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Oct 5, 2016

Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Kibou-hen (Anime) add

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As you may already be aware, this will contain spoilers for the games and specially Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.

I've seen many opinions that came out of this last episode. It looked like the fandom divided into the "I hate Kibou-hen" and "I love Kibou-hen". It caused quite a ruckus and I always think the wisest in theses cases is just respecting others' opinions, instead of assuming everyone who didn't like something is a hater.

Anyways, I was personally disappointed when I saw this episode. Why? Because I felt like it completely erased every struggle that was presented before this ending. This ending is lazy writing ... and fan pandering. Don't get me wrong for I'm not saying it shouldn't have ended with a happy ending. However, even happy endings sometimes still contain some sadness within. And that is what i was expecting from this episode, a bitter but also happy ending.

Yes, Danganronpa is a series that talk about the importance of hope. But as we could all see from Munakata's dispute with Naegi, hope can also be blind. I thought raising that point and actually questioning the main character's way of thinking was really, really interesting. And, to be honest, it was a fair point. Sometimes you can't do anything by just believing everything will work out. Acknowledging your struggles and fighting them, even if the happy ending is not as happy, is what will make someone stronger.

I was hoping for DR3 to give Naegi a harsh, but realistic and still hopeful character development - that we almost got with Kirigiri's death, but hey now that she was revived Naegi does not need to think by himself anymore or worry about anything. In the end, they shoved Munakata and made him look like some stupid guy who never ever stood a chance against Naegi's sometimes illogical Hope. What was the point of of his suffering? What was the point of his confrontation with munakata? Does Naegi have flaws, even?

Danganronpa can bring happy endings to us. But didn't all these happy endings always bear -pun intended- some bitterness? Yes, Danganronpa is about the importance of Hope. However, in Danganronpa 2 we learn that everything is not black and white. That there is a way to create a future, embracing mistakes and learning from them. Neither hope nor despair: humanity. Dangaronpa 2 brought us a realistic but still happy ending, even if filled with uncertainty.

I feel like this episode erased the struggles of the main cast of Danganronpa 2. Everyone was back, no consequences, everyone was back and completely fine on this episode. Haven't they said they had destroyed their own bodies seeking closeness to Junko? How was everyone woken up without any backlash from something that was supposed to be almost irreversible? How did that happen? How did they exactly free themselves from Despair? I'd have been fine with it if it had shown a proper explanation and actual consequences.

This all came down from an already poorly explained and messy ending from the Future side of DR3. Many things were left unexplained and all that just lead to this trainwreck of an ending.

I am not a hater. Specially because I love Danganropa I feel like I have the right to criticize something that, in my opinion, feels completely worse than what Danganronpa actually is.

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Sep 22, 2016

Danganronpa 3: The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-hen (Anime) add

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As a fan of the Danganronpa games, specially the second one, I was quite looking forward to this anime. I wanted to see more about the main cast of SDR2 and learn about how they fell to despair.

[This review may contain spoilers]

In my honest opinion, if it weren't for the simultaneous weekly release along with Future Arc, I think this anime would've felt way weaker. That was the purpose, after all. While it still felt a bit weak to me, I did enjoy it. I do think this anime greatly surpassed the first installment in the anime adaptations for the series.

As for the ... story, we mostly knew the basics. We knew how it would go down. Starting from a slice of life, sliding into a despairful mess of chaos. What I definitely mostly enjoyed was the change into the actual title of the series - DESPAIR. However, it escalated rather quickly which made it feel less realistic, but since they had to tuck in a lot of content in such a small amount of episodes, I won't pay that much attention to that detail.

In the end, the strong point from Danganronpa are its characters. It managed to get me attatched to the new characters. The introduction of the trio investigating (Munakata, Sakakura, Chisa - being her the narrator) Hope's Academy was a good thing and created a refreshing contrast between their point of view and the students'. Also, it painted the academy in a whole new light. However this also was the cause of how apart and plain the main cast from SDR2 felt. They barely got focused (with some exceptions) on and almost felt like supporting characters.

About the characters, what mostly bugged me was how Nanami was created as a real person for the anime. While at the start it was well handled, it all went down and became a bit disappointing when she just literally became a tool for Junko. Coming from SDR2, I was expecting Junko to act like Junko and destroy every characters individually, or at least more slowly than how it went down on the anime. This both made Junko's and Nanami's character feel more lazy than they actually are.

The music was okay and I specially enjoyed the remakes of the original tracks from the games. It made it feel more like Danganronpa. Both OP&ED were really great and really well handled in the smallest details. The original tracks from the anime weren't specially outstanding or memorable, so I wouldn't say the music was one of the strongest points of the anime.

As for the animation: I am really picky and critical about this point. While they did a good job with the colors (contrasting with the dark palette of Future Arc) - something that gradually changed along with the tone of the anime-, the animation could've been way better. The movement was really not fluid and most of the time it felt kind of awkward. This is completely a biased opinion but I feel that the animes never really imitated Rui Komatsuzaki's art that well.

Anyways, as a whole I really enjoyed the anime. I'm still a fan and did get emotional with my favorite characters and even the new characters. It's better than the first anime and even if it has some weak points it's definitely worth watching if you're a fan of the games.

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