Saki Konishi

## First Appearance

### Debut

Persona Magica - Chapter 5 (mentioned)Puella Persona Magia Q - Chapter 8 (As Uwasa)

**Saki Konishi** is a Minor character of Puella Persona Magia Q. She is a former senior of Yosuke, whom she died of murder, now she is part of Uwasa of The Seance Shrine.

## Background

Saki is a senior to Yu Narukami and Yosuke Hanamura, she works as a part-time worker in Junes. She is the eldest daughter of a family who owns the local liquor store Konishi Liquors, who failed to compete with the nearby Junes Department Store and was shut down like many other stores. Her brother Naoki is a junior of Yu.

She was first seen talking with her brother Naoki about some food of his that she ate on the first day Yu came to Inaba.

Yu meets her as she takes a break from her part-time job working in Junes. She informs Yu that Yosuke's father is the manager of Junes and that she is Yosuke's co-worker. She sees Yosuke as a nosy little brother and calls him "Hana-chan" as a way of playfully teasing him. Yosuke harbors romantic feelings towards Saki, but fails to confess to her and this love is unrequited as a result. Saki is later revealed to be the person who first found Mayumi Yamano's body, making her nervous and scared.

Later, when Yu, Chie Satonaka, and Yosuke watch the Midnight Channel, the trio observes a blurring image of a female student resembling Saki Konishi, who appears to be writhing in pain. The next day, the Yasogami High students are tragically informed that Saki Konishi was found murdered. Her corpse was hung upside-down on an antenna. Devastated by her death, Yosuke requests Yu take him into the Midnight Channel, as Yu is the only one capable of entering the TV.

Saki's inner thoughts are later revealed when Yu and Yosuke investigate the Midnight Channel's Twisted Shopping District. In truth, Saki hated Yosuke because her family liquor store's sales were falling because of the opening of Junes' Inaba Branch, whose manager was the father of Yosuke. Furthermore, her decision to take a job as a part-time worker in Junes greatly irritated her family, and such, her father would often scold her for her decisions. After being a witness of the murder case, her dilemma grew worse as her classmates and friends talked behind her back. She confessed that, in reality, she was greatly irritated by Yosuke and only befriended him because he is the son of the manager of Junes. It is also unknown if she encountered her Shadow Self. After dealing with Shadow Yosuke, Yosuke accepts his inner feelings.

Despite her distaste towards Yosuke, which Yosuke himself is forced to acknowledge, Saki Konishi is arguably the main motivation Yosuke has for venturing into the Midnight Channel and solving its mysteries. Even after seeing her thoughts, Yosuke still considers her a good person at heart, and gets angry when people badmouth her.

In the final stages of their investigation, the group is able to hear Taro Namatame's story and Saki's involvement in it. After he observed Yamano die following her appearance on the Midnight Channel, he then saw Saki on the channel. Fearing that a similar fate awaited Saki, Namatame attempted to warn her to be careful, but this failed to keep her from dying, thus instigating his efforts to save people by forcibly throwing them into the TV, which unbeknownst to him was putting them in mortal danger.

Shortly afterwards, the group is able to hear the account of the true culprit, Tohru Adachi, about what really happened to Saki. He questioned Saki as a witness much more than was normal for a person with such a strong alibi. The night they saw her on the Midnight Channel, Saki was questioned by Adachi at the police station. Adachi aggressively tried to flirt with her and she slapped him, causing him to react violently by picking her up and throwing her into the TV, causing Shadows to kill her the next day. Unlike the previous case with Yamano, Adachi deliberately threw Saki into the TV knowing full well not only that he could but that she would be in mortal danger.

## Appearance

Saki has thick, long, wavy light-brown hair and brown eyes. At school she wears a standard school uniform but with black boots.

## Personality

Since Saki dies, most of her personality and daily behavior is unknown, and she was unable to provide any first-hand accounts herself. The only information that the protagonist gets about her is from Yosuke and Naoki Konishi, the former being her co-worker and the latter being her brother. Naoki sees her as a playful yet surprisingly mature individual, and after coming to terms with his feelings, realizes that he misses her dearly.

At first, she seems like a kind person who was nice and supportive to Yosuke. However, it is revealed that she was actually annoyed with Yosuke and quite stressed about her life, with a lot of pent-up angst and a desire to get away from it all. It is also revealed that she believed her family, friends, and neighbors had resented her all along because she worked at Junes, the giant store that was slowly driving her family's liquor shop out of business.

In Puella Persona Magia Q, As Uwasa, her personality transforms into a personality that is so full of hate and feud against Yosuke that she tries to kill him. Fortunately, the Investigative team and the Persona-Users, with the magical girls, came to his aid in time.

## Relationship

### Yosuke Hanamura

Saki is Yosuke's senior. She will always guide and help him as a senior, even though her heart hates him a lot.

## Gallery

Concept art of SakiConcept art of Saki 2Saki Konishi on a foggy daySaki finding the corpse of Mayumi YamanoSaki talks to Yosuke Hanamura at Junes CourtA blurry image of Saki seen in the Midnight ChannelSaki's body hung on the antennaSaki's corpse hung on the antenna.A photo of Saki in Yosuke's phone