Although I was sad Chiaki was the blackened (she's one of my favourite characters), this whole chapter was incredible. The island itself was creepy to begin with and then Nagito did what he did...it was so good I wish I could experience it again. The words "perfect crime" have been mentioned numerous times in the franchise but this was the true unsolvable case. Huge props to Nagito for making the game so interesting and also bravo to Bryce for voicing him
Without love, the truth cannot be seen... If Hajime didn't understand Nagito, he probably wouldn't realise there's more to Nagito's plan and his true intentions wouldn't have been revealed...
I adore how you ended the video with the Nagito Image "From the bottom of my heart, i love the hope that sleeps inside you." A fitting end to such a great review of the best character in Danganronpa and best trial in Danganronpa as well.
I personally see Chiaki as the Kirigiri role more, honestly. I see Nagito as the Byakuya of the group; the f*cker who *always* derails the trial and does it very well. I love how Chiaki parallels Nagito’s statement in Chapter 1: “Instead of surviving by doubting others… isn’t it better to get killed by *believing* in others?”
Nagito starts as your right hand man, making his sudden turn in the first trial that more shocking, and for the rest of the game exists in this weird half on your side, half twisting the trial and fucking with you dynamic He's like a weird blend between Kirigiri and Togami in terms of his role, but his personality being entirely unique It's no wonder he's both so hated and so beloved I think above all else, he's a fascinating character and the game would be far weaker without his being there That's just how I see it, anyways
I don't really see chiaki as kyoko not personality not abilities anything just the role I don't mean the role of the detective I mean the role of supporting the protagonist . Nagito is different from byakuya in everything except his role maybe he was kinda antagonist or anti-hero .
i really love how chapters five and six (the whole game but these especially) play with the audiences expectations for nagito in regards to his sanity. many players simply write him off as batshit but hes incredibly consistent. like the game says, its so easy to explain away his death as him cracking, but chapter six reveals that it is actually a pretty understandable motive. i couldnt really blame him after the remnants twist was revealed, in any other game, many players would do what he did
This case was so good that one of my fav streamers pokay ( who Notoriously shits on the DR games and its characters ) actually paused to compliment this case/trail for doing something unique! ( Also he shits on nagito but I think he secretly liked his character lol )
I know right and people say kokichi is smarter But honestly nagito already solved every case before the class trials he orchestrated his death in a way where the only way the succeeded was by believing in him and that the traitor gave her self up Nagito’s plan was perfect Now kokichi is smart to I mean boy wrote a book about how his trial would go but his plan has flaws in it he also didn’t solve the cases before the trials began but if he said what he knew the trials would be at least an hour and a half shorter In conclusion nagito is smarter the kokichi But there both the goats that make up 99.99999999999% of the danganronpa community
@@niggaman7947 anyone who paid any attention or replayed the game knows that kokichi is a total dmbass only times kokichi ends up looking smart is when he has information other people dont have (which is quite often), otherwise he exclusively says false, simpleminded fluff like most dr characters
I love love love this trial. Chiaki and Nagito are two of my favorites from this game, and Nagito's plan was so clever and multilayered! Chapter 5 of V3 was really good too, but I this one is just pretty much a classic. I think the characters in Danganronpa defy classifications. Most people try to outline stereotype each cast, sort them into boxes, but I don't think that really works. Nagito Komaeda occupies multiple roles; the Sayaka role, someone you trusted and betrayed you, the Kyouko role, the person who helps you (along with Chiaki who also fills this role), and the Byakuya role, the antagonist that always keeps you guessing. The characters of Danganronpa cannot be confined to rolls, especially not one as complicated as Nagito. I find trying to categorize these characters in such straight forward ways to be a fools endeavor. Nagito Komaeda isn't just an "antagonist" "love interest" "helper" or "betrayer"-he's all these things, and more. These characters, their motive, their roles, and their murders are all so complicated and multilayered, and I wouldn't care about how clever Nagito's plan was if I didn't care about him and Chiaki so much. Characters, I think, are where Danganronpa shines.
this video made me feel so sad for some reason?? and you're right at the end "without love, the truth cannot be seen", thats 100% true. this video is so well made, thank you
Gotta say, somehow I DID NOT expect that final quote nor my laughter at it considering how painfully well it actually fits this situation?? Ah, Umineko my beloved.... Thank you for this wonderful phrase....
It's really just a poetic way of saying "the whydunnit matters just as much as the whodunnit" but I agree that the phrasing makes it so utterly amusing.
