Chie Satonaka

**Chie Satonaka** is a playable character from *Persona 4*. An energetic girl with a love of kung-fu movies, she's one of the protagonist's classmates at Yasogami High School.

## Design

Chie has dyed light brown bowl-shaped hair and brown eyes.

As with most playable characters in the game, Chie wears a modified Yasogami High uniform with a light green, high collared athletic jacket adorned with several decorative pins (including a smiley face) and underneath her mini skirt she wears short black compression shorts. In summer, however, she is seen wearing the school's standard summer uniform, having wrapped her jacket around her hips.

On days off, she replaces her uniform with a white top and underneath two colors: one black and white stripe and second a blue top, with high collar lighter green jacket with purple crystal necklaces, navy jean skirt, and lighter green boots.

Her summer outfit consists of a green tank top with a floral pattern as well as a colorful wristband at each arm.

At the summer festival she wears a white yukata with a multi-colored circle pattern and an orange striped sash. The sleeves and hem of the yukata gradient to a pale orange.

In the manga, when she was a child, she wore a hairband tied on her right side hairs up, a kung-fu T-shirt, and short black leggings when she met younger Yukiko in the night.

In *Persona 4 Golden*, Chie is seen wearing a pink turtleneck shirt with a colorful pattern and a turquoise coat during a new anime cutscene. Then, during the winter, she is also seen wearing a snow suit with a white Peruvian hat, pink goggles with light green lenses, pink scarf, yellow shirt, light blue overalls, and lime green snow jacket. Even during colder days in winter at school, she wears a dark green jacket with badges on it and underneath is another dark jacket similar to the one she wears in spring on her school uniform, and white snowflake knee socks with yellow socks. For the New Year's event, she wears a white kimono with a pink flower pattern, a red and gold obi and a decorative flower ornament in her hair. The sleeves and hem of the kimono gradient to blue.

In *Persona 4 The Animation*, her past is similar to the manga; she still wears her hair tied, but with a yellow clip on her hair, and her outfit is completely different. She wore a green stylish shirt underneath with lime green long sleeve shirt with red lines on the sleeves, navy jeans underneath her light blue mini skirt, and white shoes when meeting Yukiko in the rainy day.

In *Persona 4: Dancing All Night*, she retains her Yasogami school uniform and her jacket except her sleeves reach to her elbow, and leaves it open to show her white t-shirt with sky blue and yellow logo that said *CHEERS!* that reach half-way of her stomach. She wears stylish white belt with magenta heart design, yellow wristbands, and aqua sneakers with green laces.

## Personality

"You don't know SHIT about how I feel! Yukiko might DIE from this, for crying out loud! I'm going, and that's that!"

—Chie, determined to save her best friend Yukiko

Chie is energetic and outgoing, the "extrovert" compared to Yukiko being the "introvert." She has a bright and upbeat personality, often trying to cheer up the group by joking about the case. She can be somewhat short tempered, especially with Yosuke, and is slow to back down from a challenge.

Chie, in a way, could be considered a "tomboy." Like Lisa Silvermanfrom the *Persona 2* dualogy, she is obsessed with kung fu and is a huge fan of martial arts movies, most prominently *Trial of the Dragon*. She also has a poster of Bruce Lee in her room. Outside Naoto's dungeon, Chie mentions that as a kid, she had her own secret hideout near the mountain by Yukiko's house where she would pretend that a legendary kung fu master was teaching her special techniques. Chie's wish is to become a police officer some day. Chie's cooking skills are horrific and is prone to creating Mystery Food X since it tastes generally unpleasant.

Chie has strong sense of justice and a fierce desire to protect others. She is known to defend classmates, children, and strangers from being threatened and attacked by local delinquents. Even when outnumbered, she does not hesitate to intervene and speak out. Though reckless in putting herself into dangerous situations, she is willing to sacrifice herself for the sake of others; when a delinquent threatened her loved ones, Chie gave him the opportunity to hit her freely in exchange for leaving everyone else alone. Chie wants to protect Yukiko and the protagonist most of all, and they serve as strong motivators in her wanting to become stronger, constantly training her kung-fu moves and challenging herself physically. Though nominally fearless, Chie has some specific childish fears: she is terrified of ghost stories, thunder, locusts (and possibly other insects), and being in the dark.

