#DR3 Student Council

[derpu-doodles]

reemerges from the grave

puuny ,.

slinks back into the darkness

[gladosluver]

what if STUDENT COUNCIL had WHATSAPP 😂😂😂

[utsukurou]

he just looks so stupid... look at him

[ykyuz]

WIP SOMEYA SALVATION. LOL

[gladosluver]

they're just so stupid looking i enjoy them

Danganronpa Student Council fans, enlighten me. I want to love them as much as you do because their designs are so cool….

[danganfixationronpa]

What the Hope's Peak Academy Student Council look like without the green tint. Only member not included is Tsubasa, but even with the tint it's clear to see she has light blonde hair and blue eyes.

[livingdeadhorse]

Can you draw Soshun and Kotomi from the student council cuddling?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE 🫡

I feel so bad for the student council sometimes

vote mondo and I draw 4 you...

[shockersalvage]

Salvage Showcase- Soshun Murasame

What's this? A new Salvage Showcase!! And this time we're back at Danganronpa Zero to talk about the first of the Student Council Presidents!!

Soshun Murasame!!

Summary

Chronologically, Soshun's ordeal happens during his tenure at Hope's Peak Academy. He's apart of its 77th Branch and is the Ultimate Student Council President. However, everything changed for him when he, alongside the rest of the SC (except Madarai) got threatening messages that had them head over to the old Hope's Peak Academy building.

Something that Soshun would soon regret taking, as it was a trap to get the Student Council reps to kill each other, under threat of death from Mukuro and their own motivations. That's not to say Soshun didn't try to stop things. Even after his Vice President, Kotomi, was killed by Mukuro, he tried to keep everyone's nerves, reassure them that the remainder of their group can get through this, and was gradually succeeding...

Up until Karen Kisragi shanked Ryota the Toymaker and everything went to Hell. He barely avoided being sliced by his own council secretary before it became a free for all. In the end, the Student Council effectively wiped each other out, with only Soshun surviving, but in a rough state with a head injury. While this injury isn't shown on screen, given that DR0 implies Daiki Kubo went on a rampage with a chair, and hurting two people prior to Shoji Yoko's death, it can be inferred Soshun's injury was a result of that.

On the flipside, he was alive, but was in a comatose state that, even after a month after the incident, had him unresponsive. Stashed in the East compound medical bay, Yasuke Matsuda, his classmate and Ultimate Neurologist, was tasked with seeing if he could interrogate Soshun and if he knew anything about the Tragedy of Hope's Peak Academy. Something that, if Soshun did knew, might have gotten him silenced by the Steering Committee. Not that Yasuke was planning on ratting him out to those guys anyway, but the threat was there.

As Yasuke started to interrogate him, initially it seems like Soshun genuinely was not gonna react...up until Junko's name came out. That's when it's revealed to Yasuke, Soshun had been faking being unresponsive, sort of. He was genuinely faking being unresponsive, buts its clear he's in a lot of shock and trauma. His act was to essentially escape the notice of the Steering Committee, and, even in his injured state, wanting to see if he could still fight to protect the school given what transpired.

After Yasuke vows to help Soshun, since Yasuke himself doesn't want to let the old quartet have their way and get rid of his classmate, Soshun, gradually relents to questioning. When asked if Izuru killed the Student Council, while Soshun does say Izuru did, his tone heavily implies he wasn't completely sure.

However, things take a turn for the worse when Yasuke asks if Junko Enoshma was involved - and Soshun's snaps. He turns into a raving, maddened, 'thing' that can only scream Junko's name and how much he wants to just kill her.

...Something that Yasuke, who was Junko's accomplice and boyfriend, just can't have let slide. Soshun was so far gone, that he didn't notice Yasuke choke him to death. His demise would be covered up as a suicide and mark the end of the Student Council (because Madarai doesn't count).

Personality wise, DR0 characterized the old Soshun as being responsible, friendly to all, and the sort to laugh even at bad jokes. Something that is contrasted with how he actuall appears post-Student Council killing game. Apathetic, traumatized, sluggish and, prior to his breakdown, still hold some aggressiveness there in his voice. He was still devoted to at least wanting to protect the school from the threats that laid there and is very talented in deception given he was capable of fooling the Academy's medical staff for a month prior to Yasuke being called in. In DR3, we get to see more of how Soshun normally is, being coolheaded under the face of pressure (and even the death of one of his councilmen), faithful in his group getting out of a rough situation, and even being a decisive leader that people listen to (up until Karen at least).

