#if you've read novels/watched anime like index or monogatari you know exactly what i'm talking about btw. i just know he'd deal

[kotaerukoto]

Oh yeah, just a small detail for Makoto's regular modern/urban fantasy verse, he's not actually a student at Hope's Peak Academy there! He's either at Dusk High School, or in his first year of university. Probably somewhere like University of Tokyo, considering how in his canon verse he managed to get into an über prestigious school too. The inspiration of this was the scrapped extra ending of DR where, upon seeing a secret NG+ scene, it's revealed that the whole plot of DR1 was just a wacky daydream Makoto had, and he ultimately decides to not attend after all. But frankly, since it's Makoto, he's not going to have a normal life for long-- especially in the urban fantasy version of it. I imagine eventually his life becomes similar to the life of the MCs of those long-running light novel series, like Toaru Index or Monogatari, in the sense of getting into situations to handle all of the time. His inability to not try and help out when other people are in trouble combined with how his misfortune gets him near those situations anyway/attracts them to him, make it really hard for him to live a normal life.