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''Super Dangan Ronpa 2: Good Bye Academy of Despair'' is the sequel to ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'', released in 2012.

Much like its predecessor, the game begins with a new student starting their first day at Hope's Peak Academy, an elite private school that only accepts the best of the best ''of the best'', no matter how eclectic their field. Hajime Hinata, the new guy, has always admired the school and is eagerly looking forward to attending... that is, until he arrives at the school for his first day and suddenly falls unconscious.

When he wakes up, Hajime finds himself trapped in a classroom with fifteen other new "Super High-School Level" students. They are greeted by a strange rabbit-like doll called "Usami", who promptly announces that they'll be going on a field trip. With a wave of her wand, the walls to the classroom fall apart to reveal that they have all been stranded on the tropical resort island of Jabberwock. Under Usami's instructions, the students [[ThePowerOfFriendship must bond with each other]] to gain the "[[RelationshipValues Fragments of Hope]]" needed to leave the island.

All of this is sadly for naught when Monobear suddenly shows up and violently usurps control of the island from Usami. He then reinstates the same "School Life of Mutual Killing" rules from the first game, meaning that the only way off the island is for one of the students to commit a [[ThePerfectCrime perfect murder]] and sacrifice the other students so that they alone can leave. While the flow of the game remains largely unchanged, the dynamics of certain mini-games have been drastically changed and new ones have been added to the mix as well: for example, some segments of Non-Stop Debate task you with finding the right statement to ''agree'' with, and other classmates can now interrupt ''you'' with an objection.

After completing the game, an alternate story is unlocked where [[spoiler:Usami strikes first against Monobear when he appears and manages to beat him as a result, preventing him from taking over. The field trip goes exactly as planned, giving you plenty of time to bond with your fellow classmates in peace]].

Like with the previous game, a [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3522115 translated]] Let's Play of the game is underway at the SomethingAwful forums, alongside ''LightNovel/DanganRonpaZero''.

This game is the subject of an ongoing LP and translation effort[[hottip:*: as of this writing, the LP is currently at the start of Chapter 2]]. A temporary spoiler-free page for this game has been set up [[Sandbox/SuperDanganRonpa2 HERE]]. Readers of the LP who wish to avoid being spoiled should go there.

There is also a wikia page for the game [[http://dangan-ronpa.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Dangan_Ronpa_2 here]] that contains a complete summary of the game, including unmarked spoilers.

Be warned, for this page has no spoiler restrictions, and will contain massive SPOILERS for the entire game. If you're spoiler-adverse, do not read ahead. Due to the nature of the game's story, please be careful in the use of spoiler tags.