Rundown

Soshun has several ways he interacts with DR0's them of Identity, and the lack of it. In his case, his interaction with the theming has to do with loss of identity following tragedy robbing you of your sense of peace.

In DR3, while we don't get much of him, we do get to see him at his best and what makes him who he is. Soshun is the Ultimate Student Council President, the leader of 13 other students (among others) and, technically, would be one of many other Student Council Presidents who would no doubt be among the 'faces' of Hope's Peak Academy in general. Even before the killings really started, Soshun was a trusted leader that his council did seem to depend on and believe in...

So what happens afterward, when the game starts and Soshun is left as the sole survivor? Well, he's left stripped of everything that made him who he was. His talent? Can't be Council President if there is no Student Council. His friends that trusted and liked him? Slaughtered each other. The school that likely would have propped him up, and usually supported him? Now is very much considering cutting ties with him, at best, or killing him if what he knows is that detrimental. His supportive and kind demeanor? Gone from his injury and trauma. In one night, Soshun Murasame pretty much lost all that made him who he was. He couldn't even keep the last remnant of himself, his sanity, because the very mention of Junko broke him to the point of no return.

In DR0, meta wise, he's also interesting in the fact that, unlike most of the original, major, Zero cast, Soshun didn't actually have any official artwork of himself up until DR3 came about. While this likely isn't an artistic decision (could really just be for a lack of time/disintest in Soshun) it does track with the story's overall theme as well. Despite being the key victim of Junko's actions that kickstarts the plot of Zero, no one really cares about Soshun, truly. Hope's Peak just considered what happened a disgrace on their end, and wanted to suppress the truth if it was too inconvenient. Junko, who hurt him in the first place, just saw the council as easy means to of furthering her despair plot. Yuto wants to solve the mystery to advance his popularity, Kyoko has her own thing with her Dad going on, Jin in particular, while sympathetic, still goes along wth covering up the incident as much as he could. You'd think Madarai and Yasuke would care the most given they're classmates, but for the former its more of a 'wounded pride' sort of thing, while Yasuke (despite genuinely liking Soshun - which a notable thing given Yasuke's kind of a grump) straight up kills him to protect the girl who ruined Soshun's life. No one really cares about Soshun Murasame outside of how he affected their lives, likely negatively, and the story reflects this with a lack of a art to go with it.

Of the characters to compare him too, one would easily think of three guys. One, is Makoto Naegi himself, which makes sense given how Soshun is set-up to essentially be the 'Hope' of the Student Council that raises their spirits. Though, given his lack of a proper ahoge, he was also clearly designed in the mind to essentially what would happen if Makoto didn't have his luck or was placed in different circumstances by Junko. A tragic take on what easily could have been a protagonist in his own right.

In the same vein of DR1, we have Kiyotaka Ishimaru, who Soshun does follow a bit in terms of his story. While not as socially awkward outcast as Taka, both serve as a leader for their group who, due to Junko's actions, wind up losing the ones they care about in the killing game and undergoing a major personality shift. First by being near catatonic, then recovering into essentialy worst versions of themselves after something triggers them to change for the worse. Taka becomes Kiyondo, whose essentially trying to be Mondo in a sense, while Soshun becomes a 'thing' that needs to be put down. Likewise, both wind up killed as a means to an end for the machinations of a manipulative woman and her underling (Taka killed by Hifumi who was working with Celeste, to Soshun killed by Yasuke who was dating Junko).

Lastly, there is Kyosuke Munakata, fellow Ultimate SC President. In this sense, Soshun is pretty much a look into the future that awaited Kyosuke at the end of DR3. Both were leaders of 14 branch organization that wounded up in a killing game with the Ultimate Hope. Despite their attempts to stop things, be it through words or by force, the killings happen after girls they would have been closest too, are driven into despair and kickstart the affairs (from Chisa killing herself via Gloomy Sunday, to Karen killing Ryota). In addition, this game is merely a means to an end for the Mastermind to enact their endgame plamns to enforce their will onto the world. Ultimately, both stories ends with the killing game giving both serious injuries, and leaving their groups effectively dismantled, while the Ultimate Hope gets out alive and more or less well. What diverges is that, while Kyosuke lost everything, he did come out of his killing game with the resolve to carry on their memories and effectively being brought away from becoming a 'beast' himself lost in his rage and desapir thanks to his Ultimate Hope genuinely reaching out to him. In contrast, Soshun was left hurt and abandoned, with izuru not giving a flying feather what happens to anyone or anything unless its interests him. Thus, leading Soshun being unable to properly deal with his grief and wind up leaving himself vulnerable to be ing murdered.

