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Main installments
- Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
- Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
- Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School
- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Spin-offs
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Other Entries
- Why do the first executions in each game always stand out as a Cruel and Unusual Death even compared to the rest of them? Simple, it's because they're the first execution. In each game, everyone is usually skeptical of Monokuma's claims at first, and doubt he has as much power and brutality as he says like he does. In making the first punishment as agonizing and brutal as he can, he sets the precedence that he's every bit as scary as schoolmates planning to commit murders, and defying him just flat out isn't an option. It's also meant to shock out any hope that they have that this experience won't be unpleasant as it's made out to be, and getting caught if you decide to take the leap is going to be bad, making the future murders more elaborate and better planned.
- In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF, the mastermind briefly pretends to be a Hope's Peak upperclassman named "Besshiki Madarai." In Danganronpa Zero, there's a Hope's Peak student that is an upperclassman named Isshiki Madarai who is part of a set of octuplets with 1-8 based Numerical Theme Naming (Isshiki, Nishiki, Mishiki, Yoshiki, Goshiki, Rokushiki, Shichishiki, and Yasshiki).
- Junko Enoshima (the real one) has been described as Brilliant, but Lazy. While she's hardly lazy (she'd have to be quite a hard worker to go to the trouble of setting up and carrying out her scheme), it would make perfect sense if she was, as despair and laziness are both aspects of the Deadly Sin of Sloth. Danganronpa 3 reveals that she was dependent on Mukuro for the Tragedy plans, so perhaps she was indeed a bit lazy, if brainwashing by despair anime instead of Hannibal Lecturing is any indication.
- Some of the students' talents don't really make sense due to not really being talents, such as Mondo's "Ultimate Biker Gang Leader" from Trigger Happy Havoc and Fuyuhiko's "Ultimate Yakuza" and Sonia's "Ultimate Princess" from Goodbye Despair. However, while those may not be talents in and of themselves, all of them involve some form of leadership or other, and the students with them would therefore know quite a lot about managing large organizations (or countries in the case of Sonia). Fuyuhiko would also likely know a lot about various criminal activities, and Mondo would have good knowledge in regards to controlling lots of unruly thugs. It may be that their titles in this case are just short-hand for a wide variety of talents that people with such titles would bring to the table.
- After the release of Danganronpa Kirigiri, some found strange how Kyoko's grandfather became her Captive as the relationship between the two seemed purely business-like, also considering he's the main cause of her emotional issues, in contrast to Yui whom she's shown to grow very close with. Come volume 7 and it turns out Yui died. Foreshadowing much?
- Makoto's secret being that he wet the bed until fifth grade is really ordinary and embarassing, but the short novel Makoto Naegi's Secret File reveals that he lived an even more humiliating experience. So why that wasn't his secret during the second motive? As stated in the title, it's his Secret File. While everyone might have just revealed their secrets to each other during their school life, Makoto most likely kept everything to himself, considering the events way too embarassing. So not even Junko knew about it.
