Line #148 YMMV/DanganRonpa


1	!Warning! All spoilers below are unmarked.
2	!!It's virtually impossible to list tropes for this series without spoiling everything or creating [[Administrivia/SelfFulfillingSpoiler Self-Fulfilling Spoilers]] because of the large amount of twists and MurderMystery-related tropes it contains.
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6	!!Works with their own YMMV pages:
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8	[[index]]
9	[[folder:Main Installments]]
10	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''
11	* ''YMMV/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''
12	* ''YMMV/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool''
13	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony''
14	[[/folder]]
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16	[[folder:Spin-Offs]]
17	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaZero''
18	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls''
19	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaSUltimateSummerCamp''
20	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf''
21	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaKirigiri''
22	* ''YMMV/DanganronpaTogami''
23	* ''YMMV/KillerKiller''
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25	[[/index]]
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28	!!YMMV tropes that apply to the franchise as a whole:
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30	[[AC:General examples]]
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32	[[folder:General Examples]]
33	* AngelDevilShipping: [[BigGood Makoto]] and [[BigBad Junko]] are frequently shipped in spite of their status as arch-enemies. Junko is an AxCrazy HopeCrusher who is a huge {{Jerkass}} to everyone in the franchise, while Makoto is a NiceGuy known for his status as ThePollyanna InUniverse.
34	* AngstWhatAngst: The cast doesn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that they’ve been trapped in a certain location and forced to kill one another. They may freak out during the first chapter, but after a while, they’re accustomed to the possibility of never seeing their loved ones again or being isolated from society forever. This is especially prominent with the killings, to which the cast may mourn a character for 5 minutes, but by the next chapter, no one cares that someone else died or that they might be next. The whole cast (with exceptions such as Kiyotaka) moves on as if nothing happened. For some characters, such as Kiyotaka, Leon, Hiyoko, and Ryoma, it’s as if they never even existed.
35	* ArchivePanic: Not an extreme example, but the franchise has 5 lengthy video games, 2 anime series and about 20 official mangas, so checking out all of them will take quite a long time.
36	* BadassDecay: Junko constantly appearing again and again throughout the series (even though she's literally ''the'' BigBad and caused the one event that spans the whole series) has annoyed fans, and by the time of ''V3'', they eventually earned no surprise regarding her role as the mastermind and thought that the qualities that made her stand out in the first game were completely dissolved by then.
37	* BetterAsALetsPlay: The games are extremely popular Let's Plays; in fact, the series gained a western fanbase (and eventual English releases) ''because'' of a Let's Play on the Website/SomethingAwful forums. This owes to the series' unique blend of DatingSim and murder mystery, so it's fun to watch players solve the cases... and even more fun to watch players' inevitable [[ArcWords despair]] when a character they get attached to dies or is a case's culprit.
38	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The {{fanservice}} events listed on the main page appear once each, and then are ever acknowledged or discussed again. Most of the examples happen in secret side events, preventing them from being acknowledged again by default, and the only ones that ever ''do'' seem to be brought up again and acknowledged as having happened is Mikan's tripping in ''2'', as it's used to expose Teruteru's absence in the dining hall during the party, and Peko and Akane in a swimsuit as it's used to prove the former is the culprit and the latter is a RedHerring, also in ''2''.
