Komanami

Komanami is the het ship between Chiaki Nanami and Nagito Komaeda in the Danganronpa fandom.



Fanon
In Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak Highschool, when Nagito was forced to watch Chiaki’s execution, he talks about how Chiaki became their stepping-stone to achieve a greater hope, and how “she’s the classes’s greatest hope”. He appeared rather upset over her demise, and was seen crying, which was a rare occurrence.

With AI Chiaki, Nagito didn’t seem to pay much attention to her, assuming she was just a quiet girl, who played video games all day. Later, he appears to show some respect for her and her deduction skills. During Chapter 4, while everyone was stuck in The FunHouse, he asks if she could investigate with him, and starts to worry when she left the group without anyone aware. Chiaki is seen to have cared for Nagito a lot, but he was unaware of it. Chiaki was the traitor and he tried to save in the end, although his attempts failed.

Fanon
The ship steadily grew because of Nagito and Chiaki’s similar roles, being two of the three main characters in Super Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. Both also became an option for fans shipping victims and killers together, and culprits in several cases.

Danganronpa 3 further grew this ship, since Chiaki was one of the only students who was genuinely caring and kind to Nagito, and his positive opinion and respect for Chiaki fueled this ship even more. Although, the fandom has mixed emotions on the ship, viewing it as unhealthy and bad, due to the fact it was a victim x killer ship, and because of Nagito’s one-sided crush on Hajime Hinata. Despite the hate, people still continue to enjoy this ship.