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Danganronpa: The Animation

Danganronpa: The Animation

This class could be your last!

20137.72 Seasons25 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Being just a normal student without a special talent, Makoto Naegi wins a lottery to attend the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy where only the top prodigies attend. However, instead of this being the beginning of a wonderful high school life, it's a ticket to despair, because the only way to graduate from Hope's Peak Academy is to kill one of your fellow students or be one of their victims.

Created by Norimitsu Kaiho
Written by Norimitsu Kaiho
NetworksMBS

Top Cast

Megumi Ogata

Megumi Ogata

Makoto Naegi (voice)

Yoko Hikasa

Yoko Hikasa

Kyoko Kirigiri (voice)

Kanata Hongo

Kanata Hongo

Ryota Mitarai

Chiwa Saito

Chiwa Saito

Aoi Asahina (voice)

Junichi Suwabe

Junichi Suwabe

Juzo Sakakura

Takuya Eguchi

Takuya Eguchi

Sonosuke Izayoi

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Kyosuke Munakata

Saki Fujita

Saki Fujita

Seiko Kimura

Rie Kugimiya

Rie Kugimiya

Daisaku Bandai

Mai Nakahara

Mai Nakahara

Chisa Yukizome

Themes & Keywords

high school studentbased on video gameshockingmurder mysteryanimejapanese high schoolpsychologicalsuspenseinductive reasoninghorror

About Danganronpa: The Animation

Danganronpa: The Animation is a action & adventure, animation, drama, mystery series that first aired in 2013 exploring themes of high school student, based on video game, shocking, murder mystery, anime, japanese high school. Created by Norimitsu Kaiho, it stars Megumi Ogata, Yoko Hikasa, Kanata Hongo. Being just a normal student without a special talent, Makoto Naegi wins a lottery to attend the prestigious Hope's Peak Academy where only the top prodigies attend. However, instead of this being the beginning of a wonderful high school life, it's a ticket to despair, because the only way to graduate from Hope's Peak Academy is to kill one of your fellow students or be one of their victims.

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