Nagito is a student of Hope's Peak Academy's Class 77-B, and a participant of the Killing School Trip. On the surface, Nagito is friendly and easygoing. He genuinely cares for his classmates and holds a lot of respect for ideals like love, friendship, and teamwork. However, he doesn't care for "ordinary, untalented people" such as himself and is extremely self-deprecating; he sees himself as "worthless trash" whose life has no value, something he brings up often. Nagito is also highly intelligent, usually solving the murders long before anyone else, though he doesn't share his findings easily. Nagito has an extreme, twisted obsession with hope. He believes that hope is an absolute good that will always win in the end, and that anything done in the name of hope, even murder, is virtuous. He sees Ultimates as the embodiments of hope that are chosen at birth, and thinks they can strengthen that hope by facing and overcoming despair. He doesn't consider himself to be a "real" Ultimate, and instead wishes to sacrifice himself so that they can shine.
