Danganronpa Staff and Cast Celebrate the Franchise’s 10th Anniversary
Spike Chunsoft's Danganronpa will be getting ton of new goods as its cast and staff celebrates the 10th anniversary of the franchise.
Spike Chunsoft announced big celebrations for Danganronpa will be happening for its tenth anniversary in 2020. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, released in Japan on November 25, 2010, gained a sizable fandom worldwide thanks to fan-translations. The game later released in the west. In a nutshell, Danganronpa, written by Kazutaka Kodaka, feature a bunch of “Ultimate” teens stuck together in a play-or-die situation. Monokuma, the franchise’s bear mascot, orchestrates the death games sucking in the characters.
Since then, the four Danganronpa games now sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide. Kazutaka Kodaka was funnily surprised on Twitter his series actually sold this much. Danganronpa also has anime and manga adaptations. Moreover, it received multiple stage play adaptations in Japan. These highly helped to boost the franchise’s popularity among Japanese women in particular.
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Spike Chunsoft will launch multiple projects for the Danganronpa 10th anniversary including new goods and events. The first project is a new tabletop game based on the Werewolf game.
Titled Danganronpa Hajimete no Gakkyū Saiban, it’ll be launching in Japan in early June 2020.
#ダンガンロンパ10周年 ずっと好きです pic.twitter.com/A90cl0mzoy
— 笹古みとも (@0819_to_mo) April 10, 2020
Illustration shared by Mitomo Sasako, the mangaka for Danganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer.
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懐かしい😎 pic.twitter.com/yqLjS82fWH
— 神永圭佑 (@kaminagakeisuke) April 9, 2020
ダンガンロンパシリーズ今年で生誕10周年✨おめでとうございます！
記念すべき年ですね🎉舞台とV3の出演は本当に自分の中で大きな出来事で、関われて本当に嬉しかったです！
記念生放送もあるらしいから見なくっちゃ！興奮🤤！！#ダンガンロンパ #ダンガンロンパ10周年 pic.twitter.com/1TNXzT8u8R— 石田晴香@はるきゃん (@can2525can) April 9, 2020
ダンガンロンパ10周年、
おめでとうございます🎉絶望の中にいても希望を
見つけることは必ずできる！
そして希望は前に進んでいくのです！！！#ダンステ3#ダンガンロンパ#ダンガンロンパ10周年#雪染ちさ pic.twitter.com/tCVVnoCsdpAdvertisement— 高橋 りな (@Rina_940731) April 9, 2020
Over on Twitter, many actresses and actors from the stage play shared some happy words.
5月は【 #ダンガンロンパ 】シリーズ#十神白夜 くん、 #東条斬美 ちゃん、 #罪木蜜柑 ちゃんのお誕生月🎂✨
バースデースイーツ2020ご予約受付開始！！
「ハート型」or「丸型」が選べる特典缶バッジ付きで全国へお届けいたします🎁詳細は⇨https://t.co/vKF4PvvJ98#DR_10th pic.twitter.com/GzpRYIGfO4
— プリロール公式（キャラケーキ＆マカロン） (@happypriroll) April 14, 2020
Goods and collabs with shops will slowly rollout, though there will be less than usual seeing the covid-19 lockdown in Japan.
We’ll learn more about Danganronpa‘s 10th anniversary projects on April 18, during the Dengeki and Famitsu 2019 Game Awards.
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Nowadays, Kazutaka Kodaka is at Too Kyo Games. There, he’s working on Death Come True, a game x movie project slated to release this June on most platforms and with a very cheap price tag. He’s also working on Death March Club, and another new IP called Tribe Nine.
All the main Danganronpa games are available on Steam in English.
