New Danganronpa V3 Confirmed For 2016, New Trailer, "Will be mostly unrelated to previous DR games"

[Funyarinpa]

OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR DRV3: http://www.danganronpa.com/2016/

At today's press conference, New Danganronpa V3 received some new art and also a new trailer.

New Danganronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester Of Killing Trailer #2:

(ENG subbed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kWB42StHYY)

 

Main Visual:

 http://www.danganronpa.com/2016/images/mainvisual1.jpg

Other Screenshots:

This dude with the white ahoge seems to be our next protagonist. Personally I really like the design.

 

The most important thing about DRV3 is that it will not be about Hope's Peak. The story seems to be more of its own thing (probably why it's also getting on PS4 without ports of DR1, DR2 and AE). Don't remember where I read this, but I think the new school has something to do with inmates. The game's described as "psycho cool". The focus on class trials seems to be "high-speed reasoning action", and there's a lying mechanic where you'll be bluffing to unearth the killer. It seems that the story will have a time skip from the original trilogy.

What about closure of the Hope's Peak arc, then?

It's getting an anime.

Danganronpa 3: The End Of Hope's Peak Academy trailer:

 

DR3 will be aired in 2016, it'll feature the DR1 survivor cast and it'll be the closure to the Hope's Peak storyline. It's the sequel to Danganronpa 1 and Danganronpa 2 (and presumably Another Episode).

Main Visual:

More sources:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1149270

http://gematsu.com/2015/12/new-danganronpa-v3-danganronpa-3-anime-debut-series-press-conference

GET HYPE MOTHERFUCKERS, UPUPU

[Nosebleed]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

[Okami]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

[Funyarinpa]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

[Okami]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

If that really is how things are then it is pretty stupid as people who only watched anime or/and didn't play Danganronpa 2 would be fu*ked.

[Funyarinpa]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

If that really is how things are then it is pretty stupid as people who only watched anime or/and didn't play Danganronpa 2 would be fu*ked.

That's a pretty stupid thing to say, should story progression between installments be hurt because newcomers would be left out? I could sort of understand that if we were talking about old games here, but both Danganronpa games are available for purchase on a current system (Vita). 

Danganronpa's fanbase isn't for the anime, it's for the game. The anime is thought to be a shitty adaptation and nothing more. 

Any sequel to two incredibly story heavy games shouldn't be viewed/played without playing the games first. Big shocker. 

[Okami]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

If that really is how things are then it is pretty stupid as people who only watched anime or/and didn't play Danganronpa 2 would be fu*ked.

That's a pretty stupid thing to say, should story progression between installments be hurt because newcomers would be left out? I could sort of understand that if we were talking about old games here, but both Danganronpa games are available for purchase on a current system (Vita). 

Danganronpa's fanbase isn't for the anime, it's for the game. The anime is thought to be a shitty adaptation and nothing more. 

Any sequel to two incredibly story heavy games shouldn't be viewed/played without playing the games first. Big shocker. 

Could you please explain to me what exactly is wrong with anime adaption for you to call it "shitty adaptation and nothing more". I both played Danganronpa game and watched Anime and I would say that not only is anime not a bad adaption at all but that it is actually better then game as mini game during trials ruin most of it's tension as a story and I liked how anime done it a lot better, anime adaption also doesn't luck any of the important events, in fact the only events I could remember being present in game and not in an anime is a bath scene and some info about characters reviled by gameplay system of presents and things.

Making an Anime only sequel to a Game only story is a pretty stupid thing to do as you are limiting people who can enjoy in it to only people who are into both, crossing from media like that is just not a smart thing to do no meter how you look at it, especially since one installment before that exists as both game and anime, and you could easily adopt second game to anime too before making a sequel.

If Anime really was just an shitty adaption only for game fans that would be a different thing but that is not a case at all. If First anime didn't exist I could also somehow understand it, but like this it just makes no sense.

The only legit reason to do something like this would be if story from Danganronpa 2 isn't actually that important for that sequel and you can understand things without knowing it.

[Nosebleed]

When you adapt something, you do so for the sake of the audience of the format you're adapting into, not the audience of the format you're adapting it from.

If they're adapting this into an anime, they need to take into account anime fans and anime guidelines. You can't expect an anime to be well made if the contigent for it being understood is to have played the games.

The first anime was average, yes, but it had a main storyline, so you'd expect a sequel to at last do the bare minimum and follow that storyline properly, not skip over important elements.

