Chie Satonaka

Chie Satonaka
里中 千枝
P4P4RP4APQ1PQ2P4D Artwork from Persona 4 Artwork from Persona 4 Revival Artwork from Persona 4 Arena Artwork from Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Artwork from Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Artwork from Persona 4: Dancing All Night
Other Name(s)	The Carnivore Who's Discarded WomanhoodPersona 4 Arena Spunky Dragon With Deadly LegsPersona 4 Arena
Date of Birth	July 30, 1994
Age	16-17
Height	158 cm (5’2”)
Blood Type	B
School(s)	Yasogami High School
Affiliation(s)	Investigation Team
Arcana	Chariot
Persona(s)	Tomoe Suzuka Gongen Haraedo-no-OkamiPersona 4 Golden
Voice Actor(s)	Yui Horie (JA) Tracey RooneyPersona 4 (EN) Erin FitzgeraldPersona 4 Golden Persona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona 4: Dancing All Night Persona 4 The Animation (EN) Anne YatcoPersona 4 Revival (EN) Chen YangPersona 4 Revival (ZH)
Live-Action Actor(s)	Minami TsukuiVisualive Persona 4 Visualive Persona 4: The Evolution Makoto KoichiPersona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold

Chie Satonaka is a character in Persona 4. She is a student at Yasogami High School and a member of the Investigation Team.

Profile

Chie is a 2nd year Yasogami High student in the protagonist's class. She befriends the protagonist on his first day of school and later walks him home while introducing him to Inaba. When the story starts, she has been long time friends with Yukiko Amagi and she has a pet dog named Muku that was originally Yukiko's before her parents made her get rid of it. Chie became acquainted with Yosuke Hanamura before the story began, evident by how she lent him her Trial of the Dragon DVD. The two go back and forth with one another: He calls her to tell her dirty jokes and gets her involved in his various schemes throughout the school year, and she is unafraid to mess with him back. The protagonist learns from her childhood friend Takeshi Kouno that Chie has been a fighter since kindergarten, often helping out those in need.

Chie is interested in martial arts, loves meat, and, combined with her personality, she comes off as a tomboy. She has various traits that contrast with her image, such as being afraid of bugs and darkness. In the TV World, Chie meets her Shadow which reveals Chie's struggle with her femininity and jealousy of other girls. Chie compares herself to other girls and wants to be recognized as a girl: She's jealous of Yukiko's feminine looks, she forces Yosuke to go with her while tailing Kanji so a boy will be there to protect her, and she speaks with a feminine Japanese pronoun throughout all of her appearances.

After confronting her Shadow and gaining her own Persona, Chie becomes one of the founding members of the Investigation Team. While she is characterized as not being good at academics and being more hands-on, she contributes to solving the murder case by saying whatever happens to be on her mind at the time. She is also known to keep track of gossip, being the one who introduces the Midnight Channel to the group and keeping track of information about Mayumi Yamano's affair.

Chie cares about fashion as much as anyone else and has realistically dyed hair. She wears the Yasogami High uniform with a bright green and yellow jacket over it that she accessorizes with cheap, retro-style can badges, one being for the Lexy Dolls. In the TV World, she wears bright lime green oval-shaped glasses. Design-wise, Chie's jacket was a turning point for Shigenori Soejima. He wanted to include a character in a lame jersey-style jacket to emphasize the Japanese rural stereotype, but he didn't like how the school's colors looked on a jersey jacket. Instead, he tried making Chie's jacket look more retro, and this ended up defining how he would include un-cool things because of the game's rural setting while still being able to make them look stylish.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, including Social Link information, see Gameplay:Chie Satonaka.

Chie is the Chariot Social Link. She becomes a playable party member in April with the Persona Tomoe. In line with her love of martial arts, she is mostly a physical damage and critical hit oriented character, but also learns a few Bufu spells.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 4	A classmate of the protagonist's who has lived her whole life in Inaba. She's active, talkative, and outgoing, which has won her lots of friends in school. She seems aggressive at first, but doesn't always deal with crises well. She's a fan of kung-fu movies and is always on the lookout for new kicking techniques.
Persona 4 Golden	Another of the protagonist's classmates. She's active and cheerful, and best friends with Yukiko. She's a fan of kung fu movies, from which she has become a self-taught kung fu expert.
Persona 4 Arena	A 3rd-year Yasogami High student who was on the Investigation Team. She loves steak, kung fu, and justice. She uses her Persona, Tomoe, to get in close and KO the opponent with deadly kicks!
Persona 4: Dancing All Night	A member of the Investigation Team, and best friends with Yukiko, who is in the same class as her. With her kung fu-tinged dancing, she's sure to wow the crowd.

