Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
Video Game Report
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Freyja Nell
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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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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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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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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alexa11037
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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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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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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W01F13KUN
Basically Chapter 2, 3(?) 4, and 5.
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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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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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SimplySnazzy
Many executions involve torture.
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mistersandman
A character is crushed to death.
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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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Apotheosis
A character is killed by strangulation.
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W01F13KUN
:-# TRIGGER WARNING #-: A character’s backstory does imply sexual trauma, r*pe, and child s*x
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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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leofbadger
In chapter 5, someone has a knife stabbed completely through their hand.
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ValiantChan
One of the characters is murdered by making him fall a lethal distance.
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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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PanTran
One of the characters is implied to have eaten his own mother.
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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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Murkyspace
One of the executions does involve a character being crushed.
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themagnificentstorm
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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Juice1001
Nobody is buried alive
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Apotheosis
There is a character who was stated to have been sexually abused as a minor. However, this scene is optional.
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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.
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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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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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mistersandman
A character’s backstory involves both of his parents dying.
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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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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.
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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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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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katakanaka
Not actual jumpscares, but one creepy image shown of Ibuki in the hallway, creeping up past her bedtime ;D
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tial
The final dead room has a giant clown face on it.
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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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beeboy
There is a character frequently shown drooling
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iamtotallynot7
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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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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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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Freyja Nell
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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Isurehopeitdoesnt
As with all the danganronpa games, there is a suicide. It's during the 5th trial.
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Trupokemon
Kinda. There is a character that constantly offers to sacrifice himself, even when it isn’t necessary.
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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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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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W01F13KUN
nagito
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Jadespade
A person is mentioned to bring herself to starvation to experience despair.
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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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freyamac101
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
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.
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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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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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NYR1
[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.
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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.
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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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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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Trupokemon
Maybe? A character reveals that he has a brain tumor/illness in an optional cutscene.
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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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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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tiffanyblues
A gun is shown in Chapter 4, and someone tries to use it, but it doesn't hurt anyone.
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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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Isurehopeitdoesnt
There is a minor explosion, but no nuclear ones.
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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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