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** The idea of moving on from tragedy, an idea hovering over the entire series, is tarnished considerably since Kirigiri's revival means that Naegi ends up the same as he was at the start of ''Danganronpa 3'' (barring a few more therapy bills). The deaths in the killing game sadden him, but he doesn't seem to be close enough to the newly introduced characters to be especially scarred by their demise. To be fair though, this is mainly due to Makoto and the surviving Class 78 students joining the Future Foundation two or three years ago and they're too busy cleaning up the mess Junko made. The only surviving character who actually lost anyone close to them is Munakata, who loses ''everyone.'' He's shown as miserable and ends up the only one without a happy ending.
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** Played with the more you try to think about it, as even the leads' "happy ending" is subjective. While [=DR1=] veterans and Komaru rebuilt Hope's Peak, it's hard to tell how society will react to it. At least a part of it should have negative feelings about recreating the school that caused the world to fall apart in the first place and was revealed to the public to have been shady even before that point. It's possible some might even go after the new Ultimates as a result (a plot similar to [[spoiler:Ultimate Hunt from Killing Harmony]].) Even if Makoto leads the school well and monitors his students, who's to say another {{Evil Genius}} won't enter the school at some point? It's also bound to create new Hajime Hinatas, people who would be so insecure about their lack of talents that they'd do anything to get them. It's also likely that other Remnants of Despair are still somewhere out there in the world. Who's to say they won't target the school? Regardless of the consequences of rebuilding Hope's Peak Academy, Class 78th's survivors and Komaru still lost their their classmates and loved ones, such as his whole family in Byakuya's case. Meanwhile, the classmates from Class 77-B (minus Chiaki) and Hajime/Izuru might live on an island paradise, but living in the same place with the same people for the rest of their lives can be mentally exhausting for some, as it could get claustrophobic (regardless of how big islands are) and boring after a while and it's easy to feel trapped as a result. To put it in a perspective, it's basically being forced to live a pacifist version of the Killing School Trip.
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** Played straight on the surface level. Makoto and the survivors of Class 78's killing game (plus Komaru) all survive the Final Killing Game and restart Hope's Peak Academy. Meanwhile, the former Remnants of Despair, while all alive and cured from the effects of Junko's brainwashing Despair Video, are unlikely to be able to return to society ever again, due to their actions as Junko's lackeys and the fact that they helped to cover up the Final Killing Game, and since Mitarai is now associating himself with them, he's in the same boat (literally). But even then, as former leads of their own game, Class 77-B get their own happy ending in the fact that now they get to live together on an island paradise for as long as they want together as the close friends who bonded so well together thanks to Chisa and Chiaki. Munakata gets it way worse, going off to do who knows what all alone, with the knowledge that the woman he loved was a member of the movement he hated so much, and that his best friend's death is partially his fault. Meanwhile, we don't know what happened to Monaca in space (who's likely to starve to death if she doesn't come back for supplies every now and then), the other Warriors of Hope (who might end up sharing Remnants' fate and having to atone away from society), and surviving Hit List Targets. And everyone else is dead.
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** Played straight on the surface level. Makoto and the survivors of Class 78's killing game (plus Komaru) all survive the Final Killing Game and restart Hope's Peak Academy. Meanwhile, the former Remnants of Despair, while all alive and cured from the effects of Junko's brainwashing Despair Video, are unlikely to be able to return to society ever again, due to their actions as Junko's lackeys and the fact that they helped to cover up the Final Killing Game, and since Mitarai is now associating himself with them, he's in the same boat (literally). But even then, as former leads of their own game, Class 77-B get their own happy ending in the fact that now they get to live together on an island paradise for as long as they want together as the close friends who bonded so well together thanks to Chisa and Chiaki. Munakata gets it way worse, going off to do who knows what all alone, with the knowledge that the woman he loved was a member of the movement he hated so much, and that his best friend's death is partially his fault. Meanwhile, we don't know what happened to Monaca in space (who's likely to starve to death if she doesn't come back for supplies every now and then), the other Warriors of Hope (who might end up sharing Remnants' fate and of having to atone away from society), and surviving Hit List Targets. And everyone else is dead.
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* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: Makoto and the survivors of class 78's killing game (plus Komaru) all survive the final killing game, and restart Hope's Peak Academy. Meanwhile, the former Remnants of Despair, while all alive and cured from the effects of Junko's Brainwashing Despair Video, are unlikely to be able to return to society ever again, due to their actions as Junko's lackeys and the fact that they helped to cover up the Final Killing Game, and due to the fact that Mitarai is now associating himself with them, he's in the same boat (literally). But even then, as former leads of their own game, Class 77-B get their own happy ending in the fact that now they get to live together on an island paradise for as long as they want together as the close friends who bonded so well together thanks to Chisa and Chiaki. Munakata gets it way worse, going off to do who knows what all alone, with the knowledge that the woman he loved was a member of the movement he hated so much, and that his best friend's death is partially his fault. And everyone else is dead.