Personal Thoughts

Soshun is an interesting character to talk about, given how he's essentially the DR protagonist that never was. He's the Makoto of a story that ends with the failure to overcome a killing game. While the other games had major casualties, at the very end, the survivors were able to work past their problems and eventually break free of their confinement. A bittersweet ending, all in all...

Soshun does not get that, Soshun is the protagonist that gets no happy ending, and that alone makes him very fascinating to me. Okay, also, admttedly, Soshun and his Student Council are very much major fanfic bait that I just can't help but love.

What were the rest of his underlings talent and council positions? How well would they interact in a proper killing game setting? Or maybe if more of his number survived? It's thoughts that those that, honestly, get people talking about Soshun and his lot, which is probably intentional given how they do exist just to slaughter themselves for the sake of the plot.

In terms of DR0, I appreciate that, for what its worth, he was used well to show, yes, Yasuke can have actually good terms relationships with his classmates in the 77th batch! Jokes aside, I did like how Soshun was also used to foreshadow Izuru's not being the number one cause of the Council's demise with how unresponsive he was to him be labelled as the murder. I also really enjoyed Soshun pretty much living, if briefly, example of the sheer trauma of what being in a battle royale would be like, while knowing full well the person who that to you is out there.

In general, Soshun's presence was short, yet, effective, for his time in the book and anime, and he remains just a nice well used tragic character, caught in the insanity of Danganronpa!

[brainclouded]

What if all the student council had ultimates...

[derpu-doodles]

iNHALES

THE INTO THE SPOTLIGHT ZINE HAS RELEASED YEAAAAHHH

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to download the zine, scroll down and click on the FINISHED ZINE button!! it'll take you to a Google Drive folder with the .pdf, as well as the merch files!! it's been such an honor to work with you all <333

and now. my piece >:)

BECAUSE THE STUDENT COUNCIL DESERVES MORE LOVE AND IF I'M GONNA BE THE ONE TO DO IT THEN YOU BET I'LL PUT MY ALL INTO IT RAHHHH

aHEM ANYWAY!!! thank you all so much once again! I hope you enjoy the show ☆

[gladosluver]

gonna post the rest later cuz i forgot i had a stockpile of these and they wouldnt fit into one post. im gonna take a nap first tho. anyways i 💜 dr3

i'll only stop with the kotomi-asukasei gay beef if PEOPLE STOP FUELING IT LMAO every single one of these screenshots has been from a convo i've been in 😔😔 im always at the scene of the crime. and nobody say "of course"

sato sprites + natsumi sprites + everyone else

[utsukurou]

SOSUKE ICHINO MOST AURA LOSING MOMENTS 🥶🥶🥶 (Warning: Bl**d, spoilers for despair arc ep.7)

Spoiler-avoiding cut with Soshun Murasame's dumb looking faces

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#1: Let go of Ryota and accidentally got him Olaf'd (-2400 aura)

#2: Actually follows Karen's example and grabs a big ass shovel instead of restraining her with the rest of the kids (-2000 aura)

#3: Tried to defend himself and ended up killing his crush in the process (-9000 aura)

#4: Killed a random couple because he was single now even though they were going to kill themselves anyway (-10000 aura)

#5: Cries like a bitch after the entire ordeal not knowing that he's going to turn into Sosuke jam from the girl he should've restrained in the first place (-30000 aura)

[kousaka-erena]

HBD, SATO!!!!!

[penguwastaken]

"DR3 makes the Remnants of Despair blameless"

This is a statement I've heard many times before, and I think it's one that's both technically correct and also technically incorrect.

But overall, I think this is a statement that kind of ignores the nuance of what the "brainwashing" actually did or even the themes of the series. Because of that, I decided to make this post to clear up some confusion about this subject and explain my thoughts on it.

What the "brainwashing" actually is

For starters, no, brainwashing in Danganronpa does not turn them into mindless zombies and get rid of their "free will." I wrote an entire post about brainwashing on its own and the many misconceptions abut it. While there are some things I'd change or update now, I think overall it's pretty solid. The main reason I'm making this post though is to fill in a piece that I should have filled in then. But if you understandably don't want to read that massive post right now, I'll go over it again here.

The way the Despair video works in both Danganronpa Zero and Danganronpa 3 is that it uses subliminal messaging to strengthen the emotions that you are already feeling by watching the video. It does not "create despair," it amplifies it.

