--OLD ART-- P4: Investigation Team, go! by PuppyLuver on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

EDIT (9-22-24): Hey there! This image is more than ten years old, so if you think THIS is good then why not check out my newer stuff? I guarantee you it's better quality!

What began as an attempt to troll my mom by using all the space on her notepad's front page turned into this; the Investigation Team from Persona 4. For those unaware, Persona 4 is about a kid who moves to a rural town, in which mysterious murders begin to happen. It turns out they're connected to a foggy world beyond the TV screen, where people are thrown in and left to die. Using their power of Persona, obtained by confronting and accepting their Shadow self, they intend to investigate the cause of and motive behind the murders and, as the police are unable to do so, find the culprit themselves.

Top: Teddie, known as Kuma in Japan (The Star, a bear from inside the TV trying to find out who he really is)
Middle (left to right): Naoto Shirogane (Fortune, a teenage "detective prince" who dresses and acts as a young man due to sexism in the workplace), Kanji Tatsumi (The Emperor, a tough guy with feminine interests who may or may not be gay, but that's totally okay if he is), Yukiko Amagi (The Priestess, heiress to the local historic inn who feels her life is already planned out for her), Chie Satonaka (The Chariot, tomboy, lover of kung fu and steak, jealous of her best friend Yukiko), Yosuke Hanamura (The Magician, son of the manager of invading chain store who finds the country life to be deathly boring), Yu Narukami (The Fool, protagonist, recent transfer student to rural Inaba and leader of the Investigation Team), Rise Kujikawa (The Lovers, teen idol who quit showbiz because she was sick of being someone she's not)
Bottom: Mysterious Fox (The Hermit, a fox who lives at the local shrine with her kits, wants people to help the ema requests become fulfilled)

I drew each character with the type of weapon they use, except for Rise and the fox because they don't fight. There are anatomy issues aboud as this was initially intended to just be a quick little thing,

~~including~~

especially relative height (I don't know if the first four party members are so close to one another in height, I did remember that Kanji is tall and Naoto is short, and Rise and Teddie look smaller than they actually are because they're intended to be a little further back than the others). I still think it turned out great, though.

This is going in my portfolio.