Makoto Naegi

Makoto Naegi (苗木 誠 Naegi Makoto) is the protagonist of Dangan Ronpa: Academy of Hope and High School Students of Despair. An ordinary high school student who was accepted to the academy by raffle. He has no spectacular talents apart from his optimism and was given the title Super High School Level Good Luck (超高校級の「幸運」).

Appearance
Naegi describes himself as being a typical normal high school student. He has brown hair and green eyes. He wears a brownish green hoodie, jeans and red sneakers. Naegi is rather short.

Personality
Naegi is friendly and a lot more down-to-earth than other students. This is possibly the reason why he is capable of approaching and befriending them in the Free Time sequence. He tends to act passively in conversation. Junko also refers to him as an ‘herbivore man,’ which she means that Naegi is likely to be the passive one in a relationship. According to him, his most distinguishing feature is his optimism. Naegi would make use of this particular trait later on the final trial where he prevented the other students from giving in to the despair that starts to overtake them, earning him the title ‘Super High School Level Hope‘.

Pre-Despair Incident
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High School Life of Mutual Killing
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Execution
Detention - Naegi is in a room filled with school desks. In the center is a large conveyor belt where his desk is located. As he sits there, it goes backwards towards the end of the room. Behind him at the end of the conveyor belt is a large block resembling a trash compactor that slams down every few seconds intending to crush whatever is underneath. Above is a television showing Monobear's face on it. As his desk moves backwards, Monobear dressed as a teacher appears in front of him and attempts to teach him a lesson in class.

At the last second, the Monobear on the television is replaced with Alter Ego. The compactor stops just as Naegi is about to be crushed to death. The conveyor belt keeps moving on and a door in the floor opens. Naegi and the desk then fall backwards through the very large and deep hole in the floor while teacher Monobear looks on in a panic.

Trivia

 * Naegi's voice actor,  Megumi Ogata, also voices Komaeda Nagito from Super Dangan Ronpa 2, who is also super high-school level luck.