Oh, I remember seeing those meteor strikes during the opening credits (well, not credits, but you know what I mean.)

...but you'd think Kaito would have been the first to notice the stars weren't familiar in the last video... weird.

Oh no. Poor Monokuma. Betrayed by his own Cubs. Alas.

And yeah, the reference to the first game with the gold-plated katana is a nice touch.

"Hey, let's perform a seance with this freaky anthropological artifact!" We get in touch with Kaede, who's in the middle of yelling at Kirumi and Ryoma. "What part of 'Everyone survive and escape together' didn't you understand?!"

"Hey, Rantaro? Mind filling us in on what the hell this Ultimate Hunt thing really is, and how you planned on stopping the killing game before you, you know, got beaned with a shot put? Pretty please?"

Ooh, spoopy ghost Monosuke!

And since this chapter is called "Transfer Student from the Dead," you know that seance is gonna take place at some point...

Nope, no reason to eeeeever go back into these creepy, dark, empty rooms with unsecured floorboards and a hole in part of the floor. Nnnnnnope.

Monokuma's ghost? Well, I guess you could say his spirit left him after Monodam's coup, but...

Maybe it's the ghost of the Monokuma that got stepped on by the Exisal?

So why does Angie get the only lab with a locking door (that we've seen so far)?

Well, not that it's going to matter now. Thanks, Monodam!

Calling it now, there's gonna be a locked room murder there.

"Nyeh... This is too much of a--"
/WHAM!

Pffft

...Miu, are you sexually harassing Keebo over there?

Shuichi: ........... /nnnnnnnnope

...It's a literal giant Xbox.

(I know that's probably not how the console looks now but shhh)

...you guys, considering that Maki hasn't murdered anyone yet, I think you're more or less as safe as you've ever been around her.

...how the hell do you remember your own funeral?!

Kaito: It must've been a play we put on for a school festival!

Oh, Kaito...

...awww, Shuichi and Kaedes' portraits are next to each other.

Maki and Kaito are next to each other, too.

And poor Keebo is stuck next to Kokichi.

...Kaito, you really thought Maki would have trouble with push-ups? You precious fool.

"A... man's... fantasy..." Could Shuichi have another type of fantasy so those of us who like seeing shirtless dudes can have some fun too, please?

...Angie did you drug everyone at dinner last night or something?

...Resurrect one of the four characters who've died so far? Okay, what's the catch?

And assuming it is actually possible, it adds to my theory that they're all in some VR simulation... again.

Wtf are you doing to get Tenko on your side, Angie?

So what, does Angie think the "dead" guys are all locked up in a hidden room on campus or something?

..."The worst disaster in the history of mankind," maybe?

Angie's just yanking Gonta down to his knees so she can give him the Hug of Happy Brainwashing, is that what's happening?

So now Atua is a handsome god and like a gentle grandmother?

"Well, doesn't that sound suspiciously convenient."

Okay, so if Angie tries to hug you, knee her in the gut and run like hell.

"There can be no harmony between us if we keep saying different things." Hoooooo boy...

Aaaaand this fanservice is gonna be a glorified cult meeting, isn't it. Notice that Maki and Miu aren't present.

Okay, that felt awkward and kinda gross, tbh.

Yyyyeah, I think Kuzuryuu's sister was actually next in line to take over if anything happened to him, iirc.

And that was a normal murder, not assassination, right? I haven't watched that far into the anime...

Good lord is Maki's backstory fucked up... D:

And woooow is the mafia from Ryoma's backstory petty. And stupid.

"Let's send a message that you don't fuck with the mafia."
"Um, couldn't we just kill the guy we're actually mad at and leave it there?"
"No, we must murder all these civilians! There's no way this can come back to bite us in the ass!"

"Sister made this uniform for me. There isn't any other quite like it in the world."
"Didn't the Monokubs supply our uniforms and leave a bunch of copies in our dorm room closets?"
"........."
And Shuichi was never heard from again...

"Of course it's important to hear everyone's opinion... except when it would disagree with ours, so fuck you guys."

Yyyyup, as soon as Angie opened her mouth I knew she was gonna smash that thing.

"I speak for all of us now, whether these infidels like it or not. "

You know, Rantaro does make the most sense for who should be resurrected, at least from a storytelling perspective.

Like I joked before, we never did find out what he knew and/or was planning...

I just realllly want to punch Angie in the teeth right now.

Oh fuck, is resurrecting Rantaro going to involve killing Kaito with Epic Mafia Voodoo Lady shenanigans, then using his body as a vessel?

Equivalent exchange and all that jazz, right?

Because we still don't know how bringing someone back is supposed to be a terrifying motive...

...Kiyo is kinky.............

Or that was somehow a seance instead?

...nah, Angie's probably gonna be dead by the time they get to her lab.

...aw, shoot. Chapter 3's the double murder chapter, isn't it?

Oh, she isn't dead.

Creepy wax sculptures of our dead friends, yaaaay

Angie, did you forget already? The ritual is only supposed to bring one of them back.

Okay, now we're gonna find Angie dead, right?

And Maki's going to be suspected?

BYE-ONARA, ANGIE

And one of the seance participants is going to bite it too, aren't they