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This article is about the location inside of the television. For the urban legend around Inaba, see the Midnight Channel.

The TV World is a location in the Persona series.

Gameplay

Studio

When the protagonist enters the TV World in Persona 4 and Persona 4 Golden, they will be in the studio-looking area that serves as the staging area for activities in the TV World. From the studio, the protagonist can speak to party members to move to the dungeon entrances, talk to the fox for SP recovery (starting with the Steamy Bathhouse), enter the Velvet Room, save, or leave. Leaving causes time to pass from afternoon to evening. At the entrance level of each dungeon, the protagonist can speak to party members to add them to his party before entering the dungeon.

Dungeons

Dungeon	Owner	Accessible	Deadline	Note
Desolate Bedroom	Mayumi Yamano	April 14th	—	Visited automatically on April 14th
Twisted Shopping District	Saki Konishi	April 15th	—	Visited automatically on April 15th
Yukiko's Castle	Yukiko Amagi	April 18th	April 29th	Visited automatically on April 17th
Steamy Bathhouse	Kanji Tatsumi	May 19th	June 4th
Marukyu Striptease	Rise Kujikawa	June 25th	July 9th
Void Quest	Mitsuo Kubo	July 29th	August 12th
Secret Laboratory	Naoto Shirogane	September 17th	October 5th
Heaven	Nanako Dojima^[1]	November 6th	November 20th
Magatsu Inaba Magatsu Mandala	Spoiler	December 8th	December 24th
Hollow Forest	Spoiler	February 13th		Golden exclusive. Must complete the Aeon Social Link and ask Margaret to look for them on New Years.
Yomotsu Hirasaka	Spoiler	March 20th		Only accessible during the True Ending

Optional Bosses

After the fog deadlines, optional bosses will spawn on the boss floors of each dungeon, from Yukiko's Castle up to Heaven. Defeating them rewards the party with new equipment and the protagonist gains Courage +1.

Game Appearances

Persona 4

The TV World is first visited on April 14th from the large screen TV in the Junes electronics department. It becomes a reoccurring location as the Investigation Team see people on the Midnight Channel and then go into the TV World to rescue them.

Once inside the TV World, the Investigation Team can summon their Personas to fight against Shadows. Typically, Shadows only sense danger from Persona users and are only aggressive to them while leaving non-Persona users alone, hence why the victims who are dropped into the TV World can survive on their own for so long. However, as explained throughout the game first by Teddie and later Ameno-sagiri, the weather in the real world and the TV World is opposite: When the weather is foggy in the real world, then it becomes clear in the TV World. Furthermore, the Shadows hate the truth, and when the fog clears in the TV World, the Shadows go berserk, lash out and attack even non-Persona users, and this leads to the dead bodies that turn up in Inaba.

Over the course of the game, the Investigation Team rescues victims from Yukiko's Castle during April, the Steamy Bathhouse during May/June, Marukyu Striptease during June/July, Void Quest during August, the Secret Laboratory during September/October, and Heaven during November. If the protagonist can identify the true culprit in December, then the team will also access Magatsu Inaba and Magatsu Mandala, leading to the good ending. If the protagonist can also identify who gave him his powers, then the team will gain access to Yomotsu Hirasaka and the true ending. The team's navigators must first get hints and information about the victims in order to find their presence in the TV World, leading to investigation sequences that require the protagonist to ask about the victims around town before the dungeons unlock. The team's progress is tracked through the Fool and Judgement Social Links.