An in-depth plot summary of Danganronpa: Goodbye Despair explaining everything that happened.
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"shut up, Nagito." - everyone who has played this game ever
I adore nagito's genius and character, but I said that during EVERY trial at least once.
Elly The Skelly I preferred the simpler "FUCK YOU!" every time he made fun of Hajime for being a reserve course student.
Nagito is my fav character actually
Marie Staebler he's one of my favourites too! ^ ^
In trial 2,3,4 i know the culprit but thijs nagito always confuse me. And trial 5 is hardest fck nagito
Anyone else watching this just so they can watch the S3 anime? 😂
Yes i do
Mee lol
Me me meeee 😂
Yep. Glad I'm not the only one lol
See , I have the game but I am impatient
Jesus this story is F*** insane.
You just summarized the series.
it's very stupid, basically, but it's fun
Yes it is
I watched this so I wouldn't have to buy the game, but shit now I wish I woulda played it after learning how many back-to-back reality bending twists it had. Like the developers really put their all into making it an overwhelming experience.
the ending is a clusterfuck and i can guarantee it gets worse each game
I love how this game is so complex that it takes 30 minutes to recap it.
And the fact that this is only one of the games.
Yeah
I would say 40 minutes, it’s rounded closer
Yeah me to i love the game!!!
There is a lore video about the game Hollow Knight that is 77 minutes long.
you saved me of literally days of watching let's play to get the story
boomboy b Or you could... play the game?
AtOutoftheBlue Not everyone has the time to do that.
i really like this game so ill just watch a recap of the sequel's story
@@tkshadowboy9 or money
Lol yup bcuz I just spent 3 long emotional days watching a let's play.......it was worth it tho 😂🤣
“They find a mysterious statue named ‘Ogre’.“ Asahina: 🥲
sakuras death was so sad 😭
😔
😭😭😭
Wait... 11037? 11037... "If you flip the message 180 degrees..." "Leon, that's your name, right?" WHAT! LLEEOONN!!!!!!!!!! YOU SET UP EVERYTHING WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!
WITH HIS BASEBALL!!!!
+TophanatorLOLZ lel
+Some_Anime_Fan _ OMGGGGG
+TophanatorLOLZ 1137 was an intentional reference because when Makoto tells Hajime the code he says a friend told him it e.g. Maizono
what did that code have anything to do with danganronpa 2?? i didnt get that from the video
Couldn't play the game, so I'm using this to catch up for the Danganronpa 3 anime. Thanks for this video.
omg.. same
same here lol
ME TOO JAJAJAJAJ
sameee lol
everything they were saying in danganronpa 3 finally makes sense now. he's not the bad guy for saving "the remnants of despair" after all. yay i knew he was still good. hopefully...
I have a feeling that Danganronpa v3 will be more complicated than this one :p UPDATE : I WAS RIGHT
+SeireiART same
+SeireiART i still don't get one thing so does this mean everyone that died is still alive or just who survive ?
+SeireiART i still don't get one thing so does this mean everyone that died is still alive or just who survive ?
+Knight 211 the people who survived in dr2 are alive but are still in dispair since they had to erase their avatars. so its like the trip never happened exept the others who died in it. the others who died are still dead because their brains shutdown from thinking they're dead.
No shit.
*who else was wheezing when he said stature of ogre when showing a picture of sakura LMAO*
XD
There is a statue of Sakura in the funhouse named 'Orge'
i just always cry when i saw chiakis death because she didnt do anything
It's 1 year later so i'm going to assume you watched the anime and cried AGAIN.
