Tohru Adachi

Toru Adachi, commonly referred as Adachi is a major character in Persona 4. A laid-back detective officer, he often crosses the wrong path with his superior Ryotaro Dojima.

Appearances

 * Persona 4

Persona 4
A cheerful and jovial detective, Adachi often serves as the story's comic relief. He often jokingly refers himself as the 'slave' of Ryotaro, complaining of his workload given by Ryotaro Dojima. Adachi also often accidentally blurts out the police investigation results to the Investigation Team, much to his own chagrin.

Later, should the Protagonist manages to stay calm and make the correct decisions to not kill Namatame the Team's primary suspect of the bizarre murder cases unlocks the Normal Ending. The Investigation Team, upon further questionings to Namatame realizes a horrid truth: everything they've deducted was the direct opposite, Namatame stayed true to his words, he was trying to save the 'victims', but was merely misdirected, and thought he did trap Yukiko, Kanji, Rise and Naoto, he did not kill Mayumi Yamano nor Saki Konishi, the first two victims.

As the Investigation Team investigates further into the bizarre murder cases and the secret behind the Midnight Channel, the Team came up with a bits of evidence and clues that Adachi holds the perfect opportunity of murder the first two victims. As they investigate further, they found out Adachi holds the perfect evidence of being the murderer.

Realizing this, the Team is informed that Namatame is going to have his transportation, and the team rushes to the Hospital. The Investigation Team eventually manages to trick Adachi into revealing his connection with the murder cases. In an act of despair, Adachi ran away from them and enters the Midnight Channel as his final escape.

The Investigation would later be able to track down Adachi, and in there, it turns out he lies within the very first reality the Protagonist, Yosuke and Chie ended up in - Mayumi Yamano's reality. Upon chasing up Adachi, Adachi reveals that he holds an interest towards Mayumi Yamano, and uses his job as a detective to get alone with Mayumi while she stayed in the Amagi Inn, telling the others that he was sent by to protect her from the media.

When the two are alone, Adachi asks whether does the her affair with Namatame is real, in which Mayumi brushes him off, spurning his feelings. Enraged, Adachi pushes Mayumi back, and accidentally dropped her into the TV. Since Adachi only tried inserting parts of his body into the TV, he was surprised to see the humans can actually enter the TV, and became amused. After the incident, Mayumi ended up as the first victim, with Saki Konishi being the witness of Mayumi's body.

Adachi would later question Saki about her discovery of Mayumi's body, and through his questions, Adachi tries to seduce Saki, with Saki retaliates by slapping him. Having his feelings spurned once again, Adachi pushes Saki into the TV inside the Police Station's interrogation room. Since Saki's body was lighter and skinnier than Mayumi, Adachi was able to push her with ease. Boasting his accomplishment, Adachi remarks that he wasn't committing crime, but merely establishing justice by killing those two "gold-diggers" hoping to swindle Namatame's money.

When Namatame realizes the pattern that every victim that was murderer actually first appeared on TV, Adachi was the one who accepted Namatame's call for assistance. Adachi, eventually also reveals that he was the one giving Namatame the idea of pushing the ones who appeared on TV news before the murderer is able to track them, and mocks Namatame's efforts, wondering aloud whether was he caught up with a messiah complex. Also, when Mitsuo Kubo, a student came to the police station to confess his murder of the Mayumi and Saki, Adachi's superiors was less than amused, and pawned off Adachi of the handle the student.

Since allowing Mitsuo to confess about his murder would effectively stop Namatame from continuing to kidnap the ones appearing one TV, Mitsuo, cannot bear to let his "game" of cat-and-mouse end so quickly, and formulates a plan to lock Mitsuo into the Midnight Channel. His plans, was, of course, foiled by the Investigation Team. Adachi also comments that the game would be boring if the Investigation Team was not be able to track him down, and congratulates the Investigation Team in a mocking manner. The 'Adachi' talking the Investigation Team was later revealed to be an illusion, which Rise and Teddie later found out that Adachi was already in his reality.

Adachi's ultimate goal was to create a large rift between the Midnight Channel and the Real World, allowing the fog to completely engulf the reality, making the world a place infested with shadows. Taunting the Team, Adachi escapes into his reality, and became surprised when the Team actually give in to his taunts. Adachi calls the Team "Losers", and wonders aloud that wouldn't they take life simpler by just studying, grow-up, and get through marriage.

Adachi's reality inside the Midnight Channel, Magatsu Inaba takes to form of a twisted maze of Yasoinaba, with police lines crossing each other as the 'doors', symbolizing his twisted personality and his profession as a police in Yasoinaba.