Excellent analysis! Let me just say that I think WTC and Danganronpa have one thing in common - they're better viewed as a whole rather than "separate parts". I mean sure, you could experience WTC 2 and 3 separately and that is totally valid, but from analytical point of view, I think it's best to understand the underlying themes of one for the analysis of another. And I think the same of V3, despite its ending slotting it as "not Danganronpa". Analyzing The Mastermind's game - and the underlying themes of truth, lies, belief, and doubt - is _enhanced_ , I believe, by knowing what previous games 1 and 2 had to say about those topics. That's probably a controversial/hard-to-agree-with opinion? But it's one that I hold closely, and one I thought of when I watched this.
I do think there is value in viewing the three games as one holistic work, if only to see the evolution of Kodaka's thematic writing, going from something very simple as hope vs despair, to something as morally gray with past vs future to something extremely abstract and borderline morally agonistic with truth vs lies. But in spite of exponentially increasing complexity and abstract-ness, he always finds a way to have the game end with a resoundingly humanistic bang. Even v3, whose final trial is a grueling deathmarch of pure, seemingly inescapable nihilism, is rescued at the eleventh hour to reach that triumphant, humanistic ending. Watching that throughline grow more and more challenged throughout the series, but never faltering is indeed fascinating to watch and a throughly impressive and remarkable feat by Kodaka.
Really well done analysis video! Thank you for posting 🥰 Nagito's character composition and story are truly next-level writing. Each piece of his personality stacks on top of the other so perfectly. All his personality traits mix together like a cocktail! But not like your standard Manhattan or Cosmo, something more unique, something that wouldn't seem like it would work together, but ends up being the best thing you ever had! They wrote him to be the perfect person to have the ultimate luck ability. Like, imagine if someone else had the ultimate luck. What would they do with it? Would they be smart enough to utilize it like Nagito did in the final trial? How would they cope with their crazy life? I would imagine their life with all that luck would look totally different from Nagito's. But they made him so intelligent, and they made him the kind of person to try and be resilient against the torment of the constant ups and downs. I just can't get over this guy. The writers really took his story to the most awesome place they could have gone with it, too. 11/10 character 😭😭
dr2 c5 trial is still the best trial in the series, v3 c5 is close but I don't understand why would shuichi take monokuma's side and solve the unsolvable murder for him when the killing game would've ended right then and there
Case 5 of both Danganronpa 2 and V3 were some of my favorite visual novel movements but I feel like personally after them, the plot twist in case 6 were really half baked and in the case of V3, was just pretty irritating. Still enjoy the series even if I do gravitate toward Umineko and Ace Attorney more nowadays.
kokichi and nagito and both amazingly written they both came up with amazing plans (albeit nagito did do it better somewhat) both were always steps ahead of the competition and were always unpredictable and never let their guards down.They are both easily top 10 most intelligent
Video is KINDA overhyping this trial. It was good but idk if i'd use like, so many adjectives and fancy wording. Writing Ingeniously, "onslaught of blisteringly nail biting drama", "Monsteriously overbeating antagonistic presence" Idk, it just feels like you're an IGN reviewer whose trying really hard to sound smart, engaging and hyping the game up. When really while the games good, it's not 'ingeniously written' or have 'nail biting drama'. Its compelling and can be tense, but idk if I'd use those intense words.
i like the video but you tried way too hard with that word choice like holy mother of stuffy video essays you could have so easily not made every word 4+ syllables for normal people to listen to in the background
I feel like you should focus on your feelings and thoughts while experiencing trial 5 to help your viewers recapture what they felt when playing it. IMO the big words just take away from this video and it would be better with simpler clearer vocabulary.
It really bothers me to hear you saying Hajime is the one able to understand Nagito fully. Because he isn't. Not having medical nor logic-related talents of Izuru Kamukura, in-game Hajime is smart and has a good intuition, but he lacks in understanding the reasoning of Nagito to the extent of acting cruelly towards the sick (the way Hajime treated him in the end of the first and the beginning of the second chapters is affected by the tragedy he had to witness, but do you really think it is acceptable?). Komaeda's got frontotemporal dementia and lymphoma. Nagito Komaeda is intelligent, he has a unique personality, however his brain is deteriorating and his extreme and malicious acts are majorly caused by the condition
@@WarudoChaos yep, I totally agree, if you go through his FTE's, Nagito even mentions that Hajime is the only one that understands him, and it's true, in the fifth trial, the entire cast and Hajime seemed to be on totally different pages, it was almost as if Hajime was thinking to himself whether he was the only one that wasn't underestimating Komaeda, furthur, Hajime absolutely would have had a different reaction towards Nagito if, at the end of his FTE's, Nagito hadn't purposefully lied about lying about his disease, but, due to what Nagito said, he continued under the assumption that Nagito was just a crazy psychopath, even moreso, you literally cannot tell me that they would have gotten past Nagito's trap if hajime didn't trust Nagito, I mean, one of the most common reasonings that Hajime gives, is literally just, "This all makes sense, but would NAGITO, do this?"
