Eric The Red

4. Despair to Future Arcs

//At the bottom I will place Despair to Future Arcs doing by Poisonroizon. Which might come as a shock to you, why is it so low? Well here's the thing I think DTFA has benefitted from updating during a time where the other askblogs have gone on hiatus so there's not a fair comparison. ASOOT is on pause due to Bubbles having other life priorities, Survivor is on pause but it will resume soon and A New Future is being rebooted. You had my Voidship running but those two are very different.

//At a surface level, DTFA does what it sets out to do which is do a complete rewrite of Danganronpa 3, and when I say a complete I mean nothing from DR3 is considered in this as the writers of DR3 didn't really consider the other parts of canon when doing so there's a lot of logic inconsistencies here. HPA is this all powerful and flawed organisation and the Future Foundation is shown to be really flawed. But there's various, various problems that are not talked about and while they are many, the biggest one is this.

//Favouritism of OCs.

//A lot of people love Poi's OCs...but this is mostly their portrayal in ASOOT which wasn't written by Poi, but by Bubbles instead. But if you look into how Poi's own OCs operate in DTFA they always get special treatment as they are mostly portrayed heorically and always in the right about everything, with the narrative never giving them flaws other then informed ones and the few OCs which are villains are also extremely cartoonishy over the top. Sakoto is a good example of this since okay, she's the horrible abusive teacher of Class 77-B and why they turned to Despair. She also escaped karma and joined Future Foundation, that's fine, but everything else Sakoto did? Completely unwarranted and seems like being tacked on so we hate her. And I get it you are gonna give preferential treatment to your own characters but please be balanced with them for crying out loud. They need to have flaws.

//This is especially gregarious when you realise that all the characters in DTFA who have flaws are the canon, Another characters and other people's OCs. The canon cast are shown to be flawed, the Foundations are all flawed, and the only organisation who's perfect is the one run by Poi OCs. Don't even get me STARTED on the Voids who are demonised to high heavens here. You also have some horrible treatment to various characters like Kizuna and Hiyoko, and before you say "But canon says they're bad" Canon didn't say for Hiyoko to be treated the way she was and as for Kizuna, its clear that LINUJ threw that line in her FTEs to make us hate her. A lesson I have learnt is when characters do dodgy stuff you ask yourself this; is it a core character trait or is it something the creator threw in for reasons.

//Nagi by far is a good example of this as the Main character because she has a lot of issues and troubles and not once does the narrative portray her treatment of Class 77-B as wrong and when attempts of this are made, stupid people claim its backpedalling. I know Hope Arc aims to portray as more flawed but if you have to wait until literal Season 3 of your story to show your main character has problems that's a concern. Meanwhile it took like one arc for me to show that RA is not a good person.

//The Anons being real people is also a mixed bag since well...I will say its both good we are real people but also not.

//This isn't to say DTFA is all bad, as I do like some of the worldbuilding ideas and while how HPA is portrayed can be cartoonishly evil, when you examine the worldbuilding of Danganronpa as a whole in canon, its kinda on brand to be fair. To really emphasis on that this is a broken society that was gonna topple eventually and Junko was just the nudge that set things going. And some of the characters like Masa, Naoyuki and Gou or Horse Man as I call him I really like. The characters can come off as quantity over quality at times but Poi is literally trying to breath life into the Danganronpa world so you can excuse this. And I do like the general idea of everyone getting the briefcases and finding out why the school is rotten. Its just well it shows that Poi has a lot of room for improvement to do and she's committed some writing sins.

3. New Future

//Next up is the other Danganronpa 3 rewrite, this one done by Freezethunder. Now despite being a DR3 rewrite there's a few major differences here. For one DTFA outright ignores DR3 and disregards it for its own canon whilst New Future still tries to work with DR3 but just...make sure it doesn't suck. It also includes Raincode characters and the V3 cast which DTFA does not. However the reason its not any higher is because...we don't have a lot as we only had 2 arcs before it got cancelled and is in the process of being rebooted.

