Keisuke Komatsubara

Keisuke Komatsubara
Japanese Name	小松原 啓祐 九条 稀也
Rōmaji	Komatsubara Keisuke Kujou Mareya
First Appearance	Episode 11 - Definition of Dependence (依存の定義)
Affiliation	Marebito
Date of Birth	c. 1971
Age	48
Height	182 cm (6'0")
Blood Type	A
Persona	Gozanze
Japanese VA	Nobuyuki Katsube

Keisuke Komatsubara, also known as Mareya Kujou, is a character from Persona -trinity soul-.

Appearances

• Persona -trinity soul-: Antagonist

Profile

Persona -trinity soul-

Komatsubara was a neurologist whose fascination with the concept of Personas led him to perform increasingly dangerous experiments with his daughter, Ayane Komatsubara, to the point where she committed suicide while jumping from a research plane over the ocean. While she reappeared to haunt those researchers that experimented on her leading to the incident that caused the mass occurrence of Apathy Syndrome in Ayanagi City, he became obsessed with the idea of reviving her through the use of Persona. During the Apathy Crisis, he also took advantage of Ryo Kanzato's panic and used Jun Kanzato and Yuki Kanzato in an experimental surgery to merge their Persona under the pretense of saving Jun's life.

After the Apathy Crisis, Komatsubara began to work under the alias of Mareya Kujou, faking his death and allowing his own Persona to consume him to extend his own life. He founded the Marebito, largely made up of orphans from the destruction ten years earlier. Komatsubara convinced them they were strengthening their own Persona and encouraged them to continue consuming the Persona of others, creating the Reverse cases. He created the artificial life-form Kanaru Morimoto in order to discover powerful targets for them through Kagenuki.

As the series progresses to its climax, he reveals that Marebito were merely containers for the Persona he intended to use to revive the clones he had made of his daughter.

Etymology

• The name Keisuke means "open, begin" (啓) (kei) and "help, assist" (祐) (suke).
• Keisuke's surname Komatsubara means "small" (小) (ko), "pine tree, fir tree" (松) (matsu) and "field, plain" (原) (hara/bara).

Alias Name

• The name Mareya means "rare, uncommon, unusual, phenomenal" (稀) (mare) and "to be, also" (也) (ya).
• Mareya's surname Kujou means "nine" (九) (ku) and "article" (条) (jou).

Gallery

Komatsubara explaining the surgery

Komatsubara meeting Ryo on the highway

Komatsubara fights Ryo

Komatsubara in containment