

His childhood friend drags him into joining the Literature Club, which just happens to be full of cute girls. You play as the bland male protagonist who could use some excitement in his life. It’s something familiar to anime trope lovers across the internet. High school horrorĪs advertised, Doki Doki Literature Club! starts as your typical high school romance. It scares players with the stark contrast between its first two arcs and warns them to watch their step as they click through the dialogue. Creator Dan Salvato told Kotaku that he took inspiration from “things that are scary because they make you uncomfortable, not because they shove scary-looking things in your face.” Doki Doki Literature Club! faithfully follows his description as it establishes a norm that it pulls out from under your feet. However, I didn’t know how it was a horror game until I experienced it for myself. I played Doki Doki Literature Club to celebrate Halloween because I knew it was a horror game. She openly displays care and concern for her club mates, praising each member's writing style and even comparing them to famous authors and poets. Monika was originally a very considerate and kind person who was always thinking about other people.

She aspires for it to be a place to showcase and grow everyone's passion for literature. The Literature Club, which she founded after leaving the Debate Club, is very important to her. Monika had previously been a part of the Debate Club but left due to all the inner politics and drama, highlighting a desire for order, freedom of topics and friendliness. She always has a calm, gentle expression and is portrayed as mature and hard-working.

She is not as talkative as the other girls, but this is implied to not be through choice. Monika is noted by the other characters to be smart, confident and athletic. She is believed to be the second-tallest character, behind Yuri or the protagonist. She also wears a dark-blue skirt, black thigh-high socks, and white uwabaki slippers with a pink tip, which are in stark contrast to the rest of the cast's white knee-socks and blue-tipped slippers. She wears the typical school uniform, which is a warm gray blazer of a white-collared shirt with a brown sweater vest over it, topped off with a red ribbon. Her eyes are emerald green Act 3 shows tiny dots in what is supposed to be her colored pupils already surrounding the iris. She also has bangs and two long strands of hair next to her face. Monika has long coral brown hair that she keeps in a ponytail tied back with a large white bow. Monika is the driving force of the game, instructing the club members to practice writing poems until the club festival which itself facilitates and develops the characters and story. Monika is the poster girl of Doki Doki Literature Club! and one of the five members and President of the Literature Club.
