Cover art for the first Japanese Blu-ray box, featuring the characters Makoto Naegi (left) and Kyoko Kirigiri (right).
As 'Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy Side: Despair'. And locked the title in metadata to 'Danganronpa 3: Future Arc', and then I. I assume by detection issues, you mean when using the download. An original video animation titled Super Danganronpa 2.5, set between Danganronpa 2 and Future Arc, was released with limited editions of Danganronpa V3:.
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School is a two-part anime television series produced by Lerche. The series is part of Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa franchise and serves as a conclusion to the 'Hope's Peak Academy' storyline featured in the video games Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. The series is divided into two parts that aired simultaneously: Future Arc, which aired in Japan between July 11, 2016 and September 26, 2016, and Despair Arc, which aired between July 14, 2016 and September 22, 2016,[1][2] followed by a final episode, Hope Arc, which aired on September 29, 2016.[3] An original video animation titled Super Danganronpa 2.5, set between Danganronpa 2 and Future Arc, was released with limited editions of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony on January 12, 2017.[4]
Future Arc, which takes place after the events of Danganronpa 2, follows Makoto Naegi as he and members of the Future Foundation are thrown into a deadly killing game by Monokuma, while Despair Arc, which takes place prior to the events of the first game, explains what happened to Hajime Hinata and the cast of Danganronpa 2 prior to The Tragedy that changed the world.[5] For Future Arc, the opening theme is 'Dead or Lie' by Maon Kurosaki and Trustrick,[6] while the ending theme is 'Recall the End' by Trustrick.[7] For Despair Arc, the opening theme is 'Kami-iro Awase' (カミイロアワセ, lit.'Matching the Color of God') by Binaria,[8] while the ending theme is 'Zettai Kibō Birthday' (絶対希望バースデー, lit. 'Ultimate Hope Birthday') by Megumi Ogata.[2] The ending theme for Hope Arc is 'ever free' by hide with Spread Beaver. The series are licensed in North America by Funimation, who simulcast them in North America, the United Kingdom, and Ireland as they aired and streamed English dubs from August 10, 2016.[9][10]
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- Danganronpa 3 has no real theme unless you count “anime was a mistake” and without that central theme, it leaves Danganronpa 3 as the weakest and least impactful part of the Hope’s Peak storyline.
- Danganronpa 3 Dispair Arc; Danganronpa 3 Future Arc; Danganronpa 3 Hope Arc; If your watching the anime and playing the games (or watching lets plays of them): Danganronpa: Trigger happy havoc (game)/Danganronpa the animation (anime) Both the first game and anime are pretty much identical so you can sorta choose which one you want.
- Oct 19, 2016 - download. Unlike most anime series, Danganronpa 3 wraps everything up in a nice little bow, serving as essentially the series finale for the “Hope's. As far as the Hope Arc is concerned, it served its purpose as a finale.
Episode list[edit]
Future Arc[edit]
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 'Third Time's the Charm' | July 11, 2016 | |
Following the events of Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Makoto Naegi, the Ultimate Hope, and his fellow former classmates, Kyoko Kirigiri, Aoi Asahina, and Yasuhiro Hagakure, are brought together to an abandoned overseas branch of Hope's Peak Academy where the top members of the Future Foundation are assembled. Upon their arrival, vice-chairman Kyosuke Munakata places Makoto under arrest, accusing him of treason for harboring the Remnants of Despair; those who continued the evil desires of the Ultimate Despair, Junko Enoshima, following her death. Just then, the facility is attacked by a missile, cutting off all exits and trapping Yasuhiro outside, before a round of sleeping gas knocks everyone else unconscious. When they wake up, the members are greeted by the all-too-familiar visage of Monokuma, who announces that a new mutual killing game has begun before revealing that housekeeper Chisa Yukizome has already become the first victim. | |||
2 | 'Hang the Witch' | July 18, 2016 | |
Monokuma reveals the rules of his new 'Monokuma Hunter' game, in which each of the participants carry a bangle which, following a time limit, will put everyone to sleep for a short period of time. During this time, a designated attacker will awaken among them and kill one of the other participants, meaning they must try to determine who the true attacker is and kill them before they kill everyone else. Additionally, if anyone performs a personalised forbidden action, then they will be injected with a deadly poison. Therapist Miaya Gekkogahara attempts to hack Monokuma with her Usami program, but Monokuma hacks her right back and remodels Usami into Monomi. When boxer Juzo Sakakura starts acting violent against animator Ryota Mitarai, farmer Daisaku Bandai ends up triggering his forbidden action, witnessing violence by participants, and is killed by the poison in his bangle. As Kyosuke and Juzo accuse Makoto of being the traitor and attempt to kill him, wrestler Great Gozu stands against them and escapes with Makoto, Aoi, and Miaya. However, after everyone falls asleep following the second time limit, Makoto wakes up to discover Aoi apparently impaled with a knife. | |||
