Audience reviews
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Interstellardoe
I'll open this with a straightforward admission: I'm not quite a fan of the Danganronpa franchise; As much as I enjoy the concept, I find it muddled at best and rather bad at worst. To me, the bread and butter of the franchise is found in the characters, something that Zetsubou-hen largely pushes to the wayside, forgoing giving us much time with the majority of class 77, and choosing to focus predominantly on Junko, Mikan, and a new character to this show, Ryota Mitarai.
There's also frequent explanation of plot points from the first two games, which, in a way, ruin the suspense and mystery that the franchise thrives upon
It results in a lopsided anime that is honestly more than anything boring; it's certainly not the worst, and there are some better moments throughout, but it just doesn'…
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This was one of those anime I started ages ago, watched about half of the first season… and then completely forgot about. It just slipped out of my mind somehow. But now that I finally came back to it, I’m actually really satisfied with the whole experience. I won’t lie, the episode order and the continuation were confusing at times. The structure is chaotic, the pacing jumps around, and sometimes you’re just sitting there like “wait… what?” But once I pushed through and finished it, I ended up being pleasantly surprised ^^ The twists, the characters, the insane atmosphere, it all came together in a way that made the return totally worth it. I’m glad I gave it another chance, because the ending hit way better than I expected. A messy journey, but a surprisingly rewarding one.
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Danganronpa 3 serves as a prequel to the events of the Danganronpa 2 video game and provides backstory for the characters. It also establishes important events that occur in the first game. However, the first game, Trigger Happy Havoc, was a poorly executed 'detective' game, with a group of underwhelming teenagers attempting to solve murders. Danganronpa 3, the anime adaptation, attempts to fill in plot holes and create a solid foundation for the series, but ultimately fails to make sense. The world of the games and anime is convoluted and confusing. The villains are one-dimensional 'chaotic evil' characters, similar to the Joker from The Dark Knight, who simply want to watch the world burn without any regard for the consequences to others or themselves. There is no clear end goal for the…
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I was worried about this going in as anyone who knows the games knows that this arc is going to be lacking sunshine and rainbows. I mean it's called the despair arc and it isn't kidding. The way Crunchyroll presents the two arcs takes the pressure off this, however. Splitting the episodes up really helps take the edge off while not breaking the flow. If you're a fan of the games, watch this. If not, skip it. The rest will be written assuming knowledge of at least the mainline games.
This addresses the gaps in the timeline so far, while also feeding into the Future arc. You know these characters by now, and even the new ones aren't that new if you've already watched Ep1 of the future arc. It fully expects you to know and remember these people from the games, so those with a vaguer memory b…
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Well, well, well, if it isn't Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-hen. Let me tell you folks, this anime is a real hootenanny! I mean, it's got everything you could want in an anime - drama, suspense, mystery, and of course, adorable characters with deadly secrets.
Let's start with the story. It's like a rollercoaster ride, folks. You're up, you're down, you're left wondering what the heck just happened. But that's the beauty of it. It keeps you on your toes and never gets boring.
And the art style? It's like a Picasso painting come to life. It's so unique and mesmerizing that you can't help but stare in awe.
Now, let's talk about the main characters. There are not one, not two, not three,…
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Shortly put, I wish I hadn't watched Danganronpa 3 anime. In addition to being absolutely idiotic on its own, it pretty much ruins DR2, which I loved to pieces. I can't bring myself to rate any DR stuff lower than 4 even though I would want to... well, there were some good moments, too, I guess. Anyway, Monokuma claimed repeatedly that all the info he's providing in ch6 of DR2 is true, but... guess what, it wasn't. And forget all about Junko being some great mastermind who can charm anyone to her side. Nah. That's not how it went. Other reviews surely go into greater detail so I won't say more here. Either read them or watch it yourself, but be warned, this anime is truly plunging me into despair.
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This was the most brutal anime so far that I have watched. If you have watched Danganronpa: The Animation it is actually kind of useless to watch the other 2 seasons, especially this one, because it is just a long OVA of what has happened in the past.
The story is great, but to my taste it was too brutal, it became really unwatchable, and I defenetly really don't like this season for Danganronpa.
