The , or SEES for short, is officially a school group of Gekkoukan High School. In reality, they hunt down Shadows and investigate the Dark Hour with the support of the Kirijo Group. All of the members of SEES are Persona-users, who live together in a specialized dorm. In the final events of the game, the group is re-designated as the .
Protagonist :Voiced by: ::
English:
Yuri Lowenthal (male),
Laura Bailey (female)
Japanese: Akira Ishida (male),
Marina Inoue (female) The protagonist is the nameable main player-controlled character of
Persona 3. He is named in the film adaptation,
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, and most of his appearances. Having moved into the dorm in the introduction of the game, he learns his ability to summon
The Fool arcana Persona and the Death arcana Persona before he's later appointed the team's leader in combat. He is unique among his cohorts in that he has the ability to carry multiple Personas and switch between them during battle. Over the course of the game, he also gains of
The Judgement Arcana and of
The Fool Arcana in
Persona 3 FES. With the power of the Wild Card he has access to over 150 different Personas. Within the simulation elements of
Persona 3, the player is able to form Social Links with characters in-game, each represented by one of the
Major Arcana and granting various bonuses during Persona fusion, increasing the player's proficiency in battle. In
Persona 3 Portable, released on the
PlayStation Portable in 2009, an option was added to control a female protagonist. Unlike the male protagonist, the female protagonist through her dialogue opinions, is shown to be a very upbeat and energetic person, sometimes pulling jokes on her friends, so they could be considered opposites. Later games explain that the two protagonists exist within different timelines. In the
manga adaptation of
Persona 3, he is portrayed as a quiet teenager who often tired or drowsy, who likes to eat and cook food. In the animated movie adaptation, he is portrayed as an ambivalent individual with an initially neutral viewpoint on the film's themes of life and death, making his growth via newfound experiences the focus of the movie.
Yukari Takeba :Voiced by: ::
English:
Michelle Ruff, the Protagonist helps Yukari mend her relationship with her mother. If the protagonist makes the correct choices, Yukari will fall in love with him. If the player chooses not to date any girls, Yukari will appear for all the dating events. In ''Persona 3: FES's The Answer'', Yukari is the group member who is most reluctant to go back into battle against the Shadows and seems that she only wants to move on with her life. However, she fell in love with the protagonist, and as such, is bitter and jealous towards Aigis, who was not only able to spend the last moment with the protagonist before his death, but also inherited his powers. As such, Yukari constantly shows random mood swings towards her. After witnessing the protagonist's sacrifice and the burden he must carry, she finally overcomes her jealousy, apologizing to Aigis and offering to become her roommate. Yukari appears as a playable character in the fighting game
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. After the end of
Persona 3, Yukari decided to put herself through college working as a model, and her proficiency with a bow landed her the television role as , otherwise known as , on
Phoenix Sentai Featherman Victory, which is part of the Phoenix Sentai franchise, a show in the series that parodies the
Super Sentai series. While filming on location, a real helicopter appears with Mitsuru coming out of it, asking Yukari for her help in a new emergency. Within the events of the game, her Persona is Isis. She is portrayed by Maho Tomita in
Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade.
Junpei Iori :Voiced by: ::
English: Vic Mignogna, Initially, Junpei fights because "playing hero" makes him feel like less of a loser. He uses his place in SEES to prop up his low self-esteem, neglects his classwork, and snaps at the protagonist out of jealousy over his unique Persona abilities. Junpei only becomes more serious after he meets Strega member Chidori. They fall for each other, and though she continues to fight SEES, her feelings for Junpei eventually come into conflict with her loyalty to Takaya and her fear of death. When Takaya fatally attacks Junpei, Chidori uses her Persona powers to save his life at the cost of her own. Junpei becomes a more-focused and determined young man after Chidori's death. In
Persona 3 Portable, Junpei becomes the Social Link for the , representing action, initiative, and immaturity, Mitsuru loses all will to fight after Ikutsuki kills her father, since restoring the family honor is meaningless without a family. She regains her resolve thanks to some intervention from Yukari. She decides to take over leadership of the Kirijo Group after the conflict with Nyx is finished and she graduates high school. In the Social Link, representing life brought forth from motherhood, the protagonist will help free her from some of the expectations attached to her family name. In order to attract such an ambitious young woman he must maximize his Academic statistic, and rank first in his class for at least one exam. If the player makes the correct choices, Mitsuru will fall in love with the protagonist. Mitsuru appears as a playable character in
Persona 4 Arena, which takes place over two years after the events of "The Answer". Now 20 years old, Mitsuru is a university student and the leader of the Shadow Operatives, a group composed of Persona users that fights Shadows. She joins Aigis and Akihiko to search for the Anti-Shadow weapon Labrys that disappeared from her plane. Her Persona is Artemisia. She is portrayed by
Asami Tano in
Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade, the
Persona 4 Arena stage play, and the
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Song Project stage play.