Game Appearances

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Chie is the protagonist's classmate in class 2-2. On April 12th, after Kinshiro Morooka introduces him to the class, Chie asks if the protagonist can sit in the empty seat beside her, and later invites him to walk home with her and Yukiko Amagi. On their way out, Yosuke Hanamura approaches Chie to return her copy of Trial of the Dragon and quickly runs away. Chie opens it up to find her favorite DVD broken. Angry, she chases after Yosuke and he hits the edge of a desk. At the school gates, a guy from another school approaches Yukiko and tries to ask her out, and Chie explains to her friend after that he was trying to ask her out.

As they walk through Inaba, Chie learns that the protagonist has come to live there for a year while his parents are overseas. She gives him a rundown of things in Inaba and hypes up Yukiko's family inn, the Amagi Inn, as being the best thing in Inaba. Yukiko is embarrassed by Chie's antics and gets even more flustered when Chie starts asking the protagonist if he might be interested in Yukiko, who has never had a boyfriend before. The three come across a crime scene where a dead body was discovered. The detective on the scene is the protagonist's uncle, Ryotaro Dojima. He hopes the girls get along with his nephew and advises them to return home immediately.

After school on April 13th, Chie overhears Yosuke's offer to treat the protagonist to a steak and invites herself along since Yosuke owes her for breaking her DVD. She complains when he takes them to Junes, the store his father manages, as she was expecting something nicer. At Junes, Yosuke spots Saki Konishi, a 3rd year at Yasogami High. Chie explains to the protagonist that Saki's parents own a store in the struggling Central Shopping District, but she works part-time at Junes. Chie teases Yosuke over his crush on Saki and tells him about the Midnight Channel, an urban legend about watching a TV alone at midnight on a rainy night to see your soulmate. Since it will be raining that night, she suggests they all watch it.

At school on April 14th, Chie mentions she saw a girl on the Midnight Channel. As she talks to Yosuke and the protagonist, they realize they all saw the same girl but are not sure what it means. Chie is interested in TVs since her family has been thinking about getting a larger TV, and Yosuke takes her to Junes to show her what they have. Yosuke and Chie spot the protagonist putting his hand into a TV, freak out, and all end up falling into the TV and landing in the TV World. Unsure of where to go, they wander around and find an apartment room full of defaced posters. Chie is creeped out by their surroundings, begins feeling unwell, and wants to look for an exit. When the three return to the studio-looking area, they are approached by something that Chie assumes is a monkey or a bear. Chie yells at it, and it gets scared. The bear warns them that people have been getting thrown in here recently and helps them return to the real world. Once back in Junes, Yosuke realizes the posters back in the apartment were of Misuzu Hiiragi, whom Chie also recognizes due to Hiiragi's husband's affair with the recently deceased Mayumi Yamano. All three feel unwell after their first trip to the TV and go home for the day.

On April 15th, Chie tells the protagonist she is shocked at Saki's sudden passing and can't believe how their peers at school are standing around and gossiping about a girl resembling Saki on the Midnight Channel. Yosuke reveals that he, too, watched the Midnight Channel the previous night and saw Saki in pain. He is convinced the TV World is related, wants to go back in. Chie thinks they should leave it to the police, but still goes to Junes with the boys. Yosuke hands her a rope to hold while they go back into the TV. The rope breaks, and a worried Chie comments on how she knew this would not work. An unspecificied time later, the boys come out of the TV unharmed, and Chie gets upset and throws the broken rope at Yosuke before running off.

When Chie arrives at school on the morning of April 16th, Yosuke tries to apologize about the day before, but Chie drops that and immediately asks them about Yukiko. She watched the Midnight Channel the previous night and is confident she saw Yukiko on there. Furthermore, she has been unable to contact Yukiko. Yosuke brings up the possibility that Yukiko has gone missing and is inside the TV. Chie tries to call the Amagi Inn instead, and manages to get ahold of Yukiko, who was busy with a large guest group. However, that night, a clear image of Yukiko dressed as a princess running into a castle appears on the Midnight Channel.

