Komaru Naegi

## Talent

* Ultimate Little Sister of Hope
* 超高校級の「希望の妹」

*Chō kōkō kyū no “kibō no mèi”*

**Alternative Localizations:**
Super High School-Level Little Sister of Hope

**Komaru Naegi** (苗木 こまる, *Naegi Komaru*) is a student in Hope's Peak Academy's Class 78th. Her title is the **Ultimate Little Sister of Hope** (超高校級の「希望の妹, *Chō kōkō kyū no “kibō no mèi”*).

## Appearance

Komaru 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. However, Jay describes her as "so pretty", showing that Komaru is fairly attractive.

She wears 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 wears even when attending Hope's Peak because she felt more comfortable with it on.

When she was in the motivational video with her parents, 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.

## Personality

Komaru has a cheerful and optimistic personality, somewhat similar to her brother. She loves Makoto, telling her brother to do his best while enrolled at Hope's Peak Academy. She also has 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.

Komaru shows some childish traits, such as being naive, reliant, and easily excitable. She also has an 'unusual' kind of pride, as she gets really worked up from the puzzles of the Monokuma Kids and brags towards the kids when she solves them. She is also very gullible, which is revealed when Toko says certain things that are obviously false, and Komaru easily believes them to be true. She is rather innocent as well and doesn't seem to have much interest in romance nor sexual thingsーas a great contrast to Toko, she never seems to get flustered by handsome guys and just treats them like any other people. Though, she once tried to claim she has lots of experience with dating and sex because she was afraid Toko might make fun of her. It's been stated that in the past some creepy guys have taken interest in her, supposedly because of her gullibility, and it's been shown that she isn't very good at noticing their intentions.

While a kind person, Komaru sometimes has a hard time relating to certain people and subjects, because she herself has lived a very ordinary life. For example, at first she has a very poor understanding of Toko's disorder and assumes it has something to do with two people's souls switching in a car accident, supposedly because she has only heard about the subject from highly unrealistic manga. However, she herself has a few very unusual traits as well, including her strange favorite foods and her apparent ability to sense ghosts. However, she doesn't seem to think these traits are anything unusual.

Despite sometimes giving up too easily, there are other times which Komaru shows how stubborn and determined she can be. However, she has a weakness in complicated subjects such as basic computer science, but she does have moments where she is intuitive.

Later on, Komaru is shown to be more confident in herself and is now quite skilled at fighting off Monokumas. Although still a bit childish at times, she can also be serious when needed.

## Talents and Abilities

#### Ultimate Little Sister of Hope

Komaru did not have a talent even after attending Hope's Peak Academy. Being the sister to the Ultimate Hope Makoto Naegi, and bringing hope toward those in Towa City is likely the reason she was awarded the title.

## Etymology

* Her first name (as 困る) is Japanese for "to be troubled or worried".
	+ Komaru's name is written in hiragana, but can also be written in kanji as 小丸, meaning "little and perfect". The character 丸 is also the second kanji in the word 弾丸 dangan, which means "bullet". Thus, it could be that Komaru's name is meant to imply at her relation to Makoto, who is the first character in the series to utilize "Truth Bullets".
* Her last name (苗木) means “seedlings.”

## Trivia

* Komaru's dream is to become a manga artist.
* One of her favorite manga is *The Bomb Inside Her*.
* Komaru's favorite idol is Sayaka Maizono. She calls herself a 'Sayaker' which she explains is a term used by and for Sayaka's fans. Komaru states that she tends to buy CDs and merchandise with her monthly allowance.
* Komaru seems to be unafraid of the dark, though she says that she doesn't like it.
* Although Komaru is almost completely normal to what Toko explains as being "at a frightening degree", she does have some unusual traits.
	+ She appears to have an ability to sense and talk with ghosts.
	+ She has strange tastes in food; her favorite foods are sparrow's nests, tuna eyeballs, and kangaroos.
	+ She admits that she enjoys talking into electrical fans and that she is sorta bad at math, while her Hit List entry is examined.
* Komaru accidentally stated that she can't ride a bicycle.
	+ Later on, she somehow rode a motorcycle carrying Toko Fukawa and Haiji Towa, despite not being able to ride a bicycle.