YMMV / Super Danganronpa Another 2

• Abandon Shipping: The reveals of many of the class's real ages torpedoed quite a lot of shipping potential for fans. The reveal that Shinji is over 50 years old in particular has made many people stop shipping him with anyone, especially Yuki.
• Adorkable:
  • Even as a grown man, Teruya still has his moments of goofiness.
  • Shinji's awkwardness around girls comes off as this as well.
  • Yuri, despite being somewhat pervy to the girls around him, is also pretty cute and awkward at some moments.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: In the epilogue, who is the identity of the "reborn" Divine Luck holder within Akane/Sora's body? Although at a first glance, the answer seems to be simple: it seems to be presumably the personality implanted Yuki Maeda. However, other characters within the epilogue cast ambiguity on the nature of their identity and actively question if they are really Yuki Maeda and to what extent the personality override was successful.
  • In Sora's profile release post on their blog, LINUJ clarifies that the ambiguity is fully intentional and that they intended for the identity of the Divine Luck holder to be deliberately left a mystery, suggesting that it could be either, or a combination of, "Sora, Yuki and Utsuro."
• Arc Fatigue: Chapter 3's trial is one of the longer ones in the series, fan made or not. While the culprit gets figured out relatively early most of the trial consists of breaking down all of Kanade's alibies and counter arguments until they have nothing to fall back on and confess to the murder... only for the trial to continue on because Sora has a feeling that they're missing something until the group figures out that Hibiki is also the killer. Tropes Are Not Bad however as this trial is praised for its writing, twists, and Kanade’s characterisation as one of the biggest Hate Sink’s in Danganronpa.
• Ass Pull: In Chapter 6, it's revealed that the Yuki Maeda who's been in the game this whole time is an advanced replication of Yuki made from Yuki's Brain in a Jar - the one part of him that's still alive - being hooked up to the VR system. The Foreshadowing for this reveal beforehand was virtually nonexistent, and it seems to only exist as a Diabolus ex Machina to justify Yuki's mind being transferred into Sora/Akane's body in the end.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Kokoro has become a controversial figure after The Reveal in Chapter 0 that she gave birth to a child (Mikako Kurokawa from DR Another) as a means of using her for a confined, laboratory experiment. Most fans grew to dislike and loathe Kokoro for being an abusive parent. Other fans, while they don't approve of her actions, still like her and admit that it does make her more compelling as a character.
  • Yuri Kagarin. Some people view him as a clumsy and pervy men-hating Casanova Wannabe (case in point: at one moment he walks in the women's dressing room... while naked, and also seems to get off on the Groin Attack that Sora inflicts to him shortly afterwards), which makes him essentially a mixture between Teruteru and Tenko, except cranked to extremes. Others, meanwhile, find him a pretty decent person who genuinely tries to help Sora during his Free Time Events (to the point that he is the only character who won't reject any presents given to him) and has a somewhat interesting backstory. The fact that he becomes the Sacrifical Lamb of Chapter 1 to establish the Voids as the main threat does not really make things better, and the reveals in Chapter 6 that he basically created Monocrow's original program and once crossed paths with Akane Taira outright propels him into They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character territory.
  • Kanade Otonokoji is becoming increasingly divisive over time. While clearly meant to be despised by fans, whether she succeeds at being fascinatingly despicable or is just overly edgy for the sake of shock value is where the division lies. While originally seen as a better character than Korekiyo, a character Kanade was clearly based off, it didn’t take long for many of the same complaints made against him to also apply to her. For some, she’s so over-the-top monstrous without any subtlety that it’s hard to take her seriously. The possible implications that gets off of her sister’s misery and treats her Yandere tendencies as “love” either adds to her complexity or is just pointlessly disgusting and contradictory to her actions. Likewise, her extreme intelligence, skills, and uncanny ability to use her sister as a personal puppet either makes her seem both terrifying and compelling, or is frustratingly unrealistic, making her come across as an unstoppable villain who is capable of impossible feats such as timing her stabbing of Setsuka perfectly.
• Captain Obvious Reveal:
  • Kokoro getting killed was predicted shortly after she had proven her psychological abilities at the first class trial. Indeed, she becomes the victim of the following chapter.
