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@divinatore
lepuretta:
“Don’t call me ‘dummy’, dummy! And if you just need cash, ask for it like a normal person! Don’t swindle people! And I’m not letting you ‘have’ Ryuji-kun! He’s one of my best friends and I’ll beat your ass if you try anything on him!”
“Wait, you’ll give me money?! Then I’d like a check for ¥50,000,000 please!”
lepuretta:
“If you want a burger, you ask for one! Not by scamming my friends! Ryuji-kun is a good guy and I’m not going to let you take advantage of him!”
“The burger’s a metaphor, ya’ dummy! I’m talkin’ about cash and how I never have enough of the stuff! Just make other friends and lemme have this guy!”
crossxskulled:
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Keep on keeping on. If there hadn’t been a bigger thing to relate too. Oddly it snagged at his funny bone as a sudden break of laughter, light in tone had escaped from him. Usually too many of his conversations couldn’t steer towards a topic he personally enjoyed. So while it may be a bit at this guy’s expanse, Ryuji planned to enjoy it to the utmost. Energy was carried in that smile shot towards Hagakure. “You can say that again!”
”Sides. Why the hell would ya go and point that out less you had a lil heart in ya somewhere? Miiiight have your hands full with Tokyo of all places though man.” A pointed stare was directed to the myriad of skyscrapers surrounding them.
“S’all I’ve seen here is just one pain in the ass after another now days. Like how subways were screwed over with accidents a lil while back.”
That was just the half of it. It was like to happen that someone or something fell apart all around him every single day. He was used to city life— sometimes he felt he was born for it —but Tokyo was a far cry different than Osaka. More than quadruple the amount of people and each one with their own brand of baggage. It was a mess, that’s for sure. Still, the kid in front of him seemed well adjusted enough. He definitely easy-going enough to maintain an atmosphere of levity all on his own. That alone made the smile on his face sincere.
“Y’telling me?.. I’ve been gettin’ lost left and right tryna’ find this one place and I gotta’ admit I’m all sorts of turned around!” A good-natured laugh punctuated his admission.
“Ryuji-kun! If that big haired man tries to sell you a fortune, don’t go for it! Okay?”
( @crossxskulled & @divinatore )
“ ‘Hina-cchi.. why—” He sighed into his hand. “Why are you tryin’ to ruin my livelihood? Can’t a man live? Can’t he have a burger every once in a while?”
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”The whole seein’ what can’t be seen stuff right?” Surprisingly he wasn’t unfamiliar on that front. Seldom as he’d ever truly to believe any extents of how deep it can run, a certain lady of Fortune did reside in Shinjuku’s borderline to shadier dealings and night life. The guy’s musing about his appearance caused a soft snort to escape from him. He’s not entirely sure on what to make of that, but rolling with the punches happens to be a talent he takes in stride. A small snort puffing from him in response.
“Then you must be the new saint of the streets in that case. A lotta people have it pretty shitty on these ends man.” Being a Phantom Thief gave him that upclose example.
“Guess you’re gonna be the new hero of the people?”
@divinatore
“Huh? A hero?..” Scarcely could he comprehend the motion of the gears turning in the other’s head. It was like one tangent jumping to the next and he found himself struggling to keep up with the rapid firing of ideas. The fortuneteller was not sure what to make of the claims, maybe it was just how the flow of conversation led itself. There was no sincerity, merely a joviality to keep the mood light; he was likely to make a fool of himself if he took it literal.
“I mean, I guess yeah. Not all heroes wear tights y’know? Some of us just wanna keep the day ta’ day goings to keep on keeping on.”
Not gonna lie, my dude. Gettin' a real ominous vibe offa' you. I'd seriously be on the look out from here on--- trouble's just around the corner for you.
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”Ya don’t say.”
Ryuji’s expression tapered away from the growing edge it would’ve had at being told such news. A warning was a warning but damn is that not the sort of thing you want to hear in the morning! Briefly scrunching his face, a heavy exhale puffed from his lips as he shook his head. “Sorry on that man. I just ain’t the biggest fan of potential mood killers.” Whether it was in the form of people or that curveball life loved to wind up now and then. Having such a vague idea was only going to make him keep an eye over his shoulder a lot more often.
“…Wait. How would you know anyways? Yer one of those guys who are real buddy buddy with the stars n’ all that?“
What a weird way to say that..
His idiosyncrasies aside, the fact that the boy took him with the utmost seriousness right off the cuff was a rare experience. Skepticism was par for the course in his line of work, so to say that he was startled by such an on the nose response was a bit of understatement. Not that he was ever one to really look a gifted horse in the mouth. If he adjusted his tone with all the particulars that attracted intrigue, he would doubtlessly have this kid in the palm of his hand within minutes.
