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[[Characters/Persona4TheInvestigationTeam The Investigation Team]] ([[Characters/Persona4YuNarukami Yu Narukami]] | [[Characters/Persona4NaotoShirogane Naoto Shirogane]]) | [[Characters/Persona4ShadowsAndPersonas Shadows and Personas]] | '''Social Links and [=NPCs=]''' | [[Characters/Persona4Antagonists Antagonists]] ([[Characters/Persona4TohruAdachi The Killer]])]]-]]]

Choosing Kou's route by joining the basketball team, Daisuke explains to Yu that Kou comes from a wealthy family that sticks to traditions so much that the head of the family, Kou's grandmother, looks down upon his obsession with basketball. Kou also feels burdened that he's actually adopted (he lost his biological family and then lived in an OrphanageOfLove), and that the customs of the family will ultimately fall onto his sister. Although it makes him happy, it also makes him feel shunned by the family as a whole. By the end of his Social Link, Kou learns that his adopted family truly cares for him and gives Yu the Letter to Kou that his parents left for him, and he decides to study overseas to pursue what he wants to do in life.

* AmbiguousSituation: While it's clear that she didn't quite feel the same way toward Yosuke that he hoped she would, it's unclear what her actual feelings are, given that her inner feelings are revealed by her Shadow's remains.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MikiIto (Japanese) and Valerie Arem (English)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanaeIto (Game, Japanese), Creator/YukoKaida (Anime) and Valerie Arem (Game, English)

** PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:she's in the hospital after being rescued. Her health slowly but surely improves at first, but her condition takes a nosedive on December 3rd, to the point that she flatlines. Whether she miraculously recovers or stays dead depends on the ending]].
*** [[spoiler:The Neutral Ending, in particular, deserves mention. After Nanako [[BackFromTheDead came back to life]], they hoped that she could recover...only for her to not to, still in a coma months later, but at least alive. Dojima laments how she can't say goodbye because of her coma]].

* FlowerMotifs: Her comb has the image of cluster amaryllis, which is associated with mourning and the dead.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Welcome home, Big Bro!" [[spoiler:You'll miss that one when she's gone.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: While she is a major character normally, a minor thing she did makes her essential to uncovering the true final boss: [[spoiler:she ran over to the protagonist after the gas station attendant offered him a job and shook his hand. Ryutaro wasn't there at the time, so she's the only person who can confirm that he talked to the attendant on his first day.]]
* CheerfulChild: Sadly subverted. She has her happy moments, but much of the time her sad, lonely side is more prominent. [[VideoGameCaringPotential You will work like hell to fix that.]] [[spoiler:Thankfully played straight in the best/canon ending]] and in ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'' a month later.

* PromotedToPlayable: Nanako is a playable character in ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight''.

* IncrediblyLamePun: In ''Golden'', he occasionally cracks a pun that would make [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Ikutsuki]] proud.
-->(While having eel with Dojima) "I'd say that [Nanako]'s eel-ly proud of her daddy! Eh? Ehhhh...? Haha..."

The fox initially recruits Yu to help fulfill wishes written on ema left at the shrine, in hopes it will help increase donations to the dilapidated shrine. The fox also offers to sell the Investigation Team healing leaves the restore all HP and SP in order to raise money for the shrine. Though the price for the fox's services are initially extremely high, they do go down the more requests Yu helps the fox grant.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Twice in her social link. One time, when Dojima yells at her and Yu for doing some grocery shopping due to not having enough ingredients for dinner, she calls Dojima "stupid" and runs off. On another occasion, when Dojima's hesitant to sign up for parent-teacher meetings, she says that it's fine if he can't come, because [[YoureNotMyFather he's not her "real" father]] and runs to the Samegawa riverbank, forcing Yu and Dojima, along with Yosuke, Chie and Yukiko, to find her.

* CheerfulChild: Sadly averted. She has her happy moments, but much of the time her sad, lonely side is more prominent. [[VideoGameCaringPotential You will work like hell to fix that.]] [[spoiler:Thankfully played straight in the best/canon ending]] and in ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'' a month later.

* CheerfulChild: Sadly averted. She has her happy moments, but much of the time her sad, lonely side is more prominent. [[VideogameCaringPotential You will work like hell to fix that.]] [[spoiler:Thankfully played straight in the best/canon ending]] and in ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'' a month later.

* ContinuityNod: She appears in ''VideoGame/Persona3DancingInMoonlight'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5DancingInStarlight'' in her ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'' appearance as a head accessory.

* GenerationXerox: Her father mentions how much she looks like her mother, and in the extended ending in Golden it seems that she's begun to pick up some of her mother's hobbies, notably playing the piano.

* GuideDangIt: [[spoiler:Her Social Link can no longer be advanced after she's kidnapped, so max it while you have the chance. You do have some extra time once Nanako returns home in the Golden remake during January/February, though.]]

* PrecociousCrush: She develops one on [[KissingCousins Yu]] over the course of the game.

* CanonImmigrant: Despite originally being introduced in ''Golden'', she shows up as a supporting character in ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'', as well as a playable fighter in VideoGame/{{Persona 4 Arena Ultimax}}.
* ContinuityNod: She appears in ''VideoGame/Persona3DancingInMoonlight'' and ''VideoGame/Persona5DancingInStarlight'' in her ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'' appearance as a head accessory.

* HistoricalInJoke: [[spoiler:Her actual ''original'' identity is Izanami, as in Izanami-no-Mikoto before she died, whereas the other aspect who took their collective identity represents who she became in Yomi. Yu's "self" is Izanagi -- Izanami's lover and later nemesis.]] [[FridgeBrilliance Suddenly, her tsundere behavior towards Yu takes on whole new depths of meaning.]]
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: Never an official member of the Investigation Team, but Marie interacts with all of them [[spoiler:and the climax of Golden shows just how close she became with them.]]