  • Kanade being secretly evil is pretty obvious as soon as the first investigation, where she suddenly starts acting condescending towards others and acts incredibly apathetic to the murder of Yuri. It only gets more and more clear overtime with the very blatant Foreshadowing, so by the time you find Setsuka’s body, it’s practically screaming that Kanade was behind this. However, this could have been an Intended Audience Reaction considering how she’s clearly set up to look like the sole culprit behind Setsuka’s murder, only for the twist to be that both Kanade and Hibiki killed her. What’s surprising isn’t really that Kanade is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, but how bad she really is.
• Complete Monster:
  • The alter ego of Mikado Sannoji is the mastermind of the Killing School Trip. Originally created to help Mikado find Utsuro, the alter ego struck out on his own, killing the original Mikado and kidnapping the participants for his killing game. Intent on overriding Yuki's consciousness to take his luck ability, "Mikado" set up the Virtual Reality system to kill people who die in his game and manipulates the peaceful Void group to join him, carelessly killing one Void member who faithfully followed his instructions, eventually killing all but one of them. Using Iroha to commit a murder, the alter ego tricks her into believing she is the true culprit and attempts to have all the remaining students executed. In the final trial, "Mikado" mocks his own created person and tries to convince her she committed crimes she was innocent of, and should "Mikado" win in the end, he kills two innocents, having fallen in love with murder.
  • Kanade Otonokoji, though seemingly sweet and shy, is the psychopathic killer of Chapter 3. Mentally abusing her twin sister, Hibiki, since preschool in order to make the girl completely dependent on her, Kanade remorselessly murdered or crippled everyone who ever got close to her, from their pet dog, to the teacher that Hibiki had a crush on, to even their parents. In the Killing Game, Kanade puts Hibiki in a trance to control her and forces Hibiki to murder Setsuka Chiebukuro to stop their friendship from disrupting the brainwashing. Then, just before their execution, Kanade makes Hibiki conscious again just to arouse herself with the sight of her sister breaking down. She also burns Setsuka's note, which contained important information, solely out of spite at being found out as the culprit. Despite being wholly unconnected to Void, Kanade eclipses all of them, even the mastermind, in cruelty.
• Crack Pairing: Believe it or not, Sora x Syobai is an actual ship; most of its popularity is credited to the Korean fanbase.
• Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming: At first, Kokoro's husband was on board with experimenting on their daughter but when she was born, his feelings of fatherhood won out and he took her away from Kokoro.
• Draco in Leather Pants:
  • The Void members, sans Mikado, have received nothing but love and sympathy from the fandom thanks to their interesting personalities and their tragic backstory. A popular theme for most artists is to draw them being happy together as close friends.
  • Syobai Hashimoto, due to his popularity, isn’t immune to this trope. Because of his tragic backstory and redeeming qualities, albeit very few, many fans treat Syobai as an Anti-Villain, or even a hidden softie, disregarding the fact that he’s a Professional Killer and self-centered Jerkass who has absolutely no qualms about his career and lifestyle. His casual disregard for human life and inability to legitimately care about anyone besides himself makes him arguably even more villainous than Void (aside from possibly Mikado), the game’s main antagonists. Even his occasional acts of helpfulness are only done to benefit him, yet some fans act like his cooperativeness in the 3rd and 4th Trials are a sign that he has a Hidden Heart of Gold, despite Syobai directly stating that he’s only doing this to save his own skin.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Shinji Kasai is also very liked by the fandom for his Gentle Giant personality and also for having Adorkable moments around girls. His relationship with Yuki, as well as his Heroic Suicide in Chapter 4 to avoid Yuki and/or Sora getting executed also help much.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • In one of Yuri's Free Time events, he mentioned how his family hired a maid with a miserable past who inspired him to become a chivalrous gentleman to any and all girls. Fans have theorized that the maid was none other than Akane Taira from Danganronpa Another. Confirmed as of chapter 6.
  • Another popular theory is that Syobai and Mikado are secretly brothers who are trying to outdo each other. As of chapter 6, jossed.
• Fanfic Fuel: Now that the game has been completed, there are a lot of plot points that are subject to fan speculation.
  • What happened to Yoruko Kabuya after she declined the Kisaragi Foundation's offer to join them.
  • The mysterious nature of the individual within Sora's real body, who is seemingly gifted with Divine Luck.
