Introduced are also the characters and their original roles that form up the foundation and plot of characters in the Future Arc. The cast of characters were all wacky and unique enough to live up to expectations based on the original season. It contains quite a few torture based scenes which are actually welcome as they capture that punishment time vibe from the original season. As the title 'despair' indicates, this Arc is rather dark and brutal. Junko Enoshima plays a big part here and she gets a good amount of screen time which I found to make this very interesting since she is the original mastermind behind the despair viewpoint. Basically the story goes back to how everything began and the despair concept put into play. The starting and realizing placed some doubts on this Arc, but the story component is really interesting which made it good overall.

This is a story oriented Arc that doesn't involve a killing game. This Arc takes place at the beginning of it all, before the original season.

Either watch this alternating between the Arcs like this Ep1-Future, Ep1-Despair, Ep2-Future, Ep2-Despair, etc (The same method as the intended airing pattern) or view this before the Future Arc.

Danganronpa 3 hope arc episode 1 dub