

To protect the remaining students in the 78th Class, Jin helps them convert the school's old building into a shelter, unaware of the two Despairs who lurk among them. Meanwhile, Hajime decides to have his memories of the 77th Class erased, as he is interested to see if hope can be more unpredictable than despair. The brainwashing is accomplished by screening a film of Chiaki's death, which contains subliminal messages created by an editor named Ryota Mitarai. Using Izuru as bait, Junko kills Chiaki while brainwashing Chisa's students, the 77th Class graduates. Juzo and the now-brainwashed Chisa tell Kyosuke that Junko is innocent, allowing Junko's plan to continue unhindered. Junko blackmails Juzo, threatening to reveal his crush on Kyosuke. The now amnesia-ridden Hinata, referred to as Izuru Kamukura, meets a terrorist named Junko Enoshima and her sister Mukuro Ikusaba, who grow attached to him. He has developed an inferiority complex over his lack of talents, despite bonding with Chiaki Nanami, a talented student.Īfter spending half a year teaching the Reserve Course, Chisa asks Juzo for a trustee's ID in order to investigate the Kamukura Project. Meanwhile, Hajime Hinata, a student in the school's Reserve Course for those without talent, prepares to undergo an experiment to make him the Ultimate Hope. She is teaching in order to help her childhood friends Kyosuke Munakata and Juzo Sakakura improve the establishment. The story is split into two chapters- Future Arc and Despair Arc-which are followed by a finale called Hope.ĭespair, which takes place prior to the events of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, opens with homeroom teacher Chisa Yukizome, who begins her job teaching Hope's Peak Academy's 77th Class of Super High School Level students, who stand out as talented in different ways.
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The series is often listed as one of the best ones from 2016. The Hope Arc finale earned positive responses for closing Makoto's and Hajime's stories. Some critics felt that the narrative was far darker than the video games, to the point it was hard to become attached to the new cast or returning members who die in the story. Future Arc and Despair Arc were the subjects of mixed reviews because, rather than the original run of the series in Japan where they aired together, Funimation marketed them separately. The returning cast from the games was regarded as likeable. Funimation, Madman Entertainment, and Animax Asia licensed the three parts for English regions.Ĭritics felt that The End of Hope's Peak High School was an attractive anime sequel to the video games, based on the casting. A spin-off manga, Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer, was serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine between March 2016 and May 2017. He and his team, working on a television series for the first time, found the project challenging.

Despite the dark narrative, Kodaka wanted to give the anime a proper conclusion through the one-episode finale, Hope Arc, despite being accused of pandering to the base because he intended to give it a happy ending.

He aimed to create an original storyline that would not work as another video game, unlike previous works from the franchise. Writer Kazutaka Kodaka conceived of the project. They were followed by Hope Arc, the conclusion to both previous arcs, which aired on September 29, 2016. The first two story arcs aired between July and September 2016. Future Arc focuses on Makoto Naegi and his friends and their involvement in a killing game with the Future Foundation and Despair Arc focuses on Hajime Hinata, a student, and his involvement in experiments on humans. The anime is the second animated series based on Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa video game franchise, and serves as a conclusion to the "Hope's Peak Academy" arc established in the previously released games Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School is a mystery horror anime television series produced by Lerche, directed by Daiki Fukuoka, and supervised by Seiji Kishi.
