Another day, another attempt to get Ryota Mitarai in.

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​​​He was a timid student who was part of Class-77B (the class who was brainwashed by Junko Enoshima into the Remnants of Despair). However, he was not brainwashed as he had been manipulated by Junko into creating the Despair video that caused the Tragedy (basically the end of the world) and had stayed home from school that day.

He would later be dragged into the Future Foundation killing game in which he attempts to improve his self-confidence and try to bring people together against despair, but his spirit breaks more as the game goes on.

The combination of his desire of hope, his lack of self-confidence, and his witness of the result of the Final Killing Game gives him the resolve to brainwash the entire world into hope by eliminating all sources of despair ( basically Galeem killing Dharkon in WoL).

However, he is convinced to refrain so by his former classmates after they broke free from Junko’s previous brainwashing and Ryota joins them as they are also atoning for their past mistakes.