Persona 4 World: Tatsumi Kanji

Kanji Tatsumi is a playable character from Persona 4.

Age: 15
Date of Birth: January 19th, 1996
Height: 183 cm
Weight: 65 kg
Bloodtype: A
Initial Persona: Take-mikazuchi
Ultimate Persona: Rokuten Maou
Arcana: Emperor

Kanji is a male delinquent with a bleached-blonde swept-back, crewcut who has a scar above his left eye, many piercings, metal jewelry, and wears a black sweater with a skull-and-crossbones design on it under his school uniform. He uses brute force in combat, using weapons such as steel chairs and shields. He apparently gets into a lot of fights in the streets. He also attends Yasogami High School. His mother runs a Textile Shop in their home with Amagi's family being their acquainted customer; Kanji is skilled with tailoring for this reason.

His Persona is Take Mikazuchi of The Emperor Arcana, which, like Kanji, is a large, imposing figure with a skeleton-like design exterior. He uses electric spells and physical attacks, although his physical stats severely outweigh his magical stats.

Kanji Tatsumi

Japanese Name:	巽完二
Romaji:	Tatsumi Kanji
English Name:	Kanji Tatsumi
First Appearance:	Persona 4
Weapon:	Blunt Objects
Persona:	Take-Mikazuchi, Rokuten Maoh
Japanese Voice Actor:	Tomokazu Seki
English Voice Actor:	Troy Baker

Kanji's glasses and personal symbol

Kanji's S.Link begins with when a female student on classroom floor 2 accuses him of bullying other students. The protagonist can find him in the practice building on floor 1 next to the sewing room. To start this S.link, speak to Kanji and say you want to talk to him. You'll be lead to The Semagawa Flood Plain to confront him. Say you just wanna talk to him about the accusations of bullying, then he'll tell you the accusations are false. Upon seeing the Protagonist as a friend, you begin the Emperor S.Link

As the Protagonist continues through the S.Link, he supports Kanji making dolls for a young boy whom you meet around level 3 of the Emperor S.link, and soon allows them to be sold at the Textile Shop. At the final meet, Kanji goes to the Dojima residence with the Protagonist, where he explains that he finally figured out what being a real man is. He also explains that his obsession with being a real man comes from his father's last words, which was telling Kanji to be a real man. According to Kanji, a real man is a male who does everything at one hundred percent. He gives the Protagonist a cute strap, and his Persona evolves from Take-mikazuchi to Rokuten Maou. Comically, he states that he's going to start a puppet-making class, the first being in the Protagonist's room.

Shadow Kanji

Kanji's Midnight Channel dungeon is the Steamy Bathhouse. His Shadow is a mostly nude version of himself surrounded in a bed of roses while holding two Mars symbols. It represents his questioning his true sexuality and being unsure of the opposite sex, as the sensitive side under his rough exterior is often gone unappreciated and even ridiculed by girls. Kanji's Shadow is made manifest due to his fear of being rejected by either sexes. His Shadow is also accompanied by two other Shadows, one named "Nice Guy" and the other named "Tough Guy", possible referring to the common homosexual stereotypes of a man who is gay being really nice and some times feminine, or being more masculine, strong and tough. Nice Guy will boost Kanji's stats in battle, whilst Tough Guy will deal damage too the protagonists party.

After he joins the protagonist's crew, his sexuality is occasionally made fun of due to the form his Shadow takes. He's also kissed by Teddie when the gang visits a club at Port Island as part of the "King's Game", a mix of Simon Says and Truth or Dare. His possible interest is in the masculinity (or maybe the tomboyish attitude) of Naoto Shirogane. Even though Kanji shows some interest in Naoto, he occasionally faces away from her due to shyness.

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