Yu Narukami

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Yu Narukami
Other Name(s)	The Sister-Complex Kingpin of SteelPersona 4 Arena Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Investigation Team BoyPersona 5 Royal Soji SetaPersona 4 (Manga) Yuya SetaVisualive Persona 4 Hayato AsakawaVisualive Persona 4: The Evolution
Age	16-17
Height	180 cm (5’11”)
Relative(s)	Nanako Dojima (Cousin) Ryotaro Dojima (Uncle)
School(s)	Yasogami High School
Affiliation(s)	Investigation Team
Arcana	Fool World
Persona(s)	Izanagi
Voice Actor(s)	Daisuke Namikawa (JA) Johnny Yong Bosch (EN)
Live-Action Actor(s)	Toru BabaVisualive Persona 4 Visualive Persona 4: The Evolution Keisuke MinamiPersona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold

Yu Narukami is a playable character and the protagonist of Persona 4 and its spin-offs. The name Yu Narukami was originally the protagonist's name in Persona 4 The Animation, later adopted for Persona 4 Arena and Persona 4: Dancing All Night. The name became the protagonist's default name in the Steam and subsequent re-releases of Persona 4 Golden, which the game defaults to if its text language settings are changed.

Profile

The protagonist of Persona 4 is a teenage boy from a large, unnamed city who moves to the smaller city of Inaba for a year to live with his uncle and cousin while his parents work overseas. He begins attending Yasogami High as a 2nd year high school student and quickly makes friends with fellow 2nd years Yosuke Hanamura, Chie Satonaka, and Yukiko Amagi. Together, the four of them are the founding members of the Investigation Team that comes together to use their Personas to solve the serial murder case.

During his stay in Inaba, he grows close to his cousin Nanako, who greets him every day when he returns home. She begins addressing him as her big brother, and he cares for her while his uncle works late. Though he is a silent protagonist, his possible dialogue choices during the game's school and slice-of-life moments have a humorous tone, while his choices during the more serious moments help shape him as a leader who keeps the team on track. He often has the option to tell the others to calm down so they can focus on uncovering the truth of the murder incidents.

The protagonist is fairly tall with silver hair and matching eyes. He wears his school uniform with the shirt untucked and the collar high. During winter, he also wears his Yasogami jacket unbuttoned. In the TV World, he uses dark gray frame glasses with TV color bars on the temples that were made for him by Teddie.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Yu Narukami.

In Persona 4, the protagonist starts out with Izanagi. Unlike other party members, the protagonist can never be swapped out of battle, and having him faint will result in an automatic Game Over. He has the special property of being a Wild Card, making him able to summon and switch between different Personas in battle, as well as change his stock of Personas to an extent. This lets him swap out between multiple different strategies, as well as switch his elemental affinities.

Across his appearances through other Persona games, spin-offs, and collabs, the protagonist always has Izanagi as his Persona and uses Zio spells as well as physical abilities with his katana.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 4	The protagonist has spent his life so far in the city, but his parents were recently transferred overseas. In their absence, they made arrangements for him to live with his uncle in the rural town of Inaba, which has recently seen a spate of unusual incidents.
Persona 4 Golden	The player's representative. With his parents temporarily transferred overseas, this second-year high school student is sent to live with his uncle, Ryotaro Dojima, in the rural town of Inaba.
Persona 4 Arena	The young man who ended the case that rocked Inaba returns for the holidays, only to find a new mystery in the P-1 Grand Prix tournament. With his katana and Persona, Izanagi, he can hold his own in all aspects.
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	The young man who ended the case that rocked Inaba returns for the holidays, only to find a new mystery in the P-1 Climax tournament. With his katana and Persona, Izanagi, he can hold his own in all aspects.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night	The protagonist of Persona 4. After solving the murder mystery, he left Inaba and returned to his old life in the city. He met up with Rise—Who had also returned to the big city to resume her idol career—when she asked him for a certain favor. It was then that odd things started happening, bringing the Investigation Team back to solve another mystery.

Game Appearances

Persona 4

April 11 - April 30, 2011

One night, the protagonist, Yu Narukami, dreams of the Velvet Room. In this dream, Igor hints at a disaster and a mystery in Yu's future and implies that he will soon enter a contract of sorts that will make him a guest of the Velvet Room.