* OptionalBoss: [[spoiler:Progressing her social link opens up the ability to go to the Hollow Forest bonus dungeon. This area is sectioned off from the main game. It rewards very little exp and no items you can take back to reality with you. Instead, it drops items build to circumvent Marie's boss fight gimmick: She's completely immune to all the standard game elements, meaning you have to use the dungeon items to break her resistances or use the otherwise useless skills like Fire Break to get to her.]]

* ShooOutTheNewGuy: Likely as a result to the backlash she received for being a SpotlightStealingSquad; Atlus seems to have responded by reducing Marie's role in later spin-offs. Her parts in every game after ''Golden'' are minimal, to the point where in ''Dancing All Night'' she's only playable in one DLC song and gets one mention in one unlockable chapter, not even by name.

* BabiesEverAfter: If you max out its Social Link before the end of the game.

* AFriendInNeed: Yu being there for Ayane after she passes up her chance of getting a spot on the band for a main performance causes her to angst ''heavily'' when she knows perfectly well she could've taken the opportunity herself, and [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe Yu being there for her is a major catalyst in her developing feelings for Yu.]]

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: For all their awkwardness toward each other, they do actually care for one another, as when Yu makes Eri cry in Rank 8 of the Social Link, Yuuta assumes that Yu's bullying his mother[[note]]which is only true if you picked "It's your own fault"[[/note]] and punches him, enabling Eri to reach her epiphany regarding Yuuta's true nature.

* ContinuityNod: At the start of the story mode in ''Arena'', before the Investigation Team goes back into the TV, you can see Eri and Yuuta in the background at Junes.

* ContinuityNod: At one point during the Death Confidant in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Tae Takemi speaks to a person named "Uehara-san" when she calls the hospital, who is implied to be Sayoko.

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: In the anime.

* DissonantSerenity: The Investigation Team might be running from an enraged Kanji, but she remains oddly calm whilst driving a scooter and delivering food.

* UnstoppableMailman: Well, delivery girl. [[https://youtu.be/j6BGEcULuiE?t=137 Not even being chased away from the original ordering spot]] will stop her from making a delivery.

* MoralityPet: [[spoiler: To Adachi, especially in ''Golden: The Animation'' where he's noticeably distressed by her condition.]]

* UndeadTaxExemption: Despite being AmbiguouslyHuman with IdentityAmnesia, she gets a job pretty easily. The paperwork is pretty lenient at Inaba, it seems. Being [[spoiler: a literal Goddess]] probably helps.

* AmazonChaser: Kou shows no interest in Ai or any of the other traditionally feminine girls who pursue him at school, but turns into a stammering, blushing mess around [[spoiler: Chie, a HotBlooded ActionGirl]].

* AssholeVictim: He's not a popular guy, being excessively judgmental of his students and very severe in his criticism of them. [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope Doesn't mean he deserved to be murdered, though.]]]]

* AssholeVictim: He's not a popular guy, being excessively judgmental of his students and very severe in his criticism of them. [[spoiler:Doesn't mean he deserved to be murdered, though.]]

* ContinuityNod: Makes one during "Operation Babe Hunt" in both ''[[VideoGame/Persona3 Persona 3 Portable]]'' and the second ''[[Anime/Persona3TheMovie Persona 3]]'' movie. As you would expect, HilarityEnsues.

* SuckSessor: The class considers her this compared to ''Morooka'' (which is impressive, considering the latter was a supreme {{Jerkass}}).

* MechanicallyUnusualClass: Well Social Link in this case. Her social link is unlike anyone else's in the game. While with everyone else you have to spend your time with them and make the right choices, with Margaret all you have to do is bring a fused persona with a specific skill. Because she doesn't use up your time, you can even go from rank 1 to 10 all in the same day, as long as you have the Personas with the right skills, while still being capable of using your time for something else.

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* HeterosexualLifePartners: They're close enough that they share a Social Link. The "heterosexual" part gets [[HoYay called into question]] every now and then, though.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Their Social Link is even called Fellow Athletes.

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** You have the option of rejecting her a second time, if you max out her social link.

* CrushBlush: For Kou or Daisuke, initially. Starting with Social Link rank 9, whenever she asks you out, she'll be sporting one of these.

* LoveHurts: The poor girl suffers rejection at least once (and twice if you max out her Social Link but don't romance her). If you turn her down at rank 10, she thanks Yu for doing so to her face, and for helping her grow as a person. But says that, for the moment, seeing him is just too painful.

* LoveHurts: Like Ai and Yukiko, Yumi will definitely declare her love for Yu at some point during her Social Link (in her case, at the very end), will be devastated if you turn her down, and will eventually learn to deal with it.

* BadassBookworm: Like the other Velvet Room attendants, she has in-depth knowledge of each arcana and caries around the Persona Compendium. She is also one of the most difficult boss fights in the series.

* ButNowIMustGo: In two endings of ''Golden'', [[spoiler:he ends up leaving Inaba after the game's events. In one of these two endings, it's noted Dojima still remains in contact with him and visits him periodically.]]

* NiceGuy: While he's a pretty terrible cop, Adachi's a very laid back and nice guy who keeps cool when Dojima loses it. He seems to get along pretty much instantly with both Yu and Nanako. That being said, his Social Link implies that he's not ''that'' nice.

* ChekhovsGunman: She becomes a major player in [[spoiler:uncovering Izanami, as she's the only one who clearly remembers when Yu arrived in Inaba, right down to talking with the gas station attendant.]]