Spoilers for all canon Danganronpa games as well as the Another series will be unmarked. You have been warned!
- Adorkable: Everyone in the Cuddle Puddle has their moments. Yes, even Gundham. Most (if not all) of the Quantum Crew in general can be considered this.
- Author Tract: In the segment where Akane and Chiaki are first teleported to the good future 2030s, some of it comes across as this to some readers. Many megacorps are gone in that future, people are focusing on saving the planet, and technology has advanced in environmentally green ways. The next gen kids even lampshade how things are far different to what they’ve grown up with.
- Broken Base: Both in-universe and out, the decision to mindwipe versus kill Kanade. The Quantum Crew has a distinct no-killing policy, but the idea of erasing Kanade's memories brought up significant moral concerns as well. The decision was made by an anon vote, where mindwiping her won out strongly.
- Epileptic Trees: Before their reveal, many asks were full of guesses as to who the remaining two time travelers were.
- I Knew It!: Due to Akane's behavior upon seeing Yoruko, as well as the various hints, many people quickly guessed that the third time traveler, as well as Akane's AI, was Sora.
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: One of the best things to come out of this story was the mod taking better care of the characters by fleshing out their character arcs and making them more likable.
- The Woobie: Where to even begin?
- Hajime Hinata is sent back to the past and has to deal with knowledge that only he and a few other people are aware of the Bad Future and he's also the only one who can stop it, while haunted by guilt and trauma over his time as Izuru Kamukura and their involvement in the Tragedy. In addition, he outrights dies several times, and even though it's reset, he still remembers both dying and all the pain that comes with it.
- Kotoko's backstory is arguably even worse then what was revealed in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls. Not only does her father force her into child prostitution, he actively treats her awfully and when she complains about the harsh treatment, he outright calls her selfish and tells her that it would be her fault if they ended up in poverty. Even when she runs away to Mikan, she is later dragged back to her father and almost sold by Human Traffickers. Even once she gets her father arrested, she also learned that she got HIV.
- Emma suffers from chronic pain thanks to her own abusive father's abuse towards her and struggles with being addicted to painkillers. In addition, she is also stuck with the knowledge that Master Utsuro was just using her and her friends and that, in the future, she becomes a murderer and dies a horrific death herself.
- Hibiki will black out under extreme stress and enter into a state that causes her to obey her sisters commands without question, with said sister proceeds to gleefully exploit and make worse by killing at least 60 different people who were close to Hibiki at some point. In addition, she realizes that her sister may have sexually violated her while in that state, leaving her with a fear of being touched and a fear of making friends out of fear that Kanade will hurt or kill them. Even once Kanade is rendered non-threatening, Hibiki is still afraid of her and even tries to kill herself at one point.
