Favorite Student? Least Favorite Student?

[Fire Demon]

I just finished this yesterday. Thought I'd post this fun question that I'm sure has been asked for (lol sorry).

Favorite Character: Kyoko
-She was easily the smartest and most interesting/mysterious character. Unlike most character in Japanese original material, her arcitype is usually very one dimensional but I REALLY appreciated her moments of self doubt and even remorse for her actions as opposed to the usual standing by every action she takes.

Least Favorite Character: Byakuya
-He's an easy foil and I fell into what the writers wanted which is for me to hate him. I wanted him to die the entire time. I also had a big issue with the way he treated Toko. Generally he was one note and presented himself as the villan until the very end which I found to be somewhat unrealistic. The only time I felt some for him was when he learned of news of his family. Given how long they were trapped together I think Byakuya should have bended a little to show a few more layers.

For extra credit...

Most Troubling Character: Toko
-I understand the comedic aspect of her character although I took a slight issue with the fact that she was obsessed with a man who clearly hated women or...everyone. I went back and forth between finding her interesting and finding her uncomfortable. I found the Genocide Jill thing a bit hokey and found it even more disappointing that Jill wasn't stronger against Byakuya which I thought would have made a great juxtiposition to the meek and frightened Toko. Ah well.

Give me your picks!

[Lumios]

Originally posted by ALPHA_Ookami:

My favourite characters are Kyoko and Chihiro/Alter Ego.
My least favourite is Byakuya and Toko.

Although I also like Asahina and Monokuma.

Why byakuya though? I can understand why for toko she's annoying.

[Fire Demon]

Originally posted by Lumios:

Favourite: Leon I guess.
Least favourite: Either junko or celeste.

You don't like the baddies I take it

[AccidentByDragon]

Favourite Mukuro based on IF and the number of times she blows her cover in game, least favourite Yasuhiro he didn't do anything useful.

[Glacey]

I would give my favorite to be either Naegi Or Kirigiri, if not just because of their whole involvement with the story and their relations with each other, because they both tried to have a positive attitude towards their situation. (Kirigiri didn't really show it, but after going through her report card, you can tell that she looked forward in her own way, without showing emotions.)

My least favorite would probably be Togami. He was extremely annoying for me, and he also did some pretty messed up things.(Completely screwing with Chihiro's corpse after he was killed, and taking away Kirigiri's room key.) Overall, I just hated him.

[Zinnituce]

Note: Mukuro isn't here, only de 15 "beginners" are there

Top 3:

1- Kyouko Kirigiri
2- Makoto Naegi
3- Touko Fukawa

Well...

13- Sayaka Maizono
14- Mondo Oowada
15- Leon Kuwata

[Buuber]

I decided to use that DR character sorter [drsorter.tumblr.com] because I thought that would give me more of a surprising and unbiased result. Here's what I got, spoilered parts are self explanitory:

1. Mondo - I loved mondo's design and personality from the start, plus I personally thought his backstory was the saddest.
2. Byakuya - I don't care I love this smug ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Unarguably one of the strongest personalities in the game, I totally get hating him for it, but I only see him as a good character who I loved to have around so I could hate him.
3. Sakura - buff momma, who was surprisingly sweet and didn't do anything wrong
4. Chihiro - see taka, with the addition of an interesting backstory and unexpected development after his death
5. Leon - I love his design, so I actually spent my free time with him early on, and so he became my favourite character from the start, his execution hit me really hard :c
6. Yasuhiro - yeah I just can't bring myself to dislike this dude, sure he's totally unhelpful, but he's just too damn charismatic. dope hair too.
7. Kiyotaka - precious cinnamon roll, never did anything wrong ;_;
8. Genocide Jack - Junko on a smaller scale, she was in it more though, and her dialogue throughout is super entertaining
9. Aoi - Kinda unhelpful and background character in the start, but her interactions with Sakura and devlopment from case 4 made her a pretty cool character.
10. Junko - the best girls are the ones that have insane plans to bring down the entire world with despair yaaaaaas
11. Celeste - I liked her for a good bit, her design is cool and she was a genuine mystery, being a remorseless killer knocked her back a tad.
12. Makoto - Eeeeehhhh. Compared to Hajime, really quite uninteresting.
13. Hifumi - amusing at times. But I can't say I was ever worried about him.
14. Kyoko - she immediately occured to me as the alt protagonist character, I knew she wouldn't die so there was no suspense. I didn't dislike her, but she was just kind of boring. Perhaps if they did kill Kyoko off that would make me like her more because THAT woulda subverted everything I thought about her.
15. Toko - annoying as hell, sorry.
16. Sayaka - basically who? she felt like such a forced romance interest and I went out of my way to spend as little time with her as possible.
17. Mukuro - Didn't read the side story, sorry ;_;

[Kam (Alyx)]

Favorite: A lot of people hate Byakuya but I personally really liked him. I thought he was funny and amusing being distant then allowing himself to become closer to the rest after. Idk exactly why I loved him so much overall though.

