Released by Spike Chunsoft in the year 2017 on the Playstation 4 and Vita, Danganronpa
V3 continues the series with a sequel that culminates all of the games, light novels,
and anime so far.
Directed by Shun Sasaki, and written by series creator Kazutaka Kodaka, the focus was on
expanding upon the horror visual novel franchise from a new perspective for the fans.
For characters, an entirely new cast of heroes and antagonists are featured, and like before,
social bonds can be built with characters during free time to add to collectibles and
skills, while hidden items can again be hunted and collected.
For gameplay, the game still utilizes the same Visual Novel style and paces itself with
daily life, deadly life and class trial segments, though a few gameplay additions have been
added.
The player can now perform perjury and lie as a tactic to coerce the truth from others.
Debate Scrums now occur when opinions split the group evenly in half, and arguments can
be matched to counter-arguments in order to determine a proper order of events and persuade
a group of opponents.
Argument Armaments now involve timing keywords to disarm the final arguments of the accused
in a rhythm game.
New logic minigames called Psyche Taxi and Mind Mine are introduced while Rebuttal Showdowns
and Hangman's Gambit return.
Otherwise, more side modes, including the return of the dating sim alternate story,
are available though not needed for the story.
The story only gets larger from here so lets cut it down to size with a RECAPitation.
The game begins with a student named Kaede stepping out of a locker with no knowledge
of who she is and why she's there.
At the same time, another student named Shuichi emerges from another locker, also dazed and
confused.
They both have a foggy memory of being kidnapped and brought here, but when they attempt to
leave they are suddenly confronted by a mech suit that gives pursuit.
Their path leads them to a room full of 14 other students, all equally confused about
their surroundings.
The mechs now enter and surround the students, introducing the mechs as powerful weapons
called Exisals, though the pilots soon leave their respective mechs and introduce themselves
with a dynamic entry.
Monotaro, Monosuke, Monophanie, Monodam, and Monokid, reveal themselves, calling themselves
the Monokubs, and explaining they each lost their memories and have become different people
because of and event called the Ultimate Hunt.
They then state the first step from here is for them to regain their memory of who they
are and what Ultimate skill they possess before they begin the killing game.
Magically changing them out of their normal clothes into their original Ultimate clothes,
they are all flashed with a light that sends their sealed memories flooding back to them.
The game begins again with a student named Kaede stepping out of a locker with no memory
of why she's there.
At the same time, another student named Shuichi emerges from another locker, also dazed and
confused.
Suddenly, the Monokubs assemble into the room, see their first memories are restored, and
welcome them to the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles.
There are 16 Ultimate students, including them in this school, each scouted by the government
per the Ultimate Initiative, for their unique prodigous talent.
After they leave without any other explanation, Shuichi reintroduces himself as the Ultimate
Detective and Kaede as the Ultimate Pianist.
They discover unqiue tablets on their persons already assigned to them, and continue exploring
around the school, encountering the 14 other students: Keebo the Robot, Kirumi the Maid,
Rantaro who forgot his talent, Tsumugi the Cosplayer, Gonta the Entomologist, Tenko the
Aikido Master, Kokichi the Supreme Leader, Maki the Child Caregiver, Korekiyo the Anthropologist,
Himiko the Magician, Angie the Artist, Ryoma the Tennis Pro, Miu the Inventor, and Kaito
the Astronaut.
Finding the front door unlocked, they open it to find themselves outside but trapped
inside a massive cage and wall with no way out.
All of the students are then called back to the gym for the opening ceremony, wherein
the Monokubs announce that the 16 students are to play a killing game, and a strange
asymmetrical bear named Monokuma introduces himself as the father to the Monokubs, god
of this new world, and headmaster of the school.
He explains that in order to leave the academy, one must kill someone and make it through
a class trial.
After the trial, the students vote and if they vote correctly, only the culprit is punished.
However, if they vote incorrectly, the culprit gets off free and everyone else is punished.
Naturally, punishment means execution.
The students are shocked to be presented with such a scenario, as they have nothing to do
with each other and have no intention to kill, that the entire scenario feels unreal, though
they may be powerless against Monokuma.
As they are sent the rules for the killing game, it's revealed the game will continue
until there are only two students left, but Kaede persuades everyone to not participate
in the game at all and focus on escaping together.
Investigating yields no results, straining the remaining hope of everyone.
The next day, Monokuma makes the announcement of presenting motivation to begin killing,
calling it the First Blood Perk in which there will be no trial for the first murder, so
the first person to kill gets to leave scot-free.
Enraged at his attempt to turn them against each other, Kaito lunges for Monokuma, but
the Monokubs interrupt him with the intent to punish him as an example.
Summoning their Exisal, the mech smashes through the wall, unexecpectedly crushing Monokuma
underfoot and embarassing the Monokubs into leaving again.
Bewildered at the turnabout, the students go their separate ways, though Shuichi shows
Kaede a secret door he noticed earlier.
The nature of the door has him suspect that someone else is cooperating with Monokuma,
and he sets a small trap to test his hypothesis.
The next day, Monokuma comes back, explaining yokai is why, and reveals an additional motive
to keep the killing game going, in which there is now a 2-day deadline for a murder, and
if no one is killed by then, then everyone dies.
