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![So, I got the Danganronpa Kirigiri novel yesterday, read it, looked up to see whether or not someone had already reviewed it and I AM SO MAD to see there is none, at least on tumblr. I cannot possibly be the only Japanese-English speaking person who read this novel.
So here I wrote a summary of the novel, with my own thoughts in the end. Very long post. Spoilers for the novel but no spoilers for either Danganronpa or Super Danganronpa 2, with this volume anyway.
[[MORE]]As most of you may already know, this novel touches upon Kirigiri’s past – more specifically, when she is in 7th grade. It’s written in the point of view of both Yui Samidare and the criminal.
First of all, let me say that this novel could have been a series all of its own, separate from Danganronpa. There are very few references to Kibougamine Academy and the Danganronpa game, which you’ll see in the following summary.
The characters that appear in this novel are as follows – Kirigiri Kyouko: 13 year old detective. She’s gone through much training with her grandfather, but this appears to be her first case as a registered detective. Samidare Yui: 16 year old detective. The narrator of this novel. She became a detective for a secret reason. Amino Eigo: 35 year old detective. Specializes in business crime. He is arrogant and a slacker, but sucks up to those of higher rank than he. Enbi Shiita: 28 year old detective. Specializes in terrorist cases, so appears to have been through many difficult times. Inuzuka Kou: The oldest detective of the group at 41. He also has the highest rank, but is very fond of his drink. ???: Unnamed criminal of this novel. Mysterious old man: Calls himself Endou Toukichirou, according to his business card. He comes to Unnamed one day to propose something that catches his interest.
Chapter 1 – Sirius Astronomical Observatory Murder Case 1
The story opens with a girl waking up from a daze with tears streaming down her face. She doesn’t remember whether she was crying because something sad had happened or if she was having ‘that’ dream (she doesn’t go into what the dream is, but it’s implied that she’s dreamed it a lot). She finds herself lying on the floor, with her right arm handcuffed to a bed. As she tries to remember where she is, she recalls that this is the Sirius Astronomical Observatory where she arrived with four other detectives to meet with a client. Your first hint as the reader that something is wrong is when the sign in front of the observatory is crossed out from “Welcome to Delightful Sirius Astronomical Observatory” to read “Welcome to Despair Sirius Astronomical Observatory.”
Gradually the girl remembers that her name is Samidare Yui, and she and the other detectives must have been tricked because their client never appeared, and the next thing you know, this happened. Yui tries to find a way to unlock the handcuff on her right arm, but finds that the other end isn’t tied to anything at all– if she simply lifts up the bed a little, she can easily slip the chain under and be free. She goes to examine her surroundings and finds Kirigiri unconscious on the floor… but hesitates to go near her because there is a large pair of hedge clippers stained with blood nearby Kirigiri.
Yui decides to investigate more to see where the other detectives are, and find them all dead while lain on beds, with their heads cut off and, for some reason, their bodies switched around. Since Yui and Kirigiri are the only ones inside who are alive, and there’s a heavy snowstorm outside to prevent anyone else from coming in or out, Yui suspects that Kirigiri killed them. This belief is further cemented when she spots a key in Kirigiri’s grip, which Yui uses to unlock her handcuff. If the person who killed the three detectives was also the person who chained her to the bed, Kirigiri would be the only one.
At the click of the handcuffs, Kirigiri wakes up and, in a daze, sees the clippers. She reaches out a hand towards them to look at them, and Yui, afraid what she might do with the clippers in her hands, handcuffs Kirigiri’s left hand to a nearby easy chair. There is conversation between Yui and Kirigiri, with Yui suspecting Kirigiri as the murderer. Kirigiri says she didn’t do it and by rights, she should be suspecting Yui but states that she doesn’t think so. That is because before they woke up, when everyone was alive, all five of them were gathered in the hall talking about food when the room was suddenly filled with white smoke. Everyone but Kirigiri dropped to the floor unconscious, and sensing that they were caught in a murder proceeding, Kirigiri pretended that she too was knocked unconscious so she could see what the murderer would do. But unfortunately, the murderer came up behind her and put a cloth of chemical to her nose to knock her out unconscious for sure. Kirigiri remembers though that before she blacked out, she gripped the murderer’s hand and it was a man’s hand. So Yui could not have been the criminal. To make sure of this, Kirigiri asks to touch Yui’s hand. Yui makes Kirigiri sit on the easy chair first before gripping Kirigiri’s right hand so that Kirigiri would not have a chance to attack her.