Nagito is unironically a well written character
He is so well written, that there's no possibility that there's another character like him that's not in Danganronpa.
Love him or hate him, you have to admit Danganronpa wouldn't be the same without Nagito Komaeda
Danganronpa:
25% gameplay
25% your waifus and husbandos dying
50% Nagito Komaeda
Fucking hate Komaeda, but he's a great character.
@@jammer523691aj ✨🙂it’s ok if you hate him ✨
i will be consuming all of it happily thank you
I love nagito
Even the first and third games, which don’t even feature him lmao
Although I was sad Chiaki was the blackened (she's one of my favourite characters), this whole chapter was incredible. The island itself was creepy to begin with and then Nagito did what he did...it was so good I wish I could experience it again. The words "perfect crime" have been mentioned numerous times in the franchise but this was the true unsolvable case. Huge props to Nagito for making the game so interesting and also bravo to Bryce for voicing him
I think chiaki being the blackened was the best option and improved her character a bit honestly, although it was sad
"without love, the truth can't be seen"
Nice reference
Without love, the truth cannot be seen...
If Hajime didn't understand Nagito, he probably wouldn't realise there's more to Nagito's plan and his true intentions wouldn't have been revealed...
I don't think it worked like that.
@@rawdasalmataman7908 Whatever. I was in a Komaeda mood
@@seacrystal6189 Heeehhhh
It def worked like that haha, if Hajime didn’t know Nagito like that he would’ve ruled it a suicide when everyone else did
I adore how you ended the video with the Nagito Image "From the bottom of my heart, i love the hope that sleeps inside you."
A fitting end to such a great review of the best character in Danganronpa and best trial in Danganronpa as well.
I personally see Chiaki as the Kirigiri role more, honestly. I see Nagito as the Byakuya of the group; the f*cker who *always* derails the trial and does it very well. I love how Chiaki parallels Nagito’s statement in Chapter 1: “Instead of surviving by doubting others… isn’t it better to get killed by *believing* in others?”
Nagito starts as your right hand man, making his sudden turn in the first trial that more shocking, and for the rest of the game exists in this weird half on your side, half twisting the trial and fucking with you dynamic
He's like a weird blend between Kirigiri and Togami in terms of his role, but his personality being entirely unique
It's no wonder he's both so hated and so beloved
I think above all else, he's a fascinating character and the game would be far weaker without his being there
That's just how I see it, anyways
@@bigbadgammagnome agreed. That’s why I like him so much! Seeing someone like him go so far was so fun!
I don't really see chiaki as kyoko not personality not abilities anything just the role I don't mean the role of the detective I mean the role of supporting the protagonist .
Nagito is different from byakuya in everything except his role maybe he was kinda antagonist or anti-hero .
i really love how chapters five and six (the whole game but these especially) play with the audiences expectations for nagito in regards to his sanity. many players simply write him off as batshit but hes incredibly consistent. like the game says, its so easy to explain away his death as him cracking, but chapter six reveals that it is actually a pretty understandable motive. i couldnt really blame him after the remnants twist was revealed, in any other game, many players would do what he did
Nagito needs to be a guest character in more Spike Chunisoft/Kodaka games.
Imagine you get to play as Leon Kuwata in Tribe Nine
wdym "more"?
@@mrluthfians01 He's a guest character in Identity V, which is a mobile, Offbrand Dead By Daylight. He's also in an offbrand Fate game.
Finally not someone going it's "overrated" and just saying why it's so good
Ok overated
@@probablybobross5790 yeah no
@@etam8099 ok overated
@@probablybobross5790 you wished
@@etam8099 ok overated
This case was so good that one of my fav streamers pokay ( who Notoriously shits on the DR games and its characters ) actually paused to compliment this case/trail for doing something unique!
