Yukari Takeba

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Yukari Takeba
岳羽 ゆかり
P3P3RP3R BattleP4AUPQ1PQ2P3DP5X Artwork from Persona 3 Artwork from Persona 3 Reload Battle artwork from Persona 3 Reload Artwork from Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Artwork from Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Artwork from Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Artwork from Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight Artwork from Persona 5: The Phantom X
Other Name(s)	Yukari-chi (By Junpei) Yuka-tan (By Junpei) The Unsightly Pink SniperPersona 4 Arena Ultimax Pink ArgusPersona 4 Arena Ultimax
Date of Birth	October 19, 1992
Age	16-17Persona 3 Persona 3 FES Persona 3 Portable Persona 3 Reload 19Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
Height	159 cmPersona 3 Persona 3 FES Persona 3 Portable Persona 3 Reload Persona 3 The Movie 1: Spring of Birth Persona 3 The Movie 2: Midsummer Knight's Dream Persona 3 The Movie 3: Falling Down Persona 3 The Movie 4: Winter of Rebirth 160 cmPersona 4 Arena Ultimax
Blood Type	B
Relative(s)	Eiichiro Takeba (Father) Unnamed Mother
School(s)	Gekkoukan High School
Occupation(s)	StudentPersona 3 Persona 3 FES Persona 3 Portable Persona 3 Reload Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Model/ActressPersona 4 Arena Ultimax
Affiliation(s)	S.E.E.S. Shadow OperativesPersona 4 Arena Ultimax (Auxiliary)
Arcana	Lovers
Persona(s)	Io Isis
Voice Actor(s)	Megumi Toyoguchi (JA) Michelle RuffPersona 3 Persona 3 FES Persona 3 Portable Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight (EN) Heather GonzalezPersona 3 Reload (EN) Rieke WernerPersona 3 The Movie 1: Spring of Birth Persona 3 The Movie 2: Midsummer Knight's Dream Persona 3 The Movie 3: Falling Down Persona 3 The Movie 4: Winter of Rebirth (DE) You Ha HaPersona 5: The Phantom X (ZH)
Live-Action Actor(s)	Maho TomitaPersona 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

Yukari Takeba is a major character in Persona 3. She is a second year student at Gekkoukan High School and one of the members of S.E.E.S. by spring of 2009. In game, she is one of the protagonist's earliest party members, alongside Junpei Iori.

Profile

Yukari is a normal and well-adjusted girl, very social and empathetic, with an interest in fashion. She is generally popular at school and is known for kindness and extroversion. Yukari has a sibling-like relationship with Junpei, and is initially jealous and suspicious of Mitsuru for being the popular student council president and for her ties with the Kirijo Group. Her father died before the events of the story, and she has a poor relationship with her mother. During Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, Yukari is going to school while working part-time as a model and acting on Featherman V.

Yukari has light brown hair curled around her shoulders. She's often seen with her pink sweater or other pink attire, as it is her favorite color. Lead character designer Shigenori Soejima initially designed her to have a more typical heroine look, but it was eventually changed to a more contemporary design.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Yukari Takeba.

Yukari is available as a party member starting from April 20th. In battle, Yukari uses a bow and specializes in wind and healing skills. As a Social Link, she is available as the Lovers for the male protagonist and later the female protagonist in Persona 3 Portable.

Yukari later appears in Persona Q and Persona Q2, and well as a fighter in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. In Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight, she is available as one of the main dancers.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 3	Yukari is a classmate of the main character, who lives in the same dormitory. Yukari is able to summon her own Persona and has been a member of SEES for quite some time. She is strong-willed, but everyone loves her cheerfulness and positive outlook on life.
Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	A former member of SEES. She now attends college and works as a model. Making use of her physical abilities, she is currently working as an actress on a superhero show. She can cause quite a storm with her arrows and her Persona, Isis.
Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight	The protagonist's classmate and a member of SEES. She is active in Gekkoukan High's archery club, and is quite popular with the boys, but at the same time possesses a biting wit that strikes whatever may irritate her—like Junpei. Her sharp tongue and alluring routines both cut straight to the heart.

