English V3 Release Date Revealed
The V3 release date was announced today in the NIS America Press Event:
RELEASE DATE: 26th September 2017
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English V3 Release Date Revealed
The V3 release date was announced today in the NIS America Press Event:
RELEASE DATE: 26th September 2017
V3 Merch arrived at the NIS America Store
Links: Danganronpa V3 8-Bit T-Shirt $21.99 Danganronpa V3 - Killing Lapel Pin Set $29.99 Danganronpa V3 - Harmony Lapel Pin Set $29.99 Danganronpa V3 Giclee “Keeping Secrets” $299.99
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 19
Suzuki already finished the character introductions for the students, but this wouldn’t be complete without Monokuma and the Monokumerz, would it?
Saishuu Academy Headmaster: Monokuma (seiyuu: TARAKO)
Our old friend Monokuma, who has an inseparable connection to DanganRonpa series. As the only character who will always be part of the series no matter where it goes, headmaster Monokuma is as overbearing as ever. “DanganRonpa and Monokuma can’t exist without each other”. You know all know that part already. (Note: the japanese word for “overbearing” contain no bear puns at all. This was just a lucky coincidence)
As you already from DR:The Stage and DR3, TARAKO is the second Monokuma and now is her first time in a game.
Monokuma’s children: Monokumerz (seiyuu: Kouichi Yamadera)
Our new characters, the Monoumerz, are 5 cute siblings who refer to Monokuma as their father: Monotarou, Monofunny, Monokid, Monosuke and Monodam.
Monotarou is kind of a leader among them, but he also has a cute clumsy side.
Monofunny is the only girl of the group. She has a cute “afraid of gore” side, which leads her to do stuff like suggesting the Mutual Killing should be settled in a Rock-Paper-Scissors tournament.
Monokid is the lawless Monokumer with a violent temper and foul mouth. However, he has a cute playfulness that makes him hard to hate.
Monosuke is the only character who speaks in a Kansai dialect. Being the calmest among the five, he has the role of providing lots of cute snark to their dynamic.
Monodam is a silent character. Being the only one with a robot body makes him cute in a unique.
You probably got that already, but Suzuki finds every Monokumer cute.
They are all voiced by Kouichi Yamadera, as Yamadera is the first person it comes to mind when you think of “the same person voicing multiple characters at the same time”. No one has as much “multiple characters” experience as him and no one has that same high quality in making themselves sound like completely different people. He took the individual quirks of each Monokumer and made all of them unique.
Kumata then comes in with a last-minute announcement from the marketing team. There will be a V3 event on Karaoke Pasela.
The special karaoke will be open on the Pasela Resorts stores on Akiba Multientertainment, West Ikebukuro, Shibuya, Yokahama’s Hamahall Ice and Oosaka’s Tennouji Bali Tower, from January 19th to February 18th. They are not revealing which songs will be available yet.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 18
Suzuki, the Super Adult Level Rookie, is back to life. In a typical Japanese manner, the very first thing he does is apologize for all the worries he caused because of his sickness. Today he is introducing the 4 Super High School Level students we have left.
Super High School Level Tennis Player: Ryouma Hoshi (seiyuu: Akio Ootsuka)
Hoshi is a hard-boiled dandy character. He has such a heavy history that the fact is still only a young boy becomes irrelevant. He is the most calm/composed character in the game. The thing he always has in his mouth is candy. I mean, you all can see that there’s no smoke coming out from it, right?.
Hoshi’s voice is the main force showing his hard-boiledness, so they chose Akio Ootsuka. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Hoshi’s success as a character was thanks to Ootsuka’s voice acting. Ootsuka liked Hoshi’s character so much that he would be wearing Hoshi’s trademark outstandingly cute horned woollen hat for his next official appearances in events.
Super High School Level Astronaut: Kaito Momota (seiyuu: Ryouhei Kimura)
Momota is like a reliable older brother. Thanks to his a lit bit clichéd hot-blooded spirit and to his document falsification, he was the first person to ever pass the Astronaut Exam before the age of 20. Because of that, the first impression he gives is something like “Is this guy really a high schooler?”. Momota is smart enough to pass the Astronaut Exam, so one of the more promising points of the game is showing how he will use this characteristic power of him.