( Also he shits on nagito but I think he secretly liked his character lol )
nagito is just pure big brain like his IQ is prolly 60000 and not only that hes so intelligent like ugh how is he so smart i stan
I know right and people say kokichi is smarter
But honestly nagito already solved every case before the class trials he orchestrated his death in a way where the only way the succeeded was by believing in him and that the traitor gave her self up
Nagito’s plan was perfect
Now kokichi is smart to I mean boy wrote a book about how his trial would go but his plan has flaws in it he also didn’t solve the cases before the trials began but if he said what he knew the trials would be at least an hour and a half shorter
In conclusion nagito is smarter the kokichi
But there both the goats that make up 99.99999999999% of the danganronpa community
@@niggaman7947 anyone who paid any attention or replayed the game knows that kokichi is a total dmbass
only times kokichi ends up looking smart is when he has information other people dont have (which is quite often), otherwise he exclusively says false, simpleminded fluff like most dr characters
This makes me like him a lot more now than I did when watching the anime.
Also love the Umineko reference
I love love love this trial. Chiaki and Nagito are two of my favorites from this game, and Nagito's plan was so clever and multilayered! Chapter 5 of V3 was really good too, but I this one is just pretty much a classic.
I think the characters in Danganronpa defy classifications. Most people try to outline stereotype each cast, sort them into boxes, but I don't think that really works. Nagito Komaeda occupies multiple roles; the Sayaka role, someone you trusted and betrayed you, the Kyouko role, the person who helps you (along with Chiaki who also fills this role), and the Byakuya role, the antagonist that always keeps you guessing. The characters of Danganronpa cannot be confined to rolls, especially not one as complicated as Nagito. I find trying to categorize these characters in such straight forward ways to be a fools endeavor. Nagito Komaeda isn't just an "antagonist" "love interest" "helper" or "betrayer"-he's all these things, and more.
These characters, their motive, their roles, and their murders are all so complicated and multilayered, and I wouldn't care about how clever Nagito's plan was if I didn't care about him and Chiaki so much. Characters, I think, are where Danganronpa shines.
this video made me feel so sad for some reason?? and you're right at the end "without love, the truth cannot be seen", thats 100% true. this video is so well made, thank you
Gotta say, somehow I DID NOT expect that final quote nor my laughter at it considering how painfully well it actually fits this situation?? Ah, Umineko my beloved.... Thank you for this wonderful phrase....
It's really just a poetic way of saying "the whydunnit matters just as much as the whodunnit" but I agree that the phrasing makes it so utterly amusing.
I'm not a really big fan of the second game, but this last case and some characters ( mostly fuyuhiko lol ) improved my opinion on the game a little
i dont know why but i liked s2 so much more than s1 😭😭
I got cold sweat during this trial when I realized what Nagito had just done
Excellent analysis! Let me just say that I think WTC and Danganronpa have one thing in common - they're better viewed as a whole rather than "separate parts". I mean sure, you could experience WTC 2 and 3 separately and that is totally valid, but from analytical point of view, I think it's best to understand the underlying themes of one for the analysis of another. And I think the same of V3, despite its ending slotting it as "not Danganronpa". Analyzing The Mastermind's game - and the underlying themes of truth, lies, belief, and doubt - is _enhanced_ , I believe, by knowing what previous games 1 and 2 had to say about those topics. That's probably a controversial/hard-to-agree-with opinion? But it's one that I hold closely, and one I thought of when I watched this.
I do think there is value in viewing the three games as one holistic work, if only to see the evolution of Kodaka's thematic writing, going from something very simple as hope vs despair, to something as morally gray with past vs future to something extremely abstract and borderline morally agonistic with truth vs lies. But in spite of exponentially increasing complexity and abstract-ness, he always finds a way to have the game end with a resoundingly humanistic bang. Even v3, whose final trial is a grueling deathmarch of pure, seemingly inescapable nihilism, is rescued at the eleventh hour to reach that triumphant, humanistic ending. Watching that throughline grow more and more challenged throughout the series, but never faltering is indeed fascinating to watch and a throughly impressive and remarkable feat by Kodaka.
@@WarudoChaosI’ve loved danganronpa for a while now but I’ve never seen anyone sum it up the way you did right here. You’re spectacular!
I like how the video ended with Nagito's love confession
While not my favorite class trial I freaking loved what they with nagito in this trial and chapter
Nagito wasn’t aiming for Twogami technically
Really well done analysis video! Thank you for posting 🥰
Nagito's character composition and story are truly next-level writing. Each piece of his personality stacks on top of the other so perfectly. All his personality traits mix together like a cocktail! But not like your standard Manhattan or Cosmo, something more unique, something that wouldn't seem like it would work together, but ends up being the best thing you ever had!