After this, Yui – still not trusting Kirigiri – ties Kirigiri’s right hand to the chair with Kirigiri’s hair ribbon and goes to investigate the place to, once again, be sure that there is no one else there besides Yui and Kirigiri.
While Kirigiri is talking, Yui thinks about the details of the murder – the clippers, the switched body parts, the chemical to knock people unconscious – and realizes that these are all very familiar to her. She actually saw these details written in a black letter that was delivered to her a few days ago. When she says this, Kirigiri asks to see the letter, which Yui shows to her. Kirigiri reads it and tells Yui that they aren’t just in a normal murder scene. They are pawns in a game.
Chapter 2 – Duel Noir 1
“Duel Noir” (デュエル・ノワール) is written as “The Black Challenge” (黒の挑戦) in kanji but for some reason they denoted it with French.
This chapter is the only chapter written from the criminal’s point of view. The criminal – I’ll call him Unnamed for now – is in the hospital waiting room, waiting to receive painkillers because his leg hurts. An old man sitting next to him strikes up a conversation, hinting that he knows more about Unnamed than he ought to. Unnamed thinks that the old man is part of some religious cult or the press, but the old man gives him his business card which reads “Salvation for Victims of Crime Committee – Endou Toukichirou.” Endou wants Unnamed to think of the Committee as a non-profit organization that has no connections with the government. Unnamed scoffs, thinking they’re probably like a religious cult anyway – they get close to victims with promises then ask for a ton of money.
Just as Unnamed is about to leave, Endou asks him, “Don’t you want revenge?”
It seems that five years ago, Unnamed was living an average proper life with a proper job, until everything was taken from him. Unnamed was living in a neighborhood where arson occurred continuously, with no one able to catch the arsonist. One day, Unnamed too got caught in the fire along with his wife and two-year-old son. While they all came out with heavy burns, he was the only one to survive. A detective eventually caught on that the arson was made in locations that formed a star on a map, and easily deducted that it was the work of an astrologist who lived in the center of that “star.” However, when the detective came down upon the astrologist’s residence, the astrologist had already burned to death and the case was wrapped up as an arson-ending-in-suicide.
Unnamed had let his hate grow since the time of his accident, because he wanted to take it out on the criminal, but with the astrologist dead, he didn’t know where to vent his hatred at anymore. Because of his physical state, he lost his job and now spends his life on government funds. Here he was filled with hatred, disgust at how his life was like now, as well as a strong desire to start a new life. And here was an old man who said he would be able to give him the very things he wanted – revenge and a new life. Unnamed decides to hear Endou out.
Endou tells him that the real criminal is still at large. But before he is to tell Unnamed who that criminal is, Unnamed is to accept certain conditions first. Unnamed suspects money, but Endou says that the condition is that he must exact his revenge on the real criminal and kill him. “Revenge” is what their Committee calls “salvation.” To achieve this salvation, Unnamed must have “determination” to kill, the “money” to kill, and the “technique” to kill. But since many people, including Unnamed, are amateurs when it comes to technique, the Committee will formulate the perfect murder scenario for him… for a fee. Unnamed scoffs and goes to leave again, thinking that this is some elaborate story to get money out of him, but Endou says that the Committee will gather up funds for him and thus Endou will not have to pay anything.