The choice of Ryouhei Kimura as his voice actor was completely centered around Momota’s image as a reliable older brother. Ryouhei Kimura was the who most surprised Suzuki because he was the only one who asked for the script to be sent digitally to his tablet, instead of getting a printed script like everyone else. Apparently, the reason for that is because Kimura tends to “get addicted to his characters”, so the tablet makes it more convinient for him to keep reading his script 24/7.
Super High School Level Magician: Himiko Yumeno (seiyuu: Aimi Tanaka)
Yumeno is a very “small” girl. So “small” that she thinks the talent is actually Super High School Level Spellcaster. Her real talent are magic tricks good enough to earn the title of Magician of the Year. An award truly fitting of Super High School Level. Yumeno is by far the laziest girl of the game. This and her other character quirks combined give Yumeno a very unique cuteness when compared to the other characters.
Yumeno’s seiyuu is Aima Tanaka, nominated to the 2016′s “Best Female Debut-year Seiyuu” award. Yumeno’s very outdated way of speaking is one of the points that contribute to her aftermentioned cuteness.
(Note: I still haven’t read any translations to Yumeno’s introduction scene, so I can’t tell if it’s noticeable from that, but Yumeno speaks like a generic RPG wise old man mage, except female)
Super High School Level Artist: Angie Yonaga (seiyuu: Minori Suzuki)
Yonaga is a character that stands out. Suzuki consider that she is quirkiest character in the DanganRonpa series, a series where basically everyone is quirky. Her habit of making up her own words shows a little bit of the artistic side you would expect from the Super High School Level artist, but even put that aside, she has a lot of weird in her. Suzuki calls her “Strange-chan”.
Her seiyuu is Minori Suzuki, the newcomer that, like a shooting star, appeared out of nowhere in 2016 and suddenly everyone is wishing for her. The Super High School Level Rookie Suzuki says that fans should look forward to his fellow rookie Suzuki makes Yonaga feel like the super unique Strange-chan she is.
Now the character introductions are over. That was fun.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 16
Yes, you read that title right, we had a double post today. The first one was the 4th character introduction post and the second was the 2nd post about the DanganGravity Livestream. Today we are here with Kumata because the Super Adult Level Rookie, Suzuki, is sick.
Kumata opens up with a reminder that the Gamer Idol Mirin-chan (Mirin Furukawa) will be livestreaming the demo today. By the time I’m writing this post, the stream is already over though. Well, at least the DanganGravity is still something to look forward to. Back on topic, today’s characters are the Love Live trio: Tenko Chabashira, Kirumi Toujou and Maki Harukawa.
Super High School Level Aikido Fighter: Tenko Chabashira (seiyuu: Sora Tokui)
Chabashira is, generally speaking, an energetic girl that wears her heart on her sleeve. She is a huge man-hater, to point where she always refer to men as 男死 (my translations adapt that pun by making her almost always add an insulting adjective to the word “man”) and whenever a man start talking to her, she makes a facial expression that tells them to die. Kumata actually refers to her as an extremist character. Despite that remark, Kumata finds her a very refresing character because Genki Girl is a character trope they’ve seen a lot before, but a genki girl that discriminates men from women is very rare.
Her seiyuu is Sora Tokui, adding another genki girl to her list. One with a large amount of weird faces for a female character this time around. Kumata really how Tokui’s voice acting made the scenes more fired up with her violent outburts.
Trivia: Kumata talked to both Ishida (Miu Iruma) and Tokui (Chabashira) during recordings and both commented the same thing: they both think Kodaka likes to make the makes the cutest characters suffer.
Super High School Level Maid: Kirumi Toujou (seiyuu: Kikuko Inoue)
A girl who is intellectual and athletic and good at housework and… basically everything. Even inside the Saishuu Academy, her presence is a priceless convinience.
