Udon announced that they will release an English edition of Enterbrain's Persona 4: Official Design Works artbook that was released on May 8, 2012. [119] Manga [ edit ] In Persona 4 the Golden Animation, in his initial battle with Adachi and following the two seeing the other's memories, Adachi remarks that Yu's life is a "masterpiece," although it was never shown.

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Harding, Daryl (July 1, 2021). "Atlus Reveals Updates Persona Sales Numbers, Franchise Has Sold 15 Million Copies Worldwide". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on April 15, 2022 . Retrieved January 4, 2022. a b c Patterson, Eric (March 5, 2009). "Interview - Katsura Hashino". Play. Archived from the original on March 28, 2012 . Retrieved October 3, 2009.a b Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 The Official Strategy Guide. DoubleJump Publishing. December 1, 2008. pp.302–303. ISBN 978-0979884863. Atlus (November 20, 2012). Persona 4 Golden ( PlayStation Vita). Atlus. Level/area: Mountain Cabin. Yosuke: Still, that was a surprise. Y'know, that whole "Marie being from the other side" thing. […] / Teddie: I couldn't even tell. / Protagonist: Sorry for keeping secrets. (or) There wasn't a chance to explain. / Yosuke: Haha, no one's complaining, man. If you tried to introduce her like, "Oh, she's from another world," the "?" above my head could be seen from orbit. / Naoto: The issue here is Marie-san's motive. Why would she risk her life to shut herself in a place like that? […] / Protagonist: Her memory is the key. / Kanji: Yeah, [Margaret] did say Marie lost her memory. / Naoto: Maybe she remembered something that made her do that. / Chie: …Hey, I just thought of something. If the world she's in closes, she'll disappear from our memories, right? Isn't that the same as dying…? / Yosuke: Wh-Wha—wait… You mean, sh-she's trying to—!? / Chie: I-I don't know, but it just feels that way to me. / Yukiko: She wants to kill herself and make us forget about her…? She's erasing her own existence…!? / Teddie: I think… Emmy-chan's like me. […] I don't think Emmy-chan's a Shadow, but I think she feels the same way I did: that she…"shouldn't exist".

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Yu wears his Yasogami uniform despite no longer being a student at the school. Yu states he wore it as wearing anything else in the TV world "didn't feel right." Bell, Lowell (February 25, 2023). "Best JRPGs Of All Time". Time Extension. Hookshot Media. Archived from the original on February 26, 2023 . Retrieved February 25, 2023. The design of Inaba is based on a town on the outskirts of Mount Fuji. [33] Its rural design was a source of conflict between Persona 4 's developers, as "each staff member had their own image of a rural town", according to director Katsura Hashino. The entire staff went "location hunting" to determine Inaba's design. [32] Inaba does not represent "a country town that has tourist attractions", but rather a non-notable, "'nowhere' place". Hashino described the town as being "for better or for worse... a run-of-the-mill town". [33] Unlike other role-playing games, which may have large worlds for the player to explore, Persona 4 mostly takes place in Inaba. This reduced development costs, and enabled Atlus "to expand other portions of the game" in return. A central setting also allows players to "sympathize with the daily life that passes in the game". To prevent the setting from becoming stale, the development team established a set number of in-game events to be created to "keep the game exciting". [31] The choice of Japanese mythical figures for the characters' Personas as opposed to the Graeco-Roman deities used in earlier games was directly inspired by the new setting. [36] The appearances of Personas were based on the characters' personalities. The design team had a good deal of creative freedom while creating Personas, because although Japanese deities have well-defined character traits, their appearances are traditionally unspecified. The Shadows were created by Hashino without much outside consultation, although he had help from female staff for female Shadow selves. [37] His Investigation Team glasses can be seen on the Rank 3 Faith Arcana Confidant when Ren models glasses for Sumire Yoshizawa to buy for her father, Shinichi Yoshizawa. Despite having various expressions in the art book of Persona 4 Arena, Yu is shown with only three expressions throughout the game.At first, she seemed like a kind person who was nice and supportive to Yosuke. However, it is revealed that she was actually quite stressed about her life, with a lot of pent-up angst and a desire to get away from it all. It is also revealed that the pressure led her to believe her family, friends, and neighbors had resented her all along because she worked at Junes, the giant store that was slowly driving her family's liquor shop out of business. If the protagonist speaks to Yasogami High students the day after her death, one female student will reveal there have been bad rumors circulating throughout school about her, and she herself cannot feel sorry about Saki's death. a b Vinson, Dana (December 12, 2008). "Persona 4 Review". G4. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013 . Retrieved December 14, 2008. Naoto Shirogane: "If she was paying close attention to my moves, I'm not so sure I could win a second time..." Persona 4 (6)] (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. Archived from the original on March 3, 2012 . Retrieved April 25, 2012.

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The game is also noted for a portion of its story revolving around sexual themes. [72] One of the playable characters given attention by reviewers is Kanji, who is considered to be one of the first characters in a mainstream video game to struggle with their sexual orientation, and Atlus has been commended for the inclusion of that character. [10] Atlus USA has stated that they left Kanji's sexual preferences ambiguous and up to the player; however, there has been no word from developer Atlus Japan concerning the matter. [10] According to Dr. Antonia Levi, author of Samurai from Outer Space: Understanding Japanese Animation, the questioning of Kanji's sexuality in the script is a "comment on homosexuality in a greater Japanese social context", in which "the notion of 'coming out' is seen as undesirable ... as it necessarily involves adopting a confrontational stance against mainstream lifestyles and values". [10] Brenda Brathwaite, author of Sex in Video Games, thought it "would have been amazing if they would have made a concrete statement that [Kanji] is gay", but was otherwise "thrilled" with the treatment of the character and the game's representation of his "inner struggles and interactions with friends". [10] It is possible to get the original game's true ending in Golden by defeating Izanami without having rescued Marie; likewise, it is possible to save Marie but get the normal ending, if the player returned to the Dojima residence during Yu's final day in Inaba, therefore not facing Izanami.a b Fitch, Andrew (November 28, 2008). "Persona 4 Localization Q&A". 1UP.com. Archived from the original on December 23, 2015 . Retrieved December 26, 2015. Chie came all this way and risked her life to save Yukiko. I think that's pretty good proof that she truly does care. What more could she have done?" In the final stages of their investigation, the group is able to hear Taro Namatame's story and Saki's involvement in it: they would also debunk a certain misconception that Namatame approached Saki to hit on her. After he observed Yamano die following her appearance on the Midnight Channel, he then saw Saki on the channel. Fearing that a similar fate awaited Saki, Namatame attempted to warn her to be careful, but this failed to keep her from dying, thus instigating his efforts to save people by forcibly throwing them into the TV under the impression that what he was doing was not dangerous.