Follow TV Tropes

Following

History WhamEpisode / Danganronpa

Go To

OR

Added: 1731

Changed: 1698

Removed: 404

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* The end of Chapter 3. After learning about it from Kyoko, Makoto finds a secret room in the boys' restroom. Before he can take a good look around, a mysterious masked man attacks him from behind, knocking him unconscious. When Makoto wakes up, he finds that the room has been cleaned out. Then, when he staggers to the gymnasium, he finds Sakura fighting Monokuma, and they have a conversation implying ''Sakura'' is TheMole.



* Chapter 6 turns the whole setting on its head. Among many other revelations, we find that the "school trip" is a simulation designed to rehabilitate the cast, the cast are the Remnants of Despair, the whole killing game is a way for Junko to ensnare her old classmates, and that Hajime was erased to create Izuru Kamukura. All these revelations put the survivors under incredible stress which makes it even harder for them to decide in the SadisticChoice they're given.

to:

* The ending of Chapter 5 sets up everything to come in the final chapter. On the final day of the countdown, after the Trial, Hajime and the survivors discover the password to the locked ruins -- [[ArcNumber 11037]] -- while the dead students comment on matters but [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight nobody reacts to them]]. Once everyone enters the ruins, the world around him begins glitching out as the facade crumbles to reveal what it really is.
* Chapter 6 turns the whole setting on its head. Among many other revelations, we find that the head.
** The
"school trip" is a simulation designed to rehabilitate the cast, the cast are who turn out to be the Remnants of Despair, Despair that have been causing havoc in the whole outside world in Junko's name.
** The cameras aren't just monitoring the students; they've been broadcasting this
killing game is a way for to the Future Foundation, all so that AI Junko to ensnare can lure her old classmates, and that former classmates into a trap.
** [[TomatoInTheMirror
Hajime Hinata was erased to create Izuru Kamukura. All these revelations put Kamukura]], the survivors under incredible stress which makes it even harder for them to decide in perpetrator behind the Tragedy of Hope's Peak that was the catalyst to the Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event In Human History. This revelation pushes him into a HeroicBSOD and leaves him completely paralyzed.
** The survivors' only way out is a huge
SadisticChoice they're given.-- Graduate, and they keep their memories of the island, but unleash AI Junko into the world through their comatose classmates' bodies and trap the Future Foundation members in the simulation; Repeat, and their struggles were AllForNothing as they remain in the simulation, also subject to the whims of AI Junko; Shutdown, and they escape while destroying AI Junko, but revert to their former selves as the Remnants of Despair in a world that wants them dead. The surviving students can't make their decision and are trapped in a stalemate.



* Chapter 5: So. Many. Whams.
** [[HopeSpot The remaining students conquer the Death Road of Despair and prepare to escape the school]]...only to find out [[AfterTheEnd the outside world had been rendered completely uninhabitable since the past few hundred years.]]
** Kokichi reveals himself as the (false) mastermind and explains everything about the Gofer Project.
** The students were students at Hope's Peak Academy while Kokichi was a Remnant of Despair.
** Kokichi, whom everyone had believed was the mastermind, was the victim of this case - crushed to death by a hydraulic press, as part of his plan to end the killing game. Kaito reveals that Kokichi had told him that he'd lied about being the mastermind, that he had wanted to end the game this whole time, and that he had suspicions about whether what they knew about the outside world was true or not.

to:

* Chapter 5: So. Many. Whams.
5 is host to a lot of shocking events.
** [[HopeSpot The remaining students conquer the Death Road of Despair and prepare to escape the school]]...only to find out [[AfterTheEnd the outside world had been rendered completely uninhabitable since the past few hundred years.]]
**
uninhabitable,]] rendering their attempts to escape AllForNothing. Kokichi (falsely) reveals himself as the (false) mastermind of the killing game, and explains everything about revels as the Gofer Project.
survivors sink into despair.
** The Another Flashback Light unveils an unexpected connection to the previous two games -- the students were students at all attended Hope's Peak Academy while Academy, and Kokichi was is a Remnant of Despair.
** Kokichi, whom everyone had believed was the mastermind, was the victim of this case - -- crushed to death by a hydraulic press, as part of his plan to end the killing game. Kaito reveals that Kokichi had told him that he'd lied about being the mastermind, that he had wanted to end the game this whole time, and that he had suspicions about whether what they knew about the outside world was true or not.



