Speaking of danganronpa fan games and reincarnation in general it really seems interesting I mean fan games always made me interested in the concept and everything especially danganronpa is it okay for you to make an analyzation of it the afterlife and reincarnation in danganronpa fan games I mean?
Mild Spoiler Warning: (the original) Cupheadronpa, Tetro Danganronpa (This Blog does not support Von)
Spoiler Warning: Danganronpa Antebellum LOCKDOWN
I’m not sure where to start. I can count on one hand the amount of fangans I’ve personally seen straight up confirm what happens to the characters after they die. Then again, I have some fangans I’ve yet to watch/play. Maeve has an afterlife that plays a massive role in the story for all I know.
Okay there’s only one fangan I’ve gotten to which 100% has an afterlife, canonically exists and is referenced. I’ve only gotten to chapter two of Cupheadronpa. For context, it’s cancelled fangan on instagram, (instaronpa), which is apparently being rewritten. As the name implies, it’s a crossover fangan, meaning it sticks characters from another piece of media (Cuphead) in a danganronpa style killing game.
It also takes other canon from cuphead into the story, I.E. its afterlife.
For those unfamiliar, Cuphead has that classic cartoon firey pit of hell and a heaven. That hell, the Devil who rules it and hell’s casino is what the original game’s plot revolves around. And many of the participants work in that casino and assure their co-workers/found family that they’ll see them again there or that the killers will be burn for their evil deeds.
Besides that, I can’t say I’ve seen an afterlife, or lack there of, confirmed in any fanganronpa besides Tetro Danganronpa. A lot of fans don’t like this, (including myself—), to the point of just ignoring that canon. The series is already bleaker, darker, and edgier than the original Danganronpa. A lot of fans have accused the writing of being anti-recovery, (and I agree with them.)
So to add in the idea of these beloved characters certainly ceasing to exist after dying before they’ve even become adults and dying brutal, horrific deaths is kind of too bleak for many’s taste. And these are Fanganronpa fans, Tetro Danganronpa fans. I say that as someone who fits those categories.
I’ve yet to come across a fangan with a confirmed afterlife besides those.
I do find it interesting how Antebellum LOCKDOWN has repeat brought up the idea of desiring to reincarnate to a better next life.
Spoilers for the first two killers, and second victim.
Shinku indulges Dracul right before his execution, talking about how they’ll all meet again in their next lives and hang out again.
It’s comfort. It’s saying “this isn’t goodbye! It’s see you later”. “We’ll get to try Baja Blasts together and play DnD with you eventually. We won’t miss out on that for the world.”
Molly told Fu about how she hoped to be reborn as someone who could be loved. She hoped by escaping this miserable life she messed up, she’d move onto one where she wouldn’t be lonely.
Takiko expresses a desire to live normally and happily with Asuga, who swiftly fires back about how it’s never this life. It’s never this life spent in a killing game they’ll get to live carefree.
It hammers in the tragedy in what the fallen never at least perceive getting to live normal happy long lives with the their friends. They just want to eventually get to do what they never were able to before the killing game ended their lives.
All that’s left for them is the hope that they’ll meet again and love and care for each other some sunny day.
Most fangans I see simply leave that with that hope or at least room for it. There’s hope the people who die in those killing games are still around in some way or will return eventually.
(Sorry this took so long I got stuck)
