Funny / Danganronpa: Galactic Melancholy

With all the angst and heartbreak happening in this story, you need some funny moments.

Examples

General

• The concept of The Ultimate Imposter choosing to impersonate Teruteru Hanamura out of all people is hilarious by itself, especially considering the size difference◊ between the two.
• For the first three chapters, the 'Hiyoko Moments', wherein Hiyoko immediately jumps into accusing someone of being the Blackened, only to be shot down because she wasn't paying attention to any of the evidence. Fortunately for her, she learns her lesson after becoming Chihiro's protege.
  • Unfortunately for a certain someone, Mono-Kaito ended up taking over as the Class Trial's Butt-Monkey starting at Chapter 5.
• Ever since the first motive, the students couldn't stop bringing up the "bomb motive" for as far as Chapter 3. Mono-Kaito was understandably irritated that the students kept thinking that the host would use the "bomb motive" again.
• Listening to the majority of the Mono-Kaito Theater is nothing but pure torture for Chihiro.

Prologue

• Despite being horrified at the discovery that he is trapped in a spaceship far into space for a Killing Game, Keebo couldn't resist the urge to take a picture of the view of space.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

• During the fighting competition, Hiyoko attempted to defeat Keebo with a Groin Attack. Unfortunately, being a robot, Keebo was protected with Balls of Steel.
• Before Mono-Kaito presents the next motive, everyone assumes it's going to be a bomb again, much to his consternation.
• One of the new labs opened this chapter belongs to Celestia Ludenberg, the Ultimate Princess. What's inside the lab? An elegant ballroom? A fancy tea party? Nope. Just a plain old horse stable with a dirt floor.
  The reactions ranged from eye-twitching (on Celeste's part), to dull shock (Korekiyo) to laughing like they were possessed by the demon of laughter (Hiyoko "Zero Class in the Presence of Royalty" Saionji).
  • What makes the whole thing even more hilarious is that one can theorize that Mono-Kaito gave Celeste the worst lab in the ship solely for payback for all the times she's called him an idiot.
    "Hope you like your new digs Taeko :D"
• Almost everyone panicked when Nekomaru accidentally sent Keebo's head off his body after a strong pat behind his head. This is because almost everyone didn't know Keebo was a robot, so they thought Nekomaru accidentally killed Keebo.
  Akane: (Horrified) A star in the sky has been extinguished!
  Angie: (Excited) We have one hour to investigate the cause!

Chapter 3

• Keebo, Kirumi, and Korekiyo learn that Mono-Kaito is scared of ghosts after the latter's reaction to seeing the haunted house background in Keebo's lab. So Korekiyo gave him a little "Boo" and send the poor host running away terrified.
• After developing a crush on Chihiro, Hiyoko couldn't help but start acting like a Tsundere. Even the author was clearly enjoying this.
• After Keebo destroyed the map for the 3rd motive, Mono-Kaito was absolutely livid. Unfortunately for Mono-Kaito, his day only got worse when Celeste (using the new info about the host's fear of ghosts) scared him with a surprise "Boo" from behind. The poor captain became terrified and proceeded to trip & fall face-first into the ground.
• After Chihiro snapped Hiyoko out of her Despair Event Horizon, the rest of the class happen to see Chihiro grasping on Hiyoko's shoulders while smiling at her. It isn't hard to see what sort of speculations were running through their heads...
  Taeko: (Stern) Mr. Fujisaki, is now the best time to try to get your first kiss?
• It seems old habits die hard for Korekiyo.
  Chihiro: (Determined) Seesaw effect!
  Nekomaru: (Confused) Seesaw effect?
  Korekiyo: (Excited) Seesaw effect!
  Hiyoko: (Confused) What the shit?
  Korekiyo: (Embarrassed) Sorry, I like seesaws.
• The culmination of the 'Hiyoko Moment' running gag, wherein Chihiro actually uses something Hiyoko said to solve the case, much to everyone's shock.
  Chihiro: (Spirited) Hiyoko, that's it!
  Hiyoko: (Surprised) What's it? Did I do something wrong again?
  Chihiro: (Proud) No, you helped solve the case!
  Hiyoko: (Shocked) I did!?
  Everyone else: (Shocked) She did!?
  Toko: (Shocked)... ...Y-You're kidding me, right?

