Miscellaneous Characters In Persona 4 The Animation

Igor

Igor is a mysterious, long-nosed gentleman who resides in the Velvet Room, which takes place in an unknown dimension and has the shape of a limousine. Igor reads Yu's fortune in the beginning and later gives his advice. His purpose is to assist Yu in acquiring new powers and Personas. Following Izanami's defeat, Igor leaves Yu to see the original form from the TV world, satisfied with his journey's conclusion.

Margaret

Margaret is a woman who works as Igor's assistant. She appears alongside him in the Velvet Room, supporting Yu, replacing her sister Elizabeth when she leaves on a journey. After meeting her alone, she asks Yu to create a particular Persona using a certain fusion type skill, as a euphemism for drawing out corresponding aspects of Yu's personality. She seems very composed and dignified at first glance, although she actually has a silly and whimsical sense of humor.

Ryotaro Dojima

Dojima is Yu Narukami's uncle who works as a detective on the Inaba police force. He is Nanako's hard-working single father, but mostly spends his time away from family due to the murders. When Yu starts getting related with the incidents, Dojima starts questioning him, but wishes to avoid doubting him. Nevertheless, he comes to appreciate him as another member of his family. While interacting with him, Dojima reveals his obsession with a hit-and-run accident that killed his wife Chisato and continues to investigate it, to the point where he neglects his daughter. Dojima later realizes he was scared of seeing Nanako who reminds him of his late wife, and decides to spend more time with his family.

Nanako Dojima

Nanako Dojima is the young cousin of Yu, and Dojima's only daughter. Nanako is a guileless girl, and is usually left at home due to her father's work. Nanako is capable of taking care of herself. When Yu starts spending the day with her, Nanako starts calling him Big Bro after Chie jokingly called him that. During her talks with Yu, Nanako worries about whether her father loves her or not due to the little time he spends at home and her mother's death. Yu helps Nanako come to terms with her father's busy professional life, realizing that he also missed her mother as much as she did.

Fox

The Fox first meets Nanako during a rainy day on August 6. Nanako gives the Fox her Loveline umbrella to keep it out of the rain, and leaves. The Fox stays with the umbrella until it was blown away by the wind and destroyed. To return Nanako's kindness, on August 7, the Fox approached Yu and gave him an ema quest to help Shu Nakajima. This begins a long chain of ema quests over the following weeks, including those of Hisano Kuroda and others. At the end of the episode, the Fox gathers all of the yen that Yu helped to bring to the shrine, and during the credits presents Nanako with a new Loveline umbrella bought with the shrine yen.

Hisano Kuroda

Kuroda is an old woman dressed in mourning clothes who befriends Yu. Yu meets Hisano at his part-time janitorial job at the hospital. Upon meeting her, Yu learns that she feels guilty over her husband's death, feeling that she caused him to die by wishing for it. Hisano and her unnamed husband were very much in love for the time they were together, but eventually Hisano's husband became ill and gradually lost all memory of Hisano. Alone, sad and helpless, she wished for him to die in order for them both to escape the pain. It is through Yu that she realizes that even though her husband lost his memory, the time and love that they shared was genuine and true, allowing Hisano to move on.

Shu Nakajima

Shu is a young student whom Yu can tutor part-time. As Yu spends more time with Shu, it is revealed that Shu is depressed because of all the pressure he feels to be the best in everything alongside the constant stream of praise he receives from his mother. He also mentions a transfer student whom he envies, as this student surpasses Shu in almost every way. In order to stay on top and live up to his mother's expectations, Shu cheats on a test and ends up being suspended from school, much to his mother's disappointment and disdain. Yu helps Shu realize that he should find more meaning in his life than just trying to face forward and be number one at everything.

Eri and Yuuta Minami

Eri is the stepmother of Yuuta, one of the children from the daycare center where Yu can work part-time. As Yu gets to know Eri and Yuuta, they reveal that they faced difficulties accepting each other as part of the family. Eri and Yuuta's father were only married for about half a year before he had to leave for China on business. As such, Eri and Yuuta had nothing that connected them and so they grew more and more distant. Both Eri and Yuuta care about each other very much but are held back by their own insecurities regarding the relationship. Yu helps the both of them realize that in order for a relationship to work.

Sayoko Uehara

Sayoko is a nurse from the hospital where Yu can work part-time as a janitor. Yu learns that she has a cynical view on her profession as patients leave her, whether by dying or recovering and leaving the hospital. As such, she attempts to seduce Yu often. Her attitude changes when she discovers that one of her patients from the hospital she previously worked at has died. When she learns of his death, she becomes a strict workaholic.

Kinshiro Morooka

Morooka is the homeroom and philosophy teacher of Yasogami High School's Class 2-2. Derisively called King Moron in English and Morokin in Japanese by his students, he is snobbish and judgemental to current teenage pop culture and constantly reminds his students to study hard, addressing them with disdain almost to the point of verbal abuse. He constantly threatens to expel students that misbehave, and is very briefly suspected of being involved in the murders due to particularly misogynistic comments he makes about Mayumi Yamano.

Noriko Kashiwagi

Noriko replaces Morooka as Class 2-2's homeroom teacher after he is killed and she is also the biology teacher for Yasogami High. She flirts with her students. Even though her personality is the polar opposite of Morooka's, she is greatly hated by the students of 2-2.