The reason for this, Endou says, is because there are certain people in the world who love to gamble – not on horses, but on people with revenge in their hearts who strive to get away with the perfect crime. When the Committee recruits promising people like Unnamed, they get sponsors who provide for the funds for the “salvation” process. For the Committee to formulate a plan for Unnamed, he would use his funds to buy “cards” from them that contain the various elements that become his murder plan. These “cards” are particularly pricey – for example, in a previous murder plan the Committee formed for someone else, the card for “metal bat” was worth 300,000 yen. Unnamed wonders who the heck would pay 300,000 yen for a metal bat that they could just buy in any sports store, but Endou says that that is because this metal bat is worth that price. This metal bat would not have any lingering hints attached to it, such as the make or origin that it can be traced to, security cameras in the store that could catch you buying this bat, etc. All for the perfect crime.
However, with every gamble there must be a thrill. And so, after the Committee forms the “deck” of cards that make up the murder plan, they will also choose a detective to be assigned to this case whose rank is the equivalent to the total cost of that “deck.” By having a detective, the Committee believes that this will lead to a most pure form of “salvation.” Unnamed is to send a letter of challenge to the detective who is assigned, exact his revenge, and then avoid being caught by the detective for 168 hours. If he succeeds, the total cost that made up his “deck” will be given to him to use freely. They would even erase his past history so that he can start a new life. However, he must not kill or even as much scratch the detective assigned to him (anyone else is fine), and if he loses, his connection with the Committee is severed for good. He will be treated as a common criminal and he must pay the funds that were provided for him. Since Unnamed obviously can’t pay them back, Endou implies that he then best be prepared to kill himself.
Unnamed knows that Endou is baiting him, because after all this explanation, Endou will absolutely not tell Unnamed the real criminal’s name until he accepts. To add more incentive, Endou says that so far the detectives have only achieved a 28% success. The plans that the Committee formulate are that perfect. Endou can see that Unnamed is ready to make his decision, but suggests that Unnamed think about it for another night.
In the next page, we see the letter that is sent to Yui–
Hear me, Detective. Listen to the cries of the Black.
Place – SIrius Astronomical Observatory – 30,000,000 yen
Weapon – Large clippers – 5,000,000 yen
Weapon – Anesthetic chemical – 5,000,000 yen
Trick – Murder in pieces – 80,000,000 yen
Total cost – 120,000,000 yen
This detective is summoned according to the above cost – Samidare Yui
Chapter 3 – Sirius Astronomical Observatory Murder Case 2
This chapter goes back to Yui’s POV and starts off with a bit more background on Yui. She tells us that she is a high school girl, who goes to an all-girls school. It’s a really well-known mission school for rich girls, except the religious part of the school has died down quite a lot. Although working part-time is forbidden in the school, she petitioned to be a detective which the headmaster Sister agreed to joyously because the Sister saw being a detective as “volunteer work.” Yui is the only detective in the school. She also lived in the school campus dormitory, ever since she entered this school. After some description, Yui mentions that she noticed the black envelope in her post box on the winter of her first year in high school, in December. (The author makes a point to note that Yui has received 2 love letters so far in her all-girls school, one which she has turned down and the other she didn’t know who was from. Yuri in my Danganronpa.)
The black envelope contains the letter we saw above, along with another letter written by “Ooe Yoshizono ” who says that he is speaking on behalf of his client. He wants her to meet at Hatesaki station on December 22nd, 3pm to be picked up, so that she receive an interview with his client at Sirius A.O. and, upon his approval, become privy to details of his very important case. Yui looks up information on Sirius A.O. online but finds limited information.
Yui takes absence from school and arrives at Hatesaki station. At this point is when the snowstorm is slowly beginning to fall. Because the station is pretty empty, she learns quickly that the other people who gradually join her at the station are other detectives who have also been called to this case. They are:
Amino Eigo, who wears his hair parted in a suit and long coat and looks for all the world like a normal salaryman;
Enbi Shiita, who wears grey sunglasses, a black tanktop, and keeps mostly quiet throughout the whole thing;
Inuzuka Kou, a short, fat man who arrives at the station drunk carrying a bag full of liquor.
Yui, judging from Inuzuka’s looks, thinks that he is a poor drunk but changes her mind when Inuzuka deducts her lifestyle simply by taking a look at her. Despite his love for drink, Inuzuka is a keen detective.
