Gonta Gokuhara

Gonta Gokuhara (獄原 ゴン太 Gokuhara Gonta) is a character featured in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and a participant of the New Killing School Life.

His title is Super High School Level Entomologist (超高校級の「昆虫博士」chō kōkō kyū no “konchū hakase”).

Appearance
Gonta is a very tall and muscular teen. He has a noticeably angular face, and long, messy brown hair. He has red eyes and round glasses.

He's wearing a brown suit, green tie, and no shoes. He has a bug terrarium strapped around him, matching the color of his tie.

As his appearance suggests, he has superhuman strength, but he claims that he's never killed a bug. His angry face is also especially fierce, supposedly due to his upbringing.

Personality
Gonta likes animals very much, especially insects, and he can even speak with them. He is a kind-hearted, very gentle, and polite person. He is very pure and naive, as he easily believes even strangers and he can get easily discouraged by other people's comments. However, he turns very angry if people are hating insects and he believes bug lovers can't be bad.

In order to repay his woodland family, he aims to become a true gentleman. He wants to be useful to others, but he prefers not to do physical fighting and violence. He is also very ashamed of himself if he does something a gentleman wouldn't do, like telling lies, and he sometimes fears he might never become a gentleman.

Because he spent his childhood in the forest, he is lacking general cultural knowledge, and so he often has trouble speaking with the other students. This is made worse by his intimidating appearance. Because of his appearance, he doesn't like to start conversations and as a result when someone approached him, he would like to say "thank you" as in "thank you for talking to me."

Super High School Level Entomologist
Gonta has been interested in insects since childhood. Because he was raised by animals in the forest, he can speak with them.

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Gonta was born into a very rich and refined family. Gonta states that he used to play more with insects than people since childhood because the other kids were too intimitated by his appereance. As a child, Gonta got lost in the woods while searching for insects. Thanks to being raised by a family of dinasourmen, he survived and learned to speak with animals and insects. Some times Gonta would find and be challenged by legendary fighters, learning a bit about civilization from then too. The dinosaurmen warned Gonta not the tell about their existance to humanity, so Gonta started lying about being raised by wolves.

After 10 years, he was finally returned safely to his original family and he earned his Super High School Level talent. Thanks the knowledge he obtained from his mountain family, he was identify and catalogue insect species not yet known by humanity, strongly advancing his field of study.

After being reunited with his real family, they strictly reprimand him for having become wild and not elegant enough to uphold the family's name and blame Gonta's mountain family. for it. Gonta then decides he must prove himself by becoming a true gentleman in order to make his true family acknowledge his mountain family.

Chapter 2 - A Limitless Hell Close to Heaven
{{spoiler|Gonta is used as a part of Kokichi Oma's plan to make everyone watch all the motive videos. Kokichi deceives Gonta by saying everyone hates bugs and proposes a plan. Gonta then proceeds to try to kidnap everyone, failing to catch only Maki Harukawa, Kirumi Tojo, Ryoma Hoshi, Kaito Momota and Miu Iruma.

Gonta then proceeds to release his newborn insects on his kidnapped victims in order to "make everyone warm up to the bugs". Ki-bo then proves Gonta was being decieved with his audio recording, leading Gonta order all the insects to flock on Kokichi while the other students make their escape with the Monokubpads.

Human family
Gonta's human family are rich and refined. After Gonta returned to them after 10 years away, they were bothered by his wild behavior and blamed Gonta's mountain family for it. Gonta wants his real family to acknowledge his other family, so he strives to become a true gentleman to prove his point that his wild family didn't ruin his elegance.

Forest family
As a child, Gonta got lost in the woods. He was raised by a family of dinosaurmen, an ancient species that isolated itself in the woods after losing a war against humans. The dinosaurmen thaught Gonta how to speak with them and other animals. Thanks to the knowledge passed by them, Gonta was able to identify insect species not yet known by humanity, earning him his Ultimate title. To repay this family for raising him, he aims to be a true gentleman and make his true family acknowledge them.

Quotes

 * “Umm... My name is Gonta Gokuhara, and I'm the Super High School Level Entomologist.”
 * “A gentleman doesn't give up that easily!”
 * “If you're gonna come, then come!”
 * “I can't call myself a gentleman if I stay here without fighting!”
 * “Gentleman never lie!”

Trivia

 * The katakana part of his first name "Gon" (ゴン) may represent the kanji "昆"; the meaning of which can translate as "a swarm of an organism" (such as bugs) while the kanji "太" simply means "fat" (though in names it's used figuratively as "healthy"). This makes the meaning of his first name something along the lines of "healthy swarm of bugs."
 * His surname Gokuhara (獄原) translates to "prison meadow".
 * Similar to Gundham Tanaka, Gonta is rumored to be capable of speaking with animals, though Gonta's ability is supposedly much better as he was raised by wild animals.
 * Gonta is the youngest and tallest male character of Danganronpa V3.
 * Because he lived several years in the forest, he rather walks barefoot than wears shoes.
 * He has never killed an insect.
 * Other characters who also speak in third person within the series beside Gonta are Ibuki Mioda, Monaca Towa, Tenko Chabashira, and Angie Yonaga.
 * In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Gonta the 12th most popular Danganronpa V3 student.

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