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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
- A possible one for Megumi Ogata. When Makoto finds Toko knocked out on the floor, he is shocked. When Toko/Genocide Jill wakes up, she asks him if he was looking longingly at her unconscious body, which he immediately denies. A similar incident infamously happened in The End of Evangelion, to the disgust of the character that Megumi Ogata played.
- The fact that Sabat uses his Kazuma Kuwabara voice for a delinquent with an orange pompadour and a strict honor code.
- In School Mode, Makoto asks Celeste if she's a good singer, and she first claims there's nothing she can't do before questioning if he thinks he's worthy of hearing her. Her seiyū Hekiru Shiina has been performing and releasing music since 1994, while her dub actress Marieve Herington is an accomplished jazz singer
. - One scene in The Animation's English dub has Mondo yell that Kiyotaka's "Kamahame-Forget-About-It!" was "Over 9,000!"
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
- Peko is voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi, AKA Sailor Moon. When she masquerades as Sparkling Justice, she wears a Magical Girl mask that greatly resembles Sailor Moon and makes a speech about punishing people with justice. Since Mitsuishi was one of the voice actors that the script writer specifically asked for, this was most likely done intentionally.
- The Logic Dive minigame was reportedly inspired by Hajime's actress Minami Takayama's most famous character, Conan Edogawa from Case Closed. Specifically, the Turbo Skateboard he rides around on.
- In the English dub, Hajime is voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch, who voiced Yu Narukami in Persona 4; fitting, since both games revolve around finding the truth. However, he also voiced Tohru Adachi, the seemingly-harmless cop who is driven by his envy and misanthropy to try destroying the world. Sounds an awful lot like pre-amnesia Hajime and Izuru Kamukura, doesn't it?
- Add in the fact that both Hajime and Yu both start out as blank slate protagonist, get benefits through developing relationships with other characters (Social Links for Yu, and Hope Fragments for Hajime), and obtain a power that defeats the final boss makes it stronger to see relations.
- Another English dub example: A pink haired girl with matching pink eyes who sacrifices herself in the name of hope for her friends, but did not really die so much as she is nonexistent in the real world. Madoka Kaname... or Chiaki Nanami?
- A third English dub example (and a two-for-one deal, too): A boy is trapped in a virtual world gone horribly wrong. Kirito... or Nagito Komaeda? Later, a boy specifically enters the virtual world to save those trapped in it. Again, Kirito... or Makoto Naegi?
- Yet another English dub example: The largest member of the main cast is a crude and boisterous Bruiser with a Soft Center who remains energetic and upbeat even after he becomes gravely injured trying to save a loved one and rebuilt as a cyborg. Specifically a cola-filled cyborg with some questionably-useful functions in his chest. Nekomaru Nidai or Franky?
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School
- This isn't the first time Jun'ichi Suwabe has played a highly violent man associated with a group as its sixth leader, who ends up getting a part of his arm detached at some point in the story.
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
- An extremely talented short-statured teenage girl who happens to be really lazy. Himiko Yumeno, or Umaru Doma?
- A short, seemingly innocent-looking teenage boy with a personality that's far from innocent. To top it all off, he leads a shady criminal organaization and is voiced by Derek Stephen Prince. Kokichi Oma, or Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu?
- On that note, Kokichi happens to be a purple haired evil genius voiced by Derek Stephen Prince, not unlike Ken Ichijouji.
- Seeing how the English cast is comprised entirely of VAs that were in the previous games, this is rather common. Wendee Lee is an endless bag of lewd jokes, Erica Mendez is a stoic Tsundere, Christine Marie Cabanos is a spacey girl, Kaiji Tang is unintelligent, the list goes on.
- Tenko's tendency to make weird faces is because her voice actress also voiced Applejack, who has the same habit, in the Japanese Dub.