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* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding:
** Played straight on the surface level. Makoto and the survivors ofclass Class 78's killing game (plus Komaru) all survive the final killing game, Final Killing Game and restart Hope's Peak Academy. Meanwhile, the former Remnants of Despair, while all alive and cured from the effects of Junko's Brainwashing brainwashing Despair Video, are unlikely to be able to return to society ever again, due to their actions as Junko's lackeys and the fact that they helped to cover up the Final Killing Game, and due to the fact that since Mitarai is now associating himself with them, he's in the same boat (literally). But even then, as former leads of their own game, Class 77-B get their own happy ending in the fact that now they get to live together on an island paradise for as long as they want together as the close friends who bonded so well together thanks to Chisa and Chiaki. Munakata gets it way worse, going off to do who knows what all alone, with the knowledge that the woman he loved was a member of the movement he hated so much, and that his best friend's death is partially his fault. Meanwhile, we don't know what happened to Monaca in space (who's likely to starve to death if she doesn't come back for supplies every now and then), the other Warriors of Hope (who might end up sharing Remnants' fate and having to atone away from society), and surviving Hit List Targets. And everyone else is dead.dead.
** Played with the more you try to think about it, as even the leads' "happy ending" is subjective. While [=DR1=] veterans and Komaru rebuilt Hope's Peak, it's hard to tell how society will react to it. At least a part of it should have negative feelings about recreating the school that caused the world to fall apart in the first place and was revealed to the public to have been shady even before that point. It's possible some might even go after the new Ultimates as a result (a plot similar to [[spoiler:Ultimate Hunt from Killing Harmony]].) Even if Makoto leads the school well and monitors his students, who's to say another {{Evil Genius}} won't enter the school at some point? It's also bound to create new Hajime Hinatas, people who would be so insecure about their lack of talents that they'd do anything to get them. It's also likely that other Remnants of Despair are still somewhere out there in the world. Who's to say they won't target the school? Regardless of the consequences of rebuilding Hope's Peak Academy, Class 78th's survivors and Komaru still lost their their classmates and loved ones, such as his whole family in Byakuya's case. Meanwhile, the classmates from Class 77-B (minus Chiaki) and Hajime/Izuru might live on an island paradise, but living in the same place with the same people for the rest of their lives can be mentally exhausting for some, as it could get claustrophobic (regardless of how big islands are) and boring after a while and it's easy to feel trapped as a result. To put it in a perspective, it's basically being forced to live a pacifist version of the Killing School Trip.
** Played straight on the surface level. Makoto and the survivors of
** Played with the more you try to think about it, as even the leads' "happy ending" is subjective. While [=DR1=] veterans and Komaru rebuilt Hope's Peak, it's hard to tell how society will react to it. At least a part of it should have negative feelings about recreating the school that caused the world to fall apart in the first place and was revealed to the public to have been shady even before that point. It's possible some might even go after the new Ultimates as a result (a plot similar to [[spoiler:Ultimate Hunt from Killing Harmony]].) Even if Makoto leads the school well and monitors his students, who's to say another {{Evil Genius}} won't enter the school at some point? It's also bound to create new Hajime Hinatas, people who would be so insecure about their lack of talents that they'd do anything to get them. It's also likely that other Remnants of Despair are still somewhere out there in the world. Who's to say they won't target the school? Regardless of the consequences of rebuilding Hope's Peak Academy, Class 78th's survivors and Komaru still lost their their classmates and loved ones, such as his whole family in Byakuya's case. Meanwhile, the classmates from Class 77-B (minus Chiaki) and Hajime/Izuru might live on an island paradise, but living in the same place with the same people for the rest of their lives can be mentally exhausting for some, as it could get claustrophobic (regardless of how big islands are) and boring after a while and it's easy to feel trapped as a result. To put it in a perspective, it's basically being forced to live a pacifist version of the Killing School Trip.
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** Hajime's character arc is all about the danger of throwing away your individuality due to feeling inadequate, leading to a nightmarish chain of events where a perfectly decent (and academically talented) young man is erased from his own mind and turned into a talented but heartless superhuman. But the ending shows that those Izuru powers were critical to saving everyone, sabotaging the "you don't have to have a special talent to be a worthwhile person; you're good enough as you are!" moral of his character arc. The return of classical Hajime's personality ''was'' a key factor in his decision to stop Mitarai (Izuru would be too apathetic to bother)... but everyone in the final episode is awed by "Kamukura's" talents than "Hajime's" decency, courage and people skills, and largely ignore the abuses that led to him ''having'' that talent. This is understandably justified for some reason, since both Hajime AND Izuru are the same person through SplitPersonalityMerge.
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** Hajime's character arc is all about the danger of throwing away your individuality due to feeling inadequate, leading to a nightmarish chain of events where a perfectly decent (and academically talented) young man is erased from his own mind and turned into a talented but heartless superhuman. But the ending shows that those Izuru powers were critical to saving everyone, sabotaging the "you don't have to have a special talent to be a worthwhile person; you're good enough as you are!" moral of his character arc.moral . The return of classical Hajime's personality ''was'' a key factor in his decision to stop Mitarai (Izuru would be too apathetic to bother)... but everyone in the final episode is awed by "Kamukura's" talents than "Hajime's" decency, courage and people skills, and largely ignore the abuses that led to him ''having'' that talent. This is understandably justified for some reason, since both Hajime AND Izuru are the same person through SplitPersonalityMerge.