Chie's biggest insecurity is her femininity, which is one aspect of her unhealthy relationship with Yukiko in which both of them are secretly guilty of hiding their true feelings from one another. After years of being with Yukiko who is treated as wealthier, more popular, scoring higher grades in school and having more male admirers, Chie gradually develops an inferiority complex in comparing herself to Yukiko and is jealous of all the male attention Yukiko receives. Chie's brash personality seems to makes it hard for boys to approach her romantically despite the fact that some students, including sports captain Kou Ichijo, secretly find her attractive. As a result she comes to believe herself to be undesirable, especially compared to Yukiko. This causes her to derive satisfaction from Yukiko's need to rely on her for confidence and support at the beginning of the game.

When Chie confronts her Shadow about her complex, Chie is in denial and is embarrassed and mortified. When Shadow Chie is defeated, she vows to overcome her complex and be a true friend to Yukiko.

By the end of the game and anime, Chie acknowledges her own personal strengths, as well as her faults (calling herself a stubborn two-faced coward), and in the new epilogue becomes perfectly comfortable with her own feminine side.

## Gameplay

#### Play Style

Chie is a rushdown character that can consistently hit confirm into combos from most hits with a strong emphasis on strong and fast block strings. Her okizeme usually involves 2DD or 5DD in some fashion which then goes into her strong mix up game. While not as useful as other Furious Actions, her High Counter can be used in combos and deals quite a lot of damage on raw hit. Agneyastra allows her to "brute force" her way to offense. Power Charge should be a very important tool in Chie's arsenal as it can help her push for more damage mid combo and can even be used to reset herself if she's performing an unsafe move. She can also perform this 3 times to stack for extremely high damage. True to her archetype, Chie has short range on many of her attacks, coupled with a mediocre defensive skill set.

Her leitmotif is "Like The Dragon." On the OST disc version, the theme is extended for an extra duration and features altered instrumentals. On the Persona 4 The ULTIMATE in MAYONAKA ARENA Original Arrange Soundtrack a remix of it called "Like The Dragon -Girl Pop Mix-," adding more pop instrumentals and a slower tempo.

## Battle Quotes

### *Persona 4*

Full battle quotes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDUiUBiRLQ

* *"Protect me, Tomoe!"* (Enemy weak to attack/Critical with Phys skill)
* *"Now, Suzuka Gongen!"* (Enemy weak to attack/Critical with Phys skill)
* *"Come! Hi-ya!"*(Using Persona skill)
* *"Take this!"* (Using Persona skill)
* *"Persona!"* (Using Persona skill)
* *"Alright! Keep it up!"* (One-More! chance by others)
* *"Ooh! Can I have this one!?"* (Follow-up attack)
* *"Ooh! Me, me, me I'll do it!"* (Follow-up attack)
* *"Couldn't quite beat it..."* (Attack doesn't kill enemy)
* *"Someone finish it off!"* (Attack doesn't kill enemy)
* *"Yikes. It's tough."* (Attack doesn't kill enemy)
* *"Phew ... I let my guard down."*(Recover from Down/Dizzy)
* *"Sheesh, that hurt!"* (Recover from Down/Dizzy)
* *"Ugh! I've had it with you!"* (Recover from Down/Dizzy)
* *"No!"* (Shielding MC from mortal blow)
* *"You okay?"* (Helping MC up)
* *"Get it together..."* (Helping Yosuke up)
* *"Thanks!"* (Being Healed)
* *"Thanks a million!"*(Being Healed)
* *"Aha! Is this our chance?"*(All-Out Attack prompt)
* *"Here's our chance! Let's go!"* (All-Out Attack prompt)
* *"All right guys! Pile on! Ready?"* (All-Out Attack prompt)
* *"Gotcha!"* (Commence All-Out Attack)
* *"Let's do it!"* (Commence All-Out Attack)
* *"We're not doing it? Aw..."*(Decline All-Out Attack)
* *"It's up to you, chief!"*(Decline All-Out Attack)
* *"So who's next in line for a stomping?"* (Victory)
* *"Don't think, feel!"* (Victory & performing Dragon Hustle in *Persona 4 Golden*)
* *"Huh, I guess that does it!"*(Victory)
* *"That was easy!"* (Victory)
* *"How was that?!"*(Victory)
* *"Yay, I leveled up!"* (Level Up)

