Main installments: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc | Danganronpa Zero | Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair | Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School | Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Spin-offs: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF | Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls
Adaptations: Danganronpa: The Animation
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Creepy as that face is, the girl below it is the most threatening one in this image.
- Anything to do with The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in History of Hope's Peak's history is this, especially as the readers learn bit by bit what the incident was about.
- Even knowing what's coming, the novel as a whole has an uncomfortable sense of dread. With the Tragedy of Hope's Peak having taken place and The Parade in full swing throughout the background, the first dominoes that will lead to the The Tragedy are already in motion.
- Hope's Peak Academy, originally portrayed as a beautiful utopian school in the first game, is put on full display as the corrupt, greedy, elitist establishment that it truly was. Under the tyranny of the Steering Committee, they treat Reserve Course students as cashcows and segregate them from the Ultimate students; they have no trouble covering up murders that take place on school grounds, and even force some of their own students to solve the situations for them.
- At one point, they try to pressure Yasuke Matsuda into interrogating one of the survivors of the Tragedy of Hope's Peak. When he asks what happens if he refuses, the Committee members laugh and say he doesn't have a choice, even threatening to have Ryoko expelled if he doesn't comply.
- Ryoko Otonashi herself at times. Do NOT try to keep her away from Yasuke.I wanna meet Matsuda-kun. I wanna meet Matsuda-kun. I wanna meet Matsuda-kun.
- The fate of Sōshun Murasame, the student council president. He was the sole survivor of the Tragedy of Hope's Peak and had become an Empty Shell as a result of the trauma. While being questioned by Yasuke, the mere mention of Junko makes him become a violent psychopath, drooling and ranting about how he wanted to kill her. Yasuke strangles him to protect Junko and his death is covered up by the school as a suicide.
- Ryoko receives a letter that tells her to come to the Central Plaza at 1 AM if she wants her old memory notebooks back. When she does, she sees someone standing by the fountain. She asks if they're the one who called her there, but gets no reply. When she gets closer to see if something's wrong, she gets a look at the man's face. His eyes are bloodshot and his tongue hang limply from his mouth. As the wind picks up, she also notices he's not standing. He's hanging from a rope around his neck. Underneath him is one of her missing notebooks. And when she turns around, the body disappeared. It turns out Yasuke had been covering up the deaths to keep suspicion off Ryoko.
- Ryoko discovers the fate of the last two members of the Steering Committee: they are kidnapped by a cult of despair-obsessed Reserve Course students and had their eyes sewn shut and locked in cages.
- Fake!Junko (actually Mukuro) playing around with one of the Madarai brothers' corpse after killing him.
- After killing Yuto when he discovered the truth of the Tragedy of Hope's Peak and Junko's involvement in it, Yasuke realizes that caring for Junko was his despair, so he tries to kill Ryoko. This made Ryoko remember she is really Junko and she stabs him.
- Junko beating Yasuke's dead corpse till there's nothing left but a lump of meat. It brings up imagery one would associate with Corpse Party.
