Gundham Tanaka

Gundham Tanaka is one of the characters featured in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair as well as a supporting protagonist. He has the title Ultimate Breeder. (Super High School Level Breeding Club Member).

Why He Rocks

 * 1) He's relentlessly bombastic and not once does he drop his over-the-top acting. When he's not talking like a super villain, he's yelling out his words. He's called Gundham in the dub for a good reason.
 * 2) Incredible character design. He dresses just like an evil overlord like how he claims himself to be.
 * 3) He has some of the best voice acting in the entire Danganronpa series (and given how much great voice acting there is in the franchise, that's saying a lot). Tomokazu Sugita (Japanese)/Chris Tergliafera (English) both did a great job voicing him.
 * 4) He loves animals and vice versa. During his first Free Time event, Hajime learns that Gundham even runs his own blog advising others how to properly care for animals (well, according to him it's a blog dedicated to his magical research, and the Glamour spell he applied to it causes Muggles to merely perceive it as a blog about raising animals, but still). In the Ultimate Talent Development Plan, he bonds with Gonta Gokuhara over this.
 * 5) He has one of the strongest and most sympathetic motives for murder in the entire series. Both him and his victim, Nekomaru Nidai, agreed to fight each other to death in order to avoid the rest of the students from starving to death in the funhouse (and while he denies that this was his motive, he simply tells blatantly false lies in order to push his evil overlord persona, but no one buys it).
 * 6) When Hajime notices he's probably sulking due to his not being invited to go on the beach trip. His free time events make explicit the fact that he has an easier time dealing with animals than people. Implying that beneath his evil overlord persona, Gundham's actually just lonely.

Bad Qualities

 * He, along with the rest of Class 77-B were brainwashed by Junko Enoshima into becoming the Ultimate Despair, a terrorist organization the brought upon the Tragedy.
 * 1) While his over-the-top acting and villain persona is mostly entertaining, it can get kinda old after a while.

Trivia

 * The kanji in Tanaka means "rice field" and "center". Together this may mean "central rice field". The kanji for Gundham use irregular readings, though can roughly mean "snake eye dreams".
 * His name is a reference to the popular Japanese mecha anime, Mobile Suit Gundam, which later spawned an entire long-running series. His execution refers to a particular scene from the original anime as well.
 * His nickname in Danganronpa 3, "Tanaka the Forbidden One", is a direct reference to the Yu-Gi-Oh! card, "Exodia the Forbidden One".

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