"Hell yeah Dot! That's why you're best girl!" adds another. "Red is acting kinda sus," writes one fan in a recent nervy panel.
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Personally, I'm not sure if I will ever take in Penguinronpa in its full scope, but I love that the comments section - this bizarre slipstream of hardcore Ronpa and Penguin fans - is hanging on Tofu's every word and always emotionally preparing for the next twist. Dedicated new readers will need to scroll to the bottom and start from the beginning to catch up, (though Tofu has also uploaded the chapters to YouTube,) but casual passersby will at least enjoy the spectacle of a quick skim. (As an outsider, it is frankly mind-blowing to see Stephanie, the pink-haired preteen protagonist of LazyTown, occupying panels where she is brutally cross-examining her fellow murder witnesses) Like LazyRonpa, Penguinronpa is told through an Instagram grid, which is surprisingly adept at replicating the visual novel experience. They have a profound fondness for "LazyRonpa," which takes the candyland denizens of the Nickelodeon children's show LazyTown, and injects them into a dark, eldritch murdersport. "I settled on Club Penguin pretty quickly, especially after realizing I could have the story take place on the actual island from the game." Tofu tells me that they were inspired by a number of fan-made visual novel mashups that translate the "Ronpa" format into some other ill-fitting universes. "I've always loved writing and drawing, so it was only a matter of time before I got the urge to make my own " they say. And yet, Tofu is already on the fourth chapter – and the fate of these good penguins hangs in the balance. Adapting that narrative to a free-to-play Disney MMO, full of cheerful talking penguins belly-sliding down arctic glaciers, requires a significant shift in tone. If you're unfamiliar with Danganronpa, think of it as a cross between Battle Royale and Persona - a gripping, dread-sick adventure-serial where effete high schoolers are forced to murder each other to curry favor with a possessed chibi teddy bear.
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As you might glean from its name, Tofu's visual novel is a thematic mashup of both Club Penguin and the Danganronpa franchise. But Tofu, and Penguinronpa, stand out from the crowd by their sheer chaotic chutzpah. Most of them settle on a feeling of displaced nostalgia young people yearning for a time when they were even younger and life was much simpler. YES NOThere have been dozens of different fan tributes to Club Penguin since the game was discontinued.