** Kaede didn't kill Rantaro-[[FrameUp she was framed by the mastermind]]. The mastermind in question is [[BitchInSheepsClothing Tsumugi.]]
** Pretty much all the reveals up to this point were a lie. Their memories, talents and personalities were all fake (and even THAT may be somewhat of a lie). And to top it all? All the students are participants in a ''Danganronpa'' reality show based off the video game series, currently in its 53rd installment (counting the ones that were actually games/animes/etc.).

to:

** Kaede didn't kill Rantaro-[[FrameUp Rantaro -- [[FrameUp she was framed by the mastermind]]. The mastermind in question is [[BitchInSheepsClothing Tsumugi.]]
** Pretty much all the reveals up to this point were a lie. Their Hope's Peak Academy, the Remnants of Despair, and basically the first two games are all InUniverse fiction. The Gofer Project, the cast's memories, talents and personalities were all fake (and even THAT may be somewhat of a lie). And to top it all? All the students are participants [[TrumanShowPlot participants]] in a ''Danganronpa'' reality show based off the video game series, currently in its 53rd installment (counting the ones that were actually games/animes/etc.).

Changed: 1622

Removed: 1299

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Perhaps a lot of these points, which describe scenes, are better listed as Wham Shots?


* Let's start with Chapter 1. The first victim is [[LoveInterest Sayaka]], and shortly after that, Junko is killed for attacking Monokuma.
* Then at the end of Chapter 2, it's revealed there is [[TheMole a mole]] among the students, ''and'' there's also a separate sixteenth student that Monokuma is hiding.
* The end of Chapter 3. After learning about it from Kyoko, Makoto finds a secret room in the boys' restroom. Before he can take a good look around, a mysterious masked man attacks him from behind, knocking him unconscious. When Makoto wakes up, he finds that the room has been cleaned out. Then, when he staggers to the gymnasium, he finds Sakura fighting Monokuma, and they have a conversation implying ''Sakura'' is TheMole.



* Chapter 5's bad ending turns it into another wham episode, because this is the first episode where pointing out a lie in court, which ''the player has been doing the whole game'', results in a bad ending where Makoto, Byakuya, Aoi, and Yasuhiro (as well as Toko until recently) all live happily ever after, with no more murders, but in a GildedCage. And if the player ''doesn't'' get the bad ending, and choose to trust Kyoko? ''Makoto'' gets judged guilty, and sent off to be executed, and it's only from a last-minute surprise interference from a virus planted by Alter Ego that he doesn't die. He's still trapped in the basement with no way of getting out, though... but then Kyoko herself comes to rescue him.
* Chapter 6 is made up of Wham Episodes. Monokuma agrees to do a re-trial of Mukuro's murder and seems to be slowly losing his sanity. Part of Monokuma's deal is that the students have to solve every mystery in the school. One of the sixteen students is the mastermind. Kyoko discovers her father's remains as well as hints that he really did care about her. Furthermore, all of the students had attended Hope's Peak before, but had their memories erased. The biggest part? Mukuro Ikusaba was disguising herself as Junko, and the real Junko was the BigBad all along.

to:

* Chapter 5's bad ending turns it into another wham episode, because this is the first episode where pointing out a lie in court, which ''the player has been doing the whole game'', results in a bad ending where Makoto, Byakuya, Aoi, and Yasuhiro (as well as Toko until recently) all live happily ever after, with no more murders, but in a GildedCage. And if the player ''doesn't'' get the bad ending, and choose to trust Kyoko? ''Makoto'' gets judged guilty, and sent off to be executed, and it's only from a last-minute surprise interference from a virus planted by Alter Ego that he doesn't die. He's still trapped in the basement with no way of getting out, though... but then Kyoko herself comes to rescue him.
* Chapter 6 in its entirety is made up of a Wham Episodes. Episode. Monokuma agrees to do a re-trial of Mukuro's murder and seems to be slowly losing his sanity. Part of Monokuma's deal is that murder, but the students now have to solve every mystery in the school. One of the sixteen students is the mastermind. Kyoko discovers her father's remains as well as hints that he really did care about her. Furthermore, all of the students had attended Hope's Peak before, but had their memories erased. The biggest part? Mukuro Ikusaba was disguising herself as Junko, and the real Junko was the BigBad all along.