“I — Hm, I guess that’s one way ta’ put it. It’s a bit of a secret, but foresight comes naturally to me and sometimes I can’t help myself. Watchin’ alright guys like you get hurt always spins me into a guilt-trip.”
To the peeps following me, I want to apologize for spamming your dashboard with these obnoxiously long reblogged rants about the ending but I’m really in a foul mood at the moment and I can’t shake it.
I’ll try to keep it off your dashboard from here on, but I can’t exactly make promises on that.
#DR3 Negativity oh boy.
I don’t care if you liked the sappy ending because I won’t fight you on it and ruin your fun. If you’re going through a rough time and that helped you feel better? Fantastic. I’m happy it’s helping you cope.
But look. Let’s not shit on people who don’t like it. That’s when I start to have problems.
“Not everything has to be dark and depressing all the time! Happy endings are good, too!”
Fair point. For any other series.
This is Danganronpa. A series about death and despair driving the world into an unstoppable apocalypse. It’s not supposed to be 100% a happy ending.
We’re not asking for a 100% death and depressing ending. Where asking for realism. Stop twisting things and acting like we’re a bunch of nihilists who just want everyone to be unhappy and depressed.
You can argue that DR1′s ending was happy–but bittersweet. Naegi & Co. defeated the mastermind + made it out alive–but 9 people died as a result, + we knew that they now had to go out into the real world and fight into the apocalypse.
You can argue that DR2′s ending was happy–but bittersweet. No one technically died + they defeated the mastermind–but 10 people were but into a coma and one character was revealed to have had irreversible brain out of the Program. Everyone was revealed to be terrorists who helped drive the world into destruction with Enoshima.
You can argue that DR:AE’s ending was happy–but bittersweet. Komaru, Fukawa and Togami are fine, none of the WoH actually die + they go on fighting to protect Towa City… but we see that Izuru takes the broken Kuma parts to create an AI Enoshima, and we know what’s going to come for DR2.
All of these endings were “happy” and I loved the shit out of these games.
Each ending was satisfying because we see the characters get some of the closure they deserve, but it had a lot of weight because you knew those characters had to live and cope with those consequences now.
Do you know what DR3 just did? Completely negated all of the consequences and weight of DR2.
Everyone wakes up from their coma? Everyone is fine? No one has any lasting effects, like brain damage or physical problems? No one has to suffer any consequences? Wowie! It’s almost like DR2 doesn’t matter anymore because I now know they’re going to be fine!
It was not a satisfying ending, it was pandering.
I didn’t not like it because it was happy ending. STOP acting like that’s our issue with it.
I didn’t like it because it didn’t fit anything in the story. It just sort of showed up. Everyone just rides into the sunset to live a happy life–
Except for Munakata because he apparently doesn’t deserve to be shown a happy ending.
TL;DR: Stop chopping all of our complaints up to “we don’t like happy endings.” We do. We just want it to fucking make sense.
Sorry to bother you, but I'm a little confused about the episode. Did we ever cleared up the question of the +1 in the building ? Was it really Kyoko at the end, because I thought the +1 was there since the beginning ?
No, it was not. DR3 just sort of forgot about the plot points like:
The extra participant
The 13th Division leader
Why Monaka was there in the first place
How Tengan set things up
His motivation in the first place, and why the one they gave us was so weak and stupid
How/when Kimura was able to develop an antidote to the wristband
What “Munakata and Naegi combining their hopes” meant, even though they never ended up having any effect on the finale or it’s climax, and Munakata just leaves to go off alone somewhere and not collaborate with Naegi to build a better future alongside literally everyone else.
But hey, why bother explaining any of that even though the entire anime has been building to it, when you can have 20 minutes of straight fan service that makes little to no sense?
Just some of my theories regarding these matters:
The extra participant was Hagakure. Assuming the ‘survivors left’ countdown at the beginning of each episode was referring to the characters who were shown in the opening, and not only in the Killing Game itself, then Hagakure is the only logical answer.
The 13th Division leader must not be important, since they never addressed it once. It was always kinda “why is Asahina there instead of her branch’s leader”. I don’t think they were ever important. Maybe they’ll pop up in Killer Killer or something.
Monaca wanted to observe Naegi, right? Maybe after getting to know Komaru in DRAE, she wanted to learn about her brother? This question was answered, but it was a little lazy.
