Following the success of 2016-17’s Danganronpa: The Animation series, Dark Horse Manga is pleased to announce the continuation of the ultimate teenage murder mystery game in the three-volume Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair series! Based on NIS America’s Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the sequel to the original Danganronpa, the manga series Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair contains many scenes only hinted at in the game. Writer and artist Kyousuke Suga (Persona 5: Comic à la Carte) delves deeper into the murderous world Spike Chunsoft created in Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair. Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair also brings back “Despair Mail,†the fan art and cosplay section!
In Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair, a new class of students at the (in)famous Hope’s Peak Academy find themselves on a surprise school trip to a tropical island. The students also find that suspicion and death is the only ticket home from this so-called paradise! Here, in the name of “hope,†Ultimate Lucky Student Nagito Komaeda is willing to kill anybody and everybody…including himself!
Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair goes on sale September 5, 2018, and is available for preorder on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at your local comic shop. This 160-page volume retails for $12.99.
I loved Danganronpa, both as a game and the manga adaption, so it’s going to be awesome to see it continue! I’m really excited to see what they’re going to do with it, so I’ll definitely be checking it out as soon as I can.
I’ve actually been reading another series since I finished the original Danganronpa adaption that really reminded me of the series. It’s called G’Day, and it has the same psychological horror undertones that Danganronpa does, and the story also revolves around a murder. If you’re up for trying out a similar series while you’re waiting for the new volumes to come out, I definitely recommend it!