Least: Hifumi by far was my least favorite. I thought he was obnoxious the whole time he was alive and thought he was the stupidest thing ever.

[Kyoko28]

Originally posted by Kam.exe:

Favorite: A lot of people hate Byakuya but I personally really liked him. I thought he was funny and amusing being distant then allowing himself to become closer to the rest after. Idk exactly why I loved him so much overall though.

Least: Hifumi by far was my least favorite. I thought he was obnoxious the whole time he was alive and thought he was the stupidest thing ever.

I definitely agree about Byakuya. He is very enjoyable. Regarding Hifumi though, I feel that Yasuhiro Hagakure has him beat by a wide margin in terms of being gullible.

[Fire Demon]

So happy this thread is going strong!!! Keep it up! Loving the responses

[Monsieur Crow]

Originally posted by Byakuya28:

Originally posted by Kam.exe:

Favorite: A lot of people hate Byakuya but I personally really liked him. I thought he was funny and amusing being distant then allowing himself to become closer to the rest after. Idk exactly why I loved him so much overall though.

Least: Hifumi by far was my least favorite. I thought he was obnoxious the whole time he was alive and thought he was the stupidest thing ever.

I definitely agree about Byakuya. He is very enjoyable. Regarding Hifumi though, I feel that Yasuhiro Hagakure has him beat by a wide margin in terms of being gullible.

Yasuhiro isn't really gullible, he's more of a well-meaning fool. Hifumi is the gullible one, he actually fell for Celeste's lies. At least Yasuhiro didn't kill anyone. Especially not Taka. :c

[Shy Monkeys]

Originally posted by Monsieur Crow:

Originally posted by Byakuya28:

I definitely agree about Byakuya. He is very enjoyable. Regarding Hifumi though, I feel that Yasuhiro Hagakure has him beat by a wide margin in terms of being gullible.

Yasuhiro isn't really gullible, he's more of a well-meaning fool. Hifumi is the gullible one, he actually fell for Celeste's lies. At least Yasuhiro didn't kill anyone. Especially not Taka. :c

To be fair Celeste is the queen of liars, and with Taka's sudden shift I might accept her story of him "abusing" her, although I'd definitely want proof first.

[Kyoko28]

Originally posted by JackBauer:

Originally posted by Monsieur Crow:

Yasuhiro isn't really gullible, he's more of a well-meaning fool. Hifumi is the gullible one, he actually fell for Celeste's lies. At least Yasuhiro didn't kill anyone. Especially not Taka. :c

To be fair Celeste is the queen of liars, and with Taka's sudden shift I might accept her story of him "abusing" her, although I'd definitely want proof first.

It is certainly hard to tell what to expect when someone like Taka just changes out of nowhere like that. Overall, I suppose I just have a hard time taking Yasuhiro seriously. Mostly becuase of scenes like the one where he described his "UFO encounter" and the one where he thought that Kyoko was a ghost at the start of the chapter 5 class trial.

[Doloris]

Originally posted by FreezingCoal:

Of course, if anyone has any material about her I should read/watch, please send me it! I don't WANT to dislike her, I just do because I don't understand her character.

THIS ENTIRE POST WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR TRIGGER HAPPY HAVOC. Consider yourself warned. If you read past this point it is not my responsibility. Spoilers for the second game or other Danganronpa media will be spoiled tagged.





Since you asked for a Celestia read: http://kamukuranon.tumblr.com/post/56918156800/understanding-celestia-ludenberg-a-really-long

I'll list all characters, because I am thorough.