Direct quote: “But… her main principle being “duty before self” and efficiency being the level where she was selected to be a bodyguard for a head of state… that’s the over-the-topness typical from DanganRonpa characters”
Her seiyuu is “the eternally 17 years old Kikuko Inoue”. Kumata says that Inoue’s mellow, calm voice is a must-listen.
Kumata also reads a random fan comment in middle of this: “I was expect a fluffy girl for a maid, but instead the maid is a perfect superhuman, so I can’t keep my guard down”.
Super High School Level Childcare Worker: Maki Harukawa (seiyuu: Maaya Sakamoto)
The first girl whose face we learned. The one that appeared in the very first V3 image with her hands covering her mouth in a seemingly meaningful manner. Even though her talent is SHSL Childcare Worker, her strongest character traits are not particularly liking children and being anti-social and unfriendly. Kumata is excited to see if is she is just a huge tsundere, if she actually does in fact hate people by nature or if she will die before we can figure out.
Her seiyuu is Maaya Sakamoto, who already has experience play almost everything. As you could feel from the demo, Sakamoto is doing a sweet voice performed in a cold tone. The developers consider it the most perfect Harukawa voice they could ever imagine. Kumata enjoyed her as a central character with a large role in the story.
That’s all for today. Pray for Suzuki to be able to recover from his sickness before the New Year.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 15
The Super Adult Level Rookie Suzuki greets once again and asks us how how did we like the demo. Today we continue with the character introductions. Suzuki’s imaginary reader says “No probs, I already met the characters by playing the demo, so no need to introduce them”, but Suzuki is having none of that. Today we are having Saihara, Shirogane and Shinguuji (two of my Free Time characters on the same post. Hell yeah!)
Super High School Level Detective: Shuuichi Saihara (seiyuu: Megumi Hayashibara)
Saihara is a boy who stands out among the cast for his submissiveness and for his good sense. Complementing his submissiveness, he actually believes he doesn’t deserve his Super High School Level title. He is indeed abnormally timid when it comes to speaking, but when it comes to acting and deducting he is wonderful enough to deserve being Super High School Level Detective (even if he thinks otherwise).
Suzuki then tries to sound as confused as possible as to why would they choose Megumi Hayashibara for his role. It’s very unusual to offer a male character to Hayashibara. Rare to the point Suzuki can’t remember whether or not she ever played a male character before. However, despite not having experience with male, Hayashibara does have a deep and vast experience connected to detective characters (I think he is talking about Detective Conan, but I don’t know her character there, so I could be wrong), which why they just had to choose her for a Super High School Level Detective. Hayashibara actually helped the team on making Saihara more detective-like.
Super High School Level Cosplayer: Tsumugi Shirogane (seiyuu: Mikako Komatsu)
Shirogane is a plain-looking otaku. Well versed in anime, manga, etc. You can find quite a few anime/manga references spread throughout her dialogue. After saying that Suzuki suddenly start challenging the reader.
“I got a nice amount of Shirogane’s references, but what about you? Can you get all the reference? Can you really say can stand in the same level as Shirogane?”
As a cosplayer, she is skilled and popular enough to earn her sponsors.
“Komatsu Mikako was choosing as her seiyuu, contrasting with Shirogane’s plain looking appearance. Komatsu-san’s clean voice quality is one of the few things that stand out in the otherwise plain-looking Shirogane […]”
Comun’s personal opinion time: Yeah, I have no idea what Suzuki is talking about here. I found Shirogane’s voice to be nothing special. Maybe it’s I’m used to Komatsu’s voice because of her role as Kotori in Yugioh Zexal? That said, you probably already know Shirogane is one of my favs, so I take this role as Komatsu’s redemption from the great sin that was Kotori Mizuki.
Super High School Level Cultural Anthropologist: Korekiyo Shinguuji (seiyuu: Ken’ichi Suzumura)
Korekiyo Shinguuji, the cultural anthropologist, is a boy that doesn’t really fit in the definition of normal. He is way too calm for a boy his age, and he has the experience of having met to a huge variety of human beings for his cultural anthropology research, which lead him to the conclusion that “Humanity has an unlimited beauty”. Because of that, he can keep himself composed even under the confinement circumstances and focus on rationally observing his fellow students. Suzuki feels like Shinguuji is a very unique character (I’m assuming he never read or watched Durarara).
