Gonta Gokuhara

"Gonta not smart. Not sure Gonta be much help. But Gonta do his best for everyone!"

- Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

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

As a young child, he became lost in the woods, where he was raised by a pack of wolves. There, he learned how to communicate with animals and bugs, which later earned him the title of the Ultimate Entomologist (超高校級の「昆虫博士」chō kōkō kyū no “konchū hakase” lit. Super High School Level Entomologist).

Early Life

 * Before Joining Danganronpa

Gonta Gokuhara was a normal talentless high school boy who participated in the 53rd Season of Danganronpa, a famous worldwide reality show made by Team Danganronpa.

During his high school days, Gonta attended Saint Mountain Academy (飯田橋工業高校). However, it is unclear if this memory of him is a part of the fabrication made by Team Danganronpa or if it was genuine.


 * Fabricated Past

After he successfully participated in the 53rd Killing Game, Gonta's memories and past were fabricated by Team Danganronpa as follows:

Gonta was born into a very rich and refined family. He used to play more with insects than people since childhood because the other kids were too intimidated by his appearance.

As a child, Gonta got lost in the woods while searching for insects. Thanks to being raised by a family of reptites, he survived and learned to speak with animals and insects. Sometimes Gonta would find and be challenged by legendary fighters, learning a bit about their civilizations too. His adoptive family warned Gonta not the tell about their existence to humanity, so Gonta promised he wouldn't and began lying about being raised by wolves.

After ten years, he was finally returned safely to his original family and he earned his Ultimate. Thanks to the knowledge he obtained from his mountain family, he identified and cataloged insect species not yet known by humanity, strongly advancing his field of study. However, his family strictly reprimanded him for becoming wild and not elegant enough to uphold the family's name, blaming Gonta's mountain family. Gonta then decided he must prove himself by becoming a true gentleman in order to make his true family acknowledge his mountain family.

It is unclear how much, if any, of Gonta's past before participating in the 53rd Killing Game was real, and which fabricated by Team Danganronpa.

The Gofer Project
Part of the fake backstories created for Gonta and the other fifteen students was The Gofer Project, which supposedly happened before the Killing Game started. It was initiated by Hope's Peak Academy after countless meteorites crashed into Earth, spreading a deadly virus all throughout the atmosphere. To try and preserve the last vestiges of mankind before the Earth’s destruction, Hope's Peak Academy decided to select sixteen talented students that happened to be immune to the virus, put them in a spaceship colony, and have them escape. Gonta was among these sixteen individuals.

Despite being chosen to participant however, Gonta and the other fifteen participants had no intentions of going along with the plan, not wanting to abandon their loved ones. As a result, Gonta chose to forget about his ultimate talent and decided to live as a normal high school student.

Around that time an extremist cult, which was revealed to the be Remnants of Despair thanks to the Flashback Light in Chapter 5, came back into power, causing the Future Foundation's influence to weaken. They believed that the meteorites were a punishment humanity brought upon itself, and having heard of The Gofer Project, they tried to stop it. As a result, the Ultimate Hunt started and spread throughout the world, and the sixteen students selected for the Gofer Project were hunted down.

The government then decided to counter the situation by faking the students' deaths, calming down the Ultimate Hunt while providing protection to the students. The Gofer Project was then put into action while the Earth was being destroyed by meteorites. Gonta and the others went to space in the massive ark, the true form of Ultimate Academy of Gifted Juveniles, and were put to a cold sleep for several decades.

Much later on after the remaining participants cleared the Death Road of Despair, Kokichi Oma, the Ultimate Supreme Ruler, lied about being the mastermind of the killing game and that he was the leader of the cult bent on stopping the Gofer Project. He also lied about being the one who let Monokuma enter the spaceship, effectively forcing Gonta and the others to participate in a Killing Game.

While Gonta did remember about the Ultimate Hunt in Chapter 2, his and everyone else's funeral in Chapter 3, and the meteorite impacts in Chapter 4 thanks to the Flashback Light's, he ultimately has no complete recollection of the event, as he was executed before he actually received a complete memory about The Gofer Project by the Flashback Light in Chapter 5.

