The last thing anybody remembers is getting accepted into Hope's Peak Academy, going there to start their college education at Japan's premier institution, and then waking up together. Instead, they wake up one day in a strange island paradise, without their memories, forced to live together. They're determined to find the truths of this strange new world, such as; What's going on? Why are forty-eight Ultimate students being held against their will? Is there a way out of here? Either way, how long will it take before relationships develop and passions run totally out of control on this strange island paradise?
Voyage of Passion and Purpose
is a crossover between the casts of Danganronpa, Super Danganronpa 2 and New Danganronpa V3, taking place on the Gopher Islands.
Voyage of Passion and Purpose provides examples of:
- Adaptational Heroism: Junko Enoshima isn't the blood psychopath she is in the original story, but she's still willing to do reckless things just to alleviate her boredom. Except that's not true, and she's every bit as dangerous and crazy as ever.
- Pre-story, Nagito Komaeda actively prevented a killing game in stark contrast to his canon counterpart starting one. After Chiaki was killed by the mastermind Nagito got himself executed on purpose, knowing it would never work, and escaped to get the Future Foundation. This saved everyone and he was offered a spot on the Gopher Project as a result.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Everyone is constantly frustrated and upset with Usami's lack of control over the situation, which only gets worse over time. The fact that she suggests killing off half the students to deal with ship's power shortage does not help."Don’t sell yourself short, HAL. You’re doing a great job so far. I especially like the part where we’re gonna die in the deep, dark, lifeless void between stars because we ran out of juice."
- After the End: Everyone was actually a part of a project meant to send select Ultimates to another planet and preserve humanity after Earth was turned into an apocalyptic hellhole. When everyone wakes up from the simulation, it's actually been fifty years since they left.
- And I Must Scream: While effected by the Despair Disease, Kokichi is forced to tell the truth while Makoto is only able to tell lies. Although neither are delirious or in any way delusional, Shuichi explains that due to the disease conflicting with their base natures, it causes them physical pain and both are essentially trapped within their own bodies.
- The reason everyone is in a simulation is to prevent this. They are placed in cryptosleep, which will keep them alive for the trip through space, but will also leave them conscious and unable to move for decades, so the simulation is necessary for everyone's sanity.
- Bait-and-Switch: Monokuma shows up partway through the story, only to be defeated (and utterly obliterated) in one and a half chapters.
- Beach Episode: The first arc of the story focuses entirely on a beach party, before Monokuma interrupts.
- Cassandra Truth: Kokichi ends up saving everybody by stealing the wand away from Monokuma first and tackling Komaeda when he threatens Makoto for it. Nobody believes him because...well, it's Kokichi.
- Closed Circle: Just like every game in the series, the main characters are trapped somewhere and cut off from the world. Type 1. An island in the middle of nowhere. The Ultimates eventually uncover that it's Type 4, as well.
- Chick Magnet: Hajime curses Makoto for having both Sayaka and Kirigiri in the palm of his hand. Pretty funny, considering he's also got multiple classmates who want him as a boyfriend.
- Childhood Friend Romance:
- Makoto and Sayaka have known each other since middle school, and they end up becoming an item fairly quickly.
- One of the Vignettes concerns the emotionally fraught but very much loving relationship between Peko and Fuyuhiko.
- Debut Queue: By necessity of a cast this large, they don't stop being introduced for seven chapters.
- Dead All Along: For Chiaki and Hajime, though metaphorically. Chiaki is actually an AI created after Junko killed her, and Hajime was turned into Izuru before entering the program.
- Death of Personality: Hajime was turned into Izuru to gain talent, but when he entered the simulation he returned to his former state. Eventually, Monokuma forcefully restores his memories and brings Izuru back.
- Everyone Can See It: A lot of the island really wishes Shuichi and Kaede would just smooch already. They don't confess their feelings for one another until Chapter 29.
- Fanservice: Some of the ladies are described in very flattering terms, and it's a lot more prevalent in the Vignettes, both of the sexual sort and the interesting what-if sort.
- Handsome Lech: Kaede, who's quite the knockout herself, is very appreciative of all the pretty girls on Gopher Island.
- Kangaroo Court: In one of the extra chapters, Teruteru is accused drugging everyone's food (just like in Danganronpa 3), and is put on trial where everyone barely makes an effort to hide their disdain for him. Hajime ends up being his lawyer since, for one, Teruteru was not the culprit and the trial quickly grows more absurd due to a series of odd revelations, nobody taking the trial seriously, and Junko being Junko.
- Killer Rabbit: Usami is an overly saccharine rabbit mascot who gets on everybody's nerves. She also vaporizes Monokuma with a big freaking laser.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Several characters claim to have amnesia when first introduced, not remembering their Ultimate talent specifically.
- Lighter and Softer: Only in the sense that people aren't dying every week or so. With a cast this volatile and a world this crapsack, there doesn't have to be a killing game for things to go to shit. And that's before taking Monokuma's moles into account.
- The Mole: There's apparently two of them sneaking about Gopher Island, even after Usami blasts Monokuma to ash. Makoto is convinced that Komaeda is one of them thanks to seeing the latter trying to hand Usami's wand over to Monokuma in the name of producing a greater hope, and he's trying to force him into the open with the help of his closest friends.
- The moles turn out to be, unsurprisingly, Chiaki and Kiibo.
- Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: Before the story the students were forced into a killing game by Junko, who proceeded to off a Chiaki for discovering her involvement. Upset over her death, Nagito purposely antagonized Monokuma to get himself executed, knowing his luck would protect him and allowing him to escape and get the future Foundation. The plan went off without a hitch and Nagito successfully ended a killing game before it even began, convincing Jin Kirigiri to award him a spot on the Gopher Project.
- Polyamory: There's a lot of it in here. Makoto/Kyouko/Sayaka, Hajime/Nagito/Chiaki, Shuichi/Kaede/Kaito/Maki...and that's just the ones involving the protagonists.
- Serial Killer: Touko/Syo and Korekiyo still retain their murderous dispositions here. Just when you thought the moles by themselves were a big problem...
- Shrinking Violet: With the exception of Tenko, the Black Hats are comprised of some of the shiest, most soft-spoken students on the island. This unfortunately makes them prime targets for Angie to convert, with Shuichi getting kicked out for challenging her authority.
- Suicide Pact: Usami and Monokuma make offers to the students for what they should do about the power shortage that will lead to everyone dying on the ship if they do nothing. Usami's offer is to kill half the students in order to make it to Alpha Centauri and preserve humanity, and Monokuma's offer is to abandon the objective and allow the students to instead live as virtual gods in the simulation, well past their normal lifespans, with everyone dying the second the first student perishes naturally. Many students are in favor of the second option, and Chiaki points out it means that no one would be left behind, while looking at Nagito who would be the first student to die.
- The Vamp:
- Junko, of course! Her amazing beauty and her own natural charm are just some of the many tools she uses to get people to do what she wants.
- Angie might look like an innocent ball of fluff, but she knows how good-looking she is and doesn't bat an eye at winning over potential converts with her sex appeal.
- Verbal Backpedaling: While under the effects of the Despair Disease, Kokichi randomly blurts out the truth against his will, and then desperately tries to cover it up with extremely poor lies. Rantarou explains it's pathetic to keep trying to lie.
