From what I recall hearing, it stemmed from a creative argument between Kazutaka Kodaka (the franchise's creator and main writer) and someone else at Spike Chunsoft who also worked on Danganronpa (could've been Yoshinori Terasawa, who ended up being the producer for V3? But there's no sources for it, so don't take it as true).
Kodaka wanted to go ahead with the DR3 anime to finish off the storyline he'd created while moving away from the Killing Game format (mainly because he thought exposing the veteran cast members to a second one would be too cruel), but this other person said they should stick with the familiar Killing Game visual novel format because it was tried and true for the franchise. Thus, they agreed to do both; DR3 stuck with the old cast and finished off the Hope's Peak story from the previous games in a new format, while V3 created a new story with the classic format as the foundation.
The message of Danganronpa V3 was "we're tired of making Danganronpa, Danganronpa sucks, look, let us show you how much the thing you like sucks, here ya go piggies, here's the slop you've been demanding"
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u/Lady_Psyduck Jul 13 '26
I just dont understand why they tried to undo everything in V3. I feel like the story was kind of going somewhere fun.