Investigation Team

The Investigation Team is a group of Persona Users dedicated to investigating the phenomena of the Midnight Channel and stopping the murders in Yasoinaba in Persona 4. They work independently from the police because they feel that the police are inept and revealing the Midnight Channel to them could prevent the Investigation Team from entering the TV at Junes, potentially preventing them from ever catching the serial killer.
==Appearances==
*Persona 4 / Golden
**Persona 4 (Manga)
**Persona 4 The Magician
**Persona 4 The Animation / The Golden Animation
*Persona 4 Arena / Ultimax
**Persona 4 Arena (Manga)
**Persona 4 The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena Stageplay
**Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (Manga)
**Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold Stageplay
*Persona 4: Dancing All Night
*Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
**Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P3
**Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P4
*Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
**Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Roundabout Special
==Details==
===Persona 4===
The team functions similarly to SEES of Persona 3, however, unlike SEES, the Investigation Team is founded as an independent group, with no sponsors nor advisor. However, one of the members, detective Naoto Shirogane, occasionally gets information from the police. Ryotaro Dojima and Tohru Adachi sometimes unknowingly spill the beans and give updates on the case to other members of the Investigation Team. Additionally, unlike SEES or the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, the Investigation Team appear as normal people even when braving a dungeon, SEES being a sophisticated organization with distinct attires for missions, and the Phantom Thieves appearing in special outfits created by cognition when inside the Metaverse.
The Investigation Team's main objective is finding the perpetrator behind the murders in Inaba and the truth behind the Midnight Channel.
The founding members of the Investigation Team are Yu Narukami, Yosuke Hanamura and Chie Satonaka, three students of Yasogami High School who awakened to their Personas while looking into the murder of Saki Konishi and the disappearance of eventual member Yukiko Amagi
Much like how SEES becomes the Nyx Annihilation Team, the Investigation Team eventually becomes The Seekers of Truth if the protagonist chooses to continue searching for the real culprit, at which point it changes to represent the Judgement Arcana Social Link.
===Persona 4 Golden===
If the protagonist maxed out Marie's Social Link before defeating Ameno-sagiri, an alternate sequence of events will occur.
After defeating Ameno-sagiri, Marie remembers she is actually Kusumi-no-Okami and the fog starts to absorb into her body. The fog inside her is slowly overpowering her and decides to make herself disappear when it gains control and starts to spread across the world once again.
She chooses to die to prevent this by going to the Hollow Forest, where she will kill herself and disappear. The protagonist decides to save her when he encounters her inside of a dream. With the help of Margaret, the Investigation Team decides to fight to free her from the fog's control by defeating her after the fog turns her into her true form. They succeed, gaining her a bond to the real world, allowing her to exist there permanently.
===Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth===
After combining with SEES from Persona 3, they undergo the alias "Team Yaso."
===Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth===
The Investigation Team are one of the groups of Persona Users who find themselves trapped in the movie world. One day during an exploration run to the Midnight Channel, they were bought into a movie screen initiating a countdown instead of the Midnight Channel lobby and ended up in the movie reality Junessic Land.
Rise was poisoned by the plants in the movie reality and the P4 hero ambushes the P5 hero and the two fight, but ended up on even hands. In reality it was merely a false alarm and neither parties were hostile, and they make friends with each other. The missing member, Yosuke was found to be defending a Herbivore Dinosaur from a Tyranniqueen, and joins the party when they were kicked out of the movie reality.
After returning back to reality from the final confrontation, Nanako greets the team for returning and a dinosaur movie begins to broadcast in the Dojima Residence TV. A dinosaur with Yosuke's head appears, but as their memories were wiped, they do not recognize him. The P4 hero and Nanako cook and they eat their dishes while watching the movie.
== Members ==
The members, arranged chronologically in the order of joining, are as follows:
Member 	Role
Yu Narukami 	Founder/Field Leader
Yosuke Hanamura	Founder/Attacker
Chie Satonaka 	Founder/Attacker
Yukiko Amagi 	Member/Attacker
Kanji Tatsumi 	Member/Attacker
Rise Kujikawa 	Support/Attacker*
Teddie 	/Attacker*
Naoto Shirogane	Member/Attacker
Fox 	Support Vendor
# *In Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, using Himiko as a new way of fighting, she is seen as an attacker.
# *While Teddie aided Yu Narukami, Chie Satonaka, and Yosuke Hanamura even before the Investigation Team was founded, he did not join the Investigation Team until later.
The Investigation Team also often hangs out with Nanako Dojima and Marie, but they aren't considered official members, nor do they assist with investigations or fighting shadows.
== Gallery ==
;Persona 4
Teamy1.png|The initial four
Teamy2.png|The initial four
InvestigationArt.png|The initial four
Persona 4 investigation team 2.jpg|Promotional artwork
Persona 4 investigation team 4.jpg|Promotional artwork
Persona 4 investigation team 9.jpg|The Investigation Team with Dojima and Nanako
Persona 4 investigation team 6.jpg|Featured on the cover artwork for Persona 4 Official Design Works
Persona4GoldenBanner.jpg|Artwork
P4Gboxart.jpg|Artwork
P4GPoster.jpg|Artwork
Inabagroup.jpg|Original group photo of the Investigation Team
P4G group photo.jpg|Timeskip group photo of the Investigation Team with Marie in Golden
;Persona 4 The Animation
Persona 4 investigation team 1.png|The Investigation Team in Persona 4 The Animation
Group TV.png|TVs
Persona 4 The animation Investigation Team.jpg|Promotional artwork
Persona 4 investigation team.jpg|Promotional artwork
Investigation Team members.jpg|Promotional artwork
Persona 4 investigation team 8.jpg|Group Photo of the Investigation Team during the Cultural Festival
Investigation Team anime photo.jpg|Group Photo of the Investigation Team with Nanako and Ryotaro Dojima
;Persona 4 The Golden Animation
P4GA group photo with Marie.jpg|Group Photo with Marie after the quiz game
One of the investigation group photos without Marie.jpg|One of the group photos without Marie
;Persona 4 Arena
Yosuke Hanamura (Persona 4 Arena, Story Mode Illustration, 3).jpg|The full Team at Junes.
Teddie (Persona 4 Arena, Story Mode Illustration, 3).jpg|The full Team at Junes.
;Persona 4: Dancing All Night
P4D artwork artbox.jpg|Promotional artwork
P4D Story Mode Illustration, 32.jpg|
P4D Story Mode Illustration, 33.jpg|
== Trivia ==
*Naoto's theme in Persona 4 Arena, Seeker of Truth, is named after the group's Judgement Arcana Social Link of the same name.
*In Persona Q, the group is forced by Margaret into doing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure poses when they come to aid SEES during their assault against the Queen of Hearts.
*Besides Teddie, the Investigation Team is the only playable party to never directly encounter Igor outside of their leader.
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