Rise Kujikawa

*For the original character of the **Persona 4** video game, see* Rise Kujikawa.

***Rise Kujikawa*** 久慈川 りせ (*kujikawa rise*) is one of the main supporting characters in Persona 4 and the sixth investigation team member after Kanji Tatsumi is saved.

## Appearance

Rise is a young, petite girl with wavy brown hair tied in two pigtails. She has light hazel eyes and light pink lipstick, She also wears two pink pearl earrings.

She wears the Yasogami High Uniform with a white turtleneck and long stockings that reach her thighs (She is one of the few Persona characters that wears their uniform plainly).

She wears dark brown loafers and during the summer season, she changes stockings from white to black.

## Personality

Rise presents herself during the rest of the game as a free-spirited energetic and playful girl. She's well opinionated, and though she shows obvious signs of immaturity, it's very understandable that her popularity spent in the limelight has strained her to mature significantly faster than a sane 15-year-old girl. She shows an interest in a relationship with Yu Narukami, whom she develops a crush on. Though Yu only sees Rise as a genuine friend and not a lover, this rather upsets Rise but understands his feelings and stay friends.

## Persona

* Himiko
* Kanzeon
* Kouzeon
 Himiko

 Kanzeon

 Kouzeon

Rise's main persona is Himiko, a Shamaness-queen of Yamatai-koku.

Kanzeon, the Japanese alliteration to Guanyin, a chinese Bodhisattva associated with compassion. She's Rise's Ultimate Persona.

Kouzeon, (alternate translation of Kanzeon). is Rise's second ultimate persona, She is a persona exclusive to Persona 4 Golden.

## Skills

***Weakness Scan*** Reveals an enemy's affinity at the start of battle (weakness or immunity).

***Full Analysis*** Reveals an enemy's stats, weak points, and skills. (Excludes Bosses)

***Third Eye*** Reveals the effectiveness of an attack (after target has been attacked with the same affinity).

***Healing Wave*** Recovers 5% HP after battle (party).

***Stamina Song*** Recover 10% HP after battle (party).

## Shadow Rise

The Investigation Team learns about the internal struggle of Rise after facing her shadow. She is very worried about her popularity surge and worries about becoming a sex symbol. Rise is also immensely frightened of letting the public mask overshadow her true self. She hides her emotions like everyone else does, which makes her Shadow lash out and strike. The Shadow is stopped by the Investigation Team, giving Rise ample time to understand who she is and to open her heart to the Persona Himiko.

After she is saved, Rise assumes the position of the assist party member as Teddie's own growing uncertainty prompts his own Shadow to materialize and begin attacking. Rise assumes the support role after aiding the group in defeating Shadow Teddie.

### Strategy

***Shadow Rise***

Floor 11 is the location of Rise's Shadow. Make sure you have enough supplies and are fully equipped for this combat.

To make things easier, your party should be between levels 33 and 38 (and perhaps level 40 before Shadow Teddie) and attempting to battle Shadow Rise.

If you take Chie along, make sure to make as much use of her guard as required because Shadow Rise always starts with Fire spells. It's not necessary to have a Persona that can resist fire because Shadow Rise will use Fire Break to equalize the playing field.

Simply use any potent moves that your party is skilled in to assault the boss since she has no weaknesses or defenses. Do not launch an All-Out attack if you happen to critical hit and knock it down. To increase your team's damage output on the fallen Rise, use your team's most potent physical and magical skills.

Shadow Rise will scan the party when her HP meter is halfway full, at which point none of your subsequent strikes will connect. You can simply guard with the entire party in this situation to save time or take Three turns after using Supreme Insight, then the battle should be over.

## Relationships

* ***Yu Narukami***- as soon as Rise was being rescued by the investigation team and when Rise awakened her persona for the first time, she collapsed and Yu was the one that was able to catch her and get her up, since then Rise developed a crush on him to the point that she would constantly teasingly flirt with him calling him senpai affectionately and jealous whenever someone tries to catch’s Yu’s attention. Though due to the fact Yu finds her playful attempts at flirting really annoying and eventually gets ticked off to where Yu has had enough and confronted his true feelings for him, he only sees her as a friend but Rise doesn’t understand too well, however eventually she does understand his feelings and stay friends. (However, Yu can accept Rise’s love during Rank 8 of her social link).