(I’m ashamed to admit that I looked at Amino and went “Oh he’s hot” even though his personality is one of the worst.)
Arriving on the dot of the appointed time at the station, last of all, is Kirigiri. The other detectives are surprised that such a young girl is part of their team, with Yui being probably the most surprised because Kirigiri is wearing her school’s uniform. Her school also has a middle school section, and Kirigiri is wearing the uniform for 7th graders. Yui has never heard of a detective in their middle school. She talks a bit with Kirigiri as they are driven to Sirius, learning that Kirigiri is a new transfer student who just entered her school.
From here, in this chapter, we learn that each detective has an ID, with a DSC number (DSC = detective shelf collection). Detectives register in what is known as the Detective Library to get their ID (Kirigiri only registered recently when this novel begins, so she is the starting rank of 9). The Detective Library contains files on 65,500 detectives, their information made public so that anyone can view them and choose the detective relevant to whatever is bothering them for a case.
The DSC number has three numbers. The first number signifies what their specialty is, with the second number going into a bit more detail of that specialty. The last number signifies their rank. So for instance–
Amino Eigo (age 35) – DSC 367 – Business Crime – Business Spies – Rank 7
Enbi Shiita (age 28) – DSC 245 – National Crime – Terrorism – Rank 5
Inuzuka Kou (age 41) – DSC 943 – Murder – Locked Room – Rank 3
Kirigiri Kyouko (age 13) – DSC 919 – Murder – Impossible Crime – Rank 9
Samidare Yui (age 16) – DSC 888 – Freedom crime – Kidnapping – Rank 8
The DSC Detective Library classification goes as follows:
0 – General – General
1 – Religious crime – Brainwashing, illegal teachings, etc.
2 – National crime – Terrorism, rebellion, destructive action, etc.
3 – Business crime – Fake currency, embezzlement, breach of trust, etc.
4 – Nature crime – Destruction of nature, poaching, illegal disposal, etc.
5 – Technology crime – Illegal access, using the internet to swindle, etc.
6 – Sex industry crime – Prostitution, gambling, etc.
7 – Art crime – Art theft, counterfeit selling, etc.
8 – Freedom crime – Threatening, confinement, kidnapping (acts that take away one’s freedom), etc.
9 – Murder – Mugging with murder, murder in locked rooms, etc.
The higher you get in rank, the lower your number becomes. The highest rank is 0 and you are known as zero-class. When your middle number becomes 0, it means that you have mastery over a wide range of topics in a particular branch, making you double-zero-class. 00 class alone means you are a pretty famous detective and the top of the cream. However, there are also those who become triple-zero-class, making you legends. While the Detective Library has been active for about 15 years, only four people have managed to achieve 000 class.
The driver drops them off a bit away from Sirius O.A., telling them that his orders were that he drop them off there and they are to walk the rest of the way. Along the way, Kirigiri and Yui talk some more (at this point, Kirigiri adopts the name “Yui-oneesama” for Yui because Yui insists on Kirigiri calling her oneechan). Kirigiri thinks something is wrong and suggests to Yui that they leave, but seeing the three men walking ahead in front of them, she whispers “can’t leave them to die” and decides to stay on board.
From here they reach Sirius and investigate the building and its furnishings. I’m super lazy so I’m going to skip this part.
The detectives investigate the place while waiting for their client to come, who doesn’t appear. Amino thinks they should leave, but Inuzuka thinks this is part of the interview and says they should wait it out. They all pick a room in the observatory to stay the night, with each person more or less with or without a change of clothes, when white smoke fills the hall and Yui falls to the floor unconscious, leading to the current situation.
Chapter 4 – Duel Noir 2
This chapter only contains a picture of each detective’s DSC, which I already showed above.
Chapter 5 – Sirius Astronomical Observatory Murder Case 3
This chapter is a continuation of chapter 1, with Yui still not believing that Kirigiri isn’t the murderer. Again, I’m lazy, so I’m going to quickly summarize this chapter leaving out the finer details– while Kirigiri is tied to the chair, Yui investigates in Kirigiri’s place, doing as she instructs until Yui is basically the “helper” reporting to the “all-mighty princess detective” sitting in her chair. Through her investigations, Yui learns that the corpses of the three bodies are actually cut into smaller pieces– the arms and legs are cut into three pieces, with all body parts rearranged.
