Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation
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If you haven't yet come across the Danganronpa series and would like to get into it, stay away from this manga at all costs.

The Danganronpa games are very long and and detailed in the characterisations of characters and the mystery's themselves. Trigger Happy Havoc itself takes around 20 hours to complete. It also received a rather rushed version of the story which only had 12 episodes. This manga adapts the anime in only 4 volumes so you'd expect this to be even more rushed, and that's exactly what we got.

The characters receive very little development when compared to the games and even the anime. ... The murder reveals are also very lacklustre and anti-climactic. Class trials are also very quickly done with very little build up or suspense to revelations. I am only 2 volumes (8 chapters) deep and the third murder has already taken place, that's how fast paced this manga goes.

That being said, I don't think this manga was intended as the introductory piece for newcomers at all and shouldn't be treated as such. In fact, this should be more geared towards established fans of the series looking to own more Danganronpa related media. The fantastic art is also a plus.
So to conclude, should you read/buy this? If you haven't tread foot into the Danganronpa series yet, then stay away. Watch the anime or ideally play the games. If you are a big fan of the series already then you could consider getting these. The covers look and feel great and more Danganronpa never hurts.

Danganronpa games, overall, are pretty good. I've played all the games of the saga, watched all the animes of it and readed some light novels and manga, so, I can consider me a proper Danganronpa fan. How I said, I've read some manga of Danganronpa, one of them to be exactly, and is this manga.
I didn't read this manga online, how I do now, but I bought the entire volumes after playing the games, expecting a good adaptation. For me, Trigger Happy Havoc isn't the best Danganronpa game, but It was a solid start, and, seeing that it had an anime and manga adaptation, I ... decided to bought the manga to read a proper adaptation, cause I thought it was going to be refreshing after some months of playing the games.
Now, I want to ask want thing to you, the one who is actually reading this:
¿What do you get If you adapt a game of practically twenty hours into a manga of just 4 volumes?
A rushed story.
I want to clarify that, I'm going to review this manga from my point of view, as someone who played the game and wanted a good adaptation, so, overall, I'll review it as a comparison, not as a independent manga. Hope you understand.
And, beware of spoilers.
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-Story
How I said at the introduction, this manga is a rushed version of the actual game. So, actually the story has a fast development.
I remember playing the game, the trials were the most exciting part, and they actually taked a long time to be completed, not only because of the challenge that they were, but because they had very dialogue to understand what happened in the case. Also, I remembered when someone died in a chapter, It was surprising.
And, here...
In the same volume, you could read a entire trial and half of the next trial. Doesn't have the same impact as the game. In the game, as the chapter advanced, I was intrigued to know what was happening, like in the third chapter. In the manga, at the opposite, just everything went fast, without emotion. The explanations were fast, too, but this isn't something to blame at all, cause in the game you can choose many options to try to explain the case, and trying to resolve it, while in the manga no, but it's something that happens if you adapt a game to an anime or manga.
As an independent manga, is actually good, the summary and interesting concepts and events aren't affected at all by the rushed story, apart of happen too fast, of course. I would've liked it If I didn't played the game before. Well, even Is mediocre If we consider it as a independent manga.
-Note: 3
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-Characters
In Danganronpa, the deaths are something common. It's something obvious after reading the sinopsis. In the game, a full chapter could take some hours to finalize, and in every chapter of the game one character die, two at maxim. So, in the manga... Happens that, in a volume, you can see many deaths, and that makes the characters don't last too long.
So, the only ones to have a personality and have development are the ones who survived. And, just survived 6 characters, so... Let's see first.
Naegi is just a standart MC with the title of ''Super high school level luck'', being just a lucky guy. Is the typic MC where before the story starts is just a nobody and at the end is the hero. Cliché.
Kirigiri is a good characters, have an interesting and mysterious backstory, and have some development with Naegi. But, she's the ultimate detective, so, is the more intelligent, and practically resolves every case because, why not.
Hina and Hagakure don't do shit, Hina is fanservice and Hagakure is useless.
Touko is disgusting, and more with Byakuya.
Talking about him, Byakuya is the best character, have development, isn't actually pretending to be a hero, at the start he just wanted to survive by himself and only cared about him, but at the end he went more friendly with the others.
Monokuma is fucking boss, actually.
Compared to the game, the manga in character section looses totally too, cause in the game you can interact with the characters a lot, but, it's something obvious, cause is an adaptation to manga, so, is isn't a bad thing at all, honestly.
-Note: 5
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-Art
Art was pretty good, I have to say. The characters had pretty good drawn designs, and the scenarios looked good. Some scenes were traced about the game, and in most of them were practically identicals. Apart of this, the only good part of the manga.
-Note: 7
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-Enjoyment
How I said, instead of reading it online, I bought the mangas, cause at that point, I didn't knew about reading manga online, and, I wasted money on this. Basically, is a poor adaptation of the game. If you want to start in the Danganronpa series, please, don't read this, go play the game, or, If you already readed this, watch the game in YouTube, you will find it WAY MORE good. Oh, also, avoid to watch the anime adaptation of the game, is practically the same shit, but with good OP and ED's.
-Note: 1
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-Overall
I greatly regret buying and reading this, it woul've been better to just playing the games and avoiding the adaptations.
¿I recommend it? Hell, no. The only way I would recommend this is If were a independent manga, but that's not the case, so, abstain yourself of reading this, please.
-Final Note: 4