On April 11th, Yu arrives in the small city of Inaba. Outside Yasoinaba Station, he meets his uncle, Ryotaro Dojima, and his younger cousin, Nanako Dojima. On their way to the Dojima Residence, they stop at Moel Gas Station in the Central Shopping District where Yu shakes hands with the gas station attendant and hears about a potential part-time job. Yu feels a little dizzy and takes a walk around the shopping district, getting familiar with the area. That night, Yu has a strange dream where he runs through a pathway full of fog. He comes across a mysterious figure, but he is unable to reach them.

During the first few days of Yu's life as a student at Yasogami High School, he is assigned to homeroom in class 2-2 under Kinshiro Morooka and befriends Yosuke Hanamura, Chie Satonaka, and Yukiko Amagi. Chie tells Yu and Yosuke a rumor she heard about the Midnight Channel: If you watch a powered-down TV alone on a rainy night, you can see your soulmate. Yu tries it that night and sees a girl resembling Saki Konishi, a 3rd year at school whom Yu met earlier that day at Junes. He hears a mysterious voice call out to him and discovers he can stick his hand into the TV.

On April 14th, Yu goes to the Junes electronics department with Yosuke and Chie after school and shows them he can stick his hand into a large screen TV. In a panic, the three fall into the foggy TV World. Yu tells his friends to calm down, and they eventually meet Teddie. Teddie warns the trio to leave before the fog clears and creates a TV they can use as an exit. Following his first journey into the TV, Yu feels sick that night and goes to bed early without watching the Midnight Channel again.

On the 15th, everyone at school gets word of Saki's untimely death. Having seen Saki on the Midnight Channel the night before, Yosuke believes that Saki's death is related to the world inside the TV, and he asks Yu to go back into the TV with him, bringing a golf club for self-defense. Once inside, the two meet Teddie again, who begs Yu and Yosuke to find the one responsible for the recent murders. Yu recalls Igor's words to him from his dream about a mystery, and realizing this must be what Igor foretold of, he makes a promise to Teddie. Teddie helps the two out by giving them glasses to see through the fog and takes them to where Saki might have died.

When they come across hostile Shadows, Yu is able to summon a Persona, Izanagi, to protect the group. And thanks to this power, he can also subdue Shadow Yosuke, which Yosuke accepts and becomes his own Persona. Based on what happened with Yosuke's Shadow, the three assume that Mayumi and Saki were killed by their Shadows. They resolve to keep coming into the TV World to save people who get thrown in. That evening, Yu dreams once more of the Velvet Room. Now that Yu has awoken to his power, Igor gives him a Contractor's Key so he can access the Velvet Room. Igor's assistant, Margaret, encourages Yu to form bonds, called Social Links, with people around Inaba to further strengthen the power of his Personas.

On the evening of the 16th, Yu sees a clear image of Yukiko on the Midnight Channel. Yosuke calls him immediately. Yu tells him to calm down, and the two are determined to return to the TV World to help Yukiko. The following day, the two of them enter the TV with Chie, now armed with better equipment than a golf club, Yu himself having picked a katana. Once back inside the TV, Chie runs off on her own. When the two boys find her, she is with her Shadow. The boys defeat it, allowing Chie to accept her Shadow and gain a Persona of her own. Yosuke asks Yu to become their group leader since he was the first to have the power, and is a better fighter than him or Chie. Yu accepts, and the three Persona users form a bond as an informal Investigation Team dedicated to solving the murders and preventing anyone else from dying.

Under Yu's guidance, the team makes their way through Yukiko's Castle and defeats her Shadow, rescuing Yukiko before the fog settles in Inaba. On April 30th, Yukiko finally returns to school and joins the Investigation Team herself. She offers Yu a taste of her kitsune udon, but he ends up eating the entire bowl. At Junes, the group runs into Dojima's partner at the Inaba PD, Tohru Adachi, who lets Yu know that Dojima will be able to come home that night. As Adachi said, Dojima is home that night and he plans a family outing with Yu and Nanako for the upcoming Golden Week on the 4th or the 5th. Since Dojima cannot cook and Nanako is still quite young, he tasks Yu with making lunches for their outing.

May 2 - June 6, 2011

Come May 2nd, Dojima breaks his promise and says he will not be able to get time off on the 4th and 5th after all. He asks Yu to comfort Nanako, knowing she will be upset that Dojima cannot make time on Golden Week. But when Yu gets off the phone, Nanako has already gone to her room. On May 3rd, Yu, Nanako, and the rest of the Investigation Team hang out at Junes. Nanako begins bonding with her cousin and addressing him as her older brother.

