The Danganronpa franchise consists of 3 good video games and a sludge-dump of mediocre anime, manga, novels and other products subcontracted by Danganronpa's parent company to milk the franchise. Danganronpa 3, the anime, is one of these mediocre products. Only watch this if you're a hardcore Danganronpa fan (so it can fill you with despair). I would give this a 7/10 but since you have to play the games first to understand this, it's a 6/10. Normies should watch something else.
After their failure to turn Danganronpa's 1st game into an anime, they decided to make an all-new sequel to both Danganronpa's 1st and 2nd games and call it Danganronpa 3. D3 has adult Makoto and his friends running from Based Munakata and Based Juzo who want to kill them because of hope?!
Makoto, Kyoko, and Busty Aoi are portrayed well enough. Aoi fans will love D3, especially when she quick-changes out of a suit into a tank top and short shorts due to "clothing damage." Byakuya, Kyoko, and Yasuhiro make cameos.
Kyosuke Munakata and Juzo Sakakura have nonsensical motivations for wanting to beat up and kill everyone else but watching them fight sure is fun.
Knife Guy, Candy Girl, and Pill Girl are the B team filler. Their fights are entertaining at first but get boring when flashbacks are added on. Even with these boring flashbacks, it would be hard to understand unless you alternate watching between D3's Future Side and Despair Side like the creators intended.
Monaca and Despair Girls : Characters from the mediocre spin-off video game: Ultra Despair Girls. Their filler takes up a whole episode and ends in an anti-climax. Wasted potential.
The rest of the characters are blah and you won't understand the final antagonists' motivations unless you watch Despair Side.
Despair Side Characters: As a true and honest fan I assume you will watch 1 episode of Future Side followed by 1 Episode of Despair Side as intended. Nagito, Junko, Hajime, and Chiaki are given on par portrayals with Junko being hilarious and campy in the English Dub but the true star is breakout new character Chisa Yukisome. Danganronpa fans who secretly wish that Monomi was replaced by a hot teacher with a personality between older sister and mother will adore Chise.
Turn off your brain. Enjoy the fights. Enjoy the boobs.
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