Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High Academy
Anime • 2016 • Animation
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Danganronpa returns with two brand new arcs! Despair Arc takes place before season one of the anime with Hajime Hinata in a tale of despair. Future Arc continues after the hit game Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair following Makoto Naegi in a new death game.
This anime contains 24 potentially triggering events.
A character’s dog is hit by a car in a flashback, and she is seen crying while trying (unsuccessfully) to save it. The scene is very unexpected and likely triggering.
all the drugs are fictional substances, but multiple characters are seen injecting themselves with drugs that drastically change their appearance and behavior.
[ SPOILERS ] when mikan becomes an ultimate despair, she tries to seduce mitarai into succumbing to despair as well. mitarai clearly does not consent as she crawls towards him on all fours, presses her chest against his, and moves her knee towards his crotch.
in episode 9 of the despair arc, an anonymous man is brainwashed into removing his own head with a hacksaw. the entire time, he's screaming in pain and going into full detail about how much it hurts. in the same episode, a major character is forcibly brainwashed by having her eyes held open and having metal picks inserted into her brain while she's fully conscious, watching a video, and screaming in pain. luckily, both of these scenes are easy to see coming and can be skipped. [ SPOILERS ] in episode 10 of the despair arc, a major character is forced to escape a torture chamber shaped like a maze as their foot and leg are impaled by obstacles, their eye is hit with a steel ball, and they're finally impaled by a cluster of spikes. they survive all this, and go through a slow, upsetting death scene in which they say they're not ready to die yet.
SPOILERS: despair arc episode 8: mitarai finds the video of students killing each other, causing him to throw up into a bucket near his desk at around 5 minutes in. audio only
[ MAJOR SPOILERS ]: though the death itself isn't on-screen, a major character sacrifices themselves by getting poisoned and their dead body is seen afterwards.
MAJOR SPOILER FOR FUTURE ARC
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It is revealed that all of the deaths in the future arc were suicides induced by a “despair video” with a brainwashing effect.
Yes. However, it was a sacrifice, not a murder or anything like that. (The character is harassed for being LGBT, but that is many episodes before their death.)
Juzo is gay & in love with his best friend, and Junko threatens to out him. She's blackmailing him for ulterior motives. It's unclear if she's also homophobic or just using him to further her own goals
in episode 7 of the despair arc, there's an elongated scene that's far more brutally violent than anything ever shown in any of the games in the franchise. the "tragedy of hope's peak academy" (or the first ever killing game) that's mentioned in the first game is shown in total detail, and it's much less organized and much more condensed than any other killing game. from about the 12-minute mark all the way up to the 20-minute mark, there's shooting, stabbing, impaling, strangling, bleeding, chainsawing, coughing up blood, screaming, crying, begging for mercy, and two failed suicide attempts all while an upbeat folk song is being sung in the background. again, this scene is much less stylized and exaggerated than most other death scenes in the franchise, so all of the visuals and dialogue are depicted as very realistic and upsetting. i highly recommend skipping this scene if anything listed above bothers you. i had already played through all the games before watching the anime, and this scene made my stomach turn much more than any murder or punishment from any of the games. it's also worth noting that this scene is shown again in later episodes in the form of a video being played on a screen, although these videos luckily don't have any sound, lessening the severity a bit.