Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Video Game
ReportThis video game contains 83 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
There are no on-screen dog deaths, but a dead dog is mentioned in chapter 5.
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leofbadger
A sentient stuffed animal dies; no actual animals die.
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Jadespade
No real animals get abused but a sentient stuffed animal gets abused frequently by Monokuma.
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Korkcaine
If you count a stuffed animal being shot to death, then sure.
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A character mentions a dead pet dog towards the end of the game, but the death isn't shown
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Stressedtoimpress
No, but a character briefly mentions finding a snake and killing it
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Jadespade
A character is described to be squishing ants, but this is not shown on screen.
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FatherIsCynophobic
It’s implied (or assumed) that another character is the new guardian.
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Anonymous
One of the killers starts rambling about their “beloved” leading up to the execution, although it isn’t confirmed what exactly was meant by that in this game. The anime has more information.
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Danzirlin
Everyone in the game is monitored 24/7 via cameras
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cryptikk2
Somewhat - Akane Owari's backstory involved growing up in what is clearly an unsafe home where it is implied that her caregivers let her be subjected to sexual trauma.
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Isurehopeitdoesnt
Several characters backstories include several forms of child abuse and bullying.
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HunterHikari
Mentioned, but not explicitly shown.
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fandomsandmusicals
Saionji was a target of abuse in childhood due to her performing career, and in-game bullies other characters, particularly Tsumiki.
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tiffanyblues
There's an optional scene where a character gets drugged by somebody else.
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TylerChase
Not shown in the game itself, but some characters mention family members getting drunk in their free-time events
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FatherIsCynophobic
Monomi is frequently beat up by Monokuma. It’s supposed to be played for laughs, but it’s definitely cruel.
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komaedalurker
nagito is restrained for god knows how long in chapter 2, clearly not being fed enough
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Isurehopeitdoesnt
A couple characters are implied to have been sexually assaulted before, specifically akane and mikan. And teruteru is presented as being really perverted.
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AngelPrincess
Not directly but, Hiyoko is mentioned having a lot of older male fans. Considering she is a teenager, but looking very young and childlike, this is kinda implied these men are pedos.
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Overly_Tired_Lemon
There is a scene where characters are knocked out by a gas and also an optional side story which ends in what is implicated to be one character having laced another’s with some kind of drug, however this does not lead to anything beyond that.
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tial
Monokuma frequently beats up Monomi. Akane likes to punch people from very little or no provocation.
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FatherIsCynophobic
While it is NOT graphic whatsoever, near the end of the game, a still image of an anonymous character is accompanied by a brief description suggesting the character is committing sexual acts to a non-consenting character. In the scene when it is described by one character, they are quickly cut off by another character. It's a *very* minor detail portrayed as having occurred in the past, but it may be disturbing enough to set off someone's trauma.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Not sure why everyone is voting no. A character slits their own stomach at one point.
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Murkyspace
One of the executions does involve a character being crushed.
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mistersandman
A character is crushed to death.
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fandomsandmusicals
While some characters are implied to be victims of sexual assault, there is no genital mutilation.
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Anonymous
One execution involves a character getting thrown into an active volcano-you see them fall in and get fried to death.
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leofbadger
In chapter 5, someone has a knife stabbed completely through their hand.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Stabbing is used as a method of murder and suicide in the game. Knives and spears are used in violent ways.
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Juice1001
Nobody is buried alive
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PanTran
One of the characters is implied to have eaten his own mother.
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tiffanyblues
In Chapter 2, someone gets their eye injured badly enough to need an eye patch. In Chapter 6, there's a brief graphic mention of eye mutilation done in the past.
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AngelPrincess
In chapter 5: One character tries to choke another because he threatens to blow up the whole island. She gets stopped by her friends.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Chapter 5 contains what is arguably the goriest and most grotesque death in the entire franchise. However, this is mostly due to excessive blood, cuts, and piercings on the body of the dead character.
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FatherIsCynophobic
All of the Danganronpa games have brutal deaths, and plenty of blood from murdered characters is shown. Chapter 5 has a particularly brutal death.
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Apotheosis
A character is killed by strangulation.
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gummiehearts
Yes, one character gets choked for a short period of time in a fight with another character. You hear them struggling. However, they do not die from this.
