One of my favorite things about Ultra Despair Girls is listening to the kid characters talk.
Like Jataro and Kotoko especially just ramble on and on about weird shit because their attention spans are still at this young age. Even Monaca just automatically gets bored with something if it fails to properly catch her attention. Nagisa doesn’t typically display this trait out of all of them because of his childhood and how he was pretty much raised by abusive parents to be an overachieving perfectionist to even get any scrap of worth or acceptance from them.
So many kid characters in anime are boring or there to be all cutesy. I really love that the Warriors of Hope are just… really gross and absent-minded. It’s not that they aren’t clever or anything, but their imaginations are at the age of just being on overdrive and so they go on tangents or lose interest and think of something better, cutting off their current thought processes…
Like Kotoko just has to tell everyone what her favorite food is and also what her least favorite food is and what she thinks about giraffes or eggs… and that’s just funny and cool of her. Hell, I love it even when the kiddy stuff covers up darker things like Masaru’s design of this standard shounen-esque kiddo with the little bandaids and scratches look is really hiding an outwardly and physically abused child.
It’s just really neat is all.
huhuhu that nerd is wearing his jacket like some kinda her-OH
* MUFFLED HERO A PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND*
YGO/MHA crossover AU, I’ve been wanting to do this crossover for a while and just random doodled around so far but there,take this for now :’’’ and yeah there’s still the switching souls thing here,why? I hope to write it down properly someday =w=
This audio from Star vs the Forces of evil worked way too well in reference to how the Neo World Program works! It could have fit any character but I always associate Star with Sonia so I decided to use her!
Fun fact, within a day of posting this on tiktok it became my second highest viewed video ever and highest viewed animation I’ve done which is wild! (It’s currently at 163.0k views!!)
bomber neglects one tiny detail: the massive number of other gay people who also play splatoon
Junko’s great and all but for me Hopes Peak Academy is the main antagonist of Danganronpa.
You’ve got the whole oh being part of the elite is actually really fucking stressful. And wow I wish I could do other things but my worth is entirely tied to this one thing I do.
Like we saw with Leon.
Then you’ve got them being a dick to everyone else. Like it’s one thing for them to be like oh you don’t have a talent our one school recognises as important?
I guess you’re nothing then.
But then they take it even further by creating the Reserve course. Ah yes let us give these peasants the privilege of being near us while also reminding them they’re nothing compared to us.
But also you know human experimentation.
It really hit home watching Danganronpa 3 and realising oh..any of these kids could’ve become Izuru Kamakura.
It’s just that they picked Hajime. Oh they frame it as a choice but no that kids fate was already decided the moment he was enrolled.
It would’ve been interesting if that ever got out. That Izuru Kamakura, was a Reserve Course student. That this beacon of terror was someone they all view as inherently worthless for being talentless.
Despite the fact that metric is one that only Hopes Peak uses and cares about.
I don’t blame any of the Reserve Course for wanting to burn the place down. The way they were instantly vilified the second they decided to rebel against the school.
Not only did they cover up the murder of a student but if this got out too…Yikes.
Honestly had the tragedy been less…colossal I genuinely believe Hopes Peak would be relieved by it. Sure they get some bad press but it’s one student, maybe one class.
In the grand scheme of things it changes nothing and they can all be discredited it.
Hell I can absolutely imagine a concept where Hopes Peak reveals Izuru Kamakura’s real identity and paints a narrative about this disillusioned Reserve Course student lost to jealously.
And despite the aid of the prestigious academy trying to help him, he turned into a monster. Even going so far as to bastardise our glorious founder with his name.
I can see them trying to wipe their hands clean of everything. Also I refuse to believe Jin Kirigiri was some unknowing man caught in the middle of this.
When he was the one running the place. And frankly I prefer the concept that he absolutely knew but tried to make amends with saving his remaining students.
With saving his daughter.
And being killed after refusing to give them up. Hoping that maybe just maybe he would be able to atone for the monsters he helped to create.
Junko’s also a monster that’s a fact but none of what she did would’ve happened if not for Hopes Peak.
And unfortunately only one of them got destroyed.
Thought I get in on this holy bandwagon, but Luce has a friend to tag along.
I’m physically incapable of taking my time on anything but i hope this looks nice enough to satisfy u
The killing game was televised.
Can you imagine being a survivor involved with the Kamakura project.
Seeing Makoto.
Who is exactly what the project wanted to create.
The Ultimate Hope.
An "average" talentless boy possessing the ability to bring people up in a way no one has ever seen before.
Junko knew about the Kamakura project.
And I bet she was smiling to herself because those who worked on the project were killed.
If not killed barely surviving and in danger at every turn.
Lest their monster comes for them.
And seeing that they not only failed but their solution was right their in the year below.
Someone they never considered because he was talentless and pathetic, the irony.
Is everything they wanted to create and they can't control him.
Akane, I know it wouldn't help saying that...you were brainwashed and you didn't know what you were doing nor could you stop. But...they probably know that it wasn't really you in control. At least, you wouldn't do that on normal circumstances.
Bwaaaaaahhh! *hic, hic* Bwaaaaahh!
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It's okay. Let it all out Akane, let it alllll out...
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*hic*......*hic*....*sniff*......
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Does it feel good? To finally let all that out? Not only your memory as a remnant, but the trauma and hardships you had to endure at such a young age?
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*sniff, sniff* A....A bit....?
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Good.
Now, it is important to remember that that wasn't really you.
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But...But it was me-
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Not it wasn't. That was only to brainwashed monster that Junko had infected to do her bidding just as the rest of your friends.
You've told me about yourself Akane. How you did everything in your power just to ensure the safety and protection of your younger siblings. How you tried to stop Monokuma all by yourself. And how you griefed when Nekomaru was taken from you...
That is you, Akane. A kind, selfless woman who will do anything to protect her friends and family.
While it can be said that you shouldn't do that all the time, as your life is just as precious...
But those traits are what define you as...you. The real you....and I'm sure your siblings know that as well.
The road ahead may be dangerous and filled with thorns, but I believe you can be up to the task. To try and live for their stake.
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........................*Akane wipes her face*
Yeah.....yeah I....think you're right....Thank Miss Miaya....
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You're welcome Akane.
(they are still in love)
These people also pop up in the second arc with the batch of the pt.2 characters (not including Himiko)
Character Info:
-K.S. [agender (he/they/it/void) | bisexual | 5’7” | 25]
-Yumiko [trigender (she/fae/they) | demisexual | 4’11” | 26]
my toxic trait is that I think it would’ve been better character development if Naruto realised he didn’t actually want to be Hokage (functionally a deskjob except in times of crisis) and left with Sasuke on his redemption roadtrip, after which they both became vigilantes protecting the underdogs of the world from the corrupt power structures enabled by the very existence of militaristic mercenary societies like Konoha who can hire out super-strong child soldiers to protect the rich, in this essay I will