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** Hajime's character arc is all about the danger of throwing away your individuality due to feeling inadequate, leading to a nightmarish chain of events where a perfectly decent (and academically talented) young man is erased from his own mind and turned into a talented but heartless superhuman. But the ending shows that those Izuru powers were critical to saving everyone, sabotaging the "you're good enough as you are!" moral. The return of classical Hajime's personality ''was'' a key factor in his decision to stop Mitarai (Izuru would be too apathetic to bother)... but everyone in the final episode is awed by "Kamukura's" talents than "Hajime's" decency, courage and people skills, and largely ignore the abuses that led to him ''having'' that talent. This is understandably justified for some reason, since both Hajime AND Izuru are the same person through SplitPersonalityMerge.
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** Hajime's character arc is all about the danger of throwing away your individuality due to feeling inadequate, leading to a nightmarish chain of events where a perfectly decent (and academically talented) young man is erased from his own mind and turned into a talented but heartless superhuman. But the ending shows that those Izuru powers were critical to saving everyone, sabotaging the "you're "you don't have to have a special talent to be a worthwhile person; you're good enough as you are!" moral.moral of his character arc. The return of classical Hajime's personality ''was'' a key factor in his decision to stop Mitarai (Izuru would be too apathetic to bother)... but everyone in the final episode is awed by "Kamukura's" talents than "Hajime's" decency, courage and people skills, and largely ignore the abuses that led to him ''having'' that talent. This is understandably justified for some reason, since both Hajime AND Izuru are the same person through SplitPersonalityMerge.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Towards Kirigiri's survival:
** Compared to prior instances of the NG Codes being violated, the damage on her face is far less severe.
** One can visibly spot Kimura's Cure W bottle on the floor in the scene where she "dies".
** When her body is discovered, the version of the body discovery music that played during Asahina's FakeKillScare plays.
** At the end of Episode 12 of ''Side:Future'', during the montage of dead Future Foundation members, Kirigiri isn't among them.
** The OP of ''Side:Future'' Episode 10, the episode immediately after Kirigiri's "death", states that there are 6 remaining survivors. If Kirigiri was actually dead at the time, it would've been stated that there were only 5 (Naegi, Asahina, Mitarai, Munakata and Sakakura).
** Compared to prior instances of the NG Codes being violated, the damage on her face is far less severe.
** One can visibly spot Kimura's Cure W bottle on the floor in the scene where she "dies".
** When her body is discovered, the version of the body discovery music that played during Asahina's FakeKillScare plays.
** At the end of Episode 12 of ''Side:Future'', during the montage of dead Future Foundation members, Kirigiri isn't among them.
** The OP of ''Side:Future'' Episode 10, the episode immediately after Kirigiri's "death", states that there are 6 remaining survivors. If Kirigiri was actually dead at the time, it would've been stated that there were only 5 (Naegi, Asahina, Mitarai, Munakata and Sakakura).
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* BackForTheFinale: All of the [=DR1=] survivors and the entire [=SDR2=] cast, though AI Chiaki appears only as a figment of Hajime's memory.
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* {{Bookends}}: The Tragedy is started by Hope's Peak Academy covering up a killing game, which is blamed on Izuru Kamukura, and is ended by the Future Foundation (semi-successor to Hope's Peak) agreeing to a cover up of another killing game, with Izuru Kamukura [[ZeroApprovalGambit initiating and taking the blame]].
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* {{Bookends}}: BookEnds: The Tragedy is started by Hope's Peak Academy covering up a killing game, which is blamed on Izuru Kamukura, and is ended by the Future Foundation (semi-successor to Hope's Peak) agreeing to a cover up of another killing game, with Izuru Kamukura [[ZeroApprovalGambit initiating and taking the blame]].
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* BackForTheFinale: All of the [=DR1=] survivors and the entire [=SDR2=] cast, though AI Chiaki appears only as a figment of Hajime's memory.
* BigBrotherInstinct: The Imposter, for Mitarai. As soon as Mitarai gets better, the Imposter runs up and they hug. As soon as they are in the boat, he mentions that Mitarai looks skinny again.
* BigDamnHeroes: The Remnants of Despair.
* {{Bookends}}: The Tragedy is started by Hope's Peak Academy covering up a killing game, which is blamed on Izuru Kamukura, and is ended by the Future Foundation (semi-successor to Hope's Peak) agreeing to a cover up of another killing game, with Izuru Kamukura [[ZeroApprovalGambit initiating and taking the blame]].
