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Dangan Ronpa

Holy fuck I've been out of the Dangan Ronpa picture for a bit
So there are two animes?
When do they occur chronologically?

Officially there are Two Anime, The one that is a condensed of the first game, this one which is the Finalle to Everything involving Hope's peak Academy. The Second one, running now, is Alternating episodes between 2 Different Story Arcs at two specific points in the timeline. Future Arc, which will be the Odd Numbered Episdes and just aired as Series Episode #3; Future Arc Episode #2 takes place not long after the events of the Second Game on the Island.

Despair Arc takes place before the "The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History" but it is unknown when it occurs compared to the events of Dangan Ronpa Zero (most likely around the same timeframe though.) Despar Arc will be the Even Numbered Episodes.

Also Future arc just established that not even the 4 there who escaped Hope's Peak (Byakua and Toko are not there) are not safe.
As Asahina Aoi, Swimmer girl was the first murdered during a sleep cycle.
 
As Asahina Aoi, Swimmer girl was the first murdered during a sleep cycle.
Whoa seriously?In,like,two episodes a Hope's Peak survivor is already dead?Even if it was arguably the least important one,that's still suprising.
 
4 survivors? No one ever remembers our local Fortune Teller (weren't there 6? Also what happened to Hagakure did I miss something)
 
Fortune Teller (Hagure), Detective(Kirigiri), Luck/Hope (Naegi), Swimmer (Asahina), Affluent Progeny (Byakua) and Writing Prodigy/Murderous Fiend(Touko/Genocider Jill) were the 6 survivors.

The last 2 are not trapped in the Final Death Game as they were not there to discuss Naegi's Punishment if any for not turning over the Ultimate Despairs after the events of Game 2. Well the ones awake and not in a near brain dead coma.
 
From what I've been hearing it was basically poorly written, that "Shares one scene with the main character then dies immediately" kinda drab
 
If that were true then Wrestler had an equal chance of dying that episode, as well as Detective.

Considering the Future arc is Dealing with a SAW 3/4 Situation (successor missing the point and just going for the kill) it looks like it could go any way.
Did the Farmer have a scene with Naegi before he got poisoned from having his Forbidden action of "Witnessing violence" occur?
 
By God I've never been angrier at a first episode than the first future arc episode.
 
It's completely missing the levity and the moments of relaxiation that made the games enjoyable, tbh.

And the second episode just cut off the last enjoyable relationship that it had going for them.
 
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FakeangeL said:
It's completely missing the levity and the moments of relaxiation that made the games enjoyable, tbh.

I'm not too bothered by this. I was kind of expecting that to be the case.
 
If you look at the situation, there is no room for Levity. This is the last chance for Junko's people to get revenge and continue spreading her Path of Despair. These final Junko Supporters have the chance to cut the heart out of everything done to stop them. There is no room for Levity in the Future Arc.

Despair Arc there is room for it as it is a leadup. The closer it gets to The "Biggest, Most Tragic Event in Human History", Class 77's Manipulation, THe suicide of the Middle School and what would lead to Dangan Ronpa 1 the less room for Levity there can be.
 
If there is non-stop darkness, then there is no room to care for the characters.

Even Berserk is not as relentless with grim darkness as this anime is.

So no, I'm not the weird one here.
Yeah that just sounds not fun, I gotta care for the characters to feel the effect of them dying idk
 
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I've never watched a show like this
One that made me not wanna memorize names.
 
If there is non-stop darkness, then there is no room to care for the characters.

Even Berserk is not as relentless with grim darkness as this anime is.

So no, I'm not the weird one here.
If you read the novels after playing the games. You would understand as to why. I still think you have a weird opinion and thats fine.

This conflict is much more personal to naegi and i enjoy it just for that. Feel free to voice any other thoughts.
 
I don't give a flying fuck to external material, if they are absolutely required for me to care, not even understand, just care, to what is happening on the screen, there has been a massive failure in storytelling.
 
This is also expecting you to have Seen the first Anime and/or played the second game and have come in with prior knowledge of all but the newer members of the Future Foundation.

The game IMO did not translate well to the 13 episode First anime as it, like here for the Future arc, shortened the time to learn and care about the characters between the murders. Extending it to 26 might have worked better, adding an episode between Monokuma's forcing of the next killing so you could learn about the characters. Extending the info gathering on the murders would have helped a bit as well.
 
I don't give a flying fuck to external material, if they are absolutely required for me to care, not even understand, just care, to what is happening on the screen, there has been a massive failure in storytelling.
That whole sentence was rather disturbing to read for a multitude of reasons.
Hm yeah. I'm kindly stepping out of this.