Tension fills the room, as everyone goes their own way to reflect on the situation, though
before leaving, Rantaro asks if anyone else has heard of the term Ultimate Hunt, though
no one else recalls.
Shuichi then reveals someone triggered his trap on the hidden door during the night,
so someone is definitely a mole and likely the mastermind behind this killing game.
They think to set up a motion-activated camera to catch the mastermind, and wait until their
trap triggers.
When there is an hour left until the deadline, half of the students think to have a meeting
to figure out how to combat Monokuma when the deadline hits.
Suddenly, their hidden camera sensor goes off, and as they check the hidden door, they
are shocked to find Rantaro dead on the floor.
Monokuma and the Monokids come in to confirm the kill, and award a free release of whoever
did it trial-free, yet no one raises their hand.
Amused by this, Monokuma decides to hold a trial after all, starting with allowing them
to investigate his murder before the trial.
They also take a look at the pictures, but they fail to reveal the mastermind as they
had hoped.
After the clues have been collected, Monokuma leads them to the shrine of judgement, the
location beyond which they will hold the class trial.
As they descend down, Kaede is focused on exposing the mastermind, though she encourages
Shuichi to seek out the truth, no matter how painful it may be.
As the trial progresses, there is an unsucessful attempt at uncovering the true mastermind,
and Kaede does her best to push Shuichi into breaking out of his shell and deduce the truth.
As it turns out, when they were setting up the cameras to catch the mastermind, the killer
identified a potential murder weapon as a heavy shot put ball.
When staging the cameras, the killer modified one of the cameras so the flash would attract
the attention of the victim, and with a Rube Goldberg device, the killer was able to know
where the victim would be when they rolled a heavy shot put ball into the system that
had it land on Rantaro's head, killing him instantly.
Shocking to everyone there, the culprit behind the rhythmically timed murder was Kaede herself.
However, Shuichi points out the motive was not to escape the death game or take Monokuma's
offer, but to kill the mastermind and end the entire game, saving everyone.
Grateful to be outed, Kaede thanks Shuichi for being more assertive like she wanted him
to be, and wanted to give hope to everyone else, but regardless, she is guilty of this
murder.
As punishment, she is strung along to a final piano piece, and as her lifeles body hangs,
Monodam shoves Monokid into the iron maiden cover, definitively crushing and impaling
them both to the despair of everyone.
They demand to know Monokuma's aim, but the bear dodges the questions, pointing out Rantaro
was the only one with the right hunch to the truth, but now they'll have to work harder
to find out, before leaving.
Bitterly swallowing the recent events, the students leave, and as Shuichi mourns for
Kaede his own way, he accepts her wishes to seek the truth and removes his cap as a means
to keep looking forward.
The next day, Gonta finds an unusual rock outside, and the Monokubs give the group a
batch of familiar items to open new paths around the academy.
They discover more research labs keyed to each of their talents, and a curious flashlight,
which they examine together.
Monokuma chimes in its a Flashback Light which can treat memory loss, and in this case, restore
some of their lost memory.
Instantly, Shuichi recalls memories of him fleeing the Ultimate Hunt, and to escape being
captured, agreed to volunteer to have his Ultimate Talent suppressed so he could be
a normal high school student.
Oddly enough, so did everyone else, but they cannot recall exactly what the Ultimate Hunt
was, and Monokuma reveals they will need to uncover more of their memories as they play
the game.
After investigating the sights of the academy and enjoying the academy pool, everyone is
surprised to find a unique tablet called the Kubpad that plays a personal motive for someone
else in the group.
They consider swapping tablets so people have their personal motive, but the group is increasingly
divided on working together.
To brighten the mood, Himiko declares she will put on a magic show tomorrow and invites
everyone, though Kokichi makes a failed attempt to trick everyone into a public motive screening
with all of the Kubpads.
He succeeds in tricking Gonta into rounding almost everyone up for an insect meet and
greet, while Kokichi declares he will collect the Kubpads from everyone's room.
Fortunately, Keebo's robot recording function thwarts Kokichi's sabotage attempt.
The next day, Himiko is nervous about a trick she is performing for the first time, which
is an underwater escape trick, with live pirahnas that will be released if not performed by
a certain time.
The crowd gets nervous about the stakes, as when the timer runs out, the pirahnas are
let loose and the curtain is pulled back.
To everyone's shock, its a bound Ryoma in the tank now, and he is devoured right before
their eyes, though Himiko reappears after a successful trick, unaware of what just happened.
The chime goes off now, indicated a body has been discovered, and Monokuma confirms this
is a murder to be investigated.
Maki distances herself from the investigation this time and Himiko refuses to reveal the
magician's trick, not to mention the forensic report only indicates the cause of death as
drowning, with no other information, so the investigation is trickier.
As they learn more, it comes out that not only was Ryoma the Ultimate Tennis Pro, but
he was also the Ultimate Prisoner too, as he was guilty of killing someone else before,
which ended his tennis career.
As it turns out, the culprit first knocked out Ryoma, bound him, and drowned him in his
own lab.
Using tools from the lab and the pool, they moved the drowned body to the magic stage,
separated the pirahnas with a glass partition, and placed Ryoma's body in the empty partition.
