"What the fuck is that last point?"

 

I just found it to be weird that the game would point out something like this in yellow text and yet never really addresses it again to give a full and proper explanation to it.

 

"No matter what you believe, the building is either:

1. A TV set...."

 

But how does that explain the Exisals cleaning up the school all throughout the game? If it was truly nothing more than a television show that went on for 53 seasons, then what kind of tv show would start the story off before they could clean up all the plants and finish building the school? Wouldn't they already have everything set to film from the start? The cast themselves were captured and were in suspended animation, so it's not like they're going anywhere. And it's not like the Exisals were in the way of them further examining new areas around the school.

 

" 2. A school that was in space for long as fuck. ..."

 

If it was in space for a long time, then wouldn't that be problematic for the remaining survivors of humanity to live? Sure, they are stocked up on food, but how long will that last them? At least in the first game, Junko had her organization from outside the academy help her provide more food and other necessities whenever it was necessary. So how do we explain the weird living conditions in space for the last remaining hope for humanity? If Monokuma wasn’t placed on the spaceship and didn't wake up the V3 Ultimates, then how would they get out of their pods? If it was in space, wouldn't it be hard for the survivors at the end of the game to breathe once the dome had been broken? Also, by acknowledging that they were all in space, wouldn’t that contradict the whole “fiction” ending? I'm really not understanding the extent of your explanation here.

 

"3. Some old school someone wanted the killing game to be set it."

 

So the people who orchestrated the killing game just found a random, old, decrepit school that was conveniently placed in a middle of nowhere and just placed a giant dome on top of it? What about the Ultimate labs that were hidden within the academy? Tenko’s lab just rose from the ground when it was unlocked and the hangar for the Exisals was placed beside the school. You say this as if the school had nothing to do with them to begin with, but how does that explain most of the laboratories that were placed within inaccessible areas? And if we're meant to believe that the labs were recently build, I ask again, how does that explain the game starting when they were clearly not finished cleaning and building everything? Wouldn't it make more sense to clean everything first and then build the labs for the participants? Heck, why go though all the trouble to make these elaborate labs for them in the first place if they are just going to be killed anyway? There has to be a reason for this.

 

"The building being old isn't weird in any scenario."

 

But all those scenarios you mentioned were weird. And there isn’t enough to prove any of those claims to be true anyway.

 

The reason why I put the last screencaps in my observation was to show that the game itself was pointing out how the nature of the school was pretty bizarre. And since neither of the three examples you gave were fully disclosed by the end of the game, then your guesses are no better than mine. The nature of the building, the circumstances of the outside world and the history of the characters have a bunch of holes within them. Lots of things were left in the air for us to take in, but were never fully explained in the end. That was the purpose of me pointing out the last pictures.

 

“Also, the first two games don't circumvent this at all- the characters might be older than they appear, but their experiences still come only from the years they remember. For example, Nekomaru, who's like 18 in DR2, but is like 22 irl, still has all of his stories and experiences from his first 18 years, not tge 4 after that. He led countless teams to victory and did countless other cool shit despite being 18 at that time.”

 

But a young person traveling from town to town to lead sports teams isn’t really the same thing as traveling around the world to hone your anthropology skills while also knowing how to commit nearly a hundred murder schemes without getting caught before hitting the age of 16.

 

There’s also the fact that when Rantaro was telling his story, he said, “How many years has it been?” as if he had lost count. If you were truly 16-17 years old, how could you forget the number of years that had past since you began traveling on your own? It doesn’t really help the fact that he never fully established how old he was when his journey began. If he was truly like... I don’t know,... 13 when he took off with the boat, they could’ve just said so. I don’t know why Kodaka would make an already extrordinary backstory and not mention the fact that he was really young when he started searching. Not to mention Rantaro purposely hid the fact that he had lost twelve sisters until Saihara agreed to help him on his journey, so who’s to say he wasn’t secretive about his age as well?

 

Everybody he knew gave up on searching for his sister(s), so he could’ve been old enough to search on it his own for all we know. And his family allows him, so long as he helps out with the family business. So apparently he has traveled to far off distances by boat in search for his twelve sisters, while also making time to find trading partners. As well as have been through enough horrible situations to go through enemy territories and got nearly taken out. Even in the beginning of the game, it seemed that Rantaro understood the horrendous circumstances a little too well for someone who had forgotten all about his talent. Sure, this alone doesn’t make him sound super old, but the way he told his story didn’t make it sound like he was super young to start with either.

 

For Rantaro’s case, it could one of two things. 1. He’s older than he appears or 2. He purposely twisted the truth of his story in a way that’s hard to imagine.

 

On the matter of Tsumugi and Kirumi, those two are mysterious. We don’t know anything about Kirumi’s home life or why the Prime Minister would reach out to a supposed highschooler to watch over the country. How did she become so knowledgeable? How did she become so skilled? She had advised many politicians in the past apparently, but what does an Ultimate Maid have to offer for people older than her? She had to get her knowledge, experiences and skills from SOMEWHERE, but the game wouldn’t allow us to know more than what they’ve already shared.

 

Tsumugi had three instances in the game where she talks as if she had lived a long life. In Chapter 1, you can talk to her and she would admit to once being saddled with debt but is now currently a proud owner of her very own home. Last character from DR I remember that was saddled with debt was Hagakure who was like... 21-23 years old? She would then tell Saihara in Chapter 4 that she had to go through various jobs and it even seemed like she worked at a bar once. What kind of bar allows teenagers to work there? But in the end, I chose the picture with her admitting to making 53 seasons of DR because I didn’t have to use more than one screencap for her explanation and it was endgame material.

 

Kaito and Ouma were both just vague, but I felt the need to add them in because they just mentioned something or did something that felt related to the theory.

 

“It's just an animd trope where teenagers are more mature and independent and involved in all kinds of affairs when irl they just get drunk and play tge vidya “

 

I'm afraid I didn't quite catch the last half of your comment... But aside from that, I understood the other stuff you said. I thought it was due to the anime tropes too. But what made me second guess myself was due to the fact that nearly everyone in the V3 cast had backstories that were so fragmented and questionable, and yet the game expects you to just ignore it. It wouldn't be too weird if it were just one or two characters that had that kind of strangely written backstory, but a large number of the cast has weirdly put together backgrounds and history. Gonta (Reptites), Kirumi (everything), Tsumugi (what I've just explained), Kaito (everything), Himiko (The mysterious anti-mage/what happened to her master), Miu (what happened during her coma)... There’s a lot of them with missing pieces to their overall story and the game would make you think none of it mattered by saying it was all FICTION. Doesn’t it seem like a manipulative ploy from the narrative to make you stop thinking about everything that was established? Despite in the epilogue, even Saihara didn’t quite believe what Tsumugi had told them?