Danganronpa 1.5: Tachibana Strikes Back is a redux of the first round in the roleplay group Mirai Yume Academy. It ran from March 15 to June 14, 2019.
Danganronpa 1.5: Tachibana Strikes Back contains these tropes:
- Adaptation Name Change: A few of the characters have been fitted with new names:
- Round 1's Ayume Tachibana becomes Asuka Tachibana.
- Round 2's Katsumi Arashi becomes Katsumi Arashiro.
- Round 3's Miyage Hollander becomes Jesse Hollander.
- Round 3's Aster Chanson becomes Yukari Shuuei.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Several characters.
- Hoshiko becomes notably more cold-hearted and rude, rather than just reclusive.
- Zoro seems to do a complete 180-degree personality flip, becoming much more loud and boisterous than his original, and with the angsty parts of himself getting completely scrapped in favor of adamant denial.
- Jesse loses the trauma from his backstory, and becomes a lot more well-rounded. He's much more gullible and blindly trusting of people, and more Book Dumb to boot. His religion is also much more important to his character now.
- Katsumi, upon getting more screen time, gets a lot more development in the personality department, moving from an aggressive and cold-hearted berserker to easygoing and friendly while managing to uphold a strict demeanor when the situation calls.
- Scarlet loses her fake personality ordeal, though arguably because she doesn't live long enough for the Ultimate Copycat talent to show up.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Several from Round One.
- First and foremost: Hoshiko, Zoro, and Itarou are no longer Long-Lost Relatives.
- Shiori and Itarou also do not become a couple in this round.
- ...And neither do Zoro and Iori.
- Though, Iori and Asahi, an out-of-game background character, have been upgraded to dating.
- Cerebus Call-Back: The laundry room scene in Round One, where a shirtless Scarlet is unwittingly walked in on by Itarou while cleaning a stain out of her shirt, has been turned into a murder scene.
- Colony Ship: The ship the killing game takes place on was meant to hold the Ultimate students in cryogenic sleep after the end of the world, until they can land on a safe alternative. Of course, this doesn't go well.
- Death by Adaptation: Some characters who survived their original round have died this time around.
- Iori dies as the fourth victim.
- Otsune dies as the fourth killer.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Everyone who dies in both their rounds has been fitted with new deaths.
- Hoshiko gets actually executed instead of being murdered by Zoro in a fit of rage.
- Itarou goes from committing suicide to getting bleach thrown into his face and promptly being put in a washing machine.
- Katsumi, a previous rule breaker, is now the second victim. In the original, she was shish-kekabed after breaking her NG code, but this time, she was shot in the head.
- Jesse goes from fourth victim to second killer, though his death itself is an allusion to the original death, down to the name of his execution.
- Yukari is still a victim, but they are stabbed several times with a scalpel rather than getting crushed.
- Kaito is the third killer, and his execution is quite different, going from a simple stabbing to breaking all his bones.
- Good Is Not Soft: Katsumi, in this incarnation, is a good person at heart and has joined the police force specifically to be a hero. Despite this, she still keeps an air of strict lawfulness and an almost authoritarian attitude of keeping order.
- There is also an iconic moment in the mastermind trial where Miho punches Hoshiko in the face for what she did, after being nice to her and giving her the benefit of the doubt for the entire game.
- Not His Sled: Several parts of the lore have been changed, as have character backstories.
- Shout-Out: Monohime's design and voice serve as references to Hatsune Miku.
- Shovel Strike: The fourth case utilizes a garden shovel as the murder weapon.
- Solar Flare Disaster: Solar flares caused the cryogenic sleep pods to malfunction, allowing Hoshiko to wake up to the barren ship.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Almost all the survivors this round had died in their source rounds. Thank you Zoro, very cool.