After that, the magic trick would take care of the rest as the body would be gruesomely
killed during Himiko's show, implicating her.
The only one who could have served up such a meticulous and considerate plan, was Kirumi.
As they correctly deduce and vote for the cultprit, they ask her for her motive to understand
why she went so far as to murder.
She reveals she ended up receiving her own motive video correctly from the start, and
within, it's revealed that with her exceptional servitude and competance, she was asked to
serve her country as the prime minister and improve the country while pretending to only
be the secretary.
With the prosperity of the country resting on her capable shoulders, the threat of a
unprecedented crisis loomed overhead but remains unamed by Monokuma until she escaped.
With the needs of the many weighed against the needs of the few, she made the obvious
choice, though for why picking Ryoma as a victim, it was simply because he was the easiest
target.
She actually revealed to Ryoma, who had given up on life itself and volunteered to die before,
her motive video, and he again volunteered to be sacrificed to save the nation.
However, Kokichi accutely reveals that Ryoma gave on on life after seeing his motive video
from Maki, as it turned out to be blank and there was no one important in his life anymore.
Everyone feels a pang of guilt for what was essentially an assisted suicide to help the
future of the nation that they just now prevented.
They consider sacrificing themselves to allow her to live, but Kaito reminds them all the
purpose of life is to live and no one's life is arbitrarily more valuable than another's.
Kokichi then shrewdly points out Kirumi revealed all that she did in order to guilt them into
that response, again to try to live, and he turns out to be correct.
Dropping all dignity and declaring an intent to live, Kirumi makes a run for it, and as
her punishment, she is given a rope of thorns to climb to escape which she takes, through
a gauntlet of sawblades that try to cleave her, which she evades, only to find a false
exit at the end of her struggles.
At the literal end of her rope, it snaps, and as she plunges, Monodam pushes Monosuke
into her path, as she slams into the floor, crushing Monosuke and dying upon impact.
Kokichi and Shuichi both note Kirumi said something strange before she died, and that
is that she remembered the truth of her past only after seeing her video, as if it acted
as a Flashback Light.
As they leave the courtroom, its already night time and the stars are out, though Gonta points
out he often stargazes, and somehow, the stars in the sky are all wrong.
The conniving Kokichi states one final observation, and that is the worst liar in the group isn't
him, though he is a compulsive liar, and its Maki about her true identity.
He deduces correctly that Ryoma found out her true identity and leveraged that into
forcing her to reveal his motive video to him.
Maki moves to grab him by the throat, and Kokichi chuckles out that she won't kill him
in front of everyone, dropping her real talent, as the Ultimate Assassin.
The next day, they all visit Maki's research lab to verify she actually the Ultimate Asssassin,
and within, Monokuma appears with the Monokubs to give them more keys to access more parts
of the academy.
One is the research lab for Korekiyo, containing countless authentic anthropological relics,
including a document he notes that will allow him to perform a seance that will allow him
to talk to the dead.
The tech-savvy Miu services Keebo for his robot needs, and they soon find a room that
can create realistic virtual environments as well as houses another Flashback light.
They assemble to use it again, though Maki declines, stating people who learn of her
talent always end of fearing, hating, and eventually trying to kill her.
Shuichi then sees a scene in which all 16 of them are dead, after attempting to flee
from a particular group.
Curiously, everyone else has the same memory return to them, and the next day, there is
an emergency assembly in the gym though some people now seem curiously in line with Angie's
beliefs and worship.
There the Monokubs present a resurrection ritual from the Necronomicon capable of bringing
back only one of the 4 fallen students and have them rejoin the game.
They are split on their belief of this being real, and at this time Gonta brings up he
took another look at the rock with writing outside, and now there's more mysterious writing.
Angie takes this as sign from the dead to resurrect them, and takes the Necronomicon
and invites Gonta to join the new Student council.
When asked, they explain that Angie gathered Himiko, Keebo, Tenko, and Tsumugi together
to form a new Student Council body with Angie as the president, who seek to end the killing
game, though to the others it seems like Angie is bringing more people to worship her god
Atua.
After Shuichi spies on the student council in the locker room for research purposes,
Kaito invites Maki to join Shuichi and himself for nighttime training pushups, though the
next day he feels too sick to continue and Shuichi spends some time getting to know Maki
a little better, seeing she isn't so bad.
The following day, Angie's student council causes a rift among the survivors, as she
begins making new rules and regulations for the sake of peace, at the cost of everyone
else's freedoms and choice.
The monokubs interject, presenting another Flashback Light, but Angie then seizes and
destroys it, claiming no one needs any new memories because no one will be leaving for
the outside world anymore.
They leave, intent to use the resurrection ritual to bring back Rantaro, and as they
leave, Shuichi notes Kaito looks even worse for wear.
That night, Tenko approaches Shuichi and Maki, stating she's only playing along with Angie,
and joined the council to help Himiko, but pleads for them to stop Angie from performing
the ritual.
Shuichi does agree its dangerous to go along with Monokuma's motive, so they enter Angie's
Artist lab to find she already completed convincing wax effigies of the dead already.
