#exisals

SO, in New Danganronpa V3, it’s revealed that the entire events of the game took place in a tv show and that all the characters had originally volunteered for the killing game before getting their memories and personalities replaced. This is shitty from a literary perspective for a number of reasons, sort of like “it was all a dream!” cliche, but I want to focus on the TV show itself. 

Mainly how, in by today’s standards, it would have failed after it’s first season. 

This is not so say that we wouldn’t watch a show full of teenagers literally killing each other. We would. If it were legal, that kind of show would probably become very popular. I mean from a technical standpoint, ndrv3 killing harmony would never be able to survive as a tv show. 

During chapter 6, it is revealed that that trail was being broadcast live. There was no real confusion from what I read in the comments of the watchers, so it’s safe to assume that everyone there knew everything that had happened up to that point. That’s about two weeks of solid footage, so either A) there were episodes every day of each day’s events, or B) everything was live the entire time.

IF IT WAS NOT FILMED LIVE, then how did they sort through, retouch, and edit a day’s worth of film in so little time???? That’s at least 12 hours of film to go through, decide what’s important, and retouch/edit in what? An hour??? Less than that probably, since these “Events of the day” episodes would have to be aired THAT SAME DAY. NOT POSSIBLE. There is a reason why most tv shows only air 45 minute episodes once every two weeks.

IF IT WAS FILMED LIVE, are you telling me people just watched two weeks of footage everyday without it interfering with their jobs or school? Are these holidays or something? How is Danganronpa the most watched show if most of the events happen during school/work hours? Hell, what tv channel would even run a show that requires a 24 hr connection???

On a side note, it is impossible for only Trials to be broadcast. Most trials take hours at a time, usually all day. And even with Keebo being offline, fans still knew about the investigation that happened in chapter 6, even though it happened over the course of the entire night.  

How exactly was it legal for all these kids to sign their lives away to TDR? THEY’RE KIDS??? They’d at least need parental permission for this kind of shit, but all we see are audition videos? This show is like 5 lawsuits waiting to happen.

Not only that, but if you replay the prologue after seeing the ending, you learn that those “auditions” were faked and that the kids were all kidnapped, which means everyone in TDR is going to jail.

The Minikumas. Those stupid little camera Monokumas flying around everywhere. 

Okay, so, one of the world’s smallest cameras right now is 4.4mmx15mm, so it’s not impossible to have a camera too small for most to notice. But it’s also implied to move very fast, so any footage it obtains will be very limited and blurry.

It’s implied that these things follow everyone in swarms. Returning to the argument above, if DR isn’t live, than all of these minikumas just amp the amount of footage that Motherkuma receives. If DR is live, than how exactly is this formatted? In Trials, the viewpoint is probably from Keebo every time, but in Daily Life? Investigations? Does the screen just split into sections with each character at center? Do viewers choose who they want to follow on certain days? That makes no logical sense. 

From what I can tell, a majority of tv shows make their money from ads and veiws. One of the highest grossing tv shows in america (Tropical Paradise) made about  $59,000,000 from 2007 to 2014. Using this as an estimate, that’s about 8.43 million dollars per year. Assuming Danganronpa the TV show makes more than this, say 10 million even per year, this does not seem to be enough to keep Danganronpa afloat. 

Point 1: The dome. Even assuming the dome gets reused each season, it’s construction alone would be beyond that. We have no idea how big the dome is, since we never see the base, so there’s no way to calculate how big it is (without getting into timing steps, using those to calculate how big the school is, and then using screen shots of keebo’s rampage to estimate a diameter, but I don’t wanna do that). 

Monokuma has been confirmed to be a very expensive, very complicated robot. And there’s a machine that builds more of them. 

Keebo is also a very expensive, very complicated robot with a fully functioning AI. Even assuming that TDR developed him themselves, production cost would have been through the roof!

The Exisals. 

The entire school and everything in the ultimate labs (remember, some of them were pretty damn amazing... and expensive looking)

The trial grounds. 

Fucking wiping people’s minds!!!! And replacing their memories!! That kind of technology would take so much time and money to invent, I’m literally screaming!!!!

I’ve seen renovations on the home improvement channel that cost more than what this show could make in a year!! No! It is impossible!!