Game Appearances

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Persona 3

The opening scene of Persona 3 opens with Yukari struggling using her Evoker and eventually breaking down crying. The scene is depicted as her struggling with suicidal thoughts and being unable to 'pull the trigger'. The protagonist would not meet Yukari until his visit to Iwatodai Dorm when he first arrives at Tatsumi Port Island. Yukari first mistaken him for an enemy and seemingly threatens him with her evoker, before Mitsuru warns her to wait and stop. Despite the awkward tension and her lack of knowledge for their new resident, Yukari introduces herself and helps the protagonist to their room. The following day, Yukari also brings the protagonist to Gekkoukan High School upon Mitsuru's request and gives them a short tour.

On 4/9, during the Dark Hour, Yukari expresses her concerns to Mitsuru and Ikutsuki about the protagonist's privacy by watching him through the security cameras implanted in his room. Later, they get interrupted by Akihiko, who comes back to the door, injured and Magician shadow following closely behind. Now under attack, Mitsuru commands Yukari to escape with the protagonist out of the dorms through the back door. After Yukari reaches to them, she hands them a pocket knife as a last resort to use in self-defense. Upon reaching the back door, they realize it would be too dangerous to escape that way and divert to the roof. Once they arrived, they faced Arcana Magician, who climbed up to the roof of the dorms. Immediately, Yukari reaches for her Evoker and sets the barrel on her forehead. She hesitates to pull the trigger and receives a blow from Arcana Magician, launching her away with her Evoker dropping in front of the protagonist. The protagonist, picking up the Evoker, summons their Persona for the first time, Orpheus, with Yukari being the only one to see it in person. After the protagonist defeats the shadow, they fall unconscious from the exhaustion of using a Persona for the first time.

A week later, when the protagonist wakes up in the hospital from a coma, Yukari is seen sitting next to his hospital bed, watching over him. She thanks him for protecting her from the shadow and admires his “potential,” and comments on him “being like her.”

On 7/20, the first night of the Yakushima vacation, Takeharu Kirijo, Mitsuru’s father, tells Mitsuru to bring everyone into their vacation home to disclose the truth behind the Dark Hour. Once everyone is together, he explains how the Dark Hour came to be by an experiment gone wrong. Takeharu plays a video of the head scientist of the experiment, Eiichiro Takeba, the father of Yukari, who gave a video message about how he is at fault for allowing the project to go on any further. When the video concludes, Yukari processes the fact that her father may have been the cause of the entirety of the Dark Hour. Being hurt by the thought, she lashes out at Mitsuru, and in denial, she proceeds to run off outside. Now unsure what to do, Mitsuru asks the protagonist to go after Yukari.

The protagonist eventually finds Yukari at the beach, looking out into the sea. She pours out her thoughts about how she believed for the longest time that her father wasn’t at fault for any of this, saying how, with the awakening of her Persona, it could be considered fate. Ten years prior, she received a letter from the Kirijo Group about her father; she hoped that by cooperating with the Kirijo Group, she would learn more about her father. After watching the video, she expresses that it may have been for nothing. Now full of emotion, she lashes out at the protagonist but immediately apologizes. Calming down now, she asks the protagonist for advice, which he tells her to keep believing. Happy with that answer, Yukari thanks the protagonist for listening to her. To which then the protagonist can hug her. However, it is short-lived when Junpei comes to run it—feeling slightly embarrassed by the situation, Junpei and her talk briefly before returning.

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After Ikutsuki’s betrayal and death, S.E.E.S. has a meeting of what to do next. After the meeting ends, Fuuka stops Yukari. Fuuka tells Yukari that after going through the headmaster’s computer, she found out that the video shown by Mitsuru’s father was doctored, and she recovered the original, unedited footage.

Later that night, Yukari goes to her room to listen to the message her father left her. Her father mentions how he tried his best to stop the experiment but was forced to let the Arcana shadows go free and let them loose at the price that’ll “torment future generations.” Before the video ends, Eiichiro pleads that the video gets to Yukari, and he gives one final goodbye to her before the video ends from the explosion. Yukari breaks into tears after the video ends, though she raises her head back soon after and realizes that she was right to believe in him, forming a resolution in her heart and awakening to Isis.

During the trip to Kyoto, Yukari finds Mitsuru standing near the river bank after being worried that she’s been gone for a while. Mitsuru asks why she’s concerned for her when there’s no reason for them to keep fighting or be friends. Mitsuru continues to explain that everything she believed in was a lie. As Mitsuru continues to talk, she reveals her motives, explaining that she fought for her father to release the shame and guilt he had to carry from his father. In a spree of stress and anxiety in her voice, Yukari slaps Mitsuru to calm her down. Yukari finally reassures her that there is no conclusive answer to her concerns.

