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12. Mitsuru Kirijo

Series: Persona
Nominator: mcflubbin (0/4 remaining)
Personal Familiarity: Yes
Attractiveness: 80 (24/145 tie)
Personality: 72 (22/145 tie)
Girlfriendness: 85 (10/145)
Overall Waifu Score: 79
Hair: Red (0/24 remaining)
Eyes: Brown (1/27 remaining)
Race: Asian (5/58 remaining)
Age: 15-19 (7/62 remaining)
Medium: Video Game (11/85 remaining)

Heres the image I saw forever ago that I thought was just an OC.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/d/d4/Mitsuru_Kirijo_render.png/revision/latest?cb=20141127073232
Looking at it more carefully, I can easily tell that this is too good to be some random guys art. Oh well! Take it up with the Anagram of like fourteen years ago, whose only JRPG experience was Final Fantasy, Tales of Symphonia, Pokemon (does that even count?), Skies of Arcadia, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Seventh Saga, and like ten minutes of the first Dragon Quest. Im also going to announce right off the bat that Im only counting base P3 here. I plan to play the spinoffs one day, but theyre not a high priority for me.

Can I just say that of basically every series in any genre Ive ever played, Persona has the most genius premise? A world made out of the subconscious ideas of normal people, where characters from mythology are reflected in physical form, and by recognizing the parts of yourself you dont want to acknowledge you gain control over them. ****ing gold star, Atlus. And in regards to Persona 3 specifically, while I like the idea of a bunch of high schoolers trying to save the world and having no idea what theyre doing, theres a bit too much what do we do now? well I dunno, what do YOU think we should do now? in that game. And dont even get me started on Yukari. Shes so ****ing lucky no one nominated her. Forget how she tries to destroy the world so shell get five extra minutes with her dead boyfriend, I still hate her for using 50 HP single-target healing items when my entire party was near death, the AI in that game is bonkers. At several points in the game, including the final boss, I just had the main character be a dedicated healer and had to rely on my party members to do all of the actual attacks. Luckily, Mitsuru's AI is not as completely offensive as Yukari's AI, so I wont deduct point for her spamming marin karin even though I probably should.

Thank God no one nominated the female protagonist of this game. I only played the PS2 release, with the boy. People have told me that the girl is more fun as a character, but that shes so upbeat that it really clashes with the dour tone of the game. Seems like a really bizarre choice if so. P3 is clearly meant to be a game with a really slow, dark atmosphere, and seeing images of this girl with her pink menu borders running around being way more active and energetic is odd. Like, the most basic thing you can do in a fight is to grab a fake handgun and shoot yourself with it, because only the sensation of suicide lets you summon monsters to defend yourself, P3 operates on that kind of edgy sorrowfulness, and oh God, Im a full page into this writeup and all Ive said about Mitsuru so far is that her AI is bad. I cant even compensate for this by doing a quick only-Persona waifu ranking because Mitsuru is somehow not the highest-ranked Persona waifu on my list! Thatll have to wait for Tae. Ill say this, though: Mitsuru is the standout waifu of Persona 3, for certain. P3 is definitely the most down-to-Earth of the series, and its interesting that Mitsuru seems like everyones favorite waifu from the game, because shes also the most absurd one after Aigis?

Dont get me wrong: I love Mitsuru, shes great. But shes this unapproachably perfect, handworking, supersmart, impossibly wealthy master fencer-future CEO whos better than you in every conceivable way and never loses her cool except when her father dies (spoilers, but if you cant tell that guy is totally going to die the second he shows up, I dont know if I can help you) and if you tell her to wear a French maid outfit. Even when youre saving the world, the main character still doesnt quite feel equal to her, like shes a step above everyone else and her leading the team is just so natural because of that. Aside from the robot, shes the most cartoonish character in the game, and not by a small margin. I especially like when shes all Yeah, I considered wearing something cuter like Yukari does, but I know it wouldnt work for me so I just didnt bother. So, its sort of interesting that the most somber and down-to-Earth of the series still has as its best waifu the silliest girl from a conceptual perspective? Like, Yukari, Fuuka, and all of the non-party member girls all have basically normal personalities that are stretched out a little, whereas itd be much rarer to meet a Mitsuru in real life.

Not sure what to even say about her attractiveness, aside from the fact that, like most Persona waifus, shes very hot. Its in more of an imperious way than usual, though. The vast majority of our waifus in this list are of the cute variety, with a large minority of regal princesses, emotionless girls, or strong warrior types. Mitsurus sort of a combination of the three, though shes obviously not a normal princess. Thats a big of an interesting contrast, comparing her to Haru. Both are the heiresses to absurd fortunes, but Haru at her worst still plays up the princess angle way more than Mitsuru ever does. They even both have S-links about escaping arranged marriages! Are arranged marriages like a thing in super upper class Japan? Because this has come up in multiple anime things Ive seen, and Ive never heard of it in real life.

By the way, I know I criticized Makoto for demanding Charm 5 to hang out with you, but Im going to be a huge hypocrite here and give Mitsuru a pass for demanding you max out your exams to hang out with her. Why? Because I maxed out my exams early on for unrelated reasons, which made dealing with it way less annoying.

Ive been trying to think of what a relationship with Mitsuru would most likely be like, and I think I have it. It would be similar to Charlotte Pickles from Rugrats. Hows that for a random reference? Where shes busy with her company, and is just so much smarter and better than her husband. Like, shes super reliable and everything, and her being at the impossible rich tier means youll never want for anything, but youre going to be the Drew in this relationship. Youre going to be the one whos not as smart or interesting as her, to a greater extent than most of the other waifus on the list. At least Mitsuru probably doesnt use one of those giant 90s cellphones.
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110509204809/rugrats/images/3/30/Charlottepickles.jpg
I wonder if those can still get service. Like, if I found a giant 1992 cellphone in a dusty old box, would it be possible to get it to work with modern technology? I dont know.

Anyway, Mitsuru. I think everyone likes her, right? Ive heard people complain about other P3 characters, but she and Junpei seem pretty universally loved. So, Im calling it. Mitsuru pretty damn good waifu. Makes complete sense why shes so high on the list. Trying to justify a few other waifus I have above her is going to be a problem, in fact, but well get to that in time.

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Started: July 6, 2005