Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei - The Animation Episode 13 Discussion

i3i said:
I still don't get why Junko made them kill each other. "Despair" is an unconvincing motive so I'll say out of boredom. But I couldn't care less anyway since all the characters have stereotypical anime personalities that it was nice watching them die one by one.

Miniclawz said:
Holy SHIT this episode turned into shit with the oh YEAH Hope! I want to live OH the DRAMA WOOT
Fail episode in my opinion

Urek said:


some men&women want to watch the world burn. thats all.


though, there are speculation why especially junko has fallen into despair.

makawako said:
I watched this jaw-dropping anime to be happy at the end...but the fact that they did not show us what happened on the outside world got in my nerves..! :/

Gippy said:
Yes, it was rushed. But it remained faithful to the game to the very end, which is something a lot of other adaptations can't boast.

If they had changed the story to suit the 1-cour length: "OMG THEY WEREN'T FAITHFUL THIS ANIME SUX!!!11"

The only way they could've added more time would be to cut the OP/EDs, but even then they bled into the ED multiple times.

JizzyHitler said:
I honestly hope to god a dr2 anime never happens, while this adaptations redeemed alot of itself in the last 3 chapters it still was far from a perfect adaptation and in terms of chap 2 and 3 thye were about as horribly adapted as you could get without just going anime only

But what makes me wish for no dr2 anime is that its such a complex game that putting it into a weekly format will not work. It relies too much on things happening in a single go especially trials, but the trials are significantly longer than the first games and the entire game is as well. Basically a dr2 anime being good borders on near impossible

Zel_Ezl said:
WTF? O.O I'm more confused now.. because of what Monobear said in the ending. Does this mean that he's the father of Kirigiri and he's the real mastermind? or he was just confusing us watchers.. omg . help me .. esp. to those who have played the game..
and i wonder who's that another bear.. so there will be a sequel?

Gippy said:
I'm tired of all the people saying that this adaptation was horrible and rushed. The director made a conscious effort to use as much time as possible. It's rare that the OP is skipped for over half the series, but we got exactly that. The only weak episode of the series was episode 5, where they dragged on Mondo's post-verdict explanation for too long. Everything else was fine.

Yes, some things were omitted, but that happens in every single anime adaptation. It's just that this anime had the "unforunate" situation where the game translation was released before the anime. Other shows like Clannad, Fate/Stay Night, ef, and Shuffle had their game translation projects completed after the anime release. Those shows have even more omitted but didn't get anywhere close to the butthurt whining I saw for this show.

I liked how the anime was very, very faithful to the game. However, I would've liked to see an ending that was unique to the anime instead of just copying the game ending. This is really my only true gripe. I liked Gantz and Negima because they had the guts to make a new ending. ef - a tale of memories also had an alternate ending, and so did Shuffle and Mashiro-Iro Symphony. I even liked the love-or-hate School Days just because its ending was unique as well.

Solid 6/10. It adapted the game well, but I think it played a little too safe. A well-executed alternate ending could've made this a classic. (I use the entire 10 point scale; 6 is above average)

5layer said:
Story would've been top-notch if Junko actually had a motive for what she did. But as it stands, she just did what she did for no reason at all.

Still, the story and mystery was really good but didn't get the adaptation it deserved. Oh well.

Saburo-kun said:
um, so. ., Kirigiri's father is an evil bear? Well, I guess it's not the first I've heard of something like this- http://tinyurl.com/latcsz2
Naegi never runs out of that ammunition, I must say. . .
lol, all those personalities.
I'll never look at the words "hope" and "despair" the same again, though it'll be kind of cool if I think of this series.

Pretty good series, I hope for a season two, *shoots hope bullet*, though I haven't played the game so I don't know how much farther it really goes.
Anyway, cool stuff, I didn't expect Hagakure and Asahina to survive. Well, actually, I thought it would just be one survivor with this elimination way of doing things, up until the last trial. Too bad for Ludenberg. . .

ToG25thBaam said:

This is what popped up in my mind when I saw that. Too bad it's only in the game huh.

One word for this episode, LAME. We didn't even get to see how will they live after they get out, we didn't even get any information about the outside world and etc.. Why or how or when or whatever did the catastrophe happened. Nothing is fucking explained.. 2/10, lame characters (with some exception like Togami), interesting concept, poor written mystery, poor execution, still animation (copy and paste from the game?), and.. especially the super duper high school hope MC dude, some speech and they regained their composure and hope? What's that? Talk no jutsu? Oh well.

mayukachan said:

Agreed. I felt like she was just all talk, and no motive. "HAHA I'm such a sadist and masochist! Despair FTW!!"