** The beginning of the {{Prequel}} has Chiaki telling Hajime how talent isn't everything, and that it's more important to stay true to oneself, while he's looking at his palm and lamenting not having a talent. Side Hope has Hajime, finally having found his inner strength and resolve as a person after the events of [=SDR2=], repeating Chiaki's words and acknowledging the merit of them while staring at [[TragicKeepsake her Galaga-like hairpin]] in the palm of his hand.
** The [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc first game]] showed Makoto waking up alone in a classroom shortly after he and Hope's Peak Academy were introduced. The GrandFinale shows Makoto sitting in a desk that has the same relative row-and-column position as it did back then, shortly before he's revealed to be the headmaster of a reborn Hope's Peak Academy.
** Works in terms of killing games, though on a darker note: of the characters involved in the chronological first and last killing games, the leaders of their group end up worse off than they did before (Murasame goes into trauma, while Munakata has to carry the weight of his actions).
* BittersweetEnding: While its ending is the brightest in the ''entire'' Hope's Peak saga, there's still some bitterness in a typical ''Danganronpa'' fashion: The Future Foundation is on its last legs due to losing most of its members, Munakata blames himself for his actions as well as losing both Chisa and Juzo, ultimately resulting with him WalkingTheEarth, and Class 77-B painted themselves as the "scum of humanity" to cover up Tengan's involvement in the Final Killing Game, but Kyoko is shown to be alive as a result of drinking Seiko's "Antagonist" antidote and Mikan saving her life afterwards, the Tragedy is no more, Class 77-B settled down peacefully in Jabberwock Island after inviting Mitarai to join them, and Makoto takes over Hope's Peak Academy, which is now re-opened for business.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: The conflict for ''Side:Hope''. Mitarai is desperate enough to do this, the rest of the cast is trying to stop him.
* BrokenAesop: The conclusion to the series left us with a few:
** Hajime's character arc is all about the danger of throwing away your individuality due to feeling inadequate, leading to a nightmarish chain of events where a perfectly decent (and academically talented) young man is erased from his own mind and turned into a talented but heartless superhuman. But the ending shows that those Izuru powers were critical to saving everyone, sabotaging the "you're good enough as you are!" moral. The return of classical Hajime's personality ''was'' a key factor in his decision to stop Mitarai (Izuru would be too apathetic to bother)... but everyone in the final episode is awed by "Kamukura's" talents than "Hajime's" decency, courage and people skills, and largely ignore the abuses that led to him ''having'' that talent. This is understandably justified for some reason, since both Hajime AND Izuru are the same person through SplitPersonalityMerge.
** Though they treat it as ''their'' atonement, the Remnants taking the fall for Tengan ironically also undermines the series' theme about taking responsibility for your actions and dealing with the consequences. Tengan may be dead, but no doubt there were others who are no better him in the FF.
** The dangers of elitism and hubris, another moral mainstay of the series, also get slightly dented -- the corrupt committee and immoral scientists who used Hajime as a lab rat technically succeeded in "creating hope" (even if it did bring about the Tragedy first and require a Hajime/Izuru merge), and the reputation of Hope's Peak and the Future Foundation goes largely untarnished because the Remnants took the fall... so the people who ''did'' atone for their sins (who were really victims, not villains, in the first place) are shunned by the world for life, while the two institutions that started all the chaos in the first place retain their status. Given the fact that Junko is involved with the Tragedy and Class 77-B has too much emotional guilt from that event, it's understandable to some extent.
** The danger of cover up and shady dealings got thrown out of the window by having the Tragedy resolved by a cover up.
** The idea of moving on from tragedy, an idea hovering over the entire series, is tarnished considerably since Kirigiri's revival means that Naegi ends up the same as he was at the start of ''Danganronpa 3'' (barring a few more therapy bills). The deaths in the killing game sadden him, but he doesn't seem to be close enough to the newly introduced characters to be especially scarred by their demise. To be fair though, this is mainly due to Makoto and the surviving Class 78 students joining the Future Foundation two or three years ago and they're too busy cleaning up the mess Junko made. The only surviving character who actually lost anyone close to them is Munakata, who loses ''everyone.'' He's shown as miserable and ends up the only one without a happy ending.
* CallBack: The title of ''Side:Hope'''s single episode is "The Academy of Hope and the High School Students of Despair", the subtitle for [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the first game]]'s Japanese release.
* CharacterDevelopment: Class 77 seems to have gone through this. Hiyoko is nicer to Mikan, bordering on being a Tsundere for her, while Mikan herself is a more active girl, even saving Kyoko's life; Sonia pays more attention and is seemingly more friendly to Soda and Nagito is apparently more stable.
* ContinuityNod: As Class 77 is giving their speech to Mitarai, each student is doing one of their expressions from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' (Komaeda is doing a little wave, Nekomaru is laughing with a hand over his shoulder, etc,)
** The finale itself has multiple call-backs to many different characters from Danganronpa 2, along with Komaru and Toko's relationship, as to express the continuity the series has maintained. The relationships between certain characters have also been redeemed in this finale, for example:
*** Peko and Fuyuhiko.
*** Kazuichi and Sonia.
*** Hiyoko and Mikan.
* CueTheSun: The skies open, revealing a blue sky (instead of the normal red) and bright sunlight when Mitarai's brainwashing video is stopped.