Tengan set things up… probably just by asking around. He’s the head of the Future Foundation, so it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to assume he just looked at some documents.. He was probably studying the brainwashing video Junko created, and, like Komaeda, fell into a despair that was obsessed with creating hope by spreading despair?
Tengan’s motivation was to force Mitarai to use his hope-brainwashing video. He probably realized that Junko’s followers couldn’t be reasoned with, and Naegi probably told him that the Neo World Program failed. He probably thought Mitarai’s video was the last hope for humanity, but Mitarai was the only one who could initiate it.
Kimura had the antidote on her when the FKG began, and she probably keeps a variety of different medicines on her at all times given that she pulled Cure W and her beast mode pill things out of nowhere. As for why she had Cure W specifically… maybe Tengan used a poison that she had already been studying and creating an antidote for? This… also needs an explanation, but it’s not really necessary.
I feel like Munakata and Naegi combined their hopes after Kirigiri “died”, and the two had their big fight. When they spoke to each other, Naegi and Munakata seemed to understand each other, and neither really… acted the exact same as before then? I feel like they combined hopes by opening up to each other.
idfk I’m not saying it was a perfect ending either, especially from a story sense, but I definitely think some of the questions left open are just us fans over-thinking things.
Hagakure being the extra participant is probably right–but it’s stupid. Because he was never included in the game to begin with and they made it clear to us that he wasn’t involved in the game to begin with–he was specifically left outside the Game because “no one liked him.”
Yeah, the 13th Division leader must have not been important–which is why it’s annoying. They spend all of this time establishing that “Asahina was sent in place of the 13th Leader,” and how she wasn’t in the 14th Division despite every other 78 Class member being there. They were either meant to be important and it was forgotten, or it’s a red herring–both of which are horrible writing.
I know Tengan’s motivation–but as I said, it’s really weak and kind of contradictory [I wrote a whole post on it here.] Despite not wanting Mitarai to participate in the Game, he still invited him to the meeting in the first place. Even if he only had a 1% chance of showing up, it was still a chance.
Again, Monaka being there at all was another weak point that never amounted to anything.
No, she didn’t. Because when the Game began, Sakakura accidentally got Bandai killed and she couldn’t do anything. So somehow between the two scenes we see of her before she chases Ando for 2 episodes, she just magically makes something. Yes, it needs an explanation otherwise it’s OP garbage.
It sure would be nice to have an explanation or flashback of how Tengan set things up instead of just “lol I did all of this and you’re never going to get an explanation, make one up.”
There’s “open interpretation due to clues left in the narrative” and then there’s “forcing the audience to fill in the blanks for you because there are no clues.” When you have to rely on the latter, than it’s bad writing.
They did not combine hopes. “Combine hopes” would mean “to compromise/work together.”
The end confrontation with Munakata and Naegi just resulted in Naegi calming Munakata down. There was no “compromise” or “trying to understand each other’s viewpoints.”
Both of them were set up to be the end heroes, but in the end Munakata just relinquishes the spotlight to Naegi and goes off to do whatever (I don’t know because he wasn’t given his own cheesy epilogue like everyone else.)
DR3 Kibou Hen - ‘The Academy of Hope and Students of Despair’ Impressions
I’m sure everyone in the fandom has already had a day and a half full of discourse about this latest episode, and I will be beating a dead horse here. I was too busy yesterday being as drunk as a skunk to watch this final episode, and had deliberately read every spoiler under the sun, so I was prepared to watch the trainwreck of an ending without getting too mad. But, boy did it not disappoint in being an absolute trainwreck full of fan pandering, terrible writing and the casual death of all the themes and character arcs built up over 6 years of the DR series! I’m honestly impressed at how much of a sell-out this was, but fan pandering gets you paid, I suppose. Spoilers under the cut.
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What was the point of Munakata’s entire character arc & motivation again?
The part where his dream was to be headmaster of Hope’s Peak Academy so he could help change the world positively?
The last thing Munakata says to Naegi is: “You’re the hero now. Will you shoulder this burden?” Then when Naegi asks where he’s going, he says, “I have to shoulder my own burdens.”
You mean your dead friends? The ones who wanted to help you become Hope’s Peak’s headmaster more than than anything? Wouldn’t becoming Hope’s Peak’s headmaster be a perfect service to them?
Yes, totally! Munakata would have a bittersweet ending where he finally achieved his dreams–but at the cost and sacrifices of his two best friends in the entire world. It would serve as a motivator for him to continue restoring hope to the world, for their sakes. It would have been fitting, but sad.
