While trying to escape the limelight, pop icon "Risette", aka Rise, steals away to the small town of Inaba. With the investigation team now bringing all their clues together, it looks as if Rise might become a new piece of the puzzle.
This episode provides examples of:
- Adaptation Distillation: Several scenes from Rise's Social Link are adapted in this episode, despite the fact that these could only take place after she joined the team in the game.
- Bait-and-Switch: After a figure begins stalking Rise through Junes, the show begins playing the appropriate dramatic BGM for the scene... Only for it to turn out to be Yu, who's only following Rise because she dropped her phone.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Mitsuo can be seen in the background as the guys arrive at Marukyu.
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Fridge Logic: Kanji has an instance of this, after Adachi arrests the "killer" (In reality, just a creepy guy trying to take photos of Rise's bedroom) & he questions if he could really have been knocked out by that guy. - Funny Background Event: After Chie kicks Yosuke whilst screaming "Jiraiya!", Yukiko reminds Chie that her Persona isn't Jiraiya, it's Tomoe, and proceeds to keep talking about the subject in the background whilst everyone else is back talking about the case.
- Hypocritical Humour: Kanji notes that Rise has a bit of an attitude problem. Lampshaded by Yu.
- I Always Wanted to Say That: Adachi after arresting the stalker.
- Image Song: The opening titles are replaced with Risette performing "For True Story" at a concert, immediately after she decides to quit. The song remains in Japanese in the dub, largely because the performance footage pauses & highlights certain lyrics during the song; and as seen in Golden when Rise performs the song at Junes, the translation dropped some of the lyrics.
- Male Gaze: There's a blatant shot of Rise's ass, and later her chest, as she talks with the guys in the tofu store; Both appear to be from Yosuke's viewpoint.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Yu asking Rise if she's sure she wants the hiatus prompts her to run away from him, right into the kidnapper.
- Self-Serving Memory: When asked if there was anyone who could hold a grudge against her, Yukiko flatly responds no, and then reasserts this when Chie asks again in disbelief.
- Foreshadowing: The viewers know that she did "do something to piss someone off": Mitsuo, though Yukiko was oblivious to that.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: In the game, Rise's former manager only heads to Inaba to speak to her because he genuinely wanted Rise to come back because her walking away from being an Idol Singer would be a waste of her talent. Here, he only heads to Inaba to Kick the Dog by telling her she's been replaced in an upcoming movie star by a younger Idol Singer & coldly tell her that he's going to be her manager now.
