Makoto Yuki

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Makoto Yuki
Other Name(s)	P3 HeroMaterial related to Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth S.E.E.S. BoyPersona 5 Royal Minato ArisatoPersona 3 (Manga) Sakuya ShiomiPersona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Ao no Kakusei Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Gunjo no Meikyu Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Sōen no Kesshō Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Ai no Seiyaku Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Hekikū no Kanata e
Height	169 cmPersona 3 The Movie: Spring of Birth Persona 3 The Movie: Midsummer Knight's Dream Persona 3 The Movie: Falling Down Persona 3 The Movie: Winter of Rebirth
School(s)	Gekkoukan High School
Occupation(s)	Student
Affiliation(s)	S.E.E.S. Nyx Annihilation Squad
Arcana	The Fool Death Judgement Universe
Persona(s)	Orpheus Thanatos Orpheus Telos AttisPersona 5 Royal SiegfriedPersona 5 Royal
Voice Actor(s)	Akira Ishida (JA) Yuri LowenthalPersona 3 Persona 3 FES Persona 3 Portable Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight (EN) Aleks LePersona 3 Reload (EN) Tom RaczkoPersona 3 The Movie: Spring of Birth Persona 3 The Movie: Midsummer Knight's Dream Persona 3 The Movie: Falling Down Persona 3 The Movie: Winter of Rebirth (DE)
Live-Action Actor(s)	Shouta AoiPersona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Ao no Kakusei Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Gunjo no Meikyu Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Sōen no Kesshō Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Ai no Seiyaku Persona 3: The Weird Masquerade: Hekikū no Kanata e

Makoto Yuki is a major character and the protagonist of Persona 3 and its spin-offs, as well as a member and field leader of S.E.E.S. in universe. In Persona 3 Portable, his female counterpart is Kotone Shiomi. The name Makoto Yuki was originally the protagonist's name in the Persona 3 The Movie tetralogy, later adopted for Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight. The name became the protagonist's default name in the 2023 re-release of Persona 3 Portable, which the game defaults to if its text language settings are changed.

In game, the protagonist acts as the Wild Card of the group, having the ability to wield and swap multiple Personas at once during battle, as well as having the ability to fuse said Personas in the Velvet Room.

Profile

The protagonist is a teenager of average towards slim contexture for his age. His hair is a shade lighter than navy blue, and is longer than average, styled with a long fringe that covers one of his eyes, which are depicted as light gray in most of his appearances, and dark blue in Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight and Persona 3 Reload. As his classmates, he wears the Gekkoukan High School Winter Uniform in most of the media, also wearing his ATH-model headphones and the S.E.E.S. armband. Other outfits he wears lean into a gray, beige and/or blue palette, as shown by his Winter and Summer outfits, as well as his yukata.

In Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, he also wears a modified Gekkoukan High School Uniform, featuring a white shirt with red writing, more slim headphones and pop-patterned sneakers. In Persona 3 Reload, he gains an upgraded Battle Gear that integrates a redesigned armband that allows him to use Theurgy attacks. As a minor addition, he also wears gloves.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Makoto Yuki.

The protagonist is a Wild Card who starts with Orpheus as his initial Persona and can wield multiple Personas in battle. By visiting the Velvet Room, he can fuse new Personas, setting him apart from his allies. Additionally, by having certain Personas to be summoned, he can use Fusion Spells to do a variety of effects. In Persona 3 Portable, Fusion Spells instead can be achieved by visiting the Shinsoudo Antiques. In Persona 3 Reload, the same effect can be achieved with his Theurgy, and players are only required to have the Personas needed for the specific Theurgy to be in the Compendium. By researching internet websites on the Iwatodai Dorm computer, the protagonist can also learn new field skills for ambushing Shadows in Tartarus. In battle, the protagonist is able to use a variety of weapons that can deal all sorts of damage type. He must be in the party at all times, and dying would have players receive a game over. In Portable and Reload, he would later stick to his one handed sword that deals Slash damage to his opponents.

The protagonist later appears in Persona Q and Persona Q2, as well as a main dancer in Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 3	The main character is a teenager who has recently transferred to a new high school. After settling into his room in the dormitory, he is attacked by Shadows. This incident awakens his Persona ability. However, unlike the other SEES members, the main character can use more than one Persona. Because of this special talent, he is chosen to lead the squad in the fight against the Shadows.
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight	The stalwart protagonist. He is a second-year high school student who awakened to his Persona abilities after a pivotal event, then accepted the leadership role in the "Special Extracurricular Execution Squad" to combat Shadows. He has displayed limitless power and has gained the reputation of a reliable leader.

Game Appearances

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Persona 3

On April 6th, 2009, the protagonist moves to Tatsumi Port Island as a transfer student to Gekkoukan High School. Three days later, he enters the Dark Hour, a supernatural 25th hour where Shadows roam, is caught up in a Shadow attack on the Iwatodai Dormitory and awakens to the power of Persona, with the initial Persona Orpheus. The protagonist learns that his dormmates are actually members of the Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad (S.E.E.S.), a group dedicated to fighting Shadows. The protagonist is inducted into S.E.E.S. and named their field commander due to his unique ability to control multiple Personas, the Wild Card.

Over the course of the next several months, with the aid of the inhabitants of the Velvet Room—Igor and Elizabeth—the protagonist leads S.E.E.S. in battle in order to bring an end to the Dark Hour. Together, S.E.E.S. explores Tartarus, a massive tower that appears in place of Gekkoukan High during the Dark Hour.