She sends them away and locks the door behind them, but when they return the next day, they
are shocked to find Angie dead in her lab among the effigies.
There's speculation that perhaps one of the effigies killed her, though the arrival of
the Monokubs verfies this is still a murder.
As they review the Monokuma file, the cause of death was a stab in the back of the neck,
and Korekiyo points out his recent research into seances may reveal a way to speak to
the dead, namely Angie.
In order to rule out the occult possibility they agree to utilize an occult solution.
As they prepare, Maki assists Shuichi in investigating until the time of the ritual.
Tenko volunteers to be the medium that the spirit will enter for the ritual, as she wants
what's best for Himiko and encourages her to be more honest with her feelings, be optimistic,
and survive.
For the ritual, Tenko is placed inside an iron cage and covered with a sheet, but during
the part of the ritual when there its pitch black, they hear an odd sound, and when the
ritual fails, they pull back the sheet to discover Tenko dead within.
The Monokubs enter to confirm this as another murder, and it turns out the cause of death
is again a stab wound in the back of the neck.
Monokuma rules that since this happened during the investigation of another murder, then
this murder doesn't count and doesn't get its own trial, so whoever did it wasted their
time.
They don't have much time to investigate Tenko either before the trial time begins, and they
head to the trial room.
During the trial, the final words of Tenko resonate with the normally lazy Himiko, and
she boldy begins to assert herself going forward.
Debating further, it turns out the culprit was planning to commit the murder during the
seance all along and was preparing the room for it by loosening floor boards to form a
seesaw.
While nearby on the same floor, Angie came by to retrieve a candle from the same room
for her ritual, and reacting, the culprit knocked her out with a floorboard, carried
her back to her lab and stabbed her in the back of the neck to actually kill her.
They set up an occult situation as a red herring, and made it seem like a locked-room murder
to further complicate it.
They then coerced the group into the seance and when Tenko volunteered, she had no idea
she would be the victim.
Stagging a sickle above a crouched Tenko for the ritual, the culprit had everything set
so when they stepped on a particular floorboard, the other end would swing up like a seesaw,
thrusting Tenko into the sickle, killing her in the darkness of the ritual where no one
could witness and had a seemingly perfect alibi.
The only one with the intelligence and cool-head needed to pull off both seemingly supernaturnal
murders from beyond the grave, was Korekiyo.
At a loss, the mask slips from Korekiyos face and a feminine personality comes out, telling
him its over.
Korekiyo declares his only regret was not creating 100 friends, and explaining further,
he reveals he never killed in order to leave this place, rather, he did it all for his
lover, revealing his incestuous relationship with his sister.
His sister was unfortunately sickly and didn't really have friends, so after she died, he
promised to find friends for his dead sister, and has thus killed almost 100 people to join
her in the afterlife.
He slips into his lipsticked alter identity of his sister, which he explains is the soul
of his sister that entered him during a seance and has remained ever since.
He also mentions he only kills girls he feels are worthy of being his sister's friend, would
have eventually killed more of the girls here, and actually looks forward to joining his
sister in death now.
With that, he is taken by Monokuma and boiled alive, during which Monodam throws himself
into the fire, creating such fuel for the fire that Korekiyo literally melts from the
heat.
From this, Korekiyo's spirit is released, and is about to be blissfully reunited with
his sister, until Monokuma comes in to banish his spirit, denying him alongside his sister.
As they leave the classroom, Himiko openly mourns for her lost friends, crying herself
to sleep, while to the side, Kaito conceals the fact that his illness is getting worse
to the point of coughing up blood.
The next day, Gonta alerts them to more mysterious letters attempting to spell out a message,
and the Monokubs arrive to give them more items to progress them through the Academy,
including a keycard said to be their next motive.
He also gives them a Flashback Light, through which they now cumulatively remember meteorites
and something called the Gofer Project.
That night, Kaito and Maki continue to bond as Maki even opens up and shares her past
growing up in an orpahage, taking care of the kids there, and training as an assassin
to provide for them.
The next day, Miu invites them all to the computer lab where she repaired the computer
within that is able to create a virtual world they can link their consciousness to, and
in a way, escape Monokuma's world.
She points out she didn't make this machine, and Monokuma springs out to take the credit.
He reveals he used a template of a virtual Killing game to make the world, but Miu insists
she removed everything dangerous within it.
Monokuma then mentions he hid a secret in the virtual world, which speaks to the secret
of the outside world, and with that, the group reluctantly agrees to investigate the virtual
world.
Within, they find a mansion where chibi avaters of themselves can be controlled.
While searching they don't find anything, but instead hear a loud noise and suddenly
Miu's avatar freezes.
Hurrying to log out, they are immediately shocked to discover Miu in her chair, dead.
Even worse, the Monokuma file does not reveal too much outside of the time of death being
while they were all in the simulation.
After they check the computer logs and code changes, they quickly leave for the trial
with few clues.
As the trial progresses, Kokichi gets annoyed at Shuichi using deception to uncover the
truth like he does and resolves to end the trial by simply revealing everything so no
detective work can be done.
He explains that he not only figured out Miu was planning on killing in the simulator,
he also worked together with Monokuma to place a killing motive in the simulator as well,
and finally, exposes Gonta as the killer.
