Danganronpa - What You Need to Know! (Hope's Peak Story Summary) 

Yeah, some names are wrong

The person who created danganronpa was a genius. Only a mastermind himself can think of this many loopholes.

My brain just fried trying to process all this

*Simulation Ends* Ibuki: Hey Mikan Mikan: *Starts Sweating* Ibuki: No respawns this time

Long story short: Junko ended the world. The protagonists fixed it.

I lost my crap when you talked about Danganronpa zero and Killer Killer. Since those are the only entries of the canon timeline that were never localized, half the fandom doesn't bother looking into them and I'm happy to see those two entries being recognized in this video.

i dont think newcommers would understand any of this

tl,dw: The world ended and it's all Junko's fault.

It’s sad to know that all the characters in DR1 that didn’t survive were all filler characters.

I could only just sigh throughout this whole video. Its hurting my brain to even try to understand this crazy ass series

the storyline makes me so confused

My friend: *watching the first anime* “I’m a danganronpa weeb.” Me: haha, no.❤️

So... everyone who died in Danganronpa 2 isn’t actually dead!?! Sweet, I get to rejoice for Gundham and Nekomaru!

Yeah, I'm still lost.

Ok but like imagine Teruteru talking to the ultimate impostor just like "Sorry I killed you bro, I was aiming for Nagito but I missed, sorry"

I'm pretty sure there's no way to talk about Danganronpa for more than 10 seconds without spoiling something for newcomers. And now that I've watched it, yeah, you shouldn't show this to anyone who wants to play the series.

The fact that Hagakure isn't mentioned at all in this video make me so mad. My king deserves respect.

Below is just a guide to the Danganronpa series for those of you who are new to the series or simply keen to explore the Danganronpa world a bit more. Danganronpa entries in medium release order so far: 1. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (video game, anime, light novel, manga, stage play) 2. Danganronpa Zero (light novel) 3. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (video game, manga, stage play) 4. Danganronpa: Makoto Naegi Secret File (light novel) 5. Danganronpa Kirigiri (light novel) 6. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (video game, manga) 7. Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Hagakure (in-game novella) 8. Danganronpa Togami (light novel) 9. Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer (manga) 10. Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope's Peak High School - Future Arc (anime, stage play) 11. Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc (anime) 12. Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope's Peak High School - Hope Arc (anime) 13. Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda And The World Destroyer (anime) 14. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (video game) Danganronpa entries in story timeline order so far: 1. Danganronpa Kirigiri (light novel) 2. Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope's Peak High School - Despair Arc (anime) 3. Danganronpa: Makoto Naegi Secret File (light novel) 4. Danganronpa Zero (light novel) 5. Danganronpa Togami (light novel) 6. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (video game, anime, light novel, manga, stage play) 7. Danganronpa: Ultra Despair Hagakure (in-game novella) 8. Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (video game, manga) 9. Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer (manga) 10. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (video game, manga, stage play) 11. Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda And The World Destroyer (anime) 12. Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope's Peak High School - Future Arc (anime, stage play) 13. Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope's Peak High School - Hope Arc (anime) 14. Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (video game)

My brain: trying to process this also my brain: *ITS ME NAGITO KOMAEDA ON THE NINTENDO DS-*

I remember watching this when I was first joining the fandom and being extremely confused. Ah, how times have changed since then

Well, i love the character naegi. Especially in class trails, and their growth tho (Class trails)Naegi: one egg baby (Despair arc)Naegi: one omelette daddy

I'd like to know what the Scientists who work on Hajime were thinking. Let's completely remove all his humanity til he's a empty husk with the morals of a child who hasn't learnt anything, and just leave him to go about his business. Won't even try to reeducate him with "hopeful" ideals, just, bai.

Didn’t even talk about how the one nurse girl brought everybody back from the dead using medicine, that was the most important thing about the ending...

When you only watched the animation yet still understood

This video is way easier to understand having played the series beforehand.

You forgot about Kirigiri sacrificing herself for Naegi before Tsumiki gave her the Resurrection potion that Kimura made. (Much like Jesus-style; just remove the cross off of the equation.

Moral of the story: Don't have kids

“He told me ab the timeline ab Dangonropa very clearly... *and I still don’t have a bloody clue how Dangonropa works but I still love it-*

