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Danganronpa V3 Ending Explained
HELLA SPOILERS. DO NOT READ ANYTHING BELOW UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED ALL OF V3, INCLUDING THE EPILOGUE. THIS WILL SPOIL THE ENTIRE ENDING AND ALL MAJOR PLOT TWISTS.
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So my theory is that Hope’s Peak Academy is real and nobody from V3 actually volunteered to participate. I have a lot of evidence to back this up but if it’s too long for you to read then feel free to skip to the TLDR at the bottom.
Okay so keep in mind that DR never gives us any information that isn’t important. Even during DR2 when Mikan was falling in scandalous positions and it seemed like just fanservice, it ended up being important in a trial. They don’t show you anything that isn’t necessary. So with this in mind, we can figure out a lot of the secrets hidden within V3.
The very first part of Danganronpa V3 involves Kaede and Shuichi waking up and remembering being kidnapped. At this point they are all normal high schoolers with no ultimate talents. The students are all told about the killing game and nobody reacts the way Tsumugi explains in the sixth trial. There are no lines about them being excited to have been chosen for the killing game. And DR wouldn’t just SKIP OVER a few lines in a scene. They’d only ever cut a scene short, not skip important parts of it. Even when Kaede was secretly the murderer during the first chapter, the important clues were all in the dialogue the entire time and just weren’t made clear until later. So the fact that there is no dialogue where the students react excitedly during the prologue scene means one of two things—either they were never excited about the killing game and Tsumugi was just lying to them in the last trial (which isn’t a far stretch since V3 was centered around lies, and every single Flashback Light was a lie) or they had already been given a new memory about being kidnapped.
But the Monokubs seem confused that the participants weren’t given their first Flashback Light yet since Monophanie was already supposed to have done that. There would be no reason for the Kubs to lie about this, because after the first Flashback Light nobody would’ve remembered anything anyways. Why bother coming up with a lie if nobody would remember it? And there’d be no point in brainwashing the students one time to think they’d been kidnapped and then brainwashing them a second time to make them forget about the kidnapping and not remember how they got there (as well as get their new personalities). Why go through with the first brainwashing if the second brainwashing would cancel it out? And why show us this scene at all if it’s just the first round of brainwashing that got written over, meaning that it wasn’t important? DR never shows us anything unless we need to see it.
All of this leads me to believe that the prologue scene is the real truth: the students were actually kidnapped and forced into the killing game. Kodaka himself actually said on twitter to replay the prologue after beating the game to notice something interesting (https://mobile.twitter.com/kazkodaka/status/821150880397262848). And this is what he’s talking about. When they first got there they hadn’t been tampered with yet (Monotaro says they haven’t received their FIRST memory yet, so they are in their original states). They remember being kidnapped and they’re confused as to where they are. Why would they be confused if they auditioned? They would have expected it. But instead we are shown a bunch of regular high school kids kidnapped and confused, which is exactly what Kodaka wanted us to think about by replaying the prologue. He wanted us to realize that they weren’t willing at all.
But if they were forced into the killing game, how did Tsumugi get video evidence of their audition tapes? Easy: she cosplayed as the students and filmed the videos.
Cosplaying as the student’s original forms should have been impossible because of Tsumugi’s cospox. She breaks out in a rash any time she cosplays as a real person, right? But what if it was the exact opposite? What if that was just another part of Tsumugi’s lies?
The first time our 16 students get their new clothes, it is shown through a dramatic magical girl transformation scene. Why pick this particular way to give them a new outfit? After all, Danganronpa never shows us anything without a reason. The answer is because right at the beginning of the game this scene tells us that all of our students are essentially cosplaying a character. Tsumugi makes it very clear in the sixth trial that all of the students are merely fictional characters. Their real personalities were overwritten with fictional characters written by Tsumugi, and the clothes they were given during the magical girl transformation sequence were costumes made by Tsumugi for her fictional characters—cosplays.
And how many times does Tsumugi say during the sixth trial that the students were fictional characters created by her? What we saw at the beginning with the students as normal high school students was their original selves, and their new personalities as well as their new outfits were all fictional. So if Tsumugi dressed in one of those outfits, she’d be cosplaying as a fictional character. In fact, during trial 6 she only ever transforms into characters from DR1 and DR2, never any of the characters from DR3 despite how many times she insists that they’re fictional. The only time she’d ever cosplayed as one of the V3 students in their new outfits is when she dresses as Kaede and gets a rash. Tsumugi said so many times that the students are fictional characters. She repeats it a lot. So she shouldn’t get a rash if she cosplayed as them because they’re fictional characters.
Unless her cospox actually works the other way around—she can only dress as a real person. She couldn’t dress up as Kaede or anybody from V3 because they are all fictional characters. But she’d easily be able to dress up as those same students from before they were given new personalities since those are their real selves, which means that Tsumugi would easily be able to fake the audition videos. She can perfectly mimic voices and outfits, so she could have filmed the audition videos at any time. During the final investigation everyone splits up, so she could have even gone to her own lab and filmed them there if she didn’t have the videos prepared ahead of time.
There’s another detail to this that strikes me as important as well. Tsumugi says that she likes to make her cosplays for other people. Perhaps the reason she makes cosplays for other people is because she actually can’t cosplay fictional characters at all. She can only make outfits of fictional characters for other people and can’t wear them herself.
So if Tsumugi was lying and can only cosplay real people, that shows that the characters from DR1 and DR2 that she dresses as during the final trial were actually real. There are two other pieces of evidence that support this theory as well. The first is the fact that Tsumugi claims to have written all the Danganronpa seasons only to finally admit in the very end that she was copying someone even to the point of copying the way that the original game failed in the end. If Tsumugi admits to copying Junko’s killing game, then that’s even more proof that Junko was real. And if she was real then everybody else from DR1 and DR2 that Tsumugi has dressed as are also real, and the characters from V3 are fictional. The other piece of evidence that shows that Hope’s Peak is real is Shuichi’s hunch. I know this doesn’t seem like evidence, but Shuichi’s hunches are never wrong and the fact that the game even mentions it at all means that it’s an important fact.
From what all this information tells me, everything in Danganronpa 1 and 2 are real. During the first killing game, people were trying to save all of the participants but that obviously failed since Monokuma said all the attempted rescuers were killed. It became obvious that the audience could only ever be participants rooting for hope to win but not taking part themselves. After the second killing game ended, the audience had grown so attached to watching the games that there became a demand for the killing games to continue. This is when the “real fiction” killing games started. People were given new personalities and forced to participate in the game so that the audience members could continue watching the games and rooting for hope. And at the time of Danganronpa V3 the killing games had become an extremely regular thing. Shuichi, Maki, Himiko, and K1-B0 were able to remind the audiences of what they felt while watching the very first game—the audience felt the need to save everyone and end the killing game for the first time since the first game. That’s why the audience ends up saving the characters in the end.
TLDR: Tsumugi can only cosplay real people since she broke out in a rash while cosplaying Kaede’s new self, which was fictional since Tsumugi wrote Kaede’s character. Tsumugi faked the video evidence of the students auditioning for the games since she was able to dress up as their real versions. The students really were kidnapped and forced to participate. The characters of DR1 and DR2 were real since Tsumugi could cosplay them but not the fictional characters from DR3. This means that all the events of DR1 and DR2 were real and the “real fiction” killing games only started after that, which is why Tsumugi admits to copying the first killing game. So Shuichi is right at the end of the game when he says he has a hunch that Hope’s Peak is real.
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