Dangan Ronpa #03 — GASP!

July 18th, 2013

 

GASP GASP GASP GASP!

Almost all broadcasts were pushed back about 15-20 minutes today, so it’s not all my fault. But my connection has been randomly dropping for hour(s) at a time over the last couple days, so… yeah. I can’t wait to get back home to stability.

Impressions:

Well, I gave it to the end of the first ‘mystery,’ and I remain unimpressed. I suppose we can take it as an object lesson that there are massive difference between how you present something through an interactive medium like a game and a passive one like a show, but I’m pretty sure most people that aren’t Kishi were already aware of that. The blaring music, the corny cut-ins, the overexaggerated everything. They’re just a whole lot of noise for noise’s sake. Start to finish. Probably trying to cover up a wafer thin mystery, although I’d like to think that they’re just lazy and copied it straight out of the game as I’m 95% certain they did so fans can clap their hands wildly and go "That’s just like my game!" as if they’re trained harp seals. And not that that kept them all from gasping in utter horror like a dingo was tearing apart their collective testicles right in front of their faces either. There needs to be contrast. When you’re presenting everything the exact same way, then there’s no tension. A guy leaping out of a closet is scary (or at least startling). A guy screaming in your ear for 20 minutes is not 20 times more tense, just obnoxious. 

Maybe I’ll give Love Lab a harder third look after all.

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16 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Anonymous says:
    July 18, 2013 at 12:24 pm

    Well I can tell the culprit is the same as in the game which disappoints me a bit. For a mystery series you’d assume this is a chance to change the approach a bit and shake up the former fans into a new frenzy based on new mental puzzles called “mystery”.

    I’ve played the game version and so far the anime just seems lazily ported to the anime medium. All that has happened so far is that they’ve removed a few parts of running around and finding things. The sword was not in Naegi’s room at first but something that Sayaka and he went and got. The reasoning was she wanted something to defend herself at the time. Yet this was left out.

    I’ll admit this makes the episode shorter and possibly less boring. However if you have enough desire to change this then why not change the mystery up a bit.

    • Longing says:
      July 18, 2013 at 12:47 pm

      In that case, you’d get just as many people who would say how inaccurate (and thus bad) the anime is to the source material. There’s really no winning for the anime in this case :P

      • Aroduc says:
        July 18, 2013 at 1:00 pm

        Unless, of course, it was executed well. Or even if it wasn’t much of the time. There’s a whole lot more things that stuck to the source and sucked proportionally speaking than there are things that took it and went off in their own direction. I also don’t seem to remember any mobs taking to the streets for things like Milky Holmes, FMA, or any of the thousands upon thousands of Western adaptations that do their own thing with established characters and stories instead of using the source as script, screenplay, and sacrament.

        Change and effort are scary for Japanese script writers though. Woe is they.

    • Anonymous says:
      July 18, 2013 at 8:46 pm

      I’m sure it was considered at some point, but the fact that Super Danganronpa 2 is a direct sequel to the first makes switching things up a more difficult proposition, given the high likelihood of it also receiving an anime adaptation.

      • Aroduc says:
        July 18, 2013 at 8:53 pm

        So? Even at worst, they have a small set of characters that need to live. They can shuffle around the murderers/victims, even switch the victims/murderers up and still end up in the same place at the end.

        At worst, they just say “Who cares? Whoever makes that adaptation can deal with it. And if it’s us, we’ll do our own thing again.”

        But again, that’d require effort. And talent. And taking a risk. All things too terrifying to consider when there’s the lazy effortless way right in front of them.

      • Anonymous says:
        July 19, 2013 at 6:51 pm

        Nothing about this first case except the basic premise of classroom trials matters in SDR2 even slightly. Even in the first game it’s an introduction and tutorial and little more than that. (Though if you’re Japanese and barely remember the Roman alphabet from those mandatory high school English classes you slept through, maybe the 11037=LEON thing is a little less ‘duh.’)

  • slicendice says:
    July 18, 2013 at 12:29 pm

    Still more interesting then the doll show that’s not about dolls. Suck it.

    • slicendice says:
      July 18, 2013 at 12:38 pm

      At some point in my life, I’m going to get a T-shirt that has “unimpressed” written on it. People will wonder if you’re being ironic or a blogger for Tenka Seiha.

  • Nanaya says:
    July 18, 2013 at 2:32 pm

    So they didn’t shake things up a little. Pity, was hoping there would be some more effort than pasting most of the game sequence and calling it a day. C’est la vie.

  • Mesousa2877 says:
    July 19, 2013 at 9:28 am

    The weirdest part of the episode is Naegi going as far as avenging Miazono AND Leon, DESPITE the fact that the latter killed the former and the former attempted to trick Neigi.

    Yes, go avenge a killer as well, Naegi, you hypocritical shota-baiter!

    How damn desperate are they being with him? It’s like they’re giving him more motivation…even though his motivation already was avenging Maizono!

  • Mesousa2877 says:
    July 19, 2013 at 9:30 am

    Oh, and another note: can Touko just die already?! Her nervousness is fucking annoying.

    • chad001 says:
      July 20, 2013 at 2:15 am

      ….Would now be a bad time to tell you that she’s one of the ones that live? …And that she gets worse?

  • Athos says:
    July 19, 2013 at 11:35 pm

    And here I was hoping Naegi really did kill her and the real protagonist was detective girl all along.

    But I guess that would’ve been too interesting.

  • chad001 says:
    July 20, 2013 at 2:14 am

    Seeing how they adapted the gaming elements into the anime, I was desperately hoping for them not to use MTB.. .and then they did. And it culminated in a lot of overly-exciting music and “Retarded!”‘s.

  • Disappointed says:
    July 20, 2013 at 9:14 am

    They literally copy pasted the game… this hurts to watch