Danganronpa The Animation

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Name: Danganronpa The Animation ダンガンロンパ 希望の学園と絶望の高校生 THE ANIMATION

Status: Completed
Episode: 13
Release date (for eng subs): -


Summary:

A group of 15 elite high school students are gathered at a very special, high class high school. To graduate from this high school essentially means you'll succeed in life, but graduating is very difficult. The school is presided over by a bear called Monokuma, and he explains to them that their graduation hinges around committing a murder. The only way to graduate is to kill one of your classmates and get away with it. If the other classmates discover the identity of the killer, the killer is the only one executed. However, if they fail to catch the killer, only the killer graduates and the others are annihilated. Which of the 15 will survive the bloodbath to come?

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Summary Source: MU


Personal Ratings: 3.5

Really thought the first episode lacked impact, because I stopped watching after the first episode, thinking it was boring. But seeing as so many people cosplayed this anime, I thought I should just watch the whole thing, and it really was quite interesting.

I like the two parts of the show, the solving part and the incident part. The different twist in the plot line was also really interesting and unique. I actually quite like the parts that they decided to keep it looking like a game (like the bullets during the discussion time, and the objection)

What I didn't like was how the story line was very uniform and sort of predictable (in the sense that you know that they would surely solve the case). I also didn't like the execution part. I really think that instead of trying to make it look closer to the game, it should be more like an animation of the whole game. Especially when they are trying to play the scene of what happened in the case. I think that making it like a comic strip with all the striking colours shooting at you all at once makes it really hard to picture what it happening. I think that they should change it to the normal animation but maybe draw the characters in chibi form or something. I also wanted to see the world when they opened the door, and I also felt that they should have dropped some clues as to who the master mind is. 

Art Ratings: 2.5

Character designs really suites their personality perfectly, but I don't really like the overly dramatic hair that makes it look like the two characters look the same. The characters are also very stiff looking. 

Recommended for:
Gender: Female & Male
Age: 16 and above
My Ratings: PG-13