* DisneyDeath: Kirigiri.
* DuelingMessiahs: Between Mitarai and Makoto. Mitarai believes Despair is too strong and plans on brainwashing everyone to save the world. Makoto believes that people can defeat Despair by working together and that the cost of Mitarai's plan outweighs any benefit.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Remnants wake up, Mitarai is redeemed and reunited with his friends while throwing away his brainwashing video and Naegi and Kirigiri are reunited, with Naegi founding a new Hope's Peak Academy.
* EleventhHourRanger: Class 77-B arrived just in time to thwart Mitarai's broadcasting plot.
* EliteMooks: In ''Side: Future'', the brainwashed Future Foundation soldiers all looked the same. Here, a few of them were given unique designs when fighting the former Remnants of Despair. This includes [[TheBeastmaster a falcon tamer]], a creepy girl with [[FemmeFatalons long fingernails]], a big guy and even a MiniMecha. Also a guy who used Go pieces as a throwing weapon, and a guy who has a hairstyle similar to [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Guile]]/[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Rudolf von Stroheim]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Towards Kirigiri's survival:
** Compared to prior instances of the NG Codes being violated, the damage on her face is far less severe.
** One can visibly spot Kimura's Cure W bottle on the floor in the scene where she "dies".
** When her body is discovered, the version of the body discovery music that played during Asahina's FakeKillScare plays.
** At the end of Episode 12 of ''Side:Future'', during the montage of dead Future Foundation members, Kirigiri isn't among them.
** The OP of ''Side:Future'' Episode 10, the episode immediately after Kirigiri's "death", states that there are 6 remaining survivors. If Kirigiri was actually dead at the time, it would've been stated that there were only 5 (Naegi, Asahina, Mitarai, Munakata and Sakakura).
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: Even more than the other sides, as it will also include them.
* GrandFinale: Of the GrandFinale itself.
* HappilyEverAfter: Heavily implied with Naegi and Kirigiri. Further reinforced when they hold their hands together in the official artbook.
* HereWeGoAgain: Naegi's decision to re-establish Hope's Peak (or how this decision plays out in later stories), with the final shot of the rebuilt school and [[{{Bookends}} Naegi dozing on a desk]]. While it could be viewed as a lighthearted version with a fresh start and a chance to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by creating a Hope's Peak that truly lives up to the ideals that it preaches while fielding still more talented students prone to wacky hijinks, this decision might've resulted with another Tragedy if left unchecked.
* ItsAllJunk: Mitarai throws the cellphone with the sole copy of the Hope Video into the sea.
* LighterAndSofter: Coming on the heels of everything [[DarkerAndEdgier going to hell]] in both arcs, ''Side:Hope'' is hands down the single most uplifting storyline in the entirety of ''Danganronpa''.
* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: Seiko Kimura, whose medicine was able to save Kyoko's life.
* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: Makoto and the survivors of class 78's killing game (plus Komaru) all survive the final killing game, and restart Hope's Peak Academy. Meanwhile, the former Remnants of Despair, while all alive and cured from the effects of Junko's Brainwashing Despair Video, are unlikely to be able to return to society ever again, due to their actions as Junko's lackeys and the fact that they helped to cover up the Final Killing Game, and due to the fact that Mitarai is now associating himself with them, he's in the same boat (literally). But even then, as former leads of their own game, Class 77-B get their own happy ending in the fact that now they get to live together on an island paradise for as long as they want together as the close friends who bonded so well together thanks to Chisa and Chiaki. Munakata gets it way worse, going off to do who knows what all alone, with the knowledge that the woman he loved was a member of the movement he hated so much, and that his best friend's death is partially his fault. And everyone else is dead.
* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: Making a parallel to the {{Prequel}} of Hope's Peak Saga. The episode begins with the main characters surounded and outnumbered by a mind-controlled army, while Mitarai is about to brainwash mankind. Soon, Class 77-B were ''brought back'' by Hajime/Izuru and come to save the day. Kyoko is revealed to be alive. Mitarai is convinced by his fomer classmates to stop his plan and rejoins them. The episode ends with Hope's Peak Academy being rebuild, with Makoto Naegi as the headmaster.
* SilentScapegoat: The [=SDR2=] cast pretend that they're still Junko's lackeys so that Tengan's actions don't torpedo the Future Foundation's chances of restoring order.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Izuru and Hajime. Hajime became the dominant personality, retaining Izuru's talents. It's suggested that Izuru's personality isn't completely gone, though, as Hajime has one green eye and one red, and occasionally phrase drops Izuru's signature "boring". He also tends to be a lot more self-assured than the original Hajime and doesn't correct people when they address him as Izuru ''or'' Hajime.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: After having the spotlight stolen from ''them'' by the FF members in ''Side:Despair'', Class 77-B (plus Hajime) end up shoving ''Side:Future'''s cast to the sidelines as the former Remnants clear up the Future Foundation's mess and talk down Ryota. Makoto, Asahina, Hagakure and Byakuya sit out the final showdown, and Munakata has to be bailed out by the Imposter.
