While I am a huge fan of the DR3 Side:Despair and Side:Future (and just in danganronpa hell in general), Side:Hope was actually fairly disappointing to me. While I am very happy that all the SDR2 kids are alive and that everything went well, it just seemed too forced and I felt like the writing was pretty... bland?
I found the scene with Mitarai and him meeting his classmates way too short, I thought there would be way more than just him seeing his classmates again for less than a few minutes (honestly I was hoping more "angst" to happen, as that's a pretty good thing Danganronpa has got going on for characterization)
I know it's really senseless to be asking for more despair, but personally I just feel like it would have made the ending more meaningful and interesting (but a lot of people don't care and just want a happy ending, i guess) Other than that, I love how some of the SDR2 ost songs were added in a few moments, and animation was great as well. It would have been better if it was longer, maybe 40 minutes? (I'm probably asking for too much though) Another thing that kind of confused me was how the SDR2 cast got there, but I guess that'll be explained in Danganronpa 2.5. Not the perfect ending in my opinion, but at least everything ended up happy.
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