Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei (PSP)

Danganronpa is a visual novel game for the PSP. The game has captured both Tumblr and Something Awful with its lurid graphics and absolutely barmy story, in which sixteen "Super High School Level" students have to partake in what's essentially a giant game of Cluedo whilst being locked inside their own school.

The game is to be re-released on the PS Vita to Western audiences in 2014, presumably due to its large internet fanbase.

Demo Leftovers
The PSP demo of the game allowed players to go through Chapter 1, but to maintain a sense of mystery the actual victim (Maizono) was replaced with Hagakure. The sprites used to replace dead classmates in the game includes one for Hagakure from the demo, as well as shots of his death.





Unused Full-Length Sprites
Every character in the game has a full set of standing, full-body sprites for Class Trials with reactions & emotions, but this also includes characters like Maizono, Enoshima (or rather, Ikusaba posing as Enoshima), and Ishimaru possessed with the spirit of Oowada as Ishida. Whilst you see Maizono, Ikusaba and Ishida's full length sprites during Free Time events and the course of the game, you only ever see their neutral emotion sprites. This is because these characters don't participate in any trials, as they're already dead by the time a trial comes around (Maizono and Ikusaba by Chapter One, and Ishida by Chapter Three).

The Maizono sprites at least could be a leftover from the demo, as she wasn't the victim in the demo version of Chapter 1.



Earlier Designs
There also exists an abundance of unused full length sprites, without emotion, and presumably as stand in for the Class Trial events. Interestingly, Fukawa and Enoshima have unused full-length sprites which seem somewhat off-model (or possibly just work-in-progress styles).



Whilst these look more like the final sprites used in trials and Free Time events, these sprites of Maizono & Kuwata aren't used at all either.



Movie Thumbnails
Some of the execution movie thumbnails seem to be from work-in-progress renders – in particular, Oowada's and Celes' executions, and the execution at the beginning of the game.