It's kind of like watching a completely different anime, with the same story almost. Like in Tokyo Ghoul, where there were Tokyo Ghoul:RE and we got completely new characters. The thing that is different here that this is played in the past, so again, it is not really a big deal if you completely just ignore this whole season. We all know what happened in Danganronpa:The Animation (first season)…
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First of all, this show contains massive spoilers for Danganronpa 1 & 2, so don't watch the show or read this review unless you've played those games.
This show isn't awful, you can watch it without suffering from intense boredom. That being said though, it's not good, I'd say all in all, the show had a few bad, a few OK, and ONE good episode, and the good one wasn't outstanding either.
Story 4/10: "There is nothing scarier than our own imagination" is probably the best summary of how I feel about the story. Danganronpa 1 and 2 left us without answers as for how Junko managed to execute her plan and create the ultimate despairs. This was answered here, but the answers were terrible. If you expected some conniving mastermind exploiting personal weaknesses and grooming them to be her perfe…
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I've never played the Danganronpa games, but I enjoyed the original Danganronpa anime that came out a lot. This one was much darker than the first, and in a way a lot more terrifying. The graphic amounts were still on the smaller side of the R-rated ones, but the violence itself and the drive behind it is much darker. Danganronpa really has a message to convey, and the message honestly chilled me to the bone. How people can be driven to do awful things, not to people they hate or strangers, but friends. There is a lot of truth in here, and in the midsts of the world's chaos currently, it's rather frightening to think that we, also, could be close to, 'The Most Despair Inducing Event in the History of Mankind.' Close to all the violence against one another, and all the distrust. Close to th…
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I dislike how the future arc handled things, but that doesn't carry any weight in this review.
The switching back and forth between hope and despair was pretty odd, and it felt pretty unnecessary for the most part. They could have structured the story differently so that wouldn't be needed. Still, I didn't mind that too much.
This side of the story was actually pretty good. I enjoyed seeing how class 77 came to be, and it served as a nice prologue to the series as a whole. I enjoyed the story of the first two games, and I feel like this side of the story mostly served to flesh out the events that we had already learned about previously in Danganronpa 1 and 2.
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Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School – Despair Arc is an anime meant to serve as the prequel to the Hope’s Peak series of Danganronpa games, which excludes Danganronpa V3. It is set two years before the first game, even more before the second game, and probably the same amount of time before Ultra Despair Girls. Although it was nice to know the full story of what exactly happened to plunge the world into despair, what we got was rather ridiculous, nonsensical, and downright hard to believe; yet I still found this to be an enjoyable experience nonetheless.
Firstly, let me start with some aspects that I liked. As with the Future Arc, the music was amazing, although I didn’t find the OP and ED as memorable as Future Arc’s. There are so many catchy, stand-out tracks such as Junko…
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When compared to the Future side, this is definitely the more interesting, and superior arc.
I quite believe that the studios put more work into this arc than the Future arc not only because the stories here are directly connected to SDR2, but it's also evident from its presentation here. The OP and ED themes are excellent. It is more enjoyable to watch, it has more depth, lots of stuffs can be said. Also, the other additional details and references just make me watching this series even more.
Despair arc is essentially a tale of two halves. Started out as a happy-go-lucky slice of life anime before the inevitable bad creeped in. We get to see more from the characters from SDR2 when they're not in a killing game. It was all fluff, sure, but how can you not want to this cast of characters…
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*Some spoilers but only understandable after watching*
This arc is by far my favourite arc of the trilogy. Although it may be because the Danganronpa 2 cast was my favourite among all of the games. My full review of Danganronpa as a whole will be on the Danganronpa: The Animation page but I just wanted to say that this arc was my favourite since I got to see my favourite characters.
All the Dr2 characters were written so perfectly. First lets talk about Hajime Hinata, our main protagonist of this arc (kind of). His character represents how people would act just to reach their goals through unstopping determination, to the point of losing himself.
