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Danganronpa: The Animation

★ 6.8 5K votes 2013–2013 1 season · 13 episodes Ended MBS
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10Puzzle plotNonlinear timelines, twists and structural games that reward attention.This show: 8/10SurvivalStaying alive against nature, scarcity or pursuit.This show: 8/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 8/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 8/10Psychological horrorFear that comes from the mind: paranoia, sanity, perception.This show: 7/10Cliffhanger-drivenEngineered for the 'one more episode' effect.This show: 7/10Gut punchWilling to devastate you, and remembered for it.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Megumi OgataYoko HikasaChiwa SaitôNobuyo ÔyamaAkira IshidaMiyuki Sawashiro
Starring
Megumi OgataYoko HikasaChiwa SaitôNobuyo ÔyamaAkira IshidaMiyuki Sawashiro
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A deadly school mystery with unhinged energy"

A group of elite high schoolers wake up trapped inside their academy, informed by a sadistic robotic bear that the only way to graduate is to murder a classmate and get away with it. What follows is a claustrophobic mix of whodunit trial sequences and desperate survival horror, adapted directly from the cult video game. The tone swings wildly between slapstick anime humor and genuinely grim tension, and the mystery-solving courtroom segments are the real hook. It's stylish, gimmicky, and unapologetically melodramatic rather than subtle.

Watch it for

the twisted trial sequences where clashing testimonies and absurd logic decide who lives.

Maybe skip if

you need grounded realism, since the tone lurches between goofy comedy and brutal violence.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

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Danganronpa: The Animation2013
7.12K135h 13m
Danganronpa: The Animation follows the events of those of the video game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The series follows 16 high school students locked inside "Hope's Peak Academy", their High School. The students are threatened by a anthropomorphic bear, known as Monokuma, who gives them only one way to leave the Academy, to murder another student, and not be found out in the subsequent trial.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Welcome to Despair High School6.9
21824 min
▶2(Not) Normal Arc: Kill and Live6.9
19324 min
▶3Not Normal Arc: Kill and Live7.3
19024 min
▶4(Not) Normal Arc: Weekly Shonen Despair Magazine6.8
17525 min
▶5Not Normal Arc: Weekly Shonen Despair Magazine7.2
17024 min
▶6(Not) Normal Arc: Return of the New Century Galaxy Legend! O Armored Hero, Stand Upon the Earth!6.9
17024 min
▶7Not Normal Arc: Return of the New Century Galaxy Legend! O Armored Hero, Stand Upon the Earth!6.9
16924 min
▶8(Not) Normal Arc: All All Apologies6.8
16124 min
▶9All All Apologies II7.1
16224 min
▶10(Not) Normal Arc: The Junk Food of Despair for Racing Through Youth7.0
16824 min
▶11Not Normal Arc: The Junk Food of Despair for Racing Through Youth7.1
16624 min
▶12The Reason Super High School-Level Bad Luck Attracted Super High School-Level Murder, Super High School-Level Execution and Super High School-Level Despair7.6
18024 min
▶13Goodbye, Despair High School7.6
19224 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Megumi Ogata Makoto Naegi
Yoko Hikasa Kyôko Kirigiri
Chiwa Saitô Aoi Asahina
Nobuyo Ôyama Monokuma
Akira Ishida Byakuya Togami
Miyuki Sawashiro Genocider Syo, Toko Fukawa
Masaya Matsukaze Yasuhiro Hagakure
Kujira Sakura Ôgami
Hekiru Shiina Celestia Ludenberg
Kappei Yamaguchi Hifumi Yamada

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