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Okay, I have to point his out. This is Chisa in the first Hope Episode.

This is Chisa in the current Episode 9.

Do you by any chance see what I see? It’s her eyes, it’s her whole expression, which leads me to conclude that Chisa was in full despair mode right in the beginning of  “Third Time’s the Charm.”

I find this episode, this moment, so beautiful becaue it exactly pin points the last moment Chisa has with her humanity, her hope.

The glistering in her eyes is at its strongest at that moment, I think she anticipated that this won’t be a happy ending, an ending “past” Chisa would ever witness, but it’s just too overwhelming.

Munakata is ereased, not from her memory obviously, but all positive (or let’s say healthy) emotional connections with him, with her class, are broken.

And you know what? While I always supected it somehow, to me it becomes apparent that Chisa is the perpetrator. 

“If games are fun to play by yourself, they’ll be even more fun to play with everyone.”

If we focus on the title of the first Future Episode, it says “Third Time’s The Charm.” What third time is that title referring to? The mutual killings, naturally. And we all know how dearly she held Nanami’s class, who all ended up falling in despair and caused a lot of great despair themselves. At a later point, because she was very much alive when the first broadcasted mutal killing (with Naegi) was shown and I somehow suspect that she quite enjoyed it herself, watching others falling in despair. She might have (indirectly or directly) witnessed two greatest despair incidents and it might be, possibly, that it just wasn’t enough for her. Seeing that all talented people were killing each other, while the talentless were the last remains of preserving hope, this theory might connect yet again to Munakata, Makoto and the killing game. Munakata is a man of many talents, was often told and recognised as the “ultimate hope,” something pre-Chisa strongly believed in and what she might find mockingly amusing now that she changed that much. Makoto, who gained a famous reputation over the course of the years, might have been a nice target as well. In the second episode “Hang The Witch” Asahina was supposedly stabbed, which brought Makoto great distress and then we have Kiyoko’s forbidden action “Surivive with Makoto the forth round” which in the end, killed her. If Chisa is the perpetrator, it becomes apparent that she intended to drag Makoto down, because that killing game was designed for him as well. Managing do make such a notorious hopist (yes, hopist) like Makoto who saved the lives of so many and brought so many hope would be indeed something Chisa, embracing despair, would certainly entertain her.

Then there’s the great parallel with Junko. Junko, in the end, did not only kill her sister and love intrest to be in more deeper despair, but also killed herself to witness it the last time in full bloom.

Then there’s Chisa who practically died in the first episode. Chisa, being the perpetrator, could have indeed killed herself when being finished with the preparations, because the mere thoughts of imagining her love interest falling into despair was too much for her to handle and something which she enjoyed until her last moment and she knew that Munakata loved her as well, so seeing her corpse in such a brutal fashion would surely traumatize him. That’s where I also say that her emotional connections to Munakata are broken, not cut. I don’t think she was indifferent to Munakata at all, I think her powerful love might have turned into an obsession and her pleasure of feeling despair mixed into all of this.

“Youth comes only once! It will never return so make the best of it until you are unable to go on!”

This, in turn, could parallel Junko and Masuda somehow. Junko did love Matsuda, but her depression, sadism and sociopathy turned her affections for him into a twisted desire, thus killing Matsuda in the most brutal fashion. 

“There is no such thing as a hope that hurts others.”

In the end, I think this might also explain what Tengan said (”Yukizome Chisa”) but also why Munakata is killing his best friend and possibly other people (”You will regret this, despair.”). Maybe he might indeed blame Chisa, or maybe he blames Junko, who is basically known as “despair” and who started this whole mess in the first place. Maybe, just maybe, that’s the reason why he stabbed this sword into her. I always interpreted it as (”I failed you” or “I failed to protect you”) but maybe it also means that the is going to stop this whole mess Chisa started, falling right into her trap. If Munakata succeeds in his plans, that the ultimate hopes, meaning both Munakata and Makoto, will be “defeated” by despair, possibly what the perpetrator wanted in the first place. And, yet again, if it’s Chisa, she knew exactly what he is going to do. That Munakata retorts to such means in the first place and his whole devastation… it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to say he feels that way because he felt betrayed.

What I finally wanted to say is that Chisa is a big contrast to Muanakta and Sakakura in regards to the treatment of the despairs and people who are affiliated with them, although she is one of the radicals (i.e the radicals want the the remnants dead). But even then she isn’t overly emotional about it, but is actually very calm and cooly explains Makoto some things, even daring to be with him in one room. (and am I the only one who is surprised that it is Chisa who treats him instead of Seiko? Yes, she is a pharmacist, but I somehow always felt Chisa saw this as an opportunity to talk to Makoto).

“Don’t you feel like there could be a greater hope…if you two combined both of your hopes and cooperated together?”

I want to say is that there is a chance for Chisa to be alive, however slim it is. We all know now that Gekkogahara is a robot and the real one is dead. No, I don’t think corpse!Chisa is a robot, but maybe there’s something fishy about that as well, although my bet is that she is deader than dead. We will see.

Future Foundation in itself is quite corrupt as well. There are Andou and Izayoi, who wanted to kill Munakata and take over, then there’s Sakakura who just punches his way through everything and has quite diry hands himself, Munakata who pulls quite despicable things in the name of “hope”, Ryouta and Tengan, who are shadier as ever, Touko (yes, I know, she isn’t in the killing game) who has a split personality that kills men and abuses people and so on and so forth. It’s not difficult to oversee that and it might have been not difficult for someone like Chisa to use them to mock the notion that hope safes everything, creates anything good, in using the FF, a company that parades itself of being the saviour while being a harmful institution to everyone.

If Chisa is indeed dead, this begs the question who killed all these people in the first place. (and yes, I know that Munakata and Andou already did their killings).

Edit: I noticed that Chisa looks quite… relaxed in her… deadness.

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p l e a s e

I’m making this post not only to soothe mine and everyone’s brain but also because it’s the only possible thing that makes sense…

Everyone is talking about that damn pill bottle that rolls across the floor in ep 9 of the Future Arc (right there at the bottom right). Also her neck isn’t colored purple btw so she obviously wasn’t poisoned. While her face is only slightly.

Now it flashes across the screen in 2 seconds so it’s understandable if no one saw it. But I have a more pressing concern to pose, nothing happens in Danganronpa for NO REASON. There is a reason that pill bottle was there and rolled away.  The animators didn’t just do that for kicks. Now if we all remember Seiko Kimura had a very similar pill bottle which leads an explanation of why Kirigiri is alive made by another Tumblr user which aligns almost exactly with my own theory that Kirigiri faked her own death to lure out the attacker. The evidence is piled up in that camp that Kirigiri faked her death to the point where it’s almost exactly like the Ruruka killed Izayoi theory (which also turned out to be true). But there is another reason why this SHOULD happen.

Seiko Kimura herself. If we all remember Seiko Kimura tried to save Bandai with the cure but he had died already and tried to heal Asahina’s wounds before being chased away. Why did she do this? She wanted to save people.

So it would not only complete Seiko’s story arc that she was indeed able to save a life like she wanted to before she died. But that Seiko’s drug lead to the capture of the mastermind whoever they may be (I think it’s Chisa but that’s irrelevant). Because of this however, Kirigiri might play dead for part of next episode or until ep 11 because we will find out the mastermind within the next 2 episodes since it would be silly to wait until the 12th ep which is the finale. So don’t be alarmed right now, nothing is ever as it seems in Danganronpa and Kirigiri’s death is quite fishy. Plus this series is about HOPE so have some!

by @AltoSeneka - 或十せねか