3 | 'Cruel Violence and Hollow Words' | July 25, 2016 | |
Makoto is relieved to find Aoi's alleged stabbing was only a childish prank, only to discover the attacker had actually killed Great Gozu instead. Hoping to prevent any further killings, Makoto uses the intercom to communicate with the other participants, explaining how he tried to help the Remnants of Despair while also revealing his forbidden action, running in the halls, in order to win their trust. Meanwhile, pharmacist Seiko Kimura accuses sweetmaker Ruruka Ando of being the traitor, taking some drugs to transform herself and pursue Ruruka and blacksmith Sonosuke Izayoi. While Juzo goes after Kyoko, who is with Ryota and chairman Kazuo Tengan, Kyosuke, believing Makoto lacks the despair to make his words credible, attacks Makoto. | |||
4 | 'Who is a Liar' | August 1, 2016 | |
As Kyoko ends up spraining her ankle after Ryota lands on her, Kazuo manages to knock out Juzo when he lets his guard down. Meanwhile, Kyosuke manages to capture Makoto, announcing his intention to execute him in order to lure out the attacker. He explains to Makoto that he suspects the traitor may choose to end the killing game prematurely, frame one of the dead leaders for their crimes, and manipulate Makoto into destroying the Future Foundation from the inside, feeling everyone including himself should die in order to prevent this. While Kazuo confronts Kyosuke, helping Aoi and Miaya to escape with Makoto, Kyoko and Ryota, along with scoutman Koichi Kizakura, look over the corpses, pondering about the attacker's motives. Following a fierce battle, both Kyosuke and Kazuo end up falling off a walkway, and Kazuo is impaled on a piece of debris below. Meanwhile, as Juzo goes after Makoto and Aoi, it is revealed that Miaya is actually a robot being controlled by the former leader of the Warriors of Hope, Monaca Towa. | |||
5 | 'Dreams of Distant Days' | August 8, 2016 | |
Confronted by Sonosuke and Ruruka, Seiko recalls how her friendship with Ruruka became soured over the years. Just as Ruruka is cornered, she deduces Seiko's forbidden action, letting someone step on her shadow. Meanwhile, Kazuo, whose forbidden action forces him to answer questions truthfully, tells Kyosuke the identity of the attacker, taking his eye out before he kills him. When Yasuhiro, stuck outside of the building following the initial attack, is attacked by a helicopter, the explosion reveals a hidden secret entrance which Sonosuke discovers. Rejecting Ruruka's offer to kill Kyosuke in exchange for her life, Seiko takes more drugs and destroys all the lights in the room, but her pursuit is stopped when she gets knocked out by Miaya's weapons. Regretting that she could not save anyone, Seiko is killed by the attacker during the third time limit. | |||
6 | 'No Man is an Island' | August 15, 2016 | |
After looking over Great Gozu's body, Kyoko's group discover that, along with Seiko, Sonosuke has also been killed with a knife to the chest, soon coming across a frightened Ruruka. Meanwhile, Makoto realises that the game's rules do not actually prohibit anyone from escaping, managing to get in contact with fellow classmate Byakuya Togami to tell them about Monokuma's killing game. Byakuya informs Makoto that, along with the fact the killing game is not being broadcast like Monokuma said, Kyosuke has declared an assault on Jabberwock Island, where the recovered Remnants of Despair are. Hiding the fact that the real Miaya Gekkogahara is actually dead, Byakuya, believing Monaca to be the mastermind, calls upon the assistance of Makoto's sister Komaru and former classmate Toko Fukawa in Towa City to search for her, while he himself sets off to rescue the captured Future Foundation members. Meanwhile, a fleet of battleships rapidly approach Jabberwock Island, where Hajime Hinata -- who is still carrying the red eye of Izuru Kamukura -- indifferently awaits. | |||
7 | 'Ultra Despair Girls' | August 22, 2016 | |
Receiving help from the former Warriors of Hope, Komaru and Toko, along with the latter's psychotic alter-ego Genocider Sho, make their way to Monaca's hideout. Upon confronting Monaca, the girls are surprised to discover that Monaca has suddenly given up on despair. Revealing that she has had no involvement in the killing game outside of replacing Miaya with a robot and faking Aoi's death for her own amusement, Monaca leaves behind some disturbing words about Makoto before launching herself into space to become a NEET. Afterwards, Komaru contacts Makoto and Aoi through the Miaya robot, relaying Monaca's warning that one of the original survivors of Hope's Peak Academy's school of mutual killing will allegedly die because of Makoto. | |||