Killing School Semester
Gonta was among the first fourteen people gathered in the gymnasium before Kaede Akamatsu and Shuichi Saihara arrived. Just like everyone else, Gonta was confused about their current predicament. Once the Monokuma Kubs arrived in their Exisals, they gave the sixteen participants their Ultimate wardrobe, and their first memory via the Flashback Light. Gonta and the other fifteen talentless students underwent the fabrication process, where all of their past memories and personalities were heavily fabricated. She also received the talent and title of Ultimate Entomologist. All of this was done for the sake of satisfying Danganronpa's audience from all over the world. After the fabrication process was completed, Gonta and the others entered the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles as totally different people, officially commencing the 53rd killing game season known as the Killing School Semester.

Gonta was later found outside the school building by Kaede and Shuichi, the Ultimate Detective. At first, Kaede was rather intimidated by his physique and overall appearance, but still attempted to greet him. As soon as she did, Gonta was very happy that someone wished to talk to him since it was rare for anyone to speak to him because of his appearance. He introduced himself as the Ultimate Entomologist, Kaede felt silly for being so scared of him when in reality he was actually very kind. When Shuichi asked him about bugs however, Gonta asked Shuichi if he liked bugs as well. When the detective didn't give a clear answer, Gonta became increasingly more threatening, angrily asking him if he hated bugs. With Kaede's support, they managed to calm down the Ultimate Entomologist. Gonta felt relieved, stating that no bad person could like bugs. The duo both felt as if they dodged a bullet, but kept the fact that they aren't that fond of insects to themselves so that they didn't fuel Gonta's wrath.

Gonta would later gather with everyone else in the gymnasium after the Monokuma Kubs made their announcement. Once the Monokuma Kubs showed with their Exisals again, Gonta told the rest of the frightened students to get behind him, wishing to protect everyone. Afterwards, Monokuma, the Monokuma Kubs' father and the self-appointed headmaster of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles, also arrived and announced that they would be participating in a Killing Game, much to almost everyone's shock and horror. With that, the Killing School Semester had officially begun.

Attempting the Death Road of Despair
After Monokuma officially started the Killing Game, Gonta read the rules on his Monopad. A majority of the group wasn't sure what to do after reading these rules and began to panic and argue. Thanks to Kaede's motivational argument however, the panic died down and everyone seemed to become united. Afterwards, Gonta remembered that he found a manhole inside the boiler room behind the school building and informed everyone about his discovery. Gonta lead everyone else to where he found the manhole, with hopes of finding a way out.

Gonta was easily able to pick up the heavy manhole cover with only two fingers, showing everyone just how strong he was before tossing it to the side as if it were Frisbee. Descending the manhole, Gonta and the others found a tunnel leading outside of the academy. Though everyone thought that the tunnel probably ended up being a trap, they still had to test every single possibility in order to escape. However, Gonta and the others exhausted themselves both physically and mentally as they found that escaping through the Death Road of Despair is next to impossible. Due to this, Kokichi revolted, saying that Kaede's repeated motivational speech is the source of the group's agony, added by some of her friends giving up on escaping the tunnel, Gonta included, the group's harmony came to a swift end. The tunnel ended up being a trap set by Monokuma and the Monokuma Kubs, much to everyone's dismay. Gonta headed to his assigned dorm room to get some rest.

The First and Additional Motive
After the first motive and additional motives are presented, the First Blood Perk and the time limit, Gonta like almost everyone else, became increasingly concerned. Gonta desperately wanted everyone to stick together, but his pleas fell on deaf ear.

On The Clock
On the final day as the time limit was drawing closer to its end, Kaito Momota, the Ultimate Astronaut, asked Gonta to join his strategy meeting, thinking that since he was physically very powerful that he would be useful when it came to fighting Monokuma. He agreed, and so him, Kaito, Angie Yonaga, the Ultimate Artist, Himiko Yumeno, the Ultimate Magician, Maki Harukawa, the Ultimate Child Caregiver, and Rantaro Amami, the Ultimate ???, headed down to the game room in the basement to conduct their strategy meeting. Gonta however, locked himself in the AV room not long after the meeting began in order to watch a bug movie which he claimed would fill him with "fight" to fight Monokuma, though this only drew the suspicion from the rest of the group in the meeting.

