Komaru Naegi

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Komaru Naegi (苗木 こまる), is one of the protagonists and a participant of Demon Hunting featured in Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls due to her being the closest person to her older brother Makoto Naegi. Because she is considered a “Demon” by the Warriors of Hope, she is given the name Slowpokemaru (ドンコマル). Komaru is a teenager around high school age. She later becomes a young adult, who is described in the Danganronpa 1.2 Reload Artbook to be a year younger than her brother Makoto. However, when scanned by Monokuma during Ultra Despair Girls, it estimates her to be fifteen to seventeen. However, because her brother Makoto went through Hopes Peak Academy without remembering it due to memory loss in the Killing School Life, Komaru would be closer to 18 - 20 by Ultra Despair Girls. So that would make her much older than she was when first shown in the Anime, Games and Manga. It is likely that the Monokuma units had an outdated file from before The Tragedy, with her old information before she was kidnapped for the Hit List. She has short, dark brown hair with a tint of green, and de-saturated green eyes. She also sports an ahoge, similar to that of her brother’s, which developed as she grew. Overall, she is described as very plain-looking and “normal”, which seems to be the same way people describe her brother. When she was in the motivational video with her parents in the first game and its corresponding anime adaption, her hair appeared neater in a classic bob cut, and she did not possess an ahoge. The uniform she wears in this video consists of a white button-up shirt, a brown blazer, a brown skirt, and a red ribbon. In Danganronpa Another Episode, she is revealed to be wearing the St. Koa Girls Academy uniform, which is a sailor fuku with a white blouse, a red necktie, and a turquoise collar, line trim, and skirt. There’s a school crest on the bottom right of the back of the collar, necktie, shirt pocket and the outer sides of socks and also wears blue striped panties. She continues to wear this outfit in Danganronpa 3 along with brown fingerless gloves and a belt with a small pouch. Prior to the Tragedy, Komaru had a cheerful and optimistic personality, somewhat similar to her brother. She loved Makoto, telling her brother to do his best while enrolled at Hope’s Peak Academy. As of Danganronpa Another Episode, Komaru began as a somewhat hypersensitive and quite cowardly character. She wavers between hope and despair as a result of her forced imprisonment. She doesn’t want to have strong hope, because she believes it will be lost eventually, leading to worse despair. She has low self-esteem, considering herself boring, ordinary and weak. After being encouraged by Toko Fukawa, she gained a desire to at least try to escape again. While she finds escaping hard and fighting even harder, she is willing to fight off hordes of Monokuma Unit robots as she tries to survive the world’s current catastrophe and find her missing family.