On May 5th, Yu goes out into Inaba by himself at Golden Week's end and visits Tatsuhime Shrine. A mysterious Fox emerges from the main temple and hands Yu an ema tablet, and Yu fulfills the wish on the tablet by giving an elderly man a special healing leaf. Yu forms a special bond with the fox, who non-verbally agrees to help the Investigation Team with its healing leaves for a price. Back at home, Dojima finally returns home after working on his recent case and gives Nanako and Yu gifts for Children's Day, with Yu's being a pair of swimming trunks for the upcoming summer season.

After following the Midnight Channel for a few days, on May 17th the Investigation Team follows Kanji Tatsumi around because they believe him to be in danger after seeing a person similar to him on the Midnight Channel. Yu pairs up with Yukiko to keep watch outside of Kanji's family's shop, Tatsumi Textiles. While talking, Yu forms a bond with Yukiko and gets her phone number. The stakeout ends after Yosuke sets off Kanji by calling him weird, and a clearer image of Kanji appears that evening on the Midnight Channel. Yosuke panics on the phone after seeing Kanji, and Yu advises him to calm down.

Yu meets Naoto Shirogane, a private detective who was speaking with Kanji on the days before his disappearance. Naoto tells Yu about how Kanji has a bit of a complex, information that Teddie is able to use to locate Kanji in the TV World. Once more, Yu leads the group to successfully save Kanji and defeat his Shadow which allows Kanji to obtain his own Persona as well. The same night after rescung Kanji, Dojima mentions to Yu that Kanji has come back home. Furthermore, Dojima expresses his suspicions after hearing that Yu was seen near Tatsumi Textiles, but drops it after Yu says he went there with Yukiko.

On June 6th, Kanji comes back to school and, with Yu's approval, also joins the Investigation Team. The group reviews what they know about the case so far, and Yu finds himself agreeing with Chie's idea that the killer is targeting people who first appear on the regular TV news.

June 16 - July 10, 2011

In preparation for their class camping trip, Yu goes to Junes with Yukiko and Chie on June 16th to help buy cooking ingredients for their group. Yu watches silently, unable to do anything, as Yukiko and Chie buy a mishmash of ingredients for their curry and demonstrate a lack of cooking knowledge. On the 17th, Yu is anxious about the curry after what he saw the day before, and passes out after trying one bite. On the 18th, Yu becomes collateral damage when Yosuke upsets Chie, and she shoves both boys into the lake, not knowing that Morooka was throwing up into the same water, falling on top of their heads.

Later in June, Yu hears on TV that famous idol Rise Kujikawa is moving to Inaba and sees a girl similar to her on the Midnight Channel. He, Yosuke, and Kanji visit Rise at her grandmother's tofu store on June 22nd to warn her of possible danger. Dojima hears that his nephew stopped by to warn Rise and tries to talk to Yu about this during dinner, but Nanako gets concerned and assumes the two are fighting. On the 23rd, following the conversation with Dojima on the previous night, Adachi approaches Yu and his friends in the shopping district. Together, the Investigation Team finds a man snooping on Rise, and Adachi arrests him on the spot. But later at night, the group sees a clearer image of Rise on the Midnight Channel and realize Rise got kidnapped after all. An excited Yosuke calls Yu, who tells him to calm down.

Yu gets a clue about Rise from a paparazzi in town and lets Teddie know so he can find Rise in the TV World. While doing so, Teddie admits there are many things he does not quite understand, but Yu is supportive and even forms a bond with Teddie. While rescuing Rise, Yu leads the team in finding her and subduing both her and Teddie's Shadows. Back at home, a drunk Dojima scolds Yu for always being near a crime scene.

On July 10th, the same day that Rise recovers from her ordeal in the TV, Yu's homeroom teacher is found dead and the Investigation Team thinks they were unable to stop the killer this time. At Tatsuhime Shrine, Yu and the others meet up with Rise. She formally joins the Investigation Team, and Yu gives her a pair of glasses from Teddie and explains their use. That evening, Yu does a magic trick to cheer up Nanako, who is sad that her dad won't be home that night.

July 23 - August 21,2011

On July 23rd, Yu and his friends celebrate the end of midterm exams at Junes and the start of their summer break. Rise asks for Yu's help studying and exploring Inaba, and he forms a bond with her. The Investigation Team overhears Adachi mention that the police suspect has gone missing, causing them to wonder about the case. A few days later, on the 26th, the suspect, Mitsuo Kubo, appears on the Midnight Channel. Yu bribes Adachi to give them some info on Mitsuo in exchange for not snitching on him slacking off to Dojima. The bribe works, and the team uses this intel to locate Mitsuo within the TV World and find him before the fog settles. The group hands Mitsuo over to the police and has a dinner party with Nanako to celebrate the end of the murder case. The girls and Yu all make different versions of omurice for Nanako, and Nanako likes Yu's the best. At the end of the month, Yu meets up with his friends and Nanako at the summer festival at Tatsuhime Shrine on the 20th. On the second day of the summer festival, Yu goes with Rise or another girl who he's romantically involved with, and prays at the shrine.

