Somewhat - Akane Owari's backstory involved growing up in what is clearly an unsafe home where it is implied that her caregivers let her be subjected to sexual trauma.
One of the killers starts rambling about their “beloved” leading up to the execution, although it isn’t confirmed what exactly was meant by that in this game. The anime has more information.
There is a scene where characters are knocked out by a gas and also an optional side story which ends in what is implicated to be one character having laced another’s with some kind of drug, however this does not lead to anything beyond that.
Not directly but, Hiyoko is mentioned having a lot of older male fans. Considering she is a teenager, but looking very young and childlike, this is kinda implied these men are pedos.
Well to elaborate on tial's comment, that's a thing that was messed up in the English translation. In the original Japanese, a remnant replaced their on womb with Junko's to allow someone to have junkos children. Not better but I enjoy clearing up misconceptions
A couple characters are implied to have been sexually assaulted before, specifically akane and mikan. And teruteru is presented as being really perverted.
While it is NOT graphic whatsoever, near the end of the game, a still image of an anonymous character is accompanied by a brief description suggesting the character is committing sexual acts to a non-consenting character. In the scene when it is described by one character, they are quickly cut off by another character. It's a *very* minor detail portrayed as having occurred in the past, but it may be disturbing enough to set off someone's trauma.
Yes, one character gets choked for a short period of time in a fight with another character. You hear them struggling. However, they do not die from this.
Chapter 5 contains what is arguably the goriest and most grotesque death in the entire franchise. However, this is mostly due to excessive blood, cuts, and piercings on the body of the dead character.
There is a mention of a character having taken a deceased woman’s womb and doing a botched transplant with her own for it. It’s briefly mentioned but nothing beyond that.
Nagito is punched in the face and knocked out at the start of chapter 2 after ranting about his terrible ideals and actively encouraging other to commit murder
I’d say technically yes when you think about the type of death (eg falling) and that it would likely have caused damaged teeth but it’s never shown or mentioned and only really applicable if you think about how a specific deaths would in theory likely include teeth being damaged
In Chapter 2, someone gets their eye injured badly enough to need an eye patch. In Chapter 6, there's a brief graphic mention of eye mutilation done in the past.
Multiple cutscenes show a student put in compromising poses, her panties in view and narrowly censored to the player. She is very obviously intended to be a fanservice character. Sexual comments are also made about other students, mostly by Monokuma and a character who’s a “pervert” archetype.
One scene has a character attempt to sacrifice themself for another character. However this character goes on to live.
In another scene, a character dies and it is implied later that they tried to sacrifice themself for another, but this never gets proven 100%.
In another scene, it is implied in another scene that 2 characters have a duel to the death for the larger group to survive, which may count as a sacrifice.
Finally, one character sacrifices themself so that all but one other character will die with them. However, this other character dies.
This is really up to debate on whether they count as ghosts. YMMV on the following.
[SPOILERS] In the final chapter, All of the characters who died until that point briefly reappear with none of the alive characters questioning it and acting as normal. These aren’t really ghosts, moreso illusions brought upon by the simulation glitching out. Chiaki reappears in the climax to help Hajime during his identity crisis but considering her status as an AI and the glitching state of the virtual world, it’s more likely remnants of her programming rather than an outright ghost.
Technically, all of the scenes where a corpse is found are jumpscares, but most of the times, you get a warning beforehand. "I feel like something bad is about to happen..."
The students are trapped on islands that are surrounded by the ocean. There are scenes where some of the characters go for a swim in it, and it’s used as a plot point in one of the trials.
That’s not possession, That’s a disease. There is an actual discussion of possession however as at the end of the game, it’s revealed that the main antagonist’s plan revolves around possessing the survivors however they are stopped before they can posses anyone
One character, at one point, mentions being so happy they're *about* to wet themselves. Thankfully, they do not follow through and this is not brought up again.
One of the characters' executions heavily features needles, and it has been implied by many fan theories that the entire sequence is a metaphor for a lethal injection.
Some characters are kept in a hospital when they have "Despair Disease", which causes them to act very differently from their normal personalities. Figured I'd mention that just in case.
SPOILERS — Nagito Komaeda, has lymphoma and frontotemporal dementia. However, this information can only be found out by playing his free time events, which is optional.
Nagito Komaeda is heavily mentally unstable. His condition is never given a label.
In chapter 3, the Despair Disease causes mental impairment and changes the personalities of the afflicted characters. A suicide also occurs as a result of the Disease.
In chapter 3 there is a moment where a character cuts open their own stomach. In chapter 5, a character extremely violently self harms by stabbing themself several times in the leg, their arm, and then stabbing the knife through their hand. In chapter 6, it is revealed that off-screen a character cut off their own hand.
