15 [Similar Anime] Like Danganronpa: The Animation

These series have much in common, first of all it's gender.

An ordinary boy one day certainly finds his life changed forever. That sets off the premise of this series as they as they are involved in a deadly game/test. Among other things, they meet other characters who are involved. All of them seems to possesses unique skills that defines their styles. They also meet a female character who seems to have an interest in him.

In both of the anime the plot is about a game where the main character have to survive and the only way to win the game is by killing the other players. While In Danganronpa they have to kill each other without getting caught.

This was a very fun anime since i very much enjoyed that the character development was one character per episode along with their own ending.
Similarly to Dangan Ronpa you must kill to graduate but unlike in DR this is a class of assassins and one target and th killer with a successful assassination will have any wish granted.

Same similar purpose for the plot/story where they struggle and compete against each other to live or to accomplish a certain purpose. I've always been interested in survival games like Danganronpa and Akuma No Riddle. Though in this anime, all the main characters are female and it's the same killing game but there are no class trials or any similar things. Though in this anime, if one them fails the game, then the loser will not be punished/executed but to be expelled from the school.

Both series seems to involve a game like scenario where the characters/contestants are stuck in an isolated area where their lives are in danger. At the same time, there's a sense of psychological mystery going on regarding their location and what's inside it.

Being trap in "The Game" means something bad is going to happen. In the story the main characters were trapped in an isolated place where there is no way out to escape. However, their is one way to escape in this mess: It's every man for himself, which means, don't trust anyone, you fight to the end. Morale, clues, and sometimes weapons were used in the series.

They are both similar in feeling, both around killing (but in different ways).
Danganronpa is mostly about killing the other children and gives off a more detective vibe. Assassination Classroom is a more heartwarming at first, but tugs your feels in the end. Danganronpa gets a bit sad when your best boy/girl dies (maybe) or when your OTP gets pulled apart by a thing called murder, but what can you do? Both seem very Sci-fi though.

Both shows feature a mystery of who is the traitor in the group?

Psychological horror anime (well, Corpse Party makes DR look extremely tame in comparison) that feature a group of students trapped in a mysterious school and no way out. They have to work together (and sometimes go against each other) as they try to cope with being trapped. As I mentioned before though, DR has hardly any gore while CP is gore galore.

The essence of survival is a theme in both series. In fact, the main male protagonist is a normal boy whose life is completed twisted into something he never imagined before after a faithful day. Now he is part of something that puts his life into jeopardy along with many of the other characters.

Both are centered on murder mysteries, where the setting is arranged by a "mastermind," or the one who has the most control over the entire situation. As murders happen, due to the characters' (hidden and obvious) motivations and relationships, the survivors attempt to solve every aspect of the death based on the evidence left. Umineko is much less logical, however, as the "mastermind" is a witch that uses magic, and the protagonist's goal is to refute magic, regardless of what actually happened. If you watched Umineko and enjoy a logical (though not quite ingenious) mystery, watch Danganronpa; if you watched Danganronpa, but prefer more ludicrousness rather than mystery, try Umineko.

Both of these anime have young adults compete in a killing game where only one can be the "winner". Not only does the mascot character who hosts the killing game have a similar design, but they also use similar tactics to coax the characters into killing each other.

They are both killing games except this anime is based on the video game. In Danganronpa, it is about regular school students who are imprisoned inside Hopes Peak Academy, but in order to gain back their freedom, they must murder someone and get away with it. I would recommend the game itself, but the anime counts as a weaker substitute.

The same psyological roller coaster of emotions is shown in both as the characters find out it is a game with your life at stake. From trust to disbelief, to saving another over yourself and then back down to fear driven paranoia.

In both series, there is the theme of survival involving a group of characters. The main male protagonist's life never becomes the same again as they are dragged into such a game.

There are striking similarities with these two anime shows. The stories are about a set of students in an isolated academy, who are striving towards being the sole (class or alone) graduate by either killing other students or having them expelled. The main female leads are seemingly cold-hearted people who remain calm but are accommodated with flaws, in spite of wanting to appear perfect. There are characters who bear a wide range of personality traits such as being gentle or cold. The more interesting factor is that students pretend to fall under certain categories to acquire advantages that are beneficial for said students.

Group of High School students are thrown to a chaos situation. Both are game adaptions and quality of both is on par with each other.

There are multiple characters who are starting a new life/new school, but get thrown into a weird place instead! All of them have different character traits which sometimes collide. An angry one, a crazy one, a smart one, the cute one and of course the neutral one. But they must learn to work with each other in order to find out about the truth behind all that mystery going on. However Danganronpa has more of an uplifting artsy style, while Mayoiga tends to go to a darker theme.