For those of you who are unsure or confused about Kazuo Tengan’s intricate plan, this is what I believe happened during the Final Killing Game in Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope’s Peak High School - Side: Future. 1. Kazuo Tengan watched the Despair video that Chisa Yukizome had given him and became infected by despair like the Class 77-B students. 2. Like Nagito Komaeda, Kazuo was a huge believer in hope at the same time, despite being a Remnant of Despair. Therefore, he decided to start the Final Killing Game among the Future Foundation leaders (except for Ryouta Mitarai, because Kazuo originally wanted Ryouta to release his Hope video after hearing about the game). Kazuo also aimed to get rid of all the big honchos of the Future Foundation (especially Kyousuke Munakata and Makoto Naegi) who would otherwise not let the Hope video plan succeed. 3. Monaka Touwa was in contact with Kazuo, and they struck a deal. Monaka was allowed to infiltrate the game by killing Miaya Gekkougahara and replacing her with a robot. It was most probably that Kazuo himself who gave Monaka access to Miaya’s work station, bypassing the Future Foundation’s security system, as Miaya’s corpse was later found in her work attire. Monaka’s main goal was to see Makoto up close, but Kazuo also wanted her to get rid of some of the participants if necessary, and therefore the robot was equipped with so many weapons. The robot also had a device that was able to connect to the Future Foundation by phone, in case it was necessary to do so in order to spread the news about the killing game so it would reach Ryouta and push him over the edge. 4. Monaka obtained all the participants' NG codes and retained the information on that electronic device inside the Miaya robot. This was the same device that Kyousuke later got hold of, after destroying the robot with his sword. 5. Monaka was also the one likely to help produce the Monokuma monitors and the armbands with the NG codes, from the highly advanced technology from the Touwa industries that she was controlling. 6. Makoto was summoned to attend the trial as the killing game was about to commence. The security guards were killed by Monaka's or Kazuo's people, the same people that were in the helicopter attacking Yasuhiro Hagakure outside. 7. Ryouta unexpectedly arrived at the trial, which surprised Kazuo, as he hadn't anticipated Ryouta being included in the killing game. Nevertheless, it had to go ahead with or without Ryouta. 8. After activating the sleeping gas (likely dropped from the Miaya robot's wheelchair), Kazuo moved the unconscious participants' bodies to the underwater facilities within the same building. Of course he knew that Kyousuke, being the only other person who knew about the underwater facilities, would sooner or later notice it. 9. When the game participants regained their consciousness in the decoy room, the Monokuma that appeared on the giant monitor was being controlled by Monaka. That was a live show, unlike Monokuma's introduction speech at the start of the brainwashing video. That was why Monokuma was able to respond to everyone's reaction to Chisa Yukizome's dead body, and also to change Usami's appearance on the Miaya robot's computer screen, right then and there in front of everyone. Also, Monokuma singled out Makoto during that live appearance, which was an indication of Monaka's obsession with observing Makoto. 10. In order to make the access to the breaker room a bit more difficult, Kazuo arranged for the door to be hidden by that huge bookshelf. This was likely done as an extra measure, in case someone (other than Kyousuke) figured out the connection with the Monokuma monitors. 11. Kazuo gave Ryouta a spare wristband (as he hadn't prepared one specifically for Ryouta), which was why the NG code was very generic (Using Your Talent) compared to some of the others that were a lot more personalised (Opening Doors, Using Your Fist, etc.). Kazuo probably actually didn't mind it, even though his goal was kind of the opposite (i.e. to get Ryouta to use his talent), because of his own twisted mind due to despair. Great Gozu's NG code was probably the easiest to avoid. This might be because Gozu was Kazuo's very loyal bodyguard and Kazuo had a soft spot for him. 12. During the killing game, Kazuo deliberately agitated Kyousuke by telling him that everyone there was an attacker. This was partly his despair talking, and partly his aim to have Kyousuke eliminate the other participants. Like Junko Enoshima, Kazuo didn't want his plan to run smoothly as the possibility of failing would be despairful in itself. 13. His dying message "I entrust the hope of the world to you" was perhaps actually directed at Ryouta, Kyousuke, Makoto, and Monaka at the same time.

goddamn this is a confusing series

Teacher: “I need to grab something from the office real quick, just work on the handout and we’ll go over it when I get back.” Students 5 seconds later:

6:46 Five of the ten? Last time I checked, they were 15.

Bruh Does Makoto see his sister again or no?

I like how we don't know any shit abt Miaya after all those 12 episodes

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Danganronpa Crossover

One minute in and I feel like my head is going to explode

he did`nt even mentioed hagakure as a survivor !

Wait, so, theres an entire anime based on this? I thought it was just on the first game!

i’ve actually never played danganronpa but watched the storyline, some play throughs and other shit but what i can’t comprehend is HOW THE HELL DOES BYAKUYA BECOME FAT BOI

Now I’m starting to realize how messed up the storyline is......Oh well!

I swear that this is a saw/law and order anime

woah i watched playthroughs of the games + the animes nd i forgot pretty much all of what happened ,, i also never rly understood the sequence of what happened bc i never bothered piecing it together this was short nd to the point so thanks for it lol

When they don’t mention that Kyoko actually survived danganronpa 3

Heres a summary for newcomers: Boom boom, killing killing: there you go.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS EXPLANATION AHHHHHHHH This is just so perfect and well explained, thank you so much!!!!!!