  • Syobai and Iroha going on the run from the law together despite their contrasting personalities.
  • Although she admitted that the chances were slim-to-none, Rei promising Yoruko that she'd try her best to extract Sora's data from the Neo World Program so they could possibly meet again one day. This one was even mentioned by LINUJ as a deliberate hanging thread that's left up to the players imagination.
• Foe Yay Shipping: In some circles, Mikado being shipped with Teruya or Nikei has become quite popular thanks to their development in later chapters.
• Genius Bonus:
  • The female students' costumes in Chapter 2 don't seem significant until the lore behind them is taken into account. Emma and Iroha are dressed as a Kuchisake-onna and vampire, respectively, two monsters that have been portrayed as malicious in every classic incarnation they have appeared in. Considering how the other girls are dressed as figures that have been seen as both good and evil (i.e., Yoruko as a witch, Sora as a yurei, and Setsuka as an Oni), this becomes blatant Foreshadowing for when it is revealed that Emma and Iroha are members of Void.
  • During Chapter 4's Argument Armament segment, Nikei takes the appearance of the Greek god Hermes. While this may seem strange at first, it makes sense given that Hermes was a messenger god who delivered messages to the gods and also played tricks among them. This ties in with Nikei's talent as a reporter whose job it is to find important news and share his message with the world. The trickster part also applies to him trying to deceive and betray his superior Mikado.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: As you can tell, SDRA2 is big among the Western side of the world.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • During Shinji's introduction:
    Shinji: …Yo, Yuki. You shoulda told me there was a girl watching. I wanna kill myself right now.
  • This line from trial two, with the later reveal of the state of Yuki's physical body.
    Kanade: On the topic of school rules, there was another one the killer violated for this case.
    Yuki: You mean… the vandalism?
    Kanade: Wow, Yuki! There may be a brain in there after all!
  • Chapter 3 has Kanade mention that there's only one step left for Hibiki to become her mental puppet, namely killing their parents. It's revealed that she did that already outside of the killing game.
• Ho Yay:
  • Yuki and Shinji is a well loved ship thanks to the firefighter being so thoughtful and caring towards Yuki in his rugged, manly way.
  • Yoruko and Sora has been one of the top lesbian ships in the fandom thanks to Yoruko being one of Sora's closest and reliable companions throughout the story.
• It Was His Sled:
  • Hajime, Emma, Iroha and Nikei are the other Void members. Countless fanarts have grouped them together as a whole and/or outright refer to them as Void.
  • Kanade Otonokoji is a Serial Killer.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Hibiki Otonokoji. She initially appears as an abrasive, foul-tempered girl that is way too harsh on her timid younger sister, but she's the first to crack under pressure and starts to evoke much more sympathy as a result. Not only that, but the only two who are willing to lend her emotional support are Kanade, her most frequent target, and Setsuka, who becomes her closest friend as a result. Then, there's Chapter 3. After her Character Development, the motive video seems to completely shatter her newfound confidence, devastating her far worse than even any of the other students. Setsuka comes to her comfort... only for the latter to promptly end up brutally murdered the next day, leaving Hibiki shell-shocked for the entire investigation. Then there's the Chapter 3 trial, in which it's uncovered that Hibiki entirely unknowingly murdered Setsuka alongside Kanade, forcing her to be executed alongside her sister... who reveals to everyone post-trial that she's been butchering every living thing to get between the two and breaking her sister's mind so she'll depend on her since they were kids, leaving Hibiki falling into a state of Trauma-Induced Amnesia, and eventually becoming so broken with grief that she entered a numb and emotionally blank state which Kanade has trained her to enter on-command, resulting in the poor girl not even knowing what she's done or that she's about to be executed until just before the punishment begins. She basically wakes up in the final minutes of her life to learn she's going to be executed for something she was made to do, and she spends most of those minutes screaming and sobbing for someone to save her..
  • Iroha Nijue, especially when she is relating her backstory of horrific childhood abuse from her own family in Chapter 6. It’s little wonder she ended up as such an emotionally stunted Dirty Coward.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Sora is the most shippable character in the SDRA2 cast thanks to her serious personality giving way to some interesting dynamics when paired with her more eccentric classmates.