* The ending of Chapter 5. Hajime goes out after a day of rest, on the last day on the countdown, and encounters Chiaki - who died in the last trial. Then the other dead students start appearing, although they're never displayed in-world. The survivors witness the last message left by Nagito, who gives them the password to the ruins on the second island - 11037. Then they actually get to the ruins, and everything glitches out of whack.

to:

* The ending of Chapter 5. 6 turns the whole setting on its head. Among many other revelations, we find that the "school trip" is a simulation designed to rehabilitate the cast, the cast are the Remnants of Despair, the whole killing game is a way for Junko to ensnare her old classmates, and that Hajime goes out after a day of rest, on was erased to create Izuru Kamukura. All these revelations put the last day on the countdown, and encounters Chiaki - who died survivors under incredible stress which makes it even harder for them to decide in the last trial. Then the other dead students start appearing, although SadisticChoice they're never displayed in-world. The survivors witness the last message left by Nagito, who gives them the password to the ruins on the second island - 11037. Then they actually get to the ruins, and everything glitches out of whack.given.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:


[[folder:''Danganronpa Kirigiri'']]
* The end of Volume 3. After solving one of Ryuuzouji's cases, Samidare goes to Kirigiri's place to find out why she disappeared for two weeks, only find in the backyard a rotting corpse wearing '''Fuhito's clothes'''. She's subsequently attacked by a mysterious woman in an apron, only to be saved by Jin Kirigiri. While she's being driven back, Samidare comes to the conclusion that Fuhito has been DeadAllAlong and impersonated by Shinsen all this time.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:''Killer Killer'']]
* Chapter 3, when the manga reveals itself to be a ''Danganronpa'' SpinOff.
* Chapter 8: Asano learns that Hijirihara is Killer Killer, the perpetrator of the Giboura Massacre is revealed to be Mukuro Ikusaba and the Eight Branch is attacked by someone who seems to be the deceased Ikusaba.
* Oh boy, Chapter 9. There isn't just one Mukuro attacking the eight branch, ''there's an entire army of them!'' Oh, and Asano is stabbed by Fujigawa, [[ApologeticAttacker who's crying his eyes out while doing it]].
* Chapter 11: Fujigawa reveals himself as the Killer Killer in a livestream, and claims he has set bombs all over the country, set to go off in 24 hours. The only way to stop them is to kill Asano, who has the disarming device in a necklace she's forced to wear. She can't remove it herself, or else it will detonate without disarming the bombs.
[[/folder]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

[[AC:Main installments]]


Added DiffLines:


[[AC:Spin-offs]]

[[folder:''Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls'']]
* The end of Chapter 3. Jack prevents Kotoko's execution. Soon after, Nagisa shows up and deactivates Komaru's bracelet begging her to leave the city. Then, the location shifts to Monaca, who along with Kurokuma reveals her plan isn't to create paradise, but to create a second Junko Enoshima.
* The epilogue, of all places, has a plot-changing reveal when it turns out that Shirokuma ''and'' Kurokuma were Alter Ego Junko this whole time.
[[/folder]]

Added: 1607

Changed: 234

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None



to:

* History repeats itself. [[NeverTrustATrailer The trailer, the ads, the demo and Spike Chunsoft itself lied to everyone once again]]. [[DecoyProtagonist Kaede dies in Chapter 1]]. Shuichi is the actual [[TheProtagonist protagonist.]]
* Chapter 5: So. Many. Whams.
** [[HopeSpot The remaining students conquer the Death Road of Despair and prepare to escape the school]]...only to find out [[AfterTheEnd the outside world had been rendered completely uninhabitable since the past few hundred years.]]
** Kokichi reveals himself as the (false) mastermind and explains everything about the Gofer Project.
** The students were students at Hope's Peak Academy while Kokichi was a Remnant of Despair.
** Kokichi, whom everyone had believed was the mastermind, was the victim of this case - crushed to death by a hydraulic press, as part of his plan to end the killing game. Kaito reveals that Kokichi had told him that he'd lied about being the mastermind, that he had wanted to end the game this whole time, and that he had suspicions about whether what they knew about the outside world was true or not.
** Kaito Momota is the blackened, having been blackmailed by Kokichi into carrying out his plan to end the killing game. Maki declares her love for him, and Kaito dies from his illness before he can be killed by the execution.
* Chapter 6:
** Kaede didn't kill Rantaro-[[FrameUp she was framed by the mastermind]]. The mastermind in question is [[BitchInSheepsClothing Tsumugi.]]
** Pretty much all the reveals up to this point were a lie. Their memories, talents and personalities were all fake (and even THAT may be somewhat of a lie). And to top it all? All the students are participants in a ''Danganronpa'' reality show based off the video game series, currently in its 53rd installment (counting the ones that were actually games/animes/etc.).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:



Added DiffLines:



Added DiffLines:

Added: 123

Removed: 75

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Creating a page for Danganronpa 3.


!!Works with their own pages:
[[index]]
* ''WhamEpisode/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool''
[[/index]]
----
!!Other works:



[[folder:''Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School'']]

[[/folder]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None



to:

* The ending of Chapter 5. Hajime goes out after a day of rest, on the last day on the countdown, and encounters Chiaki - who died in the last trial. Then the other dead students start appearing, although they're never displayed in-world. The survivors witness the last message left by Nagito, who gives them the password to the ruins on the second island - 11037. Then they actually get to the ruins, and everything glitches out of whack.

Added: 2691

Changed: 138

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None



to:

* Let's start with Chapter 1. The first victim is [[LoveInterest Sayaka]], and shortly after that, Junko is killed for attacking Monokuma.
* Then at the end of Chapter 2, it's revealed there is [[TheMole a mole]] among the students, ''and'' there's also a separate sixteenth student that Monokuma is hiding.
* The end of Chapter 3. After learning about it from Kyoko, Makoto finds a secret room in the boys' restroom. Before he can take a good look around, a mysterious masked man attacks him from behind, knocking him unconscious. When Makoto wakes up, he finds that the room has been cleaned out. Then, when he staggers to the gymnasium, he finds Sakura fighting Monokuma, and they have a conversation implying ''Sakura'' is TheMole.
* Chapter 4's one of the biggest wham episodes. Monokuma reveals Sakura's identity as the mole right off the bat... and then Sakura is ''killed''... and there's a bloody message with Toko's name just like with Leon! ...no wait, that was Yasuhiro framing Toko, ''he'' killed the ogre, he even confesses! ...no wait, actually his strike didn't kill Sakura, Toko and Genocide Jill confess to it... no wait, Aoi framed everyone, ''she'' confesses to the murder! ...no wait, it was actually a suicide! And Monokuma gave Aoi a fake suicide note! Nice going, Aoi... no wait, everyone decides not to punish Aoi and they're all against Monokuma now! Looks like Monokuma can't execute anyone... no wait, Alter Ego, NOOOOOO!!! And then, at the very end of the chapter? Kyoko suddenly reveals the name of the sixteenth student!
* Chapter 5's bad ending turns it into another wham episode, because this is the first episode where pointing out a lie in court, which ''the player has been doing the whole game'', results in a bad ending where Makoto, Byakuya, Aoi, and Yasuhiro (as well as Toko until recently) all live happily ever after, with no more murders, but in a GildedCage. And if the player ''doesn't'' get the bad ending, and choose to trust Kyoko? ''Makoto'' gets judged guilty, and sent off to be executed, and it's only from a last-minute surprise interference from a virus planted by Alter Ego that he doesn't die. He's still trapped in the basement with no way of getting out, though... but then Kyoko herself comes to rescue him.
* Chapter 6 is made up of Wham Episodes. Monokuma agrees to do a re-trial of Mukuro's murder and seems to be slowly losing his sanity. Part of Monokuma's deal is that the students have to solve every mystery in the school. One of the sixteen students is the mastermind. Kyoko discovers her father's remains as well as hints that he really did care about her. Furthermore, all of the students had attended Hope's Peak before, but had their memories erased. The biggest part? Mukuro Ikusaba was disguising herself as Junko, and the real Junko was the BigBad all along.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

!All spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!
----
[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:''Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc'']]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:''Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair'']]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:''Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School'']]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:''Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony'']]

[[/folder]]
----

Top