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• Awesome Ego: Celestia, Togami and Enoshima have a veritable godlike level of arrogance, and it may well be a big factor in them all being some of the most popular characters in the franchise.
• Broken Base:
  • There are a fair amount of people who were disappointed when it was revealed that Junko Enoshima was the mastermind. This might be partly because the JUNKOS meme became a Discredited Meme on Something Awful around the time that the Let's Play reached the last trial, and people had been arguing for and against its increasing credibility.
  • The anime of the game is slowly causing this. Some fans find the adaptation disappointing since it has scenes that look like they came directly out of the game (such as executions and trial scenes) and there is nothing new, not to mention they cut down on many character-establishing scenes, while others enjoy it and are happy that it is so faithful and occasionally add up extra scenes that enhances the existing scenes (such as Leon's breakdown and desperate attempt to escape, or Kiyotaka's utter breakdown at Mondo being guilty and not defending himself).
    • The Funimation dub takes it to a new level. Mainly by replacing the main cast (bar Bryce Papenbrook) with their voice actors. The explanation as for why is that they hold the rights of the anime before the game was a success in the west. However, because Funimation didn't shy away of hiring the original voice actors from other adaptations (Neptunia, Blazblue, Disgaea), that still makes people wonder why they didn't recast the original voice actors after the fact.
    • This, however, is explained further in the Blu-Ray commentary track. Bryce Papenbrook was available to reprise his role by chance; he was already at Funimation to record for Attack on Titan, and therefore was available for the dub. However, the scheduling conflicts and cost of travel to bring every other voice actor would have resulted in the production going over-budget, so the decision was made to recast the entire dub sans Makoto.
  • The fashion sense of the Big Bad! Some think Junko fully deserves the title of the Ultimate Fashionista, and hold her up as an example of Evil is Sexy. Others dislike her wardrobe and label her a Fashion-Victim Villain.
  • Dangan Ronpa IF, too. Some people praise it for dwelling more on the relationship between Junko and Mukuro as well as making the latter an Ascended Extra. Others accuse it of making Mukuro a Mary Sue/Creator's Pet.
  • The pink blood, especially in the anime. People who aren't familiar with the game thinks that it ruins the suspense and it's not as scary as real blood, while fans of the game accept it and see it as stylistic choice for censorship.
  • The various differences in each translation, between the Let's Play, the fan translation, and the official localization. It's nigh-impossible to find people agreeing on which is better.
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Pretty much every track qualifies, as the music was done by Masafumi Takada (of No More Heroes and God Hand), but Monokuma's theme is consistently a fan favorite.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: If the Let's Play polls are anything to go by, Genocider Syo is very popular with fans. Sakura, too.
• Fan Nickname: The people at Something Awful like to call Yamada goon, supergoon, ultragoon, and so-forth.
  • The Masked Man has gained the nickname Monoluchador.
• Moe: In-universe, Chihiro, who has a sizable fanbase due to looking like a "small, frightened animal".
• Nightmare Fuel: Monokuma's executions, while over-the-top and cartoonish, are also incredibly brutal. And it's implied that he ate Mondo's remains.
  • The Masked Man. My God the Masked Man. Especially the fact that it practically appeared out of nowhere.
• Non Sequitur Scene: The "Monokuma Theater" segments at the end of each ordinary day. It's Monokuma giving speeches about topics that are seemingly irrelevant.
• Player Punch: If you got all of Chihiro's Free Time conversations, you'll tell him that Oowada is the strongest. Now skip to the second trial and feel like an asshole.
• Tear Jerker: The last part of the second trial. How bad is it when Ishimaru, of all people, breaks down crying?
• The Scrappy: A lot of people don't like Yamada.
  • Alas, Poor Scrappy: People still felt bad when he died though.
  • Naegi also gets some flak for being a standard ordinary protagonist.
    • Hagakure was in the same "too bland" corner, but once he became a Deadpan Snarker people warmed to him considerably.