Mitsuru Kirijou

Mitsuru Kirijou, also known as Execution Queen, Lady Mitsuru, Mit-chan, Noble Female Student, Other Girl, Redhead and The Imperious Queen of Executions, is one of the main characters from the Persona 3 series.
== Charactah Account ==
Mitsuru is a third-year student of Gekkoukan High, the school's student council pPresident, and the daughter of the head of the influential Kirijo Group, which built the school. Her family's status gives her a great deal of influence within the school, enabling her to even issue orders to teachers if necessary. She is the first member of SEES, with the Persona Penthesilea of the Empress Arcana, which focuses on Ice and Healing magic. Mitsuru is also a member of the fencing club and wields a rapier in battle.
Mitsuru is mature, intelligent, confident and kind. She often acts as the mother of SEES, by advising the group on matters both related and unrelated to battling Shadows, and has high expectations for all of them. As the student council president and leader of SEES, she takes on an enormous amount of responsibility on her own. Her penchant for tackling problems on her own often causes her to keep everyone at an arm's length. Coupled with her family's connection to everything going on, Yukari is quite suspicious of her.
Mitsuru is the Empress Arcana S. Link. An excellent student herself, she has very high standards and the protagonist must have maximum Academics and good exam scores in order to begin her link, which becomes available in November. Her S. Link starts out with her acknowledgment that she has led a very sheltered life as well as one with little freedom.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Persona 3 Movie 1: Spring of Birth
* Persona 3 Movie 2: Midsummer Knight's Dream
* Persona 3 Movie 3: Falling Down
* Persona 3 Movie 4: Winter of Rebirth
=== Light Novels ===
* Persona 3: Fragment of the End
* Persona x Detective Naoto
=== Manga ===
* Persona 3
* Persona 3 Comic Anthology: Memento Mori
* Persona 3 Portable Dear Girls Comic Anthology
* Persona 3 Portable Dengeki Comic Anthology
* Persona 4 Arena
* Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena
* Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold
* Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Roundabout Special
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Roundabout
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P3
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P4
=== Video Games ===
* Aegis: The First Mission
* BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
* Chain Chronicle
* Persona 3
* Persona 3 Em
* Persona 3 FES
* Persona 3 Portable
* Persona 3 Reload
* Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight
* Persona 4 Arena
* Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
* Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
* Puzzle and Dragons
== Trivia ==
* In Persona 3, if the player uses a cheat device, Mitsuru will scold the player for it, saying they should be punished and she is disappointed in them.
* In Persona 3, Mitsuru's AI has a tendency to use Marin Karin and Tentarafoo excessively, which is troublesome as they tend to miss often. Some players recommend changing her tactics to "Full Assault" to reduce this habit or prioritize removing them from her skill roster if possible, but her usage of Marin Karin in particular has since become a meme associated with her character.
* In Persona 3 Portable, Mitsuru only wields fencing rapiers and jousting lances. Other one-handed swords are for the male protagonist's exclusive use.
* One of the portraits in Persona 4 Arena is an updated version of Mitsuru's All-Out Attack portrait from Persona 3 Portable.
* In Persona 4 Arena, Mitsuru's Myriad Arrows/Setsuna Samidare Geki (Early-Summer/Fifth Month Rain Attack) is based on her critical attack animation.
** Also regarding this move, Mitsuru along with Yuu Narukami (Ziodyne), Aigis (Megido), Naoto Shirogane (Double Fangs) and Elizabeth (Mind Charge) are among the characters who do not have naturally learned skills in their movesets (assuming Yu and Aigis strictly use only Izanagi and Athena) as both Penthesilea and/or Artemisia are not normally able to learn Myriad Arrows.
** This also applies to the skill Getsu-ei (used as Mitsuru's Furious Action), as that too cannot be naturally learned by Penthesilea or Artemisia.
* According to Shigenori Soejima, Mitsuru is the most popular character among the development staff.
* In Persona 4 Golden, if Yukiko Amagi has the Gekkou Uniform equipped, she will mimic Mitsuru's victory pose after battles as well as say Mitsuru's lines.
* When going to karaoke with Mitsuru, she will say that she has trouble hitting the high notes.
* Mitsuru's "execution" during the school trip in Persona 3, which is avoidable if the player is successful in evading the girls in the hot springs, is canon. Yukari mentions to Teddie that an execution took place once in a school trip during the events of Persona 3, in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.
* Mitsuru's star sign is incorrectly listed as Aries in the Persona 3: Official Design Works.
* In her 2019 birthday tweet by Atlus USA, Mitsuru's name is misspelled as "Mitsuru Mirijo."
* In Persona 3 Em, it is revealed that Mitsuru's preferred breakfast is a fruit salad and she is fond of financier cakes.
* The sword Mitsuru has in Persona Q is based on the rapier she has in the movie, which is impossible to get in the Persona 3 games.
* In Persona 3 Portable, if the protagonist does not venture into Tartarus by 4/30, Mitsuru will scold and force them to go and even stop them from leaving prematurely.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Mitsuru Kirijo at Megami Tensei Wiki
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