His seiyuu is Ken’ichi Suzumura, who has a very experience voicing characters with all sorts of personalities. Suzuki thinks that Suzumura observed as many different characters as Shinguuji observed different people and that’s precisely why Suzumura can nail Shinguuji’s personal intonation and way of speaking so perfectly.
I’ll take this opportunity to link my Shinguuji introduction translation here. I wish I had already done the Shirogane one to add to this post as well.
That’s all for today. Suzuki says goodbye, says there will be more characters tomorrow, asks you recommend the demo to your friends that haven’t played it yet and says that if you’re sad because you couldn’t preorder the limited edition, you should try looking for store close to you, because even though online preorders are sold out, physical store preorders are still available on lots of places. Not that many readers of this translation can do that though.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 14
Today we continue our character introductions with our dear Super Adult Level Rookie HiroTO Suzuki. He seems pretty hyped for this one. In Suzuki’s own words “today we will introduce 3 people………..2 people and 1 machine: Kokichi Ouma, Ki-bo and Gonta Gokuhara”. Bad robot discrimination, Suzuki. Shame on you.
Super High School Level Supreme Leader: Kokichi Ouma (seiyuu: Hiro Shimono)
Summed up in one word: liar. Not much in the sense he wants to throw everyone into confusion or that just spouts the first random bullshit that comes to his mind, it’s that he feels freedom to do whatever he wants whenever he wants. Judging from Ouma’s age and personality, Suzuki seems pretty convinced that his Supreme Leader talent is a lie, but he has an innocence that makes him hard to hate.
For his voice, they chose Hiro Shimono, a seiyuu that usually gets to play popular characters with lots of fangirls. Suzuki believes Shimono’s voice acting will put Ouma in the same enviable position as his other characters.
Super High School Level Robot: Ki-bo (seiyuu: Tetsuya Kakihara)
“His very existance is already Super High School Level. Imagine it. If Ki-bo were studying in your class, wouldn’t that be Super High School Level?”
Not really, Suzuki. I’m rather unimpressed by a SHSL who won his title by default. But this post is not supposed to be about my opinions, so moving on.
Ki-bo is described as that typical overly serious/dedicated kid who is easy to bully. His main personality quirks is getting heated up against robot discramination and not being able to read between the lines or understand sarcasm.
His seiyuu is Tetsuya Kakihara, a VA with a vast experience with types of characters, from the most hot blooded to the most comical. Suzuki thinks Kakihara really nailed the part of sounding robotic. He also comments that the casting joke here is that Tetsuya Kakihara most famous role is a robot pilot, but now he is finally the robot itself.
Super High School Level Entomologist: Gonta Gokuhara (seiyuu: Shunsuke Takeuchi)
A kind-hearted boy who aims to be a gentleman. His backstory of getting lost in the forest and being raised by wolves would put Tar-chan to shame. Gonta is normally gentle and acts gentlemanly torwards everyone, but when the subject becomes insects, he… (Suzuki chose not finish this sentence because the Assistant Producer Saitou is afraid of bugs, and by consequence, afraid of Gonta).
His seiyuu is the newcomer (as a seiyuu) Shunsuke Takeuchi, who gives a low tone voice not fitting his age. There’s kind of a minor casting there because Gonta is the youngest male character in the game. Suzuki really liked talking to Takeuchi during the game’s development because Suzuki dreams of becoming a game producer and Takeuchi were already a producer before he became a seiyuu, so he is kind of a role model.
To finish it off, Suzuki reminds us that the demo is already out, so play it meet the characters he just introduced here.
Just so you all know, I won’t be reblogging demo translations out of respect for those who do not want to be spoiled on actual gameplay outside of official news releases and things of that sort.
NDRV3 Like and Dislike List
In regards to helping with Yaz’s Demo Stream
It’s in the format of “Like, Dislike” respectively to avoid confusion.