September 1 - October 7, 2011

Upon returning from summer break on September 1st, Yu and his friends are greeted at school by Naoto, now attending Yasogami High as a 1st year while working with the police on the murder case. During the class trip to Iwatodai on the 8th - 10th, Naoto also joins the group at Club Escapade where they play the King's Game. Yu gets to be king during the second round and gives his friends various comical orders. Naoto uses this opportunity to try and get information from them about their involvement in the murder case but gets thrown off by Yukiko and Rise. Yu returns home with a souvenir for Nanako, and his uncle asks him to be friends with Naoto.

On the evening of September 12th, Yu watches an interview on TV where Naoto says that the police have apprehended the suspect behind Morooka's murder, but something feels out of place for the other murders. The following morning, Naoto approaches Yu and his friends on their way to school. Naoto admits that at one point, they suspected one of the Investigation Team to be the murderer, but Naoto has since changed this stance and believes them to be capable of saving people.

Due to Naoto's interview on TV, Naoto ends up becoming the next victim seen on the Midnight Channel. Kanji calls Yu, and Yu tells him to calm down. The team deduces that Naoto believed the murderer is still out there, and this has been proven true. Yu manages to get info about Naoto from a rank-and-file officer in the shopping district about Naoto being treated like a kid, and Rise uses this to track down Naoto in the TV World. The team finds Naoto in the Secret Laboratory and defeats her Shadow, allowing Naoto to obtain a Persona as well. When Yu returns home that night, Dojima and Adachi are there, talking about how Naoto went missing but showed up safe. Dojima expresses his suspicion when Yu does not seem to react to this, as though he already knew it.

After Naoto recovers from her ordeal in the TV, she returns to school on October 6th and insists that the entire Investigation Team, especially Teddie, get health examinations. The following day, Naoto tells everyone that Teddie's x-ray showed nothing. Teddie confides in Yu about his uncertainty after hearing this. Yu is supportive, saying Teddie's identity is something they will discover eventually.

October 20 - October 31, 2011

When Yu comes home on October 20th, Nanako hands him a letter he received in the mail, which turns out to be a threatening letter telling him to quit saving people. He tells his friends about it the next day at school. Naoto deduces a great deal from the letter, namely how the culprit knows who Yu is and where he lives. As they do not have anything to go on besides the letter, Yu tells the group they will have to wait until the situation changes.

For the culture festival, Yu's class votes on doing a group date cafe, which takes place on October 29th. No one else besides Kanji ends up coming to it, and Yu fills in on the girl's or boys' side to try and run the cafe. After the disaster of a cafe, Yu walks around the culture festival and visits the other booths with his school friends. Thanks to Yosuke and Chie's back and forth, Yu is forced to participate in the crossdressing contest as part of the culture festival on the 30th. Yukiko does Yu's makeup and outfit, turning him into a female delinquent with braided pigtails and a bamboo sword. During the girl's contest later that day, Yu picks one of the girls to vote for.

That night, the whole group brings Nanako along to stay at the Amagi Inn and use the hot spring. But Yukiko gets the girls' hours wrong for the hot spring, and the boys end up walking in on them using it. Yu tries to decide what to do, but the boys end up getting driven back by the wooden bath buckets being tossed at them. Furthermore, they find paper talismans over their room door and assume they got assigned Mayumi Yamano's room. To get payback, the boys try to sneak into the girl's inn room but wind up in Ms. Kashiwagi and Hanako Ohtani's room instead.

On Halloween evening, Yu and Nanako watch a news report about the fog in Inaba. Nanako comes down with a cold, and Yu cares for her while she talks about how they will spend winter together before he leaves in spring.

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November 4 - November 21, 2011

It gets colder on November 4th. Yu and Nanako get out the kotatsu but discover that it's broken. Yu promises to take Nanako to Junes and buy a new one.

