Danganronpa is a visual novelβa type of dialogue-heavy, largely text-based adventure game popular in Japan. Itβs about a group of students who think theyβve been invited to study at an elite school called Hopeβs Peak Academy, but have in fact become unwitting pawns in a sinister, deadly game. Trapped in the school by a mysterious villain called Monokumaβwho appears in the form of a terrifying mechanical bearβthe only way to escape is to kill another student and get away with it. The students have been carefully hand-picked as the very best in various fields including programming, martial arts, singing, and, er, writing fan fiction. You, on the other hand, are a nobody. A completely average student with no special skills who randomly won a place at Hopeβs Peak in a lottery. This earns you the title of the βultimate lucky studentβ, but the irony of that label soon becomes clear.
