Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation

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Synonyms: Dangan Ronpa - Academy of Hope and High School of Despair

Japanese: ダンガンロンパ希望の学園と絶望の高校生 THE ANIMATION

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 4

Chapters: 17

Status: Finished

Published: Mar 26, 2013 to Jul 26, 2014

Genres: Action, Horror, Mystery

Themes: High Stakes Game, Psychological

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Ace

Authors: Tsukimi, Takashi (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.05¹ (scored by 3,842 users)

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Ranked: #8022²

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Popularity: #1997

Members: 10,495

Favorites: 153

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Ranked #8022Popularity #1997Members 10,495

MangaShounen AceTsukimi, Takashi (Story & Art)

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Chapters: /17

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Hope's Peak Academy is a top school at which many "ultimates" are enrolled, such as the Ultimate Pop Sensation and Ultimate Martial Artist. When an average boy named Makoto Naegi is selected by lottery to attend this prestigious institution, he becomes the "Ultimate Lucky Student."

Unfortunately, Naegi's first day is nothing like he expected. He and his classmates fall unconscious and wake to find themselves trapped in Hope's Peak. To make matters worse, they are informed by their principal—a sadistic black and white bear named Monokuma—that in order to leave, one of the students will have to murder a fellow classmate and get away with it. If the killer is caught, they themselves will be executed, and this "School Life of Mutual Murder" will continue until only a single person remains. With no other choice left, the 78th class of Hope's Peak Academy must play Monokuma's twisted game, all while inching closer to the truth behind their predicament. To survive, it will take all their wits, a bit of luck, and most importantly, hope.

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Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation was published in English as Danganronpa: The Animation by Dark Horse from April 5, 2016 to April 11, 2017.

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Kirigiri, Kyouko

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Monokuma

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Naegi, Makoto

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Enoshima, Junko

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Ludenberg, Celestia

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Fukawa, Touko

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Togami, Byakuya

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Fujisaki, Chihiro

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Ishimaru, Kiyotaka

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Asahina, Aoi

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Oct 30, 2018

Oahz

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (8/17 eps)

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. ...

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Feb 3, 2019

Shafir_Esmeraldo

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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 ...

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Jun 3, 2023

Kinglink

Not Recommended

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.

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