Ken Amada

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## First Appearance

### Debut

Puella Magi Persona - Chapter 2 (Main)Persona Record: Magi Arena - Chapter 3 (Supporting)

**Ken Amada** is a supporting character in Persona Record Series and the main protagonist of Puella Magi Persona. He is the youngest member of SEES, and one of the two who doesn't attend Gekkoukan High School in Puella Magi Persona. As Persona Record: Magi Arena, he attended the high school department of Gekkoukan and he is a member of the Shadow Operatives.

## Background

Shuji Ikutsuki invites Ken to live in the SEES dorm because he is an orphan with no home to return to. It is never explained what happened to Ken's father.

Ken is revealed to have the potential to wield a Persona and is asked to join the team. Initially, Minato Arisato and his friends believe that Ken joined SEES out of altruism, but his true intentions are far darker and revealed in October. He uses long spears to make up for his short stature. His Personas are equally as large (being the largest of the Personas) to contrast his short stature, and can be used for healing, or to cast Light-based spells that occasionally instantly kill the enemy. He can also use single target Electricity spells and physical skills.

One day, Shinjiro meets Ken at the site where Ken's mother was killed, during the October full moon mission. Exactly two years ago, Shinjiro accidentally caused the death of Ken's mother when his Persona went berserk while on a SEES mission. For this reason, Shinjiro distanced himself from SEES and began taking Persona Suppressors, consumed by guilt. Ken only saw him as a murderer, though, and had only ever joined SEES for the sole reason of getting revenge and killing him in return. Shinjiro had no intention of resisting Ken's attempt to enact vengeance, but he warns Ken that if he continues, he could end up just like him.

During Ken's confrontation with Shinjiro, Takaya Sakaki intervenes and reveals that Ken has been planning to commit suicide after slaying his nemesis. He also reveals that Strega has been supplying Shinjiro with special drugs to control his Persona, and that the drugs will soon kill him, completely shattering Ken’s hopes of revenge. After Takaya takes down Shinjiro, he then fires at a despondent Ken, only for Shinjiro to jump in front of the bullet, mortally wounding himself while his friends arrive too late to save him. Dying, he reminds Ken that he is still a child with a whole life ahead of him and a future that can be about more than vengeance. Shinjiro's last words inspire Ken to fight for the future his mother would have wanted for him.

After Shinjiro sacrifices himself to save him, Ken becomes depressed and guilty, losing his reason to live. However, Akihiko confronts Ken, allowing him to overcome his past and forgive Shinjiro. This event changes Ken dramatically, allowing him to obtain his ultimate Persona.

Ken fights with SEES until the end against Nyx Avatar. When Minato confronts Nyx's true form Death, Ken's voice is the first heard, worrying that there's nothing they can do.

## Appearance

In Puella Magi Persona, Ken has styled short brown hair and eyes. Even as an elementary student, he is short for his age. At school and Tartarus, he wears a school uniform of Gekkoukan Elementary, with an orange jacket under his Gekkoukan jacket, and tennis shoes with white socks.

In Persona Record: Magi Arena, Ken is now 18 years old and consequently has grown taller. His hair remains mostly unchanged in style, but is slightly longer. Ken now wears the standard uniform of Gekkoukan High School, brown shoes, a wristwatch on right wrist, and an armband with "Student Council" written on it on his left arm. He no longer wears his orange jacket, which now is worn by Koromaru, or the shorts he wore as an elementary student.

## Personality

Despite his young age, Ken is very intelligent and mature. It is shown that this is a coping mechanism due to the death of his mother at a young age, which more-or-less forced him to give up his childhood. His maturity is noted by Yukari, who can't believe he's in elementary school and claims that Junpei, who is a full six years older than him, could learn a thing or two from him. Fuuka also notes his maturity, and finds him cute as a result of it. Besides being mature, Ken also knows several words that boys his age don't usually know, such as "bastard," which he usually uses when referring to Strega. He is very polite to others, and never misses a chance to show respect where respect is due. He is also honest, diligent, and deeply caring towards his peers, particularly the members of SEES. Ken is shown to like and care a great deal for animals, such as Koromaru. In his video recording, there is a hamster in his room.

Although Ken is very mature, he still has several qualities that fit with his age and is sometimes too precocious for his own good. He finds a role-model in Akihiko, whom he admires for his boxing and fighting talents, often referring to him as "Sanada-san" as a form of respect to his senpai. He also likes to watch a children's show, Featherman R, but he prefers to keep it a secret. He seems to collect a lot of the Featherman R figurines, as well. He is also shown to be quite naive at times, such as when Junpei tricks him into believing the girls aren't wearing anything under their kimonos, which they wore on New Year's Day. Overall, Ken gives off the impression that he's just trying too hard to be something he's not i.e. an adult. Ken notes that one of the reasons he uses spears in battle is so that he'll be on even ground with an adult.

He has a strong dislike towards milk, but he forces himself to drink it because he believes it can make him become taller. Unfortunately, it seems he may be lactose-intolerant since it often makes him sick.

## Abilities

Ken's Persona is Nemesis and Kala-Nemi, he fights with Long Spear.

## Relationship

### Shinjiro Aragaki

Ken is furious at Shinjiro, thinking that Shinjiro was the murderer of Ken's mother, which prompted him to join SEES in an attempt to avenge his mother. But when Shinjiro was killed by Takaya Sakaki for protecting Ken's life, he gave Ken a final message that he is still a child with a whole life ahead of him and a future that can be about more than vengeance. Shinjiro's last words inspire Ken to fight for the future his mother would have wanted for him.

### Koromaru

Ken is close to Koromaru, and the two become partners who have always been fighting together.

### Tart/Jeanne D'Arc

A Magical girl friend from the French past. In Puella Magi Persona, Ken enters a dream world with the team until he meets Tart and joins her to save Minato Arisato, who has been kidnapped by the magical girls on the British side.

In Persona Record: Magi Arena, When Tart get a second chance to live another life in the modern era, He became her classmate and always gave her advice on the modern era.

### Aiko Narukami

Ken cares about Aiko like his little sister.

## Trivia

* Ken's Kanji means "grudge" (怨), representing his dark past and his ambitions of revenge.
* In Ken's initial design, Ken's weapon of choice was darts instead of spears.
* Ken is lactose-intolerant, as his stomach hurts after he drinks cow's milk out of a carton.
* Ken was so afraid of ghosts that he didn't want to hear anything about ghosts ever again.

## Gallery

KenConcept art of KenKen's Weapon (Long Spear)A Happy KenA dark side of KenKen mourning Shinjiro's deathShinjiro and KenKen and KoromaruKen as 18 years oldKen, Yukari and KoromaruKoromaru and KenKen with Yukari, Labrys and Junpei