39	* CompleteMonster:
40	** [[Characters/DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima Junko Enoshima]] is the BigBad of the entire franchise who appeared in various mediums:
41	*** Games and Anime: [[Characters/DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima Junko Enoshima]] sates her obsession with despair by seeking to [[HopeCrusher crush hope]] in all of humanity. To this end, Junko uses her analytical abilities to sadistically and meticulously [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool manipulate the students of Hope's Peak Academy]], leading her classmates to murder each other in droves; brainwashing many others as they witness the atrocity; kidnapping a kindhearted teacher to brainwash her into following Junko's cruel plans; cruelly crushing anyone in her way, eventually leading to mass killings and suicides amongst students and even a global societal collapse. In the horrific dystopian new world, Junko continues to amuse herself by tormenting a group of Hope's Peak students after wiping their memories, forcing them into a "game" where they must betray and murder each other, broadcasting it to demoralize the population at large, even [[SiblingMurder killing her own sister]] on a whim. When discovered, Junko happily asserts her devotion to causing suffering and, when she fails to break the wills of her victims, spitefully kills herself to [[RedemptionRejection refuse their attempts to offer her redemption]], aroused even at the feeling of her own despair. Creating an ArtificialIntelligence and corrupting the already-unstable Warriors of Hope as her successors to continue her murder game even after her own death, Junko cements herself as a [[AxCrazy monstrous psychopath]], so warped [[NightmareFetishist the only thing she adored was misery]], be that others' or even her own.
42	*** ''[[Literature/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf Trigger Happy Havoc IF]]'': [[Characters/DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima Junko Enoshima]], in this WhatIf scenario, is the same despair-adoring psychopath and abusive younger sister of Mukuro Ikusaba who conditioned the latter into admiring despair. Having kickstarted "The Tragedy" with Mukuro, resulting in tons of destruction and riots, Junko wipes the memories of her friends at Hope's Peak Academy to have them all kill each other. Lying to Mukuro that she'll survive the killing game, after her [[SiblingMurder attempt to kill her]] fails, Junko tries to pin her and the injured [[Characters/DanganronpaMakotoNaegi Makoto Naegi]] as the masterminds behind the game. When Mukuro turns against her, Junko promises to reset the game and have an amnesiac Mukuro compete as herself to make her and everyone else suffer, later presenting the students with an impossible deadly challenge to win their freedom, knowing they will most likely fail and fall into despair.
43	*** [[Theatre/{{Danganronpa}} Stage plays]]: [[Characters/DanganronpaJunkoEnoshima Junko Enoshima]], the Ultimate Fashionista/Ultimate Despair, is a [[TeensAreMonsters young, chaotic psychopath]] obsessed with making everybody, even herself, feel despair. [[TheCorrupter Corrupting]] and tormenting the students of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77 to assist her in her plans, Junko was able to use them to launch countless wars, disasters, and terrorist attacks, with millions dying in the process. Seeking to further drench the world in despair, Junko wipes the memories of the Hope's Peak survivors to force them all to kill each other to escape while being broadcasted worldwide, even [[SiblingMurder killing her own "boring" sister Mukuro Ikusaba]] to enjoy the despair of losing a loved one. [[CruelMercy Forced to live as her punishment]], Junko installs an AI built from her consciousness into the Neo-World Program, forcing the recovering Class 77 students into another killing game to corrupt them all into becoming her copies to rule the world alongside her.
44	** ''Manga/KillerKiller'': [[MadBomber Ted Chikatilo]], known as the "Million Killer" and owning the title of Ultimate Pyrotechnic, is a member of [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Ultimate Despair]] and an infamous bomber who's one of Future Foundation's most wanted criminals. Chikatilo has a fascination with explosions and violence, using [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the Tragedy]] to his advantage to turn people into "[[RainOfBlood beautiful fireworks]]". Responsible for a number of bombings and coming off his latest killing spree where he murdered a platoon of Future Foundation agents, turning one into one of his "[[MadArtist art pieces]]", Chikatilo sets his sights on Killer Killer for bragging rights. Knowing Future Foundation was planning to lure him out, he tried to trick Takumi and Juzo, disguised as him, into fighting each other before coming out and attacking the two. When Takumi managed to thwart his attempt, Chikatilo became more aggressive, killing countless people around him, before trying to blow up Takumi, his partner Misaki, and anyone around in a wide range explosion. A narcissist of carnage, with thousands of deaths to his name, Ted Chikatilo is one of the worst criminals in the world of ''Danganronpa''.