#### *Golden*

* *"Come on, Haraedo-no-Okami!*" (Summoning persona: Haraedo-no-Okami)
* *"Heheh, I'm here! Leave it to me!"* (Prompting Cavalry Attack)
* *"Dragon's Fury!"* (When performing the skill Dragon Hustle)
* *"Don't think, feel!*" (When performing the skill Dragon Hustle)
* *"Don't miss this heavenly glory!"*(When performing the skill Dragon Hustle)
* *"That was easy!*" (Battle won in Gekkou Uniform)
* *"That was a close one.*" (Battle won in Gekkou Uniform)
* "*Phoenix Rangers Featherman R!*" (Battle won in Neo Featherman Suit)
* "*Chalk up the win f'or Feather Parakeet!*" (Battle won in Neo Featherman Suit)
* *"The grand finale is here."* (Battle won in Deep Blue Clothes)
* *"Victory is mine."* (Battle won in Deep Blue Clothes)

### *Persona 4 Arena*

Quotes (English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIq2R9h4E5U

Quotes (Japanese): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQfzdAwTFYM

* *"I never discarded my womanhood, aw this isn't funny!"* (in response to her title)
* *"Huh? Who the heck came up with that crap?"* (another response to her title)
* *"You need to eat more meat!"* (on E3 trailer)
* *"Good try!"* (While performing High Counter)
* *"Take this!"* (While performing Rampage)
* *"Death from above!"* (While performing Skull Cracker during Rampage)
* *"Watch your head!"* (While performing Skull Cracker during Rampage)
* *"Satonaka style double kick!"* (During Rampage)
* *"I'm going for it!"* (During Burst)
* *"Ugh...I won't fall...!"*(Upon reaching Awakening Mode)
* *"I don't wanna lose to Yukiko!"*(Reaching Awakening Mode vs. Yukiko)
* *"Time for an axe kick!"* (Doing an All-Out Attack)
* *"Too slow!"* (Dashing)
* *"I am a dragon!"* (During Dragon Kick)
* *"Uuuu...here I come!"*(While performing super Power Charge)
* *"I'm gettin' FIRED UP!"*(While performing Power Charge)
* *"Taste my fist ... Yikes!"* (While performing super move, God's Hand.)
* *"Fiiiiiiist...\*inhales deeply\*...OF FUUUUURY!!!"*(While performing super move, God's Hand)
* *"Black Spot!"* (While performing Black Spot)
* *"Here I come!"* (While performing Power Charge increase attack)
* *"This is the finisher!"*(While performing Awakening super move, Agneyastra)
* *"Agneyastra!"* (While performing Awakening super move, Agneyastra)
* *"Super final attack!"* (Instant Kill)
* *"This is my ultimate attack!"*(Instant Kill)
* *"Here goes ... one, two ... blast off!"* (Chie delivers the final strike during the Instant Kill)
* *"First, warm up ... and ... there!"* (Chie delivers the final strike during the Instant Kill)
* *"How could I lose to Yosuke!?"* (KO'ed by Yosuke)
* *"Death from above!"*(Intro; after she breaks through a glass window)
* *"You're going down, Naoto-kun!"*(vs. Naoto)
* *"Haha, this feels like a match between rivals!"*(vs. Yukiko)
* *"Can I beat him?"*(vs. Kanji)
* *"Everyday's great at...YOUR JUNES!"* (Hitting Yosuke with her auto-combo)

#### Victory Quotes

**General**

* *"Joke about it all you want, but it's the meat that beat you! It's the source of my power!"*
* *"Hwataaa! Justice prevails!"*
* *"All that exercise is making me hungry! I'm gonna go grab a steak bowl once I get back!"*
* *"Do not be ashamed... My skill surpassed yours, that is all... Ooh, how did that sound?"*

