Teruteru Hanamura

Teruteru Hanamura is one of the main characters from the Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair game.

Teruteru is a student of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B, and a participant of the Killing School Trip. His title is Ultimate Cook.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Teruteru is spared from canon fate. Teruteru is a member of the Heroes Coalition as a staff member.

Appearance
Teruteru is a young man in his early twenties, around 22 at youngest. His virtual avatar in the Neo World Program appeared as his 17-year-old self.

He has a plump body and wears a classic chef outfit. It is composed of a white apron with a red undershirt, a red handkerchief/scarf around his neck. Three silver stars are pinned on the right side of his undershirt. A small chef's hat sits on his head. He has dark brown hair all over that is styled in a pompadour that noticeably leans to the left, and constantly carries around a comb to fix his hair.

Unlike the characters of the first and the second game, Teruteru's eyes are normally two, dark dots or remain closed in the anime fashion. One sprite expression of his comically has his eyes in a style reminiscent of bishounen manga, and thick eyebrows accompanied with a nosebleed.

As the Ultimate Despair, he has red clothes, along with a larger red chef's hat. The scarf around his neck is now yellow. He tends to carry food ingredients on his back.

Personality
Teruteru is very lewd and usually can be seen hitting on anyone near him, male and female alike, often to the point of sexual harassment. Similar to Hifumi Yamada from the previous game, he can react to the slightest innuendo that surfaces in a conversation. However, he goes much further in his behavior than Hifumi, as he is completely fine with touching others without their consent and he's even been known to drug people with his food (like Hajime during the last Free Time Event) and try to take advantage of gullible ones (like trying to trick Sonia into sucking "poison" out of him). This, along with the fact that he very openly speaks about sexual things he's into, makes the others sometimes feel uncomfortable and grossed out around him.

When he is not making innuendos or hitting on someone, Teruteru is shown to be decently friendly and relatively upbeat. He takes great pride in his cooking, insistently telling other people to call him Ultimate Chef instead of Ultimate Cook, as it 'gives off a more urban feeling'. He tries to create an image of a stylish urban person, sometimes even telling lies about his life and acting somewhat arrogant. He is ashamed to talk about his real home in the countryside, even though he loves his mother back at home greatly. He is motivated to work hard to help his sickly mother and make people he cares about happy with his food, though this original goal of his often gets clouded by his desire for fame and fortune. Similarly, he began to focus only on complex and fancy food, even though in reality he deeply loves more simple type of food like the ones his mother made. He also has a tendency to use French terms even when referring to more plain and simple type of foods, such as calling donuts "beignets, bonne femme style", in an attempt to appear more fancy. Nevertheless, he takes cooking very seriously and is angered whenever someone treats ingredients and food in a way he considers offensive. He also has a strong dislike for junk food, openly calling it "shitty".

Though he is one of the more laid-back characters at first, Teruteru turns timider when Monokuma and the Monobeasts appear. He constantly denies that the terrifying things around him are actually happening and dismisses them, while in reality, he is becoming the most afraid and paranoid member of the group.

When extremely agitated, stressed, or angry, Teruteru loses his normal speech pattern and breaks down, yelling angrily in an incomprehensible, country-like dialect, which is extremely difficult for other standard Japanese speakers to understand. In the English version, Teruteru instead switches from standard English to an accent that heavily southern; while it was not difficult for players to comprehend the text as in the Japanese version, it proved quite difficult for the other students to understand him.

According to Kazutaka Kodaka, Teruteru had a few questionable aspects to him in the second game, referring to his sexual behavior, but in Danganronpa 3 those unappealing sides of him don't come out as much after he gets to know the other students. Notably, the aphrodisiacs incident wasn't caused by him, but Hiyoko.

Abilities
True to his title Teruteru is a great cook. As he was raised in a restaurant he was taught to cook at a very young age. His cooking was very well liked by everyone around him and with the assistance of Seiko, he could create concoctions like the doping corn syrup. His cooking is loved by the students.

