Makoto Naegi gets a super lucky break and enters the highly prestigious school, Hope's Peak High School. But things take a turn for the worse when Makoto learns that he's trapped in that school for the rest of his life unless he kills a classmate!
This episode provides examples of:
- Adaptational Distillation:
- This introductions for all of the other students are toned down to a few sentences, whereas in the game they received several short paragraphs.
- The origin of the golden sword in Makoto's room is changed from he and Sayaka taking it from the gym for defense to one of Monokuma's "housewarming gifts".
- Art Shift: The deadly execution at the beginning of the episode shows the art used for executions to the viewer for the first time.
- Deadly Game
- Murder Is the Best Solution: Monokuma sets up the Mutual Killing Game so that the participants have to kill each other in order to leave.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: The episode starts with an unknown man being executed by Monokuma.
