Monday, May 30, 2016
Danganronpa is a Japanese video game franchise created and developed by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Spike) for thePlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, iOS, Android, and home computers. The series currently consists of three main titles; two visual novelgames, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and a third-person adventure spin-off, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, along with an upcoming third visual novel, New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shingakki, and multiple smartphone titles, as well as various manga, novel, and anime adaptations. The games are published in North America and Europe byNIS America. The series' name is a portmanteau of dangan.
The series revolves around the elite high school, Hope's Peak Academy which, every year, selects "Ultimate" students , talented high school students who are in the top of their field, along with one average "Ultimate Lucky Student" who is chosen by lottery.
In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Makoto Naegi, an average student selected to join Hope's Peak Academy, arrives at the school only to lose consciousness and later find himself trapped inside the school, along with fourteen other students. There, a sadistic remote-controlled teddy bear by the name of Monokuma announces that the students will be forced to live in the school forever, offering only one way to graduate: murder another student and get away with it. When a crime scene is discovered, a "class trial" is held, in which the remaining students must discuss amongst themselves who the murderer is. If they can successfully figure out who murdered the victim, the culprit alone will be executed. However, if they guess incorrectly, the culprit will be able to leave the school and everyone else will be executed.
The sequel, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, has a similar premise, this time taking place on a tropical island known as Jabberwock . Hajime Hinata, a student who has no memory of his Ultimate talent, along with fifteen other students, are taken there by a rabbit named Usami, who states it to be a field trip to help the classmates make friends with each other. However, Monokuma interferes yet again, turning it into yet another killing game.
Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, which takes place between the events of the first two games, follows Makoto's younger sister, Komaru Naegi, as she treks through a city ruled by Monokuma's influence, fighting against a group of murderous children calling themselves the Warriors of Hope.