Not long after however, Rantaro excused himself to go to the restroom while actually going to investigate the library, knowing of the secret room thanks to his survival perk mono-pad. Tenko and Kaito would also leave the game room and join Kaede and Shuichi in storming the library, only to find the bookcase in the back of the room closing and Rantaro's corpse not far away from it. Tenko's scream alerted the Gonta and the remaining people in the game room and they came rushing in. Gonta was frightened at the discovery of Rantaro's body and all the blood, then asked Angie how she could remain so calm. As everyone pondered what was going on and whether or not the Killing Game had officially began or ended, the body discovery announcement played and eventually everyone was in the library.

During the investigation, Kaito and Himiko would question Gonta in the AV room, finding it suspicious that he would lock himself in. Gonta seemingly panicked and tried to tell the duo that he didn't kill Rantaro. Kaede and Shuichi did find it odd, but didn't automatically suspect Gonta.

The First Class Trial
During the Class Trial, Gonta would later be suspected of killing Rantaro since he had locked himself in the AV room. He was quick to deny the claim, though when Tenko asked him to present an alibi, he asked where he could fine one, showing his lack of common knowledge. Kaede was quick to defend him, stating that he could not have gone out into the hallway since the door from the AV room into the hallway was broken and that he couldn't get out through there.

Gonta was reassured, but Kirumi Tojo, the Ultimate Maid, pressed further, apologizing to him, but stating that she would do whatever she could for everyone's sake. She stated that he didn't need to open the AV room door all the way, just enough for him to fit his arm through it and use the folded up screen from the AV room as a pole to open the door to the library directly across the hall, and throw the shot put ball, which she claimed he could do with his immense strength presented when he lifted the manhole cover. Kaede however, would deny this as well since the moved bookshelf in the library would have been in the way of the shot at that time. As such, it would have been impossible for Gonta to murder Rantaro. Gonta was extremely grateful where-as Kirumi apologized for doubting him, to which he replied that it wasn't a problem and all done to find the truth. Later, when the crime was being pinned on Shuichi Saihara, Gonta was among the students to defend him.

When Shuichi revealed Kaede as Rantaro's killer, Gonta could not believe it. He could not believe that Kaede, who wanted everyone to survive and escape together, could kill someone. He was quick to defend her along with Kaito, but it was for nothing. After the voting had ensued and Kaede was found blackened, Gonta still couldn't believe it, but still viewed her as a dear friend for going so far just to protect everyone.

When Monokuma and the Monokuma Kubs wanted quick to execute her, Gonta along with Kaito and Tenko rushed to her defense despite facing an Exisal, resolving to put their lives on the line if Kaede was willing to do the same for them. Kaede told them to stop however, telling them that she was ready to die, much to their dismay.

Following Kaede's execution, Gonta shed tears at her demise and considered her a good friend and a great person. He reassured Shuichi that if he needed anything, he can feel free to ask him before leaving the trial grounds with everyone else aside from Kaito and Shuichi.

Exploring the Rest of the Academy
The morning of the next day, Gonta along with everyone else would gather in the dining hall once again and have a normal, but forced conversation to try and make themselves not think about the horrible events that transpired yesterday. As Kirumi prepared breakfast for everyone, Kokichi and Gonta both asked her to be their mom. Afterwards, the Monokuma Kubs showed up and handed out four random items that the students could use to unlock more areas in the academy.

One of the areas that would become unlocked would be the remaining second floor of the school, which contained Gonta's Research Lab. Upon discovering it with Shuichi, the Ultimate Entomologist took an immediate liking to it while Shuichi kept the fact that all the bugs on display grossed him out to himself. Gonta was determined to help raise the insects that had yet to hatch, then mentioned that he wanted to thank the person who prepared this lab for him. When the Ultimate Detective told him that the one who set up his lab was more than likely Monokuma and his Kubs, Gonta became dejected, thinking that no one who loves bugs could be a bad person like Monokuma.

Angie eventually told Gonta and everyone else to meet in the gymnasium, seemingly failing in discovering anything about the conspicuous flashlight that she and Shuichi had discovered earlier. After everyone had gathered, Monokuma appeared and told the participants that it was a Flashback Light and that it had the ability to restore lost memories before leaving and letting the students decide what to do with it. Although everyone was skeptical at first, they eventually gave in and used it, allowing everyone, Gonta included, to remember that they had been on the run from the "Ultimate Hunt". Though they could not remember the exact details and circumstances behind it, just that they had been on the run.

