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2-5 is 100% my favorite case in the series and I would even rank it higher than every Ace Attorney case. It's my favorite piece of detective nonfiction I've ever read. But I don't really give it the plot twist nod because the revelations are spread out too much. Even in-case, first there's the revelation that Nagito isn't the culprit, then there's a 20 minute interlude where you have to do the closing argument, AND THEN Chiaki outs herself as the traitor and killer. Then after the case, it's revealed that Chiaki was an AI, the entire cast of actual people are all Remnants of Despair, and the fact that Nagito's plan was to kill them all off to save the world is just kinda thrown in as an afterthought.

It's still a brilliant piece of writing, but I can't put it above the top two spots, because it doesn't have quite the stopping power that they did. I can point to the exact moment when the lights turn off and Kaede begins to monologue how sorry she is to everyone she's hurt that completely left me speechless.

I can refer to the moment Tsumigi transforms into Byakuya and starts name-dropping things that are completely fake: "Hope's Peak Academy and the Future Foundation don't actually exist. The biggest, most awful, most tragic event in human history never happened. All of these things just happened in a fictional world called Danganronpa." At this particular point in time, I was just stunned and couldn't do anything but read on to see how things play out.

Case 2-5 never really had that singular moment that made me go "whoa" and stop playing to reflect on what I just read quite like those other two moments.

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