//Also the Anons are therapy robots designed by Miaya so our role here does make some sense here.

//I'm only ranking it higher then DTFA for the purposes I feel DTFA commits more writing sins whereas New Future doesn't have a lot to do. And there's not much to say, the first arc was okay and the second arc I couldn't get a feel on due to cancellation so there's more questions then answers.

//Not as big as DTFA but again its the shortest blog here so can't do much.

2. Survivor

//Now we move onto Survivor made by Creepycraftguy. This Blog takes place post canon and features the V3 cast crossing universes to the canon one and with it a new threat follows them. This blog I feel captures more of the Danganronpa essence since the other askblogs, while good do tend to be more grounded and realistic which is something I feel too many Fangans tend to be and not embrace the whimsy Danganronpa is known. This does as the askers are allowed to do what they do on the Voidship...but their antics can't impact the plot so Anons are just there to be a nuisance and nothing more.

//This blog can get rather insane and used to be the most out there Askblog until Voidship firmly and utterly urseped that role because it doesn't have to abide by real world physics like Survivor does. Its nice to see how various characters have developed in the years since and while people are revived from the dead, strict rules have to apply for their resurrection. As for the original characters, unlike in DTFA there isn't many of them, which means the few that are in are allowed massive depth and exploration. Kuripa is by far my favourite of the Askblog protagonists as he seems goofy and outlandish on the surface but deep down he's a deprived monster who will go full Punisher on his enemies and has zero mercy. Only reason you haven't seen Kuripa yet on the Voidship is because me and Creeper have been trying to figure out a way for him to work that doesn't include him and Matta tearing the Voidship apart. Uichi is also a nerd in a affectionate way who's had a LOT of baggage due to his past that he needs to overcome. Matta okay I don't like the guy but I will admit he's well written.

//The plots can be over the place as some are good and others are not so good. Probably my biggest gripe was how Makoto's fall was handle as while I applaud the brave choice to make him have a negative character development arc to show how stressful the war has been, some of the decisions he took and actions...even if he's having a bad time, seem very out of character for him, like strangling people? Beating a disarmed enemy to a pulp? Yes Makoto can be ruthless at times especially in these dire circumstances but it doesn't feel right to me.

//This Askblog was notable for featuring the H20 Cast which until they got discontinued due to the creator wanting them unpersoned from the internet, did a massively stellar job doing them justice. Its what inspired me to want to save the Tetro Cast and well...because of that you are getting non AI Slop sprites of them.

//All in all, its very different in terms of tone, but that's what I like about Survivor.

1. A Student Out of Time

//I don't care if its cliche, the OG, A Student Out Of Time by CmndrBubbles, still stands strong for a reason. This is why it has 1k+ followers. This is why I started doing reviews. This askblog is amazing and a joy to follow.

//The premise is simple; Hajime and some others go back in time from the Tragedy to the start of everything going wrong and their job is to prevent the Tragedy from occurring. Along the way they meet many new friends and butt heads with those who wish the status quo to stay.

//It does a lot of things right. Lots of feel good moments. Character Development. Introducing people to the Another series. Being the catalyst for every single other Askblog here. And giving justice to characters who got shafted in their canon like Hiyoko, Natsumi, Iroha, Kizuna, Monaca and many many others. You will care for characters you didn't think you will care for.

//You know a askblog is good if someone is willing to do 40k in terms of word count reviews on them. There are many many stellar moments which stand strong in fiction in general, and it deserves all the praise it gets.

//Of course it has flaws, I wouldn't be doing reviews if it was perfect but its why I do them, because I love the project and want it to be better. Plus finding out that the creator is behind one of my more favourite OCs in Ask the Despair Kids was such a woah moment for me.

//Point is, I love this askblog a lot and so do a lot of other people, we wouldn't have a community here otherwise and while its on hiatus right now, I do await its return with glee, hopefully I can progress my own stuff first so I'm not massively behind.