Minato Arisato

## First Appearance

### Debut

Puella Magi Persona - Chapter 1 (Main, Still life)Persona Record - Chapter 9 (Cameo, As Spirit)

Persona Record: Magi Arena - Chapter 3 (Supporting, resurrect)

**Minato Arisato** is a supporting character in Persona Record Series and the main protagonist of Puella Magi Persona. He is a former the field leader of SEES. As The Forces of Grim, He used another name to hide his identity, **Makoto Yuki**.

## Background

Ten years ago, Minato's parents die from the Moonlight Bridge incident, causing Minato to become an orphan. After the death of his parents, his mind is very traumatized, ignoring his surroundings, and coldly blocking his mind.

Ten years have passed since he joined Gekkoukan High School and joined SEES, and he gradually opened up his feelings for everyone in the team.

## Appearance

Minato has dark blue hair unkempt at the front, blue eyes and a light build, being shorter than average. His bangs cover his right eye. He is often shown with his hands in his pockets (except when holding weapons), leaning slightly back. He frequently listens to his earphones.

Minato wears the school uniform of Gekkoukan High, accented with a loose black bow tie, a neck-strap mp3 player (Sony's NW-S20x series) and clip-on earphones (Audio-Technica model ATH-EM700 SV).

## Personality

Minato is a silent character aside from technically speaking in battle in certain instances. he is very stoic, reserved and calm, gathered by the fact that he remains unmoved even when guns are pointed at him. He appears very introverted, distant and aloof since he only observes the conversations of his party members and only speaks when someone is directed at him for his opinion on the matter.

Severely traumatized by witnessing the deaths of his parents as a child to the point of indifference, he has extremely neutral viewpoints on life and death and is uncaring of either. Ironically, it is this apathetic attitude that allows him to fight Shadows so effectively; he battles without concern for his safety and cares little if he is wounded or exhausted by a fight, allowing him to take massive risks and deal immense damage.

Despite the fact that Minato cares little for his own safety, he breaks through his stony and blunt attitude whenever his friends are in danger and even worries for their safety when any of them are put in a life-threatening situation, mainly because the thought of them dying reminds him of his parents' fate. Minato eventually realizes the importance of lives and the bonds that he has with his friends, but as a result, he becomes more and more hesitant to defeat the Arcana Shadows and end the Dark Hour, fearing that after everything is over, he will return to his lonely and listless existence. As such, he tends to become confused and unfocused during battles against Arcana Shadows.

After defeating all Arcana Shadows and Ikutsuki's betrayal, Minato once again distances himself from his friends as he believes they will eventually disappear, remembering Pharos' words before he disappeared: that forming bonds with others would only bring pain, since he would inevitably lose them. However, Minato slowly opens up again after meeting Ryoji, who was insistent on becoming his friend. But one month later, Minato became greatly shocked about his new friend's true identity, and the revelation about Nyx's existence and the Fall made him as much as paralyzed by fear as the other SEES members. But then he remembers his mother's last words and Elizabeth's visit makes him realize how everything he experienced during the last year had made him feel truly alive again. By the time of the final battle against Nyx, Minato's care for his friends had grown so deep that he was even willing to sacrifice himself to save them and the world, leading up to his resolution to become the Great Seal.

Before his death, he tries to make it to the rooftop wishing to see his friends be there for him and see them one last time as she meets Aigis again. As he started to lose consicious, his friend appeared as they remembered his promise to meet at the rooftop and got to see his them for the last time before he died with a smile in his face.

## Abilities

Minato has Persona Powers. he holds the "Wild Card" like Yu and Ren. he has the ability to carry multiple Personas and switch between them during battle. With the power of the Wild Card he has access to over 150 different Personas.

## Relationship

### Yukari Takeba and Junpei Iori

His friends. The trio show that they are good friends, although Minato's attitude contradicts Yukari's cheerful and optimistic disposition and Junpei's reckless, helpless personality, but they are good friends for each other.

### Mitsuru Kirijo

Minato's senior and Leader of SEES. He always respected her as a senior and an older sister.

### Akihiko Sanada

Minato's senior. He always respected Akihiko as a senior and an older brother.

### Tart/Jeanne D'Arc

A Magical girl friend from the French past. In Puella Magi Persona, He met Tart when he was attacked by Corbeau. She saved his life, although they were from different eras, but the relationship between them continued.

In Persona Record: Magi Arena, He met Tart again until all his memories were restored, when he was in the process of complete resurrection, he often saw her as a little sister.

### Iroha Tamaki

A Magical girl friend. In Persona Record Chapter 9, He met Iroha in the place of death, he helped her get out of here, because her soul was not yet dead, so there was a chance to bring her back into her body. With the help of Madoka in the form of the goddess and Lavenza, the assistant of the velvet Room, Iroha's spirits are brought back safely to their original form.

In Persona Record: Magi Arena, After Elizabeth resurrected Minato, using the shadow body as his body, with his incomplete memories. He wandered through Kamihama City until he met Iroha who was being chased by a shadow again.

### Ren Amamiya

Other Persona-User. Minato was surprised that Ren never thought of getting rid of him, because he was a half-shadow, in a state of imperfect memory. When he asked Ren Why He wouldn't kill him, Ren replied that even though he was only half of Minato's soul, he and all his friends would bring back all of Minato's memories.

### Madoka Kaname

A Magical girl friend. After the second Arena battle, Minato suffers a serious injury that requires treatment at Satomi Medical Center. Until one day Madoka visits him and gives him his healing powers and immortality, and offers him that if he doesn't want immortality, he can tell Madoka to return immortality to her. Minato was delighted before thanking her, telling her that one day he would repay her.

## Trivia

* His first name "**Minato**," translates to "harbor."
* Another name he used to hide his identity, "**Makoto Yuki**", can be interpreted as "true courage."
* He is talented at making fox sounds.
* Despite joining art class, his art skills are questionable.
* Minato's Another name, Makoto shares his name with Makoto Niijima, a Persona-User and Member of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

## Gallery

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