Super Danganronpa 2.5: Nagito Komaeda and the Destroyer of the World

スーパーダンガンロンパ2.5 狛枝凪斗と世界の破壊者

7.12(59K votes)

Ranked #4194Popularity #2189

episodes

Type

OVA

Status

Finished Airing

Aired

Jan 12, 2017

Studios:Lerche

ActionHorrorMystery

Synopsis

At Hope's Peak Academy, a school full of extraordinarily talented individuals, Nagito Komaeda is an ordinary boy with no special traits or interesting skills to speak of—except for his incredible unluckiness. Just walking to school in the morning leads to a number of unfortunate accidents, which only escalate as the day goes on. Despite this, Komaeda leads a relatively normal life and is satisfied with his modest slice of happiness. But everything changes when a mysterious boy who declares himself the "Destroyer of the World" arrives to shatter this hopeless paradise. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

112,563 Members

Worth Watching? — Global Verdict

6.9/10

Average Review Score

78%

Recommend It

Reviews Worldwide

International Reviews

Werty800

Recommended

*SPOILERS FOR DANGANRONPA 2 THE GAME AND DANGANRONPA 3 THE ANIME* A lot of Danganronpa fans will be pissed, I can tell you this much already. This short OVA presents one of the events that took place after Super Danganronpa 2, most likely during the events of Danganronpa 3- Mirai-hen. More specifically it showcases exactly how did the rest of the 77th class got out of the Neo World Program. Without spoiling anything, it's a pretty reasonable explanation of both what happened with the people eliminated from the game and how did they get out, but it does have its own share of plot holes, which wasunavoidable. I'm glad that they did this, rather than leave the fans creating theories forever, but, from what we've seen in Danganronpa 3, we already know they don't care all that much about believability. The art style is the same as in the anime that it's a part of (Danganronpa 3), and the music consists of tracks from the second game, such as "DIVE DRIVE" and "CROSS SWORD", that weren't used in the previous anime installments. It's nice to hear them being brought here, even if they're just pretty short, fan service cameos. With all that being said, any Danganronpa fan should watch this, just for the sake of it. If you want to know how did the author explain himself from the massive plothole, this is it. It's always good to have more Danganronpa, especially when Nagito is the main character. Be sure to give it a shot.

73 found helpfulJan 23, 2017

Community Discussion

Danganronpa 2.5 is an OVA that features Nagito Komaeda as the main character while following him through his dream in the Neo World Program until he wakes up. That is pretty much the summary you need to know. As a big Danganronpa fan, I was highly interested in the events that happened after Hinata Hajime and the others woke up from the Neo World Program and what happened to the others that were still asleep. I’ve read with all honestly, many fanfictions that had the ‘What happened when they were still sleeping and what did the others do to help them wake up’- topic. And Iswear, all of them were overall better written and more logical than this OVA, that we even have to accept as cannon. But with no further adue, I will get to the category ratings that MAL wants me to do. Story 2/10 I wouldn’t even call this a story. It shouldn’t even be called a script. It is just a half-done script made into an anime. This shouldn’t even be called an anime. It is just moving art. With voices. It is just a premise that was executed. Poorly to that. Art 4/10 Danganronpa 3 didn’t have bad art. It actually had decent art, and animated it actually looked pretty cool. I am also used to better work from Lerche. The art doesn’t look bad on its own, but at some points, I was just baffled at how different a character suddenly looked from a time difference of mere seconds. The Danganronpa characters already looked very different from their ingame ego, but here they look especially different. In a bad way. Sound 5/10 Danganronpa, especially Danganronpa 2 is very well liked for its OST. While listening to this OVA I identified many of the well-known and also well liked OST of the games. But it is distracting. At some point I even thought the background sound was too loud and overplayed the by the way terrible voice acting. If that was on purpose may or may be not the case. For the voice acting they at least managed to get all the voice actors of the characters of the game. Too bad that the lip sync isn’t in sync with the voice acting most of the time. The voice acting felt also very soulless. It just felt the actors wanted to get done with it. Megumi Ogata can do better, I know this. Direction 2/10 This is not a category MAL wants to be rated but I have to talk about it. Directing is the choice where to put the camera and how it moves. In this OVA we get the typical mediocre Directing. Characters faces are seen up close 90% of the time, while the camera just swipes to left and right. Sometimes there are still shots. This is all in favor of keeping the budget/work as low as possible. And it feels like it. Too bad the art looks bad so when there is a still shot it all just looks ‘meh’. Character 5/10 The characters featured in this OVA are Komaeda, Sonia, Souda, Kuzuryuu and a little bit of Pekoyama. We also get a little comedy act at the beginning of the OVA for OOC Naegi and Maizono. To this OVAs luck, Sonia and Kuzuryuu are my favourite characters from the game, and at least their Komaedas dream persona is not too OOC and actually acceptable. The only characters who act OOC are Komaeda – which is in favor of the ‘plot’ – and Naegi and Maizono. We get to see other characters from the Danganronpa game Another Episode and the Novel Danganronpa Zero too. But these are just very few seconds of screen time, without them doing anything significant. In a still shot. Enjoyment and Overall Opinion This OVA is as significant as Danganronpa 3 Despair Arcs Kamukura Izuru. He existed. He did something. But it was overall worthless, boring, terribly executed and nothing we couldn’t have written a better fanfiction of. It is just a little fanservice for the fans. Is this something bad? Not really, but it is baffling to the fans who actually wanted something out of the little bit of story left, that wasn’t ruined by the letdown that was Danganronpa 3 – The anime, yet. Overall my Enjoyment was a 4/10. But on a critical level this OVA is worthless and skip able - therefore a 2/10.

