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Goro Akechi, codenamed Crow while in the Metaverse and also as Black Mask, is the secondary antagonist of the 2016 action-adventure video game, Persona 5 and the deuteragonist of its 2019 updated expansion re-release Persona 5 Royal.
He was a detective investigating the Phantom Thieves of Hearts case, before becoming a member of the Phantom Thieves himself temporarily. It is later revealed that he works for Masayoshi Shido, the main antagonist of the game, and is the real culprit behind the psychotic breakdown and mental shutdown incidents. He's the arch-rival and foil of Ren Amamiya.
In Persona 5: Royal, Akechi is given more focus and depth in the expansion, particularly with his bond with Ren. He later became the 2nd main focus during the third semester, where he aids the Phantom Thieves in battling Takuto Maruki to restore their original world.
His Japanese voice actor is Sōichirō Hoshi and his English voice actor is Robbie Daymond, who also voices Chrollo Lucilfer from Hunter x Hunter.
Contents
- 1 His Evil Ranking
- 1.1 What Makes Him Heinous?
- 1.2 What Makes Him Inconsistent?
- 2 External Link
- 3 Navigation
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- Causing countless car accidents that led to him taking the lives of possibly 100 people in the process.
- Using his Persona, Loki, to take down important people connected to Shido by forcing them into psychotic breakdowns and mental shutdowns. Using this, he killed at least two of the parents of the Phantom Thieves' parents, being Kunikazu Okumura (Haru's father) and Wakaba Isshiki (Futaba's mother).
- Joining the Phantom Thieves to capture and kill their leader, Joker, all the while deceiving the other members before actually bonding with them. And this was before he had any intentions of doing so.
- In the game's bad ending, he kills Joker and outright wins the game.
- In spite of the Persona series incredibly high Heinous standards, Akechi still stands out due to his lack of resources (compared to other villains such as Masayoshi Shido, Yaldabaoth and Tohru Adachi) but still managing to commