Season 0 of Danganronpa: The Animation premiered on July 7, 2016.

Season 1 of Danganronpa: The Animation premiered on July 5, 2013.

Danganronpa: The Animation follows the events of those of the video game Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. The series follows 16 high school students locked inside "Hope's Peak Academy", their High School. The students are threatened by a anthropomorphic bear, known as Monokuma, who gives them only one way to leave the Academy, to murder another student, and not be found out in the subsequent trial.

Season 2 of Danganronpa: The Animation premiered on July 11, 2016.

The series serves as a conclusion to the storyline of Hope's Peak Academy, the elite school where the Super High School Level Despair, Junko Enoshima, played hostess to a "killing school life" among its students under the guise of the evil bear Monokuma.