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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 student at Yasogami High who is 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. By the start of the story, she has also been long time friends with Yukiko Amagi. Chie has an interest in martial arts and 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 punch first and ask 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 has been 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 colored 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

For complete gameplay 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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Persona 4

Persona 4 Golden

Persona 4 Arena

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.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Episode P4

Episode P3

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

Persona 4: Dancing All Night

Persona 4: Colors

Anime Appearances

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Persona 4 The Animation

Persona 4 The Animation: The Factor of Hope

Persona 4 The Golden Animation

Manga Appearances

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Persona 4

Persona 4: The Magician

Persona 4: Yasoinaba Case File

Persona 4 Arena

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth: Roundabout

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Side:P3

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Side:P4

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Roundabout SP

Audio Drama Appearances

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Persona 4 Drama CD Vol. 1

Persona 4 Drama CD Vol. 2

Persona 4 Drama CD Vol. 3

Persona 4 Golden Drama CD Vol. 1

Persona 4 Golden Drama CD Vol. 2

Persona 4 The Animation Drama CD #1

Persona 4 The Animation Drama CD #2

A Day of the May Fool

Perfect Delivery

A Sense of Gratitude

Boo: I Bear a Grudge On You

Novel Appearances

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Persona 4: Kiri no Amnesia

Persona 4: Your Affection

Stage Play Appearances

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Visualive Persona 4

Visualive Persona 4: The Evolution

Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena

Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold

Other Appearances

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Weiß Schwarz

Persona 4 The Slot

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

For more information on this subject in BlazBlue, see Chie Satonaka on BlazBlue Wiki.

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.[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]

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages
Language Name Meaning
Japanese 里中 千枝 Satonaka Chie. The family name means "in the village," and the given name means "a thousand branches."

Gallery

Notes

  1. Japanese: 成龍伝説, Hepburn Seiryū densetsu
  2. Japanese: 聖龍伝説, Hepburn Seiryū densetsu

References

  1. "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Famitsu (2008). Japanese. p. 52. ISBN-13: 978-4757745087.
  2. Kotodaman - Chie Satonaka Evaluation and Status. Published November 4, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2024. GameWith. Article.
  3. "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Famitsu (2008). Japanese. p. 44. ISBN-13: 978-4757745087.
  4. "Chapter 1: Characters", Persona Club P4, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Staff. Published by Famitsu (2009). Japanese. p. 29. ISBN-13: 475774630X.
  5. Chie Satonaka Character Introduction. Published December 16, 2021. Retrieved August 25, 2024. Twitter.