"Who cares about Junes, anyway? Because of that store, our business is ruined, my parents hate me, the neighbors talk behind my back... I wish everything would just disappear."
Saki Konishi is a minor character in Persona 4.
Appearances
- Persona 4 / Golden: Minor Character
- Persona 4 Manga: Minor Character
- Persona 4 The Animation: Minor Character
- Persona 4 The Magician: Major Character
- Persona 4 The Golden Animation: Cameo
- Persona 4 Visualive: Minor Character
- Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P4: Cameo
Design
Saki has thick, long, wavy, light-brown hair, brown eyes, and lightly tanned skin. At school she wears a standard school uniform except she wears black boots (black stocking with brown shoes seen in Namatame and Adachi's flashback). When she works at Junes she wears a long-sleeved white shirt, faded navy jeans, navy shoes, and an employee apron.
Personality
She was first seen talking with her brother about some food of his that she ate on the first day the Protagonist came to Inaba.
The Protagonist later met her working at Junes as a kind person that was nice to Yosuke Hanamura, whom she called "Hana-Chan". She was Yosuke's senpai, whom he adored.
After her death, Yosuke, the Protagonist, and Teddie enter the liquor store inside the Midnight Channel where it is revealed that she was actually annoyed with Yosuke. It is also revealed that she believed her family, friends, and neighbors had resented her all along because she worked at Junes, the giant store that was slowly driving her family's liquor shop out of business. Her brother Naoki, however, sees her as a playful yet surprisingly mature individual, and after coming to terms with his feelings, realizes that he misses her dearly.
Profile
Persona 4
Saki and Yosuke.
A senior to the Protagonist and Yosuke Hanamura, she works as a part-time worker in Junes. She is the eldest daughter of a family who owns the local liquor store Konishi Liquors. Her brother Naoki is a junior of the Protagonist.
The Protagonist meets her as she takes a break from her part-time job working in Junes. She informs the Protagonist that Yosuke's father is the manager of Junes and that she is Yosuke's co-worker. She sees Yosuke as a nosy little brother. It is implied that Yosuke harbors unrequited romantic feelings towards Saki, but fails to confess to her. Saki is later revealed to be the person who first found Mayumi Yamano's body, making her nervous and scared.
Later, when the Protagonist, Chie Satonaka, and Yosuke watch the Midnight Channel, the trio observes a blurring image of a female student resembling Saki Konishi, who appears to be writhing in pain.
Saki's corpse hung on the antenna.
The next day, the Yasogami High students are informed that Saki Konishi was found murdered. Her corpse was hung upside-down on an antenna. Devastated by her death, Yosuke requests the Protagonist take him into the Midnight Channel, as the Protagonist is the only one capable of entering the TV.
Yosuke hears Saki's thoughts.
Saki's inner thoughts are later revealed when the Protagonist and Yosuke investigate the Midnight Channel. In truth, her family liquor store's sales were falling because of the opening of Junes. Furthermore, her decision to take a job as a part-time worker in Junes greatly irritated her family, and such, her father would often scold her for her decisions.
After being a witness of the murder case, her dilemma grows worse as her classmates and friends talk behind her back. She confesses that, in reality, she was greatly irritated by Yosuke and only befriended him because he is the son of the manager of Junes. Saki's cause of death may be an attack by Shadows born of her reluctance to accept her true feelings. However, whether these were Saki's true feelings or fears born from Yosuke's feelings is debatable.
If the Protagonist levels up the Magician Arcana Social Link to Lv. 6, it is revealed that Saki Konishi was rumored to be having a relationship with a college student, and planned to leave Inaba with him. However, as she lacked money, she decided to work in Junes. Naoki, however, suggests in Lv. 7 of the Hanged Man Arcana Social Link, that Saki believed that her work for Junes would one day be of some benefit to her family's business.
Despite her distaste towards Yosuke, which Yosuke himself is forced to acknowledge, Saki Konishi is arguably the main motivation Yosuke has for venturing into the Midnight Channel and solving its mysteries. Even after seeing her thoughts, Yosuke still considers her a good person at heart, and gets angry when people badmouth her.
Adachi after shoving Saki inside the TV.
During the course of their investigation, the group can find out that Tohru Adachi questioned Saki as a witness much more than was normal for a person with such a strong alibi. The night they saw her on the Midnight Channel, Saki was questioned by Adachi at the police station. Adachi claims she was getting "pretty cozy" with Taro Namatame, and she slaps him. Adachi reacts violently by picking her up and throwing her into the TV, causing her death.
Persona 4 The Animation
In the animated adaptation of Persona 4, when she was cast into the Midnight Channel, she did not panic nor get afraid when her "other self" appeared. The only reactions she experienced were confusion and disorientation. Then in Namatame's flashback, she is last seen with her shadow about to transform into the black smoke and finally kills her (as the black smoke suffocates her).
Gallery
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Concept artwork of Saki.
Saki's body on the antenna.
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Saki's appearance in the manga
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Concept from Persona 4 The Animation
Saki Konishi on a foggy day
Saki finding the corpse of Mayumi Yamano
Saki talks to Yosuke Hanamura at Junes Court
Saki being interviewed by the media
A blurry image of Saki seen in the Midnight Channel
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Saki as she appears in Persona 4 Visualive
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Saki Konishi appears in flashback of Side:P4
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