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The Danganronpa Anime Is Out (Spoiler Warning For The Games)
commandercool:
Last episooooode!
Spoiler: Honestly I can't really imagine this being fully satisfying. There's too much shit to wrap up.
Okay, it was Hajime. Good. He's got a lot of work to do.
Hey now Hajmie, don't get ahead of yourself... You didn't bring everyone back. *cry*
Ooooh, Nagito's got a robot hand! And may have just casually murdered a bunch of good guys, but I guess it's possible he just cut them off..?
Just couldn't resist introducing yet another cast of quirky characters, huh? Fair enough I guess. So what's their deal? If I understand right they were supposed to be reinforcements for Future Foundation but they got brainwashed by the broadcast in the helicopter on the way over? Or something? Oh yeah, I guess they all got those visors.
Alright, so the Danganronpa 2/Despair Arc story wrapped semi-nicely, but that took up a lot of episode. And didn't really cover everything. Got a lot of ground left to cover in ~10 minutes...
Ryota x Impostor? I'd ship it.
OH SHIT, Kyoko is alive. I'll admit that as much as I don't love that they faked out two deaths of core cast members, I was totally happy to see her alive. I guess I'm a sucker for pleasant things happening after all of the fucking horror.
COME ON, 54 SECONDS LEFT, SHOW ME ALTER EGO PLEASE!
Aw... No? Fine...
Well, that was relatively satisfying I guess. It didn't tie up all the loose ends, but it got most of them. And as nice as the Chiaki thing was, and it was nice, I still choose to believe that Alter Chiaki is alive. There's literally no reason she shouldn't be. By all accounts she should be alive, hangin' out with Alter Ego and Monomi in the New World Program. Somebody should probably go get them so they can like... Help make the future and shit.
Hmm. I think part of my not-quite-satisfaction has to do with the franchise's persistent failure to quite tie all of its themes together. I think I gotta re-watch this episode and think on it a while. I'm really pleased it was a happy ending though.
Conqueror:
--- Quote from: commandercool on September 30, 2016, 01:59:32 AM ---Spoiler: Hmm. I think part of my not-quite-satisfaction has to do with the franchise's persistent failure to quite tie all of its themes together. I think I gotta re-watch this episode and think on it a while. I'm really pleased it was a happy ending though.
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Spoiler: I got the impression that they decided, "okay there's no way we're going to tie up all the themes meaningfully, let's go full pandering like people were expecting for the Despair Arc."
commandercool:
Spoiler: So I'm trying to think over how the overall arc of the series goes versus the arc of just this show, and I think this is a really solid, satisfying ending to Danganronpa 3. It doesn't really work as an ending to the series, but as an ending to the show it works. Which is weird because the anime needs the rest of the franchise for context to make any goddamn sense, but it's not like Danganronpa has ever had the best installment-to-installment continuity. I think that's more of a flaw with Danganronpa than it is with this show. If it wanted to really make me happy it would have gone way out of the way to fix that problem, but I guess that's a bit much to expect...
MewMewHeart:
Danganronpa 3 Hope Arc:
In a nutshell I was just fangirling everywhere.
Spoiler: AND REDDIT COMES THROUGH WITH THE MEDICINE BOTTLE THEORY YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!! KIRIGIRI IS ALIVE YES YEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!! MakatoXKyoko BECAUSE I SHIP LIKE FED-EX
commandercool:
--- Quote from: MewMewHeart on September 30, 2016, 01:40:55 PM ---Danganronpa 3 Hope Arc:
In a nutshell I was just fangirling everywhere.
Spoiler: AND REDDIT COMES THROUGH WITH THE MEDICINE BOTTLE THEORY YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!! KIRIGIRI IS ALIVE YES YEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!! MakatoXKyoko BECAUSE I SHIP LIKE FED-EX
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Spoiler: Well at least someone's favorite characters survived. *cry*
I guess of all of my favorites at least The Impostor got Good End. And maybe Alter Ego, we don't actually know apparently?