Nagito is pretty intelligent, I'll fucking give him that. Cause God damn the intricacies of the last case were straight up insane. It sucked seeing Chiaki get punished for something she didn't even know she was doing but her cameo in the end of it all is really fucking good. 💖
@@Exalted-Beleth it's ok she's not real
@@solarprogeny6736 DOnT reMInD uS
@@solarprogeny6736 she is, she just died earlier than everyone else and in the murder game, is just an a.i as they are all in a vr game thing
Mikan's "true beloved" is pretty clear now after watching the DR3 anime. She clearly remembered her despair and loyalty to Junko Enoshima
SeaGreenCP she was brain washed tho :(
TheMangoGaming :D no she was under the dispair illness or she remembered everything. She was not brain washed and even as an ultamite dispair, she was still totally aware of her actions. -_-
Hidden Gem Really? I'm pretty sure it was from the video, she wasn't that way before it
Too bad I can't watch Danganronpa 3....
you can clearly understand it was because of her being one of the ultimate despairs in the game the fuck does it have to do with the anime?
Me: D1 Anime was good, I wanna watch S2 Me: realizes that there's no 2 and skips to 3 instead Me: welp, a playthrough it is - long story short, got overwhelmed by 46 episodes each 1 hour long, youtubers were really cringy at voice acting and boredom- Me: just searches up 'Danganronpa 2 Summary' and now I am here
Same
SAME LOL
Same haha
Man this is really accurate
Tbh same xd
1:01 Hajime Hinata 1:54 The Students 3:36 Robot Beasts 4:30 Restore memories 5:12 Victim #1: Byakuya 5:41 What Really Happened 6:39 Teruteru wanted to get back home & Nagito helped the killing out of Hope 7:38 Chapter 2 8:20 A cryptic adventure game 9:03 Victim #2: Mahiru 9:30 What really happened Killer #2: Peko, a proxy for Fuyohiko 11:02 Monomi opens up the island 12:00 Sacrificing himself 12:25 Despair Disease 13:34 Yikes 15:29 Who is the traitor? 16:10 The 1st game 17:20 The 3 Murders 18:10 What really happened 19:14 Gundham 19:43 Reserve Students, Monokuma Factory, Research Labs 20:26 Nagito is willing to blow up the island 21:26 He is dead 22:30 What really happened _Incidental killing by random chance_ 23:37 Who is the traitor? 24:07 Chiaki is crushed 24:22 Is it over? 24:42 ???? Woah 26:36 Izuru was the Ultimate Hope, but he was responsible for starting the tragic massacre Despair spread, The Ultimate Despair Unser Junko, 28:46 The Cultivation Project 29:35 Virus, error 30:12 The Final Trial, in the Virtual World 31:36 The Ultimate Despair were hideous 33:15 Hajime is Izuru? 34:28 Believe in Yourself 35:15 Future Foundation
Thanks bro. I got lost after 24:22 happened, so this helps out a lot!
Bruh this comment is too underrated
thanks so much
YIKES
Ty
This shit is so mindfucking.... I love it.
I got so overwhelmed I almost teared up Christ this game broke me
I have almost cried so many times during this game! The devs are so c o o l
THIS
If you haven't played the game, you should really not watch this video. It's so much fun to discover the story by yourself. One of the best sequels to anything, ever.
CycloneFox could not handly seeing Ibuki die and Mikan beeing the murder. That fucked me up and I dropped it haha
Los Kantos the number one rule to all danganronpa games is to never get attached cause you don’t know whether they’ll live or die
Ah, just wish i have money
*sees this comment after i finished the video* ............oh well im still getting the game
I second this, go in blind SO MUCH of the magic of this series happens when you go in blind. Ibuki was my favorite too, it was depressing seeing how she died and all but damn the game gets so much better, in plus after Ibuki passed I learned to love Akane and she became one of my favorite characters in the game. ❤️
If anyone wants to know the DR timeline: DR0 > DR3: Despair Arc > DR1 > DR2 > DR3: Future Arc > DRV3
when is Zettai Zetsubou Shojo? and HOPE arc?
This was before the hope arc was
XDangerousDan I see... But what about another episode?
DR3: Despair Arc First Half > DR0 > DR3: Despair Arc Second Half > DR1 > Another Episode > DR2 > DR3: Future Arc > Hope Arc DRV3 It was stated that DRV3 rerolls the Danganronpa Franchise not taking place in the current timeline.
