Hello everyone, firstly I would like to say thank you for your patience, as it took me longer than I expected as it was very difficult to finalize a cast out of these amazing submissions you all have sent me. I considered each one, and I switched a countless amount of characters in and out of the cast throughout the whole week (and two days) that I have been constructing the cast. I would defiantly use any of these characters any time, but unfortunately I had to shrink it down to 19 out of 35 total submissions. Secondly, I did not expect this amount of submissions, especially towards the end of the month as more started to be sent in which was really shocking but delightful to see how much of you have sparked interest in my SYOC.

Now, for the cast. As I said before, this was a really hard decision, and I thank everyone for all your hard work in creating these characters. There may be a few creator's that got more than one character accepted, but please believe me that I am not biased by any user and solely picked the character's over who I thought were the most interesting or would fit with the story/with the rest of the cast the best. BUT WAIT! Before you read the cast below, I have one more thing to say. If you DO NOT see your character or one of your character's below, but you would still like them to make an appearance, I have decided that I would let character's that were submitted but didn't make the cast to become side characters in bonus AU chapters that I will write after each canon chapter to justify the deceased characters of the chapter. PM me if you would like your character to be part of it, and it will be guaranteed that I use them, no matter how many. Sorry for the extended introduction, haha, but now that I've mentioned everything here is the official cast of Danganronpa: Bloody Academia! (UPDATE: The author of Kenji Kishimoto, the Ultimate Baker has decided to change their character to Yuuji Kishimoto, in order to cease confusion between the two throughout the story.)

Kusanagi:

Tsurugi Matsumoto {M} Ultimate Screenwriter (tacocat1215)

Bankei Ban {F} Ultimate Lucky Student (ComplicatedYetSimple)

Hatsume Chiyome {F} Ultimate Ninja Fangirl (NSPunny)

"Horitsu" {M} Ultimate Journalist (oddlyillregular)

Suzuka Sawane {F} Ultimate Child Star (5 dollar footlong)

Ichika Yamazaki {F} Ultimate Mercenary (WolfieRed23)

Yato No Kagami:

Lai Mingzhu {F} Ultimate Saleswoman (irwegwert)

Kenji Edogawa {M} Ultimate Assistant Detective (NSPunny)

Touma Bushida {M} Ultimate Clockmaker (MorbidGinger)

Inuzuka Hoshi {M} Ultimate Horror Novelist (Bluestar076)

Naomi Kagamine {F} Ultimate Event Planner (Ahn Jihlo)

Yasakani No Magatama:

Kazuki Nobukatsu {M} Ultimate Figurehead (emberblitz321)

Itami Koe {F} Ultimate Lamenter (The Freelance Police Rookie)

Kiko Takara {F} Ultimate Child Caregiver (Insomaniac98338)

Fuyuko Ito {F} Ultimate Composer (WolfieRed23)

Yuuji Kishimoto {M} Ultimate Baker (Shamelles4110)

Hiroo Takamori {M} Ultimate Cadet (NSPunny)

Minato Adachi {M} Ultimate Referencer (Silver4700)

Rizu Ota {F} Ultimate Fencer (irwegwert)

That's the cast! Also, before I finish off, I have two more additional notes. Firstly, you may have noticed there is no "Unidentified" character listed in the final cast, but don't worry, this is only because I decided to keep the "Unidentified' character a mystery, which will make the cast a bit more weary of one and other considering they don't know what to expect by "Unidentified". Secondly, I have decided that I will be posting around one chapter per month, which may be extended or shortened depending on the amount of time it takes to write or if I am rather busy at the time. Once again thank you to all the submitters, I really appreciate it and to those whose characters have been accepted, congratulations and I can't wait to begin this fic. Bye for now!