Characters of Persona 5

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Playable characters from Persona 5: (left to right) Makoto, Ann, Yusuke, Joker, Haru, Ryuji, Morgana and Futaba

Persona 5, a 2016 role-playing video game by Atlus, is set in Tokyo beginning in April of the year "20XX".[1] It centers on the Phantom Thieves of Hearts,[a] a masked vigilante group of high-school students working to change people's hearts and have them confess their crimes. They do this by defeating a physical manifestation of their subconscious in a mysterious realm known as the Metaverse, accessed through a mobile app on their smartphones. The playable characters can be controlled in the game's many locations, such as "Palaces", which are created by people with great desires and a distorted perception of the world.

The player character is a silent protagonist codenamed Joker, a high school student who moves to Tokyo after being falsely accused of assault and expelled from his former school, and later forms the Phantom Thieves and becomes its leader.[3][4] He forms it with Morgana, a mysterious cat-like creature who is the Thieves' second-in-command and guide in the Metaverse, who wants to discover his origins and restore his true form, and Ryuji Sakamoto, who is seen as a delinquent at his school due to an incident involving his former track team.[5] Over time, more characters join the group, including fashion model Ann Takamaki,[5] art prodigy Yusuke Kitagawa,[5] student-council president Makoto Niijima,[5] hacker and foster daughter of Sojiro Sakura, Futaba Sakura[5] and business heiress Haru Okumura.[3][4][6] Also interacting with Joker are Goro Akechi,[5] a high-school student and ace detective; Sae Niijima,[5] a public prosecutor and Makoto's older sister; and Igor and his assistants, Caroline and Justine, who are residents of the Velvet Room.[6][7]

Many of the game's characters represent the tarot's Major Arcana suit. Although the suit has twenty-two cards and Royal-exclusive characters account for two additional alternate Arcana for a total of twenty-four, only twenty-one (twenty-three in Royal) are represented by characters; the last one, The World, is given at a later point in the game. The seven deadly sins are a recurring theme within the game, with certain characters and situations representing them.[5]

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  2. ^ "今夜何かが起こるのか.「PERSONA SUPER LIVE 2015」にザ・ファントムを名乗る何者かから"謎の予告状"が届く". 4gamer (in Japanese). February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
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  5. ^ a b c d e f g h PERSONA 5 CHARACTER ANTHOLOGY. Kadokawa Shoten. 2017. ISBN 978-4047332652.
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