The following day, Chie goes to Yukiko's house since she will not pick up her phone and learns that she has disappeared. Later, she finds Yosuke and the protagonist at the police station after they were caught at Junes with weapons. Chie gets angry when Yosuke mentions the police are speculating that Yukiko might be connected to Yamano's murder. She tells the guys about Daidara Metalworks, where they can get new weapons, and suggests hiding them under their school uniforms before heading back into the TV. Once inside, Chie introduces herself to Teddie and demands he take them to where Yukiko is, which turns out to be the castle shown on the Midnight Channel. Anxious because the Yukiko she saw on TV last night was not acting like Yukiko, especially when she talked about scoring a stud, Chie runs off into the castle by herself.

The protagonist, Yosuke, and Teddie eventually find Chie on the 2nd floor of the castle. They hear Yukiko's voice talking about how Chie is so kind and always looks after her. After this, Other Chie manifests. Other Chie mocks Yukiko's voice for calling her "kind", and says that Chie is pathetic: Chie is jealous of Yukiko's femininity and looks, and feels inferior to Yukiko as both a person and a girl. The doppelganger loves how Yukiko depends on her, and that dependency is why they will always be friends. Chie rejects the idea that Other Chie is her after hearing this, even as Yosuke tries to warn her not to, and it transforms into Shadow Chie.

After defeating the Shadow, Yosuke and the protagonist encourage Chie to confront herself. She admits that part of her does feel that way, and she is able to accept her Shadow and obtain her own Persona, Tomoe. But she clarifies to Yosuke and the protagonist that her friendship with Yukiko is real, even if she feels inadequate. Chie collapses after, but she wants to keep going, knowing that Yukiko is still inside. Yosuke and Teddie explain they have until the fog settles in Inaba to rescue her, and Chie finally relents. Back at the entrance to the TV World, Teddie creates Chie her own glasses. The group forms the Investigation Team, and Chie agrees with Yosuke about the protagonist being their leader.

Persona 4 Golden

Chie is involved in multiple new scenes for Golden.

On May 7th, Chie is frightened by the lightning and gets scared when the power goes out at school during a storm. She wishes for the lightning to strike Yosuke instead since he keeps teasing her.

By July 25th, Yosuke reports that his scooter has been fixed after Operation Up Close and Personal. One of Chie's relatives is a motorcycle fanatic and she thinks they might have a scooter she can borrow. Her, Yukiko, and Rise all decide to get their licenses, too, so they can ride their scooters to the beach during summer vacation with the guys. On August 15th, if the protagonist helps out at Junes, Chie tells him that the girls all have their licenses, and the group finally rides to Shichiri Beach together on August 23rd. Chie races Kanji, taunting him for being slow. When Kanji loses his speedo and covers up in seaweed, Chie and the other girls are all grossed out and run away. After, they play in the sand with Teddie. Chie wants to play a game where the loser has to buy kalbi skewers for the others.

On August 30th, Chie watches the fireworks with the rest of the Investigation Team, Nanako, and Dojima. In October, Yosuke asks Rise to have a live event at Junes, and she agrees, but only if the rest of the group performs with her. On October 8th and 9th, Chie learns how to play the trumpet for the event. Everyone performs True Story together on the 10th and watches as Teddie goes crowd surfing.

The group plans to welcome in the New Year together at Tatsuhime Shrine. The boys expect the girls to come in kimonos and are disappointed when they show up in regular clothes. Chie scolds the guys for getting all worked up over nothing, but she is thankful they can all spend New Year's together. After the clock strikes midnight, Chie notices that it has started snowing.

Yosuke organizes a skiing and snowboarding trip with an overnight stay at a guest house. They originally planned to go early in January, but the protagonist falls ill, and the trip is delayed until February 11th, after their exams. Chie and Yosuke go snowboarding together, and Yosuke thinks Chie is doing pretty well for a first timer. When the group takes a break, Chie expresses her disappointment at the skiing resort serving white fish that night for dinner instead of beef or another kind of meat. When the group tells scary stories at night, Chie gets frightened, and ends up hugging Rise when Teddie turns off the lights. On the 12th, Chie and Yosuke go snowboarding together again before heading home.

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Chie's Story Mode

Chie's story mode is one of the default story modes.

