A new cast of Ultimates means a whole new killing game.
Sixteen students and a homeroom teacher of Bitokukawa Academy find themselves in a "Killing School Festival", where everyone has a good time until someone is killed.
Danganronpa Kill/Cure is an upcoming fan-made Danganronpa Visual Novel created by Moboxer and Team Kill Cure
. It aims to emulate the feel and aesthetics of previous titles while not having anything to do with the original canon continuity.
Tropes in Danganronpa Kill/Cure include:
- Adapted Out: Mini-games from past titles will not be included.
- All There in the Manual: Before handing over direction of the project to trusted team members, the creator had posted relevant info on the characters and their background stories on his social media accounts. After their deletion, the team opened up new accounts for the project on YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram.
- Audience Participation: Viewers will be able to decide who the protagonist gets to spend their free time with throughout the story.
- Breaking Old Trends: The initial story had an adult join the main cast and replaced Monokuma with a bipolar monkey called Kokorosaru. After the creator's departure, the characters were made into former Ultimates and aged up appropriately as a result.
- Kill/Cure deviates from the expected character dynamics by setting up Hiroaki, the male protagonist, and Hide, the main female, as rivals rather than partners.
- Compared to the canon games, no one in the cast is introduced as an Ultimate ???.
- There are 17 participants instead of the usual 16.
- Central Theme: Virtue versus vice.
- Closed Circle: Although the setting has a festive theme to it, the story is still a closed circle just like the previous installments.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: It just wouldn't be Danganronpa without the usual murder cases and flashy executions.
- Family Honor: Some of the participants' motivations and goals stem from their desire to fulfill this trope, particularly the protagonist.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: Kill/Cure averts this by including the cast's teacher as an extra player, resulting in 17 players (8 males, 9 females) trapped in the killing game.
- Jidaigeki: The first teaser shows two areas of the school environment with a traditional Japanese theme.
- Just Here for Godzilla: In-Universe. In the teaser, Ikki claims that most of the people watching the series are only looking forward to the executions.
- Meaningful Name: Averted by Moboxer who originally chose the names for each character based on how cool they sounded rather then having any significance towards the characters themselves or to the story.
- Played straight with Bitokukawa Academy as the name in Japanese means "virtue river" which ties into the core themes of Kill/Cure.
- Morality Kitchen Sink: Purposely done so for the cast in order to highlight the theme of virtue versus vice.
- Mukokuseki: Downplayed. More than half of the cast don't look too unrealistic save for a select few. Justified with Fan Fan Long due to a previous experiment gone wrong.
- Murder by Mistake: Averted for the initial story; the creator had wanted to set up murder scenarios that were not the result of someone walking in at the wrong place and time.
- Orphaned Series: Kill/Cure essentially became this after Moboxer's sudden resignation in late 2020. Rather than end the project entirely, he decided to entrust it to the development team who gathered under him.
- Painting the Medium: The trials will replicate much of the debate mechanics from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.
- Public Service Announcement: During the teaser video, Shiori advises the viewing audience not to be too heartbroken if any of their favorite characters end up dying and warns them not to get too attached to fictional characters.
- Recurring Element: Several of the students featured in the cast follow the same archetypes as the canon games.
- Hide is the main female character who rarely shows emotion at first.
- Shoko is the Tiny Schoolboy who also has Raven Hair, Ivory Skin and red eyes.
- Chikuma has the Non-Standard Character Design archetype but with a feminine twist.
- Yahto fills the role as the "Big Hearted Muscle" student.
- Instead of one, there are now two dark skinned girls participating in the forms of Naiomi and Maru.
- Oniji appears to fill the role as the Hot-Blooded hot guy.
- Fan Fan is meant to be the Token Mini-Moe of the group.
- Same Character, But Different: Zig-zagged. Despite the change in writers, the main cast's characterizations were mostly kept intact albeit with some new quirks or traits to distinguish them from Moboxer's original portrayal.
- School Festival: Serves as the project's theme setting. Each chapter changes the school environment to match different types of cultural festivals.
- Self-Deprecating Humor/Take That!: In the trailer, Bussho openly claims that whoever (Moboxer) created the killing game story is not well in the head and needs mental help. He then goes to say that the fans who enjoy the death aspect of the story need to go outside and enjoy life.
- Ship Tease: Shipping is kept to a minimum, though the initial story would have included at least one romantic pairing.
- Shout-Out: A WIP of the academy's training room features the logo, and we kid you not, "EXTRA THICK".
- Sincerest Form of Flattery: One of the reasons why the project caught so much attention from fans is its faithful replication of Rui Komatsuzaki's art style from the original Danganronpa series.