8 | 'Who Killed Cock Robin?' | August 29, 2016 | |
As Byakuya arrives at the facility, managing to take out the helicopter that was pursuing Yasuhiro, the Miaya robot switches to automatic control and goes up against Kyosuke. Meanwhile, as Juzo prepares to attack Kyoko, Koichi, deducing that Juzo's forbidden action prevents him from punching anyone, lures him into a floor activated trap. Just then, Ruruka collapses the floor underneath Kyoko, prompting Koichi to break his forbidden action; opening his left hand, in order to save her, dying from his bangle's poison as a result. After Ruruka fails to put Juzo under control with her sweets, Kyoko deduces that Ruruka is the one who killed Sonosuke, who actually died from his bangle's poison after eating one of her sweets. Kyoko then reveals the secret exit Sonosuke had found, deducing that Ruruka had killed Sonosuke to prevent him from triggering her own fobidden action; letting anyone leave the game area. Just as Byakuya manages to break into the facility, he and his team inadvertently set off a bomb that causes the facility to start collapsing. | |||
9 | 'You Are My Reason to Die' | September 5, 2016 | |
The secret exit turns out to be a dead end, with Kyoko revealing that the game area is actually taking place in an identical facility located underwater. After destroying the Miaya robot and retrieving a data module containing information on everyone's forbidden actions, Kyosuke suddenly turns against Juzo and stabs him with his sword. Meanwhile, Makoto and Aoi meet up with Kyoko and Ryota to discuss the situation before they are put to sleep by the next time limit, during which Ruruka is killed by the attacker. Upon waking up, however, Makoto and the others are shocked to discover that Kyoko has been poisoned by her forbidden action, set to go off if Makoto survived past the fourth time limit. Just then, Kyosuke calls out Makoto to settle once and for all whose hope is more righteous. | |||
10 | 'Death, Destruction, Despair' | September 12, 2016 | |
Realising that Kyoko kept quiet about her forbidden action so that he could keep on living, Makoto leaves Aoi and Ryota with Kyoko as he sets off to confront Kyosuke. Kyosuke begins hunting Makoto throughout the facility, overcoming every trap that Makoto sets up for him. Taking advantage of Kyosuke's forbidden action, opening doors, Makoto manages to lure Kyosuke into a locked room where killing him would leave him trapped, giving them the opportunity to talk. Kyosuke reveals Kazuo's final message that the attacker is not merely one person, but in fact all of the Future Foundation members participating in the game, presenting evidence he found proving that Chisa was a Remnant of Despair herself. Despite hearing this, Makoto states that even if everyone were Remnants of Despair, he would still feel glad to have met Kyoko, leading Kyosuke to realise just how much he cared for Chisa. As Kyosuke loses his will to keep fighting, Aoi appears with Kyoko's notebook, which allegedly reveals who the true attacker is. Meanwhile, at Jabberwock Island, a single ship slips past the Future Foundation blockade around the island. | |||
11 | 'All Good Things' | September 19, 2016 | |
Kyoko's notes reveal that everyone who was allegedly killed by the attacker had actually committed suicide, with all of their deaths taking place in rooms with monitors. In order to test this theory, Makoto has the others tie him up in front of a monitor before the next time limit. While the others sleep safely in another room, Makoto is awoken by a recording of Monokuma and shown a subliminal video that drives him crazy with visions of all of his dead classmates. Just as Makoto is brought to the brink of despair and prepares to kill himself, he is stopped by Juzo, who had cut off his own hand along with his bangle in order to observe the attacker. Learning what Makoto had discovered about the attacker, Juzo declines to return to the others with him, feeling guilty for betraying Kyosuke after being blackmailed by Junko. Juzo further reveals that he hated Makoto for being the one to defeat Junko, denying him his own chance to exact revenge on her. After Makoto reports his findings, Kyosuke tells the others that the game was likely set up by Kazuo, believing he was one of the Remnants of Despair and noting that only he could have tampered with the monitors. Using the last of his strength, Juzo brings himself to the power room to shut off power in the vicinity and disable the monitors and bangles, bleeding to death by the time Kyosuke finds him. Meanwhile, as Ryota is confronted by Makoto over the techniques used in Monokuma's video, he receives a message on his phone from Kazuo. | |||
12 | 'It Is Always Darkest' | September 26, 2016 | |