Kaede: Piano, Bicycle Kirumi: Cleaning, Resting Himiko: Narrow Spaces, Sea Maki: Lake Shores in the Morning, Lake Shores at Winter Tenko: Nunchucks, Filthy Men Tsumugi: Lion Board/Foam Boards (Cosplay), People interrupting commission queue Angie: Avocado, Humidity Miu: Programs for Infants, Leeway/Time (?)
Shuichi: Novels, Gossip MomotaWho: decorative plants, occult Ryouma: Russia Blue Cat, whitetip reef shark Rantarou: extraterritoriality, Automobiles Gonta: Anthropod, Banana Kokichi: Fizzy Drinks, Pig’s Feet Korekiyo: Straw Rope, Air Conditioning Kiibo: 100-240 Volts (AC Adapters), Vending Machines
Danganronpa V3 Opening
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 13
Suzuki, our dear Super Adult Level Rookie promises to reveal the answers to the question he made on Day 8. Not that anyone cares. However, this week and the next will have the things we do care about: character introductions! Suzuki will try to be as concise as possible because he is afraid of going into spoiler territory if he talks too much though. Of course, this blog being this blog, he can include some development secrets that won’t go anywhere else.
That said, time for the character introductions, part 1: Kaede Akamatsu, Rantarou Amami and Miu Iruma.
Super High School Level Pianist: Kaede Akamatsu (seiyuu: Sayaka Kanda)
Our protagonist. She is a really hard-working girl who pulls everyone together very positively. It’s not an exaggeration to say that V3′s story can only make progress because she is there.
Being a pianoholic, she tends to include music talk into her conversations, but everyone has a friend like that, right?
She is voiced by Sayaka Kanda, whom everyone already knows for playing Junko Enoshima in DanganRonpa THE STAGE. Suzuki seems to love Kanda and her Junko as much as me and Jess do.
Super High School Level ???: Rantarou Amami (seiyuu: Hikaru Midorikawa)
As always, we have a character filling the SHSL ??? position.
Look forward to seeing what talent he has when he reveals it.
As a character, he gives a mysterious impression, fitting of his ??? talent.
His appearance and speech patterns are bit gaudy, but on other hand, he is gives off a really calm and composed vibe and is quite the reliable person.
Hikaru Midorikawa was chosen for his role because they believe he can make a good job highlighting Amami’s misteriousness and his characteristic “calm and composed”ness, quickly establishing Amami as a cool character. Suzuki thinks the final result as a charming character who will earn a lot of fangirls.
Super High School Level Inventor: Miu Iruma (seiyuu: Haruka Ishida)
This girl is certainly unique. People say there is a fine line between genius and insanity and Suzuki believes his team did a great job showing that.
Every time she opens her mouth is a festival of coarse language, dirty jokes and strongly putting pressure on others, but whenever she is replied to, is strucken and immediately shows her weak side. She has the charm of an innocent child.
She is voice by Haruka Ishida, who played Chihiro Fujisaki on DanganRonpa THE STAGE. She was chosen because Iruma will have as big of a character development as Fujisaki. Kodaka himself praised Ishida a lot for being able to perform some of Iruma’s numerous “most unimaginable lines”, while also commenting that “Ignorance is truly scary”. Ishida’s manager laughed way too much during the recording.
That’s all for today. Look forward to tomorrow’s characters.
And now, to answer Day 8′s question: Although everyone always misreads his first as Hiroshi, Suzuki’s name is actually Hiroto Suzuki (guess who will have to retag this entire thing?). Then he spends the next 4 lines telling everyone to never misspell his name again if you don’t to get executed and then says goodbye.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 12
The Super Adult Level Rookie, Suzuki, has some great news for you collection aficionados.
Uchida from the promotion is here to talk about today subject: the New MonoMono Machine opened.
The New MonoMono Machine has 100+ DanganRonpa character digital itens, like wallpapers or pics you can use as your icon/header on your social networks. The vast majority of it are V3 characters, but there also a few from the rest of the series here and there. The content from the MonoMono Machine that used to be in the official DR2 site is still here but it’s much, much, MUCH rarer (you know, when you say 100+ contents and you still have that, that’s cheating).
