Why is Danganronpa so viciously appealing?

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Children are inherently monstrous.
They pull each other's hair, torment kittens, damage property with reckless abandon - all without a tremor of shame. They operate on whimsy, bouncing from joy to malevolence at the drop of a toy, caught up in a whirlwind of new experiences and incessant biological changes, never quite pausing to consider the repercussions of their actions. And it's not really their fault either. Children - and to a lesser extent, teenagers - just don't have the same concrete value systems as adults.
Which is why the idea of a demonic prepubescent, or an adolescent serial killer, is uncomfortably believable, even if we're rarely willing to confront the idea that our six-year-old niece might actually mean it when they say they want us dead. We know our youth are capable of savagery. Not because they're damaged, or broken, or somehow compromised by the system, but because they're kids and kids are scary.
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