"'She just wanted to stir up the pent-up emotions of the Reserve Course. She got the Ultimate Hope involved in the whole thing for that sole reason, and then incited them all… No, it wasn't something simple like incitement… it was brainwashing.' 'Brainwashing…' Pain, along with violent itching, brought up that scene in my mind. The monitor's visuals I had seen beyond the Monokuma Heads in the underground facility. Crushing heads, cut-up faces, agonizing screams, the Mutual Killing's red lumps of flesh." -Referring to the despair video Ryoko watched in Danganronpa Zero

Notice how the phrases "incited" and "pent-up emotions" are used. Once again, this is because the subliminal messaging doesn't make you feel things, it amplifies what the video itself makes you feel.

This doesn't contradict Ryota's description of brainwashing, note how he describes it as "influencing" the viewer's brain, not controlling it.

This is also why I put brainwashing in quotes earlier, because Ryota says it's not just brainwashing, brainwashing techniques are just a part of it.

This is the whole reason why Junko needed to kill Chiaki in the first place, she needed a video that would make them emotional enough for brainwashing to have an actual substantial effect. If she just used the student council killing video, there's a chance they'd be able to resist it like Chisa or Ryoko did.

All the despair video did was overload them with feelings of despair, causing them to crave it as a way of coping with the despair that was just unleashed onto them.

The despair video did not:

Turn them into mindless zombies

Make them love or worship Junko

Remove their free will or ability to make decisions

All the video did was make them crave despair, how they went about it was entirely up to them. Like Nagito, for example, he gave into the despair by hating Junko, but he was never a mindless zombie.

In fact, I think even being able to resist the videos effects at all kind of implies that the video isn't forcing you to give into temptation. It gives you urges, but that's all. The Ultimate Despairs chose to give into their urges of despair. They also chose the methods of which they went about bringing despair. The video wasn't mind control, it doesn't have the technology to turn you into a mindless servant. In that sense, the despair video did not remove their autonomy and they still chose their actions.

Big fat massive however...

While it is true that their ability to choose what to do remained, the fact is that they only made the decisions they made and got their despair urges in the first place was because they were brainwashed. So it is also true that the person at fault isn't them, it's Junko and her video.

And that's the point, it isn't their fault that they made those choices. Some may say this is because Kodaka wanted to make them more redeemable, but I just completely disagree because it was always like this.

Makoto refers to them as victims at multiple points in Danganronpa 2, even saying that they were brainwashed and have the ability to go back to normal. Danganronpa 3 didn't make them more "blameless," it emphasized a theme and point that was there since the start.

Dialing it back

Themes of guilt and blame are things that have always existed in Danganronpa. I already mentioned how Danganronpa 2 refers to the Ultimate Despairs as victims, but there's plenty more examples of this.

Such as Ryota in Danganronpa 3. Ryota is threatened with his classmates' lives and is forced to develop the despair video for Junko. Would you say Ryota's at fault?

Of course not, and I doubt the anime wants you to believe that way either. But that doesn't stop Ryota from feeling this way. He's a victim, just like everyone else. A victim who was forced to make a choice that he now regrets.

Alternatively, we can look at Juzo as well. He was blackmailed with his biggest insecurity used against him, completely unaware of the despair that would soon follow. While you could argue he's more to blame than the others, the point is just like them, he was forced into a situation where he couldn't choose. He wasn't responsible for Junko's actions, but he still feels as if he was. He's a victim too. A victim who was also forced to make a choice that he now regrets.

This isn't a theme exclusive to Danganronpa 3. I already mentioned how it applies to Danganronpa 2, but it's been there since the first game.

When Chihiro feels at fault for judging Leon, Makoto tells them that it isn't their fault. Nor was it Sayaka's or Leon's. Even though they chose to kill, it was only because of the situation. It was the mastermind's fault, not theirs.

The big point

The big point throughout the series is that the many actions we see throughout the series are done so due to the situation these characters are forced in. From the very start, it's been established that the blame should go towards Junko, not her victims.

Guilt is a running theme in Danganronpa, even more so in Danganronpa 3. That's why the anime emphasizes it, showing us Junko's victims and how they were effected but also making it clear that even though they made the wrong choices, they only did so because of Junko.

Danganronpa 3 didn't make Class 77 "blameless." Saying so implies that the series wanted you to blame them in the first place.

What Danganronpa 3 did was emphasize the point and theme the series had been setting up for a long time. This is a story where Junko is the bad guy and these are her victims. This is how it is in the last entry, this is how it's been since the first game.

So yes, Class 77 chose to to give into their despair obsessed urges. Ryota chose to help make Junko's video. Juzo chose to lie about Junko. Chihiro chose to judge their classmates. Sayaka and Leon chose to attack. But they only made these choices because they were put into unavoidable situations by Junko.

