Over the many years the Persona series has been around, some fans have wondered why the majority of the games' protagonists are male students, and the producer has now offered an answer on it. This trend was continued in Persona's most recent entry, Persona 5, which took the world by storm upon release.
Persona has been a well-loved RPG series that spun off of the original Megami Tensei games. As both series have continued side-by-side, Persona has almost always had a male protagonist, with the only exceptions being Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, Persona 3 Portable, and Persona 3's epilogue. However, even in Persona 3 Portable, the female protagonist is technically non-canon to the series, meaning that the only non-male and non-student protagonists are from Persona 2: Eternal Punishment and Persona 3's epilogue.
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Now, the producer of the Persona series, Kazuhisa Wada, has explained why this tends to be the case. Speaking at the CEDEC + KYUSHU 2024 conference, Wada said that the Persona games are intended to be coming-of-age stories, with...
