Throughout the story, they are very suspicious of Ryoko and firmly believe that she is related to the incident. The brothers mention they have a very good intuition and they firmly believe in it. In its aftermath, they decide to seek revenge for the Student Council. Due to their synchronization skills they were able to protect the Student Council before the Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy. While hiding their true talent, the brothers all posed as a single Ultimate Bodyguard. Because few people are aware of their true talent, this allows the brothers to give off an illusion of being 'superhuman' and 'immortal'-pretending to be in several places at once, when in reality each brother is acting separately from the others. The brothers' true talent, which allows the octuplets to expertly communicate and synchronize with each other-giving the impression that they are one individual, and not eight separate people. Skills and Abilities Super High School Level Multiple Birth Siblings Because of this talent, they tend to claim to other people that they are immortal, as they can carry on each other's work if one or more of them is wounded. Their true talent, "Multiple Birth Siblings", refer to their efficient utilization of their mutual understanding, leading to extremely coordinated teamwork. They also describe themselves as the type who won't go easy on someone just because they're a woman. They are very vengeful, cruel and eager to harm their "prey", with a relentless predator-like personality.
The brothers are determined to have revenge for the Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy and blame themselves for their failure to protect the student council, though it seems they're mostly just bitter because they didn't get a chance to utilize their talent as their protector. Ryoko Otonashi describes them as egotistical and they're easily humiliated if they feel their talent is trampled on. Each of the brothers are shown to be talented and have pride in their name. They all wear pitch-black school uniforms.Ĭontrary to his looks, Isshiki is a cautious and vigilant person, which are mentioned to be traits he was not born with, but ones that are necessary for his job. When they speak, their mouths hardly move. They have small and thin, almost blank lizard-like eyes, along with long tongues sticking out of their mouths. They all also have pitch-black hair dropping down to their shoulders.Īll of them are characterized by lizard-like features and a skilled fighting style, their long limbs used with very swift movements. They all have very pale skin, their faces resembling white masks. The Madarai brothers are very tall young men with long, slender bodies, with a resemblance to a snake stretching upwards. 4.3 Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the World Vanquisher.3.1 Super High School Level Multiple Birth Siblings.Though not all of them were seen getting killed directly, all of the brothers were murdered by Mukuro Ikusaba. They are portrayed as cautious and vigilant, looking for revenge for themselves and the student council. They weren't even targets for The Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy, which they just consider humiliating, because they were not given a chance to utilize their talent. They are mentioned to be members of Hope's Peak Academy's Student Council, however, it seems they are mostly just considered the council's bodyguards. With superhuman synchronization skills, they pose as one, their true shared talent being the Super High School Level Multiple Birth Siblings (超高校級の「多胎児」 chō kōkō kyū no “tataiji”). Though originally assumed to be just one man named Isshiki Madarai (斑井 一式) with the title Ultimate Bodyguard (超高校級の「ボディーガード」 chō kōkō kyū no “bodīgādo”), it is later revealed that there is actually eight identical siblings including Isshiki, Nisshiki (二式), Misshiki (三式), Yosshiki (四式), Sasshiki (五式), Rosshiki (六式), Shisshiki (七式) and Yasshiki (八式). The Madarai Brothers (斑井兄弟') are characters featured in Danganronpa Zero.