Nagito Komaeda

To surprise gamers and suggest the characters are potentially the same person, both Makoto and Nagito share the same voice actress, Ogata. His name, "Nagito Komaeda", was conceived as an [[anagram]] for "Naegi Makoto da" ("I am Makoto Naegi") to infer it as a potential [[pseudonym]]; Nagito claims the name to be an alias during the third chapter.<ref name="ogata">{{cite web|url=https://www.koi-nya.net/2015/03/14/el-desarrollador-kazutaka-kodaka-habla-sobre-la-creacion-de-danganronpa/|title=Developer Kazutaka Kodaka talks about creating ''Danganronpa''|date=March 14, 2015|access-date=January 15, 2021|website=Koi-Nya|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121213300/https://www.koi-nya.net/2015/03/14/el-desarrollador-kazutaka-kodaka-habla-sobre-la-creacion-de-danganronpa/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, Kodaka revealed the anagram was used to engage fans of ''[[Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc]]'' because of the lack of pre-release promotion materials for the original version of ''Goodbye Despair'' during its release year. This surprised Ogata, as the anagram had been kept secret from the other members who developed the game, including Ogata herself.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZaPvl-gWKk&t=404s|title=Danganronpa 10th Anniversary Special - Dangan TV: Hope Keeps on Going! 2nd Period|via=Youtube|work=Spike Chunsoft|date=August 12, 2020 |access-date=February 1, 2021|archive-date=February 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207133509/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZaPvl-gWKk&t=404s|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, it was later confirmed that he had feelings for an ambiguous "him" in his character song "Poison -Gekiyaku-".

To surprise gamers and suggest the characters are potentially the same person, both Makoto and Nagito share the same voice actress, Ogata. His name, "Nagito Komaeda", was conceived as an [[anagram]] for "Naegi Makoto da" ("I am Makoto Naegi") to infer it as a potential [[pseudonym]]; Nagito claims the name to be an alias during the third chapter.<ref name="ogata">{{cite web|url=https://www.koi-nya.net/2015/03/14/el-desarrollador-kazutaka-kodaka-habla-sobre-la-creacion-de-danganronpa/|title=Developer Kazutaka Kodaka talks about creating ''Danganronpa''|date=March 14, 2015|access-date=January 15, 2021|website=Koi-Nya|archive-date=January 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121213300/https://www.koi-nya.net/2015/03/14/el-desarrollador-kazutaka-kodaka-habla-sobre-la-creacion-de-danganronpa/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020, Kodaka revealed the anagram was used to engage fans of ''[[Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc]]'' because of the lack of pre-release promotion materials for the original version of ''Goodbye Despair'' during its release year. This surprised Ogata, as the anagram had been kept secret from the other members who developed the game, including Ogata herself.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZaPvl-gWKk&t=404s|title=Danganronpa 10th Anniversary Special - Dangan TV: Hope Keeps on Going! 2nd Period|via=Youtube|work=Spike Chunsoft|date=August 12, 2020 |access-date=February 1, 2021|archive-date=February 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207133509/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZaPvl-gWKk&t=404s|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, it was later confirmed that he had feelings for an ambiguous "him" in his character song "Poison -Gekiyaku-".

In the development of [[anime]] prequel ''[[Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School]]'', Kodaka aimed to write the younger Nagito as an unpredictable character that game fans would still recognize, and make it obvious his good luck often aids him in only a random nature in reality compared to the specific nature of the Neo World Program. His character design was aimed to keep the "resembled flickering flames" present in their Servant design, something Kodaka requested to the designer to adapt properly. Kodaka was pleased with how Nagito was written in the anime, further comparing his school life and luck to the Rube Goldberg segment of the ''[[PythagoraSwitch]]'' educational television program.<ref>{{cite video |year = January 2016|title =Zetsubou-hen Character Profiles II|medium = [[Blu-ray]] |publisher =NBC}}</ref>

In the development of [[anime]] prequel ''[[Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School]]'', Kodaka aimed to write the younger Nagito as an unpredictable character that game fans would still recognize, and make it obvious his good luck often aids him in only a random nature in reality compared to the specific nature of the Neo World Program. His character design was aimed to keep the "resembled flickering flames" present in their Servant design, something Kodaka requested to the designer to adapt properly. Kodaka was pleased with how Nagito was written in the anime, further comparing his school life and luck to the Rube Goldberg segment of the ''[[PythagoraSwitch]]'' educational television program.<ref>{{cite video |year = January 2016|title =Zetsubou-hen Character Profiles II|medium = [[Blu-ray]] |publisher =NBC}}</ref>

===Casting===

===Casting===

To surprise gamers, Nagito was given Makoto's voice actor, Megumi Ogata.<ref name="ogata"/> Ogata found trouble when doing the voice for Nagito as she had no clear grasp on understanding him. Komaeda was introduced with the same Lucky Talent as Makoto Naegi. However, the staff considered them opposites based on their ideals of "hope".<ref name="nagito"/>

To surprise gamers, Nagito was given Makoto's voice actor, Megumi Ogata.<ref name="ogata"/> Ogata found trouble when doing the voice for Nagito as she had no clear grasp on understanding him. Komaeda was introduced with the same Lucky Talent as Makoto Naegi. However, the staff considered them opposites based on their ideals of "hope".<ref name="nagito"/>

==Appearances==

==Appearances==

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===''Danganronpa'' video games===

