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“ | So you're the new transfer student, right? Cause any trouble and you'll be expelled. Understand? | „ |
~ Suguru Kamoshida threatening Ren Amamiya. |
“ | I'm a cut above all other humans! | „ |
~ Kamoshida on his egotistical superiority over everybody. |
Coach Suguru Kamoshida is a major antagonist in the 2016 ATLUS action-adventure video game, Persona 5 (as well as its 2019 re-release expansion, Persona 5 Royal). He is the main antagonist of the first heist, the Castle of Lust, as well as the archenemy of Ryuji Sakamoto and Ann Takamaki, and the second archenemy of Ren Amamiya.
He is a coach teacher at Shujin Academy. While acting like a charming and carefree individual, he's actually a cruel, abusive, and lustful man who abuses his male students for petty reasons and lustfully preys on his female students, especially Ann. He is the very first villain faced by the Phantom Thieves, and represents the sin of Lust. His Palace resembles a Medieval castle, and it is based in Shujin Academy in the real world.
He was voiced by Yuji Mitsuya (who also voices Pica) in Japanese and D.C. Douglas (who also voices Azrael, Albert Wesker, Deathstroke and Yoshikage Kira) in English.
Biography[]
Persona 5[]
Kamoshida is a former Olympic volleyball champion who later became the volleyball coach at Shujin Academy. During his time as a teacher, Kamoshida would use his fame as a means to give Shujin Academy high publicity. This also includes recognition for the school's students. If students put his name on college applications or were recommended by him for a scholarship, it would mean instant success.
However, his ego became more inflated with the Principal clearly favoring him. As a result, he began to sabotage any other team that was about to surpass his volleyball team. One of which was the track team that included rising star, Ryuji Sakamoto. Using his ways, Kamoshida got the old track team coach fired and began coaching with what was labeled as abuse. Eventually, he used the rumors of Ryuji's parents to provoke the track star into violence and broke his leg in a move of "self-defense", crippling Ryuji and ending his sports career. Thus causing the track team to disband. However, his volleyball team fared no better.
As Kamoshida coached the volleyball team, male members were put underneath extreme "training" that would leave them all bruised and beaten. Meanwhile, he even began physically and sexually abusing female students on his team. Despite the fact that students, staff, and even parents knew about this all happening, nobody could speak up since the principal would silence any attempts for the school to lose its star coach. With no way to stop Kamoshida, the Phantom Thieves of Hearts eventually plan a heist to steal his corrupt heart in Kamoshida's Palace.
Later on, it is revealed that Kamoshida was blackmailing Ann Takamaki to act as his girlfriend just to make sure her best friend, Shiho Suzui, could stay on the volleyball team. While Ann did play along with the charade, at one point Kamoshida demanded that Ann have sex with him, threatening to drop Shiho from the team if she refused. Despite wanting to keep Shiho on the volleyball team, this was one thing Ann couldn't bring herself to do, her encounter with the protagonist encouraging her decision. Enraged by her rejection, Kamoshida decides to take his frustrations out on Shiho in retaliation. After sexually assaulting Shiho (with the heavy implication that he raped her), she attempts suicide the very next day and it soon becomes part of the Phantom Thieves' mission to prevent further sexual abuse. In addition, it also becomes a mission to prevent the protagonist, Ryuji, and Yuuki Mishima's expulsion from school.
When Shadow Kamoshida is cornered, he transforms into Asmodeus, and his mutated form is a boss. Once defeated, the protagonist steals his heart and allows Ann to decide how to deal with him. Despite the now-rewritten Kamoshida proposing to kill himself, Ann holds back and tells him to live and repent for his actions. Shadow Kamoshida can do nothing except comply with her words. Then the Thieves proceed to escape with Kamoshida's treasure which takes the form of a gaudy royal crown in the Metaverse, and his gold medal in the real world.
If his Treasure is stolen before May 1, the change of heart will cause Kamoshida to take leave in order to comprehend his horrible actions.
Following this, the real Kamoshida, having been brainwashed by the Phantom Thieves, publicly announces all his crimes to the school. The brainwashed Kamoshida initially says he will commit suicide because of what he did to Shiho, but after Ann says that would be running away from his crimes, he turns himself into the police due to the Phantom Thieves. In the Royal version of the game, Takuto Maruki is subsequently hired as a counselor by the school to help the victims of Kamoshida shortly after the coach is arrested, though as several students realize, he was only hired to mitigate the PR disaster Kamoshida's confession caused.
