danganronpa is an example of a franchise that quickly rose above its fanbase and the fanbase never caught up

the entire series is based on twisting, criticizing and demolishing itself, taking a few basic concepts (hope, despair, murder mysteries, talent) and, after presenting them to the audience, finding as many ways as it could to find flaws in itself. it’s the Ultimate manifesto of deconstructionism, and by the time of V3, nothing is free of criticism - not even the franchise’s own continued existence.

But the Danganronpa the fanbase fell in love with wasn’t that series. They fell in love with the first game, the basic, played-straight pattern-establishing groundwork that was required to exist for the rest of it to have meaning. For this reason, they never became properly equipped to deal with what the series really had in mind.