**Character Specific**

* *Yu Narukami: "Hehe... What do you think? I wanted you to see the fruits of my training!"*
* *Yosuke Hanamura: "Hehe! My victory reward will obviously be all-you-can-eat filet mignon!"*
* ***Chie Satonaka**: "How about that? I'm not the same as I was last year!"*
* *Yukiko Amagi: "This means you're just not cut out to be protected anymore... Let's get stronger together, Yukiko!"*
* *Kanji Tatsumi: "I won! Your strength was amazing, but you've still got a lot to learn, Kanji-kun!"*
* *Teddie: "Hey, Teddie! Did I catch you copping a feel during the fight? Sheesh, I can never give you an inch..."*
* *Akihiko Sanada: "That awesomely stoic strength... Ooh, so profound."*
* *Shadow Labrys: "Gotta get stronger, so we can accept everything about ourselves..."*

### *Persona 4 Arena Ultimax*

* "*BAM!*" (When chosen on character select screen)
* "*Wata!*" (When chosen on character select screen)
* "*Leave it to me!*" (When chosen on character select screen)
* "*I'm gonna do this!*" (When chosen on character select screen)
* "*Haiyah! HA!*" (Starting the round)
* "*Death from above!*" (Starting the round)
* "*All right, lets get this settled!*" (Starting the round)
* "*Look out, cause I'm not holding back!*" (Starting the round)
* "*I'll show you the results of my training!*" (Starting the round)
* "*Here I come!*" (While performing All-out Attack)
* "*Is this my chance?*" (While performing All-out Attack)
* "*Time for an Axe Kick!" (While performing*All-Out Attack*)*
* "*Watch your head!*" (While performing *Skull Cracker*)
* "*What's the matter?*" (Non-final round victory)
* "*Is that all you've got?*" (Non-final round victory)
* "*I'm far beyond your abilities!*" (Non-final round victory)
* "*I know every trick up your sleeve.*" (Non-final round victory)
* "*That was easy!*" (Final round victory)
* "*Don't think, feel.*" (Final round victory)
* "*WHA- Here's my victory pose!*" (Final round victory)
* "*Wooh! All right, who wants my foot on their face next?"* (Final round victory)
* "*No way!*" (Non-final round defeat)
* *"Oh... I lost..."* (Continue?)

#### Victory Quotes

General
* "*The road to kung-fu has been mastered! Hwaaaaa!*"
* "*Ha! My body moved on its own! I'm getting better!*"
* "*That was a great fight! Looks like you drew out my hidden strength! Thanks!*"

Character Specific
* Yu Narukami: "*You're always who I strive to be like! Hehe, do you think I've gotten a little closer?*"
* Yosuke Hanamura: "*Look after the meat, and the meat will take care of itself. I hope you realize the power of meat now!*"
* Yukiko Amagi: "*Yukiko! You've gotten stronger again! I could really sense your passion!*"
* Kanji Tatsumi: "*I won't lose in a contest of strength, not even against you, Kanji-kun! I want to keep getting stronger!*"
* Teddie: "*Have you gotten rusty, Teddie? Maybe you're fat from eating too many snacks...*"
* Yukari Takeba: "*I can't believe I got to fight the real Feather Pink! Huh? You know my Master!? Please let me have another bout with you sometime!*"
* Ken Amada: *"Hey, can I pet that dog for a minute? ...Sit! ...Stay! ...Meat! Aw, he's so cute!"*
* Labrys: "*I'm glad we could meet again... But I can't let you have the win! Sorry!*"
* Akihiko Sanada: *"Master! Thank you for the match! I'll improve my skills even more!"*
* Shadow Chie: *"Sheesh, you again? It's about time you stopped showing up!"*

### *TMNT X Pokemon:*

* "Let's kick their asses!"
* "Shredder's going down big time!"
* "Come on, Makoto! Let's get going!"
* "That's the spirit!"
* "Who needs magic or weapons when you have fists and kicks to fight against the enemies?!"
* "All~ right! Woo!"

