(This is my first review ever lmao please help me)
Let me get this straight, Danganronpa is one of my favorite game franchises ever. The concept is creative and the characters are amazing. BUT OH BOY, WHY DID THEY MAKE THIS ANIME?
There are so many things wrong with it, but first let me say the things I liked
Now with that said let's talk about the MESS that the whole thing is
Firstly, a thing that really pisses me off. This anime didn't need to exist. In the games we already knew how the tragedy happened, no one really needed to see it but if they are making an anime that's nice, right? No, they destroyed the main antagonist completely. [Spoilers from the game] Junko was a psycho manipulative genius who infected the world with despair herself, but haha the information we recieve in the anime is that it wasn't her directly, it was a BRAINWASHING GORE VIDEO that she didn't even made herself, she forced Ryota to edit it to her. This is so fucking stupid, a video that make people kill themselves??! The whole world?! I call BS
It's such a uncreative, boring and laaaame way to manipulate people and plan. [okay you can read from here]
The writing is so horny. They make so much unnecessary fanservice from these teenager school girls for no reason.
They throwed the whole incest trait in Mukuro's character that uhhh, I guess makes sense since she was manipulated BUT DID THEY NEED TO DO HER THAT DIRTY? And you can't even use the argument that it shows how horrible Junko is because the show itself doesn't portray it as a bad thing, instead they use it as comedic relief.
And the plot? The plot is everywhere and I'm scared.
Is this anime a slice of life, gore, comedy, horror, mistery or what? Decide yourself, Kodaka!
I guess it was better than the Hope Arc but jesus christ
Everything is so confusing even for the people who know the lore of the games and is IMPOSSIBLE TO WATCH IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED ALL THE GAMES BEFOREHAND.
Another thing that pains me is how boring some subplots are like Mahiru fight with Fuyuhiko's sister that I won't even go in detail because it physically hurts to talk about.
Fuyuhiko's sister is a stupid character no one cares about, can't she just shut up?
Well, about Hajime, a funny thing that happens in this anime is Hajime's instant transformation into Izuru Kamukura. In the games it was established he went through a lobotomy, (correct me if I'm wrong) wich is a real thing where you cut connections from your brain prefrontal cortex. My guess was that he suffered the lobotomy and other experiments after and with time he became that long haired scary guy.
Nope.
The anime invents a weird thing where he enters in a machine and INSTANTLY changes personality and grows his hair and idk why I think it's so funny.
Now let's talk about a specific scene I have mixed feeling about, wich is the Tragedy of Hope's Peak scene, the murder of the student council.
That shit took a turn I didn't expect to happen. All of the deaths were shocking even with the pink blood.
I like how they made a mini-killing game for them instead of killing them directly and all.
In short, the scene is horrifyingly well done and is the core of the whole brainwashing video and mundial tragedy.
My problem is, did it need to be shown? It shouldn't.
We should never know what is in the video, only know it's something terrifying happening to the council.
Yes, I just said the scene is super shocking but leaving it to the public's imagination is not only better but would make the brainwashing video a more plausible thing.
Everyone's concept of what is the worse death you can imagine is different and it should be used by the anime in it's favour.
But no, time to show a 10 min long gore scene.
However I will give points to the anime for the [Spoilers] Chiaki's execution
The conclusion, Danganronpa 3: despair arc is a mediocre anime about things that would be better if left off to the fans imagination. It has some good scenes here and there and Junko is pretty entertaining, but overall the anime is barely mediocre. Don't watch it if you haven't played the games, do something else.
Thank you for reading and byee~
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