I'm not saying they can't cater to game fans, they obviously can and should to maximize the potential, but if the narrative is destroyed because you skipped one entire arc and only game fans will understand what happened, that pretty much defeats the purpose of an anime.

You're better off making OVAs bundled with the game if you want to cater to game fans, but if you annouce an anime, you better be sure it'll be judged by anime standards.

[Funyarinpa]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

If that really is how things are then it is pretty stupid as people who only watched anime or/and didn't play Danganronpa 2 would be fu*ked.

That's a pretty stupid thing to say, should story progression between installments be hurt because newcomers would be left out? I could sort of understand that if we were talking about old games here, but both Danganronpa games are available for purchase on a current system (Vita). 

Danganronpa's fanbase isn't for the anime, it's for the game. The anime is thought to be a shitty adaptation and nothing more. 

Any sequel to two incredibly story heavy games shouldn't be viewed/played without playing the games first. Big shocker. 

Could you please explain to me what exactly is wrong with anime adaption for you to call it "shitty adaptation and nothing more". I both played Danganronpa game and watched Anime and I would say that not only is anime not a bad adaption at all but that it is actually better then game as mini game during trials ruin most of it's tension as a story and I liked how anime done it a lot better, anime adaption also doesn't luck any of the important events, in fact the only events I could remember being present in game and not in an anime is a bath scene and some info about characters reviled by gameplay system of presents and things.

Making an Anime only sequel to a Game only story is a pretty stupid thing to do as you are limiting people who can enjoy in it to only people who are into both, crossing from media like that is just not a smart thing to do no meter how you look at it, especially since one installment before that exists as both game and anime, and you could easily adopt second game to anime too before making a sequel.

If Anime really was just an shitty adaption only for game fans that would be a different thing but that is not a case at all. If First anime didn't exist I could also somehow understand it, but like this it just makes no sense.

The only legit reason to do something like this would be if story from Danganronpa 2 isn't actually that important for that sequel and you can understand things without knowing it.

"anime adaptation is better, doesn't lack any important events. "

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Seriously? Fucking seriously? 

Okay, first off: INVESTIGATIONS. 

In the anime, investigations are literally just a montage. You see people doing stuff, evidence flashes by for a min or two, then tadaa-trial. In the game, all investigations take around an hour, and you talk to people, you walk around and investigate the crime scenes, sometimes there are deveopments like needing to ask something to somebody based on a piece of evidence or another testimony. Not only would one get an exponentially better understanding of the case (due to actually seeing where the evidence is from and talking about it), in the anime almost all evidence is presented and explained in the trial, which brings me to my next point. 

Trials. 

The trials are also cut down heavily in the anime. Except the last one, all trials last a single episode- less than 25 minutes. The shotest trial, the first, takes around an hour. That means ALL trials are at least halved: cut discussion points and dialogue included. This obviously has a huge effect on the storyline. Minigames' impact on pacing is your opinion, though I disagree, I don't find room for discussion there. The anime WAS better at depicting several moments (Sayaka's breakdown in the AV room in CH1, etc.) but overall I find the game to be FAR better paced.

Free Time Events (where you spend time with a student of your choice) are actually a quite important part of the game since it's where most of character exposition takes place. It's where you learn about Togami's trials to be considered part of his birth family or Sakura wanting to return to be able to support the only person she has never been able to defeat in a fight who's now ill, for example. 

I'm not very happy about DR3 being an anime myself, but a visual novel- anime genre cross is more understandable than most, a lot of VN fans tend to enjoy anime so that's an acceptable risk. I just hope it doesn't hurt the story or franchise. I would've preferred a straight out, no-gameplay VN myself, but anime probably appeals to a larger part of the fanbase compared to full-on VNs (I've seen a lot of "VNs without gameplay do not interest me" posts),but that's just conjecture. 

It's more likely that it's a design choice for it to be an anime and given the very open-ended conclusion of DR2, nothing claiming to be the conclusion to the DR1/2/AE arc would dare not conclude the questions that remain at the end of DR2.

By the way, if the first anime had sold/ been received well enough, we would have gotten a DR2 anime adaptation already. We didn't, becuase PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE THE FIRST ANIME, the sales were not enough, and thus we are not getting a SDR2 anime. 