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Eventually, S.E.E.S. defeats the twelve fragments, but the Dark Hour is not destroyed. They learn destroying the fragments will allow Death to return to its full power and summon the maternal being, Nyx, and bring about the Fall, the end of humanity.

Death later manifests in the form of new Gekkoukan transfer student, Ryoji Mochizuki. It is revealed that in 1999, the Kirijo Group's experiments on the Shadows went disastrously awry, unleashing the most powerful shadow, Death. The Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon Aigis pursued and battled Death, causing a car crash that killed the protagonist's parents and left him the sole survivor. Aigis, unable to defeat Death, sealed a portion of its power in the protagonist.

Ryoji offers the protagonist a choice—kill him and allow SEES to live out the remainder of their lives in blissful ignorance, or let him live and make a futile attempt to delay the inevitable. In the bad ending, the protagonist kills Ryoji and is last seen ignorantly singing karaoke right before the Fall. In the good ending, the protagonist spares Ryoji. On January 31st, 2010, S.E.E.S. ascends to the top of Tartarus and defeats Ryoji's true form, Nyx Avatar, in battle, but are powerless to stop the Fall. The protagonist ascends to face Nyx and expends all of his life force to create a seal to protect the Earth from her.

The protagonist spends the next two months living a regular life with his friends, getting more tired and weaker as the days go by, before passing away peacefully in Aigis's arms on March 5, 2010.

End of spoilers.

Persona 3 FES

The Journey

During the main Persona 3 campaign, now titled "The Journey", the protagonist's role in the plot is unchanged, but he now has additional social activities he can choose to do with party members.

The Answer

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After the protagonist's death, the collective manifestation of S.E.E.S.' grief expands a hidden Shadow nest called the Abyss of Time. S.E.E.S. investigates and learns that the protagonist's soul is bound to the Great Seal in order to prevent Erebus, the collective manifestation of humanity's desire for death, from reaching Nyx and bringing about the Fall. After S.E.E.S. defeats Erebus, Elizabeth departs the Velvet Room on a journey to find a way to save the protagonist from his fate.

End of spoilers.

Persona 3 Portable

The protagonist returns as the optional male protagonist in Persona 3 Portable. There are no significant story or character changes between Persona 3 FES and Persona 3 Portable.

Persona 5 Royal

The protagonist is a DLC boss character in the Challenge Battles mode. He has two difficulties, level 50 and level ???. The Personas he uses in the fight are Orpheus, Attis, Siegfried, Thanatos and Messiah.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

The protagonist is often referenced and spoken about by members of S.E.E.S.

Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth

The P3 Hero is the protagonist of the Side:P3 route of the game. On Side:P4, he is much more vocal.

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

The P3 Hero, alongside Aigis, are the last two characters to join the player's party in the third dungeon, A.I.G.I.S. He and the P3P Heroine quickly realize they are the same person from alternate timelines, which comes to their advantage once the party gets to the last floor of the dungeon. He focuses on an all-around focus on magic, with a focus on fire.

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight

The protagonist is one of the main dancers in Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight. He is the main performer for the songs Mass Destruction (P3 + P3F ver.), Battle Hymn of the Soul (Daisuke Asakura Remix) and Brand New Days (Yuyoyuppe Remix). Mitsuru describes his dancing as "still yet powerful". The protagonist is an extremely versatile dancer and can easily adjust his dancing style to suit his partners whether it's ballet, ballroom, or even hip hop.

Anime Appearances

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Manga Appearances

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

The protagonist is referenced before Yu Narukami leaves to confront Hi-no-Kagutsuchi as Mitsuru reflects on how he reminds her of her former leader.

Appearances in Non-Megami Tensei Media

Star Ocean: Anamnesis

The protagonist was an ACE 5★ Attacker unit who could be obtained in the gacha during the Persona 5 Royal collaboration. His collab artwork for the game was drawn by Eito Nishikawa. His skills were mostly named after things from Persona 3.

• Battle Skills: Agi, Triple Thrust, Slash Attribute Combo, Brave Blade
• Rush Combo: Orpheus: Vorpal Blade
• Talents: S.E.E.S., Orpheus, Aptitude for the Dark Hour, Root of Salvation

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

A DLC Mii costume based on the Persona 3 protagonist appears in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, consisting of his hair and his Gekkoukan High uniform, which is specific for the Swordfighter style. Like the costume based on the Persona 4 protagonist, this costume has the unique property where the default sword trail is changed to match the color of the respective game's primary color, in this case being blue.

Trivia

• The protagonist is referenced in an alternate color palette for Yu Narukami in Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle.
• In a gameplay trailer for P3, the protagonist is referred to in the status screen as Roger Clever, in reference to Roger Clevenger, a United States QA tester. This name is kept in the game's respective manual, and was never used again.

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  Palette 10
  Based on the protagonist and Orpheus from Persona 3.

Nomenclature

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The family name is derived from the Yūki district of Shimōsa Province, in the present-day Ibaraki Prefecture. The given name means "reason" or "logic."

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	結城 理	Yūki Makoto
	P3主人公Material related to Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth and Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Pīsurī shujinkō	P3 protagonist
Russian	Макото Юки Makoto Yuki	Makoto Yuki

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