Nooooo! I was also distressed. And the breaking was awful. (Have you read the Free Time events that were posted afterwards? The 'oh my God that's why I could never make any friends' revelation absolutely broke my heart.)

Fukawa is indeed creepy! Given that the reason I started reading Dangan Ronpa was because an acquaintance said she was me, I was quite taken aback.

And, yes, there is a 'shippy Sakura-Asahina vibe, and, yes, I am a horrible person.

(Specific Chapter Two spoilers in this comment!)


it's kind of hilarious that they're all "what evidence is there that {victim} was alive at X time?" I dunno, maybe that he was alive at X time and half a dozen people saw it?

I KNOW. That was just bizarre. All that arguing, all that trying to prove whether he was alive or not, and I wanted to shout 'You heard his last words later! This doesn't seem like the sort of thing you'd forget!'

I think most Japanese third-person pronouns are gender-neutral (this article lists six pronouns for 'he/she', one for 'he' specifically (which can also mean 'boyfriend', so I imagine people might be cautious with its usage) and one for 'she' specifically (which can also mean 'girlfriend', so ditto)), so there's a fair chance that the masculine pronouns were a choice on the translator's part. Of note are the honorifics used: Celes switches from calling him '-san' to '-kun', but Naegi, who also uses '-san' for girls and '-kun' for boys, still calls him 'Fujisaki-san', and Asahina still uses the feminine '-chan'. Ishimaru calls him 'Fujisaki-kun', but I think he calls everyone '-kun'; he exclaimed 'Fujisaki-kun?' when he first saw the body, well before the revelation.

So there's a variety of responses, which I think is plausible. In the group, there might be people who understand trans issues and think Chihiro must have been trans, there might be people who don't have any real understanding of trans issues but have trouble immediately shifting from thinking of Chihiro as a girl to thinking as him as a boy, there might be people who don't think of the possibility of transness and make the mental gender-switch straight away and so on.

I have trouble imagining that Sakura would actively torture someone to death, even if they killed Asahina, but certainly she'd be pretty terrifying. Come to think of it, I imagine anyone planning to kill one of them would target Sakura rather than Asahina for exactly that reason.

YOUR ICON AND MINE WILL BE BROTHERS FOR EVER.

He is bizarre and inexplicably adorable. He just wants to have conversations with his peers! Why doesn't his 'shouty nude political debate' approach ever seem to work?

Awww, I've seen that icon a few times on the thread, and it always makes me smile. And then, you know, want to cry. I'd love to see the full-sized fanart it came from, but I think I'm going to have to wait until the Let's Play is finished before I go looking, because otherwise I'm guaranteed to get a load of spoilers in my face.

THE BROS ARE SO GREAT. The ridiculous sauna image was great enough on its own, but I couldn't fully enjoy it because I was so worried they'd kill themselves in there, and then no, we get an amazing broship out of it instead.