Spoilers: a good read about best girl chiaki

[⊿Draelyn]

Warning! Heavy spoilers for Danganronpa 1, 2, UDG and 3 (the Anime, not v3 the game. Don't even think about mentioning that here.)






For those of you who are a fan of Nanami Chiaki, it is actually the anniversary of the saddest episode of the despair arc anime today (being the 15th Sep). In order to brighten things up, I felt like giving attention to a piece of work that really deserves more recognition. I'll post the link below.

To explain what this is in summary, it's a high quality, novel-length Fanfic piece that completely complies with and follows canon, starting from the infamous death scene and going on to tell a story of Izuru Kamakura deciding to save Chiaki, all of which could've potentially happened and since we are most likely never going to get any more content or information for this period you can easily be the judge of whether you consider this (head)canon or not. I'll be interested in hearing your opinion.

This piece is almost complete and still ongoing, it's quite lengthy but I'm sure those of you who care will find this a good read. I at least reccomend reading the first chapter. It's extremely well written and comparable to official works such as Danganronpa: IF, don't let the title of fanfic fool you.

Link to the work, obviously spoilers. [archiveofourown.org]

Let me know what you guys think x3 I'll be reposting this in the other DR forums probably.

[zhunGamerTTV (人^▽')～]

Can't believe it's been a year since I was overcome with zetsubou q.q RIP

[WizoDard]

People were so triggered by Chiaki's death but I got spoiled during the trial about what was going to happen, so I didn't really care much... The reason I got spoiled was because I got stuck somewhere in the trial and had to search the answer, and that was where I got spoiled.
It still gives me chills when her techno-videogame music plays with the execution but I didn't cry over it like everybody else. In fact, it was either Gundham or Pekoyama's execution that made my eyes get watery, because they're my two favorite characters, but I still didn't cry.
All of the spoiler blocks above are for SDR2 and not Danganronpa v3...

[zhunGamerTTV (人^▽')～]

Originally posted by WizoDard:

but I didn't cry over it like everybody else.

You monster, even Izuru Kamukura shed a tear, despite that he literally had no soul :P

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by Zhuinden (人^▽')～:

Originally posted by WizoDard:

but I didn't cry over it like everybody else.

You monster, even Izuru Kamukura shed a tear, despite that he literally had no soul :P

I did almost cry over the other two I mentioned, it wasn't that big of a deal anyway. If it makes you feel any better, I get chills/goosebumps down my body every time the techno execution music plays...

[⊿Draelyn]

Originally posted by WizoDard:

People were so triggered by Chiaki's death but I got spoiled during the trial about what was going to happen, so I didn't really care much... The reason I got spoiled was because I got stuck somewhere in the trial and had to search the answer, and that was where I got spoiled.
It still gives me chills when her techno-videogame music plays with the execution but I didn't cry over it like everybody else. In fact, it was either Gundham or Pekoyama's execution that made my eyes get watery, because they're my two favorite characters, but I still didn't cry.
All of the spoiler blocks above are for SDR2 and not Danganronpa v3...

Yes, as I said the spoilers relating to this work were about DR1-3, as in, 3 the anime not v3 the game. I can't expect everyone in the v3 forum to be up to date with everything.

Personally while I liked chiaki's character in the game, it was the anime that made her a favourite of mine. Of course, trial 5 was quite an emotional one.

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by Kagearashi:

Originally posted by WizoDard:

People were so triggered by Chiaki's death but I got spoiled during the trial about what was going to happen, so I didn't really care much... The reason I got spoiled was because I got stuck somewhere in the trial and had to search the answer, and that was where I got spoiled.
It still gives me chills when her techno-videogame music plays with the execution but I didn't cry over it like everybody else. In fact, it was either Gundham or Pekoyama's execution that made my eyes get watery, because they're my two favorite characters, but I still didn't cry.
All of the spoiler blocks above are for SDR2 and not Danganronpa v3...

Yes, as I said the spoilers relating to this work were about DR1-3, as in, 3 the anime not v3 the game. I can't expect everyone in the v3 forum to be up to date with everything.

Personally while I liked chiaki's character in the game, it was the anime that made her a favourite of mine. Of course, trial 5 was quite an emotional one.

You should probably spoiler block some of that... Like the chapter 5 part and possibly other things, too...

[⊿Draelyn]

Fixed

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by Kagearashi:

Fixed

Yay, :D. Thanks!
Just a warning for other people...

[father]

Chiaki's death in the anime has been the only time I've actually cried while playing/watching any Danganronpa game/anime.

I was pretty upset about her death in DR2, as well, but the fact that she was just an AI and that everyone else in their class is actually still alive made real Chiaki's death even more tragic for me. Oh, and she's also my ultimate fave out of all Danganronpa characters.

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by em🌙:

Chiaki's death in the anime has been the only time I've actually cried while playing/watching any Danganronpa game/anime.

I was pretty upset about her death in DR2, as well, but the fact that she was just an AI and that everyone else in their class is actually still alive made real Chiaki's death even more tragic for me. Oh, and she's also my ultimate fave out of all Danganronpa characters.

Someone's a big fan...
Honestly, you already know how I feel because I stated it above...

[⊿Draelyn]

Originally posted by em🌙:

Chiaki's death in the anime has been the only time I've actually cried while playing/watching any Danganronpa game/anime.

I was pretty upset about her death in DR2, as well, but the fact that she was just an AI and that everyone else in their class is actually still alive made real Chiaki's death even more tragic for me. Oh, and she's also my ultimate fave out of all Danganronpa characters.

This pretty much sums up my exact feelings on the character.

[aldaen]

Why do we have to spoiler tag DR2?

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by desienaalessandro23:

Why do we have to spoiler tag DR2?

Because there is a lot of new people here, and that's what the spoiler tag is for: to block out things that you wouldn't know unless you played the game...
So it's to save the experience of new people.

[WizoDard]

Originally posted by Kagearashi:

Originally posted by em🌙:

Chiaki's death in the anime has been the only time I've actually cried while playing/watching any Danganronpa game/anime.

I was pretty upset about her death in DR2, as well, but the fact that she was just an AI and that everyone else in their class is actually still alive made real Chiaki's death even more tragic for me. Oh, and she's also my ultimate fave out of all Danganronpa characters.

This pretty much sums up my exact feelings on the character.

I don't understand why people feel so strongly for Chiaki. I almost cried when she was dying on the floor in front of Izuru but that's it. Is it because she's The Ultimate Gamer? I don't even know...Honestly, I still love Pekoyama and Gundham way more...

[father]

Originally posted by Razo:

I'm surprised people haven't forgotten DR3 already considering it retroactively ruined SDR2's plot.

Do you mean the fact that in the end no one actually died or stayed braindead?