The debate picks up from there, as the group is forced to contest belief and emotions against
logic.
As it turns out, the culprit messed up logging into the Virtual World to begin with, switching
the cables that would control his memory and consciousness, which ended up causing the
culprit to forget everything that happened in the virtual world and interfere with their
personality.
Afterwards, Miu set up things to kill Kokichi in the virtual world and cover it up.
She intentionally fed true and false information to everyone inside, but only the perpetual
liar Kokichi saw through the lies, and decided to use her plot against her to plot her murder
instead and use a patsy to the be the culprit.
Miu used the altered virtual rules she made for herself to split everyone up and log Kaito
out, and when she moved to corner Kokichi, the culprit appeared behind her to strangle
her.
Since senses are transferred to the Virtual world, the shock killed Miu in the real world.
They tossed her body aside to cover up the scene of the crime, and Kokichi would get
away without dirtying his hands.
The only person simple enough to have been set up to take such a mighty fall, was Gonta.
Gonta is confused and upset because the memory loss means he not only does not remember committing
the crime, he also does not know why he would have anyway with no defense for himself, yet
he does beleive in the group when they conclude it is him.
The group tragically votes for Gonta, the kind-hearted giant in their group who never
wished ill of anyone there.
Monokuma pulls up Alter Ego Gonta from the Virtual World to explain, since those memories
never left the simulation.
AI Gonta reveals he wanted to save everyone, and inside, Kokichi found the secret Monokuma
placed that revealed a memory of the outside world, and showed it to Gonta since he already
knew what it was.
Earlier, Kokichi learned the secret of the outside world, and then made a deal with Monokuma
to use it as a killing motive inside the simulation.
Once Gonta saw, Kokichi rationalized the best way Gonta could save everyone was by mercy
killing all of them, as it would be a better fate.
Falling into despair, Gonta resolved to be the one to bear the burden to saving everyone
while they still didn't know.
Kokichi then presents that everyone is wrong in this case for wanting to pursue the truth
and suffer longer for what they believe, rather than face despair and end things quickly.
As his punishment, Monokuma begin rapid firing robotic wasps into a stalwart and bound Gonta,
while Monophanie suddenly gives birth to a monstroues insect that kills both her and
Monotaro, and impales both Gonta and Alter Ego.
Ending it, Monokuma finishes them all off with a stream of cleansing fire.
Kokichi then howls with laughter, revealing he was lying about his intent to spare pain
on everyone as he is the Ultimate Supreme Leader, and his malice and evil means the
more others suffer the more he enjoys it, hence why he wants the game to keep going
and will see it through to the end as its winner laughing all the way.
Also, Kaito's health looks visibly worse as he coughs up an alarming amount of blood.
Finally, Kokichi reveals his intent to finally end the game, while also revealing he was
the one to write down the mysterious message on the stone outside.
The next day, a smaller group tries to put the events of yesterday behind them, as Monokuma
presents them 2 keys, the last real key and the real last key.
With one, they uncover Kaito's research lab, wherein they find a report on the Gofer project,
in which in response to the meteorites falling, humanity placed its hope on boys and girls
of exceptional talent.
Maki points out the name reminds her of Noah's Ark, as the ark was built from gofer wood.
The second goes to a lab that does not open, and as Monokuma points out, that's because
the related student, Rantaro, is dead.
They also find the hangar where the Exisals are stored, which also contains a hydraulic
press and an advanced security system.
Later, Kaito suggests now is the time to fight Monokuma directly, as the Monokubs and the
Exisals are all gone now.
Everyone else is tired of the killing game and agrees, and they set tonight as the night.
Kokichi crashes the party, claiming he was planning on ending the killing game tonight
too, presenting anti-electronic anti-machine weapons that can either fight Monokuma, defeat
the Exisals, or even clear the underground tunnel of its traps.
Choosing to use the weapons he brought against the tunnel, they clear the death road, and
find the door outside before them.
Rejoicing, they open the door to freedom, and are soon shocked to find a post-apocalyptic
world undeniably before them.
Kokichi now laughs at their reactions, and begins revealling what he found out earlier
with Gonta.
Some time ago, the leaders of the world saw the extinction of the human race in the meteorites
carrying a deadly virus that were coming, and so made the Gofer Project to salvage the
human race.
16 boys and girls were chosen, but all initially refused to leave their families and lives
behind, and chose to wipe their memories out in order to hide being ultimates.
At the same time, another cult organization who embraced the end of days learned of the
Gofer project and sought to sabotage it by searching out the 16 students in what was
called the Ultimate Hunt.
In response, the Gofer project faked the death of all 16 to protect them, and continued the
project as they loaded the students into an ark to escape death.
In truth, the Ultimate Academy is actually a giant spaceship colony.
Unfortunately, the leader of the cult organization trying to end the Gofer Project was one of
the 16 students and they prepared Monokuma on this ship to sabotage it into landing back
on the ruined earth instead of a new planet.
The students were in cryosleep to wake up on a new planet, but instead wake up here,
on a dead Earth, hundreds of years afterwards.
Finally, he reveals the hidden mole the entire time, to be himself.
