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donotstopthisdebatenow · 4 years

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V3 Prologue Replay 0.2- Meet the Cast Take I

Ruh roh, Raggy, it’s an actual flashback time

First of all, that’s terrifying.

Second of all, it honestly isn’t that farfetched to happen in current day world too. This might be more because where I live, but it is more or less common sense here to not expect help if something like that happened to you, especially if you live in a bigger city where neighbours don’t even know each other.

I’ve seen this being one of the scenes used for the “it is all very dystopian” but honestly, not that much more than our current day, but ymmv.

Also worth noting is that V3 in general has a theme of “people growing apathetic towards each others’ plight” that also crops up with entire “actors being treated as their characters and subhuman, like they are commodities than living human beings” theme later in the game too.

I was going to joke about “No clearly it was two different groups who rented same place to put their kidnapping victims in, what do you think hat boy?” or something but honestly, he still looks sort of guarded on a closer look.

Maybe it is just the eyebrow and in general the expression with how he words it too, especially in Japanese but it feels like it takes until next bit for him to feel more like they genuinely are in the same situation.

Million dollar question

This part is interesting in terms of another piece of characterization of their world because

1-) They can think of someone kidnapping you for having a rich family is a plausible scenario

2-) They don’t have any specific group that pops to mind, nor do they seem to have anything with them for self defense which points more to random kidnappings like that being not that common at least in the areas they live at.

Again, another piece of worldbuilding for what lies outside and pointing again towards painting a world not that fundamentally different than ours, at least economically from what we’ve seen so far.

Yeah, see, about that... I don’t think you will like the answer, Shuichi.

Another piece of “their world in general don’t sound so much more high-tech” is this when you check the blackboard

You would expect that things like this would be more common place, if the common people have access to memory writing devices.

But that’s kind of the thing with DR games in usual- even in Hope’s Peak saga, it was always a smaller group that had access to such tech while most of the population lived honestly with same amount of tech we had, given how things like Monokuma, memory wiping devices, NWP all were developed by people in Hope’s Peak with the funding and resources.

Part of how Junko got Reserve Course students get violent and smashy was by uncovering what they were funding with their money behind their backs to their own gain/use.

With also their suprise at moving plushies later on (well, Kaito’s at least, but we will get to that) added to this, I think it is safe to assume that DR is once again setting up a world mirroring ours for at least in terms of available tech.

Okay good, now we made up too

That’s safe to say at this point at least

They were really terrified... I know I’m stating the obvious here, but I don’t see many people really focusing on how scared they all were in the prologue given that common take of prologue is that they joined willingly.

And after Kaede questioning who kidnapped them and why again...

No time to lose thinking over things they can’t know...

That is a good idea, except...

I’m so glad you are the first Monokub to die. And I hate the fact that I do know all of your names at this point.

And after being throughly freaked out by the “monsters” they have no idea what they are...

We get to the real meaty section of prologue.

Hey Angie. Weird to see you look genuinely worried/scared tbh

Hey Kaito, still using the same speech pattern and テメー while referring to people I see

Good question, Ryoma. And still using 俺 for yourself

And we have Kokichi jumping in with “want me to check” like he does later when we use the dragon statue huh. Interesting that he is willing to risk checking it out himself, then again no one keeping an eye on if the monsters are around is more risky after all...

Also same speech pattern, with オレ for himself.

And Tenko with her classic “ダメですよ！“ and in general using a lot of polite desu forms, as well as being worried about danger and telling someone to stay back for safety...

And Kiyo with his katakana “yo/ヨ“ at the end of the sentence to signify that he speaks with an odd tonation, something he has in game as well.

And our mystery guy finally steps in with his “casually polite sorta masculine” “-ssu/っす“ and starts to talk about having some idea what’s going on here.

To Kaede’s confusion, of course. Why would the number matter?

Also interesting that Rantaro himself is identifying himself as a highschooler here. Tsumugi might be left more up to debate, but also with given the title of this picture is “15 friends” in the gallery, I’m inclined to believe that they were all high schoolers with maybe sans Mugi, after all...

And Kaede is still confused as she internally repeats “16...High schoolers...?” you would think that a “fan” or someone applying for this show would have caught up by now.

Speaking of which, why even kidnap a guy who has participated in the show before, and allegedly (if Shuichi was correct in his assumption last trial, which is left in air too) participated in the last season with selecting to “sacrifice” himself for others? Shouldn’t he have some sort of contract or something binding him, if he was a part of the show/if this “TDR” was the real company running the show?

Similarly, Kiibo being there with looking worried/on guard look at the corner is weird too. You would think they would have him separately to alter his coding/add the modifications to his robo-body if he had auditioned.

One reason I see being brought up is “So us players don’t get spoiled”, but especially with Kaede’s reaction to this next section, and Shuichi’s lack of reaction to it, I personally find that unconvincing, but I will have to get more into it next post.

Next episode: Meet the Avocado~

#danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #drv3 #drv3 meta #drv3 translation #drv3 commentary #v3 spoilers #drv3 spoilers #prologue #I really wanted to fit parts with Rantaro but #guess we will need to wait a bit longer #pretty sure we will be done with this section next part though so #yay?

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