Who is sho minazuki? Is he a bad guy, a good guy, the protagonist of persona 5? Mystery Atlus teaser site going live, clad in red just like sho's hair. Sho is also wearing a inaba school jacket on his waist and has the same X shaped scar on his face as daidara the blacksmith.

I don't think he will be significantly relevant to Persona 5. I think he might be an antagonist, or at least a character with his own motivations and way of doing things that conflicts with the interest of the Investigation Team and SEES.

No idea why he'd have a Yasogami outfit.

There are a lot of possibilities. The fights are supposed to be happening in the real world, now, and Inaba is filled with a mysterious bright red fog... so it seems reasonable that the dude with neon red hair is probably connected to that. There's still the matter of the dude who was controlling Labrys to wrap up from the first game, and this dude is wearing both a Yasogami uniform and- though it's not the same color or style- the same sort of armband that the SEES team wore. I'm guessing whoever he is will probably be a mutual antagonist to both groups, and possibly a new body or puppet or something for Nyarlathotep to use.

There's also a comment about space and time being distorted, but I sincerely doubt he's a time shifted Daidara. ...Probably.

I'd almost guarantee he's not a main character of any possible Persona 5, though... that design is just bad. Seems more like someone at ArcSys was responsible for his look, and I doubt Atlus would let them dictate what one of their main crew was going to look like.

Also, the X-shaped scar and bright red hair make him a little too... distinct to be a main character, I think.

Red Mist = Bad Guy

@fluxwavez: cause he's evil Yu. Shin Yu? Narukami-no-Okami? Maybe he killed Yu and took his jacket, everyone goes back in time to save him.

...Christ, I hope not.

His eyes kinda look like charlie's, right?

Either chaotic neutral or a bad guy. He doesn't seem like the good guy type.

With scars like that, im definitely leaning towards bad dude.

Same here. The grin doesn't exactly help his case, either.

@make_me_mad said:

I think the design is fine, but it definitely reminds me a whole lot of Hazama/Terumi from Blazblue.

I just noticed this but have anybody seen sho's eye don't they look like labrys and aigis eyes? With the double pupils? Maybe another Anti-Shadow Suppression Robot?

Doubt it. Seems stupid to give an android a pretty distinct scar on his face.

maybe from the all the fights he had and unlike Labrys he loves it

If Sho was a robot, then his body would be blatantly inhuman, like all the other Kirijo bots we've seen. Plus, some of the other characters in P4A have the eye rings in at least one piece of their official art, so that can't be used as an indicator of Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapondom. Thus, I doubt he's another Kirijo bot.

I think he's an avatar of Nyx, like Ryoji was in P3. His swords are similar to those of Thanatos/Death, and he's got a form of tsuki in his name, which, as Ikutsuki and Ryoji have demonstrated, heavily implies a connection to Nyx.

hmm good theory but with atlus all theories will be wrong if they had their way

Wait, so Daidara was a bad guy all along?!
Dammit