Czechbiohazard said:


Honestly, I enjoyed watching this anime until then end where the explanation of the game was utter shit. At first glance, I thought it would turn out to be some type of Virtual Reality game that they were in, because of the pink blood, enclosed place cut off from the rest of the world, the food that magically refills itself, the Monobear that magically appears, also the blackmail showing their family and friends showing up dead if they didn't finish the game, and a bunch of other shit.

The explanation of everything in the last episode kinda ticked me off and turned the story into shit. The story made even less sense. Junko, killed her sister for no reason and she made everyone kill each for no reason. That's honestly quite possibly one of the worse storyline simply because there was no motive for the slaughter for the last saviors in a post-apocalypse setting.

Well, I did enjoy watching this and I enjoyed the anime itself, but the ending wasn't my cup of tea. I would have preferred Junko to have a motive or it was just all a VR game of some sort instead.

Well, either way, I loved the characters in this story. I'm also interested in playing the game now. Hopefully, it's better explained.

I loved Junko though, I wish I got to see more of her throughout the anime, it's a shame that we didn't get to see more of her.

Zetsubo667 said:


Her reason for doing all this is to see despair, she even said so in the first episode. From the moment she was born she already considered this world dull and boring. She has no justifiable reason for doing any of this (For the evulz) Junko does this for fun and games. From what I know she purposely killed her own parents just to know the despair of being homeless. In other words any kind of harsh situation Junko was put in, she did it on purpose because despair is a wonderful emotion to her.

Basically she has been fucked up in the head since she was born and even Junko doesn't know why someone like her exists. The closest example to her in another series would be Kotomine Kirei. And you could even say she is a female version of The Joker.

Darkbloom said:
Well, I really enjoyed this anime. I started watching it after it finished, so I didn't have to wait for a new episode, so basically, I didn't investigate. At all. And I think that's why I enjoyed it. When I see reviews, or opinion about this anime, most people complain that investigations were so short and out of nowhere everyone knew everything when they entered the trial. Well, I kind of agree but it didn't bother me.

The only thing that bothered me was character development. Actually, lack of character development. I didn't really care about any of them, I just enjoyed the plot & Monokuma.

But holy shit, Junko. I was so sad when she died so early, because I immediately fell in love with her (what can I say, I'm a sucker for bitchy characters like her), so I was satisfied with ending.

I give this series 7 out of 10. Enjoyed it. I'd probably give it less if I played the game.

i3i said:
I still don't get why Junko made them kill each other. "Despair" is an unconvincing motive so I'll say out of boredom. But I couldn't care less anyway since all the characters have stereotypical anime personalities that it was nice watching them die one by one.

Mr_Panda said:
People who complain about adaptations are never able to be pleased. Changes were made. I wouldn't even say it's worth comparing different media versions of a story under average circumstances. I hadn't played the game up until I started watching the show, so I'll get to that soon enough. The show was ok. I figured out the "twists" a little to early for me to call it great, but I don't know if that's the show's fault or me watching too many mystery pieces.

U9 said:
So many things that don't make sense to me...

What happened to the world? What's that super nasty disaster that occured? Is it even real?
What was the point of this despair plan thingy of Junko? Why was she playing reaity show if the world was destroyed?
Who was the show broadcast to if the world was destroyed? Why? Who would want to watch it in such a world?
Whats with the super high school titles? Is this Power Rangers?
So kuma is an actual being?

rawrlsy said:
The ending. What the actual fuck.

Okay. So i was reading the reviews for Danganronpa as I was going along the series. I didn't hate it. On the contrary, I liked it. I enjoyed the art style, even though it was a little different. I myself like fast paced series, so the pacing for this anime didn't bother me at all. But I had questions, and I expected some of them to get answered in the last episode. Did it?

Nope.

In fact, it was confusing and it introduced 2 new concepts to the show: amnesia and how the real world is falling apart. What?

I would have given this anime a higher rating than a 5. But the ending was mediocre to lazy at best. So 5.

xchee said:
Junko died but monokuma lives. Was she really capable of wiping the students' memories? There has to be a higher entity backing her up I really don't think stuff happened all because of despair. It's like "motive? What motive? It's despair! Don't ask and just accept it's despair." *scratches head*

6/10

Dragonage2ftw said:

1. This wasn't faithful at all. // 2. This adaptation omitted several very important things from the game.