..... DR3 THE GAME ISNT IN THE TIMELINE
You know hadn’t noticed until now that it only says breeder instead of animal breeder for Gundahm That’s kinda misleading if you think about it with a dirty mind
and thats where furries come from
Well I mean the remnants of despair did commit necrophilia so... 😶😶😶
Don't give Teruteru any ideas
😀
good lord this story. so many twists
+DEATHxTHExKIDx1 ikr
why is Byakuya Togami fat in this one? He was skinny in the previous one. edit: never mind, 22:15 gave me the answer
You didn't even Edit it.. Edit: Or did you?
@@dangitthisnameisalreadytak8521 Editted it part way through typing it probably, I dunno, I wrote day 4 years ago
Lupus Lunarem LMAOO
the reason he's fat is bc he ate all of Aoi's donuts
@@dailydoseofoofs5721 PFT
How did the remnants of despair do necrophilia to Junko when she obviously has been crushed in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc?
【Shiro】 IKR
yo i think its just like putting "it" in jam or smth
i think they retconned her death, but there's no specification as to what they changed it to
It wasn't Junko's body. It was Mukuro Ikusaba's, her sister disguised as Junko.
Feathers and Flowers that has nothing to do with it, Junko got crushed to death when she died
this explained the majority of questions I had at the time but I think my brain overloaded with twice as many questions lol
Ahlovendino same with me rn
All I have to say is this: *MEAT ON THE BONE* Thank me later.
*BONE*
*BONE ON THE MEAT*
ON THE MEAT BONE
THE MEAT ON BONE
The on meat bone
i kinda got lost during the last court scene...
same here, I couldn't tell what was a lie to what was ACTUALLY supposed to have happened
MrJake8555 XD
MrJake8555 you can take the red pill or the blue pill
Fish Tank **takes both pills**
same
As someone who has not played the game yet was spoiled just enough for it to not be exiting I thank you for this. Now I can Watch Danganronpa 3!
same thing happened to me ://
“Go away monokuma” - me every time i play danganronpa
"Hajime is energetically woken up" "Next day he is roused and aroused awake by Mikan" XD I thought the necrophilia was added in localization and it was something else in Japan?
+Wesley Darnell Yep! That dialogue in japanese is translated quite literally to "Other than that, (some people) attempting to create Enoshima’s offsprings (took) from her dead body…" so it rathen than attempting to have sex with her dead corpse it's implied they took something from it. Creepy either way for sure!
Yeah wasn't it specifically Mikan taking Junko's ovaries as her own?
Wesley Darnell That's just speculation. Nothing boldly implying it's her, but it's the common theory given that she may be the only one amongst the despair kids to know anything about medical procedure! Also sorry about the six-month+ comment reply!
Fair enough, I don't mind the whole 6 month thing XD
Don't worry, kids. Hajime, as the Ultimate Hope, used his talents to awake everyone who died! Everyone is still alive! Woo! Watch the OVA, Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of Worlds for a better explanation.
spoilers but okay
if you wanna know for the certain who wouldn’t wake up again, here’s a fat SPOILER ALERT: sadly it was chiaki, her real self was killed by junko by a trap she set up where she got impaled by spears
@@vari6588 i'm kinda happy because she died in the real world because i'm a Nagito fan and i hate those fricking youtubers who was happy with Nagito's death, they all liked Chiaki too so i'm satistied with Chiaki's death in the real world.
@@user-jn1ef3dc5t nagito sucks
@@user-jn1ef3dc5t lol you are crazy
9:23 This girl looks like Kaede Akamatsu from Danganronpa V3! Just without her ahoge! What the hell?