• Like You Would Really Do It:
  • At the start of the story, many fans were shocked when Sora ended up getting stabbed by Syobai in the prologue as they believed that they were duped into thinking that the protagonist was a girl only for her to be killed off in the beginning. Again. But to their relief, not only does Sora survive the attack but she gets to continue the role as the POV Protagonist for a majority of the game.
  • The same thing happens in Chapter 4, where Sora is believed to have been murdered by Iroha, if not by the explosion that occurs in the tower. The game even throws a Bait-and-Switch by making Syobai the protagonist of a significant chunk of the rest of the chapter, right before Sora takes over in the middle of the class trial.
• Love to Hate: Kanade Otonokoji. Despite being essentially designed from the ground up as perhaps the single most vile killer in the history of the franchise, she is one of the most popular and iconic characters in the game, owing to how utterly chilling and effective she is as a villainess. That she puts together a legitimately near perfect murder plot (to the point the heroes only succeed through an almost literal Dues Ex Machina in Utsuro's Divine Luck), and that she still ultimately gets the last laugh despite being caught and executed, just makes her all the more beloved, to the point where she actually placed second only next to Sora herself in LINUJ's character popularity poll.
• Memetic Molester:
  • Kanade has become this after her disturbing portrayal as a yandere in the third trial.
  • Mikado is this with his certain disregard of personal space and how he reintroduced Teruya to the group.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • #STOPMIKADOABUSE ^Explanation A hashtag created by the Youtube fandom calling to end the mistreatment and humiliation of Mikado from his peers.
  • Yoruko is the new Hagakure. ^{Explanation (SPOILERS)}As of Chapter 4, Yoruko has the highest chance of survival even though she's uninvolved and irrelevant to the storyline.
  • Buff Yuri. ^{Explanation (SPOILERS)}Chapter 5 showed us Yuri with an older and more masculine appearance; the fandom in general had a field day with this.
  • COCO ASS. ^{Explanation (SPOILERS)}A typo during a translation for Chapter 0 that misspelled Kokoro's name. Though given The Reveal of her attempting to use her baby girl for an experiment, the name feels appropriate.
  • Boomer Shinji. ^{Explanation (SPOILERS)}In the chapter 6 it is revealed that Shinji in the real world is in his fifties. "Boomer Shinji" quickly became a popular nickname among the fandom for this version of him.
  • Deadlocked quarantine. ^{Explanation (SPOILERS)}In chapter 4, Teruya locks every living student (except Syobai) inside the Tower of Babel in order to prevent them from committing any more murders. Coincidentally, the English translation for this chapter was being released during the COVID-19 Pandemic and subsequent quarantine. Because of this, some viewers started to make jokes about Teruya keeping everyone safe from Coronavirus.
  • Anything to do with Nikei and hands and/or guns. ^{Explanation (SPOILERS)}In chapter 4's post-trial, Nikei pulls a gun out and tries to shoot everyone. It doesn't work as said gun explodes, blowing up Nikei's hand and rendering him useless. The fandom ran wild with this, to the point where it's one of Nikei's defining traits.
  • 3rd party, my ass. Quit your bullshit. ^Explanation During the third chapter Scrum Debate Mikado sarcastically wonders if Sora is suggesting an unknown third party being involved in the murder somehow, after extensive discussion and many hours of trial already gone by. Syobai responds with this line, which has become a meme.
  • As this compilation video shows, Kanade casually insulting her classmates has become this to fans.
  • Buff Monocrow.^{Explanation (SPOILERS)}Hajime's execution has a significantly bulkier Monocrow beat his face to a pulp. People couldn't help but compare his physique to certain characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, especially with his attacks being compared to ORAORAORA or MUDAMUDAMUDA.
• Moe: Iroha thanks to her cute but bashful personality.
• Moral Event Horizon: You'd be surprised how many characters who aren't clown-looking masterminds have crossed the line.
  • For starters, there's Kanade who is revealed to have a long history of killing or physically harming anyone who got too close to her sister Hibiki in order to break Hibiki's psyche and eventually turn Hibiki into her own personal puppet. It's even implied that she was able to brainwash her sister to be compliant in several of those murders and accidents.
