Persona 4 Story

It's been a while since I last immersed myself in a story, and Persona 4 fits the bill nicely. Set in a modern day Japan, in a fictional town of Inaba, the story revolves around a transfer student just moved in from the big city to the much quiet and mundane rural town. Shortly, strange murder of unexplained causes hit the town, putting the police in frustration of a near unsolvable case.


The victim is Mayumi Yamano, a news anchor whose rumored affair with Enka star singer's husband heated the media just days ago. Her body was found hanging upside down on an antenna. Meanwhile, rumors of the Midnight Channel begin to spread, a channel that only appears on rainy nights at 12am, showing whoever watches it the face of his own 'soulmate'.

When the MC and his friend Yosuke hear it from their classmate Chie, the three of them decide to try it out and indeed see a picture of a girl that night, and the MC is nearly sucked into his TV as his hand touches the image.

He then realizes his ability to enter the TV into said Midnight Channel, a mysterious studio clouded with thick fog where he met an uncanny creature called Teddie, who claims to have lived in the TV world since the beginning and knows nothing much about the outside world.

Not long after, another murder takes place; Saki Konishi, the favored female senior of Yosuke who discovered Mayumi's body earlier is found dead, hanging on a telephone pole on a foggy morning.

Bent to unravel the cause of Saki's death, Yosuke seeks the MC's help to return to the TV world to find clues. There, Yosuke is attacked by his own Shadow, triggering the MC's awakening to his hidden power to call upon his own Persona. Upon the Shadow's defeat and Yosuke's acceptance of it's existence, being a negative side of him he has denied for so long, it transforms into his own Persona and protector.

From the incident, they learn that the two victims have been thrown into the TV world and were somehow killed by their own Shadows when the fog lifted from the TV world to the outside world. Both the victims had appeared on the Midnight Channel prior to their deaths.

It wasn't long before another disappearance occurs, and this time it is Chie's best friend, Yukiko Amagi, who seems troubled over her family inn's issues of late. Bent on finding her, the three students in Teddie's company, plod deeper into the TV World's mysteries paving the start of their quest filled with unexpected twists to rescue those thrown in and unravel the killer's true identity and intentions.