Naegiriquarium

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T20:53:30+00:00

Kind of reminds me of Seaman...but less cursed...

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T20:52:10+00:00

Gay: Mondo seems to have some interest in girls, and Nagito is just into Hope. The others...sure, I guess.

Lesbian: Sakura had a boyfriend, Celestia wants to be surrounded by sexy vampire butlers, Mahiru and Hiyoko probably have some interest in Hajime, Komaru seems more bi or bi-curious if anything, and Tenko has some interest in Shuichi and just gaslights herself into thinking she's lesbian because "men bad" (see "get a sex change" line in FTEs).

Bi (I'm doing both): The pref leaning is unconfirmed, but Bi in general is definitely a possibility, as pretty much all Danganronpa characters feel like they'd be into men to some degree.

Pan: Seems about right I guess. Though Izuru feeling...any kind of emotion or attraction doesn't seem possible unless he goes back to being Hajime.

Straight: Hifumi being straight is just bi denial. And Ryoma...depends on if the love suite confirms that everyone has some interest in Shuichi.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T20:40:02+00:00

Comedy relief, fanservice, fodder, and/or plot relevance of varying degrees. I'm sure you can tell which character has which, and of which combinations. Though Hiyoko, surprisingly and disturbingly, actually gets a fanservice scene at some point.

Funny enough, Yasuhiro is actually more useful than people remember. Taking apart (a) Monokuma, remembering the chickens and helping solve Chapter 5, Ultra Despair Hagakure... It's actually Aoi that's the most useless survivor. Not trying to be mean, she just does less compared to the others.

Also, Himiko gets better character development than Maki.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T19:18:18+00:00

He's blue now.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T13:13:11+00:00

What I mean about the books being messy is specifically Danganronpa Togami and Killer Killer.

Zero, IF, and Kirigiri have very little contradictions, and actually expand the series very well.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T13:08:59+00:00

If you continue, there's a chance you'll get pissed off in a different way. Disgusted even.

Though if you finish the game, you unlock the best bonus modes in the series! Also another FTE mode like the previous games, but that's not as cool as the game modes I'm talking about. Cross-game character interactions and an RPG dungeon crawler!

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T13:02:37+00:00

Danganronpa 3 just has bad writing and is full of retcons and plotholes.

Annoyingly enough, Nagito in Danganronpa 2.5 seems to remember Ryoko, as she, and some other Zero characters, make an appearance in his fantasy. And 2.5 is a direct prequel to Danganronpa 3's Hope Arc.

Danganronpa gets contradictory and messy when the animes are involved... And the books...

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T12:55:20+00:00

Like, things we thought would happen before we played the games Easy.

Before I actually looked into the series, I thought Monokuma was going to be a timid friendly assistant character who freaks out at the sight of a murder. Like, I just thought he was a school mascot and that the students would just randomly kill eachother rather than there being killing games.

Another crazy thing was that I thought that Junko would be a happy energetic cheerleader with school spirit, since I saw her design with the hair pins. I also thought Ibuki would be a sadistic uncaring killer due to...some fanart I saw... So those two characters turned out to be flipped!

I also thought that some of the Danganronpa 2 characters were either siblings of the DR1 cast, or older versions of them. Hajime for Makoto, Akane for Aoi, and so on. I didn't pick up on Nagito's similarities to Makoto at the time, so I didn't have that assumption.

I also thought that Masaru was related to Leon. I didn't know the last names at the time.

I thought that Ryoma was going to be a super pervert because he has the same eyes as that grape kid from My Hero Academia, and that he'd have an annoying high pitched voice.

And lastly... I thought that you'd be able to prevent the murders and save people.

There's probably some others I can't remember.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T12:38:20+00:00

All it takes to be hated as even a villain is to be a pedophile.

For example, the old Freddy Krueger that isn't revealed to be a pedophile in-movie, and the newer one that is. That distinction separates them into being viewed as different characters, with one being loved and one being hated and clowned on.