But no, DR3 had to spit in Munakata’s face by giving Naegi the position. Naegi, who never expressed any interest in becoming Headmaster. I’m sure glad all the 74 Class’ blood, sweat, and tears to get Munakata to where he wanted to be meant literally nothing. Literally every single surviving character was shown to have a happy ending other than Munakata. I don’t care if you like him or not, that is such bullshit. Kirigiri’s alive, cool! Naegi doesn’t have to live with regret or consequences! But Munakata still has to because fuck that guy, right?
What’s that supposed to mean? He disagreed with Naegi and therefore is wrong and not entitled to have happiness? Because that’s what it sounds like.
I wouldn’t even care if both Naegi and Munakata got semi-happy endings–because that would imply both of them were equally important.
But the fact that they just cut Munakata out of the last scene entirely just tells me that Munakata was never meant to be important.
He was never meant to be his own character. He was just an object for Naegi to overcome, until he just sulks off defeated.
What happened to “combining their hopes” like Yukizome had said?
"It appears you were right about your predictions of a 'happy ending' coming to realization, Hagakure-kun."
“My predictions are always 30% accurate, ‘Giri-cchi! I wasn’t worried fer’ a second that I’d be wrong!”
I know you are more concerned about Juzo than anything else but I seriously didn't get this episode? Was tengan a SHSL Despair or not? He seriously did ALL that just so that Mitarai would brainwash the entire world with the hope video? It was such an underwhelming motive for something as awful as this happening...
Contrary to what people think, I actually disliked the whole episode as well and not just because of the way Sakakura was handled. I’m not that singular in my thinking, trust me.
This is probably going to be my one and only DR3 Negativity post because it’s usually really hard for me to get angry and something but fuck.
The entire explanation for why the Killing Game had to happen was so frustrating.
What if Mitarai fell asleep too close to the monitor, and therefore be the next suicide-victim?
What if Mitarai tried to use his talent and was killed by the poison?
What if someone killed Mitarai themselves?
I understand that Tengan never counted on Mitarai actually being at the meeting (which is another thing I don’t understand because… he was obviously invited with all the other Division heads? Why would you even be surprised that he showed up? He should have never invited him in the first place to account for the small possibility he would show up and make his plan x10 more complicated.)
Also, if Tengan was the one that set the Game up… why would he give Mitarai that stupid NG Code in the first place? It made him physically unable to use his talent even if he wanted to.
The only conclusion that I can come to is that Tengan was SHSL Despair, which is why he had to make this needlessly complicated and stupid… but Naegi completely throws that theory out the window by saying that he wasn’t Despair at all.
So he did all of this… why?
Alright, hear me out DR3 writers, I feel like I have a scenario that would have worked infinitely better and would be much less frustrating to believe:
1. Game starts.
2. Tengan gives Mitarai an NG that doesn’t keep him from doing the one thing he wanted him to do in the first place (use his brainwashing video.)
3. Something that would be next-to-impossible to break to ensure that Mitarai didn’t accidentally die.
[[ There was a fake ‘NG Code generator’ that Kodaka linked on his Twitter once and one of the results was “no NG Code.”
This would be perfect. It’d ensure that Mitarai was safe and that Tengan was ultimately protecting him once the reveal drops—but it would also give Mitarai a reason to be paranoid to show it to others because, by not having a Code, he is immediately seen as suspicious. ]]
4. Tengan spends time dropping hints to Mitarai to try and get him to use his video.
5. Tengan vs. Munakata happens and Tengan still dies.
6. After learning about Tengan’s death, Mitarai starts to seriously think about using his video, and Kirigiri’s death serves as a turning point.
Maybe this isn’t much better but I feel like things would be much less forced and improbable if it followed a pattern more like this.
Mitarai would be actively able to do things, and not just get character development sprung on him twelve episodes of how the entire game where 11 people die horrible, slow, or painful deaths served as a catalyst for Mitarai to gain self-confidence.
I’m sorry, but no.
Because this is Danganronpa and I know a lot of characters I like are going to die, I was fine with everyone’s deaths.
But now I just feel cheated and angry because the end motive was so contrived.
Man, oh man..
@emxnence
Physical assimilation was never meant to be Celestia’s strongest suit. Her petite frame struggling against the clairvoyant’s tighten grip as he continued his run against the riled mob. Crimson heels clashed heavily against the cement, a pattern undoubtedly ensured despite the fact that she had long since been out of breathe. Her lungs was practically begging for air, and yet given her own peculiar attire—-she was truly not ready for a jog, much less a run. Her stamina, she will shamefully admit, is atrocious ( it was pretty much hard to believe she even lasted this long ). After what seems to be like forever, the moment his grip had finally loosen—-she made her own escape. Removing her hand completely from his , her movements was immediately halted in place. Shallow breathes followed her conclusion, hand now learning against her legs.
