YMMV / System Restore

• Broken Base: Was Sonia portrayed in-character just before her death? Opinions differ. The author went back and revised the relevant chapters in order to address this: while originally she fully assumed a Tough Leader Façade and showed No Sympathy to Kuzuryuu, the rewrite has her still smiling and trying to comfort the others and being far more sympathetic towards Kuzuryuu and Pekoyama. More emphasis is placed on the idea that she felt she had no choice, whereas the original version had her declare she consciously made the decision to kill Pekoyama and still regarded it as the best choice.
• Fan Nickname: For the Despair Fever victims: "Nanameme" for Nanami and "Soudia" for Souda's "Sonia fever". The second being an odd case of being an In-Series Nickname prior to the first revision, as a Mythology Gag for Ishimaru's change into "Ishida" and an in-universe taunt about the similarities between the two cases from Monokuma to Togami.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Togami's asking Sonia whether she'd make any sacrifice to protect the people of Novoselic, when it becomes clear exactly how Sonia-san answers it.
  • Similar to the above, the second killer's motives become eerily similar to those of the second killer from Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony. In both cases, the killer, who's in charge of a country, considers sacrificing the 12 remaining students an acceptable loss in order to protect an entire nation. Of course, while Sonia is unable to actively make that decision, Kirumi fights until the bitter end..
  • While thankfully averted now, the original versions of part 5 of chapter 3 had shades of this since both of Saionji's favorite victims, Mikan and Souda, were murdered at once making all of her past actions towards them much worse. Souda's death in particular had the extra issues of being explicitly labeled as a Sacrificial Lamb doomed to suffer an early death by his Japanese character profile (as a meta-joke in Danganronpa 2) and Saionji in both the game and the fic itself (“You’re just a side character. You’ve lived too long anyway."), which made it being his actual fate here seem much less "funny" in addition to being killed in a manner much to similar to how Ishimaru died in the first game.
• Heartwarming Moments: See its page here.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In this line, Mahiru advises Akane against entering an eating competition, when she had done so in this fic.
  • On a darker note, the "I may cause trouble here and there" throwaway line from the English localization comes off as quite the Understatement when you recall that Sonia is the second killer in the fic. The author lampshades this by remarking "trouble huh sonia".
  • "Soudia" becomes this when in the Super Danganronpa 2.5 OVA included with Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, _(OVA)_Nagito_with_his_classmates_in_Homeroom_(57).png Souda briefly took on Sonia's hair color and facial features when taking her role in acting out a conversation they had.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • As much of a jerk as Kuzuryuu can be, it's hard not to feel sorry for him when not only does Peko die in a particularly horrific manner, he ends up burning his hands trying to save her. Granted, he does bear some responsibility for this turn of events by playing the game, but he didn't even want to go through with taking revenge on Koizumi.
  • Koizumi. In Chapter II, she has to deal with the fact that one of her friends, Peko, tried to talk Kuzuryuu into killing her, and another of her friends, Sonia, committed murder at least partly for her sake. She takes this quite hard... and as a result, ends up doubling down on her usual hostility toward Togami.