I will say this.
DR is not one for exemplorary writing.
Neither dr 1 or 2 were amazing in story writing.
You are looking in the wrong place and i believe you just dont care for the dr series at all. . I've read the backstory of each member to appreciate future arc. Thats what it matters to me.
So drop the anime or talk about dr1 or dr2 or actually talk about dr3 and provide a healthy discussion

More productive contribution to my favorite series:
Future arc: who do you think is the traitor?
Is it possible to have an accomplice to the traitor?
Despair arc: each ROD member had a reason and to the 4 first member might be tied to the twilight case. What was izuru's reason? He seems to come after the twilight case in the timeline.


Could be cause of chiaki?
 
Okay, I will put in very simple terms what DR1 and 2 did well that Future Arc failed miserably.

They had a few minutes to introduce every in the cast to the main protagonist and to show how their dynamic would play off.

This is completely skipped over in DR3 for the sake of rushing to the first death while after having the first act completely bogged down on exposition.

Just because I did not like something you liked, doesn't mean you will bully me away from discuss it.
 
I acknowledge you did say those things FakeangeL, however your anger garbled it. This has been the most concise on your dislikes with the end of the Hope's Peak DR Storyline.
 
Guys,guys,let's stop arguing and start talking about how stupid farmer boy is
 
No shit I just saw episode two of the future arc and I'm sorry I ever shittalked farmer boy.
Let's talk about how stupid everyone is now
EDIT:Just saw the first despair arc episode and I cried a fountain for Chiaki
I can't stop crying
Feelssadman
 
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It's completely missing the levity and the moments of relaxiation that made the games enjoyable, tbh.

And the second episode just cut off the last enjoyable relationship that it had going for them.
Yeah, I'd agree with this so far, tho hoping for more time to get attached to characters as they're been whittled down in numbers. But didn't have much of a reason to love or miss either of the two dead future foundation members, and Asahina's death was so clearly signposted, it just felt like a wasted opportunity to really tug on my heartstrings. Should have saved it for a few more episodes in at least.

One of my main concerns when this was announced as an anime was it wouldn't have the luxury of time that a visual novel does just to mess around with brief character interactions and non-essential scenes that get you more invested in the characters quirks. And its looks set to be the case going by these first couple of eps. Fingers crossed tho.

I'd also argue that the moments of levity are clearly supposed to come from the Despair side, at least this early into the series. Maybe once Despair side gets more messed up, and Future side has fewer characters to share screen time with we'll get a couple more moments of goofyness.

I don't give a flying fuck to external material, if they are absolutely required for me to care, not even understand, just care, to what is happening on the screen, there has been a massive failure in storytelling.

Also also also also, with Future arc characters popping up on the prequel side, I wouldn't be surprised if the aim is to retroactively get you attached to a character, having just seen them die a few episodes in the future. You are watching the despair episodes as well arent you?

The game IMO did not translate well to the 13 episode First anime as it, like here for the Future arc, shortened the time to learn and care about the characters between the murders. Extending it to 26 might have worked better, adding an episode between Monokuma's forcing of the next killing so you could learn about the characters. Extending the info gathering on the murders would have helped a bit as well.

Yeah I agree with most of this, tho to be fair, we havent had ANY info gathering on who the murderer is have we?
I'm sure they'll start investigating soon now they've had they're first murder post-introduction to the rules.

I will say this.
DR is not one for exemplorary writing.
Neither dr 1 or 2 were amazing in story writing.
You are looking in the wrong place and i believe you just dont care for the dr series at all. . I've read the backstory of each member to appreciate future arc. Thats what it matters to me.
So drop the anime or talk about dr1 or dr2 or actually talk about dr3 and provide a healthy discussion

I've got to say, I think everything you've said here is wrong haha. The games have great stories, theyre just unabashedly over the top. Also not sure how you've read the complete backstories of the Future Foundation members, this is the first time we've been introduced to any of them. (Not including 2 who popped up briefly in DR G, which I'm wouldnt expect any english speakers to have read). And it seems the point FakeangeL is trying to make is that if you have to have read all the surrounding material in order to care about the fate of boxer guy, or wheelchair girl, thats a flaw of the anime series itself.

More productive contribution to my favorite series:
Future arc: who do you think is the traitor?
Is it possible to have an accomplice to the traitor?
Despair arc: each ROD member had a reason and to the 4 first member might be tied to the twilight case. What was izuru's reason? He seems to come after the twilight case in the timeline.

Could be cause of chiaki?

