DANGANRONPA 2 EXECUTIONS EXPLAINED 

Can’t wait to hear “So for Mikan’s Execution, Monokuma was on crack.”

Fun fact: Tetris was the only game Chiaki couldn’t beat, so I think that killing her with a Tetris block and winning was Monokuma’s way of inflicting more despair towards her. Man, I just love how detailed Danganronpa is.

Fun fact: Chiaki’s execution was actually hinted in the game. Around chapter 5(probably) in the morning at the lobby, if you decided to talk to Chiaki, she’ll tell you that she had a nightmare and couldn’t sleep well. The nightmare was her being *crushed by a tetris block* which is the exact same thing happens at the last part of her execution

Fun fact for Pekos Execution: she never knew tha fuyuhiko lived after her execution, she knew that the robots sliced her and killed her along with kinda blowing up, so she died thinking she killed the one person she was protecting and the one person she cared about

Mikan’s execution be like: *What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor begins playing* “Ahoy, Hajime! I’ve overdosed on ketamine and now I’m going to die! Argharghargharghar!”

I feel like for Gundham's execution for when the animals lift him up to Heaven is also supposed to be apart of Gundham's despair, as he sees himself as his evil God and stuff and probably wanted to go to Hell, but instead because of his kind deeds, he's forced up into heaven. We don't exactly see Gundham smile when this happens, neither when he's being pulled up or when he's shown in the sky.

I feel like Teru’s execution is really underrated, you have this character who wants to ignore his status as a country bumpkin in a small town, so much that he hates fast food altogether. He thinks it’s disgusting because fast food is something cheaply made for convenience, and people don’t really care about how it’s made. Not to mention that the beginning is practically a copy of Leon’s, to the point that he’s strapped to a pole after being yanked by a chain around his neck. Teruteru wants to be the opposite of plain, but his execution is an execution that’s already been done and made into something with virtually no effort.

Fun Fact: Mikan's execution was probably foreshadowed by the place she first introduces herself: The Rocket Punch Market.

For Chiaki's game execution, its also worth noting that, when she's crushed, there's no Pepto Bismol blood, obviously hinting at the fact that she's an AI

. . . Did I just hear Hamsters!?!?!? Weeby I love you and your work, but they are not just merely hamsters, these are THE FOUR DARK DEVAS OF DESTRUCTION!!!

Every first trial execution in every danganronpa game: *getting dragged by the neck it very essential*

Speaking of Chiaki and Monomi's execution, there's a part of it where they run into a glass wall and slide off it. I always interpreted it as them running into the forth wall (the invisible wall between fiction and reality that the audience sees through). Them failing to break it could symbolise their (or more specifically Chiaki's) disconnect from the other students (since she's an AI and not a real person). She's trapped in a fictional environment both in the sense that she's stuck in her videogame inspired punishment and also that she only exists inside the Neo World Program. And unlike how the surviving students later have the option to realise an exit to the simulation and manage to escape to the real world, Chiaki is unable to escape to reality due to her being an AI. That's how I interpret it anyway.

Everyone’s execution: either really sad or really good Mikan’s execution: *hElLo iM oN dRuGs*

“Number 2 we have pekos execution” “Also known as one woman army” *also known as the b e s t execution*

I also thought: For Teruteru, the reason they chose that dish is in large part because he vehemently denied his more home-classic origins, both in his way of speaking and in trying to make fancier foods. Turning him into a simple, easy-to-find dish references his origins and that in death he won't have any dignity. For Mikan I feel like the more straightforward reason for her being so... happy is enjoying her despair as she has returned to the Ultimate Despair.

One detail about Chiaki's execution that I often don't see many touch upon is the little fact that when the last piece falls it doesn't form a tetris as the straight block is only three lines tall. This could be due to fear of some sort of copyright problem or just a little way for Monokuma to mock Chiaki one last time.

One thing I wanna point out is at the start of chiaki's execution, it is space invaders. In Danganronpa 3, she talks to Hajime about how it was a total classic and talked about how much she loved the game. I think those two things could be linked, like monokuma wanted to make her feel despair for a game she loved so deeply when she was alive.

The only detail on Monomi’s execution that I always notice now, is that when Hajime gets grazed by a bullet from the Gatling Gun it cuts him in the same place that Izuzu was shot in Episode 7 of Despair Arc.

Gundham's punishment was not dying, it was going to heaven

Something I feel like not many people mention is that Chiaki’s execution also heavily foreshadows the fact that she was just an A.I. who’s forever tied to the virtual world. Just when she thought she would be able to escape with Monomi, she was doomed to still be stuck within the game (as seen when she slams into the glass wall, which also happens to be presented in a way to look like our screen that we’re playing on).

