Danganronpa: The Animation
ダンガンロンパ 希望の学園と絶望の高校生 The Animation
A group of 15 elite high school students are gathered at a very special, high class high school. To graduate from this high school essentially means you'll succeed in life, but graduating is very difficult. The school is presided over by a bear called Monokuma, and he explains to them that their graduation hinges around committing a murder. The only way to graduate is to kill one of your classmates and get away with it. If the other classmates discover the identity of the killer, the killer is the only one executed. However, if they fail to catch the killer, only the killer graduates and the others are annihilated. Which of the 15 will survive the bloodbath to come?
Danganronpa: The Animation is a tv with 13 episodes, from Summer 2013, produced by Lerche, rated 6.9/10 on AniList.
Synopsis
A group of 15 elite high school students are gathered at a very special, high class high school. To graduate from this high school essentially means you'll succeed in life, but graduating is very difficult. The school is presided over by a bear called Monokuma, and he explains to them that their graduation hinges around committing a murder. The only way to graduate is to kill one of your classmates and get away with it. If the other classmates discover the identity of the killer, the killer is the only one executed. However, if they fail to catch the killer, only the killer graduates and the others are annihilated. Which of the 15 will survive the bloodbath to come?
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Tags
- Death Game — Features characters participating in a game, where failure results in death.
- Battle Royale — Centers around a fierce group competition, often violent and with only one winner.
- Tragedy — Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
- Survival — Centers around the struggle to live in spite of extreme obstacles.
- Detective — Features a character who investigates and solves crimes.
- Dystopian — Partly or completely set in a society characterized by poverty, squalor or oppression.
- Memory Manipulation — Prominently features a character(s) who has had their memories altered.
- Amnesia — Prominently features a character(s) with memory loss.
- School — Partly or completely set in a primary or secondary educational institution.
- Ensemble Cast — Features a large cast of characters with (almost) equal screen time and importance to the plot.
- Gore — Prominently features graphic bloodshed and violence.
- Dissociative Identities — A case where one or more people share the same body.