45	* DisappointingLastLevel: In general, the last trials in each of the games are not as well liked as some of the others, especially since [[ToughActToFollow the penultimate trials in the second and third games are considered among the best in the series]]. One common reason why people feel this way is because much of the final trials involve you listening to the BigBad make (admittedly shocking) revelations about the plot rather than working to solve the mystery yourself, to say nothing of all the controversy about V3's ending.
46	* DryDocking:
47	** Celestia Ludenberg. One of her more illustrious traits in why people consider her a character that can be fantasized about is her detailed gothic clothing, red eyes, smooth French accent, being a pointman in the first two trials, and her general need for a butler. Due to the natural attraction people have to her, community participants are deciding to create their own timelines in which Celestia is their most reliant friend or they are her submissive servant. This collective attraction may likely be due to them sympathising with her motivations, her using a layer of elegance and superiority to obfuscate the normalcy she deprecates herself for.
48	** Ibuki Mioda. Being the elaborative, enthusiastic, sly musician of abnormality she is, creating her own uniform to give herself an identity, she receives a heap of love from male players of Danganronpa. When compared to Celeste in terms of presentation, their moral codes seem represented as polar opposites, with Celeste being cold, manipulative, aggravated, and conniving, while Ibuki is open, enthusiastic, straightforward, and misunderstood.
49	* EpilepticTrees: After Spike Chunsoft posted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGtAU2WVnms this trailer]] for ''Danganronpa Decadence'', many fans have begun to suspect that ''Danganronpa S'' isn't just a simple LighterAndSofter BeachEpisode, but will instead be a DisguisedHorrorStory ala ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub''.
50	* FandomEnragingMisconception:
51	** Don't refer to ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' as ''[[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool Danganronpa 3]]'' or get the two mixed up. ''Danganronpa 3'' is the anime that culminates the Hope's Peak Academy saga, while ''Danganronpa V3'' is the third main game in the series, and follows an entirely different storyline and setting.
52	** There's no ''Danganronpa V1'' or ''Danganronpa V2''. The first game is ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' and the second game is ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair''. ''Danganronpa V3'' is named like that in order to differentiate it from the ''Danganronpa 3'' anime, as well as for an in-game reason.
53	** Assuming that the ImageSong for ''Trigger Happy Havoc'', "Saisei -rebuild-", is being sung by Nagito Komaeda or that the ending song of ''Goodbye Despair'', "Shukkō -departure-", is performed by Makoto Naegi is enough to aggravate someone. Although both characters share Creator/MegumiOgata as their voice actress, the former song is officially labeled as Makoto's signature song while the latter is considered to be Nagito's.
54	** Claiming that Chihiro is a trans girl will get you labeled as ignorant at best, and hateful at worst. It's only stated that Chihiro dressed up as a girl in order to avoid being bullied for not being masculine enough, not because he identified as such. In fact, Chihiro actually ''hates'' being treated like a girl, and doing so only worsened his insecurities.
55	* FandomSpecificPlot:
56	** The scenario practically ''begs'' for fans to create their own killing game stories, very often in the form of text-based roleplays. Needless to say, there are countless such fanfics of immensely varying quality.
57	** Retellings of the games with a new list of killers, victims, and survivors, are very common; not so much out of dislike for canon material, but more because fans want to see how much can change with just one different killer or victim. The first case is usually the target point for the "split".
58	** Partially but not always as an extension of the above, you'll often find fics whose premise is [[FixFic changing the death of a particular character]], with [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Mukuro]], [[Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool human Chiaki]], and [[VisualNovel/DanganRonpaV3KillingHarmony Kaede]] being the most common recipients.
59	** A "Talentswap AU" is a popular AU where some characters have a different Ultimate Talent than in canon, due to being a fun challenge for authors to fit the new talent into the characters' backstory and personality and a way to mix up the murders.
60	** Another common AU is a RoleSwapAU, where either [[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Class 77-B]] or [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony the inmates]] are trapped in Hope's Peak Academy, [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Class 78]] or the inmates are trapped on Jabberwock Island, and Class 77-B or Class 78 are trapped in a prison.
