Danganronpa: What Is The Tragedy?
Throughout the entire Danganronpa series and the various killing games that encompass it, everything can be traced back to a surprisingly short series of events, which in turn was instigated by a single high school student. Through a series of calculated moves, this individual was able to set off the chain of events that would engulf the entire world in The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event in Human History, also known simply as "The Tragedy."
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What kind of high school student would be capable of such a thing? And how could just a few moves plunge the entire world into unmitigated chaos? Let's see if we can trace back the roots of the Tragedy to determine where everything went horribly wrong.
Please be aware that we'll be getting into major spoilers for nearly every Danganronpa game.
The impetus of the Tragedy can all be traced back to a single individual, a high school girl named Junko Enoshima. Not much is known about Junko from before her teenage years. According to Junko herself, she and her sister, Mukuro Ikusaba, were born and raised in extremely poor conditions. She has claimed that, from the moment she was born, she knew her existence was a mistake, though this is likely an exaggeration.
The likely truth of the matter lay in Junko's borderline supernatural talent for reading people and the world. With her analytical prowess, Junko was able to discern the outcomes of most events well before they happened, which instilled in her a permanent ennui. This is what gave rise to her obsession with the concept of despair, as despair is generally sudden and unpredictable.
The older Junko got, the more this obsession grew, to the point that Junko desired to fill
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