The reason we getting EoHP (End Of Hope's Peak) in anime format is because that'll be an anime from the get go and not a shitty, rushed 13-episode adaptation of a 20-30 hour game. 

[Funyarinpa]

When you adapt something, you do so for the sake of the audience of the format you're adapting into, not the audience of the format you're adapting it from.

If they're adapting this into an anime, they need to take into account anime fans and anime guidelines. You can't expect an anime to be well made if the contigent for it being understood is to have played the games.

The first anime was average, yes, but it had a main storyline, so you'd expect a sequel to at last do the bare minimum and follow that storyline properly, not skip over important elements.

I'm not saying they can't cater to game fans, they obviously can and should to maximize the potential, but if the narrative is destroyed because you skipped one entire arc and only game fans will understand what happened, that pretty much defeats the purpose of an anime.

You're better off making OVAs bundled with the game if you want to cater to game fans, but if you annouce an anime, you better be sure it'll be judged by anime standards.

It sure is random, I'd agree on that, though IMHO the source material comes before the medium (aka for me, catering to the storyline takes precedence over appealing to the genre audience). It's oddly an anime appealing to the fans of a game and I wouldn't argue that that means it's inherently flawed due to being targeted towards the game's fans: Unless it'll be marketed for the anime crowd over the Danganronpa fanbase, which would be idiotic (because as you stated it has practically no value except to those who have played DR1,2 and AE already). It'll probably be budgeted so with that in mind. 

It's not an anime for anime watchers, it's an anime for Danganronpa fans. 

[The Striker]

Yessssssssssssssssssss

or not? 

[Okami]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

If that really is how things are then it is pretty stupid as people who only watched anime or/and didn't play Danganronpa 2 would be fu*ked.

That's a pretty stupid thing to say, should story progression between installments be hurt because newcomers would be left out? I could sort of understand that if we were talking about old games here, but both Danganronpa games are available for purchase on a current system (Vita). 

Danganronpa's fanbase isn't for the anime, it's for the game. The anime is thought to be a shitty adaptation and nothing more. 

Any sequel to two incredibly story heavy games shouldn't be viewed/played without playing the games first. Big shocker. 

Could you please explain to me what exactly is wrong with anime adaption for you to call it "shitty adaptation and nothing more". I both played Danganronpa game and watched Anime and I would say that not only is anime not a bad adaption at all but that it is actually better then game as mini game during trials ruin most of it's tension as a story and I liked how anime done it a lot better, anime adaption also doesn't luck any of the important events, in fact the only events I could remember being present in game and not in an anime is a bath scene and some info about characters reviled by gameplay system of presents and things.

Making an Anime only sequel to a Game only story is a pretty stupid thing to do as you are limiting people who can enjoy in it to only people who are into both, crossing from media like that is just not a smart thing to do no meter how you look at it, especially since one installment before that exists as both game and anime, and you could easily adopt second game to anime too before making a sequel.

If Anime really was just an shitty adaption only for game fans that would be a different thing but that is not a case at all. If First anime didn't exist I could also somehow understand it, but like this it just makes no sense.

The only legit reason to do something like this would be if story from Danganronpa 2 isn't actually that important for that sequel and you can understand things without knowing it.

"anime adaptation is better, doesn't lack any important events. "

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Seriously? Fucking seriously? 

Okay, first off: INVESTIGATIONS. 

In the anime, investigations are literally just a montage. You see people doing stuff, evidence flashes by for a min or two, then tadaa-trial. In the game, all investigations take around an hour, and you talk to people, you walk around and investigate the crime scenes, sometimes there are deveopments like needing to ask something to somebody based on a piece of evidence or another testimony. Not only would one get an exponentially better understanding of the case (due to actually seeing where the evidence is from and talking about it), in the anime almost all evidence is presented and explained in the trial, which brings me to my next point. 

Trials. 

The trials are also cut down heavily in the anime. Except the last one, all trials last a single episode- less than 25 minutes. The shotest trial, the first, takes around an hour. That means ALL trials are at least halved: cut discussion points and dialogue included. This obviously has a huge effect on the storyline. Minigames' impact on pacing is your opinion, though I disagree, I don't find room for discussion there. The anime WAS better at depicting several moments (Sayaka's breakdown in the AV room in CH1, etc.) but overall I find the game to be FAR better paced.

Free Time Events (where you spend time with a student of your choice) are actually a quite important part of the game since it's where most of character exposition takes place. It's where you learn about Togami's trials to be considered part of his birth family or Sakura wanting to return to be able to support the only person she has never been able to defeat in a fight who's now ill, for example. 

