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SPECIAL ActionDanganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Kibou-hen
SPECIAL ComedyDanganronpa 3: Monokuma Gekijou
MANGA HorrorSuper Danganronpa 2: Sayonara Zetsubou Gakuen
MANGA MysteryDanganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer
MANGA ComedyDanganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Mirai-hen/Zetsubou-hen Dengeki Comic Anthology
MANGA ComedyDanganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Comic Anthology

REVIEWS

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  Mangosex

  60/100
  Feels like this one was made by Reserve Course students.

  The Danganronpa franchise consists of 3 good video games and a sludge-dump of mediocre anime, manga, novels and other products subcontracted by Danganronpa's parent company to milk the franchise. Danganronpa 3, the anime, is one of these mediocre products. Only watch this if you're a hardcore Danganronpa fan (so it can fill you with despair). I would give this a 7/10 but since you have to play the games first to understand this, it's a 6/10. Normies should watch something else.

  Spoilers below

  After their failure to turn Danganronpa's 1st game into an anime, they decided to make an all-new sequel to both Danganronpa's 1st and 2nd games and call it Danganronpa 3. D3 has adult Makoto and his friends running from Based Munakata and Based Juzo who want to kill them because of hope?!

  Characters

  Makoto, Kyoko, and Busty Aoi are portrayed well enough. Aoi fans will love D3, especially when she quick-changes out of a suit into a tank top and short shorts due to "clothing damage." Byakuya, Kyoko, and Yasuhiro make cameos.
  Kyosuke Munakata and Juzo Sakakura have nonsensical motivations for wanting to beat up and kill everyone else but watching them fight sure is fun.
  Knife Guy, Candy Girl, and Pill Girl are the B team filler. Their fights are entertaining at first but get boring when flashbacks are added on. Even with these boring flashbacks, it would be hard to understand unless you alternate watching between D3's Future Side and Despair Side like the creators intended.
  Monaca and Despair Girls : Characters from the mediocre spin-off video game: Ultra Despair Girls. Their filler takes up a whole episode and ends in an anti-climax. Wasted potential.
  The rest of the characters are blah and you won't understand the final antagonists' motivations unless you watch Despair Side.
  Despair Side Characters: As a true and honest fan I assume you will watch 1 episode of Future Side followed by 1 Episode of Despair Side as intended. Nagito, Junko, Hajime, and Chiaki are given on par portrayals with Junko being hilarious and campy in the English Dub but the true star is breakout new character Chisa Yukisome. Danganronpa fans who secretly wish that Monomi was replaced by a hot teacher with a personality between older sister and mother will adore Chise.

  Conclusion

  Turn off your brain. Enjoy the fights. Enjoy the boobs.

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• 

  Kuropiko

  30/100
  Danganronpa 3: Mirai-Hen is an occasionally entertaining trainwreck of an anime

  Last night, I uploaded a review for Danganronpa 3: Zetsubou-hen. I hold that review as less a review and more a stream of consciousness I had immediately after finishing the anime, for I knew there would never be a better time to write my feelings, my despair, about the anime down. This Mirai-Hen review is supplemental to that one, while also being my actual review of the anime. Now that that's cleared up, time to talk about this anime.

  I find myself more forgiving on Mirai-Hen than Zetsubou-hen, which is odd in this community, as most people seem to hold the latter in some form of high regard. While Zetsubou-hen just made me feel bored at best and annoyed to the point of brain aneurysm at worst, Mirai-hen at its best did manage to make me go "Oh that's neat". It does have a lot of interesting ideas, and occasionally, some of those ideas do receive good follow-throughs.

  Munakata's limitation being unable to open doors and how that ties in thematically to the rest of the arc and his rivalry with both Tengan and Naegi, Tengan's last conversation with Munakata is also a highlight for me as it's probably one of the few well composed scenes in the anime. Occasionally, we'll even get glimpses of deeper characterization among a mostly two-dimensional cast, Ruruka is probably the only character among her little group with a real character. While she has actual struggles and reactions to the environment around her and forces herself to do depraved and inhumane things to survive, the characters she drags along feel more like ways for her to express her character than actual characters themselves.

