To quote one of the YouTube comments...
What's wrong, Maki?
Maki: My boyfriend and his boyfriend are fighting.

Kaede x Shuichi x Kaito x Maki confirmed for OT4

...Zettai unmei mokushiroku...

...they really are ot4

So now the only labs we've yet to see are Kokichi's... and Rantaro's...

The only ships within that OT4 I don't ship on their own are Maki x Shuichi and Maki x Kaede, but Kaito being there makes them work for me.

Yeah, Kaito's kind of the glue that keeps them from being a bunch of separate OTPs, lol

Kaito ships and Shuichi x Kaede, lol

"Rust in peace" Keebo omg

Three Ultimates united by their love for this ridiculous spaceman

So now that we've seen the full graffiti message, I'm sure there's got to be fan art of Kokichi performing Miku's "World is Mine," right?

Tsumugi is so precious. Keebo is a pure bean.

Wahhhh, everyone except Kokichi is so good I don't want any of them to dieeeeeee

Aaaand Kokichi arrives to wreck everyone's war plan. TBH, it probably wouldn't have worked, but still.

No, not more death flags for Keebo!

"Yep, this is all your fault. Ignore me and my blatant antagonism this entire game and just hate yourselves instead."

This is definitely a trap... :<

Oh look, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, just like the other games!

So what was Project Gofer, anyway? If it's a reference to Noah's Ark, were the Ultimates supposed to repopulate humanity after everything was over?

I feel like that can't be it, because that plan makes no blinking sense. Fifteen humans (and one robot) aren't enough to keep a viable gene pool going.

Even if they're Ultimates, they're still teenagers.

No, there has to be more to it than that, I'm sure...

...Oh, so the Ultimate Hunt was trying to save them, in a manner of speaking?

Orrrrrr not. The Ultimate Hunt was led by the cultists who wanted to sabotage the project, at least according to Kokichi.

...WELP

Nico definitely had fun with that bit there.

Also, gasp. Shock. Kokichi is the mastermind. What a tweest.

(...No, there's still got to be more to this story. I'm sure of it.)

"It's your fault for trusting each other that you didn't realize I was the mastermind."
Kokichi, we haven't trusted you as far as Himiko could throw you almost this entire time.

Gene pool aside, how were everyone's talents supposed to help salvage humanity? I get the ones like Kirumi and Miu, but how would, say, Ryoma, Kaede, or Himiko be useful?

And how did Kokichi supposedly sneak himself onto the list of sixteen? "Oh, an Ultimate Supreme Leader of an evil organization? What could possibly go wrong there?"

There's got to be more to this.

...and now it's time for Kaito to get himself killed. Sigh.

Or taken prisoner while everyone else melts into despair.

I'm guessing Kokichi will be this chapter's murder victim and Monokuma will return.

Maki to the (possible) rescue with the Flashback Light!

Oh, hello!

The text in the background of the Flashback cutscene is different!

"Hope's Peak Academy," "Future Foundation," "Hope vs. Despair..."

"Biggest, Most Awful, Tragic blah blah blah in history..."

It... kind of feels like a slap in the face to longtime fans of the series, tbh. "Hey, you know how we were going to rebuild society and move on? Fuck that!"

"Rocks fall, everyone dies, bitches!"

And Kaito's been coughing up blood. Is this a sign that he wasn't immune to the virus after all, or does he have some other disease?

And it feels like there's a hole in the story.

The sixteen Ultimates didn't want to leave everyone else behind to die and live on alone, so they erased their memories and went into hiding...

But then we jump forward to the fake funeral meant to throw the Ultimate Hunt off the trail, and presumably the kids are all on board with the Gofer Project after all.

We're still missing something here...

I don't think those Exisals are protecting Monokuma. They're standing guard over him to keep him from pulling anything because Kokichi isn't the true Mastermind.

...I'm suspicious. All we see is the sleeve hanging there. That's not technically proof of death.

...is this going to turn out like the last game, where Maki disabling the electronic signals is what made the hydraulic press trigger, or disabled its safety sensor or something, so that would make her the blackened?

I... don't know if hydraulics work that way, though? I don't think they do...

Or maybe the body in the press is the corpse of one of the already dead students, like what Junko pulled with Mukuro's body in the first game.

Yup, they're playing up the ambiguity of it all...

Nooo, don't split the party!