Thread:TheGoldenWitch/@comment-33561080-20161123134617/@comment-26168584-20161123180953

"I already wrote the Danganronpa/Zero novels, but Enoshima loves her classmates from DR1. I wanted to write more of that. All of the DR2 characters are small fry to her. She just brainwashed them all at once, like, I don’t even friggin’ know these guys! But she deliberately let the DR1 crew survive and turn the school into a shelter so that she could make her classmates kill each other. It’s like, the more she loves someone, the more she wants to treasure their mutual killing, and so I want to try writing a story like, “They’re my classmates, so I want to treasure their despair at my hands.”

http://kamase-megane.tumblr.com/post/153504419222/dr3-spoiler-warning-heres-a-post-kibou-hen

Article and translation.

While I'm at it:

"KODAKA: In the last episode of Zetsubou-hen, Enoshima says, “If despair disappeared from the world, that would be despair-inducing in its own way,” and the thing Mitarai was trying to create would have caused exactly that. It might have even been possible that she thought things through that far. "

Also:

KODAKA: Munakata was supposed to die. As I recall, he was going to die protecting Naegi. I think at this point I’m happy he didn’t actually die, but mostly because I want him to carry the weight of his sin from that time he tried to get rid of Sakakura. I tweaked that part of the script because I wanted Naegi to move forward carrying the burden of hope, Hinata to move forward carrying the burden of despair, and Munakata to move forward carrying the burden of his dead friends. Really, the plan was to include what happens to all sorts of different characters after Kibou-hen during the credits, but they all got cut for length. There was a scene about what happens to Munakata afterwards, too.

HIGA: His ending was getting injured in a fight with Remnants of Despair in a back alley somewhere, and then sitting and looking at the graduation photo of the three of them. But it became just the one scene where he parts ways with Naegi and the others, so we just had a really quick flashback of Munakata’s group in school put in there.