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: On one hand, Chiaki and the other Future Foundation members are still dead. But on the other, all the comatose Remnants of Despair are awake, Hajime retains his personality with Izuru's talent, Mitarai is talked out of going through with his whole "hope brainwashing plan" by his former classmates, Kyoko is alive thanks to Seiko's medicine and Mikan's intervention, Hope's Peak Academy is rebuilt with Makoto as headmaster, and it's heavily implied the world manages to completely recover from the Tragedy. And depending on how you interpret it, some version of Chiaki, possibly a ghost of the original or the AI, lives within Hajime's mind.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Hinata and the students of Class 77-B were able to convince Mitarai not to go through with his plan to brainwash the world.
* TookALevelInKindness: The Remnants of Despair, as a unit. Mainly because they're no longer working for their boss, but even the originally cruel and unstable members of the group are much more sanguine, and they're more actively altruistic than they were even in their Hope's Peak days.
* TreacheryCoverUp: Class 77-B sacrifice their one chance of returning to society by making themselves look like the villains and cover up Tengan's actions, knowing full well that if the truth got out, no one will ever trust the Future Foundation again.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Addressed and demonstrated. When Ryota bewails the fact that no-one will forgive him, Hajime counters that public approval is not the point of seeking redemption -- you do it so that you can live with yourself. The team go on to practice what they preach, annihilating their chances of being accepted back into society and hiding the fact that they were the ones who saved the world from Tengan and Mitarai. Rather than being hailed as heroes -- or at least acknowledged as victims -- the world will forever see them as the bogeymen of Junko's reign...but that's okay, since they know the truth for themselves.
* TheWorfEffect: While the brainwashed Future Foundation agents have EliteMooks on their side, they are all easily trounced by Class 77-B.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: Class 77-B take responsibility for Kazuo's killing game in order to protect the image of the Future Foundation. Needless to say, the world will still view them as the Remnants of Despair as a result.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: The Imposter, for Mitarai. As soon as Mitarai gets better, the Imposter runs up and they hug. As soon as they are in the boat, he mentions that Mitarai looks skinny again.
* BigDamnHeroes: The Remnants of Despair.
* {{Bookends}}: The Tragedy is started by Hope's Peak Academy covering up a killing game, which is blamed on Izuru Kamukura, and is ended by the Future Foundation (semi-successor to Hope's Peak) agreeing to a cover up of another killing game, with Izuru Kamukura [[ZeroApprovalGambit initiating and taking the blame]].
** The beginning of the {{Prequel}} has Chiaki telling Hajime how talent isn't everything, and that it's more important to stay true to oneself, while he's looking at his palm and lamenting not having a talent. Side Hope has Hajime, finally having found his inner strength and resolve as a person after the events of [=SDR2=], repeating Chiaki's words and acknowledging the merit of them while staring at [[TragicKeepsake her Galaga-like hairpin]] in the palm of his hand.
** The [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc first game]] showed Makoto waking up alone in a classroom shortly after he and Hope's Peak Academy were introduced. The GrandFinale shows Makoto sitting in a desk that has the same relative row-and-column position as it did back then, shortly before he's revealed to be the headmaster of a reborn Hope's Peak Academy.
** Works in terms of killing games, though on a darker note: of the characters involved in the chronological first and last killing games, the leaders of their group end up worse off than they did before (Murasame goes into trauma, while Munakata has to carry the weight of his actions).
* BittersweetEnding: While its ending is the brightest in the ''entire'' Hope's Peak saga, there's still some bitterness in a typical ''Danganronpa'' fashion: The Future Foundation is on its last legs due to losing most of its members, Munakata blames himself for his actions as well as losing both Chisa and Juzo, ultimately resulting with him WalkingTheEarth, and Class 77-B painted themselves as the "scum of humanity" to cover up Tengan's involvement in the Final Killing Game, but Kyoko is shown to be alive as a result of drinking Seiko's "Antagonist" antidote and Mikan saving her life afterwards, the Tragedy is no more, Class 77-B settled down peacefully in Jabberwock Island after inviting Mitarai to join them, and Makoto takes over Hope's Peak Academy, which is now re-opened for business.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: The conflict for ''Side:Hope''. Mitarai is desperate enough to do this, the rest of the cast is trying to stop him.
* BrokenAesop: The conclusion to the series left us with a few:
** Hajime's character arc is all about the danger of throwing away your individuality due to feeling inadequate, leading to a nightmarish chain of events where a perfectly decent (and academically talented) young man is erased from his own mind and turned into a talented but heartless superhuman. But the ending shows that those Izuru powers were critical to saving everyone, sabotaging the "you're good enough as you are!" moral. The return of classical Hajime's personality ''was'' a key factor in his decision to stop Mitarai (Izuru would be too apathetic to bother)... but everyone in the final episode is awed by "Kamukura's" talents than "Hajime's" decency, courage and people skills, and largely ignore the abuses that led to him ''having'' that talent. This is understandably justified for some reason, since both Hajime AND Izuru are the same person through SplitPersonalityMerge.