The Motive Videos
During that same night, the Monokuma Kubs prepared the second motive, distributing various motive videos at random while the students slept. The next morning, Gonta joined everyone in the dining hall in order to discuss what to do with the motive videos. Gonta accidentally let slip that he had gotten Tsumugi Shirogane's, the Ultimate Cosplayer's, motive video though she didn't seem to mind. Despite Ryoma suggesting that they exchange them, wanting to see who could be the most important person in his life, everyone rejected the idea, afraid that it would cause another murder to happen, much to his annoyance. Gonta went along with whatever everyone decided, though Kokichi had other ideas and lied to Gonta that they had made a promise before and that they should talk about it, taking advantage of his naivete.

Gonta's Insect Meet and Greet
Kokichi, wanting to make everyone watch each others motive videos in order to make the killing game "more exciting", thought up of a plan. He lied to Gonta that everyone in the academy hated bugs. Hearing this, Gonta cried and declared that he would get everyone to like bugs in an "Insect Meet and Greet". As a result, two days after the motive videos were distributed, Gonta began to kidnap various students into his lab, completely unaware of the Ultimate Supreme Leader's true intentions.

Gonta would succeed in detaining Korekiyo Shinguji, the Ultimate Anthropologist, K1-B0, the Ultimate Robot, Tsumugi, and Tenko. He would next target Kaito, but the Ultimate Astronaut was able to evade him somehow, warning Shuichi about Gonta before making a break for it again. Shuichi saw this and tried to sneak out of the dorms without Gonta noticing and ran into Ryoma. Despite his best efforts however, Shuichi is also detained by the Ultimate Entomologist and brought to his lab, apologizing later for accidentally knocking him unconscious before continuing his kidnapping spree.

For the remaining hour of the night, Gonta would attempt to kidnap the remaining students with mixed results. He was unable to detain Ryoma thanks to his Shukuchi method. He also failed in detaining Miu Iruma, the Ultimate Inventor because she had stripped down to her underwear so that he wouldn't touch her. This caused Gonta to become incredibly flustered and run away. He then failed in detaining Kirumi, saying that even he couldn't "overcome her", and Maki who continued to guard over her Research Lab and threatened to make him choke on his own tongue if he so much as tried to touch her. Kaito continued to evade and hide from Gonta all night.

Despite Gonta's failures, he was able to bring Angie and Himiko to his lab. Kokichi joined not long after, having broken into everyone's rooms and stolen their motive videos for his own purposes. While Gonta didn't know what Kokichi was planning, he still commenced the Insect Meet and Greet. Everyone panicked as insects began to buzz about and wrecked havoc. After Kokichi returned once again, K1-B0 used his recording function in order to convince Gonta that Kokichi had tricked him so that this absurdity would end. Gonta became outraged by this, and would order all the insects to swarm on him instead as punishment. Everyone else who had been detained was thankfully able to take back their motive videos and leave, heading to their dorm rooms to finally get some rest.

The Amazing Himiko's Magic Show
The very next morning, Gonta attended Angie and Himiko's magic show along with everyone else from his Insect Meet and Great, bar Kokichi. Angie explained the details of Himiko's trick before the Ultimate Magician jumped into the tank, having only a single minute to escape the water tank before the tank would fill with piranha's. Angie closed the curtains, but everyone grew increasingly worried as the timer continued to count down and Himiko had yet to come out. Gonta couldn't take it anymore and stormed the stage, wanting to save Himiko before the piranha's would fill the tank, much to Angie's disappointment. Once the timer ran out, the piranha's dropped into the tank along with some other large object, though Himiko had yet to come out of the tank. Tenko begged Angie to open the curtains, a plea that she promptly responded to by revealing the tank, however, no one was prepared for what they were about to see. Ryoma's lifeless, handcuffed body drifted within the tank, only having a couple seconds before the piranha's stripped the flesh from his bone, leaving nothing more than a skeleton, the handcuff's, and his belongings behind. With that, the second investigation had begun.