Trivia

 * "Teruteru" means “radiance” (repeated twice) in Japanese, while "Hanamura" means “village of flowers”.
 * A typo in the opening movie for the PSP version of the Japanese game writes his surname as "Hanamaru". The Vita version corrects this. "Hanamaru" means "circle of flowers".
 * Despite Teruteru stating that he was born in Azabu and raised in southern Aoyama, both of which are notably upscale areas in Tokyo, when he is agitated he speaks with a heavy accent that is not part of Tokyo's standard Japanese dialect. Hiyoko notices this, and happily announces that he's a liar for it.
 * In the English localization, Teruteru's speaks with a heavy country accent when agitated. His accent is reminiscent of the distinctive Cajun accent of Louisiana.


 * Additionally, although it is not considered canon, in Island Mode, Teruteru flirts with Hajime many times:
 * Teruteru and Nekomaru are the only two male characters who acknowledge the trips with Hajime as dates (other than Kazuichi Soda, who jokingly calls them "man-dates").
 * If Hajime suggests exploring on a Military Park date, Teruteru reponds: "Really...? *Sigh* I have no choice... I can’t compete with your curiosity... But in exchange... you need to hold my hand, okay!?"
 * If Hajime suggests going to the haunted house on an Amusement Park date, Teruteru responds: "Hmm... It’s not like I’m scared or anything... But if anything happens, all I have to do is leap into Hajime's strong arms... Ah, if I think about it like that, I guess I can do it. Okay, let's go inside!"
 * If Hajime says "this looks like fun" on an Amusement Park date, Teruteru responds: "When you come to a place like this, all you gotta do is not think about anything and enjoy it to the fullest! Sooo, why don’t you free yourself from the constraints of daily life and show me your birthday suit!?"
 * If Hajime suggests eating popcorn on a Movie Theater date, Teruteru responds: "Of course! Is there even a point to eating popcorn outside of a movie theater!? Especially in the dark, when two people reach into the popcorn bag and their hands brush against each other... That's why popcorn is so important! It's what causes situations like that! Now then, why don't we both go sit in the dark together and do some feeling around for ourselves?"
 * If Hajime suggests taking their clothes off on a beach date, Teruteru responds: "Hmhm... Wow Hajime, how bold of you. Fine then! Show me everything you've got! Just like the day you were born... and then, come leap into my arms...!"
 * Teruteru's execution mimics that of Leon Kuwata from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Both him and Leon were dragged off from the trial by a chain around the neck, then strapped onto a pole in a symbolic fashion.
 * After Chapter 1, the "X" on Teruteru's sign is shaped like the food court symbol of a fork and knife crossing each other, in reference to his Ultimate title.
 * Teruteru screams "AVRIL LAVIGNE!" when cornered in the Class Trial. Avril Lavigne is a Canadian singer/songwriter and actress.
 * During his Panic Talk Action, one of his remarks is "P-PARIS HILTON!" - referring to Paris Whitney Hilton, a female American socialite, actress, and entertainer.
 * In Danganronpa 3 (Despair Arc), he makes reference to Taylor Swift, a singer who has blonde hair much like Paris Hilton.
 * In Danganronpa 3 (Side: Hope), he screams "Justin Bieber!" as Akane runs past him. Justin Bieber is also a Canadian singer and songwriter.


 * Teruteru is referenced in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls by a restaurant named Pig★Boy. The logo shows a pig dressed almost identically to Teruteru, even sporting the same hair. The restaurant itself could be a reference to Teruteru's execution, which is called Tonkatsu no Hanamura in the original Japanese release - since tonkatsu is fried pork cutlets.
 * Teruteru shares his English voice actor, Todd Haberkorn, with Korekiyo Shinguji.
 * Teruteru's Japanese voice actor, Jun Fukuyama, also voiced Tarō Kurosaki in Danganronpa 3 - Despair Arc.