I'm not very happy about DR3 being an anime myself, but a visual novel- anime genre cross is more understandable than most, a lot of VN fans tend to enjoy anime so that's an acceptable risk. I just hope it doesn't hurt the story or franchise. I would've preferred a straight out, no-gameplay VN myself, but anime probably appeals to a larger part of the fanbase compared to full-on VNs (I've seen a lot of "VNs without gameplay do not interest me" posts),but that's just conjecture. 

It's more likely that it's a design choice for it to be an anime and given the very open-ended conclusion of DR2, nothing claiming to be the conclusion to the DR1/2/AE arc would dare not conclude the questions that remain at the end of DR2.

By the way, if the first anime had sold/ been received well enough, we would have gotten a DR2 anime adaptation already. We didn't, becuase PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE THE FIRST ANIME, the sales were not enough, and thus we are not getting a SDR2 anime. 

The reason we getting EoHP (End Of Hope's Peak) in anime format is because that'll be an anime from the get go and not a shitty, rushed 13-episode adaptation of a 20-30 hour game. 

When it comes to investigations, the only reason why you need a hour in game to get true to them is gameplay elements, story wise Anime isn't lacking anything. The same case is for Trials as well as a game as a whole, and by dragging it out with gameplay they actually lower the tension. The only reason why game is 20h-30h is gameplay, without it story can be perfectly well told in 13 episodes.

While Free Time Events are interesting they are short and are hardly story relevant.

The fact that we are getting this as an anime rather then as a game is a fact that anime was popular enough to get a sequel, if not we would be getting one more game instead. Rather it could be that DR2 game wasn't popular enough and they would rather skip it when it comes to anime adaption.

 

[Funyarinpa]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

If that really is how things are then it is pretty stupid as people who only watched anime or/and didn't play Danganronpa 2 would be fu*ked.

That's a pretty stupid thing to say, should story progression between installments be hurt because newcomers would be left out? I could sort of understand that if we were talking about old games here, but both Danganronpa games are available for purchase on a current system (Vita). 

Danganronpa's fanbase isn't for the anime, it's for the game. The anime is thought to be a shitty adaptation and nothing more. 

Any sequel to two incredibly story heavy games shouldn't be viewed/played without playing the games first. Big shocker. 

Could you please explain to me what exactly is wrong with anime adaption for you to call it "shitty adaptation and nothing more". I both played Danganronpa game and watched Anime and I would say that not only is anime not a bad adaption at all but that it is actually better then game as mini game during trials ruin most of it's tension as a story and I liked how anime done it a lot better, anime adaption also doesn't luck any of the important events, in fact the only events I could remember being present in game and not in an anime is a bath scene and some info about characters reviled by gameplay system of presents and things.

Making an Anime only sequel to a Game only story is a pretty stupid thing to do as you are limiting people who can enjoy in it to only people who are into both, crossing from media like that is just not a smart thing to do no meter how you look at it, especially since one installment before that exists as both game and anime, and you could easily adopt second game to anime too before making a sequel.

If Anime really was just an shitty adaption only for game fans that would be a different thing but that is not a case at all. If First anime didn't exist I could also somehow understand it, but like this it just makes no sense.

The only legit reason to do something like this would be if story from Danganronpa 2 isn't actually that important for that sequel and you can understand things without knowing it.

"anime adaptation is better, doesn't lack any important events. "

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Seriously? Fucking seriously? 

Okay, first off: INVESTIGATIONS. 

In the anime, investigations are literally just a montage. You see people doing stuff, evidence flashes by for a min or two, then tadaa-trial. In the game, all investigations take around an hour, and you talk to people, you walk around and investigate the crime scenes, sometimes there are deveopments like needing to ask something to somebody based on a piece of evidence or another testimony. Not only would one get an exponentially better understanding of the case (due to actually seeing where the evidence is from and talking about it), in the anime almost all evidence is presented and explained in the trial, which brings me to my next point. 

Trials. 

The trials are also cut down heavily in the anime. Except the last one, all trials last a single episode- less than 25 minutes. The shotest trial, the first, takes around an hour. That means ALL trials are at least halved: cut discussion points and dialogue included. This obviously has a huge effect on the storyline. Minigames' impact on pacing is your opinion, though I disagree, I don't find room for discussion there. The anime WAS better at depicting several moments (Sayaka's breakdown in the AV room in CH1, etc.) but overall I find the game to be FAR better paced.