Whoahoho

Recommended

Ok, so that was quite a surprise, this is one sequel/prequel that one should really not misjudge since it was a prequel of Danganronpa 3 : The End of Kibougamine Gakuen - Kibou-hen and a sequel of Mirai-hen, so imo this is how it fare: Storywise, at first you might ask as to "WTF is this" until you watched it from start to end, one would find out how it turns out, really kudos to studio Lerche and creator Kodaka, Kazutaka, so for such plot, cu'z of it's deceptive nature, really has to be a "Very Good 8." Artwise, it was a mediocre 5, given thatthere wasn't any changes at all with the character's illustration and don't expect any fanservices around here. Sound, it's a 5 in my book , since it was still them same seiyuus who did the voices of the characters and I just have nothing good or bad to say about it, PERIOD. Character, I'd say it was a good 7, to allocated the slot to Nagito, Hinata, Fuyuhiko and Souta, but I'm kinda a bit disgusted that Nagito's has been downgraded as this jinxed guy who is a bad luck magnet, but still his role wasn't that bad. Enjoyment, it was a good 7 in my book, but not very good since at frist one might think that this special is a "WTF" and imo, it should have been added to the Mirai-hen, and not be made as its own special, then again.............................. Overall, it does deserve some very good credit, for Kodaka, Kazutaka's creativity for playing us audience were at first we might think it's a PTW, but in the end it was worth watching after all, so Overall it's an 8. Fu,Fu,Fu,Fu,Fu,Fu

17 found helpfulJan 23, 2017

Maranwee

Recommended

What is hope ? For most people it's the desire and the wish for something beneficial to happen , for others it's just an excuse to escape the awful reality that they're living in, but for Nagito Komaeda it's probably the second option ; or something far more complicated than that. Hope is a concept that can't be defined in a few words, or articles, or even books, it's something than changes depending on the person who posess it. Nothing can match hope when it comes to the feelings that can influence someone's life and changethe person's perspective on it , but did you ever imagine what hope would look like if it was a person ? Probably not, because neither did I , But if you ever felt like it , well watch Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono, because Nagito is the person whom you're looking for. -Story : 7/10 The plot set of Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono doesn't matter that much, unless you played danganronpa 1 & 2 , or you love hope , you can't understand what's going on . But if that's the case , you should know that hope is more of a lifestyle than a state of mind because it contorls your actions , your likes and your dislikes . Altough I bet you didn't ever read the title of the anime because it's very long , oh wait ; you don't understand japanese ; neither do I . -Art : 7/10 Pretty much like the story , the art is not the strongest thing in Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono , so if you only watch anime because you consider it as work of art , you should rather go and watch ghibli movies or something . -Sound : 10/10 The soundtrack of the danganronpa series , composed by Masafumi Takada is lit , and they used some of it here , so it's good obviously. -Characters 10/10 Or should I say character , Nagito is objectively the best character in the danganronpa universe full of great characters , let alone an anime where he's the only character (I'm talking of course about Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono) -Enjoyement 9/10 Like I said earlier , If you like Hope and Nagito , you will like Super Danganronpa 2.5: Komaeda Nagito to Sekai no Hakaimono , Because hope is a purpose of life whether you like it or not , and there's hajime too . Overall 8/10 Hope can also be considered a double edged sword , so if you obsess over it , you might become like Nagito , and I'm not talking about his homeless hair, but your beliefs and thoughts will all be related to hope , not only yours but also the hope of the people around you . Roses are red , violets are blue , hope is amazing , and this anime is too .

10 found helpfulDec 20, 2019

AnotherStatsGuy

Recommended

Dangan Ronpa 2.5. It's an interquel between Dangan Ronpa 2 and Dangan Ronpa 3: Kibou-hen. *Premise: Nagito Komaeda's experiences in the Neo World Program after he dies. *Strengths: It's satisfying. Some characters really get to shine. Souda, Kuzuryuu, Peko, Sonia. It was also nice to see how Komaeda could interact with everybody else without his warped world view. Plausible way to exit the Neo World Program. *Weakness: Oh boy. I'm being so hard on this OVA because I love this franchise. 25 minutes. It takes 25 minutes for this to be resolved. And only a third of the cast gets used. DR2 and overall. I was hoping this wouldbe something that could strengthen the bonds of DR2 and DR3, considering it IS called 2.5. But alas, it is not. This falls into the same problem as DR3. I was hoping for it to be longer to allow everything to breathe, something along the lines of a full-length movie in this case. Maybe show a little about Komaeda's past. I saw the Budget constraints on the writing everywhere, especially in how the lines were distributed among the characters. And while the acknowledgements that Maizono and Kuwata do exist were nice. It felt empty.

5 found helpfulFeb 1, 2017