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tial
Nagito is punched in the face and knocked out at the start of chapter 2 after ranting about his terrible ideals and actively encouraging other to commit murder
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W01F13KUN
Basically Chapter 2, 3(?) 4, and 5.
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SimplySnazzy
Many executions involve torture.
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solsticexmoon
In chapter 5, a character's hand gets stabbed.
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mistersandman
It is revealed that prior to the start of the killing game, a character cut off their own arm.
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Overly_Tired_Lemon
I’d say technically yes when you think about the type of death (eg falling) and that it would likely have caused damaged teeth but it’s never shown or mentioned and only really applicable if you think about how a specific deaths would in theory likely include teeth being damaged
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ValiantChan
One of the characters is murdered by making him fall a lethal distance.
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footlongdingledong
chapter 4’s victim
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sonozaki
One of the characters is hung from a high beam with a bag over their head and a hospital gown on in chapter 3.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Multiple cutscenes show a student put in compromising poses, her panties in view and narrowly censored to the player. She is very obviously intended to be a fanservice character. Sexual comments are also made about other students, mostly by Monokuma and a character who’s a “pervert” archetype.
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daydreamcafes
all the characters are children, with multiple deaths
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Apotheosis
One scene has a character attempt to sacrifice themself for another character. However this character goes on to live.
In another scene, a character dies and it is implied later that they tried to sacrifice themself for another, but this never gets proven 100%.
In another scene, it is implied in another scene that 2 characters have a duel to the death for the larger group to survive, which may count as a sacrifice.
Finally, one character sacrifices themself so that all but one other character will die with them. However, this other character dies.
In another scene, a character dies and it is implied later that they tried to sacrifice themself for another, but this never gets proven 100%.
In another scene, it is implied in another scene that 2 characters have a duel to the death for the larger group to survive, which may count as a sacrifice.
Finally, one character sacrifices themself so that all but one other character will die with them. However, this other character dies.
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tial
The vast majority of the characters are killed
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FatherIsCynophobic
A majority of the characters die on-screen.
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fandomsandmusicals
One character is killed and revived as a robot, then killed again.
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RamenDestroyer
No, although someone does die due to the inhalation of poison.
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mistersandman
A character’s backstory involves both of his parents dying.
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PanTran
One of the characters was born from an affair.
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ghost001
Though no actual toys are destroyed onscreen, a character who greatly resembles one is destroyed repeatedly.
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Isurehopeitdoesnt
One character was kidnapped as a child, and technically they were all kidnapped and taken to the island.
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katakanaka
Not actual jumpscares, but one creepy image shown of Ibuki in the hallway, creeping up past her bedtime ;D
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starboymomota
There is an optional scene that allows the player character to spy on two of his female classmates while they are in the shower.
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FatherIsCynophobic
The students are trapped on islands that are surrounded by the ocean. There are scenes where some of the characters go for a swim in it, and it’s used as a plot point in one of the trials.
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tial
The final dead room has a giant clown face on it.
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tial
That’s not possession, That’s a disease. There is an actual discussion of possession however as at the end of the game, it’s revealed that the main antagonist’s plan revolves around possessing the survivors however they are stopped before they can posses anyone
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tial
This is really up to debate on whether they count as ghosts. YMMV on the following.
[SPOILERS] In the final chapter, All of the characters who died until that point briefly reappear with none of the alive characters questioning it and acting as normal. These aren’t really ghosts, moreso illusions brought upon by the simulation glitching out. Chiaki reappears in the climax to help Hajime during his identity crisis but considering her status as an AI and the glitching state of the virtual world, it’s more likely remnants of her programming rather than an outright ghost.
[SPOILERS] In the final chapter, All of the characters who died until that point briefly reappear with none of the alive characters questioning it and acting as normal. These aren’t really ghosts, moreso illusions brought upon by the simulation glitching out. Chiaki reappears in the climax to help Hajime during his identity crisis but considering her status as an AI and the glitching state of the virtual world, it’s more likely remnants of her programming rather than an outright ghost.
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beeboy
There is a character frequently shown drooling
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CobaltCosmos
One character, at one point, mentions being so happy they're *about* to wet themselves. Thankfully, they do not follow through and this is not brought up again.
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dykeovsky
There is an execution with a crunch-like noise upon a character being crushed to death.
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solsticexmoon
One character is tied up and kept confined in Chapter 2.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Not against transgender or gnc characters.
