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Yukiko Amagi is a character in Persona 4. Yukiko is a second year at Yasogami High School, member of the Investigation Team, and the successor to the Amagi Inn.

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Yukiko Amagi is a 2nd year student at Yasogami High School and one of the protagonist's classmates he meets on his first day of school. She is polite and quiet around those she is less familiar with and more open when interacting with those she knows, such as her childhood friend Chie Satonaka. As the protagonist gets to know her during his year in Inaba, he becomes a victim of her recipe-less cooking and discovers her surprisingly loud laugh and deadpan, dark sense of humor.[2][3]

Her family runs the Amagi Inn, known among the locals as a tourist destination. As a family-owned inn operated out of the family home usually passes from mother to daughter, Yukiko and the people of Inaba assume she will one day inherit it. Her uncertainty over this causes an inner conflict that reflects in her Shadow after she is kidnapped and thrown into the TV World. The inn's fame and her traditional looks bring Yukiko unwanted attention,[4] especially from guys who try to ask her out.[5][6] Due to her always turning them down, the ritual of asking her out has become known as the "Amagi Challenge". After her experience in the TV World, she begins reacting to men differently[7] and expresses a desire to be independent.

Yukiko usually wears clothes with a red or black color scheme, such as the red cardigan she wears over her Yasogami uniform and her red headband. When helping out at the family inn, she wears a kimono. In the TV World, she uses a pair of red frame glasses with a double nose bridge made for her by Teddie. During her cameo in Persona 3 Portable, Yukiko is a 3rd year middle school student with shorter bob-cut hair.

Persona 4's character designer Shigenori Soejima designed Yukiko in a way that would resemble a "stereotypical Japanese beauty,"[8] putting additional focus into her eyes and eyebrows.[9] Yukiko's bangs were also designed intricately, with Soejima leaving them uneven and parted to prevent her from being "too creepy."[10] Upon visiting an unnamed city to observe what rural people looked like, Soejima found they all looked like people he would find in Tokyo. Instead, he made the designs of Persona 4 with retro imagery in mind, following the stereotype that "rural = outdated", and Yukiko's hairband is one of these retro design elements.[11] Soejima's first design for Yukiko had her in a sweater. He prefers that look over the button up cardigan she wears in-game as he feels it looks more retro.[12]

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Yukiko Amagi.

Yukiko is the Priestess Social Link. She joins the party in April with her Persona, Konohana Sakuya. Across her appearances as a playable character, Yukiko is associated with Agi and Dia spells plus projectile attacks from her fan.

Manual

Manual Descriptions
Persona 4 Another of the protagonist's classmates. She is the daughter of the family who runs the venerable, high-class Amagi Inn. She spends a lot of time with Chie Satonaka, but she is currently in the middle of her apprenticeship as manager.
Persona 4 Golden Another of the protagonist's classmates. She is the daughter of the family who runs the venerable, high-class Amagi Inn, where she is often helping out. She has quick wits, but tends to be spacy as well.
Persona 4 Arena The heir to the Amagi Inn and a 3rd-year at Yasogami High. Though smart and polite, she can be quite spacey... She and Chie are longtime friends. Her fans and Persona, Konohana Sakuya, let her attack at range.
Persona 4: Dancing All Night A member of the Investigation Team, and currently a third-year in high school. She is the only child of the Amagi family, the owners of a traditional inn in Inaba, and she is best friends with Chie, one of her classmates.

Game Appearances

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Persona 4

Persona 4 Golden

Persona 3 Portable

Persona 4 Arena

Yukiko's Story Mode

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

Other Characters

Yukiko 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 5

In Persona 5, the TV in Café Leblanc will allude to Yukiko if it is interacted with on December 14.[13]

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

Yukiko is one of the selectable avatars for the pachinko machine. When selected, her mini-portrait will appears on the player's stat screen and she does the voice over for the machine's functions. She is the subject of some probability events, such as a cooking event, and another event where her and Chie try making curry.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

For more information on this subject in BlazBlue, see Yukiko Amagi on BlazBlue Wiki.