After the body discovery announcement played, the remaining students gathered in the gym. Kokichi playfully urged Gonta to throw K1-B0 against the tank because it would take too long to drain by hand. Tenko helped Gonta use the Ultimate Robot like a battering ram and shattered the tank. Gonta would then pick up the piranha's with his bare hands and put them in a bucket in order to clean up the scene of the crime.

The Second Class Trial
During the second trial, even though Gonta didn't intend for it, his Insect Meet and Greet would end up giving many people alibi's for the time of Ryoma's murder. Gonta storming the stage during Himiko's magic show also proved to be a key piece of evidence in finding Himiko innocent, as he didn't see anything in the tank before the piranha's and Ryoma's body had fallen in. Shuichi was also able to determine that Miu had an alibi because Gonta's statements and her statements matched up, much to the Ultimate Entomologist's embarrassment.

After Shuichi was able to pin the crime on Kirumi, Gonta could not believe it. He could not believe that after all she had done to take care of everyone that she could be the culprit. Gonta was incredibly saddened once Kirumi confessed to her crime, but after learning that she was the de facto Prime Minister of Japan and responsible for all of its citizens, Gonta asked Monokuma if he could take Kirumi's place as the blackened, thinking that Kirumi's life would have far more value than his due to how much she has to protect. In reality however, Kirumi was only trying to trick everyone to defend her so she could escape, much to everyone's, including Gonta's, displeasure. The Ultimate Entomologist would later watch as Kirumi was brutally executed by Monokuma.

The Student Council
Gonta joins the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles Student Council after being converted by Angie Yonaga describing God as a gentle grandmother.

Neo World Program
When the cast enters the Neo World Program, Gonta's avatar glitches due to having the input cords switched by his mistake. Inside the virtual world, Kokichi leads Gonta to the Flashback Light they were searching for, causing Gonta to see the truth of the outside world. In his state of despair, Kokichi convinces Gonta that being dead without knowing anything is the best option for everyone and offers him a plan to kill Miu now and then kill everyone else with the Class Trial. Following his instructions, Gonta strangles Miu with toilet paper and drops her dead avatar into the other side of the looping world.

After leaving the Program, Gonta has no memory of what happened inside it due to his glitch. His statements during the trial are all easily shrugged off due to him not understanding anything, until Kokichi proves Gonta is the only possible suspect by the method of elimination. Gonta still can't remember his crime but accepts the results of the investigation.

Gonta's Fate
Monokuma programs a Gonta Alter-Ego containing Gonta's virtual memories to explain his motives. Kokichi begs to be executed along with Gonta but he refuses the proposal. Gonta told the group to forgive his partner for what he's done and get along well with him.

Gonta cries before he was dragged into his execution and bide his dear friends farewell by saying "I love you" to everyone.



Name
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 kanji, gokuhara (獄原) translates to "prison meadow".

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 wears round glasses.

Gonta wears a brown suit and matching brown pants, green tie, and no shoes. He carries a bug terrarium strapped around his body, the strap matching the color of his tie.

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

In the prologue, he wears the uniform of his original high school. He also wears shoes, which is something he normally doesn't like to do. He awkwardly fitted his well-trained body into the uniform, but his manliness originating from the wealthy family overwhelms the people who look at him. His gakuran's color is uncommon persimmon indigo (dark slate blue), which somehow seems to look noble.

Personality
Gonta likes animals very much, especially insects, and he can even speak with them. He is a kind-hearted, gentle, and polite person. He is very pure and naive, as he easily believes strangers and can get easily discouraged by other people's comments. He himself acknowledges and often points out that he is dumb, which is one of the reasons why he listens to other people so much. However, despite his gentle nature, he can turn very angry if he sees or hears someone hating on 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 also gets very ashamed of himself if he does something a gentleman wouldn't do, like telling lies, losing his temper, making rude assumptions, seeing someone naked or half-naked, or accidentally touching someone inappropriately. It's noted that he isn't very gentlemanly yet, as he's a bit clumsy and sometimes gets controlled by sudden and strong emotions, but he tries very hard. 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 approaches him, he would like to say "thank you" as in "thank you for talking to me".

Gonta is very protective towards his friends during the Killing Game, promising to protect them from any harm caused by the Killing Game. He states that in order to fulfill that goal, he will go as far as to risk his own life. Whenever he failed to fulfill this promise, he would cry and regret that he couldn't save his classmate. Notable events are when he tried to prevent Kaede Akamatsu from being dragged into her execution and he tried to be a substitute for the executed one, Kirumi Tojo. Because he couldn't use his strength against the Exisals and wasn't smart, he felt horrible because he couldn't be useful.

Gonta seemingly wishes to have a motherly figure to take care of him, possibly because he was separated from his own mother for many years during his childhood. When Kokichi asks Kirumi to be his mom, Gonta innocently but seriously asks the same, and he later imagines Angie's god as a gentle grandmother type.

In Chapter 4, while being an avatar in the Neo World Program created by Miu Iruma, Gonta's idea of protecting his friends changes after he learns the horrifying truth of the outside world. Agreeing with Kokichi that mercy killing the others while they were not aware of the horrible situation would be the best option, he obeys Kokichi's order to protect him from Miu who was planning to kill him. After he returned to the real world, he did not receive the avatar's memories, and was guilt ridden when he found out what had happened. Despite everything, Gonta once again shows how good his heart is, as he is willing to forgive Kokichi and tells the others not to blame him, and his biggest regret is that he couldn't protect everyone. In his final scene, he bid his friends a farewell and said he loves them all before his execution.

It should be noted that while he is not very smart, he is not as unintelligent as he believes himself to be, and has a very vast knowledge on animals and insects.

Ultimate Entomologist
Gonta's talent as the Ultimate Entomologist is a fabrication made by Team Danganronpa. Due to that fact, it is unclear whether Gonta is an entomologist in the past. Gonta has been interested in insects since childhood. Because he was raised by animals in the forest, he can speak with them.

In other languages
Gonta's talent as it appears in official translations of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony.

Superhuman Strength
Gonta possesses an incredibly superhuman strength, though as a pacifistic person he refuses to use it against other people. His strength is emphasized by the powerful aura he possesses whenever he gets very angry.

A notable event is in Chapter 1, when he easily lifted up a heavy iron manhole with just one hand using only his thumb and finger and threw it as far as four to five meters away from him. During the investigation, he also mentioned that it would have been very easy for him to kill Rantaro Amami by throwing a shot accurately from the AV Room to the library where Rantaro was located.

Enhanced Eyesight
Gonta's eyesight is 20/0.625. He at one point notices extremely tiny bugs, though even he cannot see them clearly, which much later turn out to be Nanokumas.

Relationships

 * Family:

Human family
Gonta's human family is rich and refined. After Gonta returned to them after 10 years, 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 strived 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 wolves, an ancient species that isolated itself in the woods after losing a war against humans. The wolves family taught 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 to 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.


 * Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles:

Kokichi Oma
Kokichi considers Gonta a typical dumb muscle and planned to use him as one of his minions from the start. His lack of respect towards Gonta is seen in the way he doesn't use any honorifics when talking to him.

In Chapter 2, Kokichi tricks Gonta to work for him by pretending to be a fellow bug lover. In order to get everyone's Kubs Pad, Kokichi used Gonta to bring the students into his Research Lab. He lied that the others had been hating on bugs and they should all have relaxing time with the insects and appreciate them. However, K1-B0 soon exposes Kokichi's lie, making Gonta furious. He grabs Kokichi, telling him that they shall spend the whole night petting bugs. The other students escape the scene quickly, hearing Kokichi's shrill screams from the room.

In Chapter 4, Kokichi manipulated Gonta into killing Miu for him, because Miu had made it so that Kokichi couldn't harm her. During the class trial, Gonta felt horrible and cried, having no memories of what happened. However, he still chose to forgive Kokichi and told the others not to blame him, which seemed to genuinely touch Kokichi a lot. Seeming to feel genuinely bad, Kokichi says he should be punished too, but Gonta disagreed and just told him to promise him that everyone will forgive each other and be friends. Kokichi is speechless for a second, but in seriousness gives Gonta his word. As the execution grows closer, Kokichi seems to genuinely break down and cry and shouts Gonta's name, saying he doesn't want this and telling Gonta not to go. After Gonta is executed, the burden of all the guilt and knowledge seems to affect Kokichi's sanity, with him beginning to act exaggeratedly "evil" and claiming that he didn't care about Gonta and that he was just fake crying.

