Funimation’s not focusing on just the original series but some of the follow up too as the Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School series is getting a priced-down Essentials edition. Funimation has this set scheduled for an August 27th, 2019 release where it drops the DVD side and is a bilingual Blu-ray only release priced at $29.99. Ahead of it, we now have a preview of the cover artwork for it where the set will include the previous audio and video commentary and the clean opening and closing sequences.
The series was directed by Seiji Kishi based off of composition by Norimitsu Kaihou. It’s being animated at studio Lerche with Kazuaki Morita and Ryoko Amisaki serving as the character designers.
The Japanese cast includes Megumi Ogata as Makoto Naegi, Yōko Hikasa as Kyōko Kirigiri, Saki Fujita as Seiko Kimura, Inori Minase as Ruruka Andō, Takuya Eguchi as Sōnosuke Izayoi, Hidekatsu Shibata as Kazuo Tengan, Keiji Fujiwara as Kōichi Kizakura, Kanata Hongou as Ryōta Mitarai, Rie Kugimiya as Daisaku Bandai, Kenta Miyake as Great Gozu, Chiwa Saito as Aoi Asahina, Masaya Matsukaze as Yasuhiro Hagakure, Takako Sasuga as Monomi, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Kyōsuke Munakata, Mai Nakahara as Chisa Yukizome, Junichi Suwabe as Jūzō Sakakura and Minami Takayama as HajimeHinata.
The anime adaptation takes place after the second game installment but it’s going to work two different seasons that focus on different elements.
Original series concept: Hope’s Peak Academy is an elite high school that accepts only the most talented students. Individuals who successfully enroll receive their own unique titles, suitably reflective of their skills and traits. Of the fifteen candidates admitted to the peculiar school that year, Makoto Naegi is a completely ordinary individual who has been accepted by sheer chance, with the title of “Ultimate Lucky Student.”
Naegi and his fellow classmates are initially ecstatic to be chosen to study at this prestigious institution, but these feelings of happiness are short-lived. They are soon confronted by Monokuma, the principal and resident bear, who traps them inside the school. The pupils’ hopes of escape and graduation hinge on one of them successfully murdering one of their peers without being discovered. However, if the killer is caught, he or she will be executed, and the
