Kaito Momota

Kaito Momota (百田 解斗 Momota Kaito) is a character featured in New Danganronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing.

Kaito is the Ultimate Astronaut (超高校級の「宇宙飛行士」 chō kōkō kyū no "uchū hikō-shi").

Appearance
Kaito has spiked purple hair that's grown out both at the top and bottom of his head and a short goatee. His eyes are a warm lilac. He also has a slightly tanned complexion.

Kaito wears a tee shirt with a red design resembling a half of a face or a mask, on top of that he wears a long sleeved dress shirt with a breast pocket. On this shirt are black buttons which are currently not in use. On top of that, he wears a long, purple overcoat with a galaxy design inside it. However his coat is never worn properly, instead, Kaito wears his left sleeve and leaves the right side of the coat to drape over his shoulder. He wears purple pants matching his coat which are rolled up over his ankles. Kaito wears grey slippers with a strange, cloudy pattern.

In his promotional art he's featured his entire coat draped over both of his shoulders, no slippers, and a mysterious pipe that resembles Kiseru.

Trivia

 * His given name, 解斗 Kaito, means "absolution of the Dipper [constellation]" - somewhat matching his space-related title.
 * His last name, 百田 Momota, means "one hundred rice paddies".
 * Kaito, along with Kiibo and Maki Harukawa, was one of the first new characters revealed for New Danganronpa V3 in November 2015. However, their names and talents weren't revealed until ten months later in September 2016.


 * In his promotional art Kaito is featured with a pipe which highly resembles Kiseru, a Japanese smoking pipe used for smoking kizami, a shredded tobacco product.
 * It's worth noting that the smoking age in Japan is 20 years old. Meaning that Kaito may be engaging in underage smoking or is older than the rest of the cast similarly to Yasuhiro Hagakure.


 * There are two interesting similarities between Kaito and Jin Kirigiri. The first being their similar hair colors (the color purple in general being a distinction of the Kirigiri family thus far in the series) and the second being their relation to space - with Kaito being an astronaut and Jin having a space related execution - which, considering Junko Enoshima's tendency to execute people with "what is close to their hearts", implies that he too had an interest in outer space.