Kaito Momota

Kaito Momota, also known as Ultimate Astronaut and Luminary of the Stars, is a character from the Danganronpa series.
== Charactah Account ==
A trainee astronaut. The astronaut program requires a college degree, but Kaito bluffed his way in with fake documents and even passed the test. He was eventually found out but was kept on due to his personality and real talent. Kaito still hasn't been to space but wants to go more than anything. He's a classic romantic and often talks about dreams and passion.
After Kaede's death in Chapter 1, Kaito takes it upon himself to be an emotional pillar for Shuichi and becomes the game's primary deuteragonist, forming a close friendship with Shuichi and often accompanying him during investigations. This friendship later extends to Maki Harukawa, creating a Power Trio. He is the culprit of Chapter 5, cooperating with Kokichi Ouma and crushing him with a hydraulic press on his orders, and in order to save Maki from becoming the blackened after her successful attempt in poisoning Kokichi. Following Kokichi's plan to derail the killing game, he pilots an Exisal mecha and impersonates both himself and Kokichi during the trial to make it impossible to tell which one died. He dies of his mysterious illness partway through his execution, making it the second failed execution of a core Danganronpa game.
== Appearance ==
=== Manga ===
* New Danganronpa V3: Everyone's New Semester of Killing Comic Anthology
=== Video Games ===
* Danganronpa S: Ultimate Summer Camp
* Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
== Trivia ==
* 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. The smoking age in Japan is 20 years old, meaning that Kaito may be engaging in underage smoking.
** If he does engage in underage smoking, it is possible that his chronic disease is lung cancer, as one of the symptoms is coughing up blood. Although Tsumugi claims in the final trial that Team Danganronpa implanted his disease into him, she may be lying about it.
* Kaito, along with K1-B0 and Maki Harukawa, was one of the first new characters revealed for Danganronpa V3 in November 2015. However, their names and talents weren't revealed until ten months later in September 2016.
* In the cutscene where the characters change into their new outfits, Kaito's goatee is missing in non-PlayStation Vita versions, similar to his early designs.
* Kaito is shown wearing his right coat sleeve when opposing Shuichi in the Chapter 3 and 4 Scrum Debates. He is the only character whose features flip due to sprite mirroring this way.
* In Chapter 5 of the English version, Kaito's arm is still seen during the supposed cut when Kokichi had used the video camera. This was not present in the original Japanese version.
* In his Love Suite scene, it's shown that in his fantasy he is an airplane pilot who wishes to defeat his sworn rival before going to space, but he has developed romantic feelings for them.
* Kaito's English voice actor Kyle Hebert also voices Danganronpa 2's Kazuichi Soda.
* In a poll hosted by MyNavi, fans voted Kaito the 11th most popular Danganronpa V3 student.
* Japanese gaming magazine Dengeki from April 27th, 2017 to May 22nd, 2017 held two popularity polls, one that was voted electronically and the other via post cards. Kaito was voted the 5th most popular student in the electronic poll, and 15th through post cards.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kaito Momota at Danganronpa Wiki
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