Web Animation / The Council of Voices

"The Council is nothing more than a random clusterfuck of ridiculous personalities. Other than being Voices, we have absolutely nothing that unites us."

—Byakuya Togami, summarizing the whole premise of the show.

Meanwhile... at The Council of TV Tropes!

The Council of Voices is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover web series created by the youtuber NicoB and currently being edited by Viva Reverie.

Based on the Running Gag of Nicob's channel where he is prone to have many voices in hold for when he reads the dialogue of a videogame, The Council of Voices was created initially as a comedic parody series involving many characters of Let's Plays he has done, such as the Danganronpa franchise, the Ace Attorney franchise, alongside many other videogames he has played in his channel.

However, after Episode 5, the series went under a Cerebus Syndrome and got taken seriously in it's story by introducing a Nonary Game, ala Zero Escape.

The series can be seen here.

The Council of Voices shows tropes of:

• Anyone Can Die: Hoh boy, the Nonary Arc of the Council of Voices. As of episode 8, Seven and Joshua are both dead from poison, with the former also backstabbed, the last Monokuma was destroyed, and Mayuri was the victim of a Kill and Replace.
• Art Evolution: The Council of Voices series received a notable upgrade as it went on, from a high-quality intro (theme song included), replacing static photos and drawings with 3D modeled sets for the backgrounds, and adding other small details to make things seem more alive.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Zero and The Moles within the Council (Naia, Badd, and Miu) serve as this for the Nonary Arc.
• Bizarro Episode: Episode 6.5 of Council of Voices. Everyone who died during the Nonary Game is seemingly alright and characters pull off stuff that even by standards of this series is heavily drug induced with things like Komaeda summoning Bagel Overlord who shoots out lasers, Toko suddenly owning a castle with several servants with Togami against his will arriving there on a mighty stead and Kazuichi receiving several clones of Sonia. Justified, as it's a non-canon episode which is supposed to showcase new editor's capabilities, but it still fits.
• Chekhov's Gag: The computer used as the framing device for Episode 4 turns out to be installed by Zero (or one of his allies), giving him a backdoor to kidnap the participants of his Nonary Game.
• Clip Show: Council of Voices Episode 4, which shows the moments that certain voices were created as well as when that voice was first used for said character.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: In Nico's update video on February 24 2018, after saying he's going to be working on episode 5 of Council of Voices, the masked man from the end episode 4 takes over the video momentarily, announces himself as 'Zero', and that he's going to host his own Nonary Game with council members (and possibly others) as the participants. After that, the rest of the video continues like normal...
• Evolving Credits: During the title sequence of the Nonary Arc of the Council Of Voices, surviving characters are shown in full color while deceased characters are shown as silhouettes with a chain piercing through them.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!:
  Seven: Oh god! How many of those [Thunder spells] do you have?!
  Donald: As many as it takes, 'til my MP runs out. (His emblem in the background is an HP and an MP bar, and the MP bar is empty) Oh crap. Sora? Sora, I need an Ether! (Seven charges him)
• Foreshadowing: Earlier episodes occasionally featured multiple characters with the same or very similar voices, such as Slimey, Missile, and Maya, or the Security Chief and Kirigiri. In episode 7, it's revealed that multiple characters with the same voice are distinct from one another and can coexist together, despite sharing the same "essence". Zero refers to such characters as "others" of each other, using Seven, Kuzuryu, and Beat as an example, and indicates that even if something should happen to a character, their voice will live on through their others.
• Funny Background Event: In Council Of Voices, Part IV, Donald's emblem is an HP/MP bar, which visibly goes down when getting attacked by other members and using magic.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The title of each episode of The Council of Voices is in the form of a question.
• Jerkass: The Joshua voice and the Togami voice practically epitomize this trope.
• Knight of Cerebus: Zero is this in episode 5 of the previously-lighthearted Council of Voices series.
• Meanwhile, Back at the…: Council of Voices...
• Once More, with Clarity: The Cold Open of episode 8 of The Council Of Voices shows us a screen that has messages appear on it, saying how despite how much the unseen viewer wants to help, taking action could make the situation worse, before it gets smashed mid-sentence. The Stinger reveals that the messages were being sent to Nico, who had been watching the events occurring in the facility over the past few episodes.
• Serial Escalation: So far, every episode of The Council of Voices has been longer and more elaborate than the last. Episode 1 clocks in at just three and a half minutes, while episode 8 is 28 times longer at over an hour and a half.
• Simultaneous Arcs: Episodes 6 and 7 of The Council of Voices cover largely the same period of time, focusing on different characters. Episode 6 focuses on Komaeda, Togami, Seven, and Joshua, while episode 7 focuses on Chiaki, Mayuri, Morishige, Monokuma, and Donald.
• Stealth Pun: In the scene from episode 7 where Morishige learns how to power-walk in order to circumvent his forbidden action and save Mayuri, the background music is "You Say Run".
• Vocal Evolution: Due to Nico generally improving in voice acting across his own channel, this gets lampshaded to hell and back in episode 4 of The Council of Voices, which focuses primarily on the origins of some of Nico's oldest voices.
  Judge: Yup, which means we're going back. Waaay back. All the way back to those awkward moments when we sounded like shit.
• Wham Line: In episode 8, as an unknown individual starts talking.
  K: You... What kind of monster are you?. Did Nico send you?
• Wham Shot: The final scene in episode 4 of. As the Council devolves into bickering, the camera zooms out, showing the scene being played on one of several screens. The person watching the screens is then shown wearing a gas mask and declaring "Soon. Very soon..." Something big is right around the corner.
  • The final scene in Episode 5 also counts. Joshua goes to look for Seven, who had gone off alone to get food, and finds him lying on the floor with a knife in his back. That's right, Nico killed one of his voices!