* ***Kanami Mashita***- Kanami is another idol who’s apart of Rise’s management, when Rise quit being an Idol, Kanami began to gain popularity and limelight more than her which disappoint her given that she once was very well known, then after several attempts of her trying to stop her manager from bothering her from living her everyday life, he quit being her manager to being Kanami’s since he thought she had more potential and popularity more than Rise which upset her so much that it made her tear up as she thought that she was no longer good as an idol herself, then Rise didn’t feel disappointed anymore as the same manager who would later become Kanami’s manager gave her the letter of a middle school girl who inspired to be her gave her positivity and encouraged the girl to not give up on her dreams. Prior to the events of both Persona 4 games, Kanami is a playable character in Persona 4 Dancing All Night and being best friends with Rise.

* ***Hisoka Morow***- Hisoka became a potential opponent for some of the members of the investigation team (Yu, Yukiko, Chie, Naoto) and Rise the one backing them up, It was revealed he was actually going after Rise who got attracted to her strength and the abilities she inherits. after meeting Rise again he flirts with her, making her uncomfortable, he became too attracted to her strength that he fell in love with her, and as a way to get her attention, he tries to “kill” her multiple times by continuously trying to threaten the Investigation team. Hisoka does kiss Rise on one instance where she looks away from him, making her unintentionally fall in love with him as well.

## Synopsis

Rise Kujikawa is a former Japanese teen idol hailing from the small town of Inaba. Described by her manager as extraordinarily gifted, particularly as an actress, her rise to stardom was the fastest ever for a pop idol. After starring in various films, television series, and popular commercials, she is only just reaching the very heights of stardom when she abruptly chooses to retire as an idol, and return to Inaba to attend school and work at her grandmother's tofu shop, Marukyu.

## Gallery

Rise, Chie and Yukiko in their BikiniRise on the right of the Persona 4 artwork collaboration drawn by Akira Yasuda, the artist behind Street Fighter II.Rise in the manga with Yu in the background.Rise (Anime art) and holding Yu's arm.Persona 4 Calender (ft art by Persona 4 manga artist Shuuji Sogabe).Rise on the right, eating ice cream with Yukiko and Chie.Rise and Yu (Anime art).Rise in idol clothes.Rise and Yu Line Sticker.Rise (Anime art) in Bikini.Rise in her classic bikini (drawn by Shigenori Soejima).Rise wearing Yellow BikiniRise in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.Rise in Persona 4 Dancing all night.Rise with Naoto, Kanji and Yu.Rise, Yukiko, Chie and Nanako in the hotsprings (P4Golden).Rise in a magazine cover wearing a pink bikini.Rise in the beach with Naoto, Yukiko, Nanako, Marie and Chie (art by Shuuji Sogabe P4:
***Collabs***

Rise and Hisoka Morow art by moon scribblings on Instagram.
## Etymology

* Kujikawa 「久慈川」means longtime, story/ mercy river.

* Rise 「りせ」has no exact meaning, however it could stem from the Japanese word 「利する-risuru」(to profit) or the Kanji 「理性」(meaning reason, reasoning power or one’s sense).

## Trivia

* Some say that Rise is based off of her Voice Actor (Rie Kugimiya) due to their somewhat striking similarities, however this isn’t exactly proven.
* Rise is the only character in Persona 4 to have a third ultimate Persona.
* Shigenori Soejima’s art of Rise in her yellow bikini was an advertisement for the Persona 4 website.
* Rise’s phone is based of the LG Chocolate which was a cellphone-MP3 player from the Mid 2000s, more specifically the Strawberry-Chocolate color.
* Rise doesn’t bother learning English as she doesn’t want to waste her time when she can just hire a translator.
* Rise’s favorite candy is Chocolate.
* Her favorite Chewing Gum flavor is Strawberry.
* Her physical attraction is a tall person who is about 180 cm or taller.
* Her shoe size is a size 21 (US Shoe Size 5).
* She was originally going to be a tough delinquent character until Kanji replaced that role.
* Despite being an idol, most of her songs in Persona 4 are never played, except for True Story. (It’s unclear why).

## References

1. ↑ https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Rise\_Kujikawa?so=search#Stats

Stat list
2. ↑ https://www.ign.com/wikis/shin-megami-tensei-persona-4-golden/Marukyu\_Striptease Info on beating Rise and the Marukyu striptease dungeon.
3. ↑ https://www.giantbomb.com/rise-kujikawa/3005-6114/ Info about Rise