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Bruce: *putting superman to shame with his workout routine*

Clark: Hey Bruce, is everything okay? Did Bane get out again?

Bruce, without pausing: I tried to pick Jason up last week but I ended up dropping him. I need to get stronger so I can carry all of my kids >:(

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hello! I was wondering if danganronpa was fictional in Drv3 universe? I still don't want to believe drv3 cast was that kind of people who wanted to participate in killing game.

There’s no strong evidence either way as to whether Danganronpa prior to DRV3 is fictional. We are left wide open with speculation as to whether Danganronpa 1-3 and UDG (or any of the other 49 Danganronpa ‘seasons’) actually happened in their world or were just a fake series of games, animes, etc.

However, there’s definitely a LOT of evidence that strongly argues that the DRV3 cast did NOT volunteer to participate in a killing game. Sure, “Danganronpa V3” does appear to be some kind of broadcast with - most likely - some kind of audience somewhere. But the cast almost certainly did not sign up to be killed off like that.

I’ll only cover the fact that the “Auditions” are phony here, but you can always click the drv3 spoilers tag to find more stuff that talks about how many ways Tsumugi seems to have lied during Chapter 6.

1) Kazutaka Kodaka advised players to go back to after finishing the game and replay the prologue to “notice discrepancies.” And remember that Shirogane claimed in Chapter 6 that the prologue was a legitimate accident; they had none of their implanted memories yet, let alone any implanted talents, etc.

Kodaka also has said that Danganronpa is indeed a popular show in the universe of V3, so if you subscribe to “Word of God” equaling canon, then that could be worth… something. But then, what kind of show is it? What kind of popularity? Even the MOST WATCHED TV or YouTube channel on our Earth doesn’t even have 20% of the population being aware of its existence, so what good is “popularity”?

2) So  in the prologue, Shuichi and Kaede remembering that they were abducted and shoved into a vehicle while they were screaming for help is a pretty big goddamn red flag against the claim that they were excited for this opportunity.

3) When she shows a clip from the prologue to our astonished and horrified survivors in Chapter 6, Tsumugi tries to make it seem like she’s just playing it a little bit longer than what we viewers at home were allowed to see. But she’s not - she’s literally inserted new dialogue IN-BETWEEN lines that were completely visible to us. It’s bullshit.

4) An eagle-eyed fan noticed that Tsumugi’s “stage” in her Cosplay lab includes a wood parquet floor among its rotation of surfaces/backdrops for her to take photos/film - and it looks suspiciously like the floor shown in the audition video. Sure enough, fans have now dived deep into the game assets so they could review that surface in detail, confirming that this wood parquet floor appears to be identical to the one shown during the “audition” CGs. This seems to greatly heighten the chance that “Kaede/Kaito/Shuichi” in the audition video are actually just Tsumugi in cosplay.

Again, you can dive into my spoiler tags to find me babbling about how inconsistent Tsumugi’s “cospox” rule is - I even theorized at one point that maybe it works in reverse of the rules she states, and she can only dress as real people. But now it seems clear that “cospox” seems to not crop up for fictionalized versions of real-live people, and that’s the workaround she can use. So… y’know… these audition personalities? Faaaaake. And another thing that helps her keep them fake… ?

5) For some reason, in the auditions, all the characters’ names are bleeped/blocked from us hearing them. But in the prologue, the characters have identical names to the ones we learn later on! Or at least this is clearly true of Shuichi Saihara and Kaede Akamatsu. Because that’s actually their goddamn names. The names being said on the audition tape are probably fake names in order to maintain Tsumugi’s need to be dressed as “fictional characters.”

6) You may notice some other big discrepancies in the prologue, too. Does Kaede seem happy when she gets told she’ll participate in a Killing Game?? SHE IS HORRIFIED. If everyone was hoping to do this and were all big fans of Danganronpa, then why do none of them (except for Rantaro) seem to know what two-toned animatronic bears clearly implies? Why are they stunned and baffled? And hey, if their personalities are all made up, why are people like Kaede and Miu already acting exactly like their later personalities?

So yeah. Tsumugi Shirogane is full of shit. You can safely embrace idea that they did NOT sign up for this Killing Game. That much seems certain.

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Duke: If you got arrested what would be the charges?

Tim: Theft.

Dick: Disturbing the peace.

Cassandra: Aggravated assault.

Damian: Arson.

Jason: All of the above. In that order, probably.

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MEOW

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Okay so we can’t agree on if Shuichi is transfem or transmasc but can we at least all agree on the fact that Shuichi is NOT cisgender?

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Been reminded Transfem Shuichi was a headcanon, I didn't use to think much of it but looking back a few years later-

Like how did I miss this

Transfem Shuichi nation here I come 🏳️‍⚧️

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Shuichi rly like "I'm probably transgender but idc about that rn"

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Bright minds

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I really like the "Danganronpa v3 was a simulation" theory. So many others had raised good questions that make me skeptical of Chapter 6's ending.

The audition videos suggest the students were willing participants. But then why did they remember being kidnapped into vans before getting their memories rewritten?

Why were the students so nonchalant about killing and possibly dying when recording their auditions? That'd be oddly suicidal of a whole group of kids who never went through The Tragedy.

