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mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Dangan Ronpa 2.

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mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Anatharon posted:

junkos


if it weren't for the official translation beefster would have had an aneurysm.

I want a better answer than this please.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Ranpire posted:

Assuming you know the plot of the first game, because why else would you be asking this.


After the first game, it turns out that the world was moderately trashed, but not nearly as bad as Junko made it out to be. Most places are rebuilding and Naegi, Togami and Kirigiri start an organization called the Future Foundation to help society recover. One of their projects is to capture all the surviving students who were part of Junko's despair cult and try to reform them into non-psychopaths.

For whatever reason, the Future Foundation decides the best way to do this is to sedate them and drop them into a Matrix-ish computer simulation where they have no memories of being murderous psychos and instead will learn beautiful lessons about life and friendship. So that's where DR2 kicks off, and everything you see in the game is part of the simulation.

Unfortunately, all this backfires when it turns out that the simulation's been infected with programming for Monobear and seeds for an AI intended to eventually replicate Junko's personality. Monobear hijacks the love and friendship simulator and turns it into a murder trial simulator, cuts off the external supervision, and makes it so that if you die in the game you go into a coma in real life.

Fat Togami isn't really Togami. Their special talent is impersonation, and their true name, identity and even gender are never revealed.
Hinata is or was also Izuru Kamukura, the other genius who worked with Junko to lead the despair cult, and is the person who snuck the Monobear/Junko virus into the simulation after he was captured. Somehow.
Nanami is the only student who isn't a former despair cultist, or even a human. She's a Future Foundation AI designed to supervise and assist the reformation process, based on Chihiro's work and the salvaged remains of Alter Ego. So is Usami/Monomi.
Nagito is exactly the messed up nutcase he appears to be, but is mainly loyal to Kamukura rather than Junko.

As the game progresses, Monobear tries to prod various students into regaining their memories. Nagito discovers the truth of what's going on, and tricks Nanami into accidentally killing him. This results in her execution, and that in turn results in the simulation beginning to suffer severe breakdowns as the Junko AI grows in power. The real Future Foundation tries to intervene and pull the plug, but AI Junko impersonates them and there are various confusions and battles of wits.

Eventually, the surviving students accept that they used to be supervillains, but no longer want to drive the world into despair. The protagonist decides to live on as Hinata rather than Kamukura, and is able to resurrect Nanami and Usami, who shut down the simulation and erase AI Junko. The Future Foundation members make random cameos, the survivors stay on the real islands working on ways to wake up the dead/comatose students, and credits roll.


Thanks.

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Terper posted:

Despair. 53:10 if the link doesn't take you there.

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