Tenko Chabashira
Despite Tenko's hatred toward boys, she often has the same way of thinking as Gonta, as both of them always wanted to protect their friends from dangers. While Tenko openly declared that she will only protect girls, Gonta volunteered himself as the boys' protector.

Tenko wondered about how different Gonta was from generic boys. For example, he cries easily whenever one of his friends are dead and he wasn't able to protect them. Tenko, who followed Gonta, asked why a man like him was able to cry so easily.

Kaito Momota
Kaito was highly trusting of Gonta and cared for him, They even attempted to fight against the Exisals along with Tenko Chabashira. When Gonta was being accused of killing Miu, Kaito refused to listen to Shuichi and didn't vote Gonta as a culprit, blaming Kokichi instead.

Kirumi Tojo
After hearing Kokichi asking Kirumi to be his mom, Gonta wishes her to be his mom as well. This seems to be purely due to child-like innocence and him wishing to have a comforting female figure, possibly relating to the fact that Gonta spent several years away from his biological mother.

In Chapter 2, after Kirumi was voted guilty and was about to get executed, Gonta asked Monokuma if he could take her place, as he thought it would be a great loss for Japan to lose such an important figure like the Prime Minister Kirumi.

Miu Iruma
Gonta is one of the very few, along with Kaede and K1-B0, who wished to be friends with Miu. After Miu's death, he didn't blame her for attempting murder, believing she was a good person and the killing game situation was at fault. With his good-heartedness, he was surprised and shocked to hear that most of the other students wouldn't have been friends with Miu even outside the killing game.

Korekiyo Shinguji
Even thought both of them don't interact much in the game, their relationship was revealed in the Anthology manga. Gonta saves Korekiyo's life after accidentally slipped and was about to fall, however, Gonta stepped in quick to save him. Both of them however, ended up being tangled with their hair. Because Korekiyo was because couldn't move much, the students thought this was one way for someone to not kill someone for her sister. Gonta staunchly defended Korekiyo after he explained he would not kill someone to see his sister. Both of them slept together in the Hotel Kumasutra to spend the nighttime there. Gonta apologized to Korekiyo for having to spend the day with him, and asked if Korekiyo liked bugs now. Korekiyo disagreed, but said he was interested in how bugs impacted people's lives, and Korekiyo also thanked Gonta for understanding he wouldn't kill someone to escape the school just to see his sister.


 * Monokubs:

Monotaro
In Chapter 4, when Monotaro suffered from severe memory issues, he somehow became friends with Gonta and the remaining students as he was helpful to them and considered him a very nice person.

After the investigation, Monophanie managed to recover Monotaro's original memories. The students were a bit sad that he wasn't their friend anymore, and Gonta even tried to somehow befriend him again, but it was not possible.

Quotes

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List of Appearances

 * -|Games=
 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (Demo Version)
 * Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
 * -|Manga=
 * New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shin Gakki Comic Anthology
 * New Danganronpa V3: Minna no Koroshiai Shin Gakki Comic Anthology Volume 2

Trivia

 * Similar to Gundham Tanaka, Gonta is rumored to be capable of speaking with animals, although 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 prefers being barefoot over wearing shoes.
 * He has never killed an insect before.
 * Other characters who also speak in third person within the series beside Gonta are Ibuki Mioda, Monaca Towa, Tenko Chabashira, and Angie Yonaga (the latter two in Japanese only).
 * Gonta's English voice actor, Kaiji Tang, also voices Yasuhiro Hagakure in Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Koichi Kizakura from Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School.
 * In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Gonta the 12th most popular Danganronpa V3 student.
 * In his Love Suite scene, his fantasy shows him having a male friend being his practice partner for a party, as he wishes to be a true gentleman. The friend has the role of 'a lady' and Gonta wishes he could return the favor somehow. They accidentally fall into the bed and Gonta blames himself for not being a gentleman and scaring his partner. However, he is forgiven and they continue practicing.
 * " According to Kazutaka Kodaka, Gonta is one of the series' characters with the strongest resistance towards the heat. This is most likely due to his background.

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