History WebVideo / DanganronpaDespairTime

* MetaFiction: The series is a television show both InUniverse ''and'' in real life, or much rather a web show.

** In Chapter 2, Veronika states that the Tragedy happened nearly a century earlier.

''Danganronpa: Despair Time'' is a fan-made Danganronpa spinoff video series that has no affiliation with Spike Chunsoft, NISA, or the Danganronpa brand. The story follows [[BornLucky Teruko Tawaki]] as she and her fifteen classmates try to survive a brand new killing game which, to their confusion and horror, [[ImmoralRealityShow is being broadcast on television for public entertainment]].

''Danganronpa: Despair Time'' is a fan-made Danganronpa spinoff video series that has no affiliation with Spike Chunsoft, NISA, or the Danganronpa brand. The story follows [[BornLucky Teruko Tawaki]] as she and her fifteen classmates try to survive a brand new killing game which, to their confusion and horror, [[TrumanShowPlot is being broadcast on television for public entertainment]].

** In Chapter 2, Veronika states that the Tragedy happened nearly a century earlier. [[LostCommonKnowledge Yet she doesn't seem to know that other Killing Games happened before their own]].

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The first BonusEpisode reveals that the series takes place around three decades after [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the Tragedy]]. The world has largely recovered and a United States branch of Hope's Peak Academy have opened, with the East Coast Division on its 27th class.

* AsYouKnow: In Episode 4, J Moreno mentions how Hope's Peak Academy began to expand their school system on an international level, meaning that every major country has its own [=HP=] Academy. But Teruko cuts her off saying that they already know that.

* BreakingOldTrends: More than half of the cast members have diverse ethnic backgrounds rather then being primarily Japanese.

* MythologyGag: While discussing the assigned weapons in the first trial, Veronica suggests that [[{{VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls}} a megaphone can be used to take down violent bears.]]

** Teruko is the [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy average protagonist]] with a luck themed talent.

*** Regarding Rose, she also has a criminal themed talent.

** Hu is a girl with a music themed talent.
** Nico follows the popular color scheme of having black hair, light skin and red eyes.
** Arei is a girl with a sports themed talent.

* KillingInSelfDefense: [[spoiler:Min's reason for killing Xander. Due to the honor student seeing him with Teruko's bloody body, Xander tries to attack her to keep his murder a secret. Min manages to one-up him by splashing him with a bucket of water and then turning off the lights with her pen knife. The rebel would then reach for the switch only to be electrocuted by the circuits thus ending his life]].

** "The History of Hope's Peak" reveals that Hope's Peak performed an experiment where they announced that they'd be giving an entrance exam for someone to attend as the Ultimate Student. The catch is that this was announced twelve years ahead of time, which drove an entire ''generation'' of kids to devote themselves to studying for it. Min was successful, but speculates it wasn't even about finding who had the highest grades, but who best fit their ''idea'' of the Ultimate Student.
** In "Visiting Graves", Xander references the Chariton Incident, where a poor American town was hit with a horrible disease that caused people to rot from the outside in, [[AndIMustScream losing control of their limbs and being unable to move as they felt themselves dying]]. There was only one understaffed hospital around, which couldn't handle the incident and so most of the bodies were left where they fell. The source was a contaminated river, and Xander implies all of it was due to the actions of someone called Duke Spurling, [[KarmaHoudini who he feels got off too easy.]] The incident is implied to be what lead to him becoming the Ultimate Rebel.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: While it's established in the Bonus Episodes that the world has recovered to its Pre-Tragedy state, there are still shades of this. Hope's Peak Academy has not only survived despite everything they've done, but spread beyond Japan, setting up branches all over the world. And this is without even getting into the fact that the Killing Game here is said to be a popular DeadlyGameShow.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Even by Canon standards, the execution of [[spoiler: Min Jeung: Thrown to the Dogs]] seems unnecessarily cruel. [[spoiler:She has a broken hand and leg and one of her arms is cut for failing a test. When she fails, she is knocked down meters below and is torn apart by savage wolves.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Even by Canon standards, the execution of [[spoiler: Min Jung: Thrown to the Dogs]] seems unnecessarily cruel. [[spoiler:She has a broken hand and leg and one of her arms is cut for failing a test. When she fails, she is knocked down meters below and is torn apart by savage wolves.]]