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The Danganronpa Anime Is Out (Spoiler Warning For The Games)
Quukii:
--- Quote from: commandercool on September 21, 2016, 02:13:06 AM ---I've been wondering about wrapup from the beginning, just because given the current airing order the last episode of the entire series will be a Despair Arc one, which doesn't seem right at all. I'm guessing there will either be some kind of conclusion special or the final Despair Arc episode will actually be a Future Arc episode, putting then at 13 and 11. Which seems about right, since there can't be THAT much left to do for Despair Arc.
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According to the broadcasting schedule, this week's Despair arc episode should be the last, and next week in the same time slot there will be a Danganronpa 3 special program aired. Spoiler: Also, the special episode is labeled Side:Hope (instead of Despair or Future), which gives me optimism for a happy ending. Maybe it will be a crossing over between the characters of both series for the grand finale.
MewMewHeart:
Despair Arc Episode 11 Finale:
Spoiler: All these damn killings and suicides... along with Chisa's crocodile tears and blowing up her classroom... please go the fuck back to the hell yah came from... also foreshadowing Daganronpa 1 and everything... also seeing the virtual Chiaki going desu is cute. Overall... the ending was like lolwut everybody died the end?
commandercool:
Despair Arc 11:
Spoiler: Man, watching Chisa act like nothing happened is... Really upsetting. That's deeply unpleasant.
Goddamn, everyone acting normal like this is fucking obscene. I'll give the show this, that is really creepy and ominous.
I guess he's probably just lying, but Tengan seems to have no idea what's going on. How much does he actually know and what the fuck is he up to? He seemingly let Junko in for a reason, but why? Has he been a deep cover admirer of hers or is this part of some kind of plan to make hope stronger by giving them an enemy fight, Nagito-style?
Alright, I'm ready for my happy ending now. Don't fuck it up, TV.
So notably AI Chiaki still has her weird speech patterns and different personality and voice, which I wasn't sure she would since I'm not familiar with what she sounds like in the sub. I wonder what that means.
Edit: Is it possible the reason real-life Chiaki and Alter Chiaki are so different is that Alter Chiaki is actually a real person, just a different person? The obvious candidate seems like Miaya. Maybe that explains her narcolepsy and different speech patterns and stuff. I hope not though, because if so that means they managed to kill her as many as three or four distinct times and I am not okay with that. Maybe it's someone we haven't met yet? Although I feel like there's evidence in Dangaronpa 2 that probably refutes that idea. I don't know.
MewMewHeart:
Danganronpa Future Arc Episode 12 (Finale):
Spoiler: WOAH SO Mitarai's NG was he couldn't use his talent... and what a fucked up way to use it on Hina of all people, something tells me somehow when Chisa gave the video to Tengan a year ago he watched it and became a remnant of Despair what the fuk mang but yet he was fine... WOW MITARAI DUDE WHY YOU'RE BEING SUCH A DICKBAG!!!
Spoiler: Wtf not the 4th wall break theater again with Chisa and this time Junko... also Byakuya and Hiro saved the day.
Spoiler: CLIFFHANGER OH HELL NOOOOOOOO NU-UH NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!! -explodes-
commandercool:
Despair arc 12! Let's get some loose ends tied up and some secrets revealed!
Spoiler: Hmm, so this makes it look like the "Chisa is the mastermind" and "Tengan is the mastermind" theories may not be mutually exclusive. Which makes sense I guess.
So not surprisingly it looks like Tengan isn't actually alive after all. But doesn't that leave another person to be accounted for then? Maybe Kyoko? I honestly forget at this point.
Ha ha wow, that is the greatest troll of all time. Junko has nothing on Tengan's comic brevity.
Aw, poor Ryota. He's wrong, of course, but man, I feel for him. And I guess this pretty much throws any chance of him being evil out the window once and for all. He's terribly misguided, but I can fucking understand why.
Hmm, if Makoto's theory is true does it explain everything? It sort of explains why the game wasn't broadcast, but not reeeeally why the forbidden actions had to exist unless it was to keep the players from being able to crack the game too easily. And the whole framework of the game is still awfully shaky, but I guess maybe that's part of why Tengan was here personally, to steer it in a direction where it wouldn't get solved instantly.
Did Asahina get cured by her brainwashing instantly just by getting cracked over the head once? This is a pretty weak plan if so. Maybe the brainwashing becomes more permanent if the viewer watches more of the video, and the quick instant brainwashing thing on Ryota's phone is just for emergencies.
Wow, this is all getting very "Last episode of Evangelion" all of the sudden.
Alright, so what questions are still left to be answered? We learned more or less who the culprit is for sure, we learned what side Ryota is on and what his forbidden action is. We don't know for sure what Kyoko's status is (she notably wasn't pictured in any of the flashbacks to deaths or anything in this episode), we don't know what Hagakure's prophecies have meant this whole time (I absolutely don't believe they're just all wrong, or he wouldn't have ever been recruited by Hope's Peak in the first place), we don't know the final result of the New World Program or exactly how it was made, and most important of all, we don't know where Alter Ego and Alter Chiaki are! I want to see them!
Who was that person in the last shot? The obvious answer is Kyoko although the silhouette didn't really look like her. Maybe it was just intentionally generic, but it seems like most of the obvious answers (Kyoko, Chisa, Izuru) have distinctive enough silhouettes that if it's meant to be taken literally it probably isn't one of them. Who else has unresolved story threads? Tengan? Bandai in what would be the greatest twist of all time? Haiji Towa, who was conspicuously absent this whole time? Or maybe someone we haven't directly met yet?