** Though they treat it as ''their'' atonement, the Remnants taking the fall for Tengan ironically also undermines the series' theme about taking responsibility for your actions and dealing with the consequences. Tengan may be dead, but no doubt there were others who are no better him in the FF.
** The dangers of elitism and hubris, another moral mainstay of the series, also get slightly dented -- the corrupt committee and immoral scientists who used Hajime as a lab rat technically succeeded in "creating hope" (even if it did bring about the Tragedy first and require a Hajime/Izuru merge), and the reputation of Hope's Peak and the Future Foundation goes largely untarnished because the Remnants took the fall... so the people who ''did'' atone for their sins (who were really victims, not villains, in the first place) are shunned by the world for life, while the two institutions that started all the chaos in the first place retain their status. Given the fact that Junko is involved with the Tragedy and Class 77-B has too much emotional guilt from that event, it's understandable to some extent.
** The danger of cover up and shady dealings got thrown out of the window by having the Tragedy resolved by a cover up.
** The idea of moving on from tragedy, an idea hovering over the entire series, is tarnished considerably since Kirigiri's revival means that Naegi ends up the same as he was at the start of ''Danganronpa 3'' (barring a few more therapy bills). The deaths in the killing game sadden him, but he doesn't seem to be close enough to the newly introduced characters to be especially scarred by their demise. To be fair though, this is mainly due to Makoto and the surviving Class 78 students joining the Future Foundation two or three years ago and they're too busy cleaning up the mess Junko made. The only surviving character who actually lost anyone close to them is Munakata, who loses ''everyone.'' He's shown as miserable and ends up the only one without a happy ending.
* CallBack: The title of ''Side:Hope'''s single episode is "The Academy of Hope and the High School Students of Despair", the subtitle for [[VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc the first game]]'s Japanese release.
* CharacterDevelopment: Class 77 seems to have gone through this. Hiyoko is nicer to Mikan, bordering on being a Tsundere for her, while Mikan herself is a more active girl, even saving Kyoko's life; Sonia pays more attention and is seemingly more friendly to Soda and Nagito is apparently more stable.
* ContinuityNod: As Class 77 is giving their speech to Mitarai, each student is doing one of their expressions from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' (Komaeda is doing a little wave, Nekomaru is laughing with a hand over his shoulder, etc,)
** The finale itself has multiple call-backs to many different characters from Danganronpa 2, along with Komaru and Toko's relationship, as to express the continuity the series has maintained. The relationships between certain characters have also been redeemed in this finale, for example:
*** Peko and Fuyuhiko.
*** Kazuichi and Sonia.
*** Hiyoko and Mikan.
* CueTheSun: The skies open, revealing a blue sky (instead of the normal red) and bright sunlight when Mitarai's brainwashing video is stopped.
* DisneyDeath: Kirigiri.
* DuelingMessiahs: Between Mitarai and Makoto. Mitarai believes Despair is too strong and plans on brainwashing everyone to save the world. Makoto believes that people can defeat Despair by working together and that the cost of Mitarai's plan outweighs any benefit.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The Remnants wake up, Mitarai is redeemed and reunited with his friends while throwing away his brainwashing video and Naegi and Kirigiri are reunited, with Naegi founding a new Hope's Peak Academy.
* EleventhHourRanger: Class 77-B arrived just in time to thwart Mitarai's broadcasting plot.
* EliteMooks: In ''Side: Future'', the brainwashed Future Foundation soldiers all looked the same. Here, a few of them were given unique designs when fighting the former Remnants of Despair. This includes [[TheBeastmaster a falcon tamer]], a creepy girl with [[FemmeFatalons long fingernails]], a big guy and even a MiniMecha. Also a guy who used Go pieces as a throwing weapon, and a guy who has a hairstyle similar to [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Guile]]/[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Rudolf von Stroheim]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Towards Kirigiri's survival:
** Compared to prior instances of the NG Codes being violated, the damage on her face is far less severe.
** One can visibly spot Kimura's Cure W bottle on the floor in the scene where she "dies".
** When her body is discovered, the version of the body discovery music that played during Asahina's FakeKillScare plays.
** At the end of Episode 12 of ''Side:Future'', during the montage of dead Future Foundation members, Kirigiri isn't among them.
** The OP of ''Side:Future'' Episode 10, the episode immediately after Kirigiri's "death", states that there are 6 remaining survivors. If Kirigiri was actually dead at the time, it would've been stated that there were only 5 (Naegi, Asahina, Mitarai, Munakata and Sakakura).
* FullyAbsorbedFinale: Even more than the other sides, as it will also include them.
* GrandFinale: Of the GrandFinale itself.
* HappilyEverAfter: Heavily implied with Naegi and Kirigiri. Further reinforced when they hold their hands together in the official artbook.
