I watched all of Danganronpa 3, Side:Future Episode 1 to Side:Hope's concluding act. All 24 episodes, in a single day. I'm a bit lost for words writing this review, and I hope any of you reading this will understand, because this is it. This is the bottom of the barrel, I can't go any lower than this.

Danganronpa 3 is the worst anime ever made.

That's a very strong statement, that's a very divisive statement, especially since my implication is that Side:Despair is the worst part. There's a lot of weird love for this terrible anime, and let me tell all of you right now, you're wrong. It's not good, you either didn't play or didn't get Danganronpa 2 to even consider that idea. Beyond even that, if you didn't play it, you must have remarkably low standards for anime. Allow me to explain.

Side:Despair completely and utterly butchers every returning character, in addition to its own original cast. Every returning character is laughably out of character, in a way that just leads me to believe I must have been completely wrong in any reading of DR1 and 2, or the writers didn't care. The Ultimate Imposter is an adolescent struggling with identity issues and wants to be his own person but struggles to show his real self? Nope, give him 20 seconds in this anime and he'll pour his heart out. Nagito was a self-imposed antagonist, seeking to use himself to brighten the hopes of his classmates through harsh methods? Nah, now he's just slightly weird and doesn't even push his classmates to the extreme like in DR2, despite DR2 being who he was when he entered high school. Chiaki was a fake AI based on Chihiro's image, so unrealistically perfect that completing her FTEs is actually an allusion to the fact that she doesn't really exist outside this little world? No, somehow she was real, against all the odds and how she was scouted NEVER BEING EXPLAINED.

I wouldn't be this mad if it was one or two instances, but it's fucking constant. It never stops, and it seeps into their own original characters. Sakakura Juzo, a man who would do anything for his best friend, ultimately ends up being the catalyst for the series BECAUSE HE WON'T COME OUT AS GAY. Normally this wouldn't be an absurd idea, but it makes him look morally reprehensible because he knows Junko was involved in 16 murders OF CHILDREN. Meanwhile, his romantic interest Munakata is over in the corner saying some shit about "I must kill despair" while he watches his girlfriend ALSO MURDER CHILDREN. It's absurd to a level where I can't give it any credit at all. It does nothing with these concepts that MAYBE could work.

I could go on about what I don't like forever, and what I do like is limited to just a video of Munakata in Episode 10 screaming, because it looks dumb as hell. But, I won't, I'll keep this "review" brief. So, I'll end this by not really talking about Danganronpa 3, but moreso the feeling it left me with.

In the aftermath of this, I spent around 10 minutes in dead silence. I stared at my computer wondering "Why did I do this?" I had seen Danganronpa 3 before, it wasn't an anime that I needed to rewatch, yet, here I was. I had watched all 24 episodes. Just over 8 hours of content. In that time time, I could've watched the around a quarter of what is left in my Dragon Ball Z rewatch. I could've cranked out most of Legend of the Galactic Heroes Season 2. I could've finished a seasonal, I could've watched half of Ashita no Joe 2, I could've finished any anime on my paused list, I could've done so many other things. But, instead I watched Danganronpa 3. Instead I watched an anime I knew I hated, for 8 hours. 8, unbroken hours.

Maybe, I shouldn't watch anime. Maybe, this whole medium was a mistake. But, I can say with complete confidence. No matter how bad any future anime I watch could potentially be. It will never, ever be as bad as Danganronpa 3.