10 Second Anime - Danganronpa - Episode 12

Danganronpa - Episode 12

The students have amnesia. The school has a morgue. And one of the dead characters came back, sorta.

This story keeps giving us new twists, and interesting turns on the old mystery clichés. Some key clues let the kids figure out who the mastermind is, and Kirigiri gets an unhappy reunion with her father. A box of bones in his secret hideout is pretty disappointing. Kyoko figured he was dead already, from the clues Monokuma passed out that only 16 students entered the school alive, and was ready for the news.

Neat clues for the mastermind's identity came from finding the morgue, and how there were only 9 bodies, when there should have been 10, which means one of them was recycled. Eww. The wounds on Ikusaba included a whole bunch of stab wounds, which pointed to how someone else was killed, and whose body it was. Also, Monokuma was being very active in thwarting some of their investigations, plus trying to throw red herrings at the kids with pictures of their school life before the amnesia. Naegi and Kyoko found a video file with all the kids' interviews agreeing to attend the school, but Monokuma destroyed the disk before one of them started to speak. And in all the pictures of their previous school life, one of those students always had her face obscured.

The mastermind was Junko, who was supposedly the 2nd student killed when she destroyed a Monokuma robot. Now we know why there was an extra sense of surprise to her death. That Junko was actually Ikusaba pretending to be Junko, who was her own twin sister. However Ikusaba had grey eyes and freckles, but the Junko in the principal's video had blue eyes and no freckles. What would have made the switch obvious was the voice. The revealed Junko's voice is totally different than the one we heard earlier in the season.

At least one question for me has already been answered: are all the dead kids really dead? Yep, they are. Once the story reused the twin sister's body as a mystery corpse, there's really no way to get around that. So, what is going on with these twin Super Duper Despair students? Why would Junko kill her own sister? What was the point of this whole scenario? Answers, hopefully, will all be revealed next week in the last episode.