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Anonymous
SPOILERS — Nagito Komaeda, has lymphoma and frontotemporal dementia. However, this information can only be found out by playing his free time events, which is optional.
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HunterHikari
Some characters are kept in a hospital when they have "Despair Disease", which causes them to act very differently from their normal personalities. Figured I'd mention that just in case.
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starboymomota
One of the characters' executions heavily features needles, and it has been implied by many fan theories that the entire sequence is a metaphor for a lethal injection.
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Isurehopeitdoesnt
Most of chapter 3 takes place in the hospital as several characters are sick.
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W01F13KUN
nagito
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tial
The entire final chapter is just this happening nonstop. At one point, the dead characters suddenly reappear alive with zero explanation and none of the other survivors question it, seemingly not even realising they died at all, and speak to them as normal. Numerous onscreen glitching effects. Characters walk to a location and end up somewhere completely different that makes no geographical sense to where they walked to. The entire landscape is upside down with characters walking on the ceiling at one point with no one even brining mention to it. There’s a couple points where characters “glitch out” and start speaking incoherent or non-sensical sentences.
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Isurehopeitdoesnt
While the characters usually panic during the end of trials, I don't count any of the panics in this game as anxiety attacks.
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fandomsandmusicals
During chapter 3, a character attempts to kill themself by seppuku, a ritualistic form of suicide. They do not die from this.
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Isurehopeitdoesnt
As with all the danganronpa games, there is a suicide. It's during the 5th trial.
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cryptikk2
Nagito Komaeda is heavily mentally unstable. His condition is never given a label.
In chapter 3, the Despair Disease causes mental impairment and changes the personalities of the afflicted characters. A suicide also occurs as a result of the Disease.
In chapter 3, the Despair Disease causes mental impairment and changes the personalities of the afflicted characters. A suicide also occurs as a result of the Disease.
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Jadespade
A person is mentioned to bring herself to starvation to experience despair.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Like in the past game, many of the characters suffer from PTSD-like symptoms as a result of past/present trauma, although none of them are confirmed to have PTSD.
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HunterHikari
By and large, I'd say no, but the 4th chapter locks you in a building with no way to get out.
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Anonymous
In chapter 3 there is a moment where a character cuts open their own stomach. In chapter 5, a character extremely violently self harms by stabbing themself several times in the leg, their arm, and then stabbing the knife through their hand. In chapter 6, it is revealed that off-screen a character cut off their own hand.
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j4ck
Kinda, by proxy? Komaeda tells everyone that they can kill him and he'll even help them do so.
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Anonymous
There is shakey cam whenever a body is discovered.
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SmuttyBerry
Several in the last chapter. For someone who isn’t sensitive to strobe effects, it gave me a headache
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FatherIsCynophobic
Characters frequently swear and make sexual references throughout the game. Monokuma is the most frequent violator of this, often insulting others and making inappropriate jokes and comments.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Plenty of stingers used for emphasis or horror can be jarring, especially the stinger that’s used when a body is discovered by the player. Other loud sound effects are used, such as during executions, and particularly in late-game scenes.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Surprisingly for a tropical island setting, I don’t think there’s such a scene in the game.
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FatherIsCynophobic
The characters are constantly watched, mostly via cameras, throughout the whole game. (Edited for spoilers)
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FatherIsCynophobic
Near the end of the game, strange glitching visuals and repeating dialogue give off the effect that the game itself is malfunctioning. One character repeatedly mentions that all of the characters are trapped in a “game,” but is not aware of their existence inside of the actual Danganronpa game, which their monologue could be interpreted as alluding to (so it’s more of a subversion of a fourth wall break trope)
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PanTran
I'm not sure where this fits, but one of the characters removed the womb of a dead woman and put it into her own body in a twisted attempt to have children with the corpse.
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Anonymous
[Spoiler] It's quite true that LGBT characters die, but the rundown of precise identities by the previous commenter is somewhat misleading, making it seem like all of these queer characters are potentially progressive, positive representation suffering only from a case of Bury Your Gays.
Hanamura Teruteru is a jokey horndog character of the would do anything with a hole and also probably anything without one" type, a fairly tired stereotype of bi/pan people.