Kazuo's message contains a video revealing that he was the mastermind behind the killing game. Refusing to run away anymore, Ryota explains how Junko had used his brainwashing techniques to create a despair video that hypnotises people into becoming Remnants of Despair. With his forbidden action no longer preventing him from using his talent, Ryota announces his intentions to broadcast a 'hope video' that will brainwash everyone in the world into following hope, using it to temporarily control Aoi and have her hold back Makoto while he escapes. Makoto soon comes to the realisation that Kazuo was not actually a Remnant of Despair and had only initiated the killing game to coerce Ryota into using his hope video, never intending for him to be a participant. The group realizes that a world consumed by hope would be no better than one consumed by despair and resolve to stop Ryota. They are attacked by a team of soldiers brainwashed by Ryota; Kyosuke battles the soldiers to buy the others time, Aoi is shot and forced to remain behind, and Makoto is cornered by the soldiers. As Ryota prepares his video for worldwide broadcast, Makoto is rescued by Byakuya and Yasuhiro, while Hajime arrives and begins to make his move. |
Despair Arc[edit]
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 'Hello Again, Hope's Peak High School' Transcription: 'Tadaima Kibōgamine Gakuen' (Japanese: ただいま希望ヶ峰学園) | July 14, 2016 | |
Having just graduated herself, Chisa Yukizome is assigned as assistant homeroom teacher of Hope Peak Academy's 77th class. Noticing only a few of her students showing up to class, Chisa decides to drag them across the school to gather their tardy classmates. Meanwhile, Hajime Hinata, a student from Hope Peak's Reserve Course, meets gamer Chiaki Nanami, who offers some relief to his fears of not having a talent like the main class. | |||
2 | 'My Impurest Heart for You' Transcription: 'Shita Gokoro o Kimi ni' (Japanese: したごころを君に) | July 21, 2016 | |
As Chisa continues her duties as a teacher while secretly serving as a spy for Kyosuke, Hajime speaks with Kazuo, who warns him against accepting a certain offer from the school. After receiving some advice from Chisa, Chiaki brings in some multiplayer video games to make friends with the rest of the class. Things soon take a turn for the weird when dancer Hiyoko Saionji spikes everyone's food with an aphrodisiac that cook Teruteru Hanamura made. Luckily, Chiaki manages to step in to protect Hiyoko from a rampant Teruteru before things go too far. As Chiaki is nominated as the class representative, Natsumi Kuzuryu, the younger sister of gangster Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu, transfers into Hajime's class. | |||
3 | 'A Farewell to All Futures' Transcription: 'Subete no Mirai ni Sayonara o' (Japanese: 全ての未来にさよならを) | July 28, 2016 | |
Natsumi's pompous attitude gets her in an argument with Sato, the friend of photographer Mahiru Koizumi, leading to some serious threats between the two. Hajime attempts to pass along Chiaki's advice that there's more to life than talent, but Natsumi refuses to listen, stating that she wants to have talent so she can stand alongside her brother. The next day, Hajime arrives at school to discover that Natsumi has been murdered, while Sato, who he suspected may have been the one responsible, is found dead a few days later. Hajime tries to go to the main building to confront Mahiru over what happened, but is stopped by Juzo, who insults his lack of talent and beats him up until Chisa breaks up the fight. As Chisa and Juzo grow concerned about the higher-ups covering up the two deaths, Hajime, left scorned by the whole experience, undergoes an experiment to be injected with an artificial talent. | |||
4 | 'The Melancholy, Surprise, and Disappearance of Nagito Komaeda' Transcription: 'Komaeda Nagito no Yūutsu to Kyōgaku to Shōshitsu' (Japanese: 狛枝凪斗の憂鬱と驚愕と消失) | August 4, 2016 | |
With the class preparing for a practical exam, lucky student Nagito Komaeda, noticing the gloominess of his classmates following the recent deaths, approaches Seiko for a laxative he can use to postpone the exam. At the same time, Ruruka asks Seiko for a performance enhancing drug to use in her pastries for the exam. However, Nagito gets the two drugs mixed up, later accidentally getting his bag switched with Seiko's. As a result, Ruruka ends up using laxative in her sweets during her exam while Seiko finds herself with a switch to a bomb Nagito was planning to set off, leading the two to distrust each other. Elsewhere, the drug Nagito picked ends up causing a dog to grow in size and break into the gymnasium, causing the bomb to be accidentally set off. Following the chaos, Seiko, Ruruka, and Sonosuke are all expelled, Nagito is suspended, and Chisa is reassigned to the Reserve Course. Though this development makes her mission to spy on the Reserve Course easier, Chisa is reluctant to leave her class behind and entrusts their welfare to Chiaki. | |||
5 | 'Beginning of the End' Transcription: 'Owari no Hajimari' (Japanese: 終わりの始まり) | August 11, 2016 | |