  Seiko is nothing, she is just a ripoff of Tokou Fukawa from the first Danganronpa game. A stuttering geek who also goes completely insane at the drop of a hat, and I'm left in disbelief that she has a cult following. Her entire character is her relationship with Ruruka, that's what informs almost all of her actions, and while that itself can be good, we never see it fully elaborated on. She likes Ruruka, then she doesn't, then she dies. Should I care? No. Should you care? No.

  

  The other character connected to Ruruka is Izayoi, who is just her fuckbuddy. Izayoi mainly seems to exist to excuse why Ruruka is able to survive at all, and his character is "Me like Ruruka, me eat candy". He is used to further Ruruka, and there is no issue with characters that exist solely to further another character, that's a very useful and underrated writing device. But, when you put so much focus on such a character, it does become an issue, because at that point you need to give them a character, so I won't be completely bored by what is going on. Cool designs can only carry you so far, and I'm not taking the bait on this one.

  But, that's not the only trio among the main cast. While I do enjoy Munakata, his allies, Chisa and Juzo, I don't like that much (if you couldn't tell from my Zetsubou-hen review). To keep it brief, Chisa and Juzo are moral blackholes, both paired with Munakata's supreme idiocy. While Chisa has real reasons to be a moral blackhole in everything post-Zetsubou-hen (if you don't know what I mean, maybe you should watch the anime), Jzuo is just a terrible person. Yes, it's hard to come out as gay, please don't make gay people look like fucking assholes. I don't care about your sexual orientation when you willingly choose to not tell ANYONE about the child murderer who is currently locked in a school with OTHER CHILDREN. This has to be the flimsiest justification for Juzo knowing Enoshima is behind everything and not telling anyone. The insane and over the top world of Danganronpa doesn't befit a twist like this.

  

  On the topic of twists though, let's put the spotlight on the biggest twist of all- who is the mastermind? On that note, this has to be one of the worst mystery stories, I have ever consumed. Just constantly throwing out red herrings, red herrings that will go on to completely destroy any logic surrounding character backstories and actions, creating many improbable coincidences in the process, all for a twist that isn't even that good. Tengan is the mastermind, and is another moral blackhole, as him being the mastermind is completely absurd and makes him look as bad as Junko Enoshima at times.

  You really get the feeling that Tengan hated most of his subordinates, what with rules like "Nobody can step on your shadows" or "Can't witness a fight". Somehow he managed to construct a second building underneath the building that Munakata was heading the construction of. Not just make it by the way, but make a complete copy, right down to presumably the books in the library. Normally, I would discount talking about this as a nitpick, but everything just keeps piling up, how did Munakata not notice? Simply put, the writers didn't care and just wanted to create a red herring to misdirect the audience. Red herrings are the backbone and also the greatest failing of this mystery.

  Why was Monaca there? She just happened to be there by coincidence and has nothing to do with it. How did Munakata not notice the second building? Who fucking knows, they don't really explain it. All these insane murders where people are pinned into walls or strung up in chandeliers must be committed by another person, right? Nope, they all pulled a Nagito and managed to kill themselves and made it look like a murder. I hate all of this and wish the writers could do anything without falling back on another goddamn red herring.

  

  Back to the point, Tengan is not a great character. He wants to use this killing game to inspire Mitarai to spread his hope anime, but he just comes off as absurdly evil. Perhaps it was the despair video, but that is a flimsy as hell justification with no set up at all, and we don't even know if he actually watched it. If he did, then he has a weird asspull to justify him being a terrible person, if he didn't, then he's still a terrible person without the asspull. All for a killing game that barely works.

  The Future Foundation Killing Game would be an interesting concept if in a multi volume LN series, or a 20 hour long visual novel, and not a 12 episode anime. Because it's in the anime medium, it adheres to a specific length, and as such must rush through concepts and characters to reach the grand point of it all, which leaves this killing game feeling incredibly flaccid. The suicide reveal would be a good if not for how utterly retarded the hypnosis videos are the fact that anyone could figure it out merely by smashing one of the monitors. Tengan, the big bad mastermind, got his group of hotblooded Future Foundation members, all of whom immediately start fighting each other before the killing game even starts, and hopes that none of them will break one of the monitors. I guess it worked in the end, but I'm just in disbelief that this even happened. I was going to say "Why didn't he just have the knife drop from the ceiling, but that led me to realize he must've had this plan ever since the building was originally under construction, which is another layer of absurdity to this anime.

