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10. Tae Takemi

Series: Persona
Nominator: MrSmartGuy (0/4 remaining)
Personal Familiarity: Yes
Attractiveness: 65 (65/145 tie)
Personality: 77 (16/145 tie)
Girlfriendness: 99 (1/145 tie)
Overall Waifu Score: 80.3
Hair: Blue (0/7 remaining)
Eyes: Brown (0/27 remaining)
Race: Asian (3/58 remaining)
Age: 20-29 (3/59 remaining)
Medium: Video Game (9/85 remaining)

Let it be known that when I googled Tae Takemi, "Tae Takemi Body Pillow" was the first option. No other waifu had anything like that happen. Is Tae way more popular than I thought, or is she such a middling P5 waifu that the handful of body pillow buyers pushed her into a weird spot compared to the others? I cannot answer this useless question. By the way, obviously surrounded by death referred only to her being the Death tarot card.

I said earlier that Miu is the waifu who benefits most from the category format I invented, but Taes not far behind. Like, if you told me to just directly rank all the Persona waifus, Tae would be pretty high, but nowhere near #1, and nowhere near #10 on this list. Im actually shocked she edged into the #1 Persona waifu over Mitsuru. I guess I may as well undermine my entire list by just super quickly ranking the Persona waifus (discounting the ones Im not familiar with), not even doublechecking the overall list to make sure theyre all in the correct order:

Sae > Makoto > Mitsuru > Kawakami > Tae > Margaret > Haru > Chie > Toriumi > Rise > Futaba > Aigis > Naoto > Chihiro > Hifumi > Yukiko > Sophia > Ann > Yukari > Fuuka > Yumi > Ai > Chihaya > Yuko > Ohya

Tae makes it this far based on basically two attributes. Certainly, its not how important she is to the story of her game, because she is by far the least important waifu remaining.

The first advantage Tae has is that shes the one and only proper doctor on the list. Frans a doctor, but shes also crazy, Fios into weird alternative medicine, and Sailor Mercury only plans to be a doctor. Tae actually is a doctor, which is pretty much the perfect job, waifu or otherwise. It pretty much cannot be beaten except by Olympic athlete or astronaut, and even then, for waifu purposes, it probably still beats both of them. She doesnt even have the disadvantage of traveling around a lot and not seeing you. Not only is doctor a wealthy, respectable job, but youre also set if you get sick or something. I know that in the context of P5, Taes a back alley doctor whose life was ruined when she was framed for using untested medicine on some kid, and that she works weird hours, but since you obviously know that shes secretly goodhearted and just seems like a weirdo, and that shes not actually responsible, its fine.

Not sure I agree with her scientific testing methods, though. Im pretty sure you have to test your experimental new medicine on several volunteer test subjects and publish it for other scientists to cross-examine instead of just drugging up the same teenage boy half a dozen times, but Ill allow it. Im just saying, though, I have to believe that a teenage boy whos been affected by magic metaphysical dimensions has to be the worst test subject ever, you would not be able to trust any of your data. Its like testing your medicine on the Elephant Man; the results will only be reliable if youre planning to exclusively treat people with Proteus Syndrome. I dont even know why I know what disease the Elephant Man had.

The second advantage is that Taes a goth waifu. I do like my goth waifus. For such a popular archetype, this list only has like four? And the idea of a goth doctor! What a strange combination, I cant think of anything like it. Normally, goths are associated with like magic and occultism, not out-and-out science? Im not complaining, though. Im imagining Tae as just a normal doctor with like brown hair or something, who doesnt wear high heel sandals, and she would not be particularly high in the looks department. The style really raises her above where she should probably be, is what Im saying. Like, when you go into her store to buy the only item in the game that matters (+SP per turn accessories), and for no good reason, theres a silhouette of her lounging with her high heels up against your TVs side, its so good.

Persona 5 is really good with that sort of style and presentation, and Tae really benefits from it. Thats another advantage she has over the P3 and P4 waifus; their games style is much less distinct. And I really appreciate her dark sense of humor. Thats not terribly uncommon among doctors, and I, too, like cynical jackass humor. I see this relationship working out extremely well.

Look, with Tae, it comes down to this: do you like dark, cynical waifus? Do you like goth and punk aesthetics? Do you like waifus with extremely tall high heels? Do you like waifus whose heads are too big for their bodies because the art style is kind of inconsistent? If the answer to all of these questions is yes, then Taes the waifu for you. Because Taes great. A relationship with her is likely to be kind of weird, but not in a bad way, so it all works out.

I docked her points for liking punk music, though. I cannot believe how many times punk music has come up in this list twice. Punk music is awful, and youre awful for liking it.


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Started: July 6, 2005