Akihiko Sanada :Voiced by: ::
English: Liam O'Brien,
Suzie Yeung (
Reload) Her meekness makes her the target of bullying by several female students. In May, one of her bullies is found outside of the front of the school gate, unconscious. A rumor begins to spread that she was attacked by a
ghost inside Gekkoukan. SEES later learns from Natsuki Moriyama that she and her friends—the students responsible for bullying her—had locked Fuuka in the school gymnasium; the same day, they returned to let her out for fear that she would
commit suicide, but found no one inside. Mitsuru realizes that Fuuka has been trapped inside Tartarus, which replaces Gekkoukan during the Dark Hour. The team locates her inside the tower that night - during a full moon - and finds that she had been able to avoid detection by Shadows. During the return trip, Akihiko realizes that the Arcana Shadows are appearing on full moons, and Fuuka senses two Arcana Shadows attacking Mitsuru and Yukari at the entrance of Tartarus. Due to the Shadows frequently changing their weaknesses, Mitsuru and Yukari find themselves unable to land a hit and are defeated before the rest of SEES can back them up. Worse, Natsuki has been beckoned into Tartarus, putting her in danger as well. Fuuka is able to summon her Persona for the first time, and finds that she can detect the weaknesses of the enemies, allowing SEES to defeat them. The ordeal causes her to fall unconscious for several days, after which Fuuka accepts Mitsuru's offer to join SEES, and moves into the dorm with the rest of the team. She replaces Mitsuru as the player's support character, and Mitsuru becomes an active combatant in battle. In June, Yukari asks her to research an incident related to Gekkoukan which occurred ten years ago, as she believes Mitsuru is hiding something about the origins of Tartarus, as well as her father's death. Her Personas are and of
The Priestess Arcana. In the Social Link, representing contemplation and inner knowledge, the protagonist helps Fuuka become more confident and believe in herself. She appears in
Persona 4 Arena as a non-playable character in the game's story and as an optional commentator. Soejima, in his designing Fuuka, tried to make her not seem weak or helpless. In addition, he worked to "convey her strong will through her facial expressions." She is portrayed by Marina Tanoue in
Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade.
Aigis :Voiced by: ::
English: Karen Strassman, She is portrayed by
ZAQ in
Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade and
Kanon Miyahara in the
Persona 4 Arena and the
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Song Project stage plays.
Shinjiro Aragaki :Voiced by: ::
English: Grant George, This prompted him to quit SEES. Shinjiro is a childhood friend of Akihiko, who continually asks him to forget the past and rejoin SEES. He continually refuses the offers, only returning to fight when he learns that Ken has joined the team as a Persona-user. When Shinjiro is lured by Ken behind Port Island Station to be killed, he accepts the death of Ken's mother as his fault, saying death is what he deserves. However, Shinjiro warns Ken that if he kills him, he will "end up like [Shinjiro] and will regret it." Takaya, a member of Strega, intervenes and attempts to shoot Ken, instead hitting Shinjiro, who sacrifices himself to save Ken. Before he dies, he tells Ken and the rest of SEES, "This is how it should be". At his funeral, it is learned that Shinjiro rarely attended school and was generally not well known among the student body. During the final confrontation with Nyx, the protagonist hears Shinjiro's voice cheering him on along with the voices of the living SEES members saying "Alright, let's do this". In battle, Shinjiro attacks with blunt weapons. He is forced to regularly take special suppressant pills to properly control his Persona, at the cost of his health. Shinjiro represents the Social Link of the , representing a source of fear and false illusions, (
Ultimax onwards),
Justine Lee (
Reload) Takaya resolves to kill both of them first, but Shinjiro blocks his second shot, saving Ken's life. Ken briefly runs from the dorm following the incident; after being encouraged by Akihiko, however, he gains the resolve to return to SEES, and his Persona changes form. In battle, Ken wields a spear. He chose this as his weapon because it would compensate for his lack of height, although his height makes the weapon more difficult for him to use. His Personas allow him to use Electricity and Light magic to compensate for how difficult a spear is to use for him. Ken is the Social Link for the in
Persona 3 Portable, representing the knowledge of what is right and wrong, In designing Ken, Soejima focused more on his appearance than his characteristics. He believes the shorts Ken wears give him a "nostalgic" look in contrast to the modern setting of
Persona 3, noting in
Art of Persona 3 that "kids these days hardly ever wear shorts." Because the character's design is focused on the idea that he is a young boy, Soejima jokingly wrote Ken's name as "Kid Amada" on concept sketches.
Lizzie Freeman (
Reload)
Japanese: Chiwa Saito At the conclusion of The Answer, SEES learns that Metis is actually a facet of Aigis' personality, representative of Aigis' humanity, which she had rejected out of despair after the death of the protagonist. ==Antagonists==