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Mio Natsukawa is a character from Persona 5: The Phantom X.
Appearances[]
- Persona 5: The Phantom X: Playable Character
Design[]
Mio has pale skin, short black hair styled in a ponytail, with blue eyes, two moles beneath her right eye, and blue tassel earrings. She wears a navy blue denim tank top, with two bracelets on the left wrist, jeans with a black belt and white sneakers.
As Matoi, she wears a mask with a wave pattern, a blue ribbon tying her ponytail, and a popped collar with a watery pattern. Her outfit resembles that of a kuniochi and she wields a sasumata (a polearm tool that firefighters used in the Edo Period).
In the Mementos request, Mio's shadow self look exactly like her real self but her eyes are golden. In battle, her shadow takes in the form of Valkryie.
Personality[]
Mio is a well-meaning woman who has sense of smell. Due to her past experience of losing her mother and younger brother named Kakeru in the fire while she was a child, she is extremely sensitive of fire and tends to take reckless actions when seeing signs of a possible fire in houses.
Mio is emotional about her loss of her brother and mother.
Profile[]
Persona 5: The Phantom X[]
Mio is a young woman who once survived a fire at her home but lost her mother and younger brother, and has hence been traumatized by this tragedy when she was a child. In her adulthood, she now works as a firefighter associated with the Zoshigaya fire brigade in the Zoshigaya Fire Department.[1]
Trivia[]
- Mio's character design as Matoi is greatly inspired by hikeshi, the Japanese firefighting brigades in Edo and Meiji period, which fits her occupation in reality and her background story.
- The upper part of her Phantom Thief outfit takes reference from Hikeshi banten, a specialized coat worn by hikeshi firefighters as their uniforms.
- Her codename Matoi refers to the flag used by hikeshi firefighters standing at the top of buildings to notify people of an ongoing fire.
- Her melee weapon sasumata was a commonly used tool by hikeshi firefighters to assist with their duties in firefighting operations.
- Mio alongside Yuuki Mishima are the only characters to have their shadow selves confronted within their confidants.
- Unlike Shadow Mishima who doesn’t fight the Phantom Thieves and only needs to be spoken to, the party has to battle Shadow Natsukawa to change her heart.
- Mio's birthday (November 9th) references Japan emergency phone number for contacting fire brigades (119).
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