They wrote him to be the perfect person to have the ultimate luck ability. Like, imagine if someone else had the ultimate luck. What would they do with it? Would they be smart enough to utilize it like Nagito did in the final trial? How would they cope with their crazy life? I would imagine their life with all that luck would look totally different from Nagito's. But they made him so intelligent, and they made him the kind of person to try and be resilient against the torment of the constant ups and downs.
I just can't get over this guy. The writers really took his story to the most awesome place they could have gone with it, too. 11/10 character 😭😭
This is the best video related to danganronpa I've seen
This video is underrated
OHOHOHO LOOKS LIKE IM FIRST AND RIGHT IN TIME FOR THE SIMP MATERIAL
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Great analysis!
This trial is the main reasion nagito's one of my favorites
Subscribing to this channel was indeed a good idea.
my angel of hope ❤
dr2 c5 trial is still the best trial in the series, v3 c5 is close but I don't understand why would shuichi take monokuma's side and solve the unsolvable murder for him when the killing game would've ended right then and there
Case 5 of both Danganronpa 2 and V3 were some of my favorite visual novel movements but I feel like personally after them, the plot twist in case 6 were really half baked and in the case of V3, was just pretty irritating. Still enjoy the series even if I do gravitate toward Umineko and Ace Attorney more nowadays.
wow what a great video!
A Cog in Cosmic Force one cannot control. Hope or Despair. Komeada seems to be plot aware like Junko.
I’m pretty sure Nagito is supposed to be the rival
oh!
It’s unfortunate to see him be lumped with generic potty mouthed chaos jester Kokichi, Nagito is so much better written than him.
I agree, he's way more compelling
kokichi and nagito and both amazingly written they both came up with amazing plans (albeit nagito did do it better somewhat) both were always steps ahead of the competition and were always unpredictable and never let their guards down.They are both easily top 10 most intelligent
WE NEED A KOKICHI ESSAY
Not the best character, not the best trial
Video is KINDA overhyping this trial. It was good but idk if i'd use like, so many adjectives and fancy wording. Writing Ingeniously, "onslaught of blisteringly nail biting drama", "Monsteriously overbeating antagonistic presence"
Idk, it just feels like you're an IGN reviewer whose trying really hard to sound smart, engaging and hyping the game up. When really while the games good, it's not 'ingeniously written' or have 'nail biting drama'. Its compelling and can be tense, but idk if I'd use those intense words.
Why I love nagito because we are..... DESPAIRE SO SADLY DEPRESSION WOW😮 AND ITS BE-AUT-IFUL WOW🤭
i like the video but you tried way too hard with that word choice like holy mother of stuffy video essays you could have so easily not made every word 4+ syllables for normal people to listen to in the background
Wouldn't kill you to learn some vocabulary, would it?
I feel like you should focus on your feelings and thoughts while experiencing trial 5 to help your viewers recapture what they felt when playing it. IMO the big words just take away from this video and it would be better with simpler clearer vocabulary.
It really bothers me to hear you saying Hajime is the one able to understand Nagito fully. Because he isn't. Not having medical nor logic-related talents of Izuru Kamukura, in-game Hajime is smart and has a good intuition, but he lacks in understanding the reasoning of Nagito to the extent of acting cruelly towards the sick (the way Hajime treated him in the end of the first and the beginning of the second chapters is affected by the tragedy he had to witness, but do you really think it is acceptable?). Komaeda's got frontotemporal dementia and lymphoma. Nagito Komaeda is intelligent, he has a unique personality, however his brain is deteriorating and his extreme and malicious acts are majorly caused by the condition
lmfao what
@@WarudoChaos yep, I totally agree, if you go through his FTE's, Nagito even mentions that Hajime is the only one that understands him, and it's true, in the fifth trial, the entire cast and Hajime seemed to be on totally different pages, it was almost as if Hajime was thinking to himself whether he was the only one that wasn't underestimating Komaeda, furthur, Hajime absolutely would have had a different reaction towards Nagito if, at the end of his FTE's, Nagito hadn't purposefully lied about lying about his disease, but, due to what Nagito said, he continued under the assumption that Nagito was just a crazy psychopath, even moreso, you literally cannot tell me that they would have gotten past Nagito's trap if hajime didn't trust Nagito, I mean, one of the most common reasonings that Hajime gives, is literally just, "This all makes sense, but would NAGITO, do this?"
I thought Danganronpa 2 was pretty bland, but Komaeda and Trial 5 was peak Danganronpa.