Look at how stunned he is when Sonia talks about Novoselic's customs his befuddlement at her casually misplacing Japanese customs in turn is the punchline. A lot of the comedy in DR is obviously derived from all the other students and how wacky they can be, and the juxtaposition between Hajime and the rest of his class especially serves to give the writers lots of material for comedy. Yes yes, I'll concede that the whole “sequel has a more cynical main character” thing is not the most original idea, but Hajime's character is closer to the ideal offset that a DR protagonist should ideally provide, both in its humour and its drama. On top of that, he's mightily scared he can't remember his talent, and both give Hajime this realistic need to rationalise everything possible in an unreal situation, which if you ask me is much closer to what someone would actually do if they were trapped like that.
On the flipside, Hajime starts out as way, way more suspicious of his surroundings when everyone else bar Twogami seems to accept it, and the reason he doesn't accept it is because he has too many questions regarding how they got to the island, not just what they're there for. Mind you, a large part of this is simply because I really did not like Makoto, who was way too naïve for the environment he was stuck in and consistently failed to lend gravitas to proceedings. I think he is the much better protagonist over Makoto. Is the flair a giveaway? Yep, I'm on Team Hajime.
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