Spike Chunsoft announced big celebrations forDanganronpawill be happening for its tenth anniversary in 2020.Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc,released in Japan on June 27, 2025, gained a sizable fandom worldwide thanks to fan-translations. The game later released in the west. In a nutshell,Danganronpa, written by Kazutaka Kodaka, feature a bunch of “Ultimate” teens stuck together in a play-or-die situation. Monokuma, the franchise’s bear mascot, orchestrates the death games sucking in the characters.
Since then, the fourDanganronpagames now sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide. Kazutaka Kodaka wasfunnily surprised on Twitterhis series actually sold this much.Danganronpaalso has anime and manga adaptations. Moreover, it received multiple stage play adaptations in Japan. These highly helped to boost the franchise’s popularity among Japanese women in particular.
Spike Chunsoft will launch multiple projects for theDanganronpa10th anniversary including new goods and events. The first project is a new tabletop game based on theWerewolfgame.
TitledDanganronpa Hajimete no Gakkyū Saiban, it’ll be launching in Japan in early June 2020.
Illustration shared by Mitomo Sasako, the mangaka forDanganronpa Gaiden: Killer Killer.
Over on Twitter, many actresses and actors from the stage play shared some happy words.
Goods and collabs with shops will slowly rollout, though there will be less than usual seeing the covid-19 lockdown in Japan.
We’ll learn ’s 10th anniversary projects on April 18, during theDengeki and Famitsu 2019 Game Awards.
Nowadays, Kazutaka Kodaka is atToo Kyo Games. There, he’s working onDeath Come True, a game x movie project slated to release this June on most platforms and with a very cheap price tag. He’s also working onDeath March Club, and another new IP calledTribe Nine.
