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| “ | Those idiots! Can't they do anything right!? I tell ya, the world is chock-full of idiots! | „ |
| ~ Mitsuo ranting to himself in the shopping district. |
| “ | Shadow Mitsuo: I...have nothing...I am nothing...And you...are me...
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| ~ Mitsuo confronting his shadow. |
Mitsuo Kubo is a major antagonist in Persona 4. He is the first suspect that the Investigation team encounters and is quickly suspected of the murders of Ms. Yamano, Saki Konishi, and Mr. Morooka by the police and the protagonists.
Appearance[]
Mitsuo is an unusual looking kid in the small town of Inaba. He looks ominous with his eyes having no irises, with it being pure black and wears average school clothing. His school clothing consist of a white plane shirt underneath a black coat with a green necktie added to it. On his coat is the symbol of his school but it's not stated what school it is in the game but its mention to be a rival school of Yasogami High School. He also has a mole on the right side of his face.
While being in the TV world, he wears an orange, video game-themed shirt, blue pants, and green sneakers.
Personality[]
Mitsuo is an unstable, mentally ill, delusional teen that is willing to do anything to gain the attention of others with it being good or bad. He's very self-centered and is often ranting about any topic that comes to mind when he's talking to people or himself. According to Yukiko, when he stoped by her shop he started to talk to her but describes him as a person that consistently talks non-stop. Though she tolerates people like that, she couldn't for Mitsuo basically describing him to be annoying. Throughout the game, he is shown to be a little creepy and a aggressive towards others mostly when he is interacting with Yukiko. When the Protagonist first meet him, he is seen creeping near the entrance of the high school and suddenly ask Yukiko to go out with him even though she does not known him. He then quickly runs off when two students see him and starts talking about him. In the Persona 4 animation, He is much more aggressive when talking to Yukiko, to the point of grabbing her hand and arguing with Nanoko at the Junes supermarket over two packs of tamago almost grabbing her in the process. Other examples consist of him going through uncontrollable anger. In the anime, there's a scene where Mitsuo is seen arguing with people on the internet, constantly telling them that he is the killer but they respond to him with a joke. This shows his very delusional behavior slowly to think that he actually murdered Ms. Yamano and Saki, even after he killed Yasogami highs infamous teacher Kinshiro Morooka and place him the same way that is similar to the other murders.
Later on, when he is placed in the TV world and meets his shadow he starts an argument with him, claiming that the shadow is a fake and he is the true killer. At the same time, he does not understand the world he is in and the situation he brought to himself. His shadow reveals his emptiness and likely his lack of value in life viewing itself to be nothing, showing that Mitsuo holds negative self-esteem towards himself. This is only because many people ridicule him base on his appearance, which causes his social isolation and having no friends. He lashes out at anyone that tries to comfort him including towards his own shadow, which he still rejects causing it to disappear, showing that his delusions are very powerful and negatively affected his connection to reality.
Biography[]
Mitsuo appears in the beginning of the game where he is seen creeping near the entrance of Yasogami High. When see Yukiko he quickly ask her to go out with him but she questions who he is. Two students comes by and start gossiping about Mitsuo and how difficult it is to date Yukiko, Mitsuo finally leaves when Yukiko refuses to go with him. Chie comments that he was trying to ask Yukiko to go on a date with him but describe that there was something creepy about him especially how he called her Yuki all of a sudden. Later in the game, he can be seen in the shopping district across from Tatsumi Textiles complaining about daily life.
After saving Rise Kujikawa, there have been news of a third murder victim, which turns out to be Kinshiro Morooka. Despite the team dislike for the teacher, they never wished for his death and become eager to find the murderer. Their first suspect became Mitsuo Kubo due to seeing him in the midnight channel saying that he is the true culprit and wanting someone to catch him. After gaining information on him, Teddie is able to track his scent in the TV world and lead to an retro game style dungeon. When exploring the dungeon, they are lead through an RPG style quest and hear Mitsuo's insane rambles of being "the killer", much to the characters disgust. When meeting Mitsuo at the end of the dungeon, they see him arguing with his shadow they ask him if he is the killer. Mitsuo confesses that he is and gleefully admits that he is behind everything. Since he continues to deny his shadow, it transforms and engage in a fight with the team but ended up losing.
With the shadow's defeat, Mitsuo awakens confuse on what's going on but gleefully laughs off the situation when being told that the police is after him now since he is a suspect of the case. He admits at being the murder and continue to rejects his shadow causing it to disappear. They take the tired Mitsuo back to the real world where he be arrested by the police. Before the police arrived, they ask Mitsuo on what motivated him to do all this and respond by saying that he did all of this for attention, which causes the team to be revolt by him. Afterwards, the police arrives and finally arrest him. Later, they start to believe that Mistuo is not the true killer due to his delusional behavior and not giving a convincing argument on how he kill Saki and Ms. Yamano. They concluded that Mistuo is nothing but a copycat killer.
Mitsuo is never seen again in the game but was mention twice within the story. He was reference by the news media that are constantly talking about him being a murderer, much to Kanji's annoyance. Despite disliking Mitsuo and his actions, Kanji feels that the news media need to stop using Mitsuo as a way to portray anti-social people as murderers. Tohru Adachi brings up Mitsuo by referring him as the "Kubo kid" and use him for personal enjoyment in his cat and mouse game since he knew how delusional Mitsuo is.
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Trivia[]
- The name, Mitsuo, means "beautiful" and "hero" in Kanji, possibly referencing Mitsuo's zombie-like appearance and his self-esteem issues.
- There are several hints in the game that Mitsuo is not the true killer.
- it's point out that the killer had to be very strong to put someone like Kanji into the TV.
- In his dungeon, the game text says that he defeated Ms. Yamano and Saki but killed Morooka.
- It gets further when the same text does not refer to them by their names but instead refer them as "TV announcer" and "corpse discoverer."
- There was no mention of Kanji, Yukiko, and Rise in his dungeon and when being confronted he does not seem to recognized them.
- His shadow has a normal boss battle music which is "I'll face myself."
- It is never mention how did he get into the TV world and have a shadow at the same time despite being the killer. Mitsuo never explain how he get there and does not seem to understand the TV world at all.
- Unlike Adachi and Namatame, Mitsuo is the only suspect in the game that never redeems himself and understand the harm he has caused. He never broke out from his delusional behavior and was never treated sympathetically in the story.
- He is even less redeemable in the animated adaptation, where he is portrayed much worse.
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