Danganronpa: Journey To The West


Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
Journey To The West is owned by Wu Cheng'en
Saiyuki is owned by Kazuya Minekura


Hello, and welcome to another experimental Danganronpa fic, and I know you readers are wondering why I uploaded another new fic after uploading a recent new one. Well another idea popped into my head a few days ago while listening to my I-pod Touch, where an opening song played which made me look back at a certain anime series that was aired over a decade ago, which began to take off since the year 2000 began. This first aired in my country in the year 2003, which was 13 years ago, via AXN-Asia, where the Singapore-based cable company began airing anime in Japanese audio with English subtitles.

This new fic is inspired from an anime series that was aired about 14 years ago, and that anime in question is Saiyuki. At that time I find this series unique as it tells about a Buddhist monk traveling to the west being accompanied by 3 disciples who were said to be youkai, and the anime was the first of three series that exposed me to that genre (Gensomaden Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload and Saiyuki Reload-Gunlock). About 8 years later, Wikipedia became online, and there I made a research about the Saiyuki series, where I discovered something about the series:

- the Saiyuki anime is based on the manga created by Kazuya Minekuya

- the manga and anime itself are based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West

Six years later, I revisited the Saiyuki entry at wikipedia, then all of the sudden, I recalled watching an American mini-series that was also based on the Chinese novel, the 2001 mini-series The Monkey King, and after researching them, it all fits in, and having enjoyed Gendomaden Saiyuki, I was thinking of doing a fanfic adaptation, and while scrolling the fanfics that I recently made, I came up with the inspiration and decided to use the characters from Danganronpa.

Choosing the characters to act as the main protagonists was quite challenging as I had to scout each of them (from Danganronpa 1 up to Danganronpa 3) and research their personalities so as to fit them in on playing the role of the four main characters of this fic. Makoto Naegi will play the tole of the monk (Sanzo), so problem solved, and this leaves me in taking the tasks of choosing characters to portray the roles of Sha Gojyo, Cho Hakkai and Son Goku, which I soon find it a bit difficult as I used the elements from the Chinese novel and the manga/anime as source material.

Luckily, after scrolling the characters, I was able to choose three persons who would fill the role, and this now leaves me on how to start the story, and the setting. After re-watching both The Monkey King and Gensomaden Saiyuki, I decided to do a fusion which would combine the elements of the two series as well as blending the elements of Danganronpa (to a certain degree), so as to retain elements of both novels (the classic novel and the visual novel)

Aside from the main characters, I will be using other DR characters here to act as obstacles, especially as some of them would play foil to Naegi and the gang, and lastly, there will be some love scenes that would appear randomly, though the story comes first before the love scene appears.

With all that said and done, go on ahead, read on and enjoy!


Ch. 1: Prologue

The scene shifts at Hope's Peak Academy, where it is already summer, and mist of the students are already on vacation, and the academy itself is somewhat empty, save for Jin Kirigiri, Koichi Kizakura, Chisa Yukizome, Juzo Sakakura, and the Steering Committee. The the scene zoomed within the academy premises, the scene zoomed towards an area, where Nagito Komaeda and Teruteru Hanamura were walking, as they were carrying a cauldron of beef stew for the students who went here to do a project, and they were pleased that things are going well for everyone.

As Teruteru was humming, Komaeda was humming as well when they came across the audio-visual room, where the door was quite open, and Komaeda's curiosity got the best of him and peeked inside, where he saw a video tape that appeared to have been finished in editing, and he took it to see what the tape is, and Teruteru peered as well, telling Komaeda that they might get caught if they hang around here for too long, but Komaeda assured that things will be fine.

"Don't worry...it'll be fine..."

"Really...?"

"Yeah..."

"But still..."

"Lets look at the tape and see the title..."

"...fine...just a peek...

"Look at this..."

"Huh?"

The two boys then glanced at the tape, where the title was shown which revealed the tape's title as Journey To The West, and both glanced at each other, and as they seemed to heard of the title, but couldn't figure it out, and they decided to head back to the others to deliver the beef stew and then have Kazuichi Soda create a makeshift player so that they can play the tape and see what the video is like so that they can see what the content means, and Komaeda said he is lucky to come across in getting the tape which Teruteru said that it was just probably coincidence that they got the tape.

"I sure am LUCKY..."

"Lucky? It was just coincidence..."

"Still...getting hold of this tape...it shows that..."

"Lucky or not...it still is a coincidence..."

"Well then...shall we go...?"

"Yeah, we should...before we get caught here..."

"Yeah...lets go..."

"..."

After that, the two boys left the area, just when Ryota Mitarai (the REAL Ryota Mitarai) arrived, and saw the door open and noticed that the tape is gone, and wondered if it was stolen or something, as it turns out that he has a fellow student who was his UNDERSTUDY, also sharing the same talent, and has assisted him in making an anime, and Mitarai is supposed to check the tape after getting suspicious about his understudy being secretive and is hiding somethong from him.

Seeing that Komaeda and Teruteru heading towards a corner, he couldn't help but feel suspicious and decided to follow them, and went after the two, not noticing that Makoto Naegi and Sayaka Maizono happened to be there, and noticing Mitarai acting suspicious, Naegi decided to follow him, and Maizono asks if he has to follow him which he said he will just check to see what is going on, assuring that he is not doing anything wrong.

"But, Naegi-kun..."

"Don't worry..."

"But..."

"I'll just ask Mitarai-san...that's all..."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah...it will be fine...so don't worry about anything..."

"Naegi-kun..."

"..."