Free Time Events (where you spend time with a student of your choice) are actually a quite important part of the game since it's where most of character exposition takes place. It's where you learn about Togami's trials to be considered part of his birth family or Sakura wanting to return to be able to support the only person she has never been able to defeat in a fight who's now ill, for example. 

I'm not very happy about DR3 being an anime myself, but a visual novel- anime genre cross is more understandable than most, a lot of VN fans tend to enjoy anime so that's an acceptable risk. I just hope it doesn't hurt the story or franchise. I would've preferred a straight out, no-gameplay VN myself, but anime probably appeals to a larger part of the fanbase compared to full-on VNs (I've seen a lot of "VNs without gameplay do not interest me" posts),but that's just conjecture. 

It's more likely that it's a design choice for it to be an anime and given the very open-ended conclusion of DR2, nothing claiming to be the conclusion to the DR1/2/AE arc would dare not conclude the questions that remain at the end of DR2.

By the way, if the first anime had sold/ been received well enough, we would have gotten a DR2 anime adaptation already. We didn't, becuase PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE THE FIRST ANIME, the sales were not enough, and thus we are not getting a SDR2 anime. 

The reason we getting EoHP (End Of Hope's Peak) in anime format is because that'll be an anime from the get go and not a shitty, rushed 13-episode adaptation of a 20-30 hour game. 

When it comes to investigations, the only reason why you need a hour in game to get true to them is gameplay elements, story wise Anime isn't lacking anything.

The fact that we are getting this as an anime rather then as a game is a fact that anime was popular enough to get a sequel, if not we would be getting one more game instead. Rather it could be that DR2 game wasn't popular enough and they would rather skip it when it comes to anime adaption.

 

No, there's more than gameplay that was cut. It's absolutely bullshit that no story content was cut (though that might be true in Daily Life, aka the part of the game between a trial's end and the next murder), as an example the first case doesn't even tell you in the anime that the shattered glass sphere and the burnt cuff (which you aren't told is a burnt shirt cuff in the anime) were found in the trash room, which was only accessible by Yamada. Investigations are mostly dialogue and environmental interaction, which wouldn't be too influenced by not being gameplay elements. There's testimonies and information regarding evidence that isn't touched upon in the anime. 

Then again, you believe that the 2 hour final trial (the most dialogue intensive one which has the least gameplay) has almost one and a half hours of superficial content (since you seem to be defending its 40-minute anime version) which simply sounds like nonsense to me. 

[Okami]

I'm kinda dumbfounded that this got an anime before the second game got an anime. They even kept the 3 in the title even though there's no 2.

My guess is that it will be a squeal to Danganronpa 1 and not really mention anything about Danganronpa 2 and that they titled it 3 only to avoid it getting mixed with existing Danganronpa 2 VN.

No, DR3 is DIRECTLY related to Danganronpa and Danganronpa 2, so I am sure it'll focus on both games. It's the conclusion of most if not all plot threads about Hope's Peak, which means it HAS to focus on Danganronpa 2's cast. 

If that really is how things are then it is pretty stupid as people who only watched anime or/and didn't play Danganronpa 2 would be fu*ked.

That's a pretty stupid thing to say, should story progression between installments be hurt because newcomers would be left out? I could sort of understand that if we were talking about old games here, but both Danganronpa games are available for purchase on a current system (Vita). 

Danganronpa's fanbase isn't for the anime, it's for the game. The anime is thought to be a shitty adaptation and nothing more. 

Any sequel to two incredibly story heavy games shouldn't be viewed/played without playing the games first. Big shocker. 

Could you please explain to me what exactly is wrong with anime adaption for you to call it "shitty adaptation and nothing more". I both played Danganronpa game and watched Anime and I would say that not only is anime not a bad adaption at all but that it is actually better then game as mini game during trials ruin most of it's tension as a story and I liked how anime done it a lot better, anime adaption also doesn't luck any of the important events, in fact the only events I could remember being present in game and not in an anime is a bath scene and some info about characters reviled by gameplay system of presents and things.

Making an Anime only sequel to a Game only story is a pretty stupid thing to do as you are limiting people who can enjoy in it to only people who are into both, crossing from media like that is just not a smart thing to do no meter how you look at it, especially since one installment before that exists as both game and anime, and you could easily adopt second game to anime too before making a sequel.