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* AmnesiacHero: Hinata, who's most upset by the fact he can't even remember his talent. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that he does not have one, since he's one of the reserve course students.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: It's more a matter of when, and guessing who the final group of survivors are. [[spoiler:There is a glimmer of hope that they can still be revived, though.]]
* [[spoiler:ArtificialIntelligence]]: Monobear and Usami/Monomi are actually this. [[spoiler:Also the case with Nanami, Alter Ego, and Junko Enoshima.]]
* [[spoiler:AmnesiacDissonance: The survivors during chapter 6. Especially Hinata.]]
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Monobear's [[Main/{{Zoids}} Zoid-ish]] underlings that guard the gates to other island segments, and [[spoiler: the representation of Junko's alter ego]]
* BaitAndSwitch: The game ''loves'' to pull this and play on your expectations from the first game.
** Usami reassures everyone that they've been invited to an island to make friends with each other, complete with a peppy J-pop opening song... then Monobear shows up and immediately reverts everything to the "murder" format.
** In Chapter 1, [[spoiler:Komaeda ''confesses in court'' to a murder plot... but his plan actually ''failed'']].
** The execution of Chapter 1 [[spoiler:is a callback to the first execution in the original game... except Hanamura doesn't get blown up, he gets deep-fried in a volcano]].
** The victim of Chapter 1 [[spoiler:is not Togami, as the player is led to believe, but a Super High-School Level Imposter pretending to be him]].
* [[BeachEpisode Beach Scene]]: During the Prologue, Hinata doesn't fully relax until Usami gives everyone school swimsuits and encourages them to play on the beach. Chapter 2 features some more traditional beachside frolicking.
* BigBrotherIsWatching: Monobear. Even more so than the first game.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Just as the remaining students are about to hit the Graduate button (which would allow AI Junko to possess their dead friends) Naegi shows up to save them.]]
** Then later during the same trial, [[spoiler:Naegi needs two more people to initiate a forced shutdown and stop AI Junko. Cue the arrival of Kirigiri and Togami]].
* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: The survivors escape, but they lose their memories of the game and are "reset" to how they were as remnants of Super High-School Level Despair. Despite this, they stay on the Jabberwock Islands to tend to their comotose friends and have vowed to create a new future of hope for themselves. Also, despite the belief that Hinata would be "reset" to Izuru Kamukura and lost forever, he retains some measure of control and sanity, possibly via a SplitPersonalityMerge]].
* BlackComedy: Most of the executions fit this trope well.
* BodyOfTheWeek: It is a murder mystery game, after all.
* [[spoiler:BrainwashedAndCrazy: All of the cast members (except Nanami), as part of Super High-School Level Despair]].
* CallBack: [[spoiler:All the murders, really.]]
** In Chapter 1, [[spoiler:there is a failed murder attempt using a knife stolen from a kitchen]].
** In Chapter 2, [[spoiler:the victim is bludgeoned to death with a single blow. There are hints that a serial killer is responsible but that turns out to be untrue]].
** In Chapter 3, [[spoiler:there is a double murder, and the first body found is actually the second to be killed. The game also hints that two people are responsible (like the first game) but in this case it is a RedHerring]].
** In Chapter 4, [[spoiler:the murder appears to be a suicide at first. It isn't, but the final words of the actual culprit motivate the students to keep living]].
** In Chapter 5, [[spoiler:the murder is staged with the goal of having a specific target (or in this case, targets) executed by the trial. The victim's death also involves the Spear of Gungnir, and the initially suspected cause of death is not what killed them]].
* CheatCode: In Chapter 2, [[spoiler:Nanami reveals that the cryptic message at the end of ''Twilight Syndrome'' is actually a hint to a cheat code that can be entered at the title screen. It's required to beat the game and reveal the "motive"]].
* ClassTrip: The reason why the class has ended up on the island. At least, until Monobear showed up.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The executions of course.
* CultOfPersonality: The Super High-School Level Despair group worships the original "Super High-School Level Despair" [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]], going so far as to [[spoiler:carve up her dead body and surgically replace their own body parts with hers]].
* DeathByIrony: Not to as great an extent as the first game, but some of the executions still count:
** In Chapter 2, [[spoiler:Pekoyama (who believed herself to be a "tool" of Kuzuryuu) is literally controlled like a puppet by Monobear as she slices through an army of samurai. He then releases control of her ''just'' long enough for her instincts to kick in and accidentally slash Kuzuryuu, the person she had vowed to protect. In the following moment of weakness, she allows herself to be overwhelmed]].
** In Chapter 5, [[spoiler:Nanami is trapped in a no-win game by Komaeda's plot and chooses to sacrifice herself by confessing. In the following execution, she is ''again'' placed in a no-win game]].
* EmergencyTransformation: After TakingTheBullet, [[spoiler:Nekomaru Nidai]] is turned into a HollywoodCyborg.
* EmptyChairMemorial: Just like the first game, dead students are replaced during School Trials with a "memorial" picture that has their face crossed out. However, the game adds a bit more BlackComedy by ''customising'' the cross marks of certain students, namely [[spoiler:the guilty ones]]. The customisations are: [[spoiler:Hanamura's cross is a knife and fork; Mikan's cross is made up of bandages and rotated so it looks more like a first aid symbol; Peko's cross is a shinai and sheath; Gundam's cross is a capital letter "X"; and Komaeda's cross is dripping blood]].