To prove this, he summons the exisals to his side, which were originally designed to protect
the students from unknown threats.
With this, he declares the killing game over, but beats down Kaito, stating someone as hot-blooded
as him might be a problem.
With that, everyone, even Shuihchi sinks into despair, not caring about living anymore.
After a few days, Maki rouses them all to show them a Flashback Light presented in plain
sight.
Everyone is contemplating suicide at this point, but decide to use it to wrap up any
loose ends.
After more memories flood back, the way this all connects finally comes to light.
Makoto with the rest of Future Foundation started the Gofer Project at Hope's Peak Academy,
and selected the 16 students from within the rebuilt school.
More to the point, they were the only ones left, as the mysterious virus brought by the
meteorites devastated the world, and because they were immune is why they were selected.
Kokichi was leading the Remnants of Despair out to crush all hope for humanity, and thus
why he modeled a killing game after their former leader Junko Enoshima.
Revitalized in their purpose, they refuse to give in to despair as the symbols of hope,
and Maki declares a charge on rescuing Kaito from Kokichi.
Making preparations, they move into the hangar where Kaito is being kept, only to stop before
the horror of seeing Kaito's jacket hanging out of a bloody hydraulic press.
Monokuma makes the annoucement that a body has been discovered and so the killing game
continues, yet, even Monokuma cannot identify or confirm the identity of the body.
The investigation continues, and as they enter the class trial, its unclear whether Kaito
or Kokichi is the victim in the first place.
In fact, during the trial, an exisal presents itself at the trial as the suspect, but its
also unclear as to whether Kokichi or Kaito is within, as the person within switches between
both personalities.
As they work through what facts they know, this crime seems impossible to solve at first
on purpose as if to stump even Monokuma.
It all began when Kaito was imprisoned in the Exisal hanger after Kokichi declared himself
the mastermind.
Keebo then noticed Himiko smuggle a crossbow from Maki's lab over to the culprit.
After some time, Maki made her way to the lab, intent to kill Kokichi and save Kaito
herself, and took over an Exisal in order to enter the barrier to the hangar.
The culprit then fired at Kokichi's arm to disable him in a non-lethal way, and while
they were fighting, Maki approached in an Exisal, exited, and fired into Kokichi's back
with a poison-tipped crossbow bolt.
Maki then prepared to fire again to kill Kokichi, but to her surprise, the culprit jumped in
to shield Kokichi taking the poison bolt too.
Not intending to kill the culprit, Maki ran to fetch the antidote, and while she was gone,
Kokichi devised a way to defeat Monokuma, since he was only pretending to be the mastermind
this whole time and started by locking Maki out.
When Maki returned, she gave the culprit the antidote, but Kokichi snatched it from him
and pretended to drink it down.
Defeated, she ran away, and Kokichi then proceeded with his plans.
He used an electrobomb to disable Monokuma's cameras, and gave the antidote to the Culprit,
ensuring the culprit would now aide him with his plan.
They staged the culprit getting crushed by the hydraulic press, when it was clever camera
work to swap out Kokichi and the culprit.
Switching roles now, Kokichi was now the victim, and was crushed by the press and killed by
the culprit before Maki's poison got to him, thus aiming to win the killing game, even
if he had to die to do so.
Sabotaging the press now, it ensured the victim could not be identified, even by Monokuma,
and hid in an Exisal, where they remain even now.
Clashing with his friends with honest bravado, the culprit is actually Kaito.
The culprit refuses to exit the exisal before the polling, pointing out that however the
group votes, Monokuma cannot punish anyone if he gets it wrong, and thus the killing
game will be defeated.
Everyone, even Monokuma, chooses to have faith in Shuichi's deduction, and defeated, Kaito
now exits the Exisal to end the game.
Once the class votes for Kaito, it turns out to be correct due to Kaito's confession.
When asked why, Kaito reveals Kokichi planned to pretend to be the mastermind and show them
the outside world this whole time, that way the killing game would end, but the true mastermind
still instigated events that spurred Maki to shoot a poison dart into him.
Thinking back, Maki got the motive after they used the Flashback light, and thus it was
likely left by the true mastermind.
The scheme then started for Kaito to kill Kokichi and then pretend to be dead, so if
the group voted for Maki or Kokichi, Kaito would reveal himself, thus invalidating the
entire trial since he was wasn't a victim.
Kokichi knew that Monokuma would not change the rules suddenly to be unfair in a mistrial,
since he knew this whole game is being watched, and thus the rules needed to be followed.
He also admits his health has taken a turn for terminally worse, and the group thinks
this is the deadly virus that afflicted the rest of the population before.
He also points out that just because they didn't trick Monokuma after all, they still
succeeded in rooting out the true mastermind.
Coughing up more blood, Kaito knows the end is near, and Monokuma agrees, revealing a
new set of Monokubs here, and pointing out its useless to try and stop this killing game,
because they're all more replaceable than they know, which strikes Shuichi as awfully
suspicious.
Maki confesses her love for Kaito as she is prepared to fight Monokuma even now, but the
cheerful Kaito talks her down and urges them all to stay positive even without him now.
In an oddly familiar execution, Kaito is strapped inside a shuttle and shooting off into space.