  • Then there's Kokoro who was interested in studying "primitive emotions" and gave birth to a child as a means of using them for the experiment. Said experiment involved having the baby live her life in a confined laboratory, even implanting a memory chip into her brain to record her memories and personal information. There's also the fact that Kokoro had planned to use a sperm donor for her experiment but learned one of her workers had a crush on her, which made things 'simpler'. In other words, Kokoro took advantage of her husband's feelings.
  • In the 6th chapter, Syobai is revealed to have been hired by Alter Ego!Mikado to help create his killing game. This involved murdering the real Mikado along with kidnapping a majority of the participants who were recognized as the "Hopes of the Next Generation". He's also a Professional Killer who has no issue with killing/hurting people for profit or if they get in his way.
• Never Live It Down:
  • The sheer reputation of the Otonokoji sisters (moreso with Kanade) has had such a profound effect on the Fanganronpa community that any other games that feature identical twin characters had those characters be harkened back to either them or Junko and Mukuro. It is quite common to be suspicious of twin characters as either victims of Chapter 3, or killers to make a nod towards this game (bonus points if one of the twins has a very, very dark history). In other words, they stained an entire character archetype with their dark deeds.
  • Nikei blowing his own hand off while firing a revolver in Chapter 4 had a similar effect on the fanbase, with various hand jokes being instantly born.
• Shocking Moments: Chapter 5. For the first time in any Killing Game, both canon and fanon-wise, the main group chooses the wrong culprit resulting in a mass execution. Thankfully they manage to survive since the simulation crashes before they can die, but this was still a full blown sequence that took the fandom by storm.
• Squick: Emma taking on the appearance of a pile of flesh during the Void Theater segments. Thankfully she's censored enough so we don't get to see the grosser details.
  • During the Chapter 5 Void Theater segment, Emma and Hajime both explain to Nikei how they still have mouths and eyes...by physically pulling out those bloodied parts.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Super Danganronpa Another 2 is considered more popular compared to it's predecessor. This comes with the sequel having a significant Animation Bump along with its characters looking more appealing and unique compared to the first cast. There's also the fact that DRA is less known since there are little to no playthroughs with English subtitles.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • While Nikei managed to get an appearance as a robot in chapter 6 (only to get blown up by Mikado after revealing information about him), Hajime and Emma were simply relegated to one last (admittedly heartwarming) Void Theater.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • To some fans, Iroha comes off as this. While it's true that she comes off as a timid girl who is being pressured by her superior Mikado to commit murder which is a serious issue, she loses sympathy because of her begging her colleague Nikei to murder someone for her along with blaming Emma for supposedly placing her in this situation.
  • Also to an extent, Yuki. While his reactions are pretty accurate for a normal person in such a situation, he still comes off as quite the asshole by lashing out at everyone, including the two students who he was previously closest with. And that's not even mentioning some of his furious sprites, which really don't match the kind and empathetic personality he's usually associated with. Later on, it's turned out that his pessimistic behavior was the result of the Voids goal trying to mentally break down Yuki to turn him into Utsuro.
• Unpopular Popular Character:
  • Second only to Mikado, Syobai is the least likable person among his peers because of his rude and antisocial personality. (Not that it bothers him). Outside of the game, Syobai is one of the most well liked characters among the different sides of the fandom and gets a lot of attention and fanart as a result.
  • Mikado is Hated by All in-universe. Within the fandom, he's one of the most well-known and popular characters from this game.
  • Despite everything about her (or possibly because of it), Kanade managed to get the second place in the popularity poll, only falling short to Sora.
• The Woobie: Good God Yuki Maeda has suffered more than any other Danganronpa character in both fandom and canon. He's nearly killed during the prologue. By the end of Chapter 3, he's completely disillusioned by all the deaths on the island such that he begins to lash out at his friends. Then, in Chapter 4, he's set up for murder, which involves him unintentionally slitting the throat of Shinji, his best friend. During the trial of that same chapter, he not only learns that his other friend, Sora, tried to finish the job, but also that Shinji ended up killing himself so that both of them could live. And soon after said trial, he's told that Void started the killing game to break his will. As of Chapter 5, he's so far gone to the point of attempting to slit his own throat, and in the final chapter, he's forced to learn that, among other things, his real body has been reduced to a Brain in a Jar. It's hard not to feel sorry for him after all of this.

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