After spending half a year teaching the Reserve Course, Chisa asks Juzo for a trustee's ID in order to investigate something known as the Kamukura Project. Managing to return to her position as homeroom teacher of the 77th class, she is relieved to find that Chiaki has managed to keep everyone together and is given a warm welcome. Meanwhile, it is revealed that Ryota has been spending all of his time at home animating, having the Ultimate Impostor take his place in class. Elsewhere, Junko Enoshima meets up with her sister, Mukuro Ikusaba, as they prepare to enroll into Hope's Peak as part of the 78th class. When Ryota ends up collapsing with a fever, the Ultimate Impostor seeks out nurse Mikan Tsumiki to treat him, explaining how he took on Ryota's identity so that he could stay at home and work on an anime that will save the world. As the new school year begins and the 78th class begin their life at Hope's Peak, Hajime goes through with the Kamukura Project. | |||
6 | 'A Despairfully Fateful Encounter' Transcription: 'Zetsubō-teki ni Unmei-teki na Deai' (Japanese: 絶望的に運命的な出会い) | August 18, 2016 | |
With his original personality removed and his body infused with every known talent, Hajime emerges from the experiment under the new persona of Izuru Kamukura. Later, after the 77th class move into a new building, Chisa sneaks into the trustee's office, where she learns all about the Kamukura Project, which is designed to create an Ultimate Hope. Meanwhile, Junko and Mukuro kidnap one of the trustees and learn about the project as well, using the trustee's eyeball to sneak into where Izuru is being held. Revealed to be an Ultimate Analyst who can analyse anything, Junko tries to sway him over to the side of despair, which cannot be predicted. After getting knocked out by Izuru, who leaves a message that he will be waiting for her, Junko becomes excited when she encounters Ryota, declaring their meeting to be another 'fateful encounter.' | |||
7 | 'The Biggest, Most Atrocious Incident in Hope's Peak High School's History' Transcription: 'Kibōgamine Gakuen Shijō Saidai Saiaku no Jiken' (Japanese: 希望ヶ峰学園史上最大最悪の事件) | August 25, 2016 | |
Junko gets Ryota to show her the anime he has been working on, learning that various techniques akin to subliminal messaging are used to prompt emotions from its viewers. Concerned by his absence, the Ultimate Impostor sends Mikan to check on Ryota's dorm, where she is captured by Mukuro and brought to a secret room where Junko is having Ryota continue work on his anime. Later that night, Junko and Mukuro break Izuru out of his facility and take him to the old Hope's Peak Academy school building, where they coerce the school's student council into killing each other. As principal Jin Kirigiri is ordered to cover up the incident, Junko leaks information about the experiments and murders to the Reserve Course students, sparking a rebellion against the main school. | |||
8 | 'The Worst Reunion by Chance' Transcription: 'Gūzen ni Mo Saiaku na Saikai' (Japanese: 偶然にも最悪な再会) | September 1, 2016 | |
After noticing that Mikan has been acting strangely around Junko, Ryota is shocked to discover a video of the student council's killing game. Junko reveals that she plans to combine this video with Ryota's anime to create something that will brainwash people and send them into despair, threatening to subject his classmates to another killing game should he refuse to cooperate. Meanwhile, as Kyosuke arrives to help deal with the Reserve Course riots, Nagito, who has returned from his long absence, mentions that he has seen Mikan on the school grounds, prompting the rest of the class to go off in search for her. During their search, Nagito leads Chiaki to the secret room where Junko and Ryota are, having swordswoman Peko Pekoyama hold off Mukuro. Nagito attempts to shoot Junko but is stopped by Izuru, who Chiaki recognises as Hajime, while Ryota escapes and runs into Chisa, who rushes towards the scene. | |||
9 | 'Chisa Yukizome Doesn't Smile' Transcription: 'Yukizome Chisa wa Warawanai' (Japanese: 雪染ちさは笑わない) | September 8, 2016 | |
Chisa shows up to confront Junko, who reveals her plan to brainwash her class into Ultimate Despairs, showing its effectiveness by having a student kill himself on command. Meanwhile, Chiaki escapes with Nagito and informs the rest of the class, who decide to go help their teacher. While Chisa is forced to watch Junko's video of despair while Mukuro tinkers with her brain, Junko brags about her plan to Ryota, who can do nothing but flee in shame, before she is confronted by Juzo. As the class arrive at Junko's hideout, Mikan pushes Chiaki through a hidden passageway, where she reunites with Chisa, unaware of what has happened to her. | |||
10 | 'Smile At Despair in the Name of Hope' Transcription: 'Kimi wa Kibō to Iu Na no Zetsubō ni Hohoemu' (Japanese: 君は希望という名の絶望に微笑む) | September 15, 2016 | |
Junko overpowers Juzo and deduces that he is in love with Kyosuke, threatening to expose his feelings unless he betrays Kyosuke by reporting that she is innocent. Meanwhile, Chisa, who has been brainwashed by Junko's despair video, sends Chiaki down to an underground room where she is captured by Junko. Deciding that Chiaki is the final element needed to finish her prototype, Junko forces her to go through a dungeon filled with deadly traps, while the rest of the class are forced to watch as she struggles in vain and is ultimately fatally wounded by spikes. The resulting despair, combined with Junko's brainwashing methods, warps the students and transforms them into the Remnants of Despair. In her final moments, Chiaki tries to remind Izuru of the person he once was before passing away, leading Izuru to shed tears for the first time since his transformation. | |||
