I'll level with you, I seriously considered just quitting watching altogether after the last episode. Still traumatized. I'm still traumatized from when Chiaki died in fucking Danganronpa 2, and that was over a year ago and magnitudes less horrible, so I think I'm scarred for life. I don't THINK anything worse could possibly happen though, so it's probably best to keep watching in case, you know, something good happens.
I am kind of worried for the next game though. There's a real strong trend running of each release in this series being significantly more disgusting than the last and I can't even imagine how that would work if the trend continues.
Anyway, on to the episode.
Hmm, once again the sound on the stream I'm watching is jacked up. The background audio cuts out whenever anyone talks. Happened for the first half of last episode too.
Okay, so we are going to get a direct continuation of last episode. I wondered if this might not be a Remnants-focused episode and that we would have to wait another week to see what's going on with the main plot.
Alright, suicide theory for the attacker basically completely confirmed. There's still a tiny outside chance that this is a setup given that Asahina was alone with the notebook for a bit and could have doctored it if the theory about her being shady is true, but it cites all the right reasons so it's probably the case.
Wait, how is Makoto's plan supposed to work? It's predicated on the idea that one person will be given a weaker dose of the sleeping drug and will wake up early to kill themself, right? How does he know it will be him and not someone else? I didn't notice, but I guess everyone else picked a place with no monitors around to hole up in? I'm surprised there even are places like that. How would the game work if everyone just incidentally fell asleep in a place with no monitors?
Okay, so there's a proximity thing to determine who gets woken up, but that still doesn't cover what would happen if everyone was out of the range of the monitors.
The video of Monokuma is a reference to
this song, which allegedly causes people who hear it to commit suicide.
Aw, it's Chihiro. Kind of not how I wanted to see him again...
Man, this was a really stupid plan. Even if he couldn't slip out of the ropes he still could have bashed his head in on the walls of floor or impaled himself on that rebar or something.
Aaaaand the reveal is that Kyoko is alive..?
No, okay, it's that Juzo is alive. I'm surprisingly okay with that even though it makes no sense.
You know I've been wondering this whole time if someone cutting their hand off would work.
This whole monitor thing seems really fishy. I'm not saying it's not necessarily what's going on, but we've already established that there's a way around them (sleeping in a room they're not in) and now that they can apparently just be broken with no consequences? I would've expected them to trigger the wristbands or otherwise be boobytrapped if they were tampered with. What would have happened if Juzo or somebody had just smashed one in anger at the very beginning and found the hidden knife? Seems like a pretty hole-filled plan.
It obviously doesn't mean much at this point, but I feel like Ryota is acting pretty consistently with the idea that he actually doesn't know what's going on. Maybe he knows that his technology is being used, but I'm not convinced he's a part of it on purpose. We won't know for sure at least until his forbidden action is revealed though.
Man, even more holes in the monitor plan if the power room was in a known location and completely unguarded the whole time. But more importantly than that, IT'S NOT TOO LATE FOR HOT YAOI ACTION! They denied us of just about every kiss so far, so at least we can still have this one maybe. And slightly redeem two of the shittiest people in the cast while we're at it.
WHAT, NO KISS? Fuck you Danganronpa. Somebody's gotta kiss somebody! At least give us Byakuya and Toko at the end! And I don't even like Byakuya, I just want some kissing!
Tengan still being alive at least kind of explains the thing with the opening.
Edit: Oh yeah, one more thing that I should address: This episode really seems to strongly point away from Chisa being the actual culprit. She's obviously evil, but she may not be THE mastermind. I'm not willing to call it on that theory quite yet, but it's looking unlikely.