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth[]
Kamoshida's influence lives on when the Phantom thieves visit the mindscape of the child, Hikari, as their traumatic memories of Kamoshida combine with another abusive teacher (of Hikari's) and an old superhero movie, creating Kamoshidaman, who resembles a Superhero version of Kamoshida. At several points, the protagonists mistake Kamoshidaman for Kamoshida.
Appearance[]
Kamoshida has long black unkempt hair, a large nose and thick eyebrows. His jawline is broad and square. He wears a white sports T-shirt and black sports pants with double white stripes.
His Shadow Self wears a gold crown, red heart-printed cape, and pink underwear, leaving his torso and legs exposed. When he transforms into Asmodeus, he becomes a grotesquely fat pink demon with a thick purple tongue who wears his Treasure as a crown, and uses golden eating utensils to eat the Cognitive existences of his female team members to restore his health.
Personality[]
“ | People around me were the ones who kept it secret. Adults who want to share in my accomplishments, students who have the drive to become winners... They willingly protect it so we all may profit from it. | „ |
~ Shadow Kamoshida stating his beliefs. |
Kamoshida is accurately described to be nothing more than a loathsome monster. He is a lustful, cruel, egotistical and utterly selfish bully who abuses his volleyball team physically and emotionally. With female students, he abuses them sexually as well. Kamoshida is willing to sabotage any rival sports of his own school purely, so his volleyball team rises to prominence. He believes his relative success as a coach and previous success as an athletic champion gives him the privilege to do whatever he wants and is so driven by his darker passions that he thinks of himself as a king on campus. The anime adaptation reveals a more in-depth looks at his nature, showing Kamoshida purposely knocking Ren's glasses off his face with a volleyball. He also is shown taking his anger out on Shiho after Ann rebuffs him.
Meanwhile, Shadow Kamoshida is more dramatic and honest about the selfishness and egotism that drives his actions. He is also known to be a vicious gossip, regularly starting rumors to defame and hopefully expel students he dislikes. He has no respect for women or his students at all, viewing them as sex objects (female students) or as slaves to his glory (male students). He is also obsessed with Ann because of her blonde hair and being quarter American, which makes her a rarity in Japan. To him, having Ann as his "girlfriend" would mean that he could show her off as a trophy. Deep down, he is driven by the sense of inadequacy he feels after he faded into obscurity.
After the Phantom Thieves steal his heart and brainwash Kamoshida to make him want to repent, he loses his belief that he is the ruler of the school, he subsequently announces his crimes at a school assembly, resigns and calls the police to arrest him after being talked out of committing suicide by Ann.
Quotes[]
“ | No way... This was from when I won the national... You think you can get away with doing such a thing? Do you realize who I am!? ...I am Kamoshida! Don't you get it!? | „ |
~ Shadow Kamoshida when his Trophy of Obsession is destroyed. |
“ | You're misunderstanding it all! I haven't sexually harassed anyone! They came on to me because they wanted to get on my good side! | „ |
~ Shadow Kamoshida excusing his actions. |
“ | It's always been like this... all those goddamn hyenas forcing their expectations on me...! I'm doing this all for them! What's wrong about demanding a reward for that!? | „ |
~ Shadow Kamoshida after being beaten by Phantom Thieves. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Kamoshida might be based on the Olympic Judo gold medalist Masato Uchishiba who was sentenced to prison for sexual harassment (and one case of rape) of the high school students in his class and subsequently had his awards and honors revoked.
- Suguru Kamoshida has received positive reception among reviewers for being a thoroughly despicable character, with many considering him the most loathsome villain in the game.
- Cut scenarios reveal in his youth, Kamoshida did something terrible (implied to be rape or sexual assault) to a TV anchor he was dating sometime after winning his medal. Kamoshida is talked out of apologizing by his agent who says they will discredit the TV anchor and cover up his crimes. Given the knowledge that his crimes will always be covered up, Kamoshida becomes drunk with power and decides he will do whatever he wants regardless of who they hurt.
- Given the scenario is cut, it is unknown if this is still canon to the story.
External Links[]
- Suguru Kamoshida on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Suguru Kamoshida on the Megami Tensei Wiki
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