One thing I do like about Danganronpa is the very limited cast of characters per game.
like there are only like 16 characters per main game (and UDG is even smaller but that's got it's own things going on) and because of that you have to choose from a fanfic/world building perspective how you want to handle that which imo makes you more attached to characters you might not have cared about as much in a larger cast
like would I like Hifumi or Hagakure in any other piece of media? not very likely but them being in such a small cast means i pay more attention to them even though they're not really characters I'd pay much attention to otherwise. So they go from characters I'd honestly not care about to characters i keep circling back to and honestly at this point find really neat.
also because of the small cast in combination with knowing their pasts are missing leads to being able to come up with at least some kind of reason for just about any combo of characters being close (either platonically or romantically) in my opinion
I know that's not a common opinion though
just from what I've seen around because some people again are kind of weird about shipping in a way that I have a very hard time understanding and they need like 5 pages of evidence or the character looking their respective Main Character in the eyes and going "I like x. Do you hear me?? I. LIKE. THEM." for it to be considered enough reason to ship them.
Heck sometimes that's not even good enough.
You can always find a way to make it work with enough effort and creativity in my opinion.
obv I'm very THH heavy right now but just in that alone you have like three built in scenarios that can each bring very different dynamics and cause different relationships to form.
Pre-Killing Game (before the Tragedy even happened when everyone's just enjoying their school lives)
Killing Game (it's-it's the killing game like both in canon scenarios and canon divergent scenarios. High stakes High tension. I know alot of people say that they don't think anything makes sense in this scenario for anything to really form but I don't agree.)
Post Killing Game (both in the canon six survivors way and the Alternate survivors way)
That's not even going into the canon divergent universe's like
Locked in the School Arc (technically this doesn't last long at all but it's a very easy AU and could easily cause different dynamics if it had worked because of the different mindset that would come from an end of the world scenario and forced proximity like that)
Makoto's Bad Ending verse ("It's not canon" do I look like I care? I really really don't it's a fascinating ending and I think it could be neat give me the Aoi centric Polyam AU)
Virtual Reality AU (where it's like DR2 and it turned out it was a weird therapy experiment set up by Hope's Peak. A bit of a weird category since it becomes a question of "is it Canon Divergence if it changed so early on even though the character's didn't know that until it was all over and otherwise everything happened the same way?" but it's fun because you get to keep all the canon actions taken by the characters and build on them including the murders.
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