A perfectionist and president of the Student Council, Makoto Niijima is an honor student who is in her third year at Syujin High School. She joins the Phantom Thieves of Hearts after a set of unknown circumstances, and helps plan their heists as their primary tactician. This will certainly prove interesting, considering that a woman named Sae Niijima, whose relation to Makoto is currently unknown, is the primary prosecutor against the Phantom Thieves. Her Persona is named Johanna, named after Pope Joan, a woman who reigned as the leader of the Catholic Church for a short time in the middle ages. Johanna takes the form of a motorcycle with a human shaped face under the front window, and uses nuclear themed attacks to attack her enemies.

A genius and social outcast, Futaba Sakura is a computer whiz kid who has not been in education since she graduated from middle school because of an unidentified incident. She is generally shy and reserved, but gains a significant amount of confidence after joining the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, replacing Morgana as their navigator, fulfilling the Persona series tradition of a character inheriting the position from another protagonist. It is unknown if Futaba is related to Sojiro Sakura, who is the family friend that the main character lives with during the course of the game. Her Persona is named Necronomicon, after the legendary book of magic from H.P. Lovecraft’s literature containing knowledge of supernatural beings that have visited Earth during its history. It takes the shape of an enormous UFO, which has the ability to scan enemies, as well as give status boosts to the Phantom Thieves at random moments.

The daughter of a fast food company president, Haru Okumura is a pampered young woman who has pushed herself away from social interaction as she deems it unnecessary. She is first introduced to the group during one of their missions by Morgana, who refers to her as the Beauty Thief. It is possible that like Futaba, she will eventually see the benefits of social interaction through her interactions with the Phantom Thieves of Hearts. Her Persona is named Milady, after the scheming antagonist from The Three Musketeers who uses others from her own selfish ambitions. She takes the shape of a upper class woman wearing a large pink dress and a pink mask in lieu of a face. In an unusual twist, Milady uses physic based skills, an element not seen in the Shin Megami Tensei series since the Devil Summoner games released in 1995.

A young man who is proclaimed to the second Detective Prince after Persona 4’s Naoto Shirogane, Goro Akechi is a fiercely determined young man who assists the police with their cases in his spare time, and often appears on television to rely their findings to the media. His name is based on the fictional detective Kogoro Akechi, who was created by a man who had been a great admirer of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his character Sherlock Holmes. It has been confirmed that he will be the last person to join the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, after spending the majority of the game opposing their efforts to purify the world. Goro’s Persona is currently unknown, but it has been suggested from several sources that he will dress up in a plague doctor’s outfit when he eventually joins the Phantom Thieves.

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