11 | 'Goodbye, Hope's Peak High School' Transcription: 'Sayonara Kibōgamine Gakuen' (Japanese: さよなら希望ヶ峰学園) | September 22, 2016 | |
The blackmailed Juzo and the brainwashed Chisa both tell Kyosuke that Junko is innocent, allowing her plan to continue unhindered. As the 77th class graduate from their classroom to spread despair across the world, the Reserve Course students storm the main building and kill everyone inside before Junko uses her despair video to have them all commit suicide. Meanwhile, Izuru decides to have his memories of the 77th Class erased and vice versa, interested to see if hope can be more unpredictable than despair. In order to protect the remaining students in the 78th class, Jin helps them convert the school's old building into a shelter, unaware of the two Despairs who lurk among them. As Junko moves onto the next phase of her plan, becoming curious about the unpredictable luck exhibited by Makoto, Chisa rejoins Kyosuke, who is unaware of her transformation into despair. Some time later, in a virtual world, another meeting between Hajime Hinata and Chiaki Nanami takes place. |
Hope Arc[edit]
![Hope Hope](https://www.watchcartoononline.io/thumbs/danganronpa-3-hope-arc-english-dubbed.jpg)
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 'The School of Hope and the Students of Despair' Transcription: 'Kibō no Gakuen to Zetsubō no Kōkōsei' (Japanese: 希望の学園と絶望の高校生) | September 29, 2016 | |
As Makoto races to stop Ryota from broadcasting his Hope video, he and the others are assisted by the arrival of the 77th Class, who Hajime managed to restore to normal using Izuru's talents. After making their way past a hypnotised task force, Hajime and the others confront Ryota, who blames himself for the entire incident. Feeling that he should not have to carry his burden alone, Hajime and the others ask Ryota to come with them as they aim to atone for their sins, convincing him to cancel the broadcast. Afterwards, Hajime and the others claim responsibility for the killing game, shifting blame from the Future Foundation, before setting off with Ryota towards a new future. Meanwhile, as Kyosuke leaves Makoto in charge of bringing hope to the world as he goes off to shoulder his own burden, it is revealed that Kyoko had managed to survive her poisoning thanks to an antidote that Seiko had made. A few months later, the former Ultimate students get together to rebuild Hope's Peak Academy, with Makoto serving as its headmaster. |
Original video animation[edit]
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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OVA | 'Super Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of Worlds' Transcription: 'Sūpā Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaisha' (Japanese: スーパーダンガンロンパ2.5 狛枝凪斗と世界の破壊者) | January 12, 2017 | |
Nagito lives a content school life with his classmates, satisfied with not standing out with a talent so long as everyone lives in happiness. While Nagito gives Kazuichi encouragement for a date with Sonia, Izuru appears out of thin air, aiming to destroy the world. The next day, Kazuichi is found dead, allegedly murdered, prompting Fuyuhiko, Sonia, and Peko to search for his killer, soon coming up against Izuru. Calling himself the 'destroyer of worlds', Izuru kills the three of them and calls Nagito to confront him. Relying on his extreme luck, Nagito attempts to collapse the building on top of Hajime before killing himself. Afterwards, it is revealed that Nagito was actually trapped in an illusion following his virtual death in the New World Program, with Izuru being an Alter Ego sent to dive into the program and restore the psyches of those who had become Remnants of Despair. Reawakening in the real world and reuniting with Hajime, Nagito and his revived classmates set off to rescue the Future Foundation. |
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External links[edit]
- Official website(in Japanese)
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[WT!] Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School
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Danganronpa is a series that begins with two games and culminates in an anime. It is mostly in the action and horror genre, with many slice of life elements added into the mix. It is about a group of students who are the best in the world at their unique talents, but who are forced to kill each other in order to survive. It is a masterpiece of writing with the characters, scenarios, and overall plot structure tying together perfectly into the most wonderful and tightly plotted series I have ever seen. The reason you do not see it talked about more often is because it is difficult to recommend a show that requires playing two games to understand, but it is well worth the time.