  For the last character I'll put the spot light on, let me clarify something. Outside the few I've talked about, there are no real characters. There's the DR1 cast, these guys, and then the filler, and in a series like Danganronpa, having filler characters who exist just to die is a bad thing. But, anyone can figure that one out, so let's get to the point. Mitarai is okay. He doesn't really do anything here or in Zetsubou-hen beyond feel sorry for himself, there's not much of a character to talk about, he's in Mirai-hen purely for the ending. Hangs around with Kyoko, barely says anything, then acts as the antagonist for the final episode and Kibou-hen. I guess he was funny in Zetsubou-hen, for all the "Just because I liked stupid anime" screenshots, but he really does leave thinking there was a small chance this anime was bad on purpose, simply because the whole twist is that his despair anime is the one everyone got to see, while his hope anime remains unreleased, and that just feels very on the nose. I doubt this idea, but it salvages some of this anime for me.

  In conclusion, I guess out of the whole Danganronpa 3 trilogy, I like this one more than the others. Like may be too strong a word, but it's definitely a word. I don't wholly detest this one. It's the far more interesting one out of the group, with actual themes and occasionally actual characters. If you expected me to say something about the returning characters here, all I can really say is Makoto is too tall. He should be like 5'3" like he was at the end of Danganronpa 2, and not as tall as Kyoko, and it really looks weird. Beyond that, I prefer not thinking about them.

  Oh, what about the Danganronpa 2 cast? I guess all I can say is-
  

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• 

  nicosbb

  90/100
  An unpopular opinion-- This anime was great

  While I do believe that Danganronpa Future Arc had it's flaws, there were so many other things that just entirely made up for that in my opinion. Though I know the general consensus of this anime is that it sucks. I just can't bring myself to believe that.

  Maybe I'm biased because I've adored Danganronpa for a while now (and especially Kyoko Kirigiri, who plays a prominent role in this, so that is definitely a part of the reason I love it so much), but I'd still love to share my thoughts and feelings.

  The different art styles, death-game styles, and new characters were mostly all successes to me.

  The dimmed colors set an eery tone for the watcher and the red blood showed the grave seriousness of the situation the characters are in. They're adults in their second life-or-death game, and what are the chances of making it out alive twice? Well, they're probably very slim.

  Most of the new characters were so interesting to me. Of course some didn't have a big enough role to have a lot of impact, so I can't speak much on them. It should be obvious that Chisa, Munakata, and Juzo are characters that should be talked about. They all have amazing and complex characteristics as well as great dynamics together. They were one of my favorite parts of the show. Ruruka, Seiko, Izayoi, Ryota, and Miaya were fantastic as well. Ryota and Kyoko's interactions were cute to me.

  Speaking of Kyoko, the characters that were originally in Trigger Happy Havoc were probably the best part of the entire thing. None of them were ruined, in my opinion, just fleshed out and built upon. Seeing their relationships evolve and grow and watching as they try to deal with their past traumas after being thrown into a similar situation is so intriguing and really kept me watching. I was so happy to see some familiar characters and I know I smiled everytime any of them appeared on screen.

  I want to talk about how they still made Danganronpa a game about life or death without spoiling anything. It was kind of like a breathe of fresh air to see they made the game different than every other time. Usually, we see 16 (sometimes) students participating in a game where they have to kill to survive. But that's not what they did in DR3: Future Arc. It was new and different, but I believe it was executed greatly. It was such an interesting idea and I love how it turned out.

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  So, that's my very positive (crazy, I know) review of DR3: Future Arc. If you have been thinking of watching it, but are hesitant because you've only seen negative reviews, I hope this review convinces you even the slightest bit. And if you've already watched it and didn't like it very much, then maybe this helped you see it in a new light and enjoy it even the slightest bit more.

  Thanks for taking the time to read my review!! <3

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