* [[spoiler:EmptyShell: Monokuma claims the students killed in his game were reduced to this. Hope is held out in the end that their condition is more of a ConvenientComa.]]
* EyeScream: Monobear inflicts this on Usami when he takes over, then mocks her about it, calling her [[MeaningfulRename Monomi]] from then on.
** Later on, [[spoiler:Kuzuryuu loses an eye when he tries to stop Peko's execution]].
** During a montage that demonstrates the kind of self-mutilation that members of Super High-School Level Despair inflicted upon themselves, one of the examples is of someone who gouged out their own eye and replaced it with the eye of [[spoiler:Junko Enoshima]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early on, Monobear announces that there is a "traitor" in the group of sixteen students. [[spoiler:In many official images, such as the soundtrack album or even the image at the top of this page, Chiaki Nanami is either drawn separately from the main group or in a markedly different way (such as being upside down). She's the one who doesn't belong in the group]].
** Additionally, some of the decorated backgrounds behind the characters in the game's intro tell of later events. For example, [[spoiler: Gundam's background is that of glowing "magic circles", and during his execution he tries to save himself by drawing magic protection circles on the ground.]]
* HatePlague: A non-supernatural version of this is essentially the end result of Super High-School Level Despair's ideology. [[spoiler:It began when the reserve students were BrainwashedAndCrazy by Junko Enoshima and revolted against Hope's Peak Academy over their shabby treatment compared to the "main course" students. This spread into general social revolt due to the talents of SHSL Despair as the "have nots" rebelled against the "haves", and eventually descended into war without purpose]].
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:The ''entire main cast'', who realise that they are the students who caused The Biggest, Most Despair-Inducing Incident In All Of Human History]].
** [[spoiler:Hinata]] realizes that the person who allowed the events of the game to take place was [[spoiler:himself, when he smuggled the AI Junko program into the system as Izuru]].
* HormoneAddledTeenager: Hanamura, and Souda to a lesser extent.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Monobear reveals early on that all of the cast have had their memories stolen by the Future Foundation. [[spoiler:This is true, but for good reason: they were all traumatic memories of their time as part of Super High-School Level Despair, and the New World program was designed to create new, happier memories to fill the gap]].
* LighterAndSofter: The game starts out looking like this. Its first opening animation is very upbeat, almost dating sims like, and the colors of the characters and the environment are notably much brighter than its predecessor. And then Monobear comes into the picture...
* LoopholeAbuse: In Chapter 5, Hinata demands that Monobear stop [[spoiler:Komaeda from blowing up the islands]] by pointing out that it breaks one of the rules. [[spoiler:Monobear refuses, stating that the "no-one can kill more than two people" rule does not take effect until ''after'' it has been broken]].
* LostForever: On a given playthrough, you obviously can't spend Free Time with someone after their death. In addition, if the player doesn't spend time with [[spoiler:Nagito Komaeda]] during the first two free time opportunities in Chapter 1, you can still spend time with them but ''cannot'' get their actual Free Time events.
* [[spoiler:LotusEaterMachine: The entire game is revealed to be this, as a radical new method for rehabilitating those who were BrainwashedAndCrazy by Junko and Super High-School Level Despair by replacing their traumatic memories with new, happy ones]].
* MeaningfulEcho: [[spoiler:Naegi uses 11037 as a pass-code for the students to use to assure their safety, the same "number" Maizono scrawled on the wall to save him during the first game's first trial.]]
* MindScrewdriver: This game clears up a lot of the confusion in the first Dangan Ronpa game. For example, in Super Dangan Ronpa 2, you finally learn what on earth the The Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident in the History of Mankind was: [[spoiler:it started as a revolt by the reserve course students after they were brainwashed by Junko using footage of the first "School Life of Mutual Killing", in which Izuru Kamukura slaughtered the majority of the student council. Furious at Hope's Peak for placing them on the reserve list in favour of sinking money into Izuru Kamukura, the reserve students went on a rampage that descended into war without purpose through the talents of SHSL Despair]].
* MindVirus: The "Despair Disease" that Monobear spreads in Chapter 3.
* MoodWhiplash: Several. Some of the more notable ones:
** In Chapter 2, an extended {{Fanservice}} sequence ends with [[spoiler:Souda stumbling across the second murder victim]].
** In Chapter 3, one of the survivors tries to raise everyone's spirits with [[spoiler:a rock concert]], provoking some hilarious reactions... until Monomi interrupts with the news that [[spoiler:one of the others is trying to kill Monobear]], and everyone runs off, leaving the organizer in tears.
* NebulousEvilOrganisation: [[spoiler:The Future Foundation is made out to be this by Monobear. At first Hinata believes it to be true because the Future Foundation took away his memories. Except it turns out that the Future Foundation was on the side of the students all along, and the entire game was an attempt to rehabilitate their BrainwashedAndCrazy personalities instead of just killing them all. In fact, the final chapter has Hinata subverting the trope by ''shooting down his own arguments'' about how everything is the fault of the Future Foundation]].
