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Kazutaka Kodaka (Japanese: 小高 和剛, Hepburn: Kodaka Kazutaka, born July 8, 1978) is a Japanese video game designer, writer, and manga artist.His work is known for recurring themes of contrasting hope and despair, luck and talent, truth and lies, and mixing tragedy with dark humor, as well as using numerous plot twists.
Danganronpa (Japanese: ダンガンロンパ) is a Japanese video game franchise created by Kazutaka Kodaka and developed and owned by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Spike).The series primarily surrounds various groups of apparent high-school students who are forced into murdering each other by a robotic teddy bear named Monokuma.
In the West, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Danganronpa 2 sold over 200,000 copies combined in the United States and Europe by April 29, 2015, which NIS America CEO Takuro Yamashita said was impressive since they were PS Vita exclusives. [47] The Steam release of the game had an estimated total of 234,000 players by July 2018. [48]
The following manga series have been produced: . Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei (ダンガンロンパ 希望の学園と絶望の高校生) (Illustrated by Hajime Touya, published in Enterbrain's Famitsu Comic Clear from 24 June 2011 – 18 October 2013)
Early designs of Kyoko rejected as Spike requested the staff a more colorful design of the character. In the early versions of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the demo DISTRUST, the character was known as Gyaru Kirigiri (霧切ギャル, Kirigiri Gyaru) and was the original first victim in the narrative's killing game. [4]
Junko Enoshima (Japanese: 江ノ島 盾子, Hepburn: Enoshima Junko) is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa series. Featured as the mastermind in the series' first two games as the true identity of Monokuma, in the spin-off Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls in the guises of Shirokuma and Kurokuma, and in the prequel light novel ...
An original video animation titled Super Danganronpa 2.5, set between Danganronpa 2 and Future Arc, was released with limited editions of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony on January 12, 2017. [4] For Future Arc, the opening theme is "Dead or Lie" by Maon Kurosaki and Trustrick, [5] while the ending theme is "Recall the End" by Trustrick. [6]
The series consists of three games, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (2010), Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (2012) and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (2014), along with a standalone sequel game, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (2017), various spin-off novels and manga including Danganronpa Zero (2011), Kirigiri (2013–2020 ...