You get 3 coins per day to roll in the machine, but you can get an extra coin by sharing it on Facebook, another one for Twitter, etc. There are also bonus itens you can get by reaching checkpoints in your completion percentage and itens that are only there for a limited period of time. Speaking of your completion percentage, you can synchronize your PC and your smartphone to help with that.
The 100% completion prize is getting the New DanganRonpa V3 Main Theme Song.
Uchida then ends the blog saying that is the last entry the marketing staff. From now on, all marketing news will stay on Twitter only and this blog will be taken over by the development staff.
I little bit unrelated to the blog, but @coolbirds ripped all the Monokuma sprites from the MonoMono Machine tutorial to this album. From this particular one, we can guess that Genocider Shou is the mastermind.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 11
Super Adult Level Suzuki is back and comments that we’re already half way through December. December used to be written by combining the kanjis for “master + run”, which is very fitting because his so-to-speak masters, Terasawa and Saitou are very busy and running around like crazy. Of course, so is Suzuki, so maybe the month should be written with “master and disciple + run” instead. And why is everyone so busy? Because that are a lot of events coming up soon. Today’s entry is about future DanganRonpa event.
Kumata, our already acquaintanced bear planter from the licensing team, takes over and says the original plan was talking daily about each of them, but there are too many, so they’ll have to do all in one go to save time.
DanganRonpa in NamjaTown 2016-17
December 2nd 2016 - February 16th 2017
You all now this one already. Currently the main theme is DR3 but the V3 foods and goods will take over 1 day after the game is released.
Monokuma and Monomi are scheduled to show up there is weekend and on the January 21/22 weekend, so visitor have a chance to take a photo with them.
Namjatown also has that “Who will survive?” voting poll that Jess already showed everyone.
NicoNico Gamestate Channel - Advertisement Stream
The idol Mirin Furukawa (known as “the dancing and singing Gamer Idol, mirin-chan), will live stream herself playing the demo on the 22th at 9PM (Japanese timezone) on the linked channel. That is two days after the demo is released, so I will have already be played it by this point. The producer Yoshinori Terasawa and the Director Shun Sasaki will comment there.
DanganGRAVITY Livestream
We already talked about this one. DR people saying “Hey, Gravity Daze is great, play it!”, GD people saying “Hey, DanganRonpa is great, play it!”, Christmas Day, etc. You know the drill.
Comic Market 91: Kibougamine Academy Store
The Kibougamine Store will open its stand on thisy year’s Comic Market 91. The event will be from December 29 to 31, from 10:00 to 17:00 (it closes at 16:00 on the last day though). It will take place on Tokyo Big Site and their stand will be the number 4212 in the west section.
The team is getting some new merch ready for this event, like this ones…
… and the DR3 Staff Book. More details next week.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 10
The Super Adult Level Rookie, Suzuki, start the blog today happily celebreating because everyone was watching the PlayStationAwards2016 yesterday and V3 was nomitated for the 2017 one. However, we still have a long way before the Awards voting open, so he is considering killing some time by executing his readers.
Uchida, the person in charge of Promotion Team, introduces themselves and talks about how they have the boring job of spending nights without sleep trying to figure out to spread the best advertising possible within DanganRonpa’s very limited promotion budget.
The topic of today’s blog is the DanganGRAVITY Livestream.
V3 is being released on January 12 and Gravity Daze 2 one week later, on the 19th. Due to close release dates and both production teams loving each other’s games, they decided show off their games together in a livestream where they will make the idol Haruka Ishida (who voices Miu Iruma in V3) play both of them.
The stream will be held at Christmas Day 9PM (Japanese timezone). This is the YouTube link. Aside from Haruka Ishida, who will be playing the game, other commenters will be: Keiichiro Toyama (GD director), Makoto Isomine (GD producer), Yasuhiro Kitao (leader of the GD promotion team), Yoshinori Terasawa (DR producer), Kazutaka Kodaka (DR writer) and Shun Sasaki (DR director).
The V3 is out on the 20th, but Uchida tells us to watch the livestream anyway for secret content not present in the demo, the two teams talking and commenting on each others games. They promise it will make your Christmas great.
