Makoto Naegi: Super Duper Luckster Superhero
Disclaimer:
Danganronpa is owned by Spike Chunsoft and Lerche
One-Punch Man is owned by ONE
Hello, and welcome to another Danganronpa fanfic. Once again an idea popped in to my head as I was secretly working on my fics in secret while lunchtime at my office, and while I managed to hide my SECRET WORK, my co-worker, who is also an anime fan, suggested that I check out the anime titled One-Punch Man.
While I do heard about that title being mentioned by some passengers a several months back, I paid no attention since I was busy with my fics and work. After my co-worker told me to at least check it out, I caved in and downloaded the series, which were 12 episodes, and was quite surprised to see that it aired three years ago (2015).
I watched the series on my smartphone and poof…I find it quite entertaining and the plot is good yet simplistic enough, though with only 12 episodes, it means that the anime is almost to the point of overlapping the manga, thus the anime had to end it there.
I was considering in making a One-Punch Man fic, but couldn't come up with an inspiration, and I felt stuck, until when I was working on my Danganronpa fics, it came to my mind an inspiration and decided to try it out, as the main character, Saitama, has something in common with Makoto Naegi:
Both are ordinary-looking protagonists at the start;
Saitama became a SUPERHERO after saving a boy from the crab monster; Naegi was chosen to become a student at the main course of Hope's Peak Academy through a random draw of high school students lottery
Saitama became a member of the Hero's Association and worked his way through, from C-Class to B-Class; Naegi spent his first year as a Hope's Peak student with the title of SHSL Luckster, and two years later, became the SHSL Hope
Saitama has powers whose origin are shrouded in mystery; Naegi has LUCK, and though most are bad ones, it helped him survive throughout certain perils, as seen in Danganronpa The Animation, to Danganronpa 3: Side Hope Arc
Likewise, another interesting aspect in the inspiration is the character of Genos, a secondary character of One-Punch Man. He is formerly a full-blooded human who was turned into a cyborg and fought alongside Saitama, and seeing the two, it etched to my mind that aside from Naegi, another DR character will serve as a secondary character to this fic - Kibo. While he is a robot in DR V3, his origin will be slightly different but will still portray the hero. More on that later on.
After re-watching the One-Punch Man series one more time, I decided to make a Danganronpa fic that is inspired from One-Punch Man, only this time it involves the DR characters, with Naegi as the main character. And given the assortment of characters (from DR 1 to DR V3 and the anime), I sort of gotten a lot of ideas to try them out and see how the reception goes.
Well, read on and enjoy!
Ch. 1: Prologue
Tokyo Japan.
A century ago, Izuru Kamukura was a pioneering scholar and eventually came up with an idea to setting up an academy that would bring students to his planned creation of an academy that he is dreaming of putting up, but soon he noticed that most of the crime rate has gone up and it not only put ordinary citizens at risk, but also the younger generations.
The crime perpetrators ranged from robbers to gangsters up to terrorists and even mad scientists. One day Kamukura was walking the streets when armed hoodlums grabbed him and began to harass and threatening him as they demand for his money, which Kamukura said he has none at the moment, and the hoodlums were not pleased, but the leader decided that in lieu of money, they can simply beat him up as COMPENSATION, which his members eagerly agreed.
"Hey, guys…I know…why don't we just beat this guy up?"
"Yeah…"
"Sounds good…"
"Maybe we can settle for this since this geezer did not bring money with him…"
"Right…I really want to beat up someone…"
"Then it's settled…"
"Let's beat him up!"
"Ha-ha…let's do this!"
By then, a group of cosplayers, who just attended a cosplay convention, saw the scene and they decided to help, which resulted in a brawl, and eventually the hoodlums were forced to retreat seeing that the cosplayers have the numbers advantage, and Kamukura is grateful for the cosplayers' help, and offered to reward them, and while the cosplayers were flattered, they decline, saying that they are just doing the right thing and help him chase off the hoodlums.
As the cosplayers left, Kamukura went home to assess what to do.
