Rise Kujikawa

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Rise Kujikawa is a character in Persona 4. She is a pop idol and member of the Investigation Team, as well as a first year student at Yasogami High School.

	Risette The Scandalous Superstar IdolPersona 4 Arena Ultimax
	June 1, 1995
	15-16Persona 4 Persona 4 Golden 17Persona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Persona 4: Dancing All Night Persona x Detective Naoto
	155cm (5'1")
	41kg
	AB
	Yasogami High School
	Pop idol Student
	Investigation Team
	Lovers
	Himiko Kanzeon KouzeonPersona 4 Golden (Ultimate Persona)
	Rie Kugimiya (JA) Laura BaileyPersona 4 Persona 4 Golden Persona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona 4 The Animation (EN) Ashly BurchPersona 4: Dancing All Night (EN)
	Rie KugimiyaVisualive Persona 4 (Voice Over) Yuriya SuzukiVisualive Persona 4: The Evolution Natsuko AsoPersona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold

Profile

Rise is a famous idol who is first seen in the game's opening movie as part of an advertisement for Quelorie Magic. To her fans, she is also known as Risette. She becomes a major part of the story starting in June when she moves to Inaba to live with her grandma out of disillusionment with her career. She begins working part-time at her grandma's shop, Marukyu Tofu, in the Central Shopping District and attends Yasogami High School as a 1st year student.

When the Investigation Team first meets her, Rise seems almost drained and exhausted from her life as an idol. Originally, she became an idol because she wanted to try and change who she was. But now she finds herself struggling with her sense of self, unsure who the real her is: Is it the ordinary girl Rise or the idol Risette? While being rescued from the TV World, Rise gains a Persona and later joins the Investigation Team as their new Navigator.

After confronting her Shadow, Rise has a more energetic and personable personality. At times, she gets easily worked up and expressive. She becomes playful and flirty with the protagonist, insistent on trying to romance him. Coming from the idol industry, Rise shows a level of comfort with her figure that the other girls do not have. She enjoys spicy food, but like Chie and Yukiko, she lacks in cooking ability, and ends up creating kitchen concoctions like a completely red omelette and habanero chocolate.

In Persona 4, Rise wears a Yasogami High School uniform that she accessorizes with pink earrings and thigh high stockings. Inside the TV World, she also wears pink and white oval glasses that Teddie made for her. During Persona 4 Dancing, she has a new pink and white idol outfit with houndstooth pattern accents.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Rise Kujikawa.

Rise is the Lovers Social Link. She takes Teddie's place as the team's navigator starting in July with her Persona, Himiko. In Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Himiko gains combat capabilities which Rise uses to fight in the P-1 Climax.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	The high-school idol Risette, who is preparing to make her comeback to the entertainment industry. She was originally a supporting member in the Investigation Team, but her Persona Himiko evolved, allowing her to stand on the front line. She'll take the stage with a storm of sound!
Persona 4: Dancing All Night	An extremely popular idol managed by the showbiz agency "Takura Productions", striving to reach the top of her industry. She plans on returning to her idol career this summer after her hiatus. She's been doing well for herself after leaving Inaba for the city.

Game Appearances

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Persona 4 Arena

Rise does not have her own story mode and is not a playable character, but she appears in the story modes for the other playable characters.

Persona 5

In Persona 5, Rise's posters can be seen in the subway.

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Novel Appearances

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Stage Play Appearances

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Other Appearances

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CR Persona 4 The Pachinko

Rise is one of the selectable avatars for the pachinko machine. When selected, her mini-portrait will appears on the player's stat screen and he does the voice over for the machine's functions. She is the subject of some probability events, such as one where she must retrieve a One More from a tree branch while standing on Kanji's back.

Trivia

• In the Persona 4 Official Design Works, art director and character designer Shigenori Soejima mentions how Rise was originally going to be a small town bully-type character, wearing a long skirt and wielding a bamboo shinai sword like the sukeban archetype. However, after Kanji Tatsumi was designated as the team's delinquent party member, Rise was moved to a more supportive role. Soejima redesigned her as an idol with an inner conflict and gave her pigtails with a lot of volume to contribute to her manufactured idol image, thinking that pigtails were something he only ever saw on television. He was also tempted to give her heterochromia, but he had set a rule for himself not to be too far-fetched with the designs in Persona 4.
• In her Yasogami High social media profile in Persona Club P4, Rise says she loves the Hagakure special from the secret menu at Hagakure Ramen in Iwatodai, she hates Japanese ginger and royal fern, she lists her favorite people as senpai and her grandmother, and her least favorite type of person is one who is indecisive and unreliable. The social clubs she is part of are "Cafes and Sweets in Okina City", "Tofu Lovers, Assemble!", "What do you think of Kanami Mashita?" and "Fans of Animals with Tiny Eyes". Her inbox has a message from Teddie about discovering the finest sweets around.
• The developer Q&A about Rise reveals some background information:
  • Rise mostly helps out doing prep at her grandma's tofu store during the morning.
  • Rise has been an idol for under two years. She has two photobooks and only one of her songs has been used in a commercial.
  • Rise doesn't have many CDs or photobooks yet because she didn't begin selling very well until recently.
  • Rise loves spicy food and is the type of person who judges food based on its color rather than its taste, hence why her cooking is disastrous. She has tried to make red tofu before, but her grandma doesn't like spicy food. The actual shop tofu comes out fine because her grandma is very traditional.
• Rise placed #6 in a Japanese popularity poll of female party members with 137 votes.

Nomenclature

Her family, Kujikawa, name means "old merciful river."

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	久慈川 りせ りせちー	Kujikawa Rise Risechī

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