As Naegi left, Maizono stood there for a moment before deciding to follow Naegi, worried that he might get in to trouble, and felt that he might need her by his side, so she opted to follow Naegi and see where he is going, though she knows that he is following Mitarai and wondered if this would lead to a confrontation of sorts, and hoped that Naegi would not get in to any problem that might arise from the would-be confrontation.

-x-

Much later, the scene shifts at the classroom where the Class 77 is there, and all of them are assembled (which also includes the SHSL Impostor), and as Teruteru served the beef stew, the class is havi g a buffet of sorts, enjoying the meal after it is revealed that Class 77 had just finished a class project and they intend to submit it once summer vacation ended, and as they are eating the beef stew, each of them praised Teruteru for making a superb meal, making him feel honored and told them to eat as much as they want, as there is more than enough for everyone.

"Go on...there are more stew..."

"Really? Thanks!"

"The stew is good!"

"Yummy!"

"I can eat the whole cauldron!"

"I feel hungier!"

"Don't be greedy, Owari!"

"Eat your heart out!"

"Hanamura-san...I wish you were my personal cook in Novoselic..."

"Thanks for the compliment, Sonia-san!"

"I wonder if there is a cooking-themed video game..."

"Hey, don't you even put a medicine pill on my stew, you bot..."

"WWWAAAHHH! YOU'RE SO MEAN, SAIYONJI-SAN!"

"Let me take a picture..."

"Wow...I feel energized..."

By then, Komaeda approached Kazuichi Soda and requested that he make a makeshift tape player as he showed the video tape he found at the audio-visual room, saying he wants to see the tape's content, and showed the title, which Soda does not know what it means, and when Sonia Nevermind looked at the tape, she told Komaeda that the tape is titled Journey To The West, which is about an adventure-type story based on the classic Chinese novel of the same name.

The others glanced at Sonia and they asked her what this tape is about, in which Sonia says that it is about a monk from China, who was given the task of traveling to the west in order to find and retrieve five sacred sutras and bring it back to the temple where the Goddess of Mercy would use the sutras' powers to defeat the ultimate yokai so that all yokai within the land would be defeated and bring peace back to the land, which made the others curious, and are compelled to watch the tape, curious to see what characters from a classic Chinese novel are like.

"Hmmm...a Chinese movie..."

"I'm curious..."

"Ibuki wants to watch it..."

"I bet Jackie Chan is there..."

"I think Jet Li is there...he made classic Chinese movies...that must be on that tape..."

"That's Once Upon a Time In China, you dork!"

"Who are you calling a dork?"

"Now, now...lets calm down and watch the tape so you can see what the contents are like..."

"...fine..."

"...okay..."

"Is it ready, Soda?"

"Its ready, Komaeda..."

"Good...now then, everyone...let us watch..."

By then, Mitarai came rushing in, and saw the tape is about to be inserted into the makeshift tape player, and urged Komaeda not to make a rash decision, saying that he wanted to inspect the tape, as he revealed that he secretly investigated his understudy, stating that he accidentally learned that he was approached by an anime company to produce an anime based on classic Chinese novel, Journey To The West, and he said he wanted to see the content to ensure that it is safe to watch for anyone, and had a feeling that the tape's content might contain some offensive materials, and this made Ibuki more curious and said she want to see the tape's content, causing her and Mitarai to bicker over it.

"Then Ibuki wants to watch it!"

"No, you can't!"

"Why not?"

"You just can't!"

"Ibuki will watch it...hey, let go!"

"I won't let you!"

"Let go, or Ibuki will thrash you with my guitar!"

"Stop...Mitarai, Mioda...calm yourselves..."

The Impostor then approached Mitarai and calms him and Ibuki down, saying if the said tape do contain some offensive material, then they will surrender it to him, and reasoned that since everyone is here, they should watch it and judge for themselves about what to do with the tape the moment they see the contents, and though Mitarai is worried, he decided to trust Impostor's words and joined his classmates, where Naegi and Maizono came in.

There Komaeda invited the two to join them and when Naegi approached Mitarai and asks him why was he in such a hurry, Impostor told Naegi the reason why, and both Naegi and Maizono glanced at the makeshift TV, where it is connected to the makeshift tape player, and Chiaki Nanami said that she will be the overseer and said she will tell the rest to stop watching if she finds the tape's content too offensive, which Naegi nodded.

"..and that is what I will do...being the class rep..."

"I see..."

"So...will you watch it as well...?"

"I guess..."

"What about you, Maizono-san..."

"I guess I should see it as well..."

"Then its settled..."

"Naegi-kun! Maizono-chan!"

By then Aoi Asahina came and said she saw Naegi and Maizono came here and asks what is gojng on, and there Naegi told Asahina about it, and this made her curious and decided go join in. With everyone in agreement, the students locked the door and sat on the floor as Soda loaded the tape and await the first scene as the tape that contains the anime version of Journey To The West is about to be played, the Class 77 students, as well as Class 78's Naegi, Maizono and Asahina joining in, the students are now ready to watch the tape's content and see if the story is good and safe for viewing to everyone.


To Be Continued... .

Hope you liked the opening chapter, and though there is no action here, apart from a brief scuffle, this serves as an appetizer as the main story will soon commence. At least the entire class 77, and a few Class 78 are here, they will will keep you company till the next chapter is uploaded, and be ready as this next chapters will be full of humor, and love scenes will randomly appear yet the story will be the top priority.


Preview:

The next chapter opens the story where it shows that the four main characters would portray the characters from Journey To The West, and both Class 77 and 78 students will be surprised to see who would portray the novel characters...