Through Kirigiri’s deductions, they get down to the conclusion that Yui is put up to play the role as detective, while Kirigiri was set up to play the role of the murderer, by the real murderer. Therefore, if neither Yui or Kirigiri are the murderer, the real murderer had to have been one of the three dead men. Yui says that isn’t possible, but with Kirigiri’s thought process, they conclude that another man – someone who looked exactly like one of the three men they’d seen – was murdered beforehand and cut into smaller parts for easy transportation. Then when the murderer killed the other two men, he could use these smaller body parts he’d transported to succeed with the three-body crime.
However, there is no place in the building for the criminal to hide. Yui has searched everywhere, and even when the rest of the detectives were alive, they had searched the building thoroughly to find no place for a full-bodied man to hide in. So, Kirigiri suggests, what if it isn’t a full-bodied man?
To prove her point, she asks Yui to trust her and untie the ribbon around her right hand. Yui does so, because a part of her can’t really believe that such a small child can be the murderer. Kirigiri, still sitting with her left arm chained, takes a bottle of whisky from Inuzuka’s bag and pours it over her legs. Then she takes a lighter from Amino’s bag and holds it up, saying that she will light herself up in five seconds unless the murderer reveal himself. Yui thinks she’s gone nuts, but Kirigiri tells her to be quiet and counts down. Just as she reaches to one, a man’s voice calls out “I’ve lost” and Kirigiri, standing up, tells him to come out from there. A man, who looks very much like Enbi, comes out from inside the small easy chair. Both of his legs are amputated from the thighs down because he lost them in a fire. But they still hurt.
I have to note that in this chapter is when we first hear something about Kibougamine Academy. There is a moment when Yui jumps up to the roof to investigate, showing off amazing jump power that even surprises Kirigiri. Yui says that she set records with her perpendicular jumps, and if she had gone into a sport or competition of some kind, she could have been able to get into Kibougamine High. However, since she chose to become a detective, which doesn’t involve that much jumping, she is not a Kibougamine student.
Chapter 6 – Duel Noir 3
The real murderer’s name is Asakura Tadashi. He is holding a knife, which he kept at Kirigiri’s back the whole time in case something went wrong and he had to kill her straightaway. Asakura asks Kirigiri when she first noticed that the chair she was sitting in was hiding him, and she says that it was part of her analysis from the very beginning. Since Asakura’s lost the game now though, he’s pretty much given up on any hope and reveals to Yui and Kirigiri what he knows about the Committee. It’s his way of getting back at them, with the hope that the two can end their game and stop other people like him from going down this path.
Asakura had chosen Detective Enbi through the Detective Library because they looked so much alike, calling him out with the same letter he’d given the other detectives but with an earlier time so that he could kill him before the other detectives arrived. Asakura uses prosthetic legs to get around, which Kirigiri noticed when they were walking to Sirius but made no connection with the murder at first. Asakura killed Inuzuka, who was the real criminal in the arson case – Inuzuka was a detective who committed the very crimes that he later solved so he could increase his rank (this shocks Yui very much because she has the image that detectives should be honorable and defenders of justice). Amino he killed to complete his murder scenario. He chose Kirigiri as his scapegoat because he thought she would be the most useless one of the bunch, but it turns out that this was his fatal error.
Police sirens are heard, and the police arrive to collect Asakura. However, when Yui and Kirigiri turn around next, the police that they thought had surrounded the building are nowhere to be seen. One hour later, the real police arrive and Yui and Kirigiri are driven back home. The police that had arrived first had been working for the Committee.
Later on that day, Yui hears on the news that a black car was found crashed from sliding down the side of the mountain road. The man inside died from severe injuries due to the crash, and the police wrapped it up as an accident. The man is identified as Asakura Tadashi.
