Dangan Ronpa episode 7 “Return of the New Century Galaxy Legend! O Armored Hero, Stand upon the Earth!: Not Normal Arc” Teaser Images

I said I wanted to be Getter Robo, not Justic Robo!

I will become the most powerful fat person in all of the known universe!

Suda 51 nooo!

My new favorite face ever.

More insanity and spoilers can be seen at Yaraon.

Dangan Ronpa Episode 5 “Weekly Shounen Despair Magazine: Not Normal Arc” Teaser Images

Monobear would like to introduce these images with an interpretive dance.

“That was so beautiful.”

Just kiss already.

I still think putting the game’s HUD in was not really a good idea.

“What do you think of my plan to torture these kids, coffee?

Spoilers and more can be seen over at Yaraon.

Dangan Ronpa x Nazomate Special Production Announcement

For those of you who don’t know, Nazomate is a special event held by the company Animate. The idea is that they take the setting from an anime that they have their hands in, and create a mystery inside of that universe that those who hold tickets help solve alongside the characters from said show. Well, on September 23, Nazomate will be holding a special Dangan Ronpa mystery. As far as I can tell there are no details as to what the mystery will be, or what puzzles will be presented, but I imagine they’ll just put you right into an original case they made up.

Tickets go on sale July 27 at the price of 3750 yen for a normal ticket. To help celebrate these sales, the guy who will be monobear in the production will be at the Animate Ikeburo shop to give a conference on the same day. Get these tickets while you can, because something tells me that they won’t last very long.

 

Dangan Ronpa Episode 3 “Kill Free or Live Hard: Extraordinary Life” Teaser Images

Looks like it’s finally time for a trial.

“Time to break out my trialing gun.”

“Neagi, put the gun away.”

“Then I’ll just yell at everyone instead!”

These past few images were brought to you in comic-book-vision.

As always you can see more over at Yaraon, though some major spoilers are there. Also, Funimation has begun free streaming the show, though they’re a little behind.

Dangan Ronpa Episode 2 “Kill Free or Live Hard: Exposition” Teaser Images

I’ll let Monobear introduce this image set.

The court of Monobear would like to show you images from the second episode of Dangan Ronpa.

I have this weird feeling that electrocuting the principal of Despair Academy is a bad idea.

Something tells me that this girl is famous for…something.

Someone is seriously freaking out.

“Who put the camera so close to my face?”

More images can be seen at Yaraon, but beware of some major spoilers. It’s looking like their going to be speeding their way through the cases pretty quickly. About two episodes per case. Here’s hoping that doesn’t cause issues down the road.

Dangan Ronpa Episode 1″Welcome to the School of Despair” Teaser Images

Now that Dangan Ronpa has finally premiered, it’s time to start looking at the teaser images. There’s a ton of head and group shots in it.

“Oh my God! Where did he get a fish?”

“This is the most disappointing fish I’ve ever seen.”

Monobear is trying to discuss his plans to take over the world with everyone, but no one wants to hear it.

“How could someone do that to a couch?!?!”

As always you can see the rest at Yaraon.

Dangan Ronpa Ending by Suzumu and Soraru.

This is a little commercial that is here to tell us that the ending theme for Dangan Ronpa has been decided upon. The song will be called “Zetsubousei: Hero Chiryouyaku” (Despair Student: Hero Cure). The artist is Suzumu and it features the voice of Soraru.  Here’s an example of their work together:

This is SoraRhythm, a collaborative album the two put together last year. Suzumu wrote all of the music (lyrics not included) and Soraru sung all of the songs. They seem to do a pretty decent job. Suzumu does a good job with the music and Soraru’s voice is quite nice, so I think we’re in for a good ending theme. The album with this on it will be realeased on August 7, one month after the anime premiers, so now there’s more to look forward to from Dangan Ronpa.

Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair Preview Show

Once in awhile, something comes along with such a ridiculous premise that you have to check it out. The most recent thing to meet that criteria of mine was Spike Chunsoft’s Dangan Ronpa: a game where a bunch of gifted high school students are selected to attend Hope’s Peak Academy, the most prestigious high school in Japan where every student is “Super High School Level” in their respective fields, covering the wide gambit from “Cook” to “Hall Monitor.” However, when they get there, they’re trapped inside the school and told by the enigmatic Monokuma that they may only leave by successfully murdering a fellow student without getting caught. It’s sorta like… imagine if Ace Attorney decided to have a lot more character interactions high school anime style like Persona and the lawyering was bullets.

It’s pretty cool and a real trip to read. There was an LP thread for it not too long ago that was astronomically popular, but the thing just refuses to be archived, so you’ll have to wait a bit to read it. Not that you’ll have to wait long to get the story because there’s an anime, and there’s an event for it soon.

This was posted by the official Dangan Ronpa Anime twitter about a special preview event that is being held on the 23rd of June. A snippet of the first episode will be shown shown twice at the Toho Theatre in Roppongi Hills. Along with the preview is a little talk show like event with special guest Megumi Ogata, the voice of the main character Makoto Naegi who you might recognize for as a young Shinji Ikari. She’ll be talking about the development of the show and her role. Tickets are going on sale in a few days, so pop into your local airport for an international flight so you can head on over. Or wait for the news. That works too.