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62	* FanWorkOnlyFans: For quite awhile, anyone interested in the series who didn't speak Japanese was forced to make do with fan translations, Let's Plays, fic, and fanart. Now that the games have been localized, the franchise is ''much'' more accessible to those outside of Japan, though some tie-in novels and mangas still have yet to receive official translations, so if you want to read those, you'll have to rely on fan efforts. On another note, the franchise is ''wildly'' popular with cosplayers, some of whom have never played the games, thanks to the extremely unique and fun character designs. You don't need to know the story to think Junko's costume is awesome, after all.
63	* FriendlyFandoms:
64	** With ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', since they're both high-school set murder mysteries, have talking teddy bears, and some of the same voice actors.
65	** The ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' series, which is also a visual novel series about a DeadlyGame and solving an OntologicalMystery, and their creators merged.
66	** There is a lot of overlap between Danganronpa fans and fans of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'', likely due to the similarities between each series. Both series are [[VisualNovel visual novels]] centered around collecting evidence and using that evidence to direct discussion in trials. Both series are murder mysteries where you piece together increasingly complicated murders to single out the culprit.
67	** With ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'', as they're both visual novels about death games. In fact, it's widely agreed that a majority of the ''Your Turn to Die'' fandom came from the ''Danganronpa'' fandom.
68	** Many Danganronpa fans, especially those on Tumblr and Twitter, are also ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fans, due to being another franchise with a huge cast that pits teenagers against each other in a deadly game.
69	** For a Western animation example, there has been overlap with the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fandom, which originated from crossovers where the ImmoralRealityShow format of ''Total Drama'' is amped up to the murderous levels presented in ''Danganronpa''. It's common for people who are into both franchises to (ironically or not) draw comparisons between Monokuma and Chris [=McLean=]. The bond between both fandoms strengthened further with the airing of the 2023 reboot of ''Total Drama Island'', which features a GenderEqualEnsemble of sixteen contestants (including eight males and eight females) similar to the student casts in the main ''Danganronpa'' games, and has the losers be eliminated via the Drone of ''Despair''.
70	** [[OddFriendship Bizarrely enough]], there has been a lot of overlap between the ''Danganronpa'' fandom and ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', of all things, especially on the official TNO sub-Reddit. Also, there have been a lot of comparisons between [[BigBad Himmler]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/i2cq1o/tfw_there_is_only_despair_under_the_black_sun/ Junko]] and [[WideEyedIdealist Sablin]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/jg1f5d/hope_boi_sablin/ Makoto]] from their respective franchises. It helps that Himmler is prone to plunging people into despair, albeit via totalitarianism rather than a desire for chaos within itself, while Sablin is a HopeBringer to Russia if he remains idealistic. This eventually resulted in a fan made and dev-loved [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQaqC1YdID4 anime opening]] for ''TNO'' done in the style of ''Danganronpa 3'''s Despair Arc.
71	* GatewaySeries: The series was many people's gateway drug into visual novels as a medium, with its emphasis on characterization, storytelling and the addition of its murder mystery AdventureGame gameplay serving as something to ease people transitioning from run-of-the-mill video games into an outright visual novel fandom. It's not uncommon to see people immediately tackle other visual novels like ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'', ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'', ''Franchise/WhenTheyCry'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' as a result of being introduced to the medium through ''Danganronpa''.
72	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The franchise as a whole is quite big in Germany, to the point that ''Danganronpa: The Animation'' got an official dub there.
73	* TheInverseLawOfFandomLevity: The franchise is about a sequence of killing games set in a dystopian society revolving around a corrupt academy, conducted by a mad HopeCrusher who is openly and proudly evil, where the nightmarish aspects of it are played seriously and are meant to shock the viewer. The fandom, on the other hand, majorly prefers to joke about everyone's awful circumstances within the game's universe and have arguments over who is a better character. The fandom's casual responses fit the non-canon alternate modes out of the killing game timeline, of course, but that doesn't mean they fit the ''main'' timeline, which is where all the death and destruction occurs.
