First Look At The Danganronpa Anime Series

Spike Chunsoft’s word fighting game Danganronpa is following in the footsteps of Neptunia and Devil Survivor 2 with its own anime series. Danganronpa: The Campus of Hope and High School Students of Despair appears to follow the first game in the series, which was released for PSP in 2010 and then ported to smartphones last year.

Animation studio Lerche which helped with Persona 4: The Animation and Fate/Prototype is making the Danganronpa anime. Seiji Kishi who directed the Persona 4 anime and is working on the Persona 3 movie will handle adapting the Danganronpa anime which is scheduled to air this summer in Japan.