Saturday, July 16, 2016

Danganronpa

Do you know who did it? Well you better figure it out or you'll die too. This video game was adapted to this interesting anime in 2013. It had a total of 13 episodes each being the usual anime length.


Ever played the board game Clue? It's kinda like that, except if everyone doesn't point out the correct killer you all die.

15 students have been selected to live inside a sealed school building with no way out. Then a weird black and white robot bear shows up saying he is the principal. He sets up some basic rules: only the girls bathrooms lock, no boys allowed in the girls changing room, don't damage the principal, murder a fellow classmate and get away with it to graduate. You know, basic.

The episodes tend to go like this. Someone dies, everyone investigates and grows suspicious. Next episode is the class trial, everyone discusses and analyses their findings to identify the killer among them. And as stated before there are stakes involved. If everyone correctly identifies the killer, then the killer is punished with death. But if everyone fails to identify the correct killer, then the murderer "graduates" and is allowed to leave the school for the outside world. And everyone but the killer is then punished with death.

I must say the show is kinda fun with all the psychological drama and intrigue that goes on. But the best thing about the show is that if you pay close enough attention(and I mean really close attention) you could solve each murder. Things are revealed in the trial that you couldn't have known, but in the investigation episode before the trial there is always that KEY clue that would lead you the audience to the correct answer. 

The show was really fun to watch. Trying to figure out who would be capable of murder, and which characters were most likely to be killers in later episodes. Plus plot twists. I also found it interesting that the show doesn't use gore in the traditional sense. All blood is colored pink instead of the red. This made it so instead of paying attention to the gore, you paid more attention to the clues and the characters involved. I give Danganronpa a 10 out of 11. A great watch.


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