If Anime really was just an shitty adaption only for game fans that would be a different thing but that is not a case at all. If First anime didn't exist I could also somehow understand it, but like this it just makes no sense.

The only legit reason to do something like this would be if story from Danganronpa 2 isn't actually that important for that sequel and you can understand things without knowing it.

"anime adaptation is better, doesn't lack any important events. "

AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Seriously? Fucking seriously? 

Okay, first off: INVESTIGATIONS. 

In the anime, investigations are literally just a montage. You see people doing stuff, evidence flashes by for a min or two, then tadaa-trial. In the game, all investigations take around an hour, and you talk to people, you walk around and investigate the crime scenes, sometimes there are deveopments like needing to ask something to somebody based on a piece of evidence or another testimony. Not only would one get an exponentially better understanding of the case (due to actually seeing where the evidence is from and talking about it), in the anime almost all evidence is presented and explained in the trial, which brings me to my next point. 

Trials. 

The trials are also cut down heavily in the anime. Except the last one, all trials last a single episode- less than 25 minutes. The shotest trial, the first, takes around an hour. That means ALL trials are at least halved: cut discussion points and dialogue included. This obviously has a huge effect on the storyline. Minigames' impact on pacing is your opinion, though I disagree, I don't find room for discussion there. The anime WAS better at depicting several moments (Sayaka's breakdown in the AV room in CH1, etc.) but overall I find the game to be FAR better paced.

Free Time Events (where you spend time with a student of your choice) are actually a quite important part of the game since it's where most of character exposition takes place. It's where you learn about Togami's trials to be considered part of his birth family or Sakura wanting to return to be able to support the only person she has never been able to defeat in a fight who's now ill, for example. 

I'm not very happy about DR3 being an anime myself, but a visual novel- anime genre cross is more understandable than most, a lot of VN fans tend to enjoy anime so that's an acceptable risk. I just hope it doesn't hurt the story or franchise. I would've preferred a straight out, no-gameplay VN myself, but anime probably appeals to a larger part of the fanbase compared to full-on VNs (I've seen a lot of "VNs without gameplay do not interest me" posts),but that's just conjecture. 

It's more likely that it's a design choice for it to be an anime and given the very open-ended conclusion of DR2, nothing claiming to be the conclusion to the DR1/2/AE arc would dare not conclude the questions that remain at the end of DR2.

By the way, if the first anime had sold/ been received well enough, we would have gotten a DR2 anime adaptation already. We didn't, becuase PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE THE FIRST ANIME, the sales were not enough, and thus we are not getting a SDR2 anime. 

The reason we getting EoHP (End Of Hope's Peak) in anime format is because that'll be an anime from the get go and not a shitty, rushed 13-episode adaptation of a 20-30 hour game. 

When it comes to investigations, the only reason why you need a hour in game to get true to them is gameplay elements, story wise Anime isn't lacking anything.

The fact that we are getting this as an anime rather then as a game is a fact that anime was popular enough to get a sequel, if not we would be getting one more game instead. Rather it could be that DR2 game wasn't popular enough and they would rather skip it when it comes to anime adaption.

 

No, there's more than gameplay that was cut. It's absolutely bullshit that no story content was cut (though that might be true in Daily Life, aka the part of the game between a trial's end and the next murder), as an example the first case doesn't even tell you in the anime that the shattered glass sphere and the burnt cuff (which you aren't told is a burnt shirt cuff in the anime) were found in the trash room, which was only accessible by Yamada. Investigations are mostly dialogue and environmental interaction, which wouldn't be too influenced by not being gameplay elements. There's testimonies and information regarding evidence that isn't touched upon in the anime. 

Then again, you believe that the 2 hour final trial (the most dialogue intensive one which has the least gameplay) has almost one and a half hours of superficial content (since you seem to be defending its 40-minute anime version) which simply sounds like nonsense to me. 

If the gameplay was cut out of the game and it was a VN with no gameplay it wouldn't be any longer then Anime, I had gone for a game strait after finishing anime and I remember that there was really no new events at all in game that I didn't already see in anime except what I already mentioned (Bath scene and free time events) so no there wasn't that much of story cut out in anime version and definitely nowhere near enough for you to call it shitty adaption. And if you put that in scale with how much better story is told in anime then anime wins by far for me.