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 also been long time friends with Yukiko Amagi. Chie is interested in martial arts, loves meat, and comes off as a tomboy due to these interests. At the same time, Chie shows a struggle with her femininity: Her Shadow reveals that 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 very feminine Japanese pronoun throughout all of her appearances.
Chie is a founding member of the Investigation Team. While she is characterized as punching first and asking questions later, 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. At school, Chie was 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.
Chie cares about fashion as much as anyone else and has realistically dyed hair.[1] 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.
Gameplay
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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
Episode P4
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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.
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.[2]
Trivia
- Before the game begins, Chie lends Yosuke a DVD called Trial of the Dragon. In Japanese, this is named The Legend of Seiryū[a]. This is a reference to a Japanese TV drama about a female martial artist called Seiryū Densetsu: Legend of St. Dragon[b] 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).
- 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.[3]
- 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 inbox has a message from Yukiko, asking Chie to return her world history notebook.[4] 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.[5]
- The developer Q&A about Chie reveals some background information:[6]
- 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.
- 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.
Nomenclature
Names in Other Languages
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里中 千枝 |
Satonaka Chie. The family name means "in the village," and the given name means "a thousand branches."
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Notes
- ↑ Japanese: 成龍伝説, Hepburn Seiryū densetsu
- ↑ Japanese: 聖龍伝説, Hepburn Seiryū densetsu
References
- ↑ "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Famitsu (2008). Japanese. p. 52. ISBN-13: 978-4757745087.
- ↑ Kotodaman - Chie Satonaka Evaluation and Status. Published November 4, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2024. GameWith. Article.
- ↑ "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Famitsu (2008). Japanese. p. 44. ISBN-13: 978-4757745087.
- ↑ "Chapter 1: Characters", Persona Club P4, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Staff. Published by Famitsu (2009). Japanese. p. 29. ISBN-13: 475774630X.
- ↑ Chie Satonaka Character Introduction. Published December 16, 2021. Retrieved August 25, 2024. Twitter.
- ↑ "Chapter 1: Chie Satonaka: Questions We Asked the Developers", Persona Club P4. p. 32.
