Persona 5, a Japanese video game made by the company Atlus, follows a story of a 16 year old high schooler named Ren Amamiya who is jailed due to being falsely accused of assaulting a corrupt politician. Due to being jailed, he has to attend a new academy where he meets a gym teacher who is also a pedophile known as Kamoshida. Kamoshida has this sort of fantasy where he chooses to do immoral acts towards his students, sexually harassing his female students while physically and verbally abusing his male students, and only Amamiya and his friends he made at his new school know, since his fantasy is more “real” than “fantastical.”

In this fantasy, a palace is formed, known as Kamoshida’s Palace, where Amamiya and his friends have to beat Kamoshida and get him fired in real life by defeating him in the palace. To do so, Amamiya and his friends have something known as a “persona,” an alter ego of ones self in order to defeat Kamoshida’s Palace. These personas are seen as a vigil of hope, which delve into the politics of Japan, and their large number of sexual harassment cases towards women. This game, Persona 5, is a symbol of what is flawed with Japanese Society and the Personas of Amamiya and his classmates are doubles of what the teenagers truly want to be and truly want to do in life, be a hero, and stand up for what is right, no matter what.