Persona (Nintendo Cinematic Universe)

Persona is a Japanese anime film.
==Summary==
The Phantom Thieves of Heart undergo a quest to oppose corrupt adults and redeem them.
==Characters==
Japanese Voice 	English Voice 	Character 	Description
Jun Fukuyama 	Xander Mobus 	Ren Amamiya 	A falsely accused delinquent moonlighting as a gentleman thief. He wears a bird mask and uses knives and handguns in combat. His Persona is Arsène, after the literary gentleman thief of the same name.
Mamoru Miyano 	Max Mittelman 	Ryuji Sakamoto 	A boy who attends the Ren's school and joins him in his heists. Bold and hot-tempered; he is seen as a delinquent at his school due to an incident with his former track team. He wears a skull mask and wields bludgeons and shotguns as weapons. His Persona is Captain Kidd, after the notorious privateer-turned-pirate.
Ikue Otani 	Cassandra Lee Morris (cat)	Morgana 	An amnesiac, shapeshifting cat-like creature that meets Ren. Wanting to discover his origins and restore his true form, he joins Ren in his heists, teaching him and his allies the ropes of being a Phantom Thief. His Persona is Zorro, after the literary outlaw.
Ikue Otani 	Bryce Papenbrook (human) 	Morgana 	An amnesiac, shapeshifting cat-like creature that meets Ren. Wanting to discover his origins and restore his true form, he joins Ren in his heists, teaching him and his allies the ropes of being a Phantom Thief. His Persona is Zorro, after the literary outlaw.
Nana Mizuki 	Erika Harlacher 	Ann Takamaki 	A quarter-American girl in Ren's homeroom. An outcast for her foreign looks and upbringing, she joins with Ren in his heists to inspire hope in people in troubled situations. She wears a panther mask and uses whips and sub-machine guns. Her Persona is Carmen, after the heroine of the novella of the same name.
Tomokazu Sugita 	Matthew Mercer 	Yusuke Kitagawa 	An eccentric art student from a neighboring school and the disciple of a legendary Japanese artist. He wears a fox mask and uses katanas and assault rifles. His Persona is Goemon, after the legendary Japanese bandit.
Rina Sato 	Cherami Leigh 	Makoto Niijima 	The intelligent student council president, a girl with a strong sense of justice and a hidden violent side. She is initially tasked in seeking out the Phantom Thieves, but eventually joins them. She wears an iron mask and uses knuckles and revolvers. Her Persona is Johanna, after the legendary Medieval female pope.
Aoi Yuki 	Erica Lindbeck 	Futaba Sakura 	A shut-in bespectacled girl with orange hair who is a highly capable hacker and the team's dungeon Navigator. She wears VR goggles and participates in battle through her Persona Necronomicon, named after a mystical book from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos.
Haruka Tomatsu 	Xanthe Huynh 	Haru Okumura 	A third-year student and daughter of a major food manufacturer, she is refined but has seen little of life. She wears a domino mask and fights using axes and grenade launchers. Her Persona is Milady, after the antagonist Milady DeWinter from The Three Musketeers.
Soichiro Hoshi 	Robbie Daymond 	Goro Akechi 	The "Crow" of the Phantom Thieves.
Masane Tsukuyama 	David Lodge 	Igor 	The man who operates the Velvet Room.
Aki Toyosaki 	Carrie Keranen 	Caroline 	The eldest twin assistant of Igor. She wears a blue prison guard outfit and an eyepatch over one of her eyes. Caroline has hair buns.
Aki Toyosaki 	Carrie Keranen 	Justine 	The youngest twin assistant of Igor. She wears a blue prison guard outfit and an eyepatch over one of her eyes. Justine has a long braid.
Jouji Nakata 	Jamieson Price 	Sojiro Sakura 	Owner of a coffee shop Café Leblanc who looks after Ren during his probation in Tokyo.
Yuka Saito 	Abby Trott 	Tae Takemi 	The owner of Takemi Medical Clinic in Yongen-Jaya. She believes in her own theory of pharmaceutics and sells barely legal prescriptions to her patients secretly.
Hisao Egawa 	Kaiji Tang 	Munehisa Iwai 	The owner of the airsoft shop, Untouchable in Shibuya.
Daisuke Sakaguchi	Sean Chiplock 	Yuuki Mishima 	A second year high school student at Shujin Academy. He creates and maintains the Phantom Aficionado Website, which hosts anonymous polls, discussions and requests about the Phantom Thieves.
Mai Fuchigami 	Michelle Ruff 	Sadayo Kawakami 	A Japanese language and homeroom teacher of class 2-D at Shujin Academy. Due to Ren's tainted reputation from his criminal record, Kawakami does not hold him in high regard initially.
Yumi Uchiyama 	Amanda Winn-Lee 	Ichiko Ohya 	A paparazza who writes on gossip, believes goodwill is a lie. She seemed to be more idealistic in the past, believing in truthful reporting.
Haruka Terui 	Sarah Anne Williams 	Chihaya Mifune 	A tarot fortune-teller who runs a fortune-telling stand in Shinjuku. She is rumored to be a real fortune-teller, but seems to recommend suspicious stones. Says that the fate of others is absolute.
Tomomi Isomura 	Eden Riegel 	Hifumi Togo 	A young lady who holds the championship title in the Female Shogi League. She seems to be passionate for shogi.
Aki Tanada 	Barbara Goodson 	Shinya Oda 	An elementary school boy who visits the Gigolo arcade in Akihabara. He is known as the gaming genius called "The King."
Keiichi Noda 	William Salyers 	Toranosuke Yoshida	A former politician speaking on the streets of Shibuya. He lost his job after a series of scandals, over which he's nicknamed as "No-Good Tora." Despite this, his speech skills are authentic and is serious about changing the country.
