A Trial Series from the r/Danganroleplay Subreddit which began with the murder of Peko Pekoyama and went on to feature a full killing game of Six Trials. Began in Season 6
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General Tropes for the Series
- Show Within a Show: Over the course of the series, Hifumi creates, "Maho Shojo Grand Tour", a Magical Girl series starring pastiches of the cast with Sayaka and Leon as the leads.
- Smug Snake: Byakuya acts even more smug than usual throughout the series, even while his plans fail or while Rail Roading.
Class Trial 51
The Killing Game Participants find themselves spending a night imprisoned in the Weapon's factory with a knockout gas rendering them asleep at random intervals. After they awaken in their own cottages the following morning, they discover that Peko Pekoyama has been murdered and Toko suddenly disappears.
Tropes for The Original Trial
- Left Hanging: Toko's disappearance is not resolved by the end of the trial.
- Knockout Gas
- Slain in Their Sleep: An enforced Aversion, as Monokuma forbids the players from taking advantage of the knock-out gas to kill any unconscious players.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Mondo and Leon form this relationship
Class Trial 51-2
On the Morning after Peko's trial, Fuyuhiko and the missing Toko are both found dead in the Hotel Lobby
Tropes for The Second Trial
- Dead All Along: Toko turns out to have been murdered before the previous trial even began.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Mondo and Leon.
- Manipulative Bastard: Byakuya is revealed to have convinced Fuyuhiko that Toko was Peko's killer in order to get him to kill her.
- Never My Fault: Even after being caught, Byakuya insists that he never made any mistakes, attributing the fault of his defeat to his incompetent victims.
- Revenge Before Reason: Fuyuhiko murdered Toko under the mistaken belief that she was Peko's killer.
- Unwitting Pawn: Fuyuhiko
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Byakuya murders Fuyuhiko after being confronted over his lie with Toko.
Class Trial 51-3
As strange suspicious incidents shake up Jabberwock Island, Leon is found unconscious in the Beach House with the dead bodies of Mikan and Sakura.
Tropes for The Third Trial
- The Cloud Cuckoolander Was Right: Hifumi spends the beginning of the trial ignoring the case in favour of working on his manga, but eventually lays the first serious accusation against Sayaka.
- Et Tu, Brute?: After two trials building up their friendship, Mondo is forced to struggle with Leon's obvious role in a murder plot.
- False Friend: The Bromance between Leon and Mondo turns out not to be enough to stop Leon from partnering up with Sayaka to commit murder.
- Iconic Sequel Character: The trial which introduces Hifumi's magical girl manga and Keon.
- Humiliation Conga: Leon lets himself be knocked out as part of the plan and wakes up to find himself as a prime suspect, with a drawing of him in a Magical Girl Outfit in evidence, and nicknamed Keon.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Leon
Class Trial 51-4
Hifumi Yamada's play adaptation of Magical Girl Grand Tour ends tragically with a sudden fire and the murder of Yasuhiro Hagakure.
Tropes for The Fourth Trial
- Bad Liar: Hifumi is able to put up a competent defence when he's being accused of the murder, but falls apart whenever accused of his actual crimes.
- Incredibly Conspicuous Drag
- The Peeping Tom: Hifumi is revealed to have been under the stage taking upskirt photos of Sonia
- School Play: One featuring Hifumi's manga from the previous trial.
Class Trial 51-5
Despite the survivors resisting motive after motive, Kazuichi Soda is found murdered. Without a proper motive from Monokuma in play.
Tropes for The Fifth Trial
- Asshole Victim: Kazuichi may have been plotting a murder, although the reveal that a second Kazuichi running around throws that into question.
- Caught on Tape: Kazuichi turns out to have been recording everybody's actions with bugged mp3 players that he handed out. The recordings go on to be major pieces of evidence for piecing together his murder.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Hifumi realizes how the theft was committed fairly early on, but is ignored.
- Framing the Guilty Party: Celeste writes her own name in Kazuichi's blood with this intent. Backfires when Hifumi takes it completely seriously and spends the whole trial pushing her as the culprit.
- Killed Off for Real: Monomi's destruction at Hifumi's hands turns out to have been permanent, removing her from the series.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Hifumi insists that Celeste is the culprit from the start because of the bloody writing left behind.
Class Trial 51-6
When Nagito Komaeda is found dead along with a mysterious unidentifiable body, the remaining survivors of the Killing Game prepare to face the Mastermind. Unaware that in Hope's Peak Academy, some old friends are dealing with a murder of their own.
Tropes for The Final Trial
- Big Bad Slippage: Byakuya is revealed to not only be the mastermind, but to be the actual Byakuya who escaped from Hope's Peak Academy.
- Big Damn Heroes: Makoto arrives before Byakuya can delete the simulation to rescue the Participants and reprimand Byakuya.
- Death Is Cheap: The dead students turn out to respawn in the Ancient Ruins.
- Gender Bender: Hifumi spends the first trial shapeshifted into Sayaka's form. And spends the second trial wanting to do it again.
- Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Byakuya pulls this twice. He ends the first trial with a mass execution without letting the players actually vote as soon as they identify him as the mastermind who killed Nagito and Mondo. Then he decides to delete the winners of the second trial.
- Kill and Replace: Byakuya does this with Mondo in the first trial, imitating him for a trial with Hifumi, Mahiru, and Chiaki.
- Me's a Crowd: A second Peko is accidently created.
- Price on Their Head: Mondo received one upon dying and awakening in the Ancient Ruins, with the previously dead students offered a chance of escaping as a group if one of them kills him.
- Railroading: Byakuya
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Although he can't actually leave, Hifumi eventually begins refusing to investigate the second trial any further after getting fed up with Byakuya's smug attitude and noting the futility of any victory that could come from winning the trial and being subject to more of Byakuya's whims.
- They Killed Kenny Again: Mondo is a victim in both trials.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Byakuya's justifies torturing the AI duplicates of his classmates as a victimless crime due to their AI nature. Makoto disagrees.
- Who Wants to Live Forever?: After deposing Byakuya, Makoto warns the A.I.s that they'll be unable to die for as long as the server exists, making them theoretically immortal, and offers to delete them if they wish. But since the cast are still highschoolers, none of them have lived long enough to be concerned about that.