Why did I not listen to the other negative reviews?

I'm going to skip the generic information, Danganronpa is about a death game played by a number of students of a prestigious high school. Yadda Yadda. If you don't know that, I'd probably just stop here and tell you to skip the manga, go play the game, or look for something else. It's just not very good for a variety of reasons that I'll get into with out spoilers, but ultimately the subject isn't really the problem, it's all about the delivery and content.

There's two approaches to the manga itself that ... depends on the reader.

The first is by a fan of the original game. I could say that I liked the original game enough. I had complaints but nothing game breakingly bad, and I gave the game a 7/10. The puzzles were mostly good, the gameplay was good, there's an interesting dating sim mechanic, and my only real complaints were there is a character at the end that was very annoying, a few puzzles were annoying, and the summary of each case is completely repetitive in a way that just repeated everything you just did.

Well the good news is that the manga solves all those problems. But also tears down everything GOOD about the games. The obvious change is there's very little if any dating games, and the manga overall is rushed. Actually a big problem is the story is almost the same in the manga and the game...

Which kind of leads us to the other side. The second type of reader who hasn't played the games. In that case, how is the manga if you don't already know the game it's based on.

I already said the Manga is the same as the game, and that's really the problem. Naegi is the main character of both. In the game, everything is focused on him because he's the main character and thus he has to solve all the puzzles, figure out all the clues, and lead the investigations in to the murders.

In the manga it's done in the same way and that means EVERYONE turns to Naegi, even... well a certain spoiler character... because that's how the game did it. In the game this approach works because if Naegi isn't in the room, the player can't see what happens, but in the manga... honestly in the manga, about half the interactions with Naegi should have been split up to other characters because it would have been a better story telling device, and it would be interesting to see each character work out problems on their own.

Instead it's all done EXACTLY The same as Naegi, and as the books proceed it even throws in references to the mini-games of the manga, not "someone says something like that" but "here's a screen just like their version of hangman." It's like they could have seen the problem and ignored it.

The game also helps develop the characters with the "Dating sim" type of gameplay. The manga has none of that so nothing about the characters is illuminated or developed, and the entire manga is sped through in four volumes, the final volume just whipping through case after case.

The thing is, this could have been a chance for a young mangaka to really evolve the story, and art and tell something new that shows his ability to adapt a video game, but instead the manga is the same as a game, either due to the lack of skill of the writer, or requirements by the video game company. Either way the final product really lacks a purpose. If you didn't play the game, play the game. If you did play the game, you already read this story, and if you don't want to play the game... Watch a full playthrough, it'll at least be more entertaining than this because in the game format the main character IS supposed to be driving the story, instead of awkwardly doing it in a manga.