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Komaeda claims to be this. [[spoiler:Subverted, as he is ''insanely'' lucky. But played straight with Hinata, who ''has'' no Super High-School Level talent]].
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Chapter 3's motive has this happen to several characters thanks to Monobear infecting people with a "despair disease" in order to provide a "motive" to kill.
* TheRemnant: [[spoiler:The entire cast of students, with the exception of Nanami]], are what's left of [[spoiler:the original SHSL Despair group that kickstarted The Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident In Human History]].
* SacrificialLamb: Hiyoko teases Souda by calling him a 'background character' who's doomed to suffer an early death. His profile on the official Japanese site even implies the exact same thing. [[spoiler:Subverted, because he's ''not''! He doesn't kill anyone and he isn't executed, while Hiyoko herself gets killed in chapter 3]].
* SadisticChoice:
** Chapter 4's motive boils down to [[spoiler:choosing between starving to death alongside everyone else or committing murder to get out.]]
** In Chapter 5, [[spoiler:Komaeda's ThanatosGambit forces the students to either convict an innocent party (the one who accidentally and unknowingly killed him) or sacrifice her so that they can live]].
** In the final chapter, the students are given a choice: [[spoiler:choose to "Graduate" and leave the island with their new memories but enable the mastermind's AI to hijack the bodies of everyone who died in the game; willingly stay in the LotusEaterMachine with all of their friends but doom the three members of the Future Foundation who came in to help them; or force a shutdown that would destroy the mastermind's AI but also erase their new memories, resetting them back to how they were before the game started along with the memories of all the atrocities they committed as part of Super High-School Level Despair]].
* ShoutOut:
** At one point Monobear seems to use [[JojosBizarreAdventure Heaven's Door]].
* ShowWithinAShow: In Chapter 2, Monobear presents the students with a doujin game called ''Twilight Syndrome'', which functions as ShmuckBait: completing the game reveals a motive to kill, but if you choose not to play and someone else does, [[ParanoiaFuel then you might be in danger and not know about it]]. In the end it gets revealed that [[spoiler:the game covers a murder that happened during the period that their stolen memories are from, implied to be the murder of Kuzuryuu's sister]]
* ShutUpHannibal: A lengthy monologue at the start of Chapter 2 is finally cut off by an unknown speaker screaming "''[[BigShutUp SHUT UP!]]''" (It's later revealed that this was [[spoiler:Souda]].))
* StuffBlowingUp: In Chapter 5, [[spoiler:Komaeda decides the best way to flush out the traitor is to start blowing up ''everything'', threatening to destroy all of the islands unless they expose themselves. It turns out to be a bluff]].
* TallPoppySyndrome: [[spoiler:The mysterious voice who talks to Komaeda in the mind-screwy "Chapter 0" believes that the world is like this, with talentless people hunting down those with talents and driving the world into an evolutionary dead end. It's revealed near the end that the voice belongs to Izuru Kamukura]].
* TenLittleMurderVictims: Monobear invokes this by announcing early on that there is a "traitor" in the group of sixteen students. [[spoiler:Subverted on multiple levels: Yes, there is a mole. No, she is ''not'' a murderer but instead is a "mole" working for the good guys to observe and support the students. And no, the knowledge and suspicion of a "mole" does ''not'' lead anyone to commit murder: Komaeda uses this excuse as a bluff to try and kill everyone ''but'' the mole]].
* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Inverted in-series with the game ''Twilight Syndrome'', which comes with a disclaimer that the events depicted are entirely factual. [[spoiler:It's never revealed if they ''are'', but the evidence is enough for Kuzuryuu to order a murder]].
* TreacheryCoverUp: [[spoiler:Hope's Peak attempted to cover up Kamukura's murdering the student council because of his involvement in the Ultimate Hope Project. When SHSL Despair revealed this to the world, ''all hell broke loose''.]]
* VillainBasedFranchise: Monobear returns.
* VillainHasAPoint: In Chapter 4, [[spoiler:Gundam]] shoots back after being berated for being the culprit:
-->[[spoiler: If one would call murder so that one may live "evil", then what must one call surrendering on life itself?! If the world shall name it just, then I shall fight that world with all my strength! For to renounce life and choose death is to blaspheme life. It is the perversion of nature, the conceit of mankind! ]]
* WhatIf: Two examples:
** Completing the game once unlocks ''Dangan Island'', an alternate scenario where Monobear fails to take over and the class trip goes as planned, focusing on socializing and getting to know your classmates better.
** ''Dangan Ronpa IF'', meanwhile, asks "WhatIf Naegi [[spoiler:regained his memories]] before the murders started in ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa''?"
* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Hinata, whose self-hatred and longing to be "talented" was so strong that he willingly took part in a project to supresss his real identity and be rebuilt as the multi-talented "Super High-School Level Hope", Izuru Kamukura. Then he fell under Junko's influence, murdered the student council, kickstarted The Worst, Most Despair-Inducing Incident Of All Human History, and made the events of ''Super Dangan Ronpa 2'' possible by smuggling AI Junko into the LotusEaterMachine]].
* WorldOfBuxom: The female cast members (except for Mahiru and Hiyoko) are drawn this way in the [[http://comic.mag-garden.co.jp/beats/2737.html Super High-school Level Good Luck and Hope and Despair]] spinoff manga.

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