On November 5th, Yu receives another threatening letter, which says someone close to him will get thrown into the TV World next. Dojima is home and sees the letter, confirming his long-running suspicions that his nephew is involved in something dangerous. He brings Yu to the police station and detains him there. Yu tries to explain the truth about going into the TV and using Personas to him, but Dojima assumes Yu is making things up and leaves him locked in the room. Yu watches the Midnight Channel and sees a girl resembling Nanako, but he is unable to do anything. Later in the night, Yu's friends arrive at the police station and tell Dojima that Nanako is missing. Naoto profiles the kidnapper, and Yu determines that they must have used a delivery truck. Adachi brings up that Taro Namatame fits this description. Yu and his friends find Dojima in the Central Shopping District, where he got into a car crash with Namatame.

Yu leads his friends through Heaven, where they find Namatame holding Nanako and talking about "saving" her. Yu and Naoto try to question Namatame but get nowhere. Yosuke and Kanji manage to free Nanako from Namatame, and Yu catches her. The team defeats Namatame after he merges with multiple Shadows, and Yu carries Nanako out of the TV World and takes her to the hospital. Naoto blames herself for trying to talk to Namatame and Teddie seems awfully down about Nanako's condition, but Yu tells them that it's no one's fault and that Nanako will recover.

On November 21st, Yu runs into Adachi on his way to school, who lets him know that he can start visiting Nanako in the hospital. Yu goes to visit Nanako that day after school with the rest of his friends. She asks for Yu, and he tries to comfort her.

December 3 - December 7, 2011

After exams, Yu remembers his promise to Nanako about buying a new kotatsu. The group looks at the new kotatsu models in Junes together and thinks about what to give Nanako as a Christmas gift. Yu receives a call from Adachi who tells him to come to the hospital immediately. Nanako's condition does not look good, but Yu is something of a rock, even telling his friends to calm down. Nanako takes a turn for the worse, and Yu is by her side, holding her hand, when she suddenly flatlines.

The Investigation Team finds Namatame in his hospital room, unattended. Yosuke is convinced that Namatame will walk free and go back to saving people by throwing them into the TV, and he wants to take matters into his own hands. Yu tells Yosuke to wait and persuades him to stand down by telling him that the group is missing something about Namatame's intentions. Furthermore, something has been bothering Yu about the case; he believes they are missing something. When Yosuke tries to get a straight answer out of him, Yu yells at him and the others to calm down. The nature of Yu's bond with his friends changes as they continue to seek the truth. They return to Nanako's hospital room and discover she has made a miraculous recovery.

After leaving the hospital, Yu wonders if stopping Yosuke was the right thing to do. He then turns on his phone and finds messages from his other school friends. When Yu sleeps that night, he dreams of the Velvet Room again, and Igor asks him if he will be able to solve the mystery. Regardless of his answer, he hears the thoughts of his friends around Inaba. The Velvet Room limo stops, and Igor remarks that the room reflects Yu, and it might be time to stop and think.

On December 4th, the group gathers at Junes, learns that Teddie has gone missing, and tries to review what they know so far. Yu points out the contradiction: Namatame believes he was saving people, but Yu received a letter telling him to quit saving people; thus, Namatame cannot be the person who sent it, and the real murderer must still be out there. After hearing Namatame out at the hospital, they are confident he only kidnapped people and is not the actual murderer, sending them back to square one about who the real murderer is.

December 5 - December 25, 2011

On December 5th, the group does some footwork by asking people about the murders and anything suspicious but still is unable to learn anything new. As Yu stands outside with Yosuke and Naoto, he realizes that the only person who fits the killer's profile is none other than his uncle's partner, Adachi. Naoto leads the team back to the hospital, where Adachi oversees Namatame's relocation. Yu takes up questioning Adachi, asking him about Mayumi vanishing, Saki being interrogated, and the warning letters. Adachi feigns ignorance before Naoto recalls him saying "That settles it" back on November 5th and how she found that suspicious. Cornered, Adachi escapes the group and goes into the TV World.

Yu sees a dejected Teddie in the Velvet Room in his dreams that night and explains to Teddie that Nanako managed to pull through. Teddie's mood changes considerably, and Yu senses their bond deepening. Teddie comes back to the group in reality and on December 7th, he helps them locate Adachi back at the first place they visited in the TV World: Mayumi Yamano's apartment room. Adachi explains to the group how he murdered both Mayumi and Saki and gloats that the TV World will replace reality by the end of the year.

Under Yu's leadership, the Investigation Team defeats Adachi and discovers that a more powerful being called Ameno-sagiri has been watching them in the TV World. Using their Personas, they defeat Ame as well and finally lift the fog from Inaba. As the group stands in the Central Shopping District under the clear sky, Yu thanks everyone and leads them in a group cheer.

