While I can understand why people can not like this series. It has some writing problems and some of the characters are not that great, but it still has something to it. I can of see why some people do not like because it was made into an anime instead of a video game . I really feel this is more of an advantage because I do not think this type of story could have been told throught the visual story style the games had. There is too much fast pace action and the anime format really help in this department. While this series does nothing by itself. Ridding on the coat tails of the two games before this really makes the series. The only way I can descried it is in a Star Wars way. It really reminds me how the Clone wars TV show made the Prequels better. This series made the two games that preceded it better. And that is why I recommend it for any fan of the game series
Taking a look at just the Future arc I feel that the writing is most of the new characters are either ok or just straight up bad. I really feel that this was the whole appeal of the games. That you go on this adventure with likable character, then boom one of them is dead and one of the other characters is the killer. When you take the likeable charter part of the equation you get the who cares syndrome. Let me this series really has a problem with the who cares syndrome. Some characters literally get no development and are just there to heighten the body count. Other characters get little snippets of charters development here and there both in the future are and the despair arc, but it is not focused on enough for it to fully develop. This is most noticeable in the "love tringle" arc between Munakata, Chisa and Juzo. While Chisa is the most developed of the three( this is because of her part in the Despair arc) the other two just seem like jerks the whole series and this makes their redemption arc almost worthless. This series also has a real problem with fake out deaths this series had. I found that this really undermined when characters actually died especially when Kyoko supposedly dies. . I find that this is a I as watched this I always felt that it was missing something umm Monokuma. Yea he is barely in the future arc, that like having a Micky Mouse cartoon without Micky Mouse. Way to go at not having the series mascot barely in this series.
While this review has been pretty negative so far there are many redeeming qualities to this arc and that is all of the returning characters. The main three they forced on are Makoto, Kyoko and Hina. Since we already had a whole game with this series, we already know these characters and every scene with these characters are golden and by far the highlight of this arc. Even Byakuya, Hiro , Toko heck even Komaru and Monaca even make appearances. While their appearances are much shorter then the other three every scene, they are in is golden and just makes you wish they played a more important part in the series. As I mention earlier most of the new characters are undeveloped but not all. I found that Ryota is a pretty well written character. I found that it really helped that they focused on his character in both arcs and that really help his character. By far the best new character story arc is the one between Seiko and Ruruka. These two characters get one episode in each arc focused on their relationship. This arc is not only well written but is genially heart breaking. The only downside I found to this arc is it had no effect on the overall plots. If they took this route on giving each of the new characters, their own episodes then I think they could have made this series much better.
As for best episodes I feel that it is really hard to pick since the series is so connect to each other and it should be watched as a series and not really just one episode. Ignoring that fact, I was a fan of episodes 5,8 and 9.
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