It's about a group of students who think they've been invited to study at an elite school called Hope's Peak Academy, but have in fact become unwitting pawns in a sinister, deadly game. The series follows 16 high school students locked inside "Hope's Peak Academy," their high school. The students are threatened by an anthropomorphic bear/principal, Monokuma, who gives them only one way to leave the Academy: to murder another student, and not be found guilty in the subsequent trial.