#i have a shuichi poster above my bed and he glares at me when i sleep

[kjequie]

going on the basis that tsumugi is largely telling the truth, i have so many thoughts on how danganronpa as a series simply exists. like they have to have some kind of allyship to the government seeing as they're killing actual people; the government would have to moderate it somehow. main theory is that it started as the games whatever whatever etc etc etc and then a separate entity was inspired to host a real life killing game which they then recorded, but Team DR is losing a lot of revenue bc the new rinse and repeat stories suck. The sketchy underground game became super profitable, and Team Danganronpa bought them out since DR3 flopped. But it's illegal oo what do we dooo so they pay the government and inordinate amount of money to let them do it and offer something in return through the killing game (somehow??) and after a bit of convincing, they do it.

It becomes so popular in Japan that other countries see the financial opportunity to piggyback off of it and are like 'well clearly it's not hurting anyone,' maybe crime rates have gone down idk. and they buy the rights to produce their own branches of it, eventually culminating in all 53 games

like i fully believe they host the killing games on like. channel 9 or whatever the main channel is for whatever country people are in