精神病 (psychosis)

Why don’t more people talk about Touko Fukawa? Like, she literally is a mentally ill character at her mind’s mercy 24/7 because she was so harshly abused as a child. She was bullied in school and she’s afraid of the dark because she was so maltreated when she was younger. And that trauma was so damaging her brain developed another person in her mind to get away from it. And that alter she developed is such a great cause of even more stress to her to the point that she’s afraid to even sneeze because she doesn’t want to lose herself. She doesn’t want to wake up as herself again and realize that her body fucking murdered someone. Imagine how awful it must feel to not even be able to trust yourself because you’ve been so mistreated and the fear of becoming conscious again and not knowing how you got there, and realizing someone is dead because of your mind. Even her other self is abusive to her. And all she wants is a friend who accepts her in her isolation and Touko Fukawa is the best fucking Danganronpa character, fight me, fight me right fucking now.

"Probably the character most different from the first impression players get. She's based on the literary girl we had since the first planning stages, but I never imagined she would turn into such an intense character. Together with Genocider, she has the most facial expressions in the game. The process for deciding on facial expressions in this game involved first making rough designs for expressions requested by scenario-writer Kodaka, and then, after reading the actual script, adding more expressions in case there aren't enough. There isn't a single character who ended up with less expressions than was originally requested. In other words, I just ignored the project's schedule by adding more expressions for every character. I felt the pressure most in Fukawa's case - she had a lot of expressions to begin with but I still thought there weren't enough. Much like Monobear -- I think ever moreso than him -- she represents this game's worldview. We also have Sawashiro-san's enthusiastic voice acting, and so she's my favorite character in the game.
Fukawa is a unique character all by herself, but with Syo included we managed to make her 10 times more so. When I read the script, I naturally thought it would be incredibly tough to make such a severe personality change using the same character design, so my original plan was to base Syo on Fukawa's design but change it considerably. I fell back to the current transformation after being told having them look too different would be messy since she transforms back and forth so often. We decided to have her hide a weapon on her body from the very beginning, but I first we thought it would be a orthodox one, like a knife. But, once we decided it should be in a holster under her skirt, I found a real scissors holster and her weapon was decided." Komatsuzaki Rui regarding Fukawa/Syo.