Other Characters

Chie appears in the story modes for some of the other characters.

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Appearances in Non-Megami Tensei Media

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CR Persona 4 The Pachinko

Chie is one of the selectable avatars for the pachinko machine. When selected, his 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 curry cooking, and another where she tries to perform Galactic Punt.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

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Kotodaman

Chie appears as a unit in the Persona collab for the mobile game Kotodaman. She was in the Persona collab gacha during the original run in 2020, and once again during the rerun in 2024. As a game unit, Chie is a 5★ water-attribute unit who can be used to form words using the syllables that make up her initials: ち・ぢ and さ・ざ. She can be evolved into a 6★ unit. Her 3+ and 4+ syllable skills are named Rampage and Agneyastra, two skills that her Persona learns during Persona 4.

Trivia

• In Japanese, Chie speaks with the feminine personal pronoun あたし Atashi.
• Before the game begins, Chie lends Yosuke a DVD called Trial of the Dragon. In Japanese, this is named The Legend of Seiryū. This is a reference to a Japanese TV drama about a female martial artist called Seiryū Densetsu: Legend of St. Dragon but replaces the 聖龍 in the title with Jackie Chan's Chinese stage name (成龍) with Chie still pronouncing it seiryū (which is the on'yomi reading of Jackie Chan's Chinese stage name, though Jackie Chan is not actually called this in Japanese).
• Early on, Chie had been established as a party member who would fight using kicks. During the character design phase, Soejima came up with the idea of Chie being a kung fu fanatic to compliment her fighting style.
• Chie's follow-up attack where she kicks a Shadow away, known as Galactic Punt in English, was inspired by how a battle designer thought she just looked like of the kind of character who would go up and punt something away.
• In her profile in the Persona 4 Official Design Works, Chie's weight is unstated, but there is a comment from her saying, "I have an excuse - muscle weighs more than fat".
• In her Yasogami High social media profile in Persona Club P4, Chie says her favorite food is meat, her favorite animals are hamsters and bunnies and other small animals, but she considers math and insects to be the natural enemies of all mankind. Her favorite movies are all kung fu movies. The social clubs she has joined are "Trial of the Dragon", "Burning Dragon", "Fans of Animals with Tiny Eyes", and "Meat Lovers". Her greeting is, "Check this! Hi-yah!" Her inbox has a message from Yukiko, asking Chie to return her world history notebook. Her Arena Ultimax remastered profile lists the same likes and dislikes, while also adding that Chie is good at her self-taught kung fu and generally athletic, but terrible at cooking.
• The developer Q&A about Chie reveals some background information:
  • Cats are attracted to Chie, such as the one on the roof of Yasogami High, because she smells like meat and carries snacks with meat in them that she sometimes shares with the cats
  • Aside from meat, Chie enjoys junk food and sweets. Namely, the croquettes from Souzai Daigaku and the snacks sold at Shiroku Store.
  • Chie says that a cup of noodles before club activities hits the spot. The "club" she is referring to is the Kung Fu Research Club which the protagonist sometimes joins her for during her Social Link. On rainy days, or if she has spare change, it becomes the Meat Research Club.
  • Chie's interest in kung fu comes from growing up around boys and consuming media aimed at boys.
• In Golden, Chie's new outfits have some easter eggs:
  • Her scooter helmet says "29". Chie likes meat (肉, pronounced "niku"), and 2 and 9 can individually be pronounced "ni" and "ku".
  • Her midwinter jacket says "SHIZUYASHIZU" on the back. "Shizu ya Shizu" is a song and dance performed by the court dancer lady Shizuka. Shizuka was a shirabyoshi, who performed dressed in men's clothing.
  • Her snowboarding jacket has a swirl symbol on the back known as a Tomoe and the text surrounding it describes the look of the Tomoe, saying, "three comma-shaped figures in a circle".
• For the 30th anniversary celebration of the Persona series at Sea Paradise, Chie is paired with a mahi-mahi.

Nomenclature

The family name means "in the village," and the given name means "a thousand branches."

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Chie Satonaka
Japanese	里中 千枝 Satonaka Chie
Simplified Chinese	里中 千枝 Lǐzhōng qiānzhī
Traditional Chinese	里中 千枝 Lǐzhōng qiānzhī
Korean	사토나카 치에 Satonaka chie

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