was cancelled due to the story being too dark and the setting was not usable for high school students. Two animated shows were released: Danganronpa: The Animation and Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School.
Makoto Naegi and 15 other smart students (in a certain area) enter a beautiful high school named Hope's Peak Academy. In the game, Makoto Naegi enters the school building before fainting and waking up in a classroom. While in the animation, Makoto steps foot onto the school and immediately falls unconscious. He then goes to the gym to meet fifteen other high school students who joined Hope's Peak Academy. After the introductions, a robotic bear named Monokuma introduces himself and states that they are trapped in the school. The only way to escape is to commit murder without getting caught by the other students. For the rest of the game/animation, Makoto and his classmates are to find the murderer's of each case, if they do not find the murderer they will be executed, if they do find the murderer, only the murderer will be executed.
Hajime Hinata and 15 other students join an academy. When Hajime enters the academy he walks into a room that is filled with binary code and a door. When he walks through the door, he enters a classroom filled with fifteen other students. They all introduce themselves, a robotic rabbit named Usami/Monomi/Magical Girl Usami appears and introduces herself as their teacher. After her introduction, she gets a magical wand and twirls it around, the ceiling and walls rip off to show a paradise beach. Afterwards on a beach, she asks them to earn 15 Friendship Fragments. Afterwards, Usami asks everyone to come back to the beach, but aa random storm shows up and a silhouette of Monokuma appears on a monitor. The silhouette asks the students to meet at a place on the island named Central Park. Monokuma introduces himself on the statue in Central Park and begins the killing game. He tells them the only way to escape the island successfully is to kill another student without getting caught by the other students. For the rest of the game, Hajime and his classmates attempt to debunk the mysteries and catch the murderers.
Komaru Naegi and Toko Fukawa(from the first game) attempt to save the world from dangerous Monokuma's. The events of this game take place during the second and first game. Komaru Naegi has been trapped inside an apartment with no connection to the outside world for 1/2 years. Every day she goes to the door leading out but it seems to be locked from outside. However, on this one day food was delivered to her and she bang on the door to let her out and to help her but sharp claws almost strike her face. A huge Monokuma breaks open the door and begins to chase her around the apartment. After she gets out of the apartment, she must run to the elevator which to her surprise brings out Byakuya Togami. He gives her a hacking gun(that is designed as a megaphone but shoots bits of codes at anything and makes it malfunction and break.) and tells her to run to a nearby restaurant and find a member of Future Foundation. Monokuma's enter the restaurant and start attacking the customers. Afterwards, Komaru finds a Future Foundation member and they give her instructions to go to a helicopter. When she gets to the helicopter, she sees a kid wearing a Monokuma head singing. She gets onto the helicopter but a Monokuma tries to enter. After she solves the issue, another issue begins. A Monokuma was up front tinkering with the helicopter controls and drives them up into the sky. Her failed execution begins, she flies into the sky and then falls to the ground but survives with minor damage to her body. A Monokuma appears in front of her then other start to surround her, she faints and wakes up in a room. The Ultimate Servant, Nagito Komaeda enters the room and asks if she could come to the main room. When she enters, five children introduce themselves as the Lil' Ultimate's. They also introduce a new type of killing game named Demon Hunting where the Lil Ultimate's had a target hitlist and it was their objective to kill all adults and make it a kids only place. Komaru's second failed execution begins, she falls down a hole with a parachute. That is where she meets Genocide/Genocider Jack/Jill/Sho/Toko. For the rest of the game, they go on misadventures to defeat the Lil' Ultimate's all together.
This animation has three seasons.
Takes place before the events of Trigger Happy Havoc. A new teacher treats the Danganronpa 2 students. Chisa Yukizome is substitute teacher before she becomes an actual teacher at Hope's Peak Academy. In the first episode, most of the class is missing so the class that is present in the classroom and Chisa go on a heist to find all the students. As the show progresses the more the episode's get darker. On the final few episodes, Junko Enoshima brainwashes Chisa Yukizome, gives Chiaki Nanami false hope and death, and brainwashes all the students into committing despair-like actions.
Takes place after the events of Goodbye Despair. Older Makoto Naegi, Aoi Asahina, Kyoko/Kyouko Kirigiri, and a few others are trapped inside the Future Foundation building. The objective of this killing game is similar to the normal Danganronpa style, however there is only one killer. Everyone is given a wristband with a forbidden action and a timer. If they wristband wearer commits the forbidden action a poison will be put inside of them and make them bleed out of their eyes. It will also turn a part of the skin black and kill them. One the timer ends a gas will be put everywhere in the building in put them to sleep. On the final episode, the show is put on a cliff hanger.
Takes place after the events of Goodbye Despair. Makoto Naegi is tasked to stop Ryota Mitarai from sending a brainwashing video(using his brainwashing technique) to the entire world which is supposed to fill them with hope. This season is only one episode long. At the end of the episode, Makoto Naegi rebuilds Hope's Peak Academy and becomes the new principal. This marks the end of Hope's Peak Academy.
Kaede Akamatsu and her classmates join a new academy, "The Ultimate School for Gifted Juveniles". Kaede introduces herself and walks out of a locker she was asleep in. She explores the classroom a bit. Shuichi Saihara falls out of a locker and begins to freak out. They both introduce themselves and tell each other how they arrived. They leave the classroom to be seen by exisals, that chase them to the gym. When they enter they see 14 other students. 5 smaller versions of Monokuma appear named the Monokubs. They introduce themselves and give everyone new clothes to put on. Afterwards, a flashlight is used to erase their memory of the event and the beginning happens all over again. They all go back to the gym to find Monokuma. Monokuma begins the killing game. Kaede and her classmates must find out the mysteries of the school and find the murderer to each case.
The game has three elements that make it a chapter(besides prologue). Daily Life - Deadly Life - Class Trial.
In Daily Life, you will have Freetime Events that allow you to raise your friendship level in the game. You may also choose not to do freetime events by staying in your dormitory and taking a nap in your bed. Every day in the game, everyone meets in the cafeteria to discuss what they have found.
In Deadly Life, a student has been killed and you must investigate and get clues to help you during the Class Trial. When three or more people discover a body an announcement will play along the lines of this, "A body has been discovered! Please meet in the ???". In Trigger Happy Havoc, the player would always find the body before the announcement played. This was not the case for Goodbye Despair and Killing Harmony.