If Pink blood is ment for censoring when a character dies. Why is the blood in Classroom 5-C red (or dark red)

[Static Chicken]

Eariler in the game i got curious on the color of blood choice and that how i found out about it being censored for reason, but after some progress, i made it to the 5th floor and entered Classroom 5-C. beside the story point of what may have happen there. My main question (above) is, If red blood is a big no no to the point of being censored, why does dry blood (dark red) get a pass but fresh blood doesn't?

[Mysti_Fogg]

::shrug::

I looked into the Japanese CERO ratings group to try to find an answer, but couldn't find anything specific to blood.

I'll go with the violence level as a guess. Old blood is old. There's no recent violence. It could also be the relationship to a corpse. No corpses in 5C, therefore the blood isn't directly related to violence done to a body.

But those are just guesses.

[GreedyElephant]

I think the explanation might be japanese cencorship, and for whatever reason they felt that blood on walls wasn't as serious as blood on a dead corpse and the game develoupers just forgot to change the blood in the room.

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

It's not censorship, contrary to popular belief.

it was a deliberate choice in art style they called "psycho pop"

Look at how many animes have red blood and tell me it's censorship :p even the original anime for the series, The End of Hope's Peak High School has red blood ((the Future Arc at least, not the Despair Arc))

[Mysti_Fogg]

Originally posted by Perfectly Valid School of Magic:

It's not censorship, contrary to popular belief.

it was a deliberate choice in art style they called "psycho pop"

Look at how many animes have red blood and tell me it's censorship :p even the original anime for the series, The End of Hope's Peak High School has red blood ((the Future Arc at least, not the Despair Arc))

It is censorship. They changed the color of the blood to conform to Japanese rules.

They just happen to have rolled with it and used the color change to enhance the "psycho pop" style. Sometimes rules and restrictions can make things better in the creative ways people deal with them.

They originally were going to target a more mature audience with Danganronpa. Sometime around finishing up the Distrust demo, they decided to go for a slightly younger audience and changed some things to pass the ratings restrictions. Other things that got changed include Monokuma (who was originally an anatomy dummy).

[Perfectly Valid School of Magic]

Nothing I've read has EVER said it was censorship. EVERYTHING i have ever read said it was a stylistic choice. So I don't believe you.

And once again: There are countless anime that have red blood. Including Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School!

They used red blood in their own works when they felt like it. So no, I don't believe for one second that it was censorship.

[Mysti_Fogg]

Originally posted by Perfectly Valid School of Magic:

Nothing I've read has EVER said it was censorship. EVERYTHING i have ever read said it was a stylistic choice. So I don't believe you.

And once again: There are countless anime that have red blood. Including Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School!

They used red blood in their own works when they felt like it. So no, I don't believe for one second that it was censorship.

https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/4403/why-is-blood-pink-in-danganronpa/4406

The game is rated 17+ in Japan, which is the equivalent of M in the US. Japan has issues with depictions of blood to the point that a lot of games apparently just leave it out. Leaving it out was not an option.

Anime =/= game.

Oddly enough, I have never seen anything that says the blood is pink purely for artistry and not because they needed to do something about the blood. But I'd be happy to see some articles on it.

Everything I've ever read or watched about Danganronpa says the blood is not red to conform to Japanese censorship. Pink specifically is an artistic choice, but it was a choice necessitated by the ratings.

[Runa Silvertongue]

It was a design choice made by the devs.[en.wikipedia.org]

If it was a censorship issue, anime wouldn't have red blood.

[GreedyElephant]

Wikipedia isn't that reliable of a source.


Also I don't believe it's reasonable to use the example of the anime becuase if it WAS a stylistic choice, then what reason does the D3 anime have to not use that iconic style? Maybe because in anime the censorship laws are less extreme allowing them to go more all out with the blood.

THe thing that was a stylistic choice by the devs was the color of bright pink, likely because they weren't allowed to use the red blood.

[Runa Silvertongue]

Yeah, okay, Wikipedia can be edited be everyone blah blah blah. Doesn't make it a less reliable source if what I quoted hadn't been valid since the game was in circulation. As for the decision to include DR3, I'd say that was for continuity and not censorship.

[Sir Hampter]

As far as I know it has nothing to do with censorship, it was just an art style they chose for the blood. Maybe they thought it's more catchy or something.

[celsitu]

Isn't the reason why the blood is pink is to keep the aesthetic???? Idk,,,

[Runa Silvertongue]

It was a design choice made by the devs. Period.

[Doki_Pikablue]

My interpretation, is that since Japan is quite jumpy with blood in games specifically, it was changed for the rating. Although I do think part of it could be because some people like the "Whodunnit" game 'genre' and want to try new games out, but get freaked out or squeamish around blood very easily, so they may have kept it as hot pink in the west so it'd be easier on the eyes and you wouldn't see it as being overly gruesome. That way, if you get nightmares easily, or are easily disturbed in general, you could have an easier time playing the game.

Also, it's dried blood.. I wold assume it'd be some sort of dark red or closer to brown since when blood dries in real life, it's brown. I'm not about to assume your gender identity but if you've ever dealt with a period before, you know enough about blood to know that it dries darker than its original color-

[CrAzYiNsOmNiAc210]

Late reply but didn't Byakuya say something about the blood changing color because it's old and dried when you first discover the classroom?

[curlycrow]

I still don't see the answer tho... I mean, I don't care whether it was for censorship or other reasons, I'm still confused why "old blood" is red. Not dark pink, not idk purple, not any other color but straight up red. They may as well made it just pink and leave Byakuya's line about that blood being old and dried. I don't have any issues with that, I'm just curious. And actually I also tried to base one of my theories about the mystery of this school on that red color lol