Please note that this page and the Game Mod it covers contain MAJOR spoilers for Doki Doki Literature Club! If you have not played that game, it is strongly recommended that you do so before reading this page or playing the mod, as doing either first is very likely to ruin your experience.
Doki Doki Club Meetings is a series of fan-made, episodic Game Mods for Doki Doki Literature Club!, created by DokiDokiClubMeetings. After the events of the original DDLC, Sayori convinced Monika to bring back the world and everyone in it. The mod follows the (now weekly) meetings of the Literature Club as they cope with learning about the true nature of their reality, and their triumphs and struggles along the way.
It can be viewed on the mod's official Youtube channel here
. Alternatively, each of the three seasons can be downloaded for free as a full collection: Season 1, Season 2, Season 3.
This series of mods contains examples of the following tropes:
- Ascended Extra: Several minor characters from Season 1 have gained sprites and been given increased focus in later seasons, such as Ms. Ida in Season 2 and Rie in Season 3.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: One difference between Club Meetings and the original game is that textboxes are now color-coded to match the characters:
- Monika is green.
- Sayori is blue, which changes to black when she's especially depressed.
- Natsuki, Fuyuki, and minor characters keep the original pink.
- Yuri is purple.
- MC is yellow.
- Ms. Ida is silver.
- Kenzo is red.
- Comic-Book Time: In-universe. The simulation runs on what is essentially a time loop: the club members are always in their senior year, and their next year of school is always their senior year. The club breaks the loop and graduates for real at the end of Season 3.
- Couch Gag: The splash screen for each episode is different, usually written by whoever is club president at the time.
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: Every episode, the club takes some time to answer e-mails from viewers.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: The concept behind MC's mod in Season 2. It's even called "Obligatory Body Swap Episode"!
- Lighter and Softer: By virtue of its premise. While it's not afraid to cover many of the same dark topics as the original game (such as mental illness and unreality), Club Meetings is much nicer to the Literature Club as a whole.
- Noticing the Fourth Wall: While all the club members know about the fourth wall, only the one who holds the role of Club President can see things as they truly are — such as the UI, the anime art style, and the background music.
- Original Character: Several new characters are introduced who weren't in the original game. Some more notable ones include fellow classmates Kenzo and Rie, physics teacher Ms. Ida, and Natsuki's sister Fuyuki.
- Psychologist Teacher: Ms. Ida attempts to be one of these throughout Season 2, attempting to help the club through their shared trauma despite the club's reluctance to tell her what said trauma actually is. Eventually, after learning about the simulation, she becomes both a straight and inverted example — while she's willing to help the Literature Club through their troubles, she ends up being helped with her own problems just as much.
- Recursive Reality: Defied. Instances of Doki Doki Literature Club run within Doki Doki Literature Club don't contain sentient club members.
- Sixth Ranger: Ms. Ida becomes this for the Literature Club at the end of Season 2, after she briefly becomes club president and gains awareness of the nature of the simulation.
- Slice of Life: Much of the series is simply the day-to-day lives of the Literature Club.