I saw a meme that speculates that she's Kaede's twin sister even though she's Fuyuhiko's
•Pocky Foxy• a relative adopted Natsumi into Fuyuhikos family
@@starstruck9625 ...No? Where did you see that
Anthony Besaw it’s a just a head canon i have lol
@@starstruck9625 Then please say it's a headcanon not just saying it as fact
the Parts after the Final trials Always messes up my brain, this happened, But then that happened, But the thing before That happened again and A new person is introduced, This person was actually this person, The Guy is our only hope, This happens but in reality, This happened and everyone dies
“Everything seems to be going well” *Spread Eagle*
>the killer used "hamsters" >it was super effective
I am so glad that he made this video I would have never known what happened in between the anime
I dare you to make a What Happened in Virtue's Last Reward.
+OmegaVitaminC I would like to give that a shot, though would go over 999 first.
+Oni Black Mage I second the motion!
***** no
I love how monokuma just like changes usami, DEEMS her his little sister, and then beats her up. I don't know whether laughing or crying.
yes!!!!!!!!! 😍 now I can watch danganronpa 3 properly
Out of curiosity, does that mean you've never played the games at all? Because if so, I highly recommend giving them a try, even if you already know the spoilers. Both Danganronpa 1 and 2 (along with the game Ultra Despair Girls and the light novels Danganronpa Zero and Danganronpa IF) are absolutely fantastic and worth experiencing in your own right. Danganronpa 1 and 2 can be found on Vita and Steam, Ultra Despair Girls is currently on Vita and coming to Steam, Danganronpa IF is included with Danganronpa 2, and Danganronpa Zero can be found translated online. (If you're interested in where just let me know.) Danganronpa is an absolutely amazing franchise, and I can't recommend trying it for yourself enough. Each of the games were an amazing experience, and I really loved both of the light novels too. The Danganronpa 3 anime is looking pretty amazing so far as well. If you ever want any information on the series at all and/or are interested in the order of the series, (either chronological or the order you should play/watch/read them in; because they definitely aren't the same order) please let me know. I'll do whatever I can to help you out.
+AniBullet Unfortunately, I think you're right. I remember hearing this several times, but when I actually went out and looked for the news, I couldn't find any. I'd assume it would eventually be coming out, however we probably still have a while to go before we get it. But with that said, I'm sorry that I accidentally spread some misinformation. :/
+James Hughes so can you tell me whats the chronological order of the games alongside the novels and where to find the novels? Thanks!!
The order is if we include the anime which is suppose explain the before and after: DRP 3 despair arc, DRP zero and many other light novels, DRP 1, DRP another story, DRP 2, DRP 3 future arc. However, the creater stated that anime DRP 3 should be looked at one after the other starting with the future arc then the despair arc. They drop clues and connection through each episode. Therefore, they made the anime with assumption that people played or seen run throughs of the game. This anime was not for fans who just randomly wanted to watch if by chance. ( that is the reason why I think that DP1 the animation was created...to get people interested in the game)
@@warman13x how do you get them on mobile?
Bravo dude. Seriously. Fantastic. Earned a sub.
Heard these vids might be good intros to pass along to people, and I have to say you did really well! These must've been a ton of work. I have to disagree about something in the second trial though: Peko isn't punished just because she's the one who did the act of killing, Monokuma makes it VERY clear that it's because she ISN'T just a tool and obviously is a person who has a will of her own, especially in regards to protecting Fuyuhiko. I think glossing over that takes away some of the messages that chapter was trying to send about those two characters and their relationship.
Not the best trial, but that message was pretty good.
Nice summary! Though I feel duty-bound to say - *play the game*. Even if you know the plot, nothing beats the experience. Getting closer to the characters, rooting for them, feeling the hopelessness ( damn the fourth chapter. Even the music was haunting. I felt like _I'd_ fallen to despair myself) and experiencing the feels. Small details like different dialog when you click on a door to everyone's positions in the FTES which subtly tie into the storyline really makes this game special. Even if it's been a year, or even two...see this game at least once for what it really is.
Otaku-chan Agreed
Good video. It's been a frustrating process enjoying these games but having no one to chat with. Such a phenomenal story I want to blab!!