Personally, 'who is the traitor' mysteries never seem to interest me all that much - I din't care about the ongoing 'who's the traitor' thing in SDR2, and I don't really here yet either, likely since character development and killing games rules have been so rushed so far. That said I have a half baked theory on who it could be, but i'll post it after the next episode ifnishes tomorrow. As for the despair arc, I think it was mentioned in SDR2 that the reason Izuru is in despair is because he basically has every possible talent, and so he doesnt really care about anything since there is no real challenge for him in life and also he considers himself as above everyone else for this reason.


So far my fave character is Seiko the chemist. I'm really interested in the dynamic she has with the Blacksmith and Confectioner - why do they consider her a traitor? I gots to know. Also, that thing she does with her eye in the first episode! And just her general look, I feel like she's the most danganronpa-y character there along with Bandai Namco the farmer or whatever he was called (RIP)
 
I've got to say, I think everything you've said here is wrong haha. The games have great stories, theyre just unabashedly over the top. Also not sure how you've read the complete backstories of the Future Foundation members, this is the first time we've been introduced to any of them. (Not including 2 who popped up briefly in DR G, which I'm wouldnt expect any english speakers to have read). And it seems the point FakeangeL is trying to make is that if you have to have read all the surrounding material in order to care about the fate of boxer guy, or wheelchair girl, thats a flaw of the anime series itself.
Fair opinion.

The point he is trying to make is valid. his approach is poor and more importantly anime adaptions are not gonna be amazing and should take it as such.
 
Fair opinion.

The point he is trying to make is valid. his approach is poor and more importantly anime adaptions are not gonna be amazing and should take it as such.


The anime adaption could and should be amazing though, especially since its what we're getting in lieu of a final game to finish off the trilogy. And this isn't an anime adaptation, its an original story which the creators specifically said they thought an anime would be a better way of telling as opposed to another game.
 
Could and should, to some it is not as you can see. Either way i am enjoying with the knowledge i have about every single character in future arc. I do need despair arc to prove my thoughts on Future arc. so its a healthy pace
 
This episode was REALLY GOOD, personally. I think that
Makoto actually explaining himself and Munakata saying his counter argument was really needed so that this whole "hey everyone, let's hate Makoto" party didn't linger for a few more episodes. Good job Kodaka.

And Aoi is back so that's another plus in my book.
i said i would never post in the offtopic threads here but oops
 
This episode was REALLY GOOD, personally. I think that
Makoto actually explaining himself and Munakata saying his counter argument was really needed so that this whole "hey everyone, let's hate Makoto" party didn't linger for a few more episodes. Good job Kodaka.

And Aoi is back so that's another plus in my book.
i said i would never post in the offtopic threads here but oops

That was a heartbreaker, making us think Aoi had bought it and instead it was Gozo. Whoever the Traitor is,really knows what they are doing to mess with the minds of both us fans watching and the FF Members.

Flipping to the Despair side, episode 2 set a better range of time as Gangster Sis is alive. Well, for one episode.


Also, calling it now: the death of Chiaki, the Ultimate Gamer, will be one of the final flags to signal the Tragedy. Guessing as she is the Studen Council Rep, it will be when the Student Council is put through the Killing Game she bites it, as only the Student Council President of the time survives.
 
*shakes head* No discussion on the anime (Death flags went up early in Episode 5) or guesses on the New Storyline coming for Dangan Ronpa 3 involving Prisoners and having 0 relation to anything Hope's Peak.

Well, we know that damn bear Monokuma will be back anyways.
 
I heard that Green Satan showed up.

GIMME DA DEETS.
 
I heard that Green Satan showed up.

GIMME DA DEETS.
The correct name is pickle Hitler
she is the girl in the wheelchair surprise. Or more like, controlling the girl with a computer in a wheelchair using a computer in a wheelchair
 
She's been confirmed for a few episodes now.

What's bigger is ALL the games involving Hope's Peak Characters are now coming to a head in the Future side.

Byakua Togami, Toko Fukawa and Komaru Makoto have appeared, and Haijime is watching Battleships approach Jabberwok Island....but is he still the reformed Haijime or has he fallen back to Izuru Kamakura is the question.

The return of the Original Danganronpa Theme just cements the halfway point.

Also...why did they have to give that character a panty shot! She's under-age even in Japan!
 
but is he still the reformed Haijime or has he fallen back to Izuru Kamakura is the question.
I think its actually Izuru but he's trying to be like Hajime. I think in the end of DR2 Hajime said that he'll return to being Hajime Hinata, but what if that was actually Izuru speaking? Food for thought. :/