Yu Narukami

**Yu Narukami** (**The Sister Complex Kingpin of Steel**) is the main protagonist in ***Persona 4***, the 5th main installment in the ***Persona*** series. He's one of the playable characters and main characters in it's fighting game sequels ***Persona 4 Arena*** and ***Persona 4 Arena Ultimax***.

He returns in ***BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle*** as a playable character and as one of the four main protagonists of Episode 1. He star the Episode 1 of his home series part.

## Bio

The leader of the Investigation Team, a group of Persona users from Yasogami High investigating the mysterious kidnappings and murders around their town. In 2011, he transferred to Inaba to live with his uncle and cousin while his parents worked abroad. Through his friends, he learned about the Midnight Channel, a rumor stating that those who stare into a blank TV at midnight while it is raining will see the face of their soulmate. He soon awakened to a special power, allowing him to enter a dimension inside the TV and fight creatures called Shadows using his Persona, a manifestation of his inner self. When Midnight Channel-related murders struck Inaba, he formed the Investigation Team to prevent more from occurring, and to eventually track down the killer.

After solving the murder mysteries, including how he and the culprit Tohru Adachi got their Persona powers, Yu returns to his old school where he was transferred from. Few months later during his visit back to Inaba for a reunion, Yu and his friends all end up being the subjects to a Midnight Channel fighting tournament known as P-1 Grand Prix hosted by "General Teddie", and are dragged into this bloodbath tournament for the culprit's deadly entertainments. Once entering the tournament, Yu and his friends find their missing allies, while meeting members of the Shadow Operatives. In this point during the last P-1 tournament called P-1 Climax, held in the real world under the second Dark Hour instead of TV World, he and his friends not only re-encounter Adachi, who was picked by “General Teddie”, yet in reality went his own redeemable undercover to stop the imposter’s destructively evil scheme, also meeting the fake Teddie’s unwitting enforcer Sho Minazuki, who was also guinea pig of the pre-reformed Kirijo Group as the android Labrys.

## Trivia

* He shares a same English voice actor as Tohru Adachi. Ironically, they share a Persona, albeit different versions, whereas Yu is pure regular Izanagi and Adachi is Magatsu Izanagi.
* In the English version of all Persona 4 media, Yu and the Investigation Team refer to each other on a first name bases with an honorific except for Teddie (Kuma in Japan). In *BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle*, Yu and the Investigation Team refer to each other on a last name basis. For Yu's case, this was likely done to avoid confusion as his name Yu sounds like the word "You". However, Yu and probably the rest of the Investigation Team still use honorifics as evidenced by Yu calling Ragna the Bloodedge "Ragna-san" in their special victory screen dialogue.
* Due to the Investigation Team having already met the Shadow Operatives with Labrys as a member, and Yu having returned returned to Tokyo following Golden Week - as mentioned in Persona episode - this means the *BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle* storyline is alternatively take place after *Persona 4 Arena Ultimax*.
* His along with Aegis’ Arena remix theme is not ”in Mayonaka Arena” (which is mainly for Eastern/Japanese version) and is still not replaced with “Arena ver.” on their BGM name in Western version.
* Yu's title, **The Sister Complex Kingpin of Steel**, refers to his great familial love and care as well as his protective nature towards his cousin, **Nanako Dojima**, who is like a little sister to him.
* Yu still wears his Yasogami uniform, despite having left Inaba following Golden Week. Yosuke brings this up, questioning why he's wearing it, leading Yu to state that he wore it so often, he didn't even realize he had been wearing the wrong uniform to school the entire time.
* Yu has color palettes of the following characters: Ryoji Mochizuki (*Persona 3*), Ragna the Bloodedge, Blue Haired Boy/Makoto Yūki (*Persona 3* Protagonist), Hyde Kido, Ruby Rose, and Joker/Ren Amamiya (*Persona 5* Protagonist).
	+ Izanagi has color palettes of the following characters: Ryoji Mochizuki, Ragna the Bloodedge, Orpheus (*Persona 3*), Linne, Weiss Schnee, and Arsene (*Persona 5*).
* In story mode’s Episode 1, Yu only appear as player used character in Episode 1: His home series’ episode part, and BlazBlue episode part’s co-op ending choice (the latter episode gives player an option to choose either Yu, Hyde or Ruby). It is due to likely his previous role as an unnamed silent protagonist in the mainline *Persona* RPG games prior to *Persona 4 Animation* made “Yu Narukami” as his official default name.
* Due to the death of Kagura Mutsuki’s original Japanese voice actor, Keiji Fujiwara in 2020, Yu shares his Japanese voice actor with him, despite Kagura M. is still a placeholder datamined character who have yet appearing in post-Season 2.

## See Also

* Yu Narukami at Megami Tensei Wiki
* Izanagi at Megami Tensei Wiki
	+ Izanagi-no-Okami at Megami Tensei Wiki