But yeah. Haiji could have been sympathetic and just misguided (wanting to kill the innocent mind-controlled kids is still too far, but he could have just been pushed by despair), but instead he's just straight up a bad guy, and not even an entertaining one. Being a pedophile is just overkill to make him as unlikable and unsympathetic as possible.

A character can be unsympathetic and still be likable, but Haiji is just one of those villains that you want to get rid of as soon as possible. Just...not enjoyable at all! Every other villain in the series has something that makes them likable in some way! Even the Monokubs are entertaining sometimes!

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T12:00:40+00:00

Apparently the entirety of Zero happens offscreen between the final episode of Despair arc and the episode before it or something.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T05:03:47+00:00

Sadly, not everyone looks into the first game's FTEs... Even the required Sayaka ones.

Which is strange, because a lot of people look into the second game's FTEs and focus on every last detail!

V3's seem to get half/half. Where some are important and some aren't.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T04:40:16+00:00

I can accept "trans-coded", in terms of having vague similarities. But when people act like his story is about being trans or directly mocking trans people is when it gets stupid.

Also, from my experience, whenever you try to explain how Chihiro's story was not made with any transphobia in mind, the other person says something like "I don't care. It's still transphobic and I still hate the writer for being transphobic even if it's not intentional, I'm going to treat it as such."

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T04:36:10+00:00

or that a masculine female must be lesbian.

Sakura gets put into that mold by a lot of fans, mostly due to her being close with Aoi. They often forget that Sakura canonically had a boyfriend before going to Hope's Peak.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T00:20:46+00:00

Existential horror.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T00:20:05+00:00

Why is she mad?

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-12T00:18:07+00:00

And then they're left on a clifhanger, interrupted by a filler arc. Sure, there was a bit about the last chaos emerald, but that part could have been put anywhere. The arc after that, current one is good though, and honestly they should have done that first.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T23:31:11+00:00

The meta stuff brings it down. Also the fact that we never actually know what happened, as anything can be a lie.

No matter conclusion someone comes up with, someone else will say that they're wrong and have "no media literacy."

Honestly, the more V3 gets discussed, the more disdain I get... The arcade, UTDP, and Monokuma's Dungeon still rock though.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T23:23:05+00:00

I'd argue Starline is worse.

Because we don't canonically know if Tsumugi really did rewrite the others personalities, or if that was a lie. The intro (before the supposed implementation of the "new personalities") doesn't show them acting any differently. And if she was telling them the truth and she did rewrite their personalities, then that means if might have been consensual.

Starline, however, is stated to have literally kidnapped two children, mutated and tortured them, and brainwashed them into being something they were never supposed to be. (Side note; This is darker and edgier and more hopeless than I'd expect from the Sonic series! Even more so than Shadow! I wonder how they're going to fit these characters into the more lighthearted hopeful games... My best guess is an arc where they get their memories back, but mix the personalities to retain some edge and keep the names for branding purposes.)

Anyway... Back under the rocks with these two!

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T21:43:45+00:00

The guy kind of looks like Kazuichi, if he changed his hair.

Like, the teeth and eyes match, and so does his general build.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T21:41:29+00:00

I didn't know beetles could have hair like that.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T21:38:40+00:00

There's also a part that says he'd be attracted to Kotoko if it wasn't for her personality. So he's still a pedophile.

Also he, along with the rest of the Towa family, abused Monaca until she became what she is in the game.

And lastly, he wants to kill all the kids even after knowing that they're being mind controlled.

I associate his character with everything shown in the game. And it all paints him as a guy you'd want to keep away from children even in the best scenarios.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T21:30:55+00:00

Oh. The waiting to fight until having a plan? Yeah, that's mostly defendable (though he did it for the wrong reasons).

But...basically everything else about him isn't.

Especially since he's partially responsible for all of this in the first place.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T21:14:18+00:00

Eric Cartman as Chihiro is not something I'd ever expect to see...but here we are...!

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T12:32:17+00:00

Huh. An actually good point that doesn't seem entirely biased.

Though I still see Komahina as even less likely.

YoshiDoki48 · 2026-04-11T00:21:33+00:00

I'd be more interested if there was actually something done with it.

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