Reviews

Just so you know where my review is coming from, I've never actually played any of the games myself, but I have watched all of CinamonToastKen's playthroughts of all of the Danganronpa games by the time I finally got around to watch the anime, so I was pretty up to speed on all of the events. Also, although I didn't really fell in love with the first game or its characters (although I did enjoy it a lot), it was the second Danganronpa that really did it for me. The story was amazing and the characters themselves were fantastic, to the point where I was too emotionally invested in all of them and wanted to know more than the game told us about them (though part of me thinks it's because the second game has a lot of underlying ships than the first one, to be honest). And that's when I stumbled upon this anime, so my review is biased, without a doubt.

Although I know you're supposed to watch both this arc and the future arc alternated (which I did, mind you), I'm only going to focus my review on this arc because it was my favourite. If you love the characters from the second game and you also wanted to know more about the actual story (you don't learn anything major, but you do get more details that polish up the entire Danganronpa universe), then you're going to love this. Even if the cast isn't your favourite of the two, I think it's worth watching if you're a fan of the whole concept of Despair in this universe, to be honest.

One warning though, especially towards the last few episodes, you get into some seriously messed up scenes. It is really not for the faint of heart and they're both extremely graphic and not at all at the same time, since everything happens sort of off screen so you don't get the full picture, but you know exactly what's going on. This arc, more so than the future one, is heavier on both the gore and the psychological side of Danganronpa's special kind of horror, which I really enjoyed.

So if you're looking to delve even further into this universe, you have to watch this. Even though we all know how it's going to end, considering this is a prequel of the whole universe the games showed us, it's still full of twists and heartache and it's one of the best times I had within the Danganronpa universe.