One of them is going to die, and if this exercise doesn’t kill her—it will just have to be him. Unable to respond to his initial question, much less properly convey her still pending wrath; her crimson hues merely narrowed upon sight. Not only did he had the audacity to involve her in whatever it was that had gotten him into trouble, but the fact that he had shamefully gotten the both of them LOST—oh yes, she was going to kill him. His death will undoubtedly all of their problems. Placing her hand above her now throbbing temple, she was able to compose herself just temporarily. She was tired, she was exhausted, she was dehydrated, and frankly she just wanted to go home.
“I was much more occupied with being on the run from a MOB I could hardly care less about. Rather then keeping tabs on where YOU were going. So either you FIGURE it out yourself, or you FIX this right this second.” She was being completely irrational, but in her defense this entire situation was unreasonable. “What did you even do to get on the hit list?”
Unreasonable. The very basis of her question posed appeared unfathomable to him. There was no way she could well expect a direct answer out of anyone in that sort of sordid predicament, least of all him. To respond with truth, to not meander and veer away from the facts, to not cover up his faults with tricks and half-truths would open up a floodgate of all the wrongdoings in his brief lifetime. One explanation would require another explanation and then another to elaborate upon that explanation; the truth necessitated subsequent stories and confessions to even begin to justify himself. His life up until now seemed much like a barbed chain of events, all connected by poor decisions and selfishness and she candidly asked of him to reveal it all. It was unthinkable to even consider and in all honestly, the thought of revealing any exposition on his background had been dismissed before she even asked. There were things in this world you could and could not trust to other people. Someone as gullible and trusting as him understood this to a certain extent.
“Uh, well..” His voice caught in his throat. Breath had not yet swelled properly in his lungs, even after what seemed like eternity of heavy panting to catch his breath. The adrenaline comprised entirely of fear had dissipated and all that was left was a sharp soreness that would undoubtedly persist for weeks. God, he was not at all in the mindset to be asked about his personal demons. Between the ever growing desire to rip his legs off to be done away with the pain and the discomfort for a situation that demanded an explanation only he could provide, it really seemed best for him to simply disappear and come back when things were less stressful. He needed to steer this conversation away from where it was headed and evade any persistent curiosity she may well have about him for the time being.
“---wait, is that a town over there?”
There in fact had been a town in the distance, one that he barely realized how close they were to outside of his peripheral. Considering they had just been in the city in what seemed like moments ago, he had to fight with himself to contain the utter disbelief at just how far he had managed to take them. They had have been miles away, maybe even hundreds of miles and the fortune-teller being able to run as far as that under threat of his life would not be considered anything short of a miracle.
A tiny smile snuck its way onto his face. He had discovered a sufficient excuse to rid of this conversation and beeline himself into another one completely; yet another skill in his repertoire that he was rather proud to have practiced as much as he did. While a person of great mysticism and fascination, the fortune teller found growing up that the interest people invested in him only cared to scratch the surface and quickly turned away without daring to look deeper. It was this trait of his that he found easily to manipulate and use to his gain; with one sweeping statement, he could turn the topic of a conversation so that he was no longer a focus, whether it be a grandiose anecdote of his exploits or a moment of feigned stupidity. He could count on people to trust in him as an idiot, for good and bad.
Inside the Shop:
❝Y'know, a special service that I like ta’ run in m’ shop is helpin’ customers who need it wit’ any people, pets, or objects that they can’t seem ta’ find by normal means. It’s pretty much jus’ me standin’ in front of a pretty sizeable map o’ the local area face down on a table and me dumping a bucket o’ water on myself until I get nice and soaked from head ta’ toe*. That’s when I start ta’ work m’ magic: I begin ta’ employ m’ special ‘water-drip channeling’ technique where the divine guide m’ little water droplets onta’ the map. The droplets are pretty special here because where they end up fallin’ on the map is where what yer’ lookin’ for is definitely gonna be without a doubt. You’ve got my guarantee on that.** Honestly, it’s annoying havin’ ta’ deal with th’ wet clothes, but the smiles I see when customers come back sayin’ they found their stuff is pretty worth it in my book. Let’s not bring up all the customers that weren’t so happy though, okay?❞
*The price for this service includes the cost of water used and the cleaning bill for clothes made wet in addition to the standard divination hourly fee.
**Your item/person/pet being found is not guaranteed and any insinuation of such a thing is done with express purpose of mysticism and entertainment.
