DR sequels never really addressed 1 thing about Makoto (and his talent)
I'm disappointed none of the sequels to DR1 ever fully addressed that Makoto's talent makes him talking about hope kinda... unfair?
Pretty easy to have hope and move forward when your talent literally guarantees a positive outcome for you in the end, that even when something bad happens there will always be some greater good or silver lining that comes from it.
I was hoping maybe the 3 anime would bring it up, but it didn't really seem to. I'd love to see a character call it out when makoto is trying to motivate them. Other characters don't have that luck; Like riding a motorbike up the hill and telling the cyclists 'don't worry, hills aren't any harder than flats' it's almost hypocritical when he says it.
It would be neat as a further piece of his character arc if he could confront this and either still motivate them to believe(demonstrating his ultimate hope title), or be shown to more directly use his luck talent to help others in response.
Edit: a couple have brought up the 'being stuck in a killing game isn't all that lucky' sort of point, so to adress that in one reply;
Not an entirely invalid comment but, given that the outside world is outright apocalyptic, where much of the world doesn't even have breathable air*, monokuma bots are rampaging, people getting killed in the streets/dragged from homes like its a warzone, etc. being in the safety of the academy with his needs met/comfort/etc, and getting picked up by the FF(one of the only remaining organisations in the world that can provide some form of safety) seems pretty fortunate.
I think that line of thinking is mistaking how his luck works, and saying the equivilent of 'well having a bathroom door that doesn't open correctly hardly seems lucky' (when we all know now that it was actually very lucky, given the series of events if it had not been)