19. Hifumi Yamada. Just as he drove Celestia over the edge, he would have driven me over the edge. Still better than Teruteru, though.
17. Leon Kuwata. Has no story whatsoever due to an early demise, and what he showed went entirely unappreciated by me.
16. Kiyotaka Ishimaru. I apologize to his fans, but these type of characters generally rub me the wrong way. And if he's such a Moral Compass, he could have at least followed Celeste's night time rule.. And not gotten killed that way.
14. Mondo Owada. Because I dislike short fuses very much. Have some self control.
13. Makoto Naegi. Boring. Plain. Quite stupid. Could not relate whatsoever.
12. Yasuhiro Hagakure. Useless, stupid, irrelevant.. yeah.
11. Byakuya Togami. Wanted him to die throughout the entire game. Just get his crime over with, I thought. Then he, for some reason I really don't see fitting his character, didn't commit one at all. At least he wasn't stupid?
10. Touko Fukawa. At least she had some alright moments. Not many, though.
9. Sayaka Maizono. I feel like she could have been so interesting had she actually gone completely nuts. Sadly she died extremely early.
8. Chihiro Fujisaki. I definitely came to like him better as the game progressed. However, I had predicted his big plot twist from the very first time I saw him.
7. Sakura Ogami. A very respectable character. Caring, kind, protective, rather smart. She was very likable in general.
6. Aoi Asahina. Although not very smart, I found her enjoyable to talk to throughout the game. Besides that, she valued friendship very much. She was on the edge at one point, but pulled through.
5. Genocide Jill. I'm weak to insanity.
4. Mukuro Ikusaba, entirely based on other works (Danganronpa: Zero and Danganronpa IF).
3. Kyoko Kirigiri. Mysterious, smart, Celesgiri. I found her dull at times, but looking back I can respect her quite a lot.
2. Junko Enoshima. The life of Danganronpa, as far as I'm concerned. The most interesting character of them all, and the one that has given me the most entertainment time; over multiple works. Danganronpa: Zero brought her dangerously close to my number one; however, she was not dethroned.
1. Celestia Ludenberg. The character with the most hidden layers out of the franchise (or what I have experienced of it) so far. Acts as though she is entirely heartless, but sees her old self in Hifumi Yamada and wants to help him out. However, he is entirely in a fantasy world and pushes her over the edge. Besides that, her constant anxiety of the situation keeps building and building; she could be killed at any time. She is physically weak, and a talent for gambling would help nobody in the situation she is in. She claims to be a great manipulator, while also admitting that most of her talent is simply based on luck in games of chance. She is one of the easiest targets in the group; she simply refuses to show this weakness. She made the night time rule in order to prevent disaster, yet everyone keeps breaking it. The entire situation was driving her over the edge and then she decided to prove that she could beat them in a game of wits; a game of manipulation. Prove not only to the group, but to herself. She thinks of a complicated scheme for her case, however, Hifumi messes up on so many fronts; in the end, she should've made it less complicated. The extremely elaborate set up ended as her downfall. Right before she gets executed, after Aoi asks if her dream was really her entire reason, she says "Well, actually..", "No, nevermind." This shows that she had more reason to commit this crime than just her dream. However, in her neverending façade, she refuses to say even that in the end. She is not heartless. She is not a flat character. She is the character you have to read between the lines for.

[100% lob juice]

Originally posted by Celestia Ludenberg:

Originally posted by FreezingCoal:

Of course, if anyone has any material about her I should read/watch, please send me it! I don't WANT to dislike her, I just do because I don't understand her character.

Since you asked for a Celestia read: http://kamukuranon.tumblr.com/post/56918156800/understanding-celestia-ludenberg-a-really-long

1. Celestia Ludenberg. The character with the most hidden layers out of the franchise (or what I have experienced of it) so far. Acts as though she is entirely heartless, but sees her old self in Hifumi Yamada and wants to help him out. However, he is entirely in a fantasy world and pushes her over the edge. Besides that, her constant anxiety of the situation keeps building and building; she could be killed at any time. She is physically weak, and a talent for gambling would help nobody in the situation she is in. She claims to be a great manipulator, while also admitting that most of her talent is simply based on luck in games of chance. She is one of the easiest targets in the group; she simply refuses to show this weakness. She made the night time rule in order to prevent disaster, yet everyone keeps breaking it. The entire situation was driving her over the edge and then she decided to prove that she could beat them in a game of wits; a game of manipulation. Prove not only to the group, but to herself. She thinks of a complicated scheme for her case, however, Hifumi messes up on so many fronts; in the end, she should've made it less complicated. The extremely elaborate set up ended as her downfall. Right before she gets executed, after Aoi asks if her dream was really her entire reason, she says "Well, actually..", "No, nevermind." This shows that she had more reason to commit this crime than just her dream. However, in her neverending façade, she refuses to say even that in the end. She is not heartless. She is not a flat character. She is the character you have to read between the lines for.

Wow, that's... really insightful actually. I liked celeste the most before because I like gothic fashion and thought her personality was cute, but that makes her characters even more interesting to me.

[Fenrir]

I used the Dangan Ronpa sorter solely with the characters from the first game! I'm only gonna mention my top 3 because I could write a huge essay on how much I love the DR1 characters...

1. Mukuro, as you can probably tell by my username and icon. Despite not having much of a presence in the game I instantly fell in love with her character; her obsession with her abusive, despair-induced sister, her inner conflict with hope and despair and the way she conducts herself as Ultimate Soldier.

2. Sakura! I really loved her character - she was so unique not only in looks and style but in strength too. Her protective ~loving~ friendship with Aoi is inspiring and it took a lot of strength for her to commit suicide and disobey Monokuma with the threat of destroying their family dojo

3. Junko!~ Most definitely one of my favourite villains. Complete and utter Ultimate Despair; a genius with a cruel and twisted personality. She is beautiful, manipulative and basically destroyed the entire world.