On Christmas Day, Yu and his friends decide to have a small Christmas party since Nanako is being released from the hospital for Christmas. That evening, Dojima thanks the group for helping solve the murders and tells everyone that Yu's time in Inaba is coming to an end in spring.

March 20, 2012

Come spring of the following year, Yu is getting ready to leave Inaba and goes to tell all of his friends goodbye. After doing so, he thinks about returning home to finish preparing, but he feels compelled to stop by the food court one last time. Slowly, all of the Investigation Team show up, having all felt compelled to come there as well. They start talking about the past year's events, but none of them know the origin of the rumor about the Midnight Channel. Suddenly, Yu recalls that Nanako handed him a letter that morning. The letter turns out to be from Adachi, who says he has done some thinking in jail, and he remembers hearing about the Midnight Channel shortly after coming into town. After reading the letter, Yu and his friends realize there is still someone out there had set everything in motion.

Yu goes to talk to Dojima and Nanako to retrace his steps from his first day in Inaba. With Nanako's help, he remembers feeling unwell after speaking with the gas station attendant. But when Yu asks people on the streets about the attendant, no one knows who he is talking about. Yu consults Igor in the Velvet Room and receives the Orb of Sight. After leaving the Velvet Room, it begins raining, and Yu suddenly sees the same attendant working at the gas station. Yu starts asking them about Namatame and Adachi and what the attendant did when Yu shook their hand. The attendant reveals her name is Izanami and she is the one behind these events. Yu realizes that he and his friends must defeat Izanami, or Ameno-sagiri might return one day, and Inaba will be enshrouded in fog again.

The Investigation Team enters the TV World yet again and finds Izanami waiting for them in Yomotsu Hirasaka. Izanami asks Yu if he remembers this scenery from his dreams, as this is the place he dreamt of on his first night in Inaba. As the group traverses each floor, Izanami tests them by having various Shadows attack them, and she talks about how she sought to see what humanity desired by using Yu, Adachi, and Namatame as aspects of hope, emptiness, and despair.

When they finally reach Izanami on the last path, she fights the group herself, seemingly impervious to their powers. Yu uses the Orb of Sight from Igor, revealing Izanami's true form. She bids them goodbye and swallows Yu and each of the Investigation Team with her Thousand Curses. Yu finds himself lying in the fog, losing consciousness. One by one, he hears the voices of the friends he has made around Inaba during the past year, encouraging him to keep going. His bonds with his friends transform Izanagi into Izanagi-no-Okami, and Yu uses the power of the Myriad Truths to defeat Izanami.

With the fog gone in both the real world and the TV World, Yu bids goodbye to the Investigation Team and his school friends on March 21st. On the train back home, he takes out a photo from his jacket showing the group together.

End of spoilers.

Persona 4 Golden

Yu has some new scenes due to the new content added for Golden. Doing the Aeon Social Link will also change some of the major story events in the winter and spring parts of 2012.

After Yu arrives in Inaba on April 11th, he drops a note and meets Marie when she gives it back to him. As he starts visiting the Velvet Room, he finds Marie has taken up residence there, and he occasionally finds her poetry lying on the floor.

In May, Dojima tells Yu that Adachi sometimes goes missing during the day. Dojima assumes that he is slacking off at Junes, and asks Yu to tell him off if he sees him.

On June 9th, Yosuke gets the idea to get scooters. Yu agrees, and asks his uncle that night about getting his own scooter. The next day, Dojima and Adachi handover Dojima's old scooter to Yu. On June 15th, Yu, Yosuke and Kanji go to Okina city to try and pick up girls, but are completely unsuccessful.

By August 23rd, the entire Investigation Team has scooters and licenses that they use to ride to the beach before summer break is over. When Kanji loses his speedo, Yu tries to come up with a temporary solution. On August 30th, Yu and his friends meet up with Nanako and Dojima at a fireworks festival on a hill overlooking Mt. Yaso.

On October 8th, Yosuke begs Rise to have a live concert at Junes. Rise agrees, but only if the rest of the Investigation Team joins her on stage. Yu spends two days learning how to play the bass guitar and the group performs "True Story" with Rise. Yu, Yosuke, and Kanji dive off the stage, with Yosuke and Kanji landing face first, while Yu lands posing with his bass.