Adding to the previous question, how did Team Danganronpa get a consistent supply of willing participants for 53 killing games to occur? Again, it'd be weird for hundreds of teens to happily accept real killing and death for a TV show. And it'd be a miracle how the show stayed on the air so long without grieving families piling on lawsuits.

If Pre-game Shuichi was a huge fan of the Danganronpa killing games, why didn't he recognize Rantaro as a survivor of a previous game? And why didn't he notice their current situation was identical to how previous killing games started, especially after interviewing to be in one?

How did Tsumugi change her cosplays so fast during the 6th trial? And how did she mimick everyone's physiques and voices better than even the Ultimate Imposter could? That guy was in a simulation and even he couldn't copy the real Byakuya perfectly.

How did all those stone walls break apart after using an artifact/key on them? It didn't sound like any explosives were used.

On what planet would 100% of millions of fans abstain from voting and let a show they love die? Even if most viewers had the heart to hear Shuichi's pleas, you know there had to be some stragglers willing to vote.

Where did Monokuma get that whole mob of people during Kirumi's execution? And why did nobody else question their existence or where they came in through? And where did they go?

Why was Monokuma so certain he could bring someone back from the dead in Chapter 3? He's exploited loopholes to trick his participants before, like promising parts to a boat, but they're secretly for a toy boat. However, there's not a lot of words Monokuma could bend when promising to revive someone. The body would have to go from dead to alive somehow, and that's only been a topic for debate back in Sdr2's graduation ceremony.

How was Kokichi's head wound completely healed after falling through the floor board? Didn't the trial start right after he staggered out of the room with a bloody forehead? He was stuttering and spacing out one moment and totally fine the next.

Miu called her virtual world the Neo World Program. It can't be just a coincidence, right?

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🍦What’s the Tsumugi salmon mode ending trivia? (<- brain chemistry unironically changed because of Tsumugi)

Honestly it's less an Easter Egg, per say, and more, HEY HOW DO MORE PEOPLE NOT TALK ABOUT IT IT'S WILD

And after some more 'normal' dialogue, at the very end...

LIKE HELLO??? It's completely out of left field and the only moment like this in all the post game stuff. Super eerie there is something sooo wrong with her for this <3

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the thought sure did still cross your mind, Apollo...

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Every day I think about how Kokichi was the ultimate supreme leader and then they did basically nothing with it, like, it’s such a cool fucking talent and Kokichi definitely has the chess master skills, but we never see Kokichi really, do, any leading and it bums me the hell out! The only times he gets to lead is occasionally leading people by the nose in the trial and during his death. I want to see more of him using his talent! what does he do when he’s in charge?? How did he get this talent?! He has to be one of the best leaders in the world to get a talent like that and then he just, never, LEADS! It’s such a small detail but it pisses me off so much that the ULTIMATE LEADER never has anything to LEAD.

He got some cool moments at the start of the game of him standing up to kaede and arguing with her choices with the group and then she dies and kokichi’s entire potential counter leadership to the protagonist goes completely up in smoke as he spends the rest of the time isolating himself or pointing out why people are stupid or hypocritical. I so desperately wanted the part of Kokichi who goes “We are tired, we are getting nowhere, we need to stop this Kaede and try a differing path” to be a reoccurring plot point with him, just, let Kokichi be a LEADER, let him LEAD, give him a role of AUTHORITY in the group even if some people hate him. I will never shut up about how they made an ultimate leader and then went into basically no detail about his group or showed us really how he LEADS, like C’MON.

Honestly every day I think about how Kaede is such a better foil for Kokichi then Shuichi ever was, and honestly not even just Kokichi, Kaede was just a better foil, you thought this was a post about Kokichi but no this is actually a post about how Kaede was a better protagonist and foil to the antagonistic students then Shuichi ever was and that Kokichi was a better more deep character when interacting with her-

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the protagonists of V3

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DRV3 is looped

I am certainly a supporter of the "DRV3 is a simulation" theory. There has been a lot of discussion about it before, both on reddit and tumblr. But if it is a simulation, how about an assumption that it is a looped simulation? There have been hints about it thrown in the dialogue, implicating that what is happening in the game can somehow happen again.

There's also a comment from Tsumugi in the Ultimate Talent Development Plan where she says that the "world" (and the Academy is referred to as a "world" many times) she's going to cosplay is the one she will cosplay 1,000 times.

But to me, the most obvious hint is the existence and the structure of Virtual World in ch4 - a looped structure with a wall that has been brought up a hundred times during the trial and plays a big role in it.

It makes me think about the End Wall that surrounds the Academy and the strange comments about it.

There's no way the whole Virtual World thing isn't representing at least something that happens in the main story. And as we see in epilogue, there is truly nothing outside of the End Wall, just like there's nothing outside of the Virtual World's map. The epilogue is in general practically a reveal that the whole Killing Game is a simulation (at least as I see it) but what do you think about the notion of it being looped?

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total eclipse of the heart

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I apparently need a transcript of V3's Japanese dub in English because--

These say almost the same thing, but--

LIKE THIS CHANGES THE WHOLE FUCKING TONE OF THE LINE.

WHAT THE FUCK.