Dangan Ronpa the Animation: Welcome to Despair Academy

You can actually see Sho in the picture where they're seated in class.

As far as Togami surviving, I imagine that's because he framed her in Chapter 2. With that information out in the open, she couldn't do anything to him and fell for him.

I enjoyed seeing Junko's multiple personalities in the anime. That's all I wanted to see, really.

I checked the main entry and I found out about the spinoff. Weird stuff!

edited 28th Sep '13 7:03:51 AM by fillerdude

x3 You can tell Junko's tongue is very different. Because. It's not always animated waving in the air.

The school actually grants the SHSL titles as official, except for Naegi's hope and probably Junko and Mukuro's despair... though according to Mukuro's profile (in the game at least) the principal acknowledged SHSL Despair as a thing. I imagine Junko just sort of ripped off the SHSL-style naming for that. And ~obviously~ soldiers are uncute and useless to society compared to a gyaru, right! Mukuro appearing as herself wouldn't be cute at all! And it implies an uncute skillset too! Well mainly I think it just amused her to have her sister dress up as her.

The world wasn't eaten, it's just in despair. So people are wearing Monobear masks and destroying things but there are still TVs to watch because everyone wants to keep up with the school life of mutual killing.

Syo always only kills the people she's attracted to in the first place though. Surviving during the school life of mutual killing couldn't have been hurt by her secret being out in the open, but I think Gilphon was more referring to how she didn't kill him during the previous two years? Though she was Syo in the classroom so somehow everyone knew about her then, too.

You will not go to space today.

Yes, it is. Dio Brando is the BigBad of the Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken (Jojo's Bizarre Adventures) manga. One of the things the Jojo manga is known for is their over-the-top poses, which was well represented by Junko's pose there. Yeah, that personality is 100% Dio impersonation and even use one of Dio's famous quotes on the Machinegun Talk Battle. Other Jojo references in Danganronpa are in Naegi's self-introduction, where he mentions not having a Stand (a Stand is much like a Persona, in fact, the Personas were based on the Stands) and Oowada's Crazy Diamond gans, which is named after the Stand of one of the protagonists, Josuke Higashikata. Btw, Stands have a musical theme naming, so the Crazy Diamond Stand is named after Pink Floyd's song Shine On, You Crazy Diamond. It is a beautiful song, you should listen to it.

the world is in despair? What's up with that? I thought the monobear masks were junko's stylized form of face censorship. I was kinda expecting the whole air purifier to be a bluff actually. For that matter, wouldn't they get infected if the went outside?

It actually made more sense when you assumed the mastermind was nuts(ok, she was) and just trapped everyone in the school and was broadcasting it on reality TV while getting a kick out of making everyone kill each other, rather than having some random ill-defined apocalypse outside. If your not gonna explain it, they probably should have left it alone.

edited 28th Sep '13 2:20:23 PM by kiukiuclk

Well, the anime ended. Very rushed, as expected. I felt like there was no momentum given to the World's Worst, Most Despair Inducing Event. It was a hell of a reveal, and they just showed it in a nonchalant manner.

The anime cut out one very important explanation for Junko's motivation: she's a despair fetishist. Whether her own or others, she basically wants as much despair as possible. It's why she executed herself. In the game she went on a glorious rant about the nature of how despair requires hope to survive and whatnot, and she basically said that despite turning the world to despair there were still a few pockets of resistance in the world, that still held hope.

Since the students of Hope's Peak Academy basically represented the hope of a better future, Junko taking away their memories and forcing them to kill each other for meaningless reasons would probably make a lot of the remaining resistance despair. It's why she showed it all on reality TV. On a side note, there were several attempts to rescue the kids, but Junko drove them all off with loads of artillery.

How exactly the world is driven to despair is meaningless, but I agree that you could be easily dissatisfied by that explanation.

The World's Worst, Most Despair Inducing Event does get elaborated upon more in the sequel to the game. But given that adaptations of work should stand on their own and you shouldn't have to read supplemental materials to understand things; yeah, I can understand why them having a seemingly random apocalypse would be head tilt worthy.

Although given the sequels hooks for the anime, we might be getting an animated version of SDR 2 as well.

It probably is a weird form of censorship. Even people not wearing masks can be in despair though. Of course, Monobear is a symbol so it's possible everyone is wearing a Monobear hood... there's "live" on the screen implying it's live footage, right? If you accept that, that means the Monobear mecha and the Monobear-faced monuments are also literally true.

If the world outside is so polluted, they'll be affected whether they stay in the school or not. But outside is where they've been trying to get all along and it's the only place they can find hope. Being on the side of hope means they're going to search for it.

Breathing in polluted air isn't going to be immediately fatal, especially if people are lively enough to smash things with sticks a year after the Worst, Most Despair-inducing Incident in the History of Mankind began. It just means they'll die sooner and get to experience their lungs deteriorating over time. Years, though, not mere weeks or months. And, uh, SHSL-graduate science still exists somewhere, probably—doctors or people with air purifiers might exist somewhere.

Whether or not the apocalypse is real... it is still true that Junko's crazy, that she trapped everyone in the school, that she's broadcasting it on TV, and she's getting a kick out of watching her former classmates murder each other. The apocalypse just means there's no powerful force that could save the SHSL kids. As for details of the outside world... you're meant to delve into the other installments of this series, naturally. Upupu.

You will not go to space today.

Actually Junko having a despair fetish is one of the few things that actually did come through in the anime. The fact that she allowed the possibility of her losing(and feeling despair) helps it make some sense actually. (Wasn't there a trapdoor under that thing when Naegi got executed?) Wouldn't surprise me if she's not actually dead bc one of her personalities thought to program in the escape hatch.

The crusher smashed her and sent blood everywhere, though.

Besides, her escaping kind of contradicts her despair fetish. And it's not like she HAD to execute herself. She chose to.

edited 28th Sep '13 3:07:40 PM by Hobgoblin

Junko doesn't have multiple personalities in the same sense as Fukawa's DID. She's the same person but she gets so bored that she changes the way she thinks and acts and talks every few lines. But through all of it she wants and is working toward Despair and nothing else matters.

Though, yes, her allowance of her own loss is explained as (spoilers for IF)

It's also sort of like, if there was never any Hope in the first place, the Despair isn't really there. It's when Hope could have won but didn't that you can truly show the world Despair is superior.

You will not go to space today.

Well that was an interesting ending. Certainly didn't expect some of those twists.

I still want to know what caused the outside world to turn into that.

Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016