74	* ItWasHisSled:
75	** The identities of the {{Big Bad}}s behind Monokuma in each installment are among the most discussed topics in the series and slip into fanart, with at least the first one becoming public knowledge, as Junko with Monokuma-themed accessories is [[LateArrivalSpoiler promptly featured in artworks]], including ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaSUltimateSummerCamp'''s cover, giving away one of the reveals of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc''.
76	** Nagito's reputation as MemeticTroll and MemeticPsychopath precedes him, while in ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' his true personality isn't shown from the start.
77	** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' pulling a DecoyProtagonist. While the game has [[BrokenBase/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony plenty of controversies regarding the plot (among others)]], Shuichi at least being playable for most of the game instead of Kaede has become known even to non-fans.
78	* ItsPopularNowItSucks: The series basically got this treatment, especially with how many Let’s Plays and content creators the series got. (Specific incidents from the Fandom with certain content creators for the series did not help matters.)
79	* LGBTFanbase: The series has quite a large queer fanbase thanks to the amount of HoYay and LesYay that a huge chunk of the students have among themselves (with one of the most noticeable examples being [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc Kiyotaka and Mondo]]), some of the characters being heavily implied to be LGBT and some others acting in gender-defying ways.
80	* LoveToHate:
81	** Junko has so many resources and so many character revisions that people dissuade themselves from believing those traits of her exist and just decide to pay attention to the fact that she's a despair addict with a grand figure.
82	** While he could arguably be seen as part of what makes Junko this, as he's controlled by her in the first and second game, Monokuma's greater exposure in the series, namely the third game where Junko's nowhere in sight, makes him this. He's a {{Sadist}}ic [[CuteAndPsycho Teddy Bear]] who makes references to just about anything, and ''constantly'' CrossesTheLineTwice with his harassment and execution of the students, but fans tend to love him simply for how over-the-top he is about it.
83	* MagnificentBastard:
84	** [[Characters/DanganronpaNagitoKomaeda Nagito Komaeda]] is the "Ultimate Lucky Student", and a very cunning young man who believes all bad luck is destined to be offset by good luck. Nagito's plans begin in ''[[VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair Goodbye Despair]]'' by setting up a clever murder plot, and abets the true killer Teruteru Hanamura, so he can see whose hope shines brightest. Throughout the game, Nagito becomes a great ally to Hajime Hinata, who, although wary of him, can't help but respect his intellect, with him having solved the murders long before Hajime manages to. After finding out his friends are members of the Ultimate Despair, Nagito starts to distrust, despite telling Hajime he likes and respects him as a friend. Setting up his own murder in Chapter 5 of ''Goodbye Despair'' so only the traitor can survive, Nagito successfully weeds out the Future Foundation traitor amongst the class, and they are subsequently executed. In the end, while Hajime doesn't quite understand Nagito, he accepts him as a useful ally and Nagito's eventual death [[AlasPoorVillain genuinely resounds with everyone]].
85	** Gundham Tanaka is the "Ultimate Breeder" and an overdramatic {{chuunibyou}} who hides a devious mind behind his theatrics, performing one of the most complex murders in the Killing Game as the blackened of Chapter 4 of "Goodbye Despair". Trapped in the Funhouse with the threat of starvation, Gundham is against the group's choice to starve and begins plotting his own murder, uncovering and taking advantage the secret of the Funhouse to set a death trap difficult to trace back to him. Targeting Nekomaru, Gundham sets up the clocks to isolate him so he can battle him to the death, immobilizing him by using his hamsters before putting him in the death trap to fall to his death while he sets-up an alibi for himself, only being figured out due to circumstances out of his control. When proven guilty, Gundham respectfully confesses his side and uses his last words to encourage the group to not give up on life and comforting Sonia, finally heading to his execution where he saves his hamsters one last time before [[GoOutWithASmile dying with a smile]].
