Thread:Mr. Waddle Dee/@comment-3014359-20170225214339/@comment-1462759-20170226011623

Mr. Waddle Dee wrote: Weird but I see your point. Though there is the possibility that Makoto and the others are like those from the academy and were children kidnapped by team Danganronpa for their show. This is wrong on several levels.

Firstly, no one was ever kidnapped by Team DanganRonpa, even in NDRV3, the characters (or rather the people who became the characters) willingly auditioned to get into the show. (For the record, the characters do wonder "maybe that was another lie" but it's basically on the same level of "maybe the apocalypse didn't happen" in DR1 where all the evidence pointed to it did happen and none of it stuck against it.)

Secondly, and this seems to be another misconception, the DanganRonpa series in the NDRV3verse didn't start with real killing games. DanganRonpa was a fictional television series with actual actors at the start, the fans became so enamored with the series that the show evolved into actual killing games over time.

The HPA Academy arc is still it's own thing and it's own universe. In that universe Team DR doesn't exist and isn't making killing game shows or orchestrating the plots. In that universe that stuff is actually happening. In the NDRV3 universe, once the director yells cut, the actors that play all the characters go out for drinks to celebrate an epsiodes' end and party when a season's over. While it exists in both universes, the context is different which is why the two are still their own universes.