Nagito is another character that plays an important role in the story. If you played Dr2, it probably felt like Nagito was the smartest charact…
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Watched this and the Hope Arc for the anime as soon as I finished DR2 because I was so incredibly invested in the characters and the world, and I found myself profoundly disappointed. Other than a few fanservice moments, there is nothing interesting or good about this anime. Story is incredibly uninteresting and full of plot holes. Also tries super hard to be edgy (like episode 9) but just comes off as ridiculous. The artstyle does not fit the Danganronpa world and it looks cheap. The worst are the reserve course students, who don't even look human, and look more like blue jello for some reason. Sound is fair, voice acting is on point as usual for Danganronpa, though I don't remember the OP or ED and found them forgettable. As for the characters they're mostly fine except for the main anta…
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spoilers for prior entries in the series and small spoilers for the show
like everything in DR, everything is great until ~satan~ enoshima shows up. if you are wondering when it get's to the point of "hell is too good for junko" it's in episode 9 and onward. right from the get-go i knew this is gonna end badly but damn.
now for the review. this is both a prequel to SDR2 and to the future ark, filling holes in the first and explaining stuff for the second, and such, is pretty predictable. but even tho it's predictable, it's still enjoyable, if you like the SDR2 characters.
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Despite the opinions of others, I thoroughly enjoyed this anime.
Not having played Danganronpa 2 at the time of watching this anime, seeing a new class of characters and new story aspects felt refreshing and intrigued me to watch the show. The anime focused on this new cast of characters as well as, new aspects of the Hopes peak academy that I never imagined, as someone who was yet to play the games.
The anime portrayed the reserves course and "The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History" effectively, the light-hearted high school moments paired with the darker events that occur in the anime are paired together accordingly. The art style works and does a good job at reflecting the game's art style. Many of the characters were missing their iconic character designs from…
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I’m a huge Danganronpa fan and I like to pretend the anime(s) don’t exist.
If you’ve finished the main games, I honestly implore you to just ignore the Despair and Hope anime. Sit with the information you received from the games and that’s it. The games are mystery. Not everything should be answered for you. YOU, the player, are given answers that are vague sometimes. But that’s the magic - you get to create your own interpretation of how everything starts and ends. And although *lots* of major points are told in the game, the anime completely soils it by just SHOWING YOU EVERYTHING. It’s predictable and POINTLESS. The Despair and Hope anime fill in the gaps of what the games didn’t tell you, which is a huge mistake.
Another reason why I despise the anime is because it’s a big fat contra…
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This season is the background story in which the events of the past are shown and explained, the following season is "Mirai-hen". Before this season you should have seen season 1.
The season contained 11 episodes and almost half the season about nothing happened, apart from an intense ecchi-containing character. Only around episode 6 and further around 8 did something begin to build up on the explanation. Which really ruined the entire arc of the season. It was also extremely weak in detail. So in overall, this Season was just there for bad characters, fan service and nothing else.
Story: The story of the plot focused on the events of the past and the story of hope, which ended in despair.
Nothing at all happened. You only got to know the flat characters. Then everything escalated a…
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Danganronpa 3 despair arc is the second set of the danganronpa 3 anime after the future arc, it tells the story of class 77 before they were tainted by Junko Enoshima's despair , incidentally it is told from the perspective of Chisa Yukizome after her death in episode 1 of future arc.
Now I watched and completed Despair arc after episode 1 of future arc since for me it personally serves as a prequel of future arc and super danganronpa 2 which I have recently completed playing. People told me to watch it alternating with future arc in order for things to make sense, but since I have read danganronpa zero and if plus played the first two games this second part made a lot more sense for me to consume first, and I was expecting a dislocation or confusion from my side because of the way that…
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Disclaimer: I haven't played any of the games.
The original Danganronpa: The Animation was great in my opinion. The concept is incredible and the swift pacing and structure of each episode really made me love it. Plus, the characters were incredible.
Wanting to see more, I ended up getting a Funimation subscription just to watch Danganronpa 3, and so far I'm not disappointed. It's not as good as the first, but its characters were just as likable and it was muuuuch darker. Plus, we got to learn a lot more about Enoshima and her sister, and they're a blast to watch. My one complaint is that I wish we got to see more of Naegi and company, but I'm sure they'll come up more in the Hope and Future arcs.
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