86	** ''Manga/KillerKiller'': The titular "[[SerialKillerKiller Killer Killer]]", Takumi Hijihara is a suave assassin who uses his skill to protect the world from other killers. After surviving a massacre committed by Mukuro Ikusaba, Takumi joined Future Foundation's 6th branch, partnering with Misaki Asano to investigate and stop prolific killers. With his ability to enter the killer's mindset, Takumi is able to figure them out before grading and killing them with a similar method to the killers' own MO. When his old friend Shuuji Fujigawa returns and takes Misaki and places a detonator on her neck which will activate a massive bomb killing millions unless Misaki is killed, out of jealousy of their budding romance, Takumi outs himself as Killer Killer, willing to become a fugitive to protect Misaki and defeats Fujigawa, deactivating the detonator with his cutting skills before running away taking Misaki with him to be with her in hiding.
87	** ''[[Literature/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavocIf Trigger Happy Havoc IF]]'': Mukuro Ikusaba, the Ultimate Soldier, is an expert combat specialist and strategist who previously assisted her sister Junko Enoshima’s plan to kickstart "The Tragedy". Collaborating with Junko in her mission to wipe out the Hope’s Peak survivors, Mukuro began to have a realization after she was saved by her friend Makoto Naegi from one of Junko’s deadly traps. Able to go hand to hand with Sakura after being accused of being the mastermind, Mukuro creates a distraction by taking advantage of Toko’s split personality Genocide Jack as she escapes with Makoto’s bleeding body to heal him. Disowned by her controlling, abusive sister, Mukuro switches sides and outwits Junko by pulling off a wild gambit to free her friends and ensure their survival. Mukuro ends the story willing to help rebuild the world, and to stop whatever plan Junko has in store.
88	** ''[[Theatre/{{Danganronpa}} Sayonara Zetsubō Gakuen THE STAGE]]'': [[Characters/DanganronpaNagitoKomaeda Nagito Komaeda]], the Ultimate Lucky Student, is the same carefree, hopeful WildCard as his game counterpart. A well-intentioned teenager who will do anything to counter despair, Nagito often takes advantage of his luck in his goal to create hope no matter who has to die, such as setting up a murder plot and using Teruteru’s knowledge of it to make him the killer. Rewarded with a dossier after winning a game of RussianRoulette, after discovering his and his classmates’ past as Ultimate Despair, Nagito uses a fake bomb threat to set up his own murder, creating an impossible trial where everybody would be killed except for the traitor. While more comedic and less sinister than his original counterpart, Nagito nevertheless impresses and entertains even on stage.
89	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound:
90	** "No, that's wrong!", or "Sore wa chigau yo!" in the Japanese version. Very much the franchise's equivalent of "[[Franchise/AceAttorney Objection!]]" and always fun to hear.
91	** [[https://youtu.be/mm1NT1aYJys "So how's about we put 8 hours on the clock and start that thing from now."]] There's a good reason why this voice sample is used in every entry as part of the Nonstop Debate music, as it gives them a manic, foot-tapping energy and makes them all incredibly catchy.
92	* NarmCharm: Danganronpa has this charm of awkwardness with Monokuma's antics being strange in his own psychopathic way. An example of this: the game switches between the grieving of the cast to the music of a miniature game/Monokuma being himself very randomly, like an attempt to cause MoodWhiplash for the viewer.
93	* ObscurePopularity: The franchise is well-known by the masses of people who follow it rather than the general public.
94	* ParanoiaFuel: The whole premise of the franchise ''thrives'' on this, and the masterminds exploit it for all it's worth whenever they can.
95	* PopularWithFurries: Monokuma, Usami/Monomi, and to a lesser extent the Monokubs all have a notable furry following.
96	* PraisingShowsYouDontWatch: At the franchise's beginning, a good portion of its Western praisers haven't played the games. Since [[NoExportForYou none of its works had releases outside of Japan]] at the time, it was pretty unknown until a LetsPlay of ''Trigger Happy Havoc'' made it popular. Despite a fan-translated English patch, ''The Animation'' was as far as many fans went. However, once the first two main games were officially released in the West through Steam, the problems were mostly remedied.