They you will also showcase your fanart in the livestream with tweet it with the hashtag “ #ダンガンGRAVITY”. They show some fanart with DRV3 characters and some with DG2 characters, but they will give priority to fanart art that has both series in the same picture. Please contribute.
That’s all for today. Bye, Uchida.
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 9
Super Adult Level Rookie Suzuki is back to work, checking what is the Japanese limited edition box. Then he passes the word to the one responsible for creating most of the DR merch, Kumata from the licensing team. People who go to the Kibougamine Store a lot might know them because they are usually was there.
I would like to point that Kumata’s name basically means “a field where you grow bears” and no one points that out nor makes a pun about. What a wasted potential.
In normal games, he one in charge of decided what goes into the limited edition is not from the licensing team, but Kumata really wanted to do this, so Spike let them. Kumata spends 4 lines sucking up to Producer Terasawa for allowing this opportunity, then they add that it’s great to work with the market and they hope to get invited to their post-release celebratory pizza.
Cutting to chase, Kumata will show everything, even though most of it was already shown in the DanganRonpa Twitter.
OVA “DanganRonpa 2,5: Nagito Komaeda and the World Ender”
Kumata comments that Side:Hope’s ending was bad unexpected, specially with how many mistery where left to solve, like how the dead 77s woke up. This anime will be a little bit about that misteries. In order to avoid spoilers, Kumata is not talking about why the number is 2.5 or why Maizono, the Warriors of Hope, etc. are there. Their opinion about the story it gives a feeling of “what did I just watch?” on the first watch, but it gets better on rewatch.
New Monokuma Strap
They are exactly like the old Monokuma straps, except they can say 3 different lines, all voice by TARAKO herself. Kumata has been growing bears for 6 years now, so they kinda grew to like Monokuma’s beautiful figure a little. Just a little.
New DanganRonpa V3 Saishuu Academy Profile Book
I was expecting this pic to finally be on a readable size, but of course not. THe book contains profiles for all 16 students, Monokuma and his children. They all have height, weight, bust, blood type, personal pronouns and comments about how their outfits were designed. The book is the size of a regular notebook, so it’s to carry it around.
DanganRonpa Calendar 2017
2017 calendars with 1, 2, AE, 3 Future, 3 Despair and V3 illustrations. No /Zero. The calendar contains the character’s birthdays so you don’t the chance for the celebratory tweets. Kumata gives us this piece of trivia: If you have 23 people with different birthdays, the chance of at least of them sharing a birthday with a character is over 50%. Then Kumata starts randomly praising Producer Terasawa for having redrawn some of the pixel art for this.
Soundtrack & Cast Comment CD
A CD with about 15 minutes of voice comment and 65 minutes of 10 precious track by our genius composer Masafumi Takada. Commenters are Akio Ootsuka (Hoshi), Kikuko Inoue (Toujou) and Maaya Sakamoto (Harukawa) and the CD comes with a transcript. They where recorded immediately after the voice recordings ended.
Kumata states that the Takada’s soundtrack, as per the “New” in the title, will give a new outlook on life. The limited edition soundtrack also has 2 really cool compositions not present in the regular soundtrack.
Original Custom Theme Download Card
PS4 Version:
Vita Version:
Even if you don’t buy both version, you can still use same code for both consoles.
Limited Edition Box
The package has a strong image of Monokuma and Ki-bo, drawn by Komatsuzaki himself.
PS4 Version:
Vita version:
Something that wasn’t shown on Twitter yet: the sides of the box have cute Monokumerz holding hands.
That’s all in the box. They are sold out in the EC site, but you can still preorder it on the stores Kousaka mentioned get yourself the store-exclusive bonus itens with it. No need to rush it (I already preordered the digital version though).
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 8
Store-exclusive hell is over and Suzuki is back to talk about himself and the demo.
He starts today’s entry with a quiz: do you remember what his first name is? (I do because I tag this as “hiroshi suzuki’s blog”. The reason why he asked is because he thinks he didn’t introduce himself properly in the first entry, so he decided to that now. Feel free to skip the next paragraph if you don’t care.