Intro
Danganronpa 3 is the best show I have ever seen in my life, without a question. In this essay, I want to encourage people to give this show the shot it deserves. This essay is not meant as an honest critique of the show, but rather a series of very excited rants explaining why I love it as much as I do. That being said, it is legitimately one of the best made and tightly written shows I have ever had the joy of experiencing.
Having said that, there are two questions I would expect to hear from anyone unfamiliar with the series: Why are you recommending Danganronpa 3 when no one has written a WT! for Danganronpa 1? And why have I never heard anyone else recommending this show? Both of these have the same answer, believe it or not. The answer is simply that Danganronpa 3 is the only anime in this series, for the most part. Danganronpa 1 and 2 are both video games in a visual novel format, and while Danganronpa 1 does have an anime adaptation, it is generally recommended to experience it in game format for greatest effect.
Unfortunately for anime-only viewers of content, these games are required material for understanding the anime; hence, the show is not as popular as it deserves to be. So before I can fully recommend the show, I need to talk about the games.
If you are a diehard anime-only viewer, I’m sorry to say that the recommendation likely ends here for you. However, if you are anything less than vehemently opposed to playing video games, I believe these games are more than worth your time in preparation for the show.
The games are mostly in visual novel format, so even if you typically only watch shows and don’t play games, these particular selections play more like an anime that requires you to press X on your controller (or click your mouse, depending on your platform of choice). I will go into a little bit more detail on each game, but as this is a WT! for the show, I will keep it as short as possible while still selling the series as a whole.
Danganronpa 1 has you in the shoes of Makoto Naegi as he enters Hope’s Peak Academy, a high school for the best of the best. Hope’s Peak scouts each of its students and only accepts people who are the best at what they do.
However, Makoto won a random lottery to get into the school, labeling him as the Ultimate Lucky student, both putting him at a talent disadvantage compared to the other students and also keeping him relatable to the audience. When he arrives at the school, he blacks out. When he awakens, he is trapped with the other members of his class with no way of escaping the school.
They are told by a mysterious figure named Monokuma that in order to leave the school, someone must kill another student. Everyone will then hold a class trial and attempt to determine who the murderer was.
If the correct student is selected by majority vote, that student will be executed and everyone else continues the game. If the majority picks incorrectly, everyone but the murderer will be executed, and the murderer may “graduate” the school and leave.
Danganronpa 2 has you playing as Hajime Hinata in the same universe, but with a mostly different cast. The situation is identical to the previous one, but this time, instead of being trapped in Hope’s Peak Academy, the cast are all students of the school on a desert island field trip and subsequently get trapped there.
The games are a ton of fun regardless of your experience playing video games. To be frank, they feel more like anime than games at times, which is why I am comfortable recommending a show with required prep work.
Each game includes two main segments of gameplay. The first is a social simulator-type situation, where you have certain scripted events and then you are free to talk to whichever characters most interest you in order to learn more about them. In the second, you go through the class trial and work with the evidence you find at each crime scene in order to identify the killer.
Don’t worry if murder mystery or detective games aren’t your thing—that is not the focus of these games. It’s not like Phoenix Wright, where you have to figure out most of it on your own; the game wants you to learn the truth. It truly is a visual novel first and foremost, and the story being told will always take precedence over the gameplay itself.
There is another game called Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls that can be played after playing the first two games. Contrary to the other games, it is not a visual novel, but a rail shooter. Also contrary to the other two games, I don’t think this one is 100 percent mandatory. There is one episode of the show that will be very confusing if you haven’t played the game, so I would recommend at least looking up a summary. But besides that episode, there is almost nothing in the show that relies on the information presented in that game.