I may be stretching too far, but another thing I've noticed in Teruteru's execution is that it could be possibly refering to the "throwing a virgin in a volcano", as a stereotypical sacrifice used in shows. Like, he's a pervert, often talking about sex, and it would be ironic to consider that Monokuma was also trying to call him a virgin, which would probably offend him considering his overall attitude.

Kodaka definitely upped his rocket usage per execution with DR2, lol

Peko's execution was the one with the most despair, when she finally found out that she wasn't actually a tool to her master, but instead was one of Fuyuhiko's greatest friends, she had to die, and during her execution before her last moments, she died thinking she hurt someone very dear to her both mentally and physically.

Kiyo: Goes to heaven Monokuma: *Kills him again with salt and his sister* Gundham: Goes to heaven Monokuma: *Understandable have a nice day*

The bandages could also imply that mikan used drugs, she was the ultimate nurse and we know from the anime that she carries syringes with her and her execution symbolises her last and greatest high, but I'm not too sure on this theory

I was waiting for this to see what the absolute HELL Mikan’s execution was and meant.

Mikan: “DO YOU WANT ME TO TAKE MY CLOTHES OFF?” Me: what the FRICK

Another feature of Peko's execution is that it injures Fuyuhiko in a way that reflects his real-world body -- the way he replaced his own eye with Junko's. Monomi's first execution also shares this feature, but I don't know if that injury of Hajime's was depicted in DR2, or if that was wholly invented by the DR3 anime.

Gundham when he writes on his magic circle: A B C D E F G ~ 🎶🎶🎶💥

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Pretty shortly after Teruteru's explanation, I got an ad for KFC... Irony much?

As much as unimaginative Mikan's execution is, being shot with a lethal injection fully conscious is actually painful in real life. Source: Dude trust me

For Gundham’s execution, a hypothesis I had for his circle was that he was trying to communicate/apologize to Nekomaru in his last minute of life for killing him. And him being lifted to heaven was a result of that indicating that Gundham wanted to be a good person despite his evilish attitude. He doesn’t really look up with happiness or despair when he’s being carried up. He just has a blank look. That made me think that despite him wanting to be good, he genuinely thought that he was innately evil, so he didn’t know how to react when he saw he was allowed to go to heaven. It was just a thought I had when I first saw it.

Ayyy execution fun fact. When you hear "reach for the stars" In an execution, it means the murder was set up by someone else, or that they weren't the killer. A example of this is TeruTerus, you can hear it in the beginning.

I interpreted Mikan's as She's a remnant of despair now anyways, might as well make her feel the despair of having a "disappointing and short" execution, rather than the ones that, "sent the others off with a bang".

I thought Mikan's execution was really interesting because she's supposed to be in despair, but instead she feels pleasure. In that aspect, I guess Monokuma failed.

I Adore how in the first death when she is going to guard the door, someone asks "what will you do if monokuma comes and tries to attack? (or something)" and she says "ill just run as fast as i can." which is exactly what she does when the exit door is revealed. She ran as fast as she could

i always thought mikan's execution was very weird, but still made sense for *her* at least.

About Mikan's execution, sorry if someone said this already So I think she was just launched into space never to be seen again because she feels as if nobody would care if she just randomly disappeared

Okay is nobody gonna mention that teruteru is a virgin being sacrificed to a volcano?!

Execution of Monomi in my opinion: One of the things that makes students afraid of Monokuma is its power and control over where they are, making students kill each other, and THIS form of intimidation is very different from that of Trigger Happy Havoc, in the first game Monokuma gives very vague information about what the Class Trial would be like so Sayaka just thought it was killing someone to be able to leave, that also together with Monokuma exploding after Mondo punched him. In the second game, however, he goes directly to use firearms to let the students know that Monokuma is powerful, using Monomi for that was, apart from the relationship between the two of Monokuma always attacking Monomi, a way for the students to realize that the only person willing to help the students was brutally killed, it was done with many effects and cuts to make the scene more frantic.

I'm glad you don't buy into the theory that Gundham did the magic circle to protect his hamsters. I mean, he already put them on a rock that was outside of the stampeding animals' path. I'm also glad you managed to find an explanation for Mikan's execution other than it being a drug-fuelled hallucination.

Mikan's execution was uh, very, very, uncomfortable ;-;

3:15 wonder if this could also be a reference to how she lied about swimming when she walked into the diner wet when it was actually water bottles to wash the blood off after killing Mahiru

"Dragged by the neck-" Impossible

These executions always hit me right in the feels

There's even some interesting irony in Monomi and Akane's "executions". Monomi hates violence, so her execution is from an actual weapon that could be used in warfare. Note Monokuma wildly moving his arm like a general ordering to fire. As for Akane, the entire scene is a reference to Piccolo saving Gohan from an energy blast in Dragon Ball Z. Monokuma suddenly taking out a bazooka to kill her seems like a wink to how characters in shonen battles suddenly unveil new powers that might feel overpowered or cheating.

