Danganronpa - Review

All the students of Hope's Peak Academy and Monobear (Image taken from: entravity.com)

Danganronpa was a rather.... twisted anime in a sense. The story basically is about a school for talented students that is turned into a killing spree. With the help of the mastermind behind it all, Hope's Peak became the site for a game of despair. The objective is fairly simple: kill a classmate without your other classmates catching you as the murderer. If you are caught as guilty during the class trial, you are punished with death, if you are not caught, you are set free and all of your classmates killed off instead. The series circles around that idea with several murder cases arising and being solved until closer to the end. At the end, Monobear, the self-proclaimed principal and apparent mastermind throughout the series, supposes that if the students figure out the entire case surrounding this game of despair, they'll be let out.

Monobear in his throne during one of the class trials (Image taken from: 0-gate.com)

Personally, I feel that Danganronpa was a decent series. The series definitely does not make it in my favorites, as it's genre is not of my tastes entirely and the art style isn't what I like, but the storyline kept me in the series. The idea of a high stakes death game is a frightening idea, but often makes for good stories in fictional settings, and Danganronpa only proves that to me further. As a whole, the anime kept me hanging on the story, but nothing else in particular really. Regardless, I would recommend this anime to anybody who enjoys animes centered around high stakes games.

My favorite character, Kyouko Kirigiri, pictured with Monobear (Image taken from: animeflow.net)

Ruri's Rating: 7.5/10

Suggestions: Btooom!, C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control, Sword Art Online