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I would suggest 'Varrok Forums' or something about polish sausage.
I finished Dangan Ronpa Trigger Happy Havoc last week. I played it pretty much nonstop so I didn't have time to post about my first impressions. It's a linear visual novel, not my usual thing, but 'linear' doesn't describe the story at all. It's about a high school for 'Ultimate' students who exhibit examplary qualities, so it's pretty intensely japanese. There's the Ultimate Baseball star, the Ultimate Idol, the Ultimate...Moral Compass. Then they get weird; there's the Ultimate Fanfic Writer, The Ultimate Biker Gang Leader and your protagonist, 'The Ultimate Lucky Student' who was chosen to go the school out of some kind of raffle.
Anyway, the game kicked all of my 'anime game' expectations right in the crotch, I think I can explain how pretty clearly, but this is also a spoiler so if you've been interested in Dangan Ronpa don't read this, it will spoil the tone.
So you're locked in this school with all these other kids and told whoever can commit a murder and go through a courtroom-style trial without being figured out 'graduates' and gets to escape the confines of the school. In order the motivate this the antagonist Monokuma, a robotic teddy bear used as an avatar by the mastermind, reveals something terrible has happened to the outside world and presses the kids to kill to escape and find out what happened. The protagonist makes fast friends with who else but The Ultimate Idol, Sayaka. Everything hints at this being some kind of romantic thing that will build across the game, but she gets killed in the first Chapter. How does she get killed? She tries to frame the protagonist for the murder of another student by sweet talking him into switching rooms, inviting that student to the protags room and then gets overpowered and stabbed.
It totally warped my expectations. The rest of the game is similar, gradually more and more complex murders happen as the kids get desperate and at the end of the game the survivors are basically the last ones you expected to make it through. It's a really good game and I recommend anyone with a Vita to look into it. I'm not big into Visual Novels as a result, but I'd definitely follow this series to see where it goes. Here's the conclusion of the first trial:
(Minor spoiler, but you know who is guilty the second you see the first crime scene anyway)
It's very intense, and I got hooked almost instantly.