One cool thing about Chiaki’s execution that I noticed was how each game that tried killing her are technically endless games. In other words, games she can never beat

According to some people, the Tetris part of Chiaki’s execution was apparently a reference to a nightmare she had, although I don’t really remember too well.

Theory The sdrv2 executions their fears Teruteru hated fast food so he became fast food Peko hurt the one she swore to protect Mikan has a fear of big things Gundham didn’t got to hell as he wanted too Chiaki couldn’t protect monomi

Here are some additions (that could be wrong): -during machine gun with bunny ears, a slowed down version of dangan island plays (2x the sad piano) -The fact that Hajime was slightly off being shot tells him that this is real life. (Well at least at the time)

17:50 hajime gets grazed by a bullet on his right cheek which is something that happened to izuru at the end of the first killing game in DR3, seems like they were attempting an intentional parallel in some way

Nekomaru saving Akane could be a reference to Piccalo saving young Gohan in Dragon Ball Z since they both jump in the way of giant blasts to save someone they care about

Their is a chance of mikan when she said in free time to Hajime she said “I will give you loads of shots if you need to” which could be meaning Monokuma reference here trying to help her best to help but fails

a few things :3 - in mikan's execution, she derived pleasure from the arm pulsing (which as aforementioned, signifies the trauma/abuse she endured). i think this incapsulates her relationship with junko, as well as her behavior as a despair. - when chiaki races towards the exit, this is meant to give the player false hope, as makoto (who was an innocent party, like chiaki) had been miraculously saved from his execution in the first game, which also happened to take place in the 5th chapter.

An ironic aspect of Peko's execution is out of all of the executions in the series its the one where the victim would want it the least, Mahiru literally died standing up against revenge and killing people for their crimes and Monokuma essentially disregarded her final wish (jeeeeez)

What I always liked to think was that during Gundams execution he was trying to use his magic to see his hamsters one last time. I don't think he was trying to just save himself since he did except his fate, but maybe he just wanted one last glimpse at the animals he held so dear to his heart.

I would love to see V3 executions covered! What I always thought Mikan's execution was just lethal injection, and she was hallucinating the rest of it.

I like to think the animals that carried Gundham to heaven were his old pets that died . No evidence just a fluffy headcannon

Is it possible that the arm we see in Mikan's execution is actually... Junko's? Since we later see a giant Junko as the final boss. It could represent how Mikan is being led astray by the very person she adores so much.

The monomi prologue execution (I call it "Machine Gun With Bunny Ears") refferences the anime cuz once hajime's shot in the cheek his eyes change to izuru's, because izuru was also shot in the cheek

5:32 But if you look in the background Monokuma seems suprised

I feel mikans execution was actually mimicking the iron horse torture device, as the way she sat can be similar to how one would sit on the iron horse, and the face she made would be how the top of the horse runs against her groin.

2:17 i think he's foreshadowing his own murder weapon instead of celestia's execution. "try imagining that realistically" "That dish would stop being food and become a weapon..."

I'm sad that Gundham died, but I still found it interesting that Gundham got brought to heaven and him smiling at the end

i've been binging all the past videos, and seeing new videos makes me so happy :D

I really like Mikans execution because it shows her personality so well. Hanging out with mikan is uncomfortable, with her intensely skittish, overly lewd, and just general moods wings of hers. The way she gets so haply at the slight est praise, just to have a meltdown at a small criticism. Her execution is uncomfortable, just like she is.

According to many many others, Teruteru's execution was to despair him because he dislikes fried foods And Gundam's was because he wanted to go to hell or something but was brought to heaven

I really thought I was going to leave on time after Mikan's execution to not spoil myself and I saw Gundham's name I immediatly started crying

17:49 ACTUALLY! In the scene where Hajime gets scraped by one of the bullets during Monomis "execution" mirrors what happens to... [SPOILERS!!!!] [SPOILERS!!!!] [SPOILERS!!!!] [SPOILERS!!!!] [SPOILERS!!!!] Izuru in the anime. After the class reps murder eachother, one lifts his gun and shoots, grazing Kamakura in a similair fashion. I think this is a subtle hint to Hajimes' "real" personality, especially since that moment from the anime is the first time Kamakura understands why despair is more interesting than hope.