If you really enjoy rail shooters or just fell in love with the series as I did, Ultra Despair Girls is still worth picking up—though I do feel it is the weak point of the series.
Each of the games can be played on Steam, PS4, and PS Vita.
The Show
With that out of the way, let’s talk about the most important thing: the anime. Danganronpa 3 is split into two arcs. There is Future Arc, set after the events of both games and starring the surviving cast of the first game, and the Despair Arc, set before the events of both games and starring the cast of the second game.
The watch order on Crunchyroll is the correct one: You must watch Future 1, Despair 1, Future 2, Despair 2, etc. If you try to watch all of one arc and then all of the other, you will be confused and the show will spoil itself. With this watch order, the show flows perfectly into itself both thematically and in terms of plot reveals.
The show has 24 episodes, and instead of having a Despair 12 episode, the final episode is called Hope, meant to bring the whole series together. This style of writing is very unconventional and takes mastery to pull of correctly, but I can say with confidence that it does so with grace. This leads us into my next point.
This series is the most tightly plotted series I have ever seen in my life. Enormous, dramatic plot twists will occur, and for many of them, I thought initially that they had come out of nowhere. But this show has no time for deus ex machina reveals, as even the tiniest details come together to create fascinating and intricate plot lines.
Moments of minor exposition in the first game come together to create dramatic and interesting reveals in the anime. Things you thought weren’t important enough to remember jump back to the forefront of your mind as you realize that the writers put all of the details in front of you hours ago—and you didn’t realize until they were already delivered upon.
In addition to this, the writers understand how to bend reality enough to keep the world fun and unique, while still keeping it all realistic enough to break your heart when they want to. The show will make you laugh, cry, and scream your lungs out—sometimes within the span of one episode.
There is a peculiar feeling when you are playing a social simulator and begin to really love a character you’re getting to know, and then, suddenly, you walk into a room to find them crucified on the wall. And this kind of disturbing content deserves a section of its own.
The Horror
I often hear people talking about how horror anime doesn’t work. I can understand where this thinking originates. When your recent horror anime occasionally bears too much of a resemblance to your recent meme anime, what is scary and what is silly can get a little foggy.
Let me reassure you, this show and its associated games are truly dread inducing. There are no jump scares; this series has no intention of simply startling you. It will instill a sense of love and hope that everything is OK and that things might finally work out, and then tear it all away from you with terrifying scenes of violence.
This horror is of the psychological variety, where you always fear for your favorite characters’ lives. The show especially delivers on this fear, thanks, of course, to it being fully animated as opposed to the visual novel format of the games.
There are scenes in the show that left me unable to speak because of how much they disturbed me. While part of me wanted to look away, another part of me was always in awe of how perfectly they shattered both my expectations and my mental state.
All right weebs, it’s time I address the question that’s on everyone’s mind: How are the waifus and husbandos of this show? The answer is simply top tier, and there is something for everyone’s interests. You like punk? Takeyourpick. You want conventionally pretty people? Wehaveplenty. Sporty guysandgirls? Loli guysandgirls? Cool? Awkward? Rippedasfuck? Idols? Nerdy?
All of these pictures were from the games—to avoid spoiling who survives and who doesn’t—but most characters are shown in some form or another in the show as well, given half of the show is set before the games. There is truly someone for everyone’s interests.
Not only that, but every single character is interesting and fully fleshed out. There aren’t many filler characters in this series. Any given character could have been the main character of their own series, and in certain moments, almost all of them will feel like main characters.
There is no doubt in my mind that anyone who watches this series will fall in love with at least one character and identify with many more. They are each examples of how amazing the writing is, both individually and how they function as a group.
Conclusion
There is so much more I want to say about this show, but cannot without spoiling it. In truth, the hardest part of experiencing this series is getting through it without encountering any spoilers, as there are many and the internet is a dangerous place.
I would love to tell you which moment made me realize it was my favorite series, or who my favorite character is and why, or what moments made me cry and which ones brought my heart back from the brink of despair, but all of that would ruin the point of letting you all experience it for yourself.
Danganronpa Hope Arc English Dub
I know for many the idea of having to play 2 or possibly 3 games before watching a show seems like too much, but the games are worthwhile on their own, and the show is there to take everything you will already love a step further. My hope in writing this is that someone may look at my excitement and passion toward this series and give it a shot because it is able to draw this much love out of another person.
Danganronpa is a masterpiece that will make you ugly cry, laugh like a maniac, smile like a doofus, and ultimately want more. Give it a shot and immerse yourself in it like I have, and you will not be disappointed.
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