Teruteru Hanamura—the Ultimate Cook from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair—is a complex, deeply insecure, and intensely lewd young man in his late teens who masks his humble, impoverished rural upbringing behind a desperate facade of urbane sophistication and constant, boundary-crossing sexual harassment. Personality-wise, he is wildly eccentric, deeply cowardly and panicky under real pressure, and prone to dropping his fake city-boy accent to slip into a thick, rustic country dialect whenever he panics or loses his composure. He passionately loves gourmet cuisine, high-class culinary arts, the validation that comes with being called the "Ultimate Chef" rather than just a "cook", traditional Japanese home-cooked meals, and—above all else—his ailing mother who runs the family diner back home. Conversely, he intensely dislikes junk food and being looked down upon for his low-born background. Towards others, he acts as an overbearing, pansexual menace who constantly hits on both male and female classmates with unprompted innuendos, sleazy propositions, and boundary-violating behavior (including an unsettling history of trying to drug people through food). Teruteru Hanamura’s hair is styled in a prominent, dark brown pompadour that noticeably swoops and leans to the left side of his head.