Eiichiro Takeba

Eiichiro Takeba is an important character of Persona 3. One of the leading scientists of the Kirijo Group, he is the father of Yukari Takeba.

Appearances

 * Persona 3

Persona 3
Prior the events of Persona 3, Eiichiro Takeba worked as a scientist. His talents immediately gained recognition, and was invited to join the research of Shadows implemented by the Kirijo Group. Before leaving his daughter and his wife behind, Eiichiro Takeba wrote a letter to her daughter, which the letter would only be sent past 10 years.

While researching on the Shadows, many scientists learned about the prophecy of the Fall. Many scientists, upon learning the prophecy, willingly embraced the believe. However, Eiichiro Takeba objected the believe of Death as a deliverance, during the final stages of experiment, he interrupted experiment, forcefully separating the harbinger of the Fall, Death into thirteen parts. Before Death was separated, however, he left a video recording, warning the others regarding the presence of Shadows, the Fall, and the way of stopping them.

During Death's separation, the remaining Shadows went outrage, creating the phenomena of the Dark Hour and Tartarus and the facility eventually destroyed by the looming Shadows. Many of the scientist dies from the explosion, including Eiichiro Takeba. However, to cover up the incident, the dead scientists was used as a scapegoat, blaming the faults of explosion towards them, including Eiichiro Takeba. Due to this, the Takeba family was forced to move a few times to avoid hostility of others.

After the death of Eiichiro Takeba, his wife, who was devastated began throwing herself towards random men, an act which disgusted her daughter, Yukari Takeba. Eventually both mother and daughter's relationship became strained, and both became distant. When Yukari enrolls to Gekkoukan High School, she finally received the letter her father wrote years ago. Realizing her father's wishes and care towards her, Yukari decided to join SEES, and hopefully learn more about the death cause of her father.

During SEES' vacation to Yakushima, Eiichiro's video recording is seen. According to Eiichiro Takeba, he released the Shadows to avoid the incident of the Fall, and acknowledges that he is responsible for the Dark Hour. In the recording, he also pleads the future generations to destroy the remaining Shadows, as to correct the past's mistakes. Yukari, who kept lashing out towards SEES due to the reason that they are doing nothing but cleaning up the past's mistakes became devastated after acknowledging that her father was the one responsible towards the Shadows.

After the destruction of the twelve Shadows of Death, Shuji Ikutsuki, chairman of SEES reveals his masterplan- he has been using SEES all along for the destruction of the Shadows, just so Death can be rejuvenated and brings forth the Fall. Ikutsuki thanked Eiichiro for leaving the video recoding, as it further fuels SEES' motivation for the destruction of the Shadows, and comments that he had to made some "modifications" to the Eiichiro's original recording to make things correct. Yukari, enraged that he used her father and her lashes out towards Ikutsuki, however, Ikutsuki said that he merely 'corrected' the recording, just to bring forth the Fall.

Eiichiro Takeba's original recording was later salvaged by Fuuka Yamagishi. It is there Yukari learned about her father's true motive for separating the Shadows- he was trying to keep the Shadows away and apart from merging with each other to rejuvenate Death, and pleads the others of leave the Shadows alone. He acknowledge the chaos he released, and requests only one thing- to tell Yukari how much he missed her, and apologizes for not spending enough time with her. With her resolution strengthened, Yukari's persona transforms into her ultimate Persona, Isis.