-x-
In the years that passed, Kamukura watched the news where crime rate is slowly rising, with the police slowly being overwhelmed and he recalled how the cosplayers saved his life, and there an idea and inspiration came to his head and called his financial backers and told them his proposal, which he would put up a prestigious academy where the planned academy would scout high school students who have the special talents that would make them…SUPERHEROES.
While some laughed at the idea, several others whispered among themselves and they asked, saying that if this would work, what would happen to the students who graduated, and Kamukura said that he spoke to a billionaire who would create an organization that would be connected to his planned academy so that the planned organization would act as an office of sorts that would pay the heroes registered after graduating at the planned academy.
The persons whom Kamukura invited and listening to the proposal laughed off the idea, saying it is only a waste of time and that they deemed Kamukura as too senile to believe in Halloween fantasies and the like, and told him to go home and stay locked at his house.
However, others supported the idea, believing that this would help the police in dealing with threats such as robbers and assassins, and they voiced their intent to help Kamukura to found the planned academy, and one of them suggested the name of Hope's Peak, which the others were receptive to the idea of the name for the planned academy.
"Hope's Peak…?"
"Hmm…"
"Sounds good…"
"Yeah…it ringed a bell…"
"Fine with me."
"We should go with that name…"
"Then it's decided!"
"Yeah!"
Kamukura's critics were astounded that the other businessmen were willing to go along with Kamukura's "silly idea" and taunted them that their foolishness would blow up in their faces as they walked away, commenting that Kamukura is a fool and will end up becoming a laughing stock in the eyes of the public, reasoning that they do not want to end up becoming laughing stocks brought about by Kamukura's supposed stupidity.
"Count me out!"
"Don't want to get involved!"
"You people are stupid!"
"We're not stupid like you stupid idiots!"
"Hope you get mocked!"
"You guys are the most idiotic guys I ever met!"
"Kamukura ought to be sent to the mental hospital!"
"Hope you die of embarrassment!"
-x-
The critics were eventually proven to be wrong, as five years later, the academy was built and ready, where it was named Hope's Peak Superhero Academy, where the academy, running through donations from the Diet and from citizens, began to scout high school students and based their talents on where they specialized, and soon chosen teenagers became students and studied there for three years, and upon graduating, they were referred to the Hope's Peak Heroes Association, where they underwent written exams and even physical ones, and upon passing them, they became PROFESSIONAL SUPERHEROES and began to fight crimes.
This resulted in the crime waves declining to a degree and the critics were forced to eat their words after seeing the news about how the graduates of Hope's Peak go into action and get recognized for their efforts, and they were in a state of disbelief at what they witnessed, as they never thought that Kamukura's dream would become a reality.
"No way…!"
"I don't believe this…!"
"How did…?"
"Kamukura's proposal…"
"It succeeded…"
"I can't believe we turn it down…and we're left out…"
"That geezer is really lucky…!"
"…"
The academy thrived well over the years, and produced lots of students who eventually graduate and got referred to the Heroes Association, and after several more years Kamukura passed away, yet the academy remained thriving as successors took over and continued the work that Kamukura left behind and made sure the academy is in good hands.
-x-
Several decades later, the position of headmaster changed hands over the years, and it is soon revealed that its recently-identified headmaster, Kazuo Tengan, is now in his 70's and is stepping down as headmaster, yet he is immediately assigned in an advisory role, and soon his replacement stepped in, where Jin Kirigiri became the new headmaster and Tengan welcomed Jin in Hope's Peak.
"Well, Kirigiri..you are going to take over and work on where I left off."
"Yes, Tengan-san."
"Well…if you are having difficulty…just go to me. I am here if you need advice."
"Yes, of course."
"Well then…welcome to Hope's peak. I hope you would enjoy your new-found work."
"I will."
"Then time to get to work."
"Yes, sir!"
