Danganronpa

Dangan Ronpa (ダンガンロンパ) is a series of games and light novels developed and published by Spike.

Plot
Both games revolve around students trapped and cut off from the outside world, where they are forced into a life of mutual killings by a sadistic bear called Monobear. The students are all top of their field in their specialty and are given the title of "Super High School Level". To escape they must graduate the school. For them to graduate, they must commit a murder and get away with it. Once a murder is committed, the students must work together to find out who the culprit is. If the wrong culprit is chosen, the murderer is allowed to graduate the school, but the rest of the classmates are punished. However, if they uncover the culprit, the culprit alone is punished while the rest go unharmed.

Game
The first game were released for PSP on November 25th 2010 exclusively for Japan. The first game was entitled Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair. This game revolves around students being trapped in side Hope's Peak Academy. The sequel which was released July 26 2012 was called Super Dangan Ronpa 2: Farewell Despair Academy which involved a separate group of students trapped on Jabberwock island.

Light Novel
On September 16, 2011, Seikaisha's FICTIONS published a novel which is the prequel to the first game called Dangan Ronpa/Zero(up)(ダンガンロンパ/ゼロ(上). A sequel was released on October 14, 2011 titled Dangan Ronpa/Zero(down) (ダンガンロンパ/ゼロ(下). They were both writen by Kodaka Kazutaka and illustrated by Komatsuzaki Rui.

Soundtrack
On February 14, 2011, the soundtrack to the first game was released which had a total of 63 tracks on 2 separate discs. On August 31 2012, the soundtrack to the second game was released which included 103 tracks. The CDs included original music used in the game by Masafumi Takada.