It's not about who here is more guilty than the other, the fact is they're all victims of Junko at the end of the day. They were never supposed to be blamed, implying that Danganronpa 3 makes them blameless misses the point entirely.

You can say whatever you want about whether or not brainwashing is more or less interesting than the idea of Junko somehow manipulating 15 individual students that she doesn't care about in less than a year to turn them into despair super terrorists willing to hack off body parts and kill their own family, but at the end of the day I think saying that the brainwashing ruins the themes of Danganronpa 2 is just kind of incorrect.

Those are my two cents anyways.

[foryoupeko]

Stuck at my dad’s office so YALL getting silly Peko family HC

Peko’s dad is Kiyotaka’s grandfather, a disgraced politician, and Kyosuke’s mom. The mom wanted to keep the baby but the dad didn’t want the secret to come out. After the baby was born, the dad ordered the yakuza to kill her, aka Fuyuhiko’s dad was called for a job. Mr. Kuzuryu accessed the situation and went, wait, she’s the product of two family known for their sword skills? Well if no one wants her… and faked Peko’s death with a fake doctor. Mr. Kuzuryu then took Peko and made her his unborn son’s retainer.

Fast forward years later, Kyosuke checks on Chisa’s class, to see what kind of rift rafts are in her girlfriend’s class. Who does he find? Someone who’s a splitting image of his mother??? Kyosuke uses his ultimate student council president skills to find out that’s his dead sister??? He confronts Mr. Kuzuryu with big dick energy and goes “Hey I know the situation. I will give you money to free my sister from your service”. Mr. Kuzuryu didn’t want to lose such a loyal retainer but he has a soft spot for Peko. Her adoptive parents gave their lives for the Kuzuryu clan and Peko been working very diligently. Not mention it would be shameful of Kyosuke revealed that Mr. Kuzuryu lied about an accomplishing a hit. So Mr. Kuzuryu retired Peko from the gang and Peko was surrendered to Kyosuke’s family,

Kyosuke confronts Peko and flats out say “I don’t respect you because you was raised as a sheep. However, becuase you are family, I will take responsibility for you. I will make you a respectable person. “ and forbids her from interacting with the Kuzuryu ever again. For reasons that Kyosuke does not understand, Peko did not like anything he said. She didn’t say anything, but her glare said a thousand words. Peko stuck with Kyosuke because she was told to do so, but Kyosuke felt daggers coming from her.

Kyosuke explains his situation to Peko’s teacher, hoping for advice. Instead he gets admonished for talking so rudely to a teenage girl. Even Kyosuke’s boyfriend, the man that defend him through anything, was shocked Kyosuke was so bad at talking to children. So Chisa went to Peko, with her mommy teacher energy, and explained that Kyosuke is an asshole but he means well. And then they both fortnite danced.

That’s all I got for now. Other than Kyosuke bringing in Taka to convince Peko not everyone in her family are assholes. I mostly thought of this because Fuyuhiko explicitly saids that Peko is retired from the gang in the DR3 anime. And Kyosuke literally looks just like Peko. He even has a fucking sword!

[prettyboyarts]

something i think is really funny is how everyone talks about kamukura as if he was some dangerous cold emotionless killing machine when 95% of the time he literally does nothing. like sdr2 and danganronpa zero make a big deal about how he’s behind the killing of the student council and then dr3 shows that junko was behind it and all he did was attack one of the members who attacked him first. in fact, for most of dr3 he’s just standing there watching junko and mukuro commit atrocities.

kamukura does nothing without being prompted or provoked, since that’s what he was made for. he doesn’t attack unless he’s attacked first, since he has no reason to fight anyone unless they’re threatening him, because he thinks fighting is boring and doesn’t think it’s worth the effort. he won’t do something without someone telling him to, since he is bored by everything and therefore wants to do nothing, since why would he do it if it just makes him more bored?the only exception to this is if someone needs help or medical attention, during which he’ll quietly help the person and then leave afterwards, as seen with that one comic with souda. (this doesn’t apply to chiaki, since she was very clearly beyond saving when he got to her, plus junko wanted her dead, so he wouldn’t have interfered with her plans.)

the fact that everyone talks about him as a major threat is funny because, yeah, he could be a major threat. he has every talent known to man, and shows no emotions about the things he does. but he’s only a threat if he’s being directed by someone with malicious intentions, like junko enoshima. on his own, he’s just a tool. an extremely powerful tool, but still a tool. he has his own free will, but doesn’t do anything with it because he doesn’t see the point in doing anything if everything bores him.