Chapter 7 – Normal Days
Normality returns to Yui’s life despite such a severe murder case. Kirigiri attends school like normal, and Yui corners Kirigiri to set up a “date” at the Detective Library (her words, not mine). From their talk with Asakura, Yui is interested in finding out more secrets on the Committee and thinks looking up info at the library will be a good start.
Yui’s impression of Kirigiri has greatly improved since the first time they met, and Yui thinks of Kirigiri as really cute and admirable.
At the library, they learn that they have increased in rank, with Yui now rank 7 and Kirigiri also rank 7. Kirigiri states here that she aims to be zero-class, if she is to be acknowledged as a detective, and in order to raise in rank, she will have to solve four more cases similar to the Sirius one. But waiting around for these cases to fall into their laps isn’t going to happen, which means she will have to actively find these cases. To do this, she investigates detectives that are of triple-zero-class (there’s info about each of them but I’ll skip it) with not much case history, meaning that they must have solved Committee murders to achieve such rank… but doesn’t find much info she can use, so she moves on to the double-zero class. Even then, the two don’t find much info, so they write a note to the detectives, saying that they wish to know more about the “Salvation for Victims of Crime Committee, please contact Samidare Yui.”
While they wait for someone to contact them, Yui learns a little more about Kirigiri (she was born into a family of detectives and is raised by her grandfather; according to Kirigiri, she has no father or mother). Yui calls Kirigiri’s residence to ask her to meet her at the school on Christmas at 7pm (Yui stays in the dorms for the winter holiday, saying she has a reason for not going back home)
Yui takes Kirigiri to the school rooftop (you have to jiggle the door to the rooftop up and down to open it, Yui says. I’m not sure if this is a reference to Naegi’s shower room or not), showing her a brilliant sight of the campus. There, Yui reveals to Kirigiri that she lost her younger sister when she was young. Her younger sister was kidnapped and killed, and it is still an unsolved murder case. This became Yui’s reason for wanting to become a detective. Yui feels that being a detective is her duty because Yui could have been the one who was kidnapped instead, since she and her sister looked so alike. Yui feels that she sometimes is unable to see her reason for continuing to be a detective, but seeing Kirigiri and how she acts inspires her. Yui tells Kirigiri that if, one day, Kirigiri is also troubled like her over her reason for being a detective, then Yui wants Kirigiri to stay her true, pure self.
Yui gives Kirigiri a present (In Vitro Rose, game reference!!!), which Kirigiri is very pleased with. Kirigiri asks Yui if she sees Kirigiri as a replacement to her sister, which Yui denies. Kirigiri is Kirigiri, and no one can replace her dead sister, Yui says. While Yui is grateful to Kirigiri, Kirigiri also says that she is grateful to Yui for believing in her during that murder.
The two shake hands when Yui’s phone goes off. Yui answers it to hear Wagner’s Die Walküre playing on the other end, including a live trumpet. A helicopter arrives above them, where this song is being played. A man’s voice on the other end tells Yui “Merry Christmas,” and the owner of this voice jumps out of the helicopter onto the rooftop they are on. Yui recognizes him as Nanamura Suisei, whose ID number is 900. A double-zero class in 9 distinction is pretty rare.
Yui guesses that this has to do with the Committee, and Nanamura agrees, taking out a black envelope from his inner suit pocket. Nanamura invites them to join him, which the two agree.
The book ends with another Duel Noir, this time addressed to Nanamura Suisei–
Hear me, Detective. Listen to the cries of the Black.
Place – Norman’s Hotel – 80,000,000 yen
Weapon – Knife – 5,000,000 yen
Weapon – Revolver – 15,000,000 yen
Weapon – Hammer – 3,000,000 yen
Weapon – Rope – 3,000,000 yen
Weapon – Automobile – 10,000,000 yen
Trick – Locked Room – 100,000,000 yen
Trick – Disappearing Act – 100,000,000 yen
Other – Cash – 1,000,000,000 yen
Total cost – 1,316,000,000 yen
This detective is summoned according to the above cost – Nanamura Suisei
Thoughts: The entire novel was reaaaaally easy to read. Everything was explained to you, sometimes almost to the point where – if you’re a mystery fan like me and you’re already thinking as you read – you go “Was it really necessary to go into explaining that?” It was also very easy to read because whoever made this book format made it very visually easy to digest. Pictures were put in certain parts of the books to help you see things better – not the usual illustrations like in Danganronpa Zero, but diagrams.
