Rise Kujikawa

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Levántate Kujikawa (Espanol)

## First Appearance

### Debut

Persona Magica - Chapter 1 (Main)Persona Record: Magi Arena - Chapter 3 (Supporting)

**Rise Kujikawa** is a supporting character in Persona Record Series and the main protagonist of Persona Magica. She is a popular idol who returns to Inaba for a brief hiatus. She is a first-year student at Yasogami High School.

## Background

Rise, despite her uprising fame, eventually quits her job and decides to settle down in her hometown of Yasoinaba, to live with her grandmother. While being asked upon her decisions of choosing to stay there despite the recent murder cases, Rise insisted on her decision, and explains that she's stressed. Following Rise's return to Yasoinaba, the whole town rustles to her grandmother's tofu store, Marukyu, hoping to see Rise. Since she has appeared in the TV news, the Investigation Team becomes worried that Rise might get kidnapped and killed in the Midnight Channel, and goes to warn her.

Hoping to catch the culprit, the Investigation Team proposes a stakeout on the Marukyu Tofu shop, but their actions are found out by Tohru Adachi, the assistant of Detective Ryotaro Dojima. The Investigation Team eventually teams up with him. Through their stakeout, they catch a stalker; however, the stalker anxiously denies his connection with the murder cases. Not believing his words, Adachi apprehends him. However, during their way back passing Marukyu, Rise's grandmother claims that Rise has gone away. Panicked, the Investigation Team decides to tune in the Midnight Channel again, realizing that they were too late: Rise has already been kidnapped.

After gathering clues, the Investigation Team managed to detect Rise's location in the Midnight Channel, and set out to rescue her in the Marukyu Striptease. The Investigation Team eventually finds her, along with her Shadow Self. Shadow Rise taunts her that in actuality, she desired her idol status, before performing a pole-dance in an alluring fashion. Confused and surprised, Rise denies her Shadow's claims and exclaims that the Shadow is not her.

Fueled by Rise's declaration, Shadow Rise transforms into a pole-dancing monster and attacks the party. However, Shadow Rise's analytical abilities proved to be more than a match, and the party was brought to the edge of defeat. Laughing at their incompetence, Shadow Rise readies for another strike, but Teddie eventually charges towards the Shadow, performs a suicidal attack and weakens the Shadow. Accepting her true self, the Shadow nods, and transforms into Himiko, becoming Rise's Persona.

## Appearance

Rise has long copper-colored hair tied in two pigtails, brown eyes and pale skin. Her normal outfit consists of an orange shirt with puffy sleeves above a white turtleneck shirt while she is seen wearing an orange top and white pants in summer. Before transferring to Yasogami High and while working at her grandmother's shop, Rise wears a white headscarf, a pink turtleneck shirt and a short navy blue skirt.

During explorations in the Midnight Channel and at school, she is clothed in her school uniform with a white turtleneck underneath and wears pink glasses only supporting the team/members.

In Persona Record: Magi Arena, She wore a white see-through halter top, with a pink, light blue and orange shirt underneath it and tan pants.

## Personality

Rise is cheerful, outspoken, naughty, cute and is quite boastful about herself, although very sweet deep down. She is referred to as a "dangerous girl" by Chie Satonaka, due to her boldness in flirting with Yu Narukami, and her teasing of Yosuke Hanamura and Kanji Tatsumi. Rise is quickly annoyed by the smallest things, which ends up with her crying dramatically, and sometimes producing crocodile tears. She's rather childish and possessive; she once pouted and told Yu he mustn't call another girl "cute." She has also shown her competitive side on many occasions, and she’s mocked Yukiko Amagi’s insecurity and her cooking. Along with Yukiko, and Naoto Shirogane, she cries when Yu leaves Inaba, and she'll profess her love to him.

## Abilities

Rise's Persona is Himiko and Kouzeon, and she fights with a Microphone.

## Relationship

### Yu Narukami

Rise's senior and leader team. After Rise is rescued from him and the Investigation Team, she immediately falls in love with Yu that she tries to seduce him to turn her attention, but he has no attitude.

### Aiko Narukami

Rise has been caring for Aiko since she was a baby until she saw Aiko like her daughter, even though Aiko was Yu's child.

### Sayuki Fumino

A Magical girl. She attended a concert performance together with Sayuki.

## Trivia

* It is strongly implied Rise doesn't see the value in learning English because she can just hire a translator: "Ugh, why do I have to learn English? I can just hire a translator." Ironically, she still says this in the English-voiced localization.
* Rise is the only member of the Investigation Team that seems to summon her Persona instantly, whereas the others break cards.
* Rise's Weapon is the same as Sayuki Fumino's Weapon.

## Gallery

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