===''Danganronpa'' video games===

In ''[[Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair]]'', Nagito is student from Hope's Peak Academy that called him {{nihongo|Ultimate Lucky Student|超高校級の「幸運」|Chō-kōkō-kyū no "Kōun"|{{lit.}} ''Super High School Level Good Luck''}}. Outwardly presenting as a friendly, upbeat, somewhat meek young man, his true demeanor, revealed following the beginning of [[Monokuma]]'s killing game, is shown to be quite deranged in his pursuit of hope, believing it to be an absolute good that only his talented classmates can achieve, willing to bring about great despair to create the greatest of hopes.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Prologue}}</ref> He manipulates [[Teruteru Hanamura]] into killing an imposter pretending to be [[Byakuya Togami]] to start the killing game in ''Goodbye Despair''.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Chapter 1}}</ref> In order to rid the island of the other students, he sets up a trap for the others by setting up a scenario to look like he committed suicide, while actually tricking Future Foundation traitor [[Chiaki Nanami]] into inadvertently killing him with poison, hoping the result will lead to the execution of all other students including himself and rescue Chiaki alone. However, Chiaki takes responsibility for Nagito's death, saving the other students. After receiving a series of recorded messages from Nagito and proceeding to what appears to be Hope's Peak Academy, Hajime learns that Nagito, himself, and the others are in actuality [[Avatar (computing)|computer avatar]] copies of the group known as the Remnants of Despair existing within a [[virtual reality]] created by the Neo World Program having been wiped by [[Makoto Naegi]]'s Future Foundation offshoot in the hope of providing them redemption, despite being responsible for the deaths of millions. The real Nagito is revealed to have implanted the hand of their superior [[Junko Enoshima]] into his body following her death.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Chapter 0}}</ref><ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Chapter 6}}</ref>

In ''[[Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair]]'', Nagito is student from Hope's Peak Academy that called him {{nihongo|Ultimate Lucky Student|超高校級の「幸運」|Chō-kōkō-kyū no "Kōun"|{{lit.}} ''Super High School Level Good Luck''}}. Outwardly presenting as a friendly, upbeat, somewhat meek young man, his true demeanor, revealed following the beginning of [[Monokuma]]'s killing game, is shown to be quite deranged in his pursuit of hope, believing it to be an absolute good that only his talented classmates can achieve, willing to bring about great despair to create the greatest of hopes.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Prologue}}</ref> He manipulates [[Teruteru Hanamura]] into killing an imposter pretending to be [[Byakuya Togami]] to start the killing game in ''Goodbye Despair''.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Chapter 1}}</ref> In order to rid the island of the other students, he sets up a trap for the others by setting up a scenario to look like he committed suicide, while actually tricking Future Foundation traitor [[Chiaki Nanami]] into inadvertently killing him with poison, hoping the result will lead to the execution of all other students including himself and rescue Chiaki alone. However, Chiaki takes responsibility for Nagito's death, saving the other students. After receiving a series of recorded messages from Nagito and proceeding to what appears to be Hope's Peak Academy, Hajime learns that Nagito, himself, and the others are in actuality [[Avatar (computing)|computer avatar]] copies of the group known as the Remnants of Despair existing within a [[virtual reality]] created by the Neo World Program having been wiped by [[Makoto Naegi]]'s Future Foundation offshoot in the hope of providing them redemption, despite being responsible for the deaths of millions. The real Nagito is revealed to have implanted the hand of their superior [[Junko Enoshima]] into his body following her death.<ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Chapter 0}}</ref><ref>{{cite video game|title=Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair|year=2014|developer=Nis America|publisher=Spike|level=Chapter 6}}</ref>

===''Danganronpa'' anime===

===''Danganronpa'' anime===

In the ''Despair Arc'' of the anime series ''[[Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School]]'', Nagito is seen attending Hope's Peak but is suspended for bombing the school gym in a bid to postpone exams. When he returns, Nagito learns of Junko Enoshima's plans and attempts to shoot her with a gun. However, Hinata, having been implanted with the talent of luck like Nagito, effortlessly prevents the attempt and shoots him instead. Although Nagito survives, he and his class are forced to watch Chiaki Nanami's death and are thus brainwashed into becoming members of Ultimate Despair loyal to Junko.

In the ''Despair Arc'' of the anime series ''[[Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School]]'', Nagito is seen attending Hope's Peak but is suspended for bombing the school gym in a bid to postpone exams. When he returns, Nagito learns of Junko Enoshima's plans and attempts to shoot her with a gun. However, Hinata, having been implanted with the talent of luck like Nagito, effortlessly prevents the attempt and shoots him instead. Although Nagito survives, he and his class are forced to watch Chiaki Nanami's death and are thus brainwashed into becoming members of Ultimate Despair loyal to Junko.

The Servant makes a cameo at the beginning of the ''Future Arc'', helping spread discord with the other Remnants of Despair after Junko is [[martyr]]ed, in his case by serving the Warriors of Hope. In ''Ultra Despair Girls'', Monaca Towa reveals to [[Toko Fukawa]] and [[Komaru Naegi]] that while the Servant successfully made her an adult, he also made her bored with both hope and despair, leading her to become a [[NEET]], before sending herself to space.

The Servant makes a cameo at the beginning of the ''Future Arc'', helping spread discord with the other Remnants of Despair after Junko is [[martyr]]ed, in his case by serving the Warriors of Hope. In ''Ultra Despair Girls'', Monaca Towa reveals to [[Toko Fukawa]] and [[Komaru Naegi]] that while the Servant successfully made her an adult, he also made her bored with both hope and despair, leading her to become a [[NEET]], before sending herself to space.