Komaru Naegi

Komaru Naegi is the main protagonist from the Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls game.

Komaru is a  a participant of Demon Hunting 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.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Komaru is a member of the Heroes Coalitions as a trainee.

Appearance
Komaru is a teenager around high school age, who is described in the Danganronpa 1.2 Reload Artbook to be a year younger than her older brother Makoto.

She has short, dark brown hair and desaturated 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. Tomoe 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. She continues to wear this outfit in Danganronpa 3 along with brown fingerless gloves and a belt with a small pouch.

Personality
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.

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 gullibleness, 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.

In Future Arc 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.

Trivia

 * Komaru is often called "Omaru" by Toko and "Dekomaru" by Genocide Jack. In the official English version, Hiroko nicknamed her "Koko".
 * Her first name is Japanese for "to be troubled or worried".
 * Komaru's name is written in hiragana, but can also be written in kanji, meaning "little and perfect". The character is also the second kanji in the word 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 means “seedlings.”
 * 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.
 * In Chapter 1, Komaru accidentally stated that she can't ride a bicycle.
 * In Chapter 4, she somehow rode a motorcycle carrying Toko Fukawa and Haiji Towa, despite not being able to ride a bicycle.
 * Komaru's "reprimanding" sprite from Danganronpa Another Episode is very similar to that of Mahiru Koizumi from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair.
 * Komaru and her brother Makoto (voiced by Aya Uchida and Megumi Ogata) perform the ending theme of Danganronpa Another Episode, Progressive -Zan Shin-, together.
 * Komaru appears as a guest character in Chain Chronicle: Brave New Continent. Her Max ATK is 8650 while her Max HP is 5670. Her weapon is the Megaphone Hacking Gun and its ability is doubled attack power. Her deathblow is "PARALYZE", which slows down and damages enemies on the range.
 * A pun on Chibi Maruko-chan is made in Danganronpa 3 - Future Arc, in one of Toko's fantasies about Byakuya, with Komaru appearing designed just like the show's protagonist and even called: "Chibi Komaru-chan".
 * Komaru appears in Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics as the Ultimate Student class, being one of three designs available for it alongside Makoto and Monokuma.
 * The profile for the Ultimate Students states, You are the Ult. student. You may be the best, but you're just a student...You're not very good at close range combat. Master the various Truth Bullet (TB) skills and survive in this harsh world.
 * Komaru's Hit List Entry states that she is weak and easy to target, as well as mentioning she is a perfect "Demon" to try items on. This indicates that the Warriors of Hope initially did not take her seriously and also initially did not consider her a threat to the Demon Hunting games.