OMG THANK YOUUU THIS WAS SO HELPFUL. I dont play games so i tried watching the letsplays instead in preparation for the anime but it was just toooo long. This was super useful and surprisingly i didnt find myself getting bored throughout it!!
Thank you for making this so clear and easy to understand! I had to pause a lot just to realise what had happened, but it seems incredibly hard as a game! I love this series off games, it still leaves me confused when it's somewhat explained (so much to know, I guess?) :)
this saved me d a y s of watching a long ass lets play, thank you!
OMG thank you soooo much!!! It was so nice to be able to watch this 30min video instead of watching someone play the game for over 12 hours! You saved me so much time.
Thanks for making and sharing this! I'm surprised you could summarise the entire game in under 40mins! Very impressive! Thanks again, I wish you all the best! :) :) :)
After watching a few of your vids I very much admire how well they are done.
Thank YOU! I was too lazy to watch the gameplay of this and the explained version was great! I caught up with the animes season 3. Thank you very much for doing this!
thanks for that. That's a really helpful thing. For example, I'm planning to start danganronpa v3 now and watching this recap really helped me to remember events from danganronpa 2.
19:42 Anyone realizes that Hajime is in the middle, with Chiaki and Nagito next to him? And they are 3 of the most story-driven characters...coincidence?
This just reminded me why I love this game so fucking much. Honestly when I played the first one on vita I thought it was decent. not all that good. Once beating the game (DR1) I question how they even made a sequel. I played the sequel and it became one of my favorite games. DR3 hype m8os
+Crazyjc 16 DR3 is confirmed to be an anime orriginal, not a game but the original writer is going to write the final sequel to the story. (if it is the final )
+Cola Dad yah I heard, 2 months ago that info wasn't dropped, I think it's a good idea. Cause they can't really do much in a game with the lore they have and they built up the final. So an anime (or movie) is the smartest direction while making something fresh and new with nothing to go on in the new game is seriously the best idea. I'm just happy this series knows what it's doing and getting how it can keep it good and fresh (unlike other series *cough* Ace attorney *cough*). Plus can't wait for new gameplay features.
Crazyjc 16 yeah that is a good idea, but the only thing that really bugs me is tah for people who have only watched the first games anime series and now wathching the 3rd aniome series, they will have a ot of confussion becouse it will skip the second game, i think they should have atleast , if not anime series ,then atleast made a movie about it.Buuut in the end i hyped for the new anime series!
+Cola Dad well the dr anime was a rushed piece of trash, I feel like the anime will be in the game itself (like those light novels). So I feel like nobody going to watch this but dedicated fans that knows what's going on.
Crazyjc 16 i watched the first games anime adaptation but didnt play the game so i wouldnt know how rushed it was and frankly i dont care becouse the ending was the same, and i just finished the second game and i kinda understood the ending to it but also kinda didnt understand it so when i heard there was going to be a new danganronpa anime i thought it was going to be for the second game but what i discovered was the third danganronpa. Well im mostly dissapoint in the fact that i idnt understand the second games ending, buuuut thats fixable.
Thank you so much for making this. I watched the Despair Arc before looking into the correct sequence and my brain melted somewhat but I love the series so I have been trying to piece things together before the Future and Hope Arc. Seriously, th.
Wow! This was a lot to process. Thanks so much for making this video!!
This is the best concise summary of a 32 hour game I have ever watched, you saved me so much time, thank you
Thank you! Now I can finish the anime! You saved me 34 hours of watching the walkthroughs!
Thanks for making this. Very helpful
Thank you for the summary!
God damn I was searching for someone that could explain me the story of Danganronpa 2, that I could not miss anything for the 3rd one in the anime version... BUT HE TALKS SO FAST OMG 😭😭
Sir this was a wonderful recap. I just finished watching a let's play that took me 3 days to finish. It was an emotional rollercoaster however I wish I would've found this 1st bcuz it's very detailed
U cant finish it in 3 days thats imposibble
@@Hexode1111 I did though, I binged completely lol.