Yukari tells Mitsuru that she and her mom used to live in Kyoto after her dad died. Still, her mom used to “[throw] herself to random men,” as explained by Yukari, so to avoid being exposed to all that, Yukari would run away and go to the river bank, with only her belief in her father. Mitsuru cuts in, saying Yukari’s father was doing what he thought best. Yukari acknowledges it and elaborates that while it was all wrong, he did everything he could to fix it all at the cost of his life. Yukari then emphasizes that she fights to fulfill her dad’s final wish of ridding the world of Shadows and the Dark Hour.

Mitsuru also relates this to her father’s wishes and agrees with her. Now full of determination, Mitsuru asks Yukari to stand with her, to which Yukari bows in agreement. Yukari is happy to befriend Mitsuru properly and offers to take Mitsuru to the bathhouse. Mitsuru accepts the offer, and Yukari runs off ahead of her. After Yukari leaves, Mitsuru reaches her resolution and awakens to her Persona, Penthesilea.

Leading up to the final fight on 1/31, Yukari tells the Nyx Avatar that she is “tired of running away” and that “living means looking death square in the face,” Yukari, displaying her growth, continues to fight until the end by proving her loyalty to S.E.E.S. and further the protagonist when he’s in his final battle against Nyx, exclaiming she’ll risk her life for him. The protagonist eventually overcomes Nyx, seals her, and prevents the Fall from happening.

Leading on to March 5th, the Promised Day, during Mitsuru’s graduation speech, Yukari and the rest of S.E.E.S. remember the promise they made to each other and rush to the rooftop, where the protagonist gets to see Yukari and everyone else one last time before his death.

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Persona 3 Portable

Yukari interacts with the female protagonist differently including new voiced events. She opens up about certain things she doesn't with the male protagonist.

Persona 3 Reload

Yukari has the same role as she did in Persona 3 and FES as well as a new platonic Social Link should the male protagonist choose not to romance her.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax

Yukari is going to school while working as a model and also acting as Pink Argus on Featherman. She and others from S.E.E.S. are reserve members for the Shadow Operatives who get called into action after Mitsuru, Akihiko, Fuuka, and Aigis go missing.

Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight

Yukari is one of the main dancers in Persona 3 Dancing. She is the main performer for the songs When the Moon Reaches for the Stars (P3D ver.), Memories of You (ATLUS Meguro Remix) and Want To Be Close (ATOLS Remix). Yukari's dance style can be described as preppy and almost cheerleader like. She moves very quickly but cleanly and works well with all her dance partners.

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Trivia

• Before the announcement of Persona 3 Reload, the first hint at its existence was a leak of a short clip of Yukari summoning her Persona and shooting arrows.
• Yukari placed #13 in a Japanese popularity poll of female party members with 50 votes
• According to the July 2010 issue of the Dengeki Games magazine, Yukari was written with the Enneagram type 9 personality.
• For the Persona 3 Reload and Episode Aigis events at Sea Paradise, Yukari was drawn with an unidentified orange fish that is presumably an ocellaris clownfish.
• For the 30th anniversary celebration of the Persona series at Sea Paradise, Yukari was paired with a cherry sea bream.

Nomenclature

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The kanji of the family name mean "mountain feather". The given name is not written in kanji, but Japanese words pronounced as yukari can mean "affinity" or "the violet color of seasoning made from red perilla". Chinese translations substitute the kanji 由加莉 Yukari for the hiragana in her give name.

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Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Yukari Takeba
Japanese	岳羽 ゆかり Takeba Yukari
Simplified Chinese	岳羽由加莉 Yuèyǔ Yóujiālì
Traditional Chinese	岳羽由加莉 Yuèyǔ Yóujiālì
French	Yukari Takeba
German	Yukari Takeba
Italian	Yukari Takeba
Korean	타케바 유카리 Takeba Yukari
Polish	Yukari Takeba
Brazilian Portuguese	Yukari Takeba
Russian	Юкари Такэба Yukari Tak·eba
Peninsular Spanish	Yukari Takeba
Turkish	Yukari Takeba

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
English	Yuka-tan	Diminutive of her given name
Japanese	ゆかりッチ Yukaritchi	Diminutive of her given name
Traditional Chinese	小由加莉 Xiǎo-Yóujiālì	Diminutive of her given name

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