in spite of its popularity, genuinely shipping Korekiyo with a seesaw is rare, as per all the other cargoships in the series. As such, it loses in popularity to plenty of Korekiyo's other ships, especially such major ones as Shinnaga. Nonetheless, it's still preferred over Kiyo's canon incest relationship with his Sister.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

YOUTUBE
 * korekiyo seesaw memes tag on YouTube

=Yasuburger =  Yasuburger is the cargo ship between Yasuhiro Hagakure and his hamburger.

Canon
Towards the beginning of Chapter 4 in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, five of the remaining seven students gather in the dining hall for breakfast. At one point, Yasuhiro boldly predicts that no more murders will occur inside of the school, which leads to Aoi Asahina questioning the accuracy of his fortune-telling skills. Yasuhiro angrily replies that his fortune-telling is not like "some occult thing" and that clairvoyance should not be put in the same category as cattle mutilation. Kyoko Kirigiri then clarifies that Yasuhiro is referring to the urban legend about aliens abducting cows, but he denies it as just an urban legend, and claims that he had witnessed it himself.

Yasuhiro then beings to tell the others an allegedly true story about a night when he ordered a hamburger from a take-out place he had never been to before, which claimed that their patties were 100% all beef. While on his way home, a beam of light suddenly appeared, and locked onto the hamburger, which began floating in mid-air. The hamburger then began to dissemble as it floated, with one part vanishing completely, while the rest of it fell back into his hand. Yasuhiro had deducted that this meant the burger couldn't have been 100% beef, and that it must have had something else mixed in, like pork. He then went back into the building and confronted the manager, who admitted that the burger really wasn't 100% beef, and that ground pork had been mixed in as well.

Yasuhiro finally concludes his story, asking the others if they now understand the difference between clairvoyance and cattle mutilation. However, Makoto Naegi says that he had gotten lost halfway through his story, while Aoi remarks to Yasuhiro that he stinks of stupidity.

Quotes
"It means, the burger wasn't 100% beef! It must've had some pork or something mixed in... Something like seventy percent pork and thirty percent beef, would be my guess."

- Yasuhiro speculating the contents of the meat in his hamburger.

Fanon
Many players were dumbfounded by the sheer absurdity of Yasuhiro's story, largely due to Yasuhiro's nonchalant reaction to the situation, as he was less concerned over what was an alleged alien abduction, and was more upset about being lied to that his hamburger wasn't all beef. Some consider it to be one of the most outrageous and hilarious moments of the series. It spawned multiple memes, and of course, a ship involving Yasuhiro and the hamburger that he had purchased was created as well.

The ship is one of the more popular cargo ships in the fandom, largely due to the memorability of the scene that inspired it. Although, it is not nearly as popular as other cargo ships like Hinata x Orange Juice or Hope Bagels. It is also worth noting that Yasuhiro wasn't fond of his hamburger after he learned the patties didn't contain all beef.