Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School is an anime that serves as the finale in the story that began with the three Danganronpa games so far: Trigger Happy Havoc, Goodbye Despair and Ultra Despair Girls. It is split into three "Arcs", the Future Arc, Despair Arc and the Hope Arc. There is only one episode within the Hope Arc and it serves as the closure to everything that has happened in the three games and anime so far. It takes place after the last episode of Future arc where Mitarai is about to attempt to brainwash the world into hope. The remaining members of Future Foundation are pinned down by Class 77 (aka the cast of Goodbye Despair and the Despair Arc) comes forward to save the day. The confrontation with Mitarai and how he was stopped from broadcasting the video was anti-climactic but it also makes sense in terms of everything that has happened. This takes only around half of the episode, with the remaining half being character reflections.
The final episode is an excellent closure to to the series and redeems the Remnants of Despair. It concludes all of the major plot points. By the end of it, you feel relieved and satisfied, since the story was a huge journey spanning over numerous hours but there were a lot of sacrifices along the way, with deaths of some likeable characters who had either given it their all to make it to this point, or were innocently killed. Overall, Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School - Hope Arc, and Danganronpa 3 in general, serves as an excellent conclusion to the story that began with Trigger Happy Havoc. While at times the scenes were demented and gory in their own way, it told an engrossing story which by the end of everything, you genuinely cared about the characters.
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