Karin Misono

* School Uniform
* Magical girl

**Karin Misono** is a minor character in Persona Record. She is The "Magical Girl born of Halloween". Or that's what she says at least... Karin loves reading and drawing manga so much that she's even created her own Magical Girl persona. She's heavily influenced by her favorite manga, "Phantom Thief Magical Kirin".

## Background

The scene flashes back to when she made her wish, which was when she first met her grandmother. Karin's father brought his mother to live with his family, and Karin soon loved to hang out with her. In fact, Karin's grandmother started reading "Phantom Thief Magical Kirin" because Karin liked it. However, one day Karin overheard an argument between her parents. In turns out that Karin's grandmother is a compulsive thief, and she came to Karin's house for treatment. When she found out, Karin's mother got angry whenever Karin got close to her grandmother.

Karin's grandmother knew her daughter-in-law hated her, and one Halloween told Karin as much. Karin didn't care. Karin's grandmother wonders if someone could exorcise her illness just as Magical Kirin could exorcise demons. Karin offers to exorcise it herself, and says if she gets candy, she'll do mischief where she exorcises the demons. This is also the origin of her catchphrase, "Trick or Treat". Karin knew she couldn't cure her grandmother, but pretended to be Magical Kirin and tried anyway. And then, on Halloween night, she made a contract with Kyubey. She wished to cure her grandmother's illness, and promised to become a magical girl like Magical Kirin. Karin says her feelings haven't changed since then, and wants to fight on her own.

## Appearance

Karin was a young girl with purple hair and purple eyes. She wears her hair into pigtails with hair band starred with ribbons.

### Magical girl

Her magical girl outfit was a witch costume, a black top with a golden pattern in the center, a shoulderless top, a pink ribbon in the middle of her bust, and a black shawl. She wore a white miniskirt with a small black star pattern around the tip of the skirt with a leather belt at the waist. She wore black and purple long stockings with brown leather shoes. She wore a black witch hat with a yellow star-shaped Soul Gem on her head.

## Personality

Karin was a huge fan of manga, like her grandmother, that she was able to draw her own manga. She often brings her manga that she draws for others to read and criticizes for her, but it is Alina Gray, who is more prone to criticism of her manga. Although Karin is somewhat timid and hesitant like Kaede Akino, she still has a strong part, assertive decisions, and fearlessly admonishes strangers (especially those who come Secretly watching her draw manga).

## Abilities

Karin's innate magic is to steal things. This appears to be limited to physical objects. She can also imbue small objects with magic to use as projectiles, and fly on her scythe like the stereotypical witch's broom.

## Doppel Description

"The Doppel of larceny. Its form is a mortsafe. The master of this Doppel is cowardly by nature, which is why she gave birth to this stubborn Doppel. It fears losing anything and is fixated on obtaining more. It shares it's proclivity for thievery with its master, and will pilfer anything it can get its hands on, even if those items belong to an ally. This Doppel is extremely greedy and refuses to give up on anything once it has it in its possession."

## Relationship

### Alina Gray

Alina was a member of the Arts Club with Karin. Karin often brings her manga to Alina a lot for criticism, but Alina has often criticized her manga negatively and hijacked her strawberry milk. Although the two have conflicting relationships, they are good friends and advisers.

## Trivia

* The characters in her last name mean "dominate" (御) and "garden" (園), respectively.
* Since Karin Misono was born on Halloween, her magical girl form resembles a cute witch, with the traditional witch hat and her riding her scythe like a broom. Her wielding a scythe, together with her being born on Halloween, could be a reference to the personification of death.
* The name of her Doppel is possibly a reference to Entrapment.
	+ It may instead be named after Helen McDougal, one of the accomplices in the Burke and Hare murders. This is a famous murder case associated with body snatching. And the mortsafe, Karin's Doppel's form is a contraption for protecting the grave from body snatchers.
* According to the design work, the burning wheels attached to both sides of the Doppel are Kasha (火車). It is a Japanese yokai that steals the corpses of the evil persons from their funerals or graves.
* Karin's scythe is the same as Mika Sato's and Madeline Darke's scythes.

## Gallery

Sakae General School UniformKarin Kyoko and FeliciaKarin and AlinaMagical girl formKarin's Soul GemKarin's Doppel (McDocgal)SwimsuitKarin Kyoko Kanagi Ui and MitamaKarin Alina and Mifuyu