"I want to get my own smartphone so I can be a legit Hunter."
Asahi is a character from Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse.
Appearances[]
- Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse: Major character
- Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse Prequel: Asahi Side: Protagonist
- Brave Frontier: Playable Unit
Design[]
She is a young woman with black hair and gray eyes. Her outfit consists of a blue dress with a white utility belt, black elbow pads, white gloves, blue shoes and a white flying cap with a pair of goggles.
Personality[]
Asahi is a girl who always looks forward and does her best when it comes to everything, including her wish to become an excellent Hunter like her father. She travels together with Nanashi, but sometimes their adventures make her fully aware of and worried about her powerlessness. She also has fairly obvious feelings for Nanashi, and gets jealous when others show interest in him, like Toki.
Profile[]
Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse[]
Asahi is the daughter of a retired hunter and also Nanashi's childhood friend. She is 15 years old and possibly under her father's influence, she wants to join the Hunter Association like Nanashi does. Nanashi dies protecting her, but is quickly revived, and fends off the demon horde dispatched by Adramelech. Boss later sacrifices himself to protect her from Quetzalcoatl when Krishna's forces attack Kinshicho. She is left in a catatonic state after he dies from his injuries, and does not rejoin the party until Shesha reappears in Ikebukuro.
After Flynn reveals himself to be Shesha once again and attempts to devour Nanashi, she sacrifices herself to protect him from Shesha, the only thing left of her being her goggles in a pool of her blood. Once Krishna (as Vishnu-Flynn) is dealt with once and for all, she is always resurrected by Danu on the Peace route, and awakens right after. After YHVH is defeated there, Asahi takes over her father's role at the Kinshicho Hunter's Association. On the Anarchy Route however, she may or may not be resurrected by Dagda depending on Nanashi's choice. If Nanashi chooses someone else instead, Asahi remains dead alongside the rest of Nanashi's former party members who died fighting Nanashi on the way to confronting Krishna. If Nanashi did choose to resurrect her, she comes back to life as a mindless puppet of Nanashi just like anyone else resurrected this way and she does not awaken.
Battle partner[]
As a partner in battle, Asahi summons her demons for recovering HP or curing ailments. She can be considered as the only partner with powerful healing spells, although if she is critically wounded she will prioritize healing herself. The straightforwardness of her usefulness is penalized by the fact that she has the lowest max HP and normal attack power among all partners. At the beginning of the game her demons can also disobey her commands, attacking instead, making her heals somewhat unreliable for a time.
Asahi's Awakening passive boosts all of her Dia spells tremendously. Once she learns Cheer, she will instead use that skill when no allies need healing, granting Smirk to a random member of Nanashi's party, now only attacking when all party members already have the effect.
Brave Frontier[]
Asahi is an NPC that can be obtained as a water element unit after completing the east path of the Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse grand quest.
Skills[]
Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse[]
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Etymology[]
"Asahi" is a common Japanese given name and usually means "morning day" (朝日) or "rising sun" (旭日).
Asahi's name came from the idea of her parents who planned for her to survive in the destroyed world. They were hoping that she would one day be able to see the light of dawn, referencing her name.
Gallery[]
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Asahi during the opening scene
Illustration of Asahi and the main characters by Masayuki Doi
Early designs from Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse
Asahi's swimsuit portrait
Asahi's swimsuit sprite
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Keychain from Ikebukuro PARCO Shin Megami Tensei IV Apocalypse collaboration shop
Asahi as she appears in Brave Frontier.
Last Chronicle’ Card Illustrations of Asahi.
Fuuka as Asahi in Persona 3: Dancing Moon Night
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Trivia[]
- In the Shin Megami Tensei 4 FINAL Official Setting + Shinwa Sekai he no Tabi, its revealed that Asashi’s design is based off themes of the sky with the googles, hat and blue color scheme.
- Asahi's outfit is meant to invoke Pascal: blue dress, blue shoes and white utility belt. However, it could also be a reference to Beth because both of them have similar colour palettes.
- Asahi even makes a direct reference to Pascal as one of the choices she made herself as a "codename" for when she became an official Hunter. When selected, she feels as if it were a dog name.