Hopey McHope

Hi! Whether you’re new to my dumb corner of Tumblr or a longer-term follower who just hasn’t particularly noticed (or cared) how I’m doing my thing here, I thought I should sum up my basic principles for this blog in a (somewhat?) useful fashion.  1) I try to always post spoiler tags for EVERY piece of official Danganronpa fiction before discussing any spoilery info OR sharing spoilery artwork. Why? Because it only takes a second to tag posts for people, and you never know who is new to the fandom/hasn’t gotten around to everything yet/is trying to still remain pure on certain subjects. For your spoiler-blocking needs, the tags for each are as follows:

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (game/anime/manga) — #dr1 spoilers

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair (game) — #dr2 spoilers

Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls (game/manga) — #drae spoilers

Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak Academy/High School (anime) — #dr3 spoilers

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (game) — #drv3 spoilers

Ultimate Talent Development Plan (AU mode/sub-game within V3) — #utdp spoilers

Danganronpa Zero (light novels) — #dr0 spoilers

Danganronpa IF light novel — #drif spoilers

Ultra Despair Hagakure light novel  — #udh spoilers

Danganronpa Kirigiri light novels — #drk spoilers

Danganronpa Togami light novels  — #drt spoilers

Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp (game) — #drs spoilers

2) I reblog (and rarely even do original posts of) A LOOOOT of fan art here, but I make it a point to only share things either posted by the original artist OR which are shared with the permission of the artist. I had it impressed upon me earlier in my Tumblr career that some artists legitimately don’t want their stuff shared on other sites without permission, and I try to always respect that. (And yes, I realize that just saying “permission obtained from the artist” or something is HARDLY a foolproof system. We’re on the honor system here; we can only assume such disclaimers are honest.) If you catch me sharing art that is copied or posted by someone other than the artist without any expressed permission, please let me know — I’ll take it down! 

3) I’ll almost always respond to asks submitted to me, but I’m sorry if it takes a while. I’m typically WAAAAY behind on such things. Sometimes it takes me a few days or even, rarely, weeks. Sometimes I just don’t know what to say at first. But sometimes I’ll respond ASAP because the ask is easy to answer or just ignites a bunch of thoughts within me. Or on rare occasions I’ll, uh, never answer because I couldn’t think of anything to really say (sorry?) or because the ask is basically just a troll. 

4) I sometimes post asks/commentary that are very critical of certain characters as people (as in, not criticizing them as fictional characters or how they were written; criticizing their behavior as good/bad people). If you don’t like seeing your faves harshed on, I tag those criticism/negativity-centric posts for easy blocking, too! So feel free to block tags like #anti-kokichi ouma or #anti-hiyoko saionji or whomever. (But let’s be honest; Those are the two most common ones.) 

5) This Tumblr originated as a Naegiri-focused one, actually. That’s not something that comes up too terribly often these days, but.. you can definitely still expect me to heap extra attention on any Naegiri-centric content I come across (or, in rare instances, create myself). :) So... that’s just a heads-up.  6) If you came across this user handle elsewhere and are wondering if this blog is run by the same person, I can only confirm that the Hopey McHope on AO3 and the HopeyMcHope on FF.net are, in fact, me. Anyone else you see by this name might be the same person as me, or it might not. I guess you should just ask me here.

A digital short story that was given out as a pre-order bonus for The Hundred Line through certain venues upon its release has been transcribed for easy online reading courtesy of BiassedRabbit on Reddit. It's titled "Former Lives of the SDU: File 03 - Hiruko Shizuhara's First Battle".

Is this old news? YES. It was posted almost a year ago. But I just found out about it. Sorry. :P

Do I know how people got this with their pre-orders? NOPE. Never heard about this during the pre-order window. My own pre-order didn't come with diddly squat.

It's linked from that post up top. (Alternatively, you can also easily find YouTube videos of people reading it... but textf ile this is way better for individual consumption IMO.)

And this prequel naturally begs one MAJOR question for those of us who completed "Last Defense Academy 2nd Scenario."

(HUGE FREAKING SPOILERS for The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy's "2nd Scenario" below the cut)

White

Blue

Black

Red

Green

I know literally nothing about Magic except "it is a card game," heh.

So my first instinct is that I like Green the best out of those colors.

Thanks for setting me straight. I'd read that the lead writer of Ultimate Talent Development Plan was also the lead writer of Danganronpa S, so I just assumed. Seems like that was a misunderstanding or misrepresentation, though, because Hachimura seemingly only did some Free Time Events and Love Suite events in V3.