The arm might have been an early reference to Nagito and how he replaced his arm with Junko's. Since Mikan replaced her womb with Junko's womb, the two have that same "I took this part from Junko" thing going on. It's foreshadowing Nagito.

The reason why i think the circle is for Gundham’s hamsters is because of something he said to Sonia. “Sonia.. An act as unrefined as stopping a man from going to his death.. does not befit a noble such as yourself.” We also see him accepting and even telling Monokuma to begin his punishment. If he was truly ready to accept his death, why would he cast a spell to protect himself? We also know that the four dark devas of destruction are very important to him, as seen throughout the game. It would make sense that he would protect them in his final moments. I agree with you that it makes sense that he would cast the spell to save himself in order to further push his message, and it would be just like Monokuma to trick him into thinking that it would work, just to have him die anyway. I think it may be possible that he was casting the spell to protect himself and those he cared about, but it didn't work (on him, at least), though this is purely a guess, and I have no evidence to prove it. I'm probably going to return to this and make sure I have my points right when I have more brain cells lmao

"Reach for the stars, reach soooo hiiiiiigh!"

Did anyone saw monkuma gasping when Peko sliced Fuyuhikos eye

Fun fact! With Teruterus execution in the manga, earlier you can see that his mother giving him his scarf and in the execution (manga) you can see before he dies the scarf flies off so he loses all memory of her with getting to know what happened to her

As someone who just recently finished DR 2, Mikan's execution could've been so much better. I was imagining some kind of surgery being botched with big needles and sharp objects and such stabbing into her. The issue wasn't necessarily the content of her actual execution, the run time suffered as well. It felt like her execution left a lot to be desired. Let's say the execution is mostly the same (big arm shooting into space with her riding it) and the camera flashes back to Mikan in bed drooling in ecstasy, and the camera pans toward the vital signs monitor as her heart beats fast until she flatlines and dies. Although it wouldn't fix her execution, it would certainly add to the idea she died because of the lethal injection.

Weeby newz : kindly explaining the excecutions Me: hmmmm some pork cutlet would be nice now

Mikan execution has this weird sexual under tone. Giant arm turning run while monokuma is pumping the needle into it and mikan reaction to it. Another disturbing way of seeing it

For mikan's execution, i like to believe whatever was in that injection caused her "excited" state- so when she was blasted off, her whole body would be on fire after that "excitement"

They should have called Teruteru's execution "Teruteru Tonkatsu".

3:42 “real eye-opener” THAT FLOORED ME

I, personally, don’t think Gundham was doing the magic to protect _himself,_ but to protect his Four Dark Devas of Destruction.

hello! here are the timestamps: 0:54 teruteru's execution 3:04 peko's execution 6:28 mikan's execution 10:28 gundham's execution 14:53 chiaki's execution

I’d love a V3 version of this video. I always enjoy your articulate and nerdy takes on the games.

I feel too special cuz I finally watched the anime and now I don’t have to skip the spoiler part 😎

I thought Mikan's execution was a Team Rocket reference

3:18 these waves were also used in "past and present scrolls of execution" when he fell into the pot

The fact we didn't suspect it was not real given how insane the executions were is beyond me.

It's funny because watching to the point of 5:52 when peko does the slice, you can see monokuma being all SHOOK in the background XD I haven't noticed it until now

When I played 2, I thought that the executions were a step down from 1 but this video made me like and understand them a bit more

Gundham did use the circle to protect his hamsters, because he didn’t want them to die. He wasn’t protecting his self because if he was it would of worked, he wasn’t trying to fight back because he knew he’ll have to face worst so he knew he had to die. So the whole point was, Gundham used the spell to protect his hamsters

I think that the Alchemy circles that Gundam made we're very apropos of him. There was a big production with all this magic but in the end it was just all for show. he's a normal guy. He's a dork that breeds hamsters

I really liked all these executions (Mikan's is wishy washy) though Gundham's will always be the saddest to me.

Yay time to get the big sad again!

Small theory: Maybe the dish Teruteru’s execution is based around was one of TeruTerus moms favorite dishes to cook/eat? It’d be a reminder of how he failed to see his mother again before dying, which would also fill him with despair

This was really really good! I can't wait to see V3 version!

i thought this was made 3 years ago wtf

Something I believe you missed about Teruteru's execution is the famous "island savage tribe" trope of throwing a virgin into a volcano to appease the gods, since teruteru has the whole obnoxious overly sexual conduct, I believe it was a way of also unmasking his whole, and I quote, "fuck boi facade"

Gundham’s execution came up and despite me knowing what happens, when the Devas come up to him, I just started fucking bawling. Shit like that gets me everytime😩

i was having a really bad day today, so thanks for uploading this :) made me happy