However, Kaito's illness claims him right as he realizes his dream of reaching space
as the Ultimate Astronaut, and the execution is declared a failure, though the group still
receives his dead body, keebo is struck by some debris and Monokuma is furious at the
denial.
Mentioning it means nothing since the killing game will keep going on, he takes out another
Flashback light and uses it immediately, claiming this one has a special effect and there is
only despair from here.
That night, the group gathers near Kaito's training spot to mourn their own way together,
though elsewhere, Keebo is in his lab, using the high-tech upgrades to overhaul himself
into a deadly killing machine.
Launching off, Keebo launches an all-out assault on the school, pausing to explain that destroying
the academy is his solution for ending the killing games.
Monokuma comes out, annoyed at Keebo, but pointing out his actions could never end the
killing game, because it is eternal.
Thus, both robots clash with each other outside while everyone else flees from the battle
inside.
Thinking of what to do next, the idea of finding the mastermind comes up, as its what Kaito
and Kokichi died to try and expose.
With Keebo distracting the Exisals, they think to keep exploring places they haven't tried
before to find hope for themselves and the lurking Remnant of despair.
They find Kokichi's lab, though the battle has broken the door open, and within discover
a book detailing the history of Hope's peak academy, namely the events from the first
game, but Shuichi notes something within that contradicts all of their memories.
The delayed effects of Monokuma's special flashback light now triggers, and Shuichi
now recalls a conversation with a child during the preparation of the Gofer project.
They investigate Kokichi's room now, finding he was onto something bigger, and leaving
a trail of clues to another message like the one on the rock he wrote.
Suddenly, another memory comes flooding back to Shuichi, and its him discussing being part
of the Gofer Project.
Keebo now helps them open Rantaro's lab, wherein they find a mysterious vault, where they use
the clues from Kokichi to enter, and learn he didn't write them originally, only modified
them to make it seem like he did.
Within they find a video by Rantaro, but its recorded in this room, but that's impossible
since he died before they found this room.
The video speaks of a previous killing game and reveals that because he won, is why he
earned the title Ultimate Survivor, and that he wanted this next killing game to happen.
Another Flashback hits Shuichi detailing how he was encouraged to go on by his friends,
and again when all 16 of then were about to enter cold sleep.
After searching more, they finally confront the curious door in the library again, and
after Keebo opens it, beyond they find a room fit for a remnant of despair and a giant Monokuma
head, claiming the killing game is as unkillable as despair itself.
This head, calling itself Motherkuma, is the source creating new Monokumas, and as they
check the room, they find evidence from the first trial, and another monopad belonging
to Rantaro as his prize for winning the last game containing a map of the entire academy
as well as a clue from his past self on how to end the killing game.
Unfortunately, they don't find any major clues to the mastermind, and instead have another
memory of when they woke from deep freeze and Monokuma greeted them and wiped out their
memories in order to create a new killing game.
Later, when they search more classrooms, they find one with a curious Computer able to not
only manufacture Flashback lights, but also the memories within them, but from the optional
memories to select, most are outright contradictory.
Himiko then reveals a hidden room in the bathroom, just like the first killing game, that leads
back to the library hidden room.
With the clues in place, Shuichi is confident he has cracked the mastermind mystery and
ceases the fighting outside in order to call upon one last class trial.
Monokuma agrees only the on the terms that if Shuichi fails to reach his truth, then
everyone will be punished.
Before they begin, they bring along a strange device Kokichi devised and Miu built that
was made to suck up tiny bugs, and as Keebo's enhanced vision reveals, its full of tiny
flying Monokumas with cameras collectively calling themselves Nanokuma, the sixth Monokub.
Once the class trial begins, Shuichi announces this is to be a re-trial for the murder of
Rantaro, as they've found new evidence relevent to the case.
If Monokuma's judgement was wrong, then the entire killing game can be considered invalid,
and Monokuma accepts the challenge.
As they re-examine the new evidence, they learn that when Kaede set up the trap to kill
Rantaro, it actually failed.
The mastermind, who was getting impatient that no murders happened yet, was willing
to give Kaede a hand, and used their own shot put to kill Rantaro and plant it at the scene.
They then took Rantaro's custom monopad, and left the scene through the hidden door to
meet up with the rest of the survivors to later twist the truth in the class trial.
The only person who could hide in plain sight like that and be the true mastermind, was
Tsumugi.
Tsumugi refutes its not her but Junko Enoshima, controlling things from outside again, just
like all the other killing games.
Not satisfied with that answer, Tsumugi then reveals herself to be Junko Enoshima the 53rd,
claiming to be a perfect reproduction of her.
She claims when she heard of the Gofer project, she thought that sabotaging it would be the
perfect despair for humanity.
Digging in, they uncover inconsistencies in the evidence found and their own memories,
and conclude the Flashback lights implant false memories.
Monokuma confirms this, and Tsumugi reveals all of their memories from the flashback lights
have been fake, even them being students at hope's peak academy.
Tsumugi reveals she can cosplay as any of the Hope's Peak students perfectly, but Shuichi
remembers Tsumugi can only cosplay as fictional characters, which leads him to the shocking
revelation that everything Hope's Peak is actually fictional.