The entire final chapter is just this happening nonstop. At one point, the dead characters suddenly reappear alive with zero explanation and none of the other survivors question it, seemingly not even realising they died at all, and speak to them as normal. Numerous onscreen glitching effects. Characters walk to a location and end up somewhere completely different that makes no geographical sense to where they walked to. The entire landscape is upside down with characters walking on the ceiling at one point with no one even brining mention to it. There’s a couple points where characters “glitch out” and start speaking incoherent or non-sensical sentences.
Like in the past game, many of the characters suffer from PTSD-like symptoms as a result of past/present trauma, although none of them are confirmed to have PTSD.
Plenty of stingers used for emphasis or horror can be jarring, especially the stinger that’s used when a body is discovered by the player. Other loud sound effects are used, such as during executions, and particularly in late-game scenes.
Characters frequently swear and make sexual references throughout the game. Monokuma is the most frequent violator of this, often insulting others and making inappropriate jokes and comments.
Near the end of the game, strange glitching visuals and repeating dialogue give off the effect that the game itself is malfunctioning. One character repeatedly mentions that all of the characters are trapped in a “game,” but is not aware of their existence inside of the actual Danganronpa game, which their monologue could be interpreted as alluding to (so it’s more of a subversion of a fourth wall break trope)
I'm not sure where this fits, but one of the characters removed the womb of a dead woman and put it into her own body in a twisted attempt to have children with the corpse.
the ableism towards nagito is pretty explicit, frequent and unavoidable, and participated in by basically everyone else in the game. he even gets tied up and restrained by some of the other students because they deem him dangerous for being the “crazy/insane” character.
(replying to previous comment) Their official wiki says "Their gender is unknown", & that they're not officially male but "able to give off a largely male impression while disguised." They're canonly nonbinary, & can just present as male (or masculine).
The Ultimate Imposter uses he/him while disguised as Byakuya (and other men), so there is no misgendering.
[Spoiler] It's quite true that LGBT characters die, but the rundown of precise identities by the previous commenter is somewhat misleading, making it seem like all of these queer characters are potentially progressive, positive representation suffering only from a case of Bury Your Gays.
Hanamura Teruteru is a jokey horndog character of the would do anything with a hole and also probably anything without one" type, a fairly tired stereotype of bi/pan people. Mikan Tsumiki's a very fetish-y character aimed at a specific straight male playerbase, and her f/f scenes (mostly in the DR3 anime) are blatantly intended as fanservice for that audience. Mikan fanservice scenes can be extremely uncomfortable, especially for female/female-aligned viewers, although this is very much a YMMV matter and there's no category for "creepy alienating male gaze" on this site.
Towards Byakuya, mainly from Hiyoko, although Fuyuhiko also refers to him by fatass. Byakuya doesn’t seem to care about any of this and seems to embrace it if anything, but this still may be triggering for other people.
Nagito -- who is confirmed in-game to have frontotemporal dementia -- is subject to a lot of ableism on account of his self-destructive and "erratic" behavior (mostly tactlessly portrayed symptoms of mental illness). He is even tied up in one scene because the other characters are angry at his behavior and afraid that he'll try to hurt them.
There is a scene where the main protagonist sneaks into a female classmate's dorm room to watch her and another girl shower. However, the sensitive parts are blurred out with fog and this scene is optional.
In an early part of the game, a character makes a joke about Usami, a stuffed talking rabbit, 'looking pretty cute'. This character is something of a horndog, so it leans in this direction if you count it as 'any animal' (versus 'a non-sentient being').
Mikan on a VERY obnoxious level and frequency. It’s even a major plot point in foiling the first killer. As someone who doesn’t usually care about this kind of thing, I found it extremely grating and eye rolling.
One of the students is a girl that gets into sexually explicit poses through her clumsiness, and there are other students that comment on sexuality. There is also an optional scene where you can view two of the students (both female) in the nude (censored).
A character does say they have Frontotemporal Dementia and show clinical signs for it, they do try to play it off as a joke but it’s heavily implied that was a bad attempt at lying and that they very likely do have it.
(Note this is something only revealed in an option cut scene)
The fate of the survivors is left ambiguous, but leans towards the happier side. The DR3 anime does show what happens to them afterwards but this information is not available in this game.
No not at all in all the gameplay water really is a suggested until the beginning of the game and in some of the free time events but a character has never drowned in sdr2
the blood in danganronpa is hot pink if that prevents your trigger, though the death in chapter five is very graphic imo, and depicts a characters limbs and stomach being impaled.