Name: Hiroto Suzuki
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Hobby: Videogames, drinking and tennis
He is the youngest in the Spike office (8 years younger than the second youngest) and a rookie, so there’s not much he can do, but he is giving his best.
Today’s subject is the demo. Here he talks about the demo’s protagonist. He then write 9 lines trying to mislead into thinking the demo’s protag will be either Naegi or Hinata, only to reveal that will be Akamatsu just like in the main game. He actually thinks this counts as an explanation on how to proceed in the Class Trial with lies. Btw, as we already knew, we can try out lying and the Panic Debate in the demo. The demo will be available on the 20th and Suzuki hints that there will be bonus content in the real game for those who completed the demo.
Kaede Akamatsu: “It’s not only me… Naegi-san and Hinata-san’s icons are attached here…?”
Monokuma: “Well, you see… We already started. Started the story that has you as the protagonist, that is.”
NEW DANGANRONPA V3 OFFICIAL BLOG: DAY 7
WonderGOO Today we are done with this store-exclusive nightmare and the blog will be able to move on to more interesting stuff, thankfully. I’m ready to say goodbye to Kousaka from the marketing team.
On Furuhon Ichiba (the second-hand book market), you could get your self this A5 binder with Monokuma, Monosuke, Monokid, Chabashira, Yumeno and Yonaga. This design was not shown in the official site yet.
The pages inside also look really good, with a pixel art of Monokuma wearing Yumeno’s hat.
If you’re one of those people who think “This is too pretty, it would be a waste to use it”, Kousaka recommends buying 2 of them. One for preservation and one for use.
Yamada Denki (Yamada Electronics) offers you this notepad fitted to look like a student ID. It has Saishuu’s badge on it.
The ones responsible for the English “Academy for Gifted Prisoners” name were the localizers for the English version. The word “Prisoner” could mislead you into thinking they are criminals (it sure did and I had a hard time fighting against this misconception in the other website) but it prisoner in the simplest meaning of the word (someone imprisoned). The story starts at a point where these students were one day suddenly confined here out of nowhere. Kousaka teases that there might more to it than just that and tells us to look forward to figure out why they were captured.
Yodobashi Camera has this A4 clear file with all the bears and girls in pixel art.
They also made another version with the pixel arts for the boys during productions, but decided this one would sell more. In both versions, Monokuma is huge and not pixelated. Kousaka likes it makes Monokuma feel like a game master.
Rakuten Books gives this special gift card that only works on Rakuten Books, Rakuten Supermarket and other stores of the Rakuten chain. Definitely a store choice I wouldn’t recommend to a western.
Kousaka comments that the title “Super High School Level Detective” reminds them of a certain partner girl who would always be pulling the protagonist together, but as Saihara has his horrible self-esteem and Akamatsu is the positive cheerful one, it seems like she will be the one pulling the detective together this time around.
Loppi・HMV has a special set with an A4 clear file, a tin badge and a Monokuma tote bag.
All Monokumas in this bag are the V3 version, which is slightly fatter than the old version. There are quite a few different Monokuma sprites here, but don’t worry because he has even more diffferent poses in the actual game.
WonderGOO’s wonderful good is this multipouch with Monokuma on one side and Monofunny, Shirogane and Toujou on the other. The size is 22x22x0.5cm open and 11x22x1cm closed, so I guess you can fit your Vita on it.
Shirogane and Toujou were chosen to be put together because both have a serious, respectable, adult image to them.
To end this store-exclusive hell, Kousaka finally presents the one I (and probably most of the westerners buying the Japanese game) am getting: PS Store digital download preorder (note: Kousaka misspelled “download” as “dowloadload”).
I’m getting this set of 22 different PSN avatars.
But these pixel arts of all character are not all: digital preorders can dowloadload the game January 12th 0:00 instead of having to wait until the 17th like the rest of the digital buyers. This one might maybe possibly have surprising plot twist from the start (maybe), so the earlier you play the better. That’s what this quote is about. But that’s potentialy just a possibility. Maybe. Perhaps.
Anyways, now we’re done with this store-exclusive mess and Suzuki can finally get his blog back. Bye, Kousaka.