In Winter, Yu goes to Tatsuhime Shrine to bring in the New Year with his friends. On January 2nd, he goes and bids happy new year to his friends around Inaba, and builds a Teddie snowman with Nanako before she returns to the hospital. On January 3rd, Yosuke and Teddie come visit, and make plans to go skiing. Yu falls ill, and Teddie stays with him. On the account of Yu's illness, Yosuke decides they will go skiing another time.

The skiing trip ends up finally happening on February 11th after winter exams. Yu and Rise ski together and the chaos unfold as Teddie and Yosuke collide into one another. At night time, the group tells spooky stories, and Yu tells a story that Yosuke thinks sounds realistic.

Aeon Social Link

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Yu can optionally form a bond with Marie during his year in Inaba. He quickly learns she has no memories. To help her, Yu takes Marie outside of the Velvet Room to visit various places in Inaba. When Yu visits the Velvet Room for New Year, Margaret mentions that Marie has left. Yu asks Margaret to lead him to Marie, even if it happens to be dangerous. When Yu falls ill on January 3rd, Marie comes to him in a dream and bids him goodbye. Yu continues having faint dreams of his memories with Marie, and Margaret calls Yu periodically through January and February and lets him know that she is working on finding her.

On February 12th, when a snowstorm hits, Yu and some of his friends are out on the slopes. They take shelter in an abandoned cabin with a suspicious TV. Chie takes a closer look at it, and Margaret reaches out and grabs her and the others and pulls them through to the other side. As promised, Margaret has located Marie and brought Yu and his friends to retrieve her from the Hollow Forest.

The following day, the Investigation Team finds Marie in the depths of the Hollow Forest. Marie explains that her true identity is Kusumi-no-Okami, a being from the TV World, and she has to die in order to get rid of the fog that filled reality. She tells the group to just abandon her, but Yu refuses to accept this and convinces Marie that they can kill the fog in her so that she herself does not have to die. Marie trusts them, and the group successfully saves Marie's ego.

On March 20th, Marie appears before Yu in the Velvet Room, revealing that the Izanami they fought was once part of her. Now that Yu has defeated Kunino-sagiri, Ameno-sagiri, and Izanami, all of those parts will rejoin with her and she will finally be whole again. She thanks him and tells him that her real name is Izanami-no-Mikoto before she vanishes from the Velvet Room.

Months after the events of Persona 4 and Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Yu returns to Inaba during summer vacation. His friends and the city of Inaba itself have started to change. He also discovers that Marie has become the local weather woman, and during her broadcast, she offers to change the weather to whatever Yu wants. Together, the Investigation Team and Nanako welcome Yu back to Inaba.

End of spoilers.

Persona 5 Royal

The protagonist makes a cameo as a DLC Challenge Battle under the name Investigation Team Boy.

Persona 4 Arena

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In Arena, the protagonist talks and uses the name Yu Narukami from the 2011 Persona 4 anime.

Yu returns to Inaba during Golden Week and is surprised to see the Midnight Channel airing an advertising for a fighting tournament with him, the Investigation Team, and others that he has never met before. He, Yosuke, Chie, and Yukiko enter the TV together and find themselves in an alternate version of Yasogami High within the TV World, plastered with advertisements about the fighting tournament.

Yu's Story Mode

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

Other Characters

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

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

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Side P4

On this side he is the player character and once again silent and nameless. The Hero is referred to as Leader on this side, while the P3 Hero is referred to as Vice Leader.

Side P3

On this side he is a supporting character, despite being a vocal supporting character he is still nameless. Because of this, he is referred to as Vice Leader while the P3 Hero is referred to as Leader.

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth

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Anime Appearances

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Lord of Vermilion

Yu has a cameo card drawn by Soejima that was introduced in Lord of Vermilion II Re:2. He returned with the same card artwork in Lord of Vermilion III.

CR Persona 4 The Pachinko

Yu 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. He is the subject of some probability events, such as the crossdressing pageant and the curry cooking.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

	For more information on this subject in BlazBlue, see Yu Narukami on BlazBlue Wiki.

Puzzle & Dragons

Yu is a 5★ light unit who can be obtained in the gacha during the Persona collaboration. His base card and evolution were part of the first collab in 2018, then got a reincarnated evolution and an assist during the collab's re-run in 2020.

