Anime · MBS
Danganronpa: The Animation
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Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Megumi Ogata
Makoto Naegi (voice)
25 eps
Yoko Hikasa
Kyoko Kirigiri (voice)
25 eps
Kanata Hongo
Ryota Mitarai
12 eps
Chiwa Saito
Aoi Asahina (voice)
25 eps
Junichi Suwabe
Juzo Sakakura
12 eps
Takuya Eguchi
Sonosuke Izayoi
12 eps
Masaya Matsukaze
Yasuhiro Hagakure (voice)
13 eps
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Kyosuke Munakata
12 eps
Saki Fujita
Seiko Kimura
12 eps
Rie Kugimiya
Daisaku Bandai
12 eps
Akira Ishida
Byakuya Togami (voice)
25 eps
Mai Nakahara
Chisa Yukizome
12 eps
Keiji Fujiwara
Koichi Kizakura
12 eps
Kenta Miyake
Great Gozu
12 eps
Hidekatsu Shibata
Kazuo Tengan
12 eps
Miyuki Sawashiro
Touko Fukawa (voice)
25 eps
Inori Minase
Ruruka Ando
12 eps
Nobuyo Oyama
Monokuma (voice)
13 eps
TARAKO
Monokuma
12 eps
Takako Sasuga
Monomi
12 eps
Aya Hirano
Monaka Towa
12 eps
Aya Uchida
Komaru Naegi
12 eps
Hekiru Shiina
Celestia Ludenberg (voice)
2 eps
Kouki Miyata
Chihiro Fujisaki (voice)
2 eps
Kohsuke Toriumi
Kiyotaka Ishimaru (voice)
2 eps
Kappei Yamaguchi
Hifumi Yamada (voice)
2 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Leon Kuwata (voice)
2 eps
Kazuya Nakai
Mondo Owada (voice)
2 eps
Kujira
Sakura Ogami (voice)
2 eps
Makiko Ohmoto
Sayaka Maizono (voice)
2 eps
Megumi Toyoguchi
Junko Enoshima (voice)
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Danganronpa: The Animation actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Danganronpa: The Animation reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Spectacle.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Being just a normal student without a special talent, Makoto Naegi wins a lottery to attend the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy where only the top prodigies attend. However, instead of this being the beginning of a wonderful high school life, it's a ticket to despair, because the only way to graduate from Hope's Peak Academy is to kill one of your fellow students or be one of their victims.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 25 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20163 episodes
Season 1 · Complete
Danganronpa: The Animation
201313 episodes
7.4IMDbDanganronpa: The Animation follows the events of those of the video game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The series follows 16 high school students locked inside "Hope's Peak Academy", their High School. The students are threatened by a anthropomorphic bear, known as Monokuma, who gives them only one way to leave the Academy, to murder another student, and not be found out in the subsequent trial.
Best episode · S01E05 Not Normal Arc: Weekly Shonen Despair Magazine
Season 2 · Complete
Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School Side- Future
201612 episodes
6.0IMDbThe series serves as a conclusion to the storyline of Hope's Peak Academy, the elite school where the Super High School Level Despair, Junko Enoshima, played hostess to a "killing school life" among its students under the guise of the evil bear Monokuma.
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E05
Not Normal Arc: Weekly Shonen Despair Magazine
Togami seems convinced that the culprit in this case is a depraved serial killer, but is he merely trying to deceive his classmates? Tensions rise as some of the students' dark secrets are revealed, including an incredible secret about the victim!
S01E07
Not Normal Arc: Return of the New Century Galaxy Legend! O Armored Hero, Stand Upon The Earth!
Two students have been killed one after the next and all of the evidence seems to point at Hagakure. But the way Naegi sees it, things just aren't adding up quite right. Is their blood really on Hagakure's hands or has he been framed?
S01E04
(Not) Normal Arc: Weekly Shonen Despair Magazine
Part of the second floor has opened, including the pool and locker rooms! Monokuma gives the students a few days to explore before he gets bored. They have 24 hours to kill someone or else he'll broadcast their darkest or most embarrassing secrets.
S01E06
(Not) Normal Arc: Return of the New Century Galaxy Legend! O Armored Hero, Stand Upon The Earth!
Asahina finds ALTER EGO, an AI created by Fujisaki. Ishimaru and Yamada are smitten with the program in their own ways, and neither boy wants to play nice and share. After the laptop goes missing, a "suspicious character" begins attacking students.
S01E02
(Not) Normal Arc: Kill and Live
When the first person gets murdered, Makoto is the number one suspect! He must prove his innocence during the class trial or everyone but the killer will get executed. Can he find enough evidence to clear his name and identify the killer?
S01E10
(Not) Normal Arc: The Junk Food of Despair for Racing Through Youth
Kirigiri steals Monokuma's "treasure." He warns the students that everyone will be held equally guilty. Later that night, Togami finds that Monokuma has gone out of order. The next day, there is a new body.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Norimitsu KaihoWriter
Direction
- Masaru KanamoriDirector
Music
- Masafumi TakadaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
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