## Persona Q

*Here we go...Tomoe!* (Using skills)

*Here you go! (using item)*

## TMNT X Pokemon

Chie is always ready for a good fight. She works well with Makoto Nanaya, Leone, and Yang during missions. She tends to kick any boy who pisses her off.

## Trivia

* A character in *Persona -trinity soul-*, Soutarou Senou, wears a very similar jacket to Chie. It is unknown if this is a mere coincidence or intentional connection.
* Chie resembles the Mexican paramedic doctor Maria Torres of *Trauma Team*, while Yukiko resembles Tomoe Tachibana.
* Chie is mentioned by Kasai, the kimono clad woman of Amagi Inn, in *Persona 3 Portable* if the player chose the female protagonist.
* Kou Ichijo, the member of basketball club had a crush on Chie. However, she unaware his crush on her. Chie thinking Kou likes Yukiko Amagi than her. However, Yukiko & Daisuke actually know Kou likes Chie.
* Chie's inferiority complex is similar to Ulala Serizawa from *Persona 2: Eternal Punishment*, who becomes jealous of her black-haired best friend (Maya Amano) for feeling she is more attractive and has better luck with men. Shadow Ulala also claims Ulala is not qualified to be a woman, much like how Shadow Chie claims Shadow Chie can't win as a girl.
* In *Persona 4 The Animation*, following the Japanese version of the game, *Legend of Seiryuu* (成竜伝説) is used instead of *Trial of The Dragon* when Yosuke Hanamura borrows the disc from Chie and breaks it. "Seiryuu" (成竜, literally "Becoming Dragon," not to be confused with Qing Long) is a direct reference to the Hong Kong action movie star Jackie Chan.
* The license plate number on Chie's motorbike in *Golden* is 7-30, the same as her birthday.
* Strangely enough, Chie's Personas in *Persona 4* only have a 303 base stat total (without movie dates) at level 99. While the Personas of the other members of the Investigation Team (with the exception of the protagonist and Rise) have 304 stat total at the same level.
* Chie and Teddie are the only characters in *Persona 4 Arena* to not retain their spells in their movesets. In Chie's case, she only retains the Power Charge (known just as "Charge" in the Japanese version) buff and Counter passive, as well as her God's Hand and Agneyastra physical skills.
* In *Persona 4 The Animation*, Chie is still wearing her winter outfit in Yukiko's Castle despite the fact that she wears her school uniform in the game.
* In *Persona 4 Golden*, when wearing a Gekkoukan High uniform, Chie imitates Yukari Takeba's victory pose and says her lines.
* In *Persona 4 Arena*, Chie's skill "Rampage" is based on her critical-hit animation from *Persona 4*.
* In the English localization of *Persona 4 Arena*, Chie's title in the Midnight Channel cutscene, and the one that is referenced throughout story mode, is "The Carnivore Who's Discarded Womanhood." However, looking at her title during actual fights, it shows as "Spunky Dragon with Deadly Legs," her description during the Midnight Channel video rather than the title itself. This makes her the only member of the Investigation Team to have her title change between the two instances.
* If the protagonist's part-time jobs are counted (janitor, tutor & day care employee), Chie is the only character without a job as all characters but her have occupations as students (excluding Teddie).
* In the anime *No Game No Life*, a picture of Chie was use as an example by Sora when they entered the virtual world.
* In Persona 4 Design Works Soejima confirmed that she and Yosuke dye their hair.
* A running gag with Chie in *Persona 4* and its spin offs is that she always mentions that she "landed on her butt" in several scenarios.
	+ In *Persona 4*, she will say this when she falls into the TV World with Yosuke and the protagonist for the first time.
	+ In *Persona Q*, she will say this if she is the protagonist's "destined partner" in the Group Date Cafe.
	+ In *Persona 4: Dancing All Night*, she will say this after the Investigation Team enters the Midnight Stage to rescue Kanamin Kitchen and Kyoka Ochimizu.

### Appearances in Other Media

* *No Game No Life*: Cameo.
* *Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2: Sisters Generation*: A popup event character named Satochi Enaka has a similar appearance and personality to Chie and her meat-loving demeanor. In fact, Satochi's name is a play on Chie's name by putting Chie between Satonaka.
* *BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle*: Playable Character