Throughout Persona's nearly 30 years of history, the game has only had two female protagonists. Maya Amano featured as the star of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment, and Kotone Shiomi took the lead in Persona 3 Portable.
Despite a general feeling that the pair's stories, especially Shiomi's, are some of the best in the series, the more recent titles have stuck to a male protagonist.
After calls from fans, Persona 3 Portable's female protag almost made it into Reload as DLC but was scrapped because it would take too much time.
Now, at the CEDEC + KYUSHU 2024 conference, Persona producer Kazuhisa Wada shared his reasoning for focusing mostly on male students and whether we could see another female protagonist in a future Persona game.
As reported by Siliconera (via Famitsu), during a Q&A on the past and present of the Persona franchise, Wada was asked about the decision-making process behind creating the game's protagonists and, specifically, why they are predominantly male students. Wada shared that because the games in the Persona franchise are coming-of-age stories, it makes sense for students on the verge of adulthood to take the spotlight. He added that "student life is an almost universal common experience,...
