Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Kibou-hen

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English: Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Hope Arc

Synonyms: Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak Academy - Hope Volume

Japanese: ダンガンロンパ３-The End of 希望ヶ峰学園-希望編

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Type: Special

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Sep 29, 2016

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Lerche

Source: Game

Genres: Action, Psychological, Horror, Mystery

Duration: 24 min.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 7.87¹ (scored by 39,804 users)

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Popularity: #1222

Members: 65,807

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The Future Foundation is in shambles after the Final Killing Game and the revelation of the true culprit. As a desperate plot arises from one of the survivors to rid the world of despair once and for all, the remaining Future Foundation members must band together to stop this atrocity from taking place. Fortunately, they find themselves with help from a group of unlikely allies as they race against the clock to stop their world from being changed.

In this finale to the Hope's Peak storyline of the Danganronpa series, the players in this neverending death game begin to understand the true meaning behind despair, hope, and atonement.

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Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Mirai-hen, Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-hen, Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono

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Hinata, Hajime

Main

Takayama, Minami
Japanese

Naegi, Makoto

Main

Ogata, Megumi
Japanese

Kamukura, Izuru

Main

Takayama, Minami
Japanese

Mitarai, Ryouta

Main

Hongo, Kanata
Japanese

Komaeda, Nagito

Supporting

Ogata, Megumi
Japanese

Kirigiri, Kyouko

Supporting

Hikasa, Yoko
Japanese

Nanami, Chiaki

Supporting

Hanazawa, Kana
Japanese

Tanaka, Gundam

Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

Fukawa, Touko

Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Togami, Byakuya

Supporting

Ishida, Akira
Japanese

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Kishi, Seiji

Director

Kaihou, Norimitsu

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Fukuoka, Motoo

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Kodaka, Kazutaka

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Sep 29, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

OverkilledRed (All reviews)

197 people found this review helpful

Mod Edit: This review contains major spoilers.
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Danganronpa is a great game. Dangaronpa 2 is also a great game. But Danganronpa 3 wants to prove to me that I'm wrong and that they actually awful games about brainwash, fake deaths and plainly stupidity. There is nothing great about a series of games in which the main villain just uses a brainwash video to make everything and everyone act the way she want, making them free of all charges and essentially destroying any dramatic effect this would have. That said, let's speak about Junko.

Junko is great. In the midst of a lot of colorful and excentric characters, she stands out as the most charismatic and also the most charming one. She was purposely made that way so we could believe that she was capable of manipulating and corrupting all the Ultimates and making them cooperate with her grandiose plan of tainting the world with despair. And so she used every weakness to manipulate them, as informed to the player in a piece of information in the game. But then comes lazy writing and everything now is brainwash. Kinda takes out the whole point of her character, huh? And so everything in the series. The Ultimate Despairs now are just brainwashed people without any responsabilites for their actions. The whole dilemna of "hope versus despair" is entirely meaningless if there is no clear logic behind their actions as Ultimate Despairs.

And really, I don't know what is more stupid: Kirigiri's death or she being revived. What was the point? I can't see any logic if not the writers purposely doing something completely stupid because they knew the game would never do it. Because that's the point of the game. All the death and dark twists mattered. They are important for the thematic construction of the games and its main message to the player. Everything was made that way so its message would be conveyed with a strong impact.

I could go on and babble about the other problems with Danganronpa 3, but those are enough. They destroy everything that was build in the game just for a cheap fanservice with a forced happy ending. A lot of people are crediting this to Kodaka Kazutaka, the creator of the series, but he's just the supervisor, while the writers are actually Higashide Yuichiro and Kodachi Ukyou, the duo behind Gakkou Gurashi. It's difficult to say how much involvment Kodaka has, but being busy with V3, I doubt there is much to credit him for. And now I understand why he made V3 so it wouldn't have any connection with the previous games. No freaking way he could consider this piece of garbage as part of the game series.

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Sep 29, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

KamuiGavin (All reviews)

168 people found this review helpful

My only problem with being a fan of the Danganronpa franchise is that its fanbase can be, sometimes, toxic. If a very little detail is not of their liking, then the whole episode (or worse, the whole show) is garbage, and they sometimes can be hypocrisy incarnate. I'm not generalizing, of course, as I have encountered many nice fellows that also share my taste for this franchise and understand what Kodaka wants to say and do with his story.

Finding a perfect ending these days is a difficult task in almost any media. It's not that they are bad, but they leave with that feeling that you were expecting more, that things could have concluded in a much better way.

Thankfully that is not the case with Danganronpa 3. We can discuss a lot about the overall quality of the whole series, but Hope Side, as an ending to the Hope's Speak storyline, was how it should have been from the beginning.

First off, this episode explains a few things we were wondering about from the previous episodes. The creation of AI Chiaki was finally explained, the Cure W next to Kirigiri's corpse had a purpose in the end (oh Kodaka, you are so good with details), the fate of Class 77 after the New World Program was finally revealed, etc.

We also got some epic and memorable moments, such as the Class 77 fighting against the brainwashed future foundation agents and cooperating with each other, Nagito finally talking with Naegi (I waited for a moment like this for so long), the confrontation against Mitarai (which was meant to be emotional and NOT EPIC as some fans, for some reason, wanted it) was very touching, the little talk between Hajime and Chiaki was simply good (and necessary), and the final scene with everyone reconstructing Hope's Peak Academy, with Naegi being named the Director, was so relieving...

In the end, everything ended well. Honestly there's barely anything for me to complain about this episode. These "plotholes" some people are talking about are very minor details that can be easily explained if you just opened your mind a little bit.
And calling this episode garbage because it was filled with fanservice... yeah, duh, I mean, for starters Danganronpa 3 only exists as a fanservice! Kodaka could have easily avoided doing this anime and go straight for V3, but he wanted to end this whole storyline in a satisfying way for us... and that he did.

As for Danganronpa 3 as a whole... yeah, I admit there's a lot to discuss and complain about, but despite its flaws it was still an overall entertaining show that gave me many good and memorable moments. Both Future and Despair easily get an 8 out of 10 for me.

But Hope was truly an outstanding ending to the whole franchise, an ending I'll keep in my heart for a long time. I'll really miss all of these characters, but knowing that they are happy now relieves me a lot.

Now let's see how Kodaka manages with New Danganronpa V3!

Have a good day filled with hope... and despair!

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Sep 30, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

MarlyTT (All reviews)

95 people found this review helpful

Surprise, this review has spoilers. That's more surprise than you'll ever get from watching Danganronpa 3.

What made the original Danganronpa stand out from the rest of its genre was the combination of the interesting storytelling through interactive exploration, mystery solving, and the quirky characters. It also didn't take itself too seriously, which was a plus. Unfortunately, many of those traits are lost during a typical transition process from a game to an anime, and this is exactly that. It wouldn't be too bad if the writing was good, but Danganronpa was never really known for that particular aspect. In fact, it was arguably Danganronpa's read more

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Sep 29, 2016

1 of 1 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 9

GoldenDevilGamer (All reviews)

60 people found this review helpful

With both Mirai-hen and Zetsubou-hen ending, it’s now time for the final episode of Danganronpa 3, Kibou-hen to wrap things up. Although some things may just feel like pure fanservice and maybe the conclusion might be too hopeful for its own good, Kibou-hen managed to make me smile from beginning to end and never have I felt so excited and satisfied from a conclusion before

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As you probably already know, this episode should be watched after finishing Zetsubou-hen and Mirai-hen since this episode serves as a conclusion for both series. But not only that, but Kibou-hen is the conclusion for the this Danganronpa universe, and the read more

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