***Spoiler free review***
Danganronpa Kibou no
Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei The Animation (holy fu@# what a mouthful of
a title) was a wildcard anime for me this past season. When I watched the first
episode I had no idea if I was going to end up liking my investment. I am
pleased to announce that I did end up enjoying the show even if the ending was
pretty boring.
Story: 5/10
So the plot was pretty intriguing in the beginning. The
anime follows the main protagonist Naegi as he and the other highschool
students struggle to survive in the crazy dog eat dog world they find
themselves in. Every episode follows a monster of the week type format where
there is a murder each episode that the students have to solve and vote on. I rather
enjoyed this aspect of the plot; to see what alliances formed between the cast
and how each one responded to being called guilty. I would say that the one
thing that really hurts this anime is how predictable the future events are to
see coming. It was quite obvious to me who killed each person in each episode
(except for the last one). Even though it was predictable, I still ended up
enjoying most of the show. The ending however really let me down; don’t want to
spoil it so all I’ll say is that it felt very melodramatic and rushed. I have
heard that the anime was very faithful to the game it was based on so props for
that.
Animation: 9/10
LOVED THE EYES IN THIS ANIME. Yeah the animation was very
spot on in every episode as the character models were very defined and seemed
quite unique compared to any other anime I have seen. If I had to complain
about anything it would be how a lot of the miscellaneous objects off camera
center seemed very undefined.
Sound: 8.5/10
Liked the soundtrack and thought the voice actors did a
great job. Shout out to the voices of Togami and Kirigiri. Not so much Naegi he
just came off pretty pathetic for most of the show.
Characters: 5.5/10
To put it bluntly, every character in this anime is some stereotype
of another show already out. You have the super shy, sportsy tomboy, larger
nerd type person, ext. There are some good moments between the characters but
the only developing friendship you become aware of is between Naegi and
Kirigiri. The cast did work well with each other though so some points have to
be given there.
Overall: 7/10
The show was pretty enjoyable. It had an interesting start
and went off like a rocket. It did start to lose some steam once people started
dying off and I still think it could have ended better but that is just my
opinion. I recommend this if you like detective style anime.
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