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: 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.

A Titan OVA for August: “Ilse no Techou”

I was passed the big, fancy “This Season’s Anime” Chart for the Summer 2013 season. It’s always fun to thumb through. There’s a lot to look forward to this summer, which is odd because summer is supposed to be one of the weaker seasons, but here we are. There’s the Silver Spoon anime, which is airing in July apparently instead of June like I thought before, the new Ghost in the Shell, Kaze Tachinu, the Danganronpa anime. There’s a set of shows here to get interested in, but on top of all that, we’ve got something big coming down the pipe.

Yay! A new Squid Girl OVA. I only just finished the second series and the first OVA, so that was really good timing. I don’t know what stories their going to pick to animate, but I’m sure we’ve got am absolutely tentacular experience coming. Since it’s coming as a bonus with the Vol. 14 manga, I hope the subbers will be able to get kraken on it soon after it comes out. Maybe someone will be able to order it from overseas to kelp them out.

All right. I know, I know.

In August along with the Vol. 11 manga, there will be a special Titan OVA, Ilse’s Journal. Those of you unfamiliar with the manga won’t know who this is yet, but you should by the time the OVA comes out if you stay only following the anime. It’ll be a side story about a yet to have been revealed in the anime character, and it’s possible it’ll offer us some greater level of clarification on her circumstances. And, yes, it is hard to talk about this without spilling the beans on why this is important.

I don’t know yet how much information is going to be in the OVA, or OAD as it says. They may just adapt the chapters that make up the portion of this story from the manga, but it’ll hopefully contain all kinds of new information to fuel the ever burning speculation fire that keeps Titan interest going. Based on the “prologue” term, it’ll probably be the story that would lead up to the manga chapter in question. I guess we’ll see sometime in August or early September.