Makoto Yuki

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Makoto Yuki
Other Name(s)	S.E.E.S. BoyPersona 5 Royal Minato ArisatoPersona 3 (Manga) Sakuya ShiomiPersona 3 Stage Plays
Date of Birth	Unknown, 1992-1993
Age	16-17
Height	170 cm (5’7”)
School(s)	Gekkoukan High School
Occupation(s)	Student
Affiliation(s)	S.E.E.S. Nyx Annihilation Squad
Arcana	The Fool Death Judgement Universe
Persona(s)	Orpheus Thanatos Orpheus Telos Messiah AttisPersona 5 Royal SiegfriedPersona 5 Royal
Voice Actor(s)	Akira Ishida (JA) Yuri LowenthalPersona 3 Persona 3 FES Persona 3 Portable Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight (EN) Aleks LePersona 3 Reload (EN) Tom RaczkoPersona 3 The Movie: Spring of Birth Persona 3 The Movie: Midsummer Knight's Dream Persona 3 The Movie: Falling Down Persona 3 The Movie: Winter of Rebirth (GER)

Makoto Yuki is a playable character and the protagonist of Persona 3 and its spin-offs. In Persona 3 Portable, his female counterpart is Kotone Shiomi. The name Makoto Yuki was originally the protagonist's name in the Persona 3 The Movie tetralogy, later adopted for Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight. The name became the protagonist's default name in the 2023 re-release of Persona 3 Portable, which the game defaults to if its text language settings are changed.

Profile

Makoto Yuki is a teenager of average towards slim contexture for his age. His hair, like his eyes, is a shade lighter than navy blue, and is longer than average, styled with a long fringe that covers one of his eyes. As his classmates, he wears the Gekkoukan High School Winter Uniform in most of the media, also wearing his ATH-model headphones and the S.E.E.S. armband. Other outfits he wears lean into a gray, beige and/or blue palette, as shown by his Winter and Summer outfits, as well as his yukata.

In Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, he also wears a modified Gekkoukan High School Uniform, featuring a white shirt with red writing, more slim headphones and pop-patterned sneakers. In Persona 3 Reload, he gains an upgraded Battle Gear that integrates a redesigned armband that allows him to use Theurgy attacks. As a minor addition, he also wears gloves.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Makoto Yuki.

Makoto is a Wild Card who starts with the Persona of Orpheus. By visiting the Velvet Room, he can fuse new Personas and swap them in battle, setting him apart from his allies in S.E.E.S. who can only use one Persona. As the protagonist of Persona 3, he must be in the party at all times, and if he dies, then the player receives a game over. In Reload, he gains a new ability called Theurgy and unlocks new useable Theurgies as he fuses new Personas. Additionally, by researching internet websites on the Iwatodai dorm PC, he can learn new field skills for ambushing Shadows in the Tartarus.

Game Appearances

Persona 3

The Journey

On April 6th, 2009, Makoto moves to Tatsumi Port Island as a transfer student to Gekkoukan High School. Three days later, he enters the Dark Hour, a supernatural 25th hour where Shadows roam, is caught up in a Shadow attack on the Iwatodai Dormitory and awakens to the power of Persona, with the initial Persona Orpheus. Makoto learns that his dormmates are actually members of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (S.E.E.S.), a group dedicated to fighting Shadows. Makoto is inducted into S.E.E.S. and named their field commander due to his unique ability to control multiple Personas, the Wild Card.

Over the course of the next several months, with the aid of the inhabitants of the Velvet Room—Igor and Elizabeth—Makoto leads S.E.E.S. in battle in order to bring an end to the Dark Hour. Together, S.E.E.S. explores Tartarus, a massive tower that appears in place of Gekkoukan High during the Dark Hour.

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Eventually, S.E.E.S. defeats the twelve fragments, but the Dark Hour is not destroyed. They learn destroying the fragments will allow Death to return to its full power and summon the maternal being, Nyx, and bring about the Fall, the end of humanity.

Death later manifests in the form of new Gekkoukan transfer student, Ryoji Mochizuki. It is revealed that in 1999, the Kirijo Group's experiments on the Shadows went disastrously awry, unleashing the most powerful shadow, Death. The Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Aigis pursued and battled Death, causing a car crash that killed Makoto's parents and left him the sole survivor. Aigis, unable to defeat Death, sealed a portion of its power in Makoto.

Ryoji offers Makoto a choice—kill him and allow SEES to live out the remainder of their lives in blissful ignorance, or let him live and make a futile attempt to delay the inevitable. In the bad ending, Makoto kills Ryoji and is last seen ignorantly singing karaoke right before the Fall. In the good ending, Makoto spares Ryoji. On January 31st, 2010, S.E.E.S. ascends to the top of Tartarus and defeats Ryoji's true form, Nyx Avatar, in battle, but are powerless to stop the Fall. Makoto ascends to face Nyx and expends all of his life force to create a seal to protect the Earth from her.

Makoto spends the next two months living a regular life with his friends before dying peacefully in Aigis's arms on March 5, 2010.

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The Answer

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After Makoto's death, the collective manifestation of S.E.E.S.' grief over Makoto's death creates a new Shadow nest called the Abyss of Time. S.E.E.S. investigates and learns that Makoto's soul is bound to a Great Seal in order to prevent Erebus, the collective manifestation of humanity's desire for death, from reaching Nyx and bringing about the Fall. After S.E.E.S. defeats Erebus, Elizabeth departs the Velvet Room on a journey to find a way to save Makoto from his fate.

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Persona 3 Portable

Makoto returns as the optional male protagonist in Persona 3 Portable. There are no significant story or character changes between Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable.

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

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Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

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Persona 5 Royal

Makoto is a DLC boss character in the Challenge Battles mode. He has two difficulties, level 50 and level ???. The Personas he uses in the fight are Orpheus, Attis, Siegfried, Thanatos and Messiah.

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight

Makoto is one of the main dancers in Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight He is the main performer for the songs Mass Destruction (P3 + P3F ver.), Battle Hymn of the Soul (Daisuke Asakura Remix) and Brand New Days (Yuyoyuppe Remix). Mitsuru describes his dancing as "still yet powerful". Makoto is an extremely versatile dancer and can easily adjust his dancing style to suit his partners whether it's ballet, ballroom, or even hip hop.

Persona 3 Reload

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Anime Appearances

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Other Appearances

Star Ocean: Anamnesis

Makoto was an ACE 5★ Attacker unit who could be obtained in the gacha during the Persona 5 Royal collaboration. His collab artwork for the game was drawn by Eito Nishikawa. His skills were mostly named after things from Persona 3.

• Battle Skills: Agi, Triple Thrust, Slash Attribute Combo, Brave Blade
• Rush Combo: Orpheus: Vorpal Blade
• Talents: S.E.E.S., Orpheus, Aptitude for the Dark Hour, Root of Salvation

Nomenclature

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The family name is derived from the Yūki district of Shimōsa Province, in the present-day Ibaraki Prefecture. The given name means "reason" or "logic."

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	結城 理	Yūki Makoto
Russian	Макото Юки Makoto Yuki	Makoto Yuki

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