ダンガンロンパ(Danganronpa) is a franchise about the eternal battle between Hope and Despair packaged as a few Visual Novel mystery Games. Interestingly, however, most of the franchise’s media comes in the form of spin-off manga.

They’re coming! Unfortunately, I have few specific things to say, because it’s been a while since I’ve played the games, so I’m only going off of what I remember.

The first of the Danganronpa games is very good, and provides a solid foundation for the rest of the series.
The most significant issue this one has is that some things are repeated excessively. The most infamous example of this would be Mukuro Ikusaba, the 16th student hiding somewhere in this school, the one they call the ‘Ultimate Despair’. This actually somewhat proves my point, since I don’t remember many specifics, having played the games a while ago, but this single sentence is ingrained in my mind due to how often it was repeated.
Along the same lines, the game occasionally goes off on barely-relevant and long tangents seemingly to set-up a red herring. However, the fact these go on for so long makes it fairly obvious that it’ll be a red herring.
On the good side, I found the mysteries in this game (and the series in general) to be very well written and quite compelling; I often find myself using Danganronpa as an example of a well-written mystery^A). I find the gameplay appealing as well, and after I finished the whole series, I was disappointed there weren’t more trials to work through.

The anime is an accurate adaptation of the first game. I can’t remember off-the-top-of-my-head what changes it made to the story, because I remember it as being almost the same.
The game is obviously more detailed (having more time to work with), and leaves some stuff out. Thankfully, it chose not to repeat some things in the way the game did, but this has the downside of making the anime less meme-able.

To be clear, I’m talking about the manga - Danganronpa: The Animation^B).
The manga is also an accurate adaptation of the first game, although it’s longer and covers more than the anime. From my own hazy memories, the manga includes more details than the anime
The artwork is also quite impressive, matching the art-style of the game very well.
I don’t have much to say on the manga that wouldn’t just be unfiltered praise. Of the ways to experience the Danganronpa storyline itself, the manga is probably the best. It streamlines the story, but keeps many of the details intact (per my memory). For those who want to just go through the story, then I guess I’d recommend this.

• Official Site
• The Wikia - Actually pretty good.