Hello there. I am here to talk about my next Persona candidate I want to talk about. Unless there is someone else you thinks count, let me know please or if not then this might be the last one for the story.
What's The Work?
Persona is one of the most popular franchise in the Shin Megami Tensei series. This time it's the fourth game of the series as it stars Yu Narukami as he and his friends investigate a murder of a person while also dealing with issues with their life. This one will be a teenage detective.
Who is She? What Has She Done?
Naoto Shirogane is a teen detective who lost her parents at a young age which lead to her raised from her uncle and aiding him from issues. She is now a detective who intends to find the culprit for the murders. She has solved a total of 24 cases in her time as a detective. She talks to Kaiji for information and then meets the group who is continuing investigating the case. The investigation is over and she head to school even with unsolved business she needs to take care even though she helped the police with the case especially with parts being unresolved knowing the real killer is still on the loose after Mitsuo wan handed to her.
She then talks to the group suspecting all of them are the culprits to the case at hand due to their patterns but it's just her theory. And then she leaves after the conversation leaving everything to the investigation team. She ends up getting inside the midnight channel from the real killer after being knocked out until she meets her shadow which the investigation team defeated. She accepted who she is and embraced her shadow about her problems.
She joins the investigation team and after some time, ends up seeing that Nanako is the next victim causing her to warn everyone and put the piece together to find out that the culprit behind the kidnapping is Namatame leading to them saving her and put a stop to Namatame. They saved Nanako and is recovering after the incident.
It turns out her condition is worsening leading to her death devastating everyone and leading to everyone deciding what to do with Namatame in the hospital after the incident. Yu realizes there is something missing about Namatame and now got informed that Nanako is still alive. Teddie went missing and all of them went on a search to find him while also intending to find the true killer after realizing Namatame wasn't the one who caused everything. Yu came to the conclusion that Adachi is the true mastermind behind everything with her agreeing with the answer. Adachi was confronted by the group and knowing they are onto him runs off into the TV. It's reveals that the shadows will kill everyone once the fog is heavy and they all planned on what to do before Adachi wins. They defeated Adachi and Amengo-Sagiri who was the cause of everything before returning back saving everyone from being killed by these two.
Things are not over as now they all found out that Marie is intending to kill herself and went missing which lead to her and everyone searching for Marie. They found her and revealed she was evil and intends to kill herself so their world will not be destroyed but everyone protest into doing that leading to them battling Kusumi-No-Okami. They defeated her and saved Marie in the channel. Her mission isn't over as she confronted the true mastermind behind everything Izunami preventing her from continuing her plans. She and others defeated Izunami while Yu goes back to his home town after a long day.
Naoto is doing her job as she accepts the offer into working with Mitsuru and investigate the case she is assigned to do until a hijack happened at a plane where she placed a tracker before things go wrong with her mission leading to the hijackers being stopped but the cargo stolen. She continues her investigation as she enters the tv after Mitsuru, Aigis and Akihiko went inside to investigate. She entered the tournament and fought other persona users in the world and met Labrys. After some time she manages to have Labrys confront her shadow after a fight. Heading back at home she files a document of her report as she intends to continues her investigation to find the true culprit behind the incident.
The grand prix happened again but this time in the real world where General Teddie intends to end the world if there is no champion to all the persona users. She investigates and with her friends intends to stop the plan from happening but then got attacked by Minazuki intending to kill her but Naoto survived and Labrys helped her out including her team. She helped out in the story and have the shadows being stopped so Yu would save So from his trauma saving the world.
Corrupting Factors
Nothing in my mind. Even if she has cold moments and had moments of not being nice to the group such as the infamous, "Are you a pack of imbeciles" she has learned to warm up as it goes on and it is not present by the end of the story. The rest are just heating up periods or understandable reasons due to her situations in my eyes.
Admirable Standard
Naoto is the last candidate in the team but I think she does enough to pass in my eyes. At her time as a detective, she solved a total of 24 cases and with the help of the investigation team, both took down and solved the case of the murder stopping Adachi from his heinous crimes. Bonus points for also making sure Adachi being the killer is damming due to his suspicious line of Nametame's kidnapping manipulation to him. And also took down Izanami who is a deity as well. In Arena, she has both stopped the world into being destroyed and made Labrys accept her shadow saving her in the process even if she is an android.
Final Verdict
I am not sure if she could count for the category with everything in place. It's up to you as always. Well that's all for today. Remember to like this blog for my thought on intresting characters. Bye now.