Dangan Ronpa

Dangan Ronpa, also known as Danganronpa, is a Japanese visual novel murder mystery video game series created by Spike Chunsoft in 2010. Every game in the main-line series shares the same premise: A group of exceptionally talented high school students, called Super High School Level students in the original Japanese release or Ultimate students in the official English translation, have been forced to play a "killing game" orchestrated by Monokuma if they wish to escape being trapped in their own school. Only by getting away with murdering another one of their classmates can they escape. 
Dangan Ronpa is known for its dark atmosphere, fourth wall-breaking humor, eccentric cast and over-the-top, often comical "execution" scenes. The majority of the gameplay revolves around courtroom-style "class trial" debates similar to Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. 
Orenronen's Let's Play of the first game on the SomethingAwful Forums is often credited for introducing English fans to the series in 2012. Their fan-translation was incredibly influential in early Dangan Ronpa fandom, though its effects are less seen with the release of official English translations in 2014 becoming more popular with newer fans over the years. 
The main-line series consists of three games: Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, and Dangan Ronpa V3: Killing Harmony. A third-person shooter spinoff game, Dangan Ronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, also has a somewhat solidified fannish presence, as does its unique anime adaptation Dangan Ronpa 3: End of Hope's Peak High School. 
In 2021, another spinoff named Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp was released, though this introduced no new characters, and its effects in fandom is mainly seen in the game popularizing some cross-game ships. 
==Dangan Ronpa's Fandom==
Dangan Ronpa's English-speaking fandom was very large in the 2010s, particularity on websites such as Tumblr, Instagram and Amino. In the early to mid 2010s, Dangan Ronpa fandom was particularly famous for its unique meme culture. 
In later years, with the release of V3, the fandom became somewhat infamous on these same platforms for its fictionkin and antishipper communities. Since most fans of Danganronpa were under 18, this caused a lot of general discourse surrounding both in-universe and social justice-related topics online that died down when the fandom became less popular after the reveal V3's 2017 release would be the last in the main series.
Dangan Ronpa also has a large community for what fans call Fangan Ronpas, or Fangans for short. 
In the 2020 specifically, Dangan Ronpa cosplays became a mainstay on TikTok, though this notoriety was mainly in just that year due to the coronavirus.
===Fan Translations===
Dangan Ronpa has had a long, storied history of fan translations, particularly for the series' first entry. More information can be seen on Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
===Let's Plays===
Let's plays have been instrumental in bringing new fans into the English-speaking fandom, and compilations of let's players' reactions to plot twists, character reveals, and executions can be found on Youtube.
====orenronen====
orenronen's Dangan Ronpa Let's Play was completed on December 30th 2012, before an official English localization of the game was available. This was a text-based let's play originally posted on the somethingawful forums, supplemented by screenshots and short video segments to show cutscenes and minigames alongside the game's translated text. More information can be seen on Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. 
====Game Grumps====
The Game Grumps also did a let's play of Dangan Ronpa, with their let's play of Trigger Happy Havoc being completed on March 1st, 2021. Their let's play of Dangan Ronpa 2 was completed later on June 5th, 2022. Due to being posted ten years after the original let's play by such a popular Youtube channel, this let's play has introduced a large younger generation of fans to the game. 
During the second trial of Trigger Happy Havoc, after Chihiro Fujisaki is revealed to be male while presenting as a girl, the Game Grumps started using they/them pronouns for Chihiro when the text of the game used he/him pronouns. When they reached the end of the chapter, they mentioned that it was "a strange situation to navigate" because Chihiro wasn't being presented as "fully" transgender (i.e., Chihiro was being presented as a crossdresser), but they also didn't want to refer to a potentially trans character with he/him pronouns. This renewed old discourse in the fandom on which pronouns it was ethical to use for Chihiro. The 'Chihiro discourse' is a subject of constant debate in the fandom, where people on both sides routinely get suicide baited and called transphobic over which pronouns they use.
===Fictionkin===
The fandom has many notable fictionkin members, some of whom are known for causing drama. Some anon comments:
===Fanganronpas===
Dangan Ronpa also has a large community for what fans call Fangan Ronpas, or Fangans for short. While Fangans didn't catch on in larger English-speaking DR fandom until the trailer for Danganronpa: Kill/Cure was released in 2017, Fangans in the Korean-speaking fandom in particular have been around since 2013, in the form of fangames such as the Danganronpa Another series by LINUJ. Some fangans, such as Danganronpa: Despair Time, have large amounts of recursive fanworks and function like a sub-fandom of the larger DR fandom. Fangans are often multimedia creations, with the majority of them being primarily fanfiction with some works of fanart created for the story.
Similar to Fangans are KGRP, standing for killing game RPs. Requiring applications to participate and typically comprised of participants' OCs, these RPs aim to span the full length of a killing game, with characters being murdered and executed throughout. KGRPs are usually hosted on Discord servers, though some are held elsewhere, such as in private Amino communities.
==Example/Notable Fanac==
This section is only for fanac involving characters from multiple games. For more information on influential fanworks for the Dangan Ronpa fandom, see the fanac sections on game-specific pages. 
===Fan Communities===
*, the largest Amino community for the series.
*, a DeviantArt club for the series for fanworks involving MikuMikuDance.
*, a Tumblr account for Dangan Ronpa gift exchanges.
*, the largest Reddit community for the series.
===Fan Events===
====Fan Weeks====
*, a rarepair fanweek.
*, a fanweek for yuri pairings in Dangan Ronpa.
====Other====
*, a reoccurring doujinshi and fanmerch event. Many works made for these events are advertised on Pixiv.
===Fan Blogs===
*, a fun-fact page on Instagram.
*drv3confessions, an infamous anonymous confessional page on Instagram circa. 2017-18 that mainly posted memes. The page was very influential in DR's fandom on Instagram, but unheard of elsewhere, and no archives exist of the account before it was deleted.
*, a very influential yuri/femslash-centered Tumblr blog. It promotes other yuri-centered DR blogs, as well as events and zine activity.
===Doujinshi===
TBA
===Fan Fiction===
====Fangans====
*, a very influential Fanganronpa in the early English-speaking Dangan Ronpa fandom by Kitt_Monroe.
*, a Fanganronpa where all the participants are previous murderers from Dangan Ronpa 1, 2, and V3. Written by CSpratt and MrCynical.
====Fan Fiction====
*TBA
===Fan Animation===
====Fangans====
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==== Other====
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===Fan Games===
====Fangans====
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*Project Eden's Garden
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====Other====
*Danganronpa Online
=== Fan Glossary===
*SYOC
*Fanganronpa
*Pre-Game Personality
*Mastermind AU, where the main villain of the series is changed to be someone else.
===Memes ===
*Fingers in his ass Sunday
===Podcasts===
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===Multimedia===
*SMPRonpa, a Fanganronpa crossover with SMPLive.
*Dangan Ronpa Minecraft, a multi-media fanfiction with Team Crafted.
*, a Fangan crossover with the Total Drama series.
== Links & Resources==
*Archive of the original Let's Play by Orenronen
*smallfandomfest: Pimp: Dangan Ronpa by masu_trout
*Fanganronpa Wiki
*Danganronpa on Shipping Wiki
*Dangan Zines, a Twitter account tracking Zine activity in the fandom
* on PixivEncyclopedia.
=== General Tags ===
*Dangan Ronpa fanworks at AO3
*Dangan Ronpa stories at FanFiction.Net
*Dangan Ronpa tag on 8tracks
*General Dangan Ronpa tag on Pixiv
* Super Dangan Ronpa 2 tag on Pixiv
*New Dangan Ronpa V3 tag on Pixiv
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