User blog:Pseudobread/Danganronpa Producer Yoshinori Terasawa Community Interview

Greetings Danganronpa Wiki!

We recently had the chance to interview Danganronpa Producer Yoshinori Terasawa at an NIS event where they revealed Ultra Despair Girls - Danganronpa Another Episode will finally be coming to North America in Fall 2015 for PlayStation Vita!

Special thanks to Mikitty092393, KittyCs951, and Aokiki for providing the questions for this interview! (Unfortunately we only had 10 minutes and couldn't ask all of them, sorry!)

And a final note, THIS INTERVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS ABOUT DANGANRONPA 1 & 2, so don't read it if you're looking to avoid spoilers!

Interview
Wikia: How did you decide which characters were ones that were going to survive?

Yoshinori Terasawa: Basically the scenario writer Kodaka (Kazutaka), is the guy who made the scenario. He basically wrote who was going to survive and who would not, but after discussing with everyone, there were some characters who didn’t die, even though in the original scenario they did. Our decisions were based on conversations we had.

Did you ever think that some of the characters were likely to be popular with the fans, and therefore should be kept alive longer?

YT: No, none at all! (laughter)

Why was Junko Enoshima selected to be the Ultimate Despair?

YT: Hmm, it’s a difficult question. When we thought of the Ultimate Despair, it was separate from any of the characters, Junko was actually created at the same time as the rest of the characters. File:Mikantsumiki.jpg|thumb|right When Mikan Tsumiki says she killed the people she killed for “The one that she loves”, was she referring to Junko?

YT: Probably. (laughter)

When Gundham Tanaka dies, what happens to the Four Dark Devas of Destruction?

YT: (laughter) Sonia probably adopted them.

What pushed the team to scrap DISTRUST in favor of the Danganronpa we have today?

YT: The original DISTRUST was mainly a text adventure game, But I knew that wouldn’t be as popular in Japan, so we decided to make more of an action/mystery solving, a mixture of things, and that led to Danganronpa. File:DISTRUST-monokuma-beta.jpg|thumb|left '''Some of the DISTRUST artwork showed Monokuma as a human before he was a bear. Was he originally intended to be a human?'''

YT: He was actually a robot from the very beginning.

Who is voicing Teruteru Hanamura's Mother in the Japanese version of the game?

YT: She was actually the one who coordinated all the voice acting for the game, and she was originally a voice actor herself. There was a game called Shenmue back in the day and she was actually a voice in that game. Her name is Orine Fukushima.