@@melissagreen714 the walkthrough total time is mostly 32 hours? And 32hours divide by 3 Is 10.67 hours So u spent ur everyday in 3 days watching the walkthrough 10 and a half of hour? In a day?
You are so awesome dude! I sent a donation, thank you so much for making this vid, it was perfect!
I was very pleased after watching your Danganronpa videos to catch up on the story to continue watching the anime. Then, I recognized your name and that I'd watched your Final Fantasy videos years back. I love the quality of your work and can't wait to see more!
"Nagito is now a constant Liar" "personality altering disease" yeah, seems about right
Theres so many things that could happen at the end of game, the possibilities all remain out there until the author decide to do anything with it. The scene at the end of the game shows the cast of the first game (kirigiri, naegi, byakuya*the real one) leaving the island. If you want to know what they are leaving to do go watch the danganronpa 3 anime. The point is they left behind the survivors of the second game's cast. At the end, hinata was showed to have short hair looking at the boat leaving, this could imply that he got his memories back, but it could also mean that he just *appeared* to be that way FAKING his attitude and personality just to have naegi and the others leave him alone to do WHATEVER he wants. Please remember that inside his head, the academy changed him into Kamukura Izuru, "The ultimate hope" with talents that could change the world by himself, and he is also changed into the "Ultimate Despair". The truth to this is any one's guess, i don't know whether we will get more information on this topic as the 3rd game seams to be focussed on some other school entirely, we'll just have to see. *Also the character who died in the second game is not dead, this is a fact proven by the game itself, when naegi byakuya and kirigiri were leaving, they mentioned something along the lines of "waking up their friends" "though the possibility are almost 0%", they are in like a coma state. To me i believe that they could be saved if it's not entirely impossible like truly reving the dead in real life, since it's only their minds that was messed with. Maybe hinata might have a talent involving something with computer programming and medical expertise, who knows, im just wishing that the character comes back for a happy ending. The only sad truth for me was that Chiaki turned out to be an NPC, :( Was banking on her becoming the waifu of this game (well she was in a sense). Oh well just gotta deal with it in island mode
This is sooooo helpful I love watching recaps after playing a game to help me get my head around the crazy fucked up shit that happened in the game!
thank u for summing this up so well
I would absolutely love to see an Ultra Despair Girls video!! Keep up the good work :)
Cool. I gave up on 2 due to a busy life and bought the trilogy on steam. So this is a good way to keep me up to date.
This was amazing, very well narrated
WOW this was really well done, Thank you.
I literally can't believe they never did an Anime on Goodbye Despair..
Exactly
This was very helpful for watching Danganronpa3. Thank you.
This explains so much thank you!!
I know this is old but this video is so helpful and detailed it’s great. I had to give a follow. Can’t wait to watch the new videos
Wait... did Fuyuhiko commit... SEPPUKU?!
No.
Yeahh
I have a question, didn't Peko kill Koizumi on her own? I remember Kuzuryuu telling her she shouldn't meddle in his affairs and that she was free to have her own choices in the island as the rest of the students. That's why she was judged, because he denied having her as a tool and he denied using her.
Playing through the story takes days but this man explains the whole thing easily in 40 minutes. Good job man!
this the the best summary of the game THANK YOU OMG
I just finished the 1st anime, just to find myself this.... is this literally the same story with different characters?
Well no its so much better and complex and different if you watch the anime or play the game
Boda Cat lol you replied to me after I watched a let’s play 😂of the second game.
Tntg Gacha welp lol
@@sylviaisafoot6570 haha so funny
32:47 WTF... Ok, the first game was a lot, but this is just metal gear levels of ridiculousness.
Thank you this has been really useful
ty! you saved me so much time!
My mind can´t take such an amount of information and i think im having a stroke, a yes, here comes the blackout! *faints*
Basically, everyone survived except Chiaki?