Mikan Tsumiki's a very fetish-y character aimed at a specific straight male playerbase, and her f/f scenes (mostly in the DR3 anime) are blatantly intended as fanservice for that audience. Mikan fanservice scenes can be extremely uncomfortable, especially for female/female-aligned viewers, although this is very much a YMMV matter and there's no category for "creepy alienating male gaze" on this site.
Hanamura Teruteru is a jokey horndog character of the would do anything with a hole and also probably anything without one" type, a fairly tired stereotype of bi/pan people.
Mikan Tsumiki's a very fetish-y character aimed at a specific straight male playerbase, and her f/f scenes (mostly in the DR3 anime) are blatantly intended as fanservice for that audience. Mikan fanservice scenes can be extremely uncomfortable, especially for female/female-aligned viewers, although this is very much a YMMV matter and there's no category for "creepy alienating male gaze" on this site.
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FatherIsCynophobic
Nagito -- who is confirmed in-game to have frontotemporal dementia -- is subject to a lot of ableism on account of his self-destructive and "erratic" behavior (mostly tactlessly portrayed symptoms of mental illness). He is even tied up in one scene because the other characters are angry at his behavior and afraid that he'll try to hurt them.
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melodyscale
the ableism towards nagito is pretty explicit, frequent and unavoidable, and participated in by basically everyone else in the game. he even gets tied up and restrained by some of the other students because they deem him dangerous for being the “crazy/insane” character.
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tial
Towards Byakuya, mainly from Hiyoko, although Fuyuhiko also refers to him by fatass. Byakuya doesn’t seem to care about any of this and seems to embrace it if anything, but this still may be triggering for other people.
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j4ck
(replying to previous comment) Their official wiki says "Their gender is unknown", & that they're not officially male but "able to give off a largely male impression while disguised." They're canonly nonbinary, & can just present as male (or masculine).
The Ultimate Imposter uses he/him while disguised as Byakuya (and other men), so there is no misgendering.
The Ultimate Imposter uses he/him while disguised as Byakuya (and other men), so there is no misgendering.
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tial
It’s mentioned that Sonia has already lost her virginity but you aren’t given any details on this or shown it at all.
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starboymomota
One of the students is a girl that gets into sexually explicit poses through her clumsiness, and there are other students that comment on sexuality. There is also an optional scene where you can view two of the students (both female) in the nude (censored).
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CobaltCosmos
In an early part of the game, a character makes a joke about Usami, a stuffed talking rabbit, 'looking pretty cute'. This character is something of a horndog, so it leans in this direction if you count it as 'any animal' (versus 'a non-sentient being').
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Apotheosis
There is a scene where the main protagonist sneaks into a female classmate's dorm room to watch her and another girl shower. However, the sensitive parts are blurred out with fog and this scene is optional.
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tial
Mikan on a VERY obnoxious level and frequency. It’s even a major plot point in foiling the first killer. As someone who doesn’t usually care about this kind of thing, I found it extremely eye rolling
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Crockist
Mahiru has a very traditional sense of how men should act. Around the beginning, she ridicules someone for panicking.
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Overly_Tired_Lemon
A character does say they have Frontotemporal Dementia and show clinical signs for it, they do try to play it off as a joke but it’s heavily implied that was a bad attempt at lying and that they very likely do have it.
(Note this is something only revealed in an option cut scene)
(Note this is something only revealed in an option cut scene)
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SpeakYourMind
A characters mother is mentioned to be terminally ill, this scene is unavoidable
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Apotheosis
One character is said to have terminal cancer, but this is only mentioned in an optional scene.
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FatherIsCynophobic
These themes are mostly due to the plot twists that are revealed in the last chapter.
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tial
The fate of the survivors is left ambiguous, but leans towards the happier side. The DR3 anime does show what happens to them afterwards but this information is not available in this game.
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Jadespade
A free time event has a character talking about a deadly plane crash he experienced.
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Juice1001
No not at all in all the gameplay water really is a suggested until the beginning of the game and in some of the free time events but a character has never drowned in sdr2
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oumasorbit
the blood in danganronpa is hot pink if that prevents your trigger, though the death in chapter five is very graphic imo, and depicts a characters limbs and stomach being impaled.
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tiffanyblues
A gun is shown in Chapter 4, and someone tries to use it, but it doesn't hurt anyone.
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Isurehopeitdoesnt
There is a minor explosion, but no nuclear ones.
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