no that's wrong no that's wrong no that's wrong no that's wrong that's wrong
really Shuichi you couldn't have just said no
Danganronpa is a visual novel series about incredibly talented students being trapped
inside a school beach or school again the only way for one of them to escape is to kill
another student and get away with it after a class trial if you're new to the series
and you don't want anything to be spoiled I've already said too much I'd encourage you
to play the games and then come back to this video but if you've already watched or played
the games or you're just some kind of spoiler junkie then I'll keep talking each of the
main series games 1 2 and V3 have a drastically different protagonist the naive and optimistic
Makoto Naegi the outspoken and cynical Hajime Hinata and the stubborn extremist Kaede Akamatsu
and spoiler spoiler spoilers 321 the self-doubting and passive Shuichi Saihara there is a reason
he's not in the thumbnail but which of them did it better which of these four designated
do-gooders did their darndest to deliver their dubious and deceitful student body from the
dastardly dangers of Danganronpa moral Makoto heroic Hajime keen Kaede or shy Shuichi ladies
and gentlemen a series has been discovered so let the analysis begin there's not enough
people with originality so here I am to save the day Jayniac
I refuse to give up I refuse to get bored I refuse to throw it all away I refuse to
despair
first let me start by saying I'll only be covering each character's appearance in their
respective games analyzing their personalities ultimate talents and trial skills look if
I covered all the extended material Im pretty sure Makoto would win by a landslide which
leads us to our first protagonist Makoto Naegi the all-loving easily approachable and pure-hearted
member of his class I mean seriously this guy is such an innocent person that his darkest
secret was that he used to wet the bed because Makoto only sees the good in people once the
killing game starts he's in disbelief that anyone around him could be the killer and
even though this optimistic point of view is a great attribute to have it's also kind
of his weakness see Makoto's not dumb he's just a bit naive his kindness gets taken for
granted on so many occasions that you'd wonder how he makes it through life day by day that
is until you remember his ultimate talent Makoto is the ultimate lucky student though
personally I think ultimate social butterfly would have been a more fitting title Makoto
doesn't see his ultimate talent as anything useful because it often causes him a great
deal of misfortune before actually revealing itself to actually be good hence why he dubs
himself the ultimate unlucky student but don't be fooled it's the same talent that leads
him to not only solve the killing games but to come out a survivor this is demonstrated
most in the class trials where his talent goes hand in hand with his own deductive reasoning
skills the only thing slowing him down being his inability to put a few obvious clues together
usually resulting in his luck good memory or colleagues to fill in the blanks for him
there's never only one choice to make there's no way I'll allow things to end this way the
future everyone has created for us should have more possibilities than that let's leave
this place with confidence and from there we can just create it on our own the future
that we want
Hajime Hinata is a sharp contrast to Makoto Naegi while Makoto is optimistic and reserved
Hajime is cynical and outspoken it comes as no surprise then that once the killing game
starts Hajime's reaction is a bit more panicked immediately he believes without a doubt that
anyone around him could be the killer despite this Hajime is a pretty friendly person and
he's pretty smart too many of his free time events involve him helping his fellow classmates
become more self-confident but Hajime's biggest problem is his insecurities about not remembering
what his ultimate talent is and unfortunately we later discover he doesn't have an ultimate
talent this insecurity grew so much that he put himself through an experiment to gain
an abundance of talents but in the process he lost aspects of his true identity a tragic
hero indeed what makes this especially tragic is the fact that despite not having an ultimate
talent Hajime seems to handle class trials very well it's amazing that with no apparent
experience he's able to rationalize things for himself only calling for the aid of his
colleagues if necessary whether or not this is a mark of the experiment's success is left
ambiguous but it's such a shame that Hajime can't even see his own talents even if he's
not the best at them
well this is as far as it goes I couldn't do it i couldn't get to the mastermind I'm
sorry everyone
for the V3 characters I will only be referring to their in-game personalities not their real
world personalities so faithless Kaede and killer detective Shuichi will not be spoken
about why because those personalities weren't the ones playing the actual killing game now
the similarities between Kaede Akamatsu and Makoto Naegi are very apparent both being
positive thinkers who are concerned for others feelings but where the two differ is in their
confidence Kaede is so confident that at times it would seem she's a little too confident
her assertiveness is one of the two things that sets her apart in fact unlike Makoto
and Hajime who reluctantly become their respective team's leader Kaede takes the leadership role
not hesitating once the opportunity presents itself but unfortunately Kaede tends to take
things too far one of the most notable cases being that time she led her team through the
death road of despair the second thing that sets her apart is well she's the only protagonist
that has actually attempted to kill someone in the killing game even though the person
she tried to kill was the mastermind themselves my point still stands she didn't even discuss
her plan with anyone she just did it because she thought it was the right thing to do fortunately
though Kaede does have a heart and she doesn't take advantage of the first blood perk instead
she spends the trial aiding her colleagues come to the right conclusion without completely
spoiling it aiding her during this trial is her ultimate talent you wouldn't think that
being the ultimate pianist piano player would help much in a killing game but quite the
contrary during mass panic debates Kaede is able to hear each person's argument independently
making it very easy for her to find contradictions in their stories that being said she also
lies during the trial and she isn't even very good at lying would you really trust a girl
that commits perjury speaking of which
I won't forgive this game that treats us like toys and if this is what the world wants then
I reject that world I'll fight the world that inflicts suffering for entertainment
would you really trust a guy that commits perjury especially one with little to no social
skills and an overwhelming degree of self-doubt but where does Shuichi Saihara's lack of self-assurance
come from well it actually relates quite a bit to his ultimate talent you see being the
ultimate detective may seem like a great talent especially for a killing game but as Shuichi
points out it's a talent that only works after people die he can't really save anyone with
it this self-hatred is further cemented by how passive Shuichi can be often going along
with what others ask him to do without even considering his own feelings however Shuichi
is definitely in his element once he enters a class trial seeing as how he's the first
protagonist whose ultimate talent perfectly suits the killing game in order to be deemed
the ultimate detective he would have already needed a little bit of experience solving
cases before Shuichi is without a doubt the most capable and qualified of all the protagonists
even figuring out that one of the students must be working with Monokuma right away he
even lies more convincingly than Kaede but his lack of drive prevents him from taking
charge like she does
hello there how do I look which Danganronpa protagonist is the best out of all of them
well I'm gonna let you guys decide yeah that's right vote for whichever protagonist you think
is the best one in my community tab and after you pick let me know why in the comments below
I'll have you know that I've been a fan of the Danganronpa series since it first hit
the PS Vita here in North America remember this old thing I'm the only person in my neighborhood
that has one so yeah I'm not a new fan in fact two of my earliest videos were Danganronpa
related Danganronpa first released in November of 2010 so pretty soon it'll be 10 years old
so I'm going to say it now happy 10th year anniversary Danganronpa remember to vote for
which protagonist you think is the best in my community post I'd really like to see who
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