Yuko Kaida 	Elizabeth Maxwell 	Sae Niijima 	A public prosecutor responsible for the Phantom Thieves of Hearts' case. She is Makoto's older sister.
Shuichi Ikeda 	Keith Silverstein 	Masayoshi Shido 	A powerful politician who aims to become the next Prime Minister of Japan. The protagonist has a feeling that he has met him somewhere before moving to Tokyo.
Shuntaro Furukawa	Doug Bowser 	Incubus 	
==Plot Elements ==
*After Ren defends a woman from being abused by a drunken man on the street, he is falsely charged with assault and put on probation, resulting in expulsion from his school. He is sent to Tokyo to stay with family friend Sojiro Sakura and attend Shujin Academy during his year-long probation. After his arrival, he is drawn into the Velvet Room whilst asleep, where Igor warns him that he must go through "rehabilitation" to avoid forthcoming ruin, and grants him access to a supernatural mobile app that leads him into the Metaverse and the Palace of the school's abusive volleyball coach Suguru Kamoshida.
* Ren meets Morgana, a cat-like being, who informs him of the ability to change wicked people's hearts by stealing their "Treasure", the emotional root of their behavior and desires, from the Palaces ruled by their Shadow selves.
*Ren assumes the codename Joker and, together with Morgana and his friends Ryuji and Ann, reforms Kamoshida. The group then forms the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, stealing corruption from the hearts of adults to reform the city and society as a whole, such as a plagiarizing artist (Ichiryusai Madarame), a blackmailing mafia boss (Junya Kaneshiro), a CEO who mistreats his staff and plans to marry his daughter Haru off to an abusive man for political gain (Kunikazu Okumura), and Makoto's sister and guardian Sae Niijima, a public prosecutor who has become corrupt due to her desperation to overcome the police force's institutional misogyny.
*As the number of the Phantom Thieves' members and successes grows, they attract the attention of the public and police, including Sae and detective prodigy Goro Akechi.
*The Phantom Thieves learn that another person described as a black-masked assassin, is using the Metaverse to murder their targets and then framing the Phantom Thieves for the killings, causing the public to turn against them after Okumura dies during his confession. In pursuit of the conspiracy, the group is joined by Akechi.
*After Ren is captured and brutalized by the police and interrogated by Sae (telling the entire story through a series of flashbacks), Akechi is revealed to be the black-masked assassin and attempts to assassinate Ren. However, the Phantom Thieves have long since anticipated Akechi's betrayal due to him hearing Morgana's voice long before he claimed to have first entered the Metaverse and manage to trick him into killing a cognitive replica of Ren, allowing the real Ren to fake his own death.
*After escaping into hiding with Sae's help, the Phantom Thieves deduce that the conspiracy's leader is politician Masayoshi Shido, who has been using Akechi's ability to infiltrate the Metaverse to remove obstacles on his path of becoming Prime Minister and imposing his reforms on Japan, as well as the one who framed and pressed assault charges against Ren.
*When the Phantom Thieves infiltrate Shido's Palace, they face Akechi, who reveals himself to be Shido's illegitimate son. He also reveals that he has been secretly plotting to exact his revenge on Shido for years of neglect and summons his true Persona: Loki. Once defeated, Akechi sacrifices himself to protect the Phantom Thieves from a group of enemies, including a cognitive replica of himself, allowing them to escape, and ultimately defeat Shido.
*Despite Shido's arrest and confession after his change of heart, the public remains uninterested and has lost trust in both authority and the Phantom Thieves. Even worse, Shido's cronies are attempting to advance his agenda even without him, and have stonewalled Sae's case against him. In response, the Phantom Thieves make a final heist to infiltrate the depths of Mementos, the Palace of everyone's hearts, and steal the Treasure at its core. Inside, they discover that the public is in chaos and has chosen to give up their autonomy, content in being controlled. The Phantom Thieves are then ejected from Mementos by the Treasure itself, taking form as the Holy Grail, and vanish after witnessing the Metaverse merge with reality.
*Waking in the Velvet Room, Ren confronts Igor, Caroline, and Justine. Caroline and Justine regain their memories and merge into Lavenza, their true form. Lavenza reveals the Igor that Ren has been seeing in the Velvet Room up until this point is Yaldabaoth, the God of Control, who imprisoned the real Igor. Yaldabaoth, also revealed to be the Holy Grail itself, was created from humanity's collective wish to give up control and be free from their own suffering of their choices, and through a bet made with Igor over humanity's goals, Yaldabaoth had given Ren and Akechi their abilities to see whether the world would be preserved or be destroyed through their actions, all while steering the game in his favor.
*Ren rejects Yaldabaoth's offer to return the world at the cost of his freedom, and he, along with the rest of the Phantom Thieves, fight him. Ren's confidants rally the popular support of the people, rebelling against Yaldabaoth's control of humanity and allowing Ren to awaken his ultimate persona, Satanael, to destroy Yaldabaoth and, consequently, the Metaverse as well. After Yaldabaoth's defeat, in order for Shido to be prosecuted, Ren must turn himself into the police.
*While Ren is incarcerated, the rest of the Phantom Thieves and his confidants successfully help secure evidence of Ren's innocence in the assault charge, leading to his conviction being overturned. By spring, Ren's friends drive him back to his hometown.
*Mid-Credits Scene: While sleeping in the car, Ren's friends disintegrate into golden dust particles, causing the van to crash; Ren is the only survivor.
==Notes==
*The 114th installment of the Nintendo Cinematic Universe.
**The 23rd installment of Stage 5.
***The 2nd installment of Stage 5.5.
*Based on Persona 5.
*Co-Produced by Atlus.
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