* HereWeGoAgain: Naegi's decision to re-establish Hope's Peak (or how this decision plays out in later stories), with the final shot of the rebuilt school and [[{{Bookends}} Naegi dozing on a desk]]. While it could be viewed as a lighthearted version with a fresh start and a chance to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong by creating a Hope's Peak that truly lives up to the ideals that it preaches while fielding still more talented students prone to wacky hijinks, this decision might've resulted with another Tragedy if left unchecked.
* ItsAllJunk: Mitarai throws the cellphone with the sole copy of the Hope Video into the sea.
* LighterAndSofter: Coming on the heels of everything [[DarkerAndEdgier going to hell]] in both arcs, ''Side:Hope'' is hands down the single most uplifting storyline in the entirety of ''Danganronpa''.
* NotTooDeadToSaveTheDay: Seiko Kimura, whose medicine was able to save Kyoko's life.
* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: Makoto and the survivors of class 78's killing game (plus Komaru) all survive the final killing game, and restart Hope's Peak Academy. Meanwhile, the former Remnants of Despair, while all alive and cured from the effects of Junko's Brainwashing Despair Video, are unlikely to be able to return to society ever again, due to their actions as Junko's lackeys and the fact that they helped to cover up the Final Killing Game, and due to the fact that Mitarai is now associating himself with them, he's in the same boat (literally). But even then, as former leads of their own game, Class 77-B get their own happy ending in the fact that now they get to live together on an island paradise for as long as they want together as the close friends who bonded so well together thanks to Chisa and Chiaki. Munakata gets it way worse, going off to do who knows what all alone, with the knowledge that the woman he loved was a member of the movement he hated so much, and that his best friend's death is partially his fault. And everyone else is dead.
* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: Making a parallel to the {{Prequel}} of Hope's Peak Saga. The episode begins with the main characters surounded and outnumbered by a mind-controlled army, while Mitarai is about to brainwash mankind. Soon, Class 77-B were ''brought back'' by Hajime/Izuru and come to save the day. Kyoko is revealed to be alive. Mitarai is convinced by his fomer classmates to stop his plan and rejoins them. The episode ends with Hope's Peak Academy being rebuild, with Makoto Naegi as the headmaster.
* SilentScapegoat: The [=SDR2=] cast pretend that they're still Junko's lackeys so that Tengan's actions don't torpedo the Future Foundation's chances of restoring order.
* SplitPersonalityMerge: Izuru and Hajime. Hajime became the dominant personality, retaining Izuru's talents. It's suggested that Izuru's personality isn't completely gone, though, as Hajime has one green eye and one red, and occasionally phrase drops Izuru's signature "boring". He also tends to be a lot more self-assured than the original Hajime and doesn't correct people when they address him as Izuru ''or'' Hajime.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: After having the spotlight stolen from ''them'' by the FF members in ''Side:Despair'', Class 77-B (plus Hajime) end up shoving ''Side:Future'''s cast to the sidelines as the former Remnants clear up the Future Foundation's mess and talk down Ryota. Makoto, Asahina, Hagakure and Byakuya sit out the final showdown, and Munakata has to be bailed out by the Imposter.
* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: On one hand, Chiaki and the other Future Foundation members are still dead. But on the other, all the comatose Remnants of Despair are awake, Hajime retains his personality with Izuru's talent, Mitarai is talked out of going through with his whole "hope brainwashing plan" by his former classmates, Kyoko is alive thanks to Seiko's medicine and Mikan's intervention, Hope's Peak Academy is rebuilt with Makoto as headmaster, and it's heavily implied the world manages to completely recover from the Tragedy. And depending on how you interpret it, some version of Chiaki, possibly a ghost of the original or the AI, lives within Hajime's mind.
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: Hinata and the students of Class 77-B were able to convince Mitarai not to go through with his plan to brainwash the world.
* TookALevelInKindness: The Remnants of Despair, as a unit. Mainly because they're no longer working for their boss, but even the originally cruel and unstable members of the group are much more sanguine, and they're more actively altruistic than they were even in their Hope's Peak days.
* TreacheryCoverUp: Class 77-B sacrifice their one chance of returning to society by making themselves look like the villains and cover up Tengan's actions, knowing full well that if the truth got out, no one will ever trust the Future Foundation again.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Addressed and demonstrated. When Ryota bewails the fact that no-one will forgive him, Hajime counters that public approval is not the point of seeking redemption -- you do it so that you can live with yourself. The team go on to practice what they preach, annihilating their chances of being accepted back into society and hiding the fact that they were the ones who saved the world from Tengan and Mitarai. Rather than being hailed as heroes -- or at least acknowledged as victims -- the world will forever see them as the bogeymen of Junko's reign...but that's okay, since they know the truth for themselves.
* TheWorfEffect: While the brainwashed Future Foundation agents have EliteMooks on their side, they are all easily trounced by Class 77-B.
* ZeroApprovalGambit: Class 77-B take responsibility for Kazuo's killing game in order to protect the image of the Future Foundation. Needless to say, the world will still view them as the Remnants of Despair as a result.
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