Dark Horse Comics brings you a side story of Danganronpa which focuses on the survival of the fittest which is Ultra Despair Girls on its first volume.
Well, I didn’t want to come to this but…… why not? Danganronpa series is a video game franchise created and developed by Spike Chunsoft for the PlayStation consoles, mobile apps, and PC. The series follows some groups of high school students who are forced to play a death game hosted by sadistic black and white remote-controlled teddy bear who likes to massacre the students to death. However, this manga is a spinoff from the game for PlayStation Vita, and it’s sadistic as it gets. The manga is created by Hajime Touya, and the story is more of survival of the fittest than the death game.
I can’t tell you much for the front cover, because it shows the two girls running away from something while the whole background chooses to color in a darkish monochrome color of pink and violet. The story starts when someone is narrating the whole story of how the students met their fate on the death game, and then it introduces a female student who is actually more normal than any other human being of the story. It starts of a girl named Komaru Naegi who was abducted and trapped in a building trying to escape from the attack of the teddy bears when a group of men in black fired back with their blowhorn which can be used as a weapon like a cannon. However, the bears were not only the threat of the city, but the mastermind is the children who hate adults who called themselves warriors of hope. I bet there are some warriors of hope, they could fix the corruption of the city that is going on right now, besides the virus that is, we SHOULD FIX the human corruption in this city. So the thing about the manga is that the children want to have some fun while the bears are rampaging the city so they kidnapped Komaru and took her in a special place, by the same children who did a broadcast on TV.
The thing about that is that the children were super angst because their lives were abused that much by adults, so they treated them like trash, but for Komaru for being an airhead, she consoled them to stop what they’re doing and somehow the children have snapped. After that, they sent her to rock bottom of the abyss where she was surrounded by some killer bears. But that’s not the point, the point is that these kids treated mostly everything like this is a game to them to make adults suffer. Meanwhile, while Komaru is surrounded, there’s another person who took out her enemies with a pair of scissors who apparently is looking for the same guy who saved her from danger from the beginning of the story. Her name is Toko Fukawa, she used to be a serial killer known as Genocide Jill because of her split personality, just like Launch from Dragon Ball, when her hair is blue, she’s nice, but when her hair turns yellow, she’s violent, but other that kind of personality she’s in love with Tenshinhan. While on this comic she’s in love with her master, long story short she’s a weird person, but in the end she decides to stick with Komaru to find her master. Then afterward, they go on their journey to escape that hellhole just to survive.
The story seems to be much more alike from the game, but the thing about this series is almost terrifying as it gets. I don’t even know much of the whole story other than that sadistic remote-controlled teddy bear who likes to kill humans for fun, but the fact about the children who are in control in this world is just another kind of matter because these children are so stubborn and they want to win that bad just to annihilate human behavior. I’m also stubborn in this world and I wanted to win that bad in life. I can’t tell much about the artwork that the illustrator came up with because it looks exactly the same style as the past Danganronpa games. One thing for sure, that this world needs to be cleansed by some kids because they want to make the world better by getting rid of that kind of behavior that any other human adults just made.
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