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| “ | I, Rise Kujikawa, will be your announcer! | „ |
| ~ Rise Kujikawa, Persona 4 Arena |
| “ | I wasn't interested in being an idol, but... I wanted the chance to change myself. And just by chance, I won. Haha... When it happened, I panicked, thinking maybe I should turn their offer down. Then I thought... if I appeared on TV, I could make friends... That was literally the only reason I went through with it... After a while... I realized something. The person everyone likes, the one they say "hi" to on the street? That's not the real me. Risette is the one everyone likes... The fictional character they sold the public. | „ |
| ~ Rise Kujikawa in Persona 4. |
Rise Kujikawa also known by her stage name Risette, is one of the main characters and party members of the 2008 video game Persona 4 (as well as its 2011-2012 anime adaptation), and one of the main protagonists of Persona 4: Arena and Persona 4: Arena Ultimax.
A famous teen idol, Rise is well-known amongst teenagers and adults, but quit her job suddenly, citing health reasons. She later becomes a member of the Investigation Team, taking over as the new navigator/team support for the team, while Teddie becomes a field member.
She was voiced by Rie Kugimiya in the Japanese version, and by Laura Bailey in the English version. In the Persona 4: Dancing All Night, she was voiced by Ashly Burch.
Appearance[]
Rise is a short teenager with reddish-brown hair tied in two pigtails, brown eyes and tanned skin. Her normal outfit consists of an orange shirt with puffy sleeves above a white turtleneck shirt while she is seen wearing an orange top and white pants in summer. During explorations in the Midnight Channel and at school, she is clothed in her school uniform with a white turtleneck underneath and wears pink glasses only when supporting the team/members. At the summer festival, Rise is seen wearing a kimono like the rest of the girls. Before transferring to Yasogami High and while working at her grandmother's shop, Rise wears a white headscarf, a pink turtleneck shirt and a short navy blue skirt.
In Persona 4 Golden, during the winter she wears a snow suit with pink sunglasses on top of her head, a high collar with pink and white stripes with her matching pink snow jacket that says "Lovers", purple gloves, darker navy snow pants, and light purple shoes. The only time she has her hair down is the new summer outfit she wears in the epilogue of Persona 4 Golden that is obtained by getting the true ending after saving Marie in the Hollow Forest. She wore a white see-through halter top underneath, with a pink, light blue, and orange bikini, and tan pants.
Personality[]
Rise is cheerful, outspoken, rather flirty, is very bubbly, and can be quite boastful about herself. She used to be an idol but she quit to work at her family business (citing health reasons), after Kanji is rescued. She is stressed out, and tired of show business because she doesn't know if the Rise that everyone admires is the 'real' Rise, or the persona of Risette that she presents to the masses.
Quotes[]
| “ | The girl that everyone makes a big fuss over…isn’t the real me. No one really sees the real me…ever. | „ |
| ~ Rise making origami with Yu. |
| “ | (Yu Narukami: Are you sure you want this hiatus?) JUST WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW?!? You don’t know anything about me!! You’re the same…you’re the same as everyone else. (Rise runs away crying.) | „ |
| ~ Rise yelling at Yu when he asks her if she wanted the hiatus. |
| “ | I DON’T KNOW! I DON’T KNOW WHO THE REAL ME IS!! (Shadow Rise: “I’ll tell you. I am the real Rise. You see, I’m you and you are me…Watch closely now, and you’ll see the real me…”) You are NOT the real ME!! | „ |
| ~ Rise denying her shadow. |
| “ | I’m going to accept that Risette is an important part of who I am and give it another shot. (Yu: “That’s good to hear.”) Why don’t you come along and be my manager? (Yu: Uh, no thanks.) You’re so hard to read. But that might be what I like about you… | „ |
| ~ Rise flirting with Yu again. |
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Trivia[]
- One of Rise's early design concepts resembles Lisa Silverman. Lisa and Rise's names are phonetically similar in Japanese (Risa to Rise) and both have stints as idol singers, in addition to being the most pronounced about their love for the main character, and being of the Lovers Arcana.
- Some of Rise's early design concepts look similar to Ai Ebihara and Saki Konishi.
- Rise's appearance and name resemble those of her Japanese voice actress, Rie Kugimiya.
- During the visit in Port Island's Club Escapade, Rise reveals that she had a secret show two years ago and the power went out in the middle of her performance referencing the power outage before the first S.E.E.S. Full Moon Operation in September 2009.
- Rise is a famous idol, but none of her songs are heard in vanilla Persona 4. However, the animation has a devoted opening that is composed with Rise's VA singing. Additionally, there is also an animated cutscene with Rise singing in Persona 4 Golden.
- Rise is the only member of the main cast who possesses a Persona not based off a figure of native Japanese descent.
- Rise is the only character who does not have a cut-in effect when summoning her Persona in the vanilla version of Persona 4. However, Persona 4 The Animation gives Rise the cut-in effect when she first summons Himiko and in Persona 4 Golden when aiding the All-Out Attack.
- Rise is the first information/support playable character to be involved in the remake of All-Out Attack in Persona 4 Golden.
- In Persona 4 Arena, she may occasionally say "Duel 1, Let's Rock!" or "Rebel 1, Action!" at the beginning of a match if she is chosen as Navigator. This is a reference to the round calls in the Guilty Gear series and BlazBlue series respectively.
- When a character Bursts out of a combo, she may say "Hey, that's cheating!" in a possible reference to when Fuuka says it in Persona 3 when the player uses a cheating device in the game.
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