Ryota Mitarai is a character in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High, and his title is the Ultimate Animator. Mitarai is an extremely reserved, timid, and antisocial young boy. From a young age, he’s always been a loner and outcast who was constantly picked on and bullied, alongside an absent father who’d shove his parental responsibilities to Mitarai’s mother. However, he’s always had a huge love for anime, which inspired him to start drawing and eventually become an animator. He holds anime in high regard as it was able to be his main source of comfort to escape from his harsh childhood and dysfunctional family life. He goes as far as to say that anime saved him, and he wants to use his skills as an animator to achieve his goal of giving others like him a source of hope by creating his own anime. However, this goal eventually becomes his whole life, as he dedicates himself to slave away at his desk to be able to work on it, to the point he’ll neglect essential needs like eating and resting, which is shown by heavy eyebags, slender and pale zombie-like appearance - it gets to the point that Ult. Imposter and Mikan have to care for him when he collapses from overworking himself and lack of food. Although Mitarai is very timid and not physically intimidating in the slightest, he still has a very strong sense of justice and uses this will to push on to achieve his goal of creating a world full of hope and saving others through his work. However, even though he does try his hardest to stay strong, Mitarai tends to put a lot of pressure on himself and suffers from anxiety and self-confidence. It doesn’t help that he gets very squeamish or even sick when witnessing violence, blood, or dead bodies and always has to run off to puke if he feels nauseous after finding a corpse. Due to his constant worrying and jumpy personality, he constantly views himself as a huge burden whenever he feels like he’s let people down if he fails to protect someone - especially because of how he feels heavy guilt for assisting Junko in her plans and giving her the ideas of brainwashing his classmates and not being strong enough to stop her. However, with the help of his classmates at the end of Hope Arc (when his spirit became so broken from the Future Foundation Killing Game he finally snaps and gains the resolve to brainwash the world with his video into hope and eliminate any source of despair or negative emotion), especially feeling empowered and moved by Hajime and Ult. Imposter’s words of not needing to feel alone and they all are atoning for their past during the tragedy, he believes their words and decides to live on alongside his classmates and become more sure of himself as he relaxes and lives alongside his class.

I think I would like something more like his Eng. voice (aka Justin Briner’s interpretation of Mitarai), but I do think both interpretations here work well for his character and don’t mind which interpretation you base on!

Voices for Reference (ENG):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSyfC2X8siY