Sayuri-senpai
I tried watching it and it came off as a bad parody of 999 and Virtue's Last Reward.
sad I gave up on it 4 episodes in.
Then again, they were the same company. So it'd have some parallels.
Also, I can't remember for sure, but I think that Spike Chunsoft may have created the Danganronpa series before Zero Escape because the original release of the games was for the PSP instead of the Vita (in the case of VLR). It just came out later in the states in the Vita form/ remake.
Anyhow, I agree that the series felt rushed, but still kinda liked it. The reality is, many games cannot always do the whole split season thing. I'd have liked if they gave the characters a bit more time to build their personalities, though they focused mostly on Kirito, Naegi, and Monokuma. I think that it would have been nice to learn more about the motive and how far Ultimate Despair reaches.
With the game, I'd have liked to known what would happen when it comes to getting the wrong character for some of the other trials. Like, what other bad endings would there be, (such as, if the group were to be executed for finding the wrong person guilty and whether the culprit would actually be freed from the "sanctuary" of Hope's Peak or if their freedom would be execution in the end...)
The first game and season really had so many untapped potentials. Still enjoyable, but with the Zero Escape parallel being out there, there were so many more endings that existed. Especially in VLR. I'd have liked to see more of that kind of setup in the end.