Chapter 4

• The Stinger of Chapter 3 was Chihiro being suffocated by a faceless. So how did Chapter 4 start off? Chihiro waking up in Hiyoko's bed with Hiyoko. Hilarity Ensues.
  • This little line by Taeko when he found out about Chihiro and Hiyoko supposedly sleeping together last night.
    Taeko: (Whispering to Hiyoko) The Teruteru in me congratulates you on getting a boy into your bed.
• How did Hiyoko save Chihiro from the before-mentioned faceless? A surprise Groin Attack.
• The party that was held in Korekiyo's lab.
  • The party starts off with a bottle of alcohol brought to the table that Chihiro, Hiyoko, Angie and Akane are sitting at, which Hiyoko and Akane find to be a bad idea, only for Chihiro to try and reassure them nothing bad will happen.
    Chihiro: It’s fine. I’m only going to have a sip.
    Three shots later…
    Chihiro: (Belligerent) Why the hell are you crying!?
  • The party ends up devolving into a short-tempered Chihiro and a crybaby Angie arguing, and Celeste and Kirumi, the two most proper students getting into a drinking contest, during which they insult and make fun of each other, all the while the sober students try to take care of them.
• Mono-Kaito attempting to make a flashy appearance by teleporting on top of the Atua statue... except it failed since Kuma hid from Mono-Kaito about the statue have been toppled over.
• The fact that Angie just nonchalantly confirms Hiyoko's alibi and Celeste dumbfounded reaction to it can earn a good chuckle.
• A bit of dark humor: When Angie found out that Taeko tried to kill her in order to save Kirumi from the flu motive, not only did Angie act surprisingly nonchalant about almost being killed but she even casually questioned Taeko why he went through all the trouble of luring her to the fourth floor to kill her when he could have just killed her back in the Nurse's Room and be done with it. Naturally, everyone was disturbed by well Angie was taking the news of her almost-death.

Hope's Peak Chapters

• Turns out that, even as an Ultimate Detective in this AU, Himiko still believes in magic.
• Turns out "Teruteru" got into some trouble with the yakuza and needed Korekiyo's help with it.
  • This becomes even funnier because it is similar it is to how canon Yasuhiro got in trouble with the yakuza for trying to swindle a yakuza member with his fortune telling.
• Three(four?) words: Ultimate Moral Cum-ass.

Chapter 5

• After Mono-Kaito temporarily suspended the Killing Game, he deleted all but one rule. Which rule he left intact? It was the rule against scaring him.
• After Angie pulled off "The Reason You Suck" Speech to both Celes and Kiruma (since the latter two were fighting), she demanded to know what is going on. Hiyoko proceeded to info dump her.
  Hiyoko:: Well, to give you the quick rundown... ...There's an intruder on the ship, Kirumi found a map, Mono-Kaito put the Killing Game on hold, suspending the rules in the process, and we can't enter the elevator.
  Angie: ...(Confused) Run that by me again?
• Everyone's shock on how Angie was able to resolve the issue of being unable to move the bookcase in order to access the elevator. Her answer: just destroy the bookcase.
• Chihiro trying out the "Shit Pill". It was clearly a bad idea.
• The awkward situation where Chihiro and Hiyoko, after being separated from everyone else, found themselves in Mono-Kaito's abandoned love hotel. This gets even more awkward because Chihiro had very recently found out that Hiyoko is in love with him, leading the poor guy to turn into a blushing mess.
• Kuma keeps failing to get everyone to accept the renaming of the Mono-Kaito File as the Kuma File.
  "Celeste": (Pissed) If you do not stop interrupting with that babble, I shall motion to start calling it the Cu-(Censored because we’ve already used this word once this fanfic) File!
  Kuma: (Sweating)...N-Noted.
• When everyone started questioning whether Nagito could actually be alive, Angie pointed out how Nagito was the only one whose body was seemingly unharmed (as he 'died' via an injection of poison). However, when Angie started to casually list down all the brutal ways that the other dead students had died, Taeko was understandably horrified.
  Taeko: (Horrified) Ms. Yonaga! Jesus!
  Angie: (Casual) What’d I say?
• In the last part of Chapter 5, Kuma attempted to offer Chihiro the role of being the co-host of the Killing Game. Unsurprisingly, Chihiro gave out a stern and immediate no. What sells this is how taken aback Kuma was concerning how Chihiro answer so quickly that the boy didn't even give a second to think about the offer.

Chapter 6

• When Nekomaru was suspected as the mastermind, Mono-Kaito admitted that this outcome was unsurprising because of how Nekomaru had been accused in every murder in the Killing Game. Nekomaru was understandably pissed.
  • This comes up again when Angie, who had been separated from the group earlier, ended up returning to the group in the middle of the Class Trial. Upon learning that Nekomaru is suspected as the mastermind, just like Mono-Kaito, Angie express her blatant lack of surprise of this turn of events because of Nekomaru's bad luck of being accused for murder in all the previous Class Trials. Poor Nekomaru was depressed by Angie's reaction.
• Mono-Kaito was understandably confused when the group saw several tapes where each student confessed to being the Mastermind. He even questioned everyone if this whole Killing Game was just an elaborate prank.

Epilogue

• The awkward situation where Taeko/The Ultimate Imposter (who was dressed up as Teruteru) crossed paths with the real Teruteru.

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