[4376] Yu Narukami (Base)

• Active Skill: Myriad Arrows
• Leader Skill: Transfer Student from the City

[4377] Yu Narukami & Izanagi (Evolution)

• Active Skill: Myriad Arrows
• Leader Skill: Investigation Team

[4401] Teddie's Glasses (Skill Up)

• Active Skill: Myriad Arrows

[6371] Yu Narukami & Izanagi-no-Okami (Reincarnated Evolution)

• Active Skill: Myriad Truths
• Leader Skill: The Will of So Few Surpasses the Will of All MankindSkill name references one of final boss's lines in the true ending

[6372] Persona 4: TV (Assist Evolution)

• Active Skill: Midnight Channel

Star Ocean: Anamnesis

Yu was an ACE 5★ Defender unit who could be obtained in the gacha during the Persona 5 Royal collaboration. His collab artwork for the game was drawn by Yūhi Kijimoto. His skills were references to Persona series skills.

• Battle Skills: Cut in Two, Zio, Cross Slash, Cleave
• Rush Combo: Izanagi: Ziodyne
• Talents: Investigation Team, Izanagi, Provider, True Bonds

Kotodaman

Yu appears as a unit in the Persona collab for the mobile game Kotodaman during the collab's original run in 2020, and once again during the rerun in 2024. He can be obtained by rolling in the Persona gacha. As a game unit, Yu is a 5★ light-attribute unit who can be used to form words using the syllables that make up his initials: ゆ・ゅ and な. He can be evolved into a 5★ unit. His skills are named Zionga and Ziodyne, following how Izanagi learns Zio in Persona 4.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Yu appears as a DLC Mii costume in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, consisting of his hair and his Yasagomi High uniform, which is specific for the Swordfighter style. Like the costume for Makoto Yuki, 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 yellow.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	鳴上 悠	Narukami Yū. The family name means "above the animal cry" and the given name means "calm" or "eternal."

Trivia

Design

• When designing the protagonist, Shigenori Soejima wanted to make him look different from the Persona 3 protagonist. Instead of a boyish look, Soejima wanted the Persona 4 protagonist to look bold and rough—but in a good way. Soejima considers his eyes to be the most important part of the design, as he thought it would look neat if they were peeking out from behind his bangs, and drew him as though he's always glaring at something. The protagonist wears his Yasogami High boys uniform with the buttons undone, and the collar was purposely drawn taller than the other male characters' to help bring out his eyes.
• According to the Persona 4 Art Book, Soejima states if the P4 Hero was a Sentai Ranger he would be the Blue Ranger rather than the Red Ranger.
  • Despite this, his later outfit is ironically the Red Ranger in both P4G and P4D.
• According to the Persona 5 Art Book, the Hero is described as being designed to remind you of a dog: loyal and sincere.

Persona 4

• In the US manual for the original Playstation 2 release of Persona 4, the protagonist is shown to be named Raidou Kuzunoha. This is a reference to the character of the same name from the Devil Summoner series.
• In the JP manual for Persona 4, the protagonist's name is Kōsuke Tsukimori, a reference to a glasses-wearing doctor from Atlus's Caduceus series. In the US, the series is known as Trauma Center and the character was renamed Derek Stiles.
• The protagonist was nicknamed Banchō (a delinquent gang leader) by the Japanese fanbase due to Izanagi wearing a traditional boy's school uniform, how some of his Japanese dialogue options such as how he greets Dojima sound manly, the delinquent-looking Kanji having a great deal of respect for him, and him wearing a Japanese girls delinquent uniform for the crossdressing contest. This was later used in his title for Persona 4 Arena, with banchō being localized as Kingpin in his English title.
• Though the city the protagonist comes from is never named, it is implied to be Tokyo due to the green sign that says "Inoue Line for Akihabara" that can be seen in the opening movie when he boards a train, therefore making the Inoue Line a fictionalized version of the real world Yamanote Line. Akihabara would become a location in Persona 5, again using a green colored train line route on the subway map.

Other Media

• In the manga, Soji forms bonds with both characters of the Sun and Strength Arcana, despite this being impossible in-game.
• In the stage plays, the Hero's name is changed with each showing as the audience would choose the name.
• Yu's cell phone in Persona 4 The Animation is the teal and silver EXILIM CA003.
• Yu Narukami has several alternate color palettes in Blazblue: Cross Tag Battle intended to reference other media.

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  Palette 8
  Based on Ryoji Mochizuki from Persona 3.

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  Palette 9
  Based on Ragna the Bloodedge from the Blazblue series.

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  Palette 10
  Based on Makoto Yuki and Orpheus from Persona 3.

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  Palette 11
  Based on Hyde Kido and Linne from Under Night In-Birth.

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  Palette 12
  Based on Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee from RWBY

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  Palette 13
  Based on Joker and Arsène from Persona 5.

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