Kirigiri-chan slowly opened up her heart to Yui-oneesama, which was a very heartwarming thing to see. It’s also really apparent that Yui likes Kirigiri. Personally, I think Yui may act as a foil character to Naegi… someone who can motivate Kirigiri to either hope or despair (in this case, to her despair). Her way of speaking is… not exactly brusque or boyish, but not particularly feminine like Kirigiri either. Sometimes I even forgot that Yui was a female.
I personally think Kirigiri’s grandfather has something to do with the Committee… I haven’t played the game in a long time, so I actually don’t remember much about her grandfather at all to confirm this thought. It’s also possible that Yui will be the Committee’s next victim – we still don’t know much about Yui at all but her sister appears to be her weak link. I’m also afraid this author might pull another Danganronpa Zero ending which I’m going to absolutely hate because aauuuughhh despaaaaaair!
I thought this novel would be the series that explained how Kirigiri’s hands got burned, and I haven’t been disproved so far. Vol 2 of this novel series is set to come out this year winter, so the wait for this despair continues.
In closing, a pic of the five characters’ IDs in this volume.
Thanks for reading!
Edit: Summary for second volume here](http://40.media.tumblr.com/5645f5ee5874f5abaf974d5ac4709054/tumblr_mtibrk49dy1qhgst7o1_400.jpg)
So, I got the Danganronpa Kirigiri novel yesterday, read it, looked up to see whether or not someone had already reviewed it and I AM SO MAD to see there is none, at least on tumblr. I cannot possibly be the only Japanese-English speaking person who read this novel.
So here I wrote a summary of the novel, with my own thoughts in the end. Very long post. Spoilers for the novel but no spoilers for either Danganronpa or Super Danganronpa 2, with this volume anyway.
Anonymous Asks:
great-blaster Said:
I can’t say you’ll find anything interesting there. Kirigiri’s personality is the same as we know her in the game – comes off cold and abrupt, doesn’t small talk, doesn’t like to talk about her family, gets embarrassed about things that involve romance except she hides her feelings very well so you can’t be sure. She has great pride as a detective and pretty much sees it as her life. She actually never questioned her role as a detective.
Yui is a very normal high school girl, but also doesn’t like to talk about her family. Her detective skills are average compared to Kirigiri but she’s still intelligent, and she sees detectives as people who should fight for justice. She gives off the image of a reliable older sister.
Anonymous Asks:
great-blaster Said:
I’ve said that I will get to it as soon as I can. How about, not feeling entitled that I do anything for you when I can very well go back on my word and not share anything at all. Don’t be rude, you will only be answered back with rudeness.
Okay, so, the second volume for Danganronpa Kirigiri is huge, so rather than put it in summarized format like before, I wrote it out in bulletpoint. I’m also going to break it up into three separate posts that I’ll space out publishing, so that you readers can digest the whole thing easier and I have time to look it over. It’s a pretty complete summary. If you’d like to read my summary of the first volume, check out the post or go through my ‘dangan ronpa kirigiri’ tag for further clarification!
The titles of each chapter come with Japanese, with the kana above it saying something else which I’ve put in brackets. This book did not come with more illustrations, only diagrams that illustrate the case, so I’m sorry that you’ll be facing the Berlin wall of text.
Anonymous Asks:
great-blaster Said:
She refers to herself as “watashi.” To other people she speaks politely/formally, and to Kirigiri-chan she speaks very casually. She doesn’t have any peculiar way of speaking (such as Junko or Fukawa-chan for example) that makes her stand out. I mentioned before that she’s kind of like Naegi in terms of speaking, maybe even personality. She sounds like a very normal high school girl.