Awesome job! If I had found this video earlier, I probably would not have spent 3 days watching the entire playthrough TT
This is amazing
every time i hear kamakura all i hear is “KAMAKURA KAMAKURA YASS QUEEEN” if ykyk😔
Don’t remind me 🥲
Same-
i finished watching danganronpa 3 and wanted to watch someone recap the second game and now i know why everyone from this game alive ;3
didnt the first ep of both series just get released?
yee
i meant the first episodes
Quick note: since this is a pretty long comment, I'm going to include a TL;DR at the bottom. I still recommend reading the following three sentences before reading the TL;DR though. Er... I don't know how to break this to you, but if you're talking about the Despair arc of the Danganronpa 3 anime, it's actually a prequel to everything in the series. Which means that it happened far before Danganronpa 2, which is the current next to last entry in the series. And that means we still don't know if any of the Remnants of Despair besides the 5 at the end of Danganronpa 2 were able to survive or not. If you're interested, the chronological order goes something like the following. Just keep in mind, you should ABSOLUTELY NOT play/read/watch the series in this order. It will spoil plot points left and right and greatly diminish your enjoyment of the series. The best order to experience the Danganronpa franchise is essentially the release order. Now here comes the timeline of the games: 1.) Danganronpa 3: Despair Side [Anime] 2.) Danganronpa Zero [Light Novel] (Parts of Danganronpa Zero will likely coincide with parts of Danganronpa 3: Despair Side as well, although we don't know that for sure yet.) 3.) Danganronpa 1: Trigger Happy Havoc [Video Game] 3.5.) Danganronpa IF [Light Novel] (Technically this is a what if scenario of Danganronpa 1. It's basically what would happen if Makoto got his memories back before the killings began, and it involves Mukuro Ikusaba, Junko's sister, being a badass. I recommend either reading it as it comes with Danganronpa 2 or watching a playthrough of it on KZhead because it doesn't take all that time to complete. It's even shorter than Danganronpa Zero which was already fairly short compared to the games and anime.) 4.) Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls [Video Game] (This is kind of like Danganronpa 1.5 as it happens between games 1 and 2. It follows Makoto's sister and Toko/Genocider Sho, has possibly the darkest story of anything Danganronpa related, and while not being the best third person shooter I've ever played was still a hell of a lot of fun with a great story. I recommend playing it if you get the chance. It's currently on Vita and it's coming to Steam later this year if I remember correctly. However if you do plan to play it, then again release order is the best way. Which means you shouldn't play it until after completing the first two games.) 5.) Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy [Video Game] 6.) Danganronpa 3: Future Side [Anime] Also, there's a Danganronpa 3 video game coming out, but it seems to be a fresh start for the series and has nothing to do with the "Hope's Peak Arc" of Danganronpa. Also, if anyone is interested in the play order, I've included it at the end of my incredibly long comment. TL;DR: The Danganronpa 3 anime that includes all of the characters from the second game is a prequel to the entire series. I'm going to include the chronological timeline for the series and the release order for the series after the next couple sentences. Just know that you should play/read/watch the Danganronpa series in essentially the release order and not chronological order. Unlike some franchises which can be viewed in any order, Danganronpa more or less requires going through it in more or less the release order as just about every entry released after the one before it will spoil and call back to the previous entries like crazy. So you will unfortunately lose a lot by not going through the franchise in the order. (I say unfortunately because it makes the franchise really hard to get into for newcomers. Especially those only interested in either anime or video games.) And on that note, here is the in universe timeline of the series and the play order for the main/"most important" entries in the series. Chronological order: (Seriously, please don't go through the games in this order. I know I'm probably getting annoying by this point, and I honestly apologize for that. But you'll do yourself a huge disservice by going through Danganronpa in this order.) Danganronpa 3: Despair Side -> Danganronpa Zero -> Danganronpa 1: Trigger Happy Havoc/Danganronpa IF -> Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls -> Danganronpa 2 -> Danganronpa 3: Future Side Play Order: Danganronpa 1: Trigger Happy Havoc -> Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair Academy -> Danganronpa IF (since it's included with the second game) -> Danganronpa Zero -> Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls -> Ultra Despair Hagakure (if you want to read this short novel, it's included with DAE:UDG) -> Danganronpa 3 anime Quick note for the Danganronpa 3 anime: you should watch episodes for each series one after the other. The reason that both are airing at the same time is presumably so the Danganronpa creators can do some crazy things with the format. So you should watch it like this: Future Side episode 1 -> Despair Side episode 1 -> Future Side episode 2, and so on and so forth. P.S. I'm sorry that my comment ended up being so long. I really like this series and I really like writing. Unfortunately, I also get really carried away when I write too... I at least hope that this was helpful to anyone reading it who may not be very familiar with the series before now but is interested in giving it a try. It's one of my favorite multimedia franchises of all time, and it really has some great characters and great stories all throughout it. It's also just a lot of fun and definitely worth your time.