In the years that passed, Hope's Peak Superhero Academy has produced various superheroes which, after graduating, rose to prominence, and became recognizable to the general public, performing various heroic deeds, and among the heroes that Hope's Peak produced were:
- Great Gozu (aka Justice Bull)
- Juzo Sakakura (aka The Boxer)
- Kyosuke Munakata (aka The Swordsman Councilor)
- Sonosuke Izayoi (aka The Blacksmith)
- Ruruka Ando (aka Lady Confectioner)
- Seiko Kimura (Lady Pharmacist)
A few years later, new students were scouted and were enrolled at Hope's Peak Superhero Academy, courtesy of the academy scout, Koichi Kizakura, where the selected students are spending their first year here, and started to do good deeds in public to show their potentials as superheroes, and among the students identified and their talents assessed, they are:
- Akane Owari (aka Lady Gymnastica)
- Nekomaru Midai (aka Coach Powerhouse)
- Gundam Tanaka (aka The Beast Master)
- Ibuki Mioda (aka The Guitar Siren)
- Kazuichi Soda (aka The Mechanic)
- Mahiru Koizumi (aka Photo-Flash)
The aforementioned students showed their talents to the board, where they underwent missions to do heroic deeds and showed promise, ranging from stopping bank robberies, saving would-be hit and run victims, defeating hostage takers and the such.
With each hero studying at Hope's Peak, and the exploits of its graduates, the superhero academy is steadily gaining ground as its reputation earned positive results, which the citizens were grateful to them, and several high school students aspired to enroll at the academy, inspired and wanting to become a superhero.
This caused the Steering Committee of Hope's Peak to have an emergency meeting, seeing this as an opportunity to earn money and cash in on the reputation that Hope's Peak is receiving, wanting take the money, and the credit, for themselves, as well as to use the aspiring students as a way to earn capital and other selfish factors.
"Say…I got an idea…"
"Hmm…?"
"What?"
"We can use the school to come up with something."
"Really?"
"And we can benefit from it too…"
"Okay…"
"We're listening…"
-x-
Meanwhile, the scene somewhere within the suburbs of Tokyo, where you can see a neighborhood, where ordinary citizens are doing their usual things, walking, talking, cleaning their houses and cars, doing chores and the such.
The scene then further zoomed towards what appeared to be an ordinary house, where the scene shifts inside and you can see a family of four, consisting of two adult parents and two teenagers, a 15-year old boy and a 12-year old girl. Both minors sport matching ahoge, and they appeared to be an ordinary family, living a normal, ordinary but happy life.
They are the Naegi family, consisting of:
- Mr. Naegi
- Mrs. Naegi
- Makoto Naegi
- Komaru Naegi
This family is neither rich or poor, but an ordinary-type that was able to sustain themselves and are living happily like a typical family, having ups and down but are still happy at having each other.
One day the Naegi siblings are watching TV and saw the news about the heroes taking down what appeared to be terrorists, and there Komaru squealed upon seeing who the hero appeared...Sayaka Maizono, aka the Idol Mistress, as she used her SINGING ABILITY to put the terrorists in a slumber, and Makoto blushed at seeing her face on-screen, finding her beautiful.
Komaru teased her elder brother and suggested that he try to become a SUPERHERO so as to impress Idol Mistress, which he blushed deeply saying that there is no way he could become one seeing himself as an ordinary boy and has no qualities of a superhero.
"Onee-chan…you're blushing…"
"Um…"
"Say, why don't you enroll at Hope's Peak Superhero Academy? That way you can impress her…"
"There's no way I could do that!"
"Why?"
"I'm just an ordinary boy! I don't even have the qualities of becoming a superhero!"
"Who knows? You might have a hidden talent…think about the X-Men…"
"Komaru!"
To Be Continued...
Hope you liked this chapter, and while there is no action showed here, other than some from cosplayers saving Kamukura, this showed AN ORIGIN STORY of how Hopes Peak is born, only this time it caters on students having talents of a SUPERHERO
Certain characters are mentioned here, such as those from Danganronpa 2 and Danganronpa 3, while their talents are the same, they were given superhero names to reflect their talents…
Preview:
Next chapter focuses on Naegi, where he does a series of good deeds that are deemed as qualities of a hero, and one of the Hopes Peak scouts sees Naegis saw potential in the boywhich would no doubt lead to him being given an invite
See you in October…
Reviews are welcomed...