Tsumugi confirms this, restating that the Great Tragedy, Hope's peak, the killing games,
everything that took place was just in a fictional world called Danganronpa.
As overwhelming as it is, Danganronpa is just a fictional setting in this world they were
made to think was real and they lived in it.
The killings are real though, so in a way, its all the Ultimate Real Fiction.
The real world outside is perfectly fine and what they thought they saw was just an elaborate
set piece.
At this time, Monokuma reveals the faces and social media of the real world outside, as
this killing game has simply been a show for people to watch.
As they are all shocked and confused, Tsumugi explains that because the outside world is
so peaceful is why they need a killing game, as the bored populus craves such stimulating
media.
This killing game is watched and beloved the world over, as the very logo of this game
is revealed to be the title for the 53rd season (V3 = 5 3 = 53).
Originally, Danganronpa started as a few games, but then gained it own anime, and eventually
became its own real fiction like what they're in.
In a way, the real mastermind is really the outside world, as Tsumugi is part of Team
Danganronpa, the crew producing this show.
All of them are just fictional characters too within this universe, as their names,
personalities, backstories and even Talents are all manufactured.
Their Talents are loosely matched to their real identities, but its mostly a placebo
effect.
As further proof, she shows them their application videos, in which they were just normal high
schoolers and hardcore fans begging to be selected for the next season of the show for
mainly selfish and vain reasons.
Everything they thought they knew or felt, even sacrifice or love, was all pre-scripted
by Tsumugi herself.
In one fell swoop, the whole group is defeated, unable to deny the truth, and fight for the
lie they are and live in.
Stepping up, Keebo points out that the audience doesn't just want despair but hope as well,
and since they're part real and part fictional, they can still fight for real hope.
However, Tsumugi points out Keebo has the unique function of being a surrogate for the
audience, and whatever popular choice the audience makes is what he does.
He's also the cameraman for the game, allowing the audience to view things from his perspective,
and his role is to take the despair present in this fictional world and bring it to the
real world.
Refusing, Keebo points out that because the voice in his head tells him to believe in
hope, then he will bring hope from this fictional world to the real world instead.
Tsumugi then puts them up to a new vote, either herself or Keebo, to be punished and determine
if hope or despair wins.
If Despair wins, the killing game ends because they know the truth, and they can continue
living their lives in this fictional world as their fictional characters.
However, if Hope wins, then the killing game continues, and will end only until two students
remain.
Keebo then offers to sacrifice himself, and Maki volunteers as well, provided she gets
to kill Tsumugi herself.
Shuichi then clashes with Keebo, rejecting this idea and pointing out that forcing Hope
to overcome Despair in the end is exactly what the audience expects and wants, and why
the killing games continue.
He then reveals this was Rantaro's secret, in that something like this likely happened
before, Rantaro sacrificed himself and the punishment for him was participating in the
next killing game.
Tsumugi will just produce the next season, Keebo will continue to be the cameraman, and
Maki will be the Ultimate Survivor next time.
Even if they're fictional people, the pain and sadness they feel now is real, so he opts
to reject the world and its consumption of suffering as entertainment, meaning he abstains
from voting and rejects both the hope or despair endings the audience craves.
Persuading Keebo to reject the hope the audience wants, he then asks Himiko and Maki to join
him in abstaining and ruining the ending for everyone, even though they're threatened with
death for not voting.
Monokuma then attempts to reject their refusal to vote and tries to force the group to keep
playing the truth minigames instead, but Shuichi is steadfast in nonparticipating and ruining
the entertainment factor of the game.
The audience then attempts to erase Keebo's personality in their internet rioting, but
he attempts to hold on, telling the group to fight on before he's erased.
Believing that fiction can change the world, they use Keebo as an outlet to fight the internet
and overcome the rabid fandom demanding more killing games and convenient closure for existing
plotlines.
Tsumugi laughs, saying she'll also not vote, and claiming that if they're giving their
lives to end the game, then she'll give hers to continue it, and since Keebo will be the
only one that votes, Hope will win after all.
As the polling begins and ends, it turns out that no sides voted in the end, and Shuichi
explains this proves the outside world chose not to vote as well, and as the audience begins
to leave, its proof that fiction has changed reality.
In this game with no survivors, they think to just end themselves on their own terms,
and as mass punishment, Keebo re-arms himself, and begins blowing up the school with everyone
in it, as the Ultimate Cosplayer plays her role to the gruesome end and is crushed by
the wreckage of her own creation.
Satisfied with this, Keebo then chooses to self-destruct as he flies into the wall of
the academy, shattering it with his explosion and revealing the outside real world.
As the game ends, and after the credits play out and the audience leaves, Shuichi, Himiko
and Maki all emerge from the wreckage, somehow still alive, and Shuichi believes Keebo spared
them because this lie becomming truth is what the audience wanted to happen.
He also points out that even if they were fiction, Tsumugi mentioned they were all copies,
so its possible things like Hope's Peak, the remnants of despair, and Ultimates are actual
things in the outside world she based them off of.
Not sure what's truth or fiction, as it doesn't really matter anymore, they venture out into
the real world to see the results of their choice.
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has enjoyed the success of selling almost 400 thousand
copies worldwide.
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