@@warman13x Hi! Thank u so much for this, you helped me a lot!
Thank you so much for making this, I was about to watch a literal day of gameplay lmao
Thank you for this summary!
@maechanツ PLS I'M NOT EVEN A DANGANRONPA FAN ANYMORE WHEN DID I EVER MAKE THIS COMMENT
I watched the anime and my sister bought the 2nd game so I watched her like sometimes so I do like each character and then we binge watched hope and despair arc together and now shes getting the 3rd game but I cant watch so I'm just gonna get myself caught up with all the lore before watching a playthrough for the 3rd game lol
u dont rlly get to enjoy the story listening to this as much as playing the game tho :/
True, people should just play the game, or if they dont have money or a system to play the game watch a playthrough, in my opinion, it’s much better than a summary of a 30 hour game fit into a time frame of an anime episode
That is true, but it’s a great alternative if you’re unable to play the game.
well yea, but for example i couldnt play the game myself so i thought i will find a video gameplay but it was 32h longgg i would have gotten so bored so i just watched this :')
YOU SAVED ME DAYS!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
Thanks this really catches me up so now I can watch season 3 of the Anime!
-> Danganronpa The Animation -> this video as Danganronpa : 2 -> Danganronpa : The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Zetsubou-Hen + Mirai-Hen + Kibou-hen i know the full story of danganronpa, now :) what should i do next?
Ok, scrap the Animation of DR1 and play the original game. The continue to SDR2 (the game, not this summary), then DRAE (no pc version but only PSVita; so preferably watch let's plays), then DR0 (prequel to DR1 and semi sequel to DR3 Side despair. THEN end the trilogy with the anime. God you just ruined most of the awesomeness of this franchise by NOT playing the canon games before watching the concluding anime. But hey, give it a try.
GuiderMaster1 agreed,the first anime was a total rushed mess im so glad i found the game first.
Speedwagon best grill The one flaw with your way of enjoying the franchise is that it assumes you found the game before the anime and that you'll play the game before watching the anime, even though you'll only find out about the game if you do some research on it if you found the anime first. The bad part about that is it'll be very easy to spoil parts of the franchise by doing research on it to find the proper order of enjoying it. That's assuming you even do research which most people won't.
Togami?! Wtf happened to you? 😂
He ate to much fast-foods.XD
He's an imposter, does anyone know that word?
Watch DRP 3.
zach kelly nothing happened to Togami.
I don't know Kelly.
Amazing recap
Great game, thanks for the video
I wish Nagito didnt die! :,(
+Rimikkusu-Chan Amv Technically he's not dead. Just comatose.
Rainbow Kitty Unicorn YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! NAGITO IS ALIVE!! YAY YA YAY YA
Nagito might wake up. Only one phrase comes to my mind. "Sunovabitch!"
Filip Melzacki Haha xS
@@Axe-wieldingFox lmao idk why the YA YA YA YA in your comment is making me laugh so hard
Lemme tell you my heart when I saw the trio from the first danganronpa 😫
This was so helpful I spent most of the time with v3 and v1
Tysm for this I’m really impatient and I couldn’t watch an episode of play throughs without getting bored