Wow. I'm actually really appreciative of this video because I never realized how much I really missed. What sucks is that a lot of the information needed to understand the entire Danganronpa series can't be found in the animated series alone, but thank you for summarising. It helps me to understand since I don't have the money to buy all the in between books.

I think this is the best summary of the series! As a fan of the Danganronpa franchise, I am amazed how simple you made it sound. And I am happy you included Danganronpa Zero and Killer Killer in this. Props for the effort!!

Leaving Makoto as headmaster made me tear up a little. Can’t explain it. To see a character go through so much and be like “I’m chill” in the end is fire

Danganrompa : "Yes . I am complicated" Fate Series: "hey you are saying anything??"

Welp, I understood almost everything about it. Thank you so much for helping me understand the story properly sir!

DR1 is my favorite (despite my favorite character being from dr3) so knowing that they all knew each other before the world went to shit makes me SO SAD

I was wondering how all of this connected! Thank you for explaining.

I’ve played and watched DR a few times, yet I still have trouble understanding it. Thank you so much for making this! It really helped me out.

Thank you so so much!! I absolutely adore this franchise and I want to understand it to the best of my ability, but the plotline and timeline is all so convoluted and confusing that it almost hurt my brain to think about. Thank you for this video, it really helps a lot.

Thank u for explaining all of the timeline this is a great vid

We Stan when Kyoto says: “ I’m not sure what happened. I think I died” in the English dub for future arc

2 things: 1. It isn't certain if Tengan was actually Remnant of Despair, or if he was just acting this way to push Ryota in to uplaoding the Hope video. 2. I don't know why people missunderstand it, but Ryota never started the transmision of the "Hope video". The thing that WAS appearing on the screens across the world, was just the "hypnotism video", that forced people to look at the screens, IN PREPARATION to playing "Hope video".

I’ve seen all parts of the series and watched gameplay but I’m still confused 😂😂

Thank you for clearing up the timeline for me! I really love this video

I didn’t know about this video before and… thanks a lot. You did a great review of everything for such a short video.

OML thanks so much!This has helped me understand my favourite anime series of all time some much more I liked and subscribed because you just really deserve it! 😘

10/10 didn't mention Yasuhiro.

you explained this really well! thankyou!

This needs more likes xD I was so confused when watching season 2 and this definitely helped

This is a great video, thank you!

This clarified so much, thank you. I just wish DRv3 was still part of Hope’s Peak, my heart hurts too much 😔

Great! Next time I'll try to follow along.

The story was extremely hard to follow from the beginning so tysm for explaining the whole plot !

This video is absolutely amazing. Thank you!

I understood none of that

Very well explained, I'm impressed

This masterpiece has atleast 50 twists × 100 and a super great storyline with a a lot of seriousness but also some normal times to keep the viewer to not lose interest . Great .

This has inflicted me with confusion, but is a good summary

I literally just started watching this and knowing this now this show is way darker than I thought I only watched the 1st one with the 78th class.

This is the first ever video I watched without skipping.

This helped me ALOT with the storyline

Yeah, I'm gonna have to watch this a few times to retain all this info

Well I finished watching the series but was still really confused, so thank you for this video 😂

Thank you for that, I finally found out what happened in both Arcs ((couldn't find them anywhere :c))

Thank you for this ; my niece is really into cosplay and this game/show (sorry not sure what this is really ) and in an effort to understand half the things she talks to me about I’m doing a little research 🧐 very helpful thanx a bunch

Well dam, danganronpa was a whole different story than what I originally thought...

Me, rejoicing at the fact that the DR2 cast arent actually dead after believing it for like 4 weeks

This was actually helpful!

again....THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU LEGEND!

Wait.......what?

“With a hopeful future waiting ahead” danganronpa v3: nah it’s just a game within a game

I knew the storyline but I didn't know the order, this really helped

thank. you. very. much. for. explaining. this.

did he mention hagakure after he talked about the first game???

Me, new to the franchise, after completing most of the Ace Attorney games: **confused screaming**

*You just explain everything and I never lost count of all dead characters 26*

I’ve watched this video 3 times and I think I understand the story now (add some emphasis on the word ‘think’)

The hole of the second game class lived other than chiaki nanimi

I needed to rewatch this 3 times to understand only half way. IM-

I WAS SO CONFUSED CAUSE I DIDNT PLAY THE GAMES, THIS EXPLAINED EVERYTHING, OMG YES FINALLY, THIS ALL MAKES SENSE

watched the entire video and I still have no idea whats going on but thanks for trying!! :)

*rewatches for a fifth time, still desperately trying to understand the full thing*

3:02 I think you mean “Leading them to believe that the Academy was creating human murdering machines”

that's all good and well.

This is soooooooo helpful