97	* ThemePairing: It is not uncommon for fans to pair characters together that have similar ultimate talents or personalities. Some examples include:
98	** Kazuichi Soda and Miu Iruma (Both have ultimate talents related to building things and working with machines).
99	** Kaede, Ibuki, and/or Sayaka (All three have music related ultimate talents).
100	** Tsumugi and Hifumi (Both have ultimate talents relating to anime/manga and are both obsessed with it).
101	* TearDryer: During a post-trial scene where the culprit explains their motive, aside from the endgame where there isn't a culprit to explain the motive, expect [[LaughablyEvil Monokuma]] to pop up and joke about it, then order their execution with sadistic glee.
102	* ViewerNameConfusion: There has been a lot of confusion over whether Toko's alternate personality is named Genocide Jack, Genocide Jill or Genocider Sho. To explain, Genocide Jack is used by the characters before they learn who she really is, at which point it's changed to Genocide Jill in the English version. The Japanese version and the anime both refer to her as Genocider Sho, and some have spelled it as Syo. In summary, it's all correct.
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109	[[index]]
110	* [[Adorkable/{{Danganronpa}} Adorkable]]
111	* [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation/{{Danganronpa}} Alternative Character Interpretation]]
112	* [[Anvilicious/{{Danganronpa}} Anvilicious]]
113	* [[BaseBreakingCharacter/{{Danganronpa}} Base-Breaking Character]]
114	* [[BrokenBase/{{Danganronpa}} Broken Base]]
115	* [[CaptainObviousReveal/{{Danganronpa}} Captain Obvious Reveal]]
116	* [[DracoInLeatherPants/{{Danganronpa}} Draco in Leather Pants]]
117	* [[EnsembleDarkHorse/{{Danganronpa}} Ensemble Dark Horse]]
118	* [[FanficFuel/{{Danganronpa}} Fanfic Fuel]]
119	* [[FanNickname/{{Danganronpa}} Fan Nickname]]
120	* [[FranchiseOriginalSin/{{Danganronpa}} Franchise Original Sin]]
121	* [[HarsherInHindsight/{{Danganronpa}} Harsher in Hindsight]]
122	* [[HeartwarmingInHindsight/{{Danganronpa}} Heartwarming in Hindsight]]
123	* [[HilariousInHindsight/{{Danganronpa}} Hilarious in Hindsight]]
124	* [[HoYay/{{Danganronpa}} Ho Yay]]
125	* [[ItWasHisSled/{{Danganronpa}} It Was His Sled]]
126	* [[JerkassWoobie/{{Danganronpa}} Jerkass Woobie]]
127	* [[Memes/{{Danganronpa}} Memetic Mutation]]
128	* [[MisaimedFandom/{{Danganronpa}} Misaimed Fandom]]
129	* [[Narm/{{Danganronpa}} Narm]]
130	* [[NeverLiveItDown/{{Danganronpa}} Never Live It Down]]
131	* [[NoYay/{{Danganronpa}} No Yay]]
132	* [[RonTheDeathEater/{{Danganronpa}} Ron the Death Eater]]
133	* [[TheScrappy/{{Danganronpa}} The Scrappy]]
134	* [[ScrappyMechanic/{{Danganronpa}} Scrappy Mechanic]]
135	* [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight/{{Danganronpa}} Ships That Pass in the Night]]
136	* [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter/{{Danganronpa}} They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]
137	* [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot/{{Danganronpa}} They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]
138	* [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic/{{Danganronpa}} Unintentionally Unsympathetic]]
139	* [[ValuesDissonance/{{Danganronpa}} Values Dissonance]]
140	* [[WhatAnIdiot/{{Danganronpa}} What an Idiot!]]
141	* [[Woobie/{{Danganronpa}} The Woobie]]
142	* [[Woolseyism/{{Danganronpa}} Woolseyism]]
143	[[/index]]
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145	[[/folder]]
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