Yukiko is playable in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle as one of the 13 characters adapted from Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. Yukiko has unique voiced interactions with her fellow Persona users Yu Narukami, Chie Satonaka, Kanji Tatsumi, Labrys, and Tohru Adachi. Yukiko also has unique interactions with the Blazblue characters Rachel Alucard, Celica A. Mercury, Nine the Phantom, and Jubei, as well as Carmine and Gordeau from the Under Night In-Birth series, Weiss Schnee from RWBY, and Yumi from the Senran Kagura series.

Kotodaman

Yukiko appeared 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. She can be obtained by rolling in the Persona gacha. As a game unit, Yukiko is a 5★ fire-attribute unit who can be used to form words using the syllables that make up her initials: ゆ・ゅ and あ・ぁ. She can be evolved into a 6★ unit. Her 3+ and 4+ syllable skills are named Maragi and Maragidyne, two skills that her Persona learns during Persona 4. Maragidyne does fire damage when ゆ・ゅ is played and heals when あ・ぁ is played.[14]

Trivia

  • Yukiko was originally conceived as a party member and one of the protagonist's friend group. While developing the plot, Atlus wanted to add in a twist culprit between the November and April culprits. At first, Soejima and Hashino considered Yukiko for this role, but only as a half-joke based on Japanese detective story tropes, and the idea was never seriously written.[15]
  • In Yukiko's own high school social network profile displayed in Persona Club P4, she writes that her favorite food is Japanese food, she loves dogs, she does not particularly dislike anything but does not take well to dirty talk, and her special skills are kimono dressing and arranging food dishes / place settings. The hobby pages she has joined include "Japanese clothing lovers", "The Go Home Club", "Let's visit the dam", and "Fans of Showa era music". Her inbox has a message from Yosuke asking her to let him come back and bathe in the hot springs at the Amagi Inn again.[16] Her Persona 4 Arena Ultimax remastered profile also reiterates that she is awful at cooking.[17]
  • The developer Q&A in about Yukiko in Persona Club P4 reveals some additional background information:[18]
    • Yukiko does not like to stand out, but she wears the color red because Chie told her it looks good on her.
    • Yukiko is not allowed to go on errands for the Amagi Inn because there have been incidents in the past where she bought hard bread flour instead of soft pastry flour, and got broccoli instead of cauliflower because it looks healthier.
    • During Yukiko's rank 10 romance route, the protagonist can invite her to sit on the futon. Originally, this dialogue would have resulted in something more adventurous, but it was toned down after other staff found it too perverted.
  • On April 30th, Yukiko is upset about the protagonist eating the fried tofu in her kitsune udon. This is not referring to blocks or chunks of fried tofu, but rather Abura-age - very thinly sliced tofu that gets fried and resembles pouches.
  • Yukiko's cell phone in Persona 4 The Animation is a red Francfranc N-05B.[19]

Nomenclature

The family name means "heavenly castle," and the given name means "snow child." Amagi is a family name found in areas such as Shizuoka and Kagoshima. Its usage as a family name is thought to originate as a place name,[20] such as Mount Amagi in Shizuoka.

Names in Other Languages
Language Name Meaning
Japanese 天城 雪子 Amagi Yukiko

Gallery

Notes

  1. ↑ Yukiko would be 16 for the majority of Persona 4, and turns 17 near the end of the game. All other entries take place before December, 2012, so Yukiko's age would not change.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Udon Entertainment (2015). English. 58. Translation by M. Kirie Hayashi. ISBN-13: 978-1926778457.
  2. ↑ "[August 2] Kazushi: She said she saw people's faces showing up in the inn's walls.
    Yuko: Ack, you idiot!
    Yukiko: Oh, you saw them too? There's always a few at old inns, so there's no need to worry." Persona 3 Portable (PlayStation Portable). Developed by Atlus. Published by Atlus. English.
  3. ↑ "[October 30] Yukiko: Don't worry, I won't hurt you.
    > The cross-dressing pageant will begin soon... It looks like you'll have to give up and let Yukiko apply makeup on you." Persona 4 (PlayStation 2). Developed by Atlus. Published by Atlus. English.
  4. ↑ "[April 15] Reporter: Someday, though... That aside, wow! You're looking gorgeous in that kimono. You must have had a lot of male visitors.
    Yukiko: Huh? No, um..." Persona 4 (PlayStation 2). Developed by Atlus. Published by Atlus. English.
  5. ↑ "[April 12] Yosuke: Yo, Yukiko-san. Turned down another lovelorn fool, huh? Man, you're cruel… You got me the same way last year." Persona 4 (PlayStation 2). Developed by Atlus. Published by Atlus. English.
  6. ↑ "[April 12] Spectacled student: Never mind that, he's going for Yukiko-san? Man, you'd think he'd at least wait until she's alone to make his move...
    Onlooking student: I bet you a can of TaP he gets knocked out.
    Spectacled student: No bet. Haven't you heard how difficult the Amagi Challenge is?" Persona 4 (PlayStation 2). Developed by Atlus. Published by Atlus. English.
  7. ↑ "[May 6] Yosuke: Hm? Oh, that's right. Yukiko's ranked at the top in every exam. Maybe I should ask her for some private lessons.
    Yukiko: P-private lessons?!
    Yosuke: Huh? What's wrong?
    (Yukiko slaps Yosuke.)
    Yosuke: Ow! What was that for? I'm just asking you to help me study...
    Yukiko: Oh, I'm sorry... You were talking about studying... I thought it might've been an off-color joke. Our inn has had some strange visitors lately." Persona 4 (PlayStation 2). Developed by Atlus. Published by Atlus. English.
  8. ↑ "The concept for Yukiko's design was the stereotypical Japanese beauty" "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Udon Entertainment (2015). English. 57. Translation by M. Kirie Hayashi. ISBN-13: 978-1926778457.
  9. ↑ "I focused heavily on Yukiko's eyes and eyebrows, as I felt those would be the best features with which to convey her strong core. To give off that classic Japanese beauty vibe, I used features that were considered beautiful back in the day, like eyes that are slightly angled upward and thicker eyebrows." "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Udon Entertainment (2015). English. 57. Translation by M. Kirie Hayashi. ISBN-13: 978-1926778457.
  10. ↑ "The part I had to be most careful with was her bangs. If I had cut a hard, straight line she would have been a bit too creepy, like those old Japanese dolls. That's why I intentionally left them uneven and somewhat parted." "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Udon Entertainment (2015). English. 57. Translation by M. Kirie Hayashi. ISBN-13: 978-1926778457.
  11. ↑ "Chapter Extra: Interview with Shigenori Soejima", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Famitsu (2008). Japanese. p. 188. ISBN-13: 978-4757745087.
  12. ↑ "Chapter 1: Main Characters", Persona 4 Official Design Works, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Department. Published by Famitsu (2008). Japanese. p. 64. ISBN-13: 978-4757745087.
  13. ↑ "[December 14] We're bringing you today's "Discovery! Town Detectives!" all the way from Yasoinaba! The Amagi Inn has a long history, and it's famous for its delicious food and relaxing hot springs! I must say, the young proprietress is quite the beauty! It's worth going just to see her, hahaha." Persona 5 (PlayStation 3). Developed by P-Studio. Published by Atlus. English.
  14. ↑ Kotodaman - Yukiko Amagi Evaluation and Status. Published November 4, 2020. Retrieved January 18, 2024. GameWith. Article.
  15. ↑ Persona 4 – 2008 Developer Interview. Published March 26, 2024. Retrieved June 3, 2024. Shmuplations.
  16. ↑ "Chapter 1: Characters", Persona Club P4, Atlus, Famitsu Editorial Staff. Published by Famitsu (2009). Japanese. p. 37. ISBN-13: 475774630X.
  17. ↑ Yukiko Amagi Character Introduction. Published December 16, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2024. Twitter. Tweet.
  18. ↑ "Chapter 1: Yukiko Amagi: Questions We Asked the Developers", Persona Club P4. p. 40.
  19. ↑ NEC and Francfranc's 2nd Collab Model, the N-05B. Published 2010. Retrieved 2023. Pho-N Watch. News Article.
  20. ↑ Amagi. Retrieved December 17, 2024. Myouji Yurai.
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