Yukari Takeba

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Yukari Takeba is a playable character in Persona 3. She is a 2nd year student at Gekkoukan High School and a member of S.E.E.S.

Profile

Yukari is a normal and well-adjusted girl, very social and empathetic, with an interest in fashion. She is generally popular at school and is known for kindness and extroversion. Yukari has a sibling-like relationship with Junpei, and is initially jealous and suspicious of Mitsuru for being the popular student council president and for her ties with the Kirijo Group. Her father died before the events of the story, and she has a poor relationship with her mother. During Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Yukari is going to school while working part-time as a model and acting on Featherman V.

Yukari has light brown hair curled around her shoulders. She's often seen with her pink sweater or other pink attire, as it is her favorite color. Lead character designer Shigenori Soejima has stated her design is one of his favorites. He comments that he designed Yukari with a contemporary look, which caused her to be popular with the development team during the making of the game.^[2]

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Yukari Takeba.

Game Appearances

Persona 3

The Journey

In the opening scenes of Persona 3, Yukari can be seen struggling with using her Evoker and eventually breaking down crying. The scene is depicted as Yukari struggling with suicidal thoughts and being unable to "pull the trigger". Yukari is the first person the protagonist meets when he arrives in Tatsumi Port Island. The protagonist first meets Yukari when she mistakes him for a shadow or enemy and seemingly threatens them with her evoker. Despite the awkward tension, Yukari helps the protagonist to their room. The following day, Yukari brings the protagonist to school upon Mitsuru's request and gives them a short tour.

On 4/9, during the Dark Hour, Yukari expresses her concerns to Mitsuru and Ikutsuki about the protagonist's privacy by watching him through the security cameras implanted in his room. Later, they get interrupted by Akihiko, who comes back to the door, injured and Magician shadow following closely behind. Now under attack, Mitsuru commands Yukari to escape with the protagonist out of the dorms through the back door. After Yukari reaches to them, she hands them a pocket knife as a last resort to use in self-defense. Upon reaching the back door, they realize it would be too dangerous to escape that way and divert to the roof. Once they arrived, they faced Arcana Magician, who climbed up to the roof of the dorms. Immediately, Yukari reaches for her Evoker and sets the barrel on her forehead. She hesitates to pull the trigger and receives a blow from Arcana Magician, launching her away with her Evoker dropping in front of the protagonist. The protagonist, picking up the Evoker, summons their Persona for the first time, Orpheus, with Yukari being the only one to see it in person. After the protagonist defeats the shadow, they fall unconscious from the exhaustion of using a Persona for the first time.

A week later, when the protagonist wakes up in the hospital from a coma, Yukari is seen sitting next to his hospital bed, watching over him. She thanks him for protecting her from the shadow and admires his “potential,” and comments on him “being like her.”

On 7/20, the first night of the Yakushima vacation, Takeharu Kirijo, Mitsuru’s father, tells Mitsuru to bring everyone into their vacation home to disclose the truth behind the Dark Hour. Once everyone is together, he explains how the Dark Hour came to be by an experiment gone wrong. Takeharu plays a video of the head scientist of the experiment, Eiichiro Takeba, the father of Yukari, who gave a video message about how he is at fault for allowing the project to go on any further. When the video concludes, Yukari processes the fact that her father may have been the cause of the entirety of the Dark Hour. Being hurt by the thought, she lashes out at Mitsuru, and in denial, she proceeds to run off outside. Now unsure what to do, Mitsuru asks the protagonist to go after Yukari.

The protagonist eventually finds Yukari at the beach, looking out into the sea. She pours out her thoughts about how she believed for the longest time that her father wasn’t at fault for any of this, saying how, with the awakening of her Persona, it could be considered fate. Ten years prior, she received a letter from the Kirijo Group about her father; she hoped that by cooperating with the Kirijo Group, she would learn more about her father. After watching the video, she expresses that it may have been for nothing. Now full of emotion, she lashes out at the protagonist but immediately apologizes. Calming down now, she asks the protagonist for advice, which he tells her to keep believing. Happy with that answer, Yukari thanks the protagonist for listening to her. To which then the protagonist can hug her. However, it is short-lived when Junpei comes to run it—feeling slightly embarrassed by the situation, Junpei and her talk briefly before returning.

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After Ikutsuki’s betrayal and death, S.E.E.S. has a meeting of what to do next. After the meeting ends, Fuuka stops Yukari. Fuuka tells Yukari that after going through the headmaster’s computer, she found out that the video shown by Mitsuru’s father was doctored, and she recovered the original, unedited footage.

Later that night, Yukari goes to her room to listen to the message her father left her. Her father mentions how he tried his best to stop the experiment but was forced to let the Arcana shadows go free and let them loose at the price that’ll “torment future generations.” Before the video ends, Eiichiro pleads that the video gets to Yukari, and he gives one final goodbye to her before the video ends from the explosion. Yukari breaks into tears after the video ends, though she raises her head back soon after and realizes that she was right to believe in him, forming a resolution in her heart and awakening to Isis.

During the trip to Kyoto, Yukari finds Mitsuru standing near the river bank after being worried that she’s been gone for a while. Mitsuru asks why she’s concerned for her when there’s no reason for them to keep fighting or be friends. Mitsuru continues to explain that everything she believed in was a lie. As Mitsuru continues to talk, she reveals her motives, explaining that she fought for her father to release the shame and guilt he had to carry from his father. In a spree of stress and anxiety in her voice, Yukari slaps Mitsuru to calm her down. Yukari finally reassures her that there is no conclusive answer to her concerns.

Yukari tells Mitsuru that she and her mom used to live in Kyoto after her dad died. Still, her mom used to “[throw] herself to random men,” as explained by Yukari, so to avoid being exposed to all that, Yukari would run away and go to the river bank, with only her belief in her father. Mitsuru cuts in, saying Yukari’s father was doing what he thought best. Yukari acknowledges it and elaborates that while it was all wrong, he did everything he could to fix it all at the cost of his life. Yukari then emphasizes that she fights to fulfill her dad’s final wish of ridding the world of Shadows and the Dark Hour.

Mitsuru also relates this to her father’s wishes and agrees with her. Now full of determination, Mitsuru asks Yukari to stand with her, to which Yukari bows in agreement. Yukari is happy to befriend Mitsuru properly and offers to take Mitsuru to the bathhouse. Mitsuru accepts the offer, and Yukari runs off ahead of her. After Yukari leaves, Mitsuru reaches her resolution and awakens to her Persona, Penthesilea.

Leading up to the final fight on 1/31, Yukari tells the Nyx Avatar that she is “tired of running away” and that “living means looking death square in the face,” Yukari, displaying her growth, continues to fight until the end by proving her loyalty to S.E.E.S. and further the protagonist when he’s in his final battle against Nyx, exclaiming she’ll risk her life for him. The protagonist eventually overcomes Nyx, seals her, and prevents the Fall from happening.

Leading on to March 5th, the Promised Day, during Mitsuru’s graduation speech, Yukari and the rest of S.E.E.S. remember the promise they made to each other and rush to the rooftop, where the protagonist gets to see Yukari and everyone else one last time before his death.

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