Danganronpa 1 (Trial Version)/Manga Adaption

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Danganronpa 1 (Trial Version)/Manga Adaption
Series Name
Kanji	ダンガンロンパ 希望の学園と絶望の高校生
Romaji	Danganronpa kibō no gakuen to zetsubō no kōkōsei
Translation	Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair
Creators
Illustrators	Touya Hajime (燈谷朔)
Publisher	日本語 Spike Chunsoft
Release Dates
Volume 1	日本語 November 25, 2010

Danganronpa kibō no gakuen to zetsubō no kōkōsei (ダンガンロンパ 希望の学園と絶望の高校生) is a Japanese-only short manga adaption of the playable "Trial Version" of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.

It came bundled as a bonus for anyone who pre-ordered the game during it's original release on the PSP through certain stores such as GameTSUTAYA and WonderGOO.

Plot

The manga starts identically to the demo version of the game, where Makoto Naegi wakes up and finds that he and 14 other students are trapped in Hope's Peak Academy. A robot bear self-proclaimed Headmaster of the Academy named Monokuma is introduced and informs the students about the Killing School Life they're forced to participate in.

That same day the students find a victim in Makoto's room in the shower room: Yasuhiro Hagakure, with a knife in his stomach. This is also identical to the first case murder of the actual game.

Makoto begins investigate in his room and the murder scene in order to gather clues and evidence while also asking other students. Not too much later, Monokuma announces that they all need to meet up for the Class Trial in order to find Yasuhiro's murderer.

In a similar fashion to the first case of the game (albeit very condensed and not as detailed) it's pointed out how clean the room is as the killer must of used a lint roller, and on the aforementioned lint roller is potato chip grease. Hifumi Yamada is accused of being the Blackened due to this, which he later breaks down and admits to. The students vote correctly for him, after which he goes through his execution: "Kiwotsukete, Buko-hime! Dai Kaijū Shinkō!!".

Trivia

• Hifumi is the only character to have an Execution shown outside the artbook that wasn't in any of the games.
• Differences from the playable "Trial Version":
  • The "Demo" doesn't stop in the middle of the trial, as it does in the playable Trial Version, and instead continues proceeding up until after the execution.