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Building Hope’s Peak Academy in Minecraft: Day 6

Sorry for not posting D4 and D5, we ended up forgetting to take the screenshots for those days, whoops...

Putting all the squeals aside, I actually have mixed feelings about it. I’ve always imagined that sort of scene ever since I heard the news of DR3, but seriously never expected Kirigiri to be there too. (I’ve mentioned this before, but I like to imagine Kirigiri as someone Naegi can rely on as real-time partner and Maizono as someone who he bears in mind as regrets)

It also gave me many thoughts too. For instance, Naegi was barely alright when he faced Kirigiri’s death alone. But with Maizono’s death added(and other classmates), he couldn’t stand it anymore. Netherworlds must have looked more attractive then ever for Naegi, I suppose.

 Maizono still has bad reputations among some fans in DR fandom for being a ‘bad girl’ and this episode’s hallucination seemed to have strengthened that image… so I think it’s a little bit of pity too. But I guess you can’t have everything. And I actually love that bit about Maizono too, so I guess I’m cool with it.

Given that the School Council was trapped there, I imagine the old school building did see use, but it was probably minimized to just ceremonies and selective meetings.

As for a new school building, as you can see from the overview provided, there’s not really any building that could single itself out for an obvious replacement. Also, as far as I can recall, only that singular building was sectioned off due to “construction” (really because of clean up from the mess that was the First Killing Game). There doesn’t seem any special reason for why Junko used that building in particular, so if I had to guess then I’d say either that building was only regularly used by the Student Council or it was unused and secluded enough so that Junko could lure the Student Council members there without immediately alerting anyone to the Killing Game.

It’s also worth noting that due to the lack of rules, the First Killing Game probably only took place in a matter of hours rather than days or weeks like the Second or Third Killing Games.

A figurehead type of building that only gets used sporadically throughout the year makes sense. Presumably it’s maintained pretty regularly, though, given that this is the building that represents Kibougamine pre-Despair in both games, so the first killing game would have had to be really quick to avoid detection if the building wasn’t already under some kind of actual remodeling.

Also, I think it’s hilarious that every part of this campus has some kind of crazy architecture except for the western bit, where the boring, normal prep school is housed.