Kamoshidaman (Labyrinth)

Kamoshidaman is the first Labyrinth in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth. It is based on Superman.

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A reality in the Movie World where a superhero known as Kamoshidaman has occupied and terrorized a city known as "Kamocity" and made himself the absolute justice there, forcing the citizens to worship him out of idolatry. During a regular exploration in Mementos, the Morgana Van goes out of control and lands directly in the city that forms this reality. The Phantom Thieves of Hearts ask the police in the world for whereabouts but they flee, and the Thieves were instantly attacked by Shadows. Afterwards an F.O.E resembling a giant chicken appears and attacks them, forcing them to escape the screen into a movie theater, where the basics of the game begin. However, Makoto Niijima and Haru Okumura goes missing, forcing the party with 2 less members.

At the second time the party enters the world, they encounter a golden Shadow which drops a film, then returns to the real world due to Futaba Sakura sensing something wrong. The film is revealed to be a Persona film containing a Pixie.

At the third time entering, it was due to Theodore's request for the Phantom Thieves to find back the P3P heroine. In the progress of searching her, it was revealed that Makoto and Haru were caught by Kamoshidaman, who consider the Phantom Thieves as the evil disrupting the order of the city and kidnapped the 2 girls for execution. He then sends wanted letters to capture the other Thieves and the citizens support him out of idolatry. They managed to find the P3P Heroine, who was combatting Shadows. The Phantom Thieves helped the P3P heroine defeat the Shadows and she joins the party.

At the 4th time around, the party managed to get to the center square to confront Kamoshidaman, where he claims that the weak only exists to be ruled over by the justice of the strong and he is the strongest absolute justice. The party confronts him but is easily overpowered. They figured out that a golden statue in the square was the source of his powers, and after the statue is removed, Kamoshidaman is powerless. Due to the help of Makoto and Haru, they also know that the statue is actually very light and can be easily lifted. They managed to formulate a plan to steal it by shutting down the electricity of the city and tying the statues with balloons, causing it to float away.

The party then enters the reality one last time, and managed to execute their plans, severely weakening Kamoshidaman. The now weak Kamoshidaman fights them, but is completely pathetic and is prone to just doing nothing. After he is defeated, the people in Kamocity begin to doubt him as a justice and were seemingly bought out of the brainwashing. However, at this time Kamoshidaman uses the power of the movies to transform into Super Kamoshidaman, a monstrous rabbit-like creature. They defeat it and Kamoshidaman fades, with the citizens of the city finally realizing that Kamoshidaman is not the justice they thought he was.

The staff credits roll with Hikari and Nagi watching it. Both congratulated the party for their efforts of spreading the message of real justice and Doe creates the key to the second area, Junessic Land with a spasmic reaction.

Connection with Hikari's past
Later on, it is revealed that the movie reality is based on one of Hikari's past traumas that later form her extreme depression and low self-esteem. She and other students were accused of poisoning the class rabbit in her primary school by her teacher, but the other students who were responsible of feeding it were too scared to speak as the teacher was treated as a hero of justice in her class and nobody ever spoke against her. Hikari spoke against the teacher by refusing to apologize as she simply warned the other students that the food was bad. The class then together accused Hikari as a bad kid because the teacher said so. They managed to make her apologize begrudgingly despite she did not poison it.

Kamoshidaman is the cognitive existence of her teacher and the people in the city are cognitive existences of the students who acted alongside the teacher against her. The teacher appeared as Kamoshidaman as she was considered a comic book superhero-like figure in her class and both her class teacher and Suguru Kamoshida are considered untouchable rulers in their respective schools, and due to the trauma caused by the poisoning of the class rabbit, Kamoshidaman's monstrous form appears as a rabbit, representing the resentment caused by the baseless crime.

Trivia

 * This labyrinth is based on an issue in modern society, as continuing the Persona 5 theme. It represents a blind following of authority, believing that it could do nothing wrong and all of its decisions are correct. The citizens in the movie reality worship Kamoshidaman as an authority and just figure and provide him unconditional support, despite he has done nothing good for the city and his "justice" is simply him terrorizing the citizens inside it. The dungeon also makes note of authority lacking any substance and only maintains its status based on its control of law and jurisdiction, as the statue that acts as Kamoshidaman's power source is abnormally light and can be lifted away even by balloons.
 * Kamoshidaman also mirrors Suguru Kamoshida despite not the same person; Kamoshida considers himself as the untouchable king of Shujin Academy while Kamoshidaman considers himself as the absolute justice of Kamocity. Both entities use their obsession of power to terrorize the communities they reign over, only to be stopped by the Phantom Thieves of Hearts who are the only group that could stop them.