A localization of Danganronpa's finally going to be released via NIS America and is slated for an early 2014 release for North America and Europe on the Vita. Only the localization of the first game in the series has been announced and not the second.

This is really exciting for me because I've been waiting to play this for a long time. When a game is described as 999 x Ace Attorney x Persona, I'm in.

Official PR:

Anime Expo, Calif. (July 6, 2013) – NIS America is thrilled to announce that the highly popular mystery adventure game, DanganRonpa™: Trigger Happy Havoc, will be making its way to the PlayStation®Vita in both North America and Europe early next year. The game is a revised and revamped edition of a title originally released on the

PlayStation®Portable in Japan in 2010. You’ll take on the role of Makoto Naegi, a desperately average teenager who somehow finds himself accepted into Hope's Peak

Academy, a prestigious high school normally reserved for the nation's most "ultimate" students. But when he arrives, he and the other students soon find themselves trapped in a battle for survival against a twisted mastermind who has taken them all prisoner. You'll have to unmask the villain and uncover the secret of the school...or die trying!

For more information, please visit NISAmerica.com/danganronpa/

About the game:

Hope's Peak Academy is home to Japan's best and brightest high school students—the

beacons of hope for the future. But that hope suddenly dies when Makoto Naegi and his

classmates find themselves imprisoned in the school, cut off from the outside world and

subject to the whims of a strange, murderous little bear named Monokuma. He pits the

students against each other, promising freedom to anyone who can murder a fellow

classmate and get away with it. It's up to you to find out who Monokuma really is, and why you've been taken from the world you once knew. But be careful what you wish for—

sometimes there’s nothing more deadly than the truth...

Key features:

Daily Life, Deadly Life: Trapped in a school-turned-prison, students are murdering each

other one by one. You’ll have to investigate each incident, search for clues, and talk to your classmates to try and get to the bottom of each brutal case!

Mock Trial: The nefarious Monokuma serves as judge, jury, and executioner as you engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects, dissecting their statements and firing their words back at them to expose their lies!

Popularity Contest: Sway classmates to your side in each investigation, squeezing

information from them to figure out who did it. And when you do, turn up the heat in a

variety of timing and reflex-based game systems to uncover the truth and save your skin!

On a side note: the anime version started this week. You can check it out if you want to know more about the characters and the setting. Danganronpa: Kibou no Gakuen to Zetsubou no Koukousei - The Animation

Sounds promising. I will be looking forward to it.

Seems like it might be cool. Reminds of Mirai Nikki plus Persona 4 so far with Shaftish art direction.

I haven't seen a single frame of footage from the game, but with a description like this, I suppose I'll just hand it my GOTY. (just kidding, of course, sounds good though.)

saw the first episode of the anime and found the concept of the story interesting. Would be something i would like to play but 2014 seems so far away.

Boo. Only on handhelds. =(

I am actually really surprised that an official localization for DanganRonpa was announced so soon after the release of the fan translation patch by Zetsubou. I've been playing the game for the past week and been loving every minute of it so I'm very happy to hear this news. DanganRonpa and Steins;Gate both announced for English release on the same day, good time to be an adventure game fan!

@demoskinos: it was originally a PSP game yo.

@animasta: I know, still suuucks cause I'd be interested in playing this but I don't do hand helds.

I fear I've been spoiled by orenronen's outstanding work on the original Let's Play translation of this game, and that the official translation won't hold up. Zetsubou is decent, but they made some really strange choices - for example, leaving the school untranslated as Kibougamine, even though that literally means "Hope's Peak." And "(un)luckster" and "super duper" are just bad.