PERSONA 4 the Animation: Season 1

Inside a limousine, Igor and his assistant Margaret introduce themselves to the unseen visitor and explain the nature of their location, the Velvet Room, a place that exists between "dream and reality." Igor mentions something special is in store for their guest. ---- On April 11, 2011, Yu Narukami arrives by train to the rural city of Inaba, where he will be living with his detective uncle and cousin for a year due to his parents working overseas, beginning classes at Yasogami High School the f

In the Velvet Room, Igor and Margaret present a key to their guest, welcoming him to return whenever he wishes. Margaret also reveals the guest's Persona is a Wild Card, providing infinite possibilities. ---- Thanks to Teddie, Yu, Yosuke, and Chie return to their world. The next day, Chie's best friend, Yukiko Amagi, rejects a disturbed student's request for a date. Yosuke wants to take Saki to see a movie, but an assembly is called in, where it is learned that she has died. Yosuke proposes a th

In the Velvet Room, Igor explains that Personas are strengthened by the bonds one makes with others, and Margaret notes that their guest has formed the bond necessary for the Magician Arcana so far. ---- Chie grows concerned after seeing Yukiko on the Midnight Channel but is assuaged when Yukiko calls her to say she is taking time off from school to help at the Amagi Inn, the inn owned by her family. After confirming with Teddie that no humans are currently inside the TV world, Yu suggests that

In the Velvet Room, Margaret congratulates their guest on their ability to utilize the powers of the Wild Card and that he has managed to obtain yet another bond to create the Chariot Arcana. ---- The group returns to the television world to resume their search for Yukiko in the castle, but they instead find her doppelgänger, who, after summoning Shadows, runs off. Elsewhere, the real Yukiko reminisces about the time she befriended Chie, followed by the time she nursed an abandoned baby bird bac

In the Velvet Room, Margaret foretells that their guest will soon acquire two new Arcanas: the Moon and Strength. ---- While waiting for Yukiko to recover, Yu is asked by Chie to help out with the basketball club, being formally introduced to his teammate, Kou Ichijo. He later spends time with the team's manager, Ai Ebihara, who eventually confides in him about a crush she has on Kou and asks for help; however, upon learning that Kou has a crush on Chie, a devastated Ai attempts to jump off of t

In the Velvet Room, Margaret is alone, as Igor has gone out; she congratulates the player on making the bonds related to the Moon and Strength Arcanas. ---- When Dojima has to back out of going on a trip for Golden Week, Yu decides to take Nanako to hang out with his friends at Junes, who quickly warm up to her. The next day, Yosuke deduces that all of the victims so far have been women who were somehow linked to Yamano. A week later, on another rainy night, Yu watches the Midnight Channel and i

In the Velvet Room, Margaret congratulates the guest that he has made a new bond, which has opened up the path to the Priestess Arcana, before Igor warns him that the danger befalling Inaba is coming closer. ---- When the four enter back into the television world, Kanji is nowhere to be found. It is learned that Kanji made a bunny-shaped phone strap charm for a little boy after the latter had previously lost one. Yu borrows the charm to give to Teddie, who is able to track down the scent. At the

In the Velvet Room, Igor is out again, and Margaret muses if their guest is only coming because he knows Igor is out, before she congratulates him on acquiring the Emperor Arcana. ---- Knowing that a school camping trip is coming up, the group will get to cook curry together, so they prepare for the next day with food and supplies. While at the campsite, the curry the girls prepared had several ingredients in it, making it barely edible. Dubbed "Mystery Food X," Yu and Yosuke collapse in disgust

In the Velvet Room, Margaret notes that their guest has obtained the Hanged Man Arcana after his camping trip, and reminds him that his bonds will only strengthen the more he makes them. ---- Deciding to take a break from her career due to exhaustion, popular singer and idol Rise Kujikawa, decides to go to Inaba to help out at Marukyu Tofu, her grandmother's tofu shop. While shopping at Junes, she meets Yu, who found her cellphone after accidentally dropping it. The following night, Rise appears

In the Velvet Room, Margaret reads their guest's fortune and warns him that a great danger approaches and he might not be strong enough to face it, even with all of his Arcanas thus far. ---- Yu, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, and Kanji go into the television world to save Rise, finding her at the strip joint. As multiple other selves harass Rise, she rejects them, turning her main other self into a large Shadow. The gang summons their Personas to battle the Shadow, but she uses her special scanning abil

In the Velvet Room, Margaret congratulates their guest for forming the bond that gives him the Lovers Arcana, but warns him that the power can either be fruitful for love or harmful. ---- When their homeroom teacher, Kinshiro Morooka - dubbed by the students as "King Moron" - is found murdered, the group is confused as he had not appeared on television, much less the Midnight Channel like the other victims. Curious if Morooka was thrown into the television world without their knowledge, they dec

In the Velvet Room, Margaret tells their guest that he has acquired the bond of the Star Arcana, before Igor warns him that his journey is reaching a climax with surprises in store. Margaret adds that his path is at a crossroads, and if he makes the wrong decisions, his journey will come to an end. She reminds him that there is only one truth before Igor warns him that defeat is not the only way to lose. ---- The gang enters the television world to find Mitsuo in a video game simulation. They di

In the Velvet Room, Margaret congratulates their guest on surpassing the greatest challenge he has faced thus far. She advises him to take some time off to recover, and Igor mentions that it is helpful to have some reprieve, even if there is not much time left. ---- On her way home during a downpour, Nanako passes by the local shrine and gives a fox her umbrella, coming home soaking wet. Nanako starts worrying when Yu comes home late, day after day. To find out what he is up to, she dresses up a

In the Velvet Room, Margaret is once again by herself, and she tells her guest that he will soon make the bonds to acquire several new Arcana. ---- Yu goes out to buy a new umbrella for Nanako, who claims that she lost it the night before but is unable to afford one. After passing by the local shrine, the fox from before approaches him holding an ema. He is suggested to tutor Shu Nakajima while at the same time taking up another job at a local daycare. He stops Yuuta and Kaneko from fighting ove

In the Velvet Room, Margaret and Igor congratulate their guest as he has formed the bonds giving him the Temperance, Tower, Death, Devil, and Hermit Arcanas. Margaret also tells him the more he strengthens the bonds, the stronger he will become. ---- As summer vacation ends and classes begin, the freshmen and sophomores go on a field trip to Tatsumi Port Island. However, the hotel they will be staying in has been repurchased from a less-than-reputable organization. Teddie, waiting for the gang t

In the Velvet Room, Margaret warns their guest that he is becoming lax, which may spell trouble, but Igor says he should move at his own pace, even though danger approaches. ---- Naoto appears on the news to say that there are incongruities in the murder case and that it is still under investigation. The next day after school, Naoto approaches the gang and interrogates their involvement in the murder case. Naoto tells them they are not seen as possible suspects but as pawns in the game. Naoto go

Alone in the Velvet Room, Margaret tells her guest the story of Black Frost, who asked the gods to end his loneliness. They gave him a friend who was alive for only one day, and when his friend disappeared after the day, he wished that he had never made his request if he knew how lonely it would make him feel. ---- Teddie is hit by the aging beam when he protects the girls from the Shadow, and Yu is also hit after trying to vary his Personas against the Shadow. The Shadow laments Naoto's difficu

In the Velvet Room, Margaret congratulates their guest for obtaining the Fortune Arcana. She then states that only another heart can bond with another heart before proposing a toast between herself and Yu Narukami. ---- Adachi urgently calls Dojima regarding a hit-and-run accident which severely injures a woman that occurred at the Samegawa flood plains. The next day, Yu finds a photo of Dojima and his late wife with Nanako, and Nanako explains to Yu that her mother had died in a car accident of

The Velvet Room is empty save for a placard saying they are out on business and a note from Margaret congratulating their guest for obtaining the Hierophant and Justice Arcanas. ---- The school is holding its annual cultural festival, and Yu's class will be putting together a group-dating café. Yosuke had also signed up all of the girls in their group of friends for the beauty pageant without their consent, with Yu and Kanji voicing their support. During soccer practice with their classmate Dais

In the Velvet Room, Margaret senses a light within their guest, which she determines is because of his acquisition of the Sun Arcana. She then sings the "Long-Nosed Man Song," much to Igor's visible displeasure, before she reminisces about her younger sister. ---- Following the cultural festival, Dojima says that he is going out of town the next morning. Yukiko invites Yu and Nanako over to her family's inn, but the rest of the group also insists on coming. Teddie is disappointed that the boys a

In the Velvet Room, Igor comments that their guest's journey has been a long one and wonders if he will be able to solve the riddle at its end. Margaret mentions that not much time is left and asks their guest if he will be able to discover the truth. ---- Naoto deduces that the sender may already know who Yu is since the letter was personally delivered to him. When he arrives home, he has dinner with Nanako. The news airs a local politician who has visited Nanako's school, mentioning a student

In the Velvet Room, Igor reads their guest's fortune, and Margaret discovers exactly what fate lies in store for their guest. ---- The team enters the television world to find a beautiful realm resembling Heaven. Encountering Nanako in the custody of Namatame, he claims that he wanted them all to face their true selves, but why he did it in such a deadly manner is beyond them. Namatame summons many Shadows that transform him into the Persona, Kunino-sagiri. Yu, blocking off the first round of at

The team grieves after the apparent death of Nanako. The group enters Namatame's room, seemingly attempting to escape through a window. Namatame's Shadow then appears on the Midnight Channel on the television set, boasting that its desire to "save" people will never cease. Yu, grief-stricken and enraged after Nanako's death, first has the intention of pushing Namatame into the television set to face his own fate against his Shadow, but he then changes his mind. Although Yosuke is upset by this,

Teddie is in the Velvet Room, where he reveals that he has discovered he is only a Shadow, but one that has acquired human emotions. He asks Yu to say goodbye to Nanako for him when he goes to Heaven, but Yu speaks to him and tells him Nanako is alive and well, much to his joy. ---- Before Yu goes to the hospital, Yosuke expresses that he is both proud and jealous of how fast Yu has made friends, saying the only way he will feel better is if they fight to let out all of their pent-up emotions an

As he effortlessly attacks the team, Adachi says that the television and real worlds will soon combine, as seen by a dark matter gradually descending to the ground. Once humanity becomes Shadows, they will have no emotions and act only on raw instinct. The group takes out the Reapers one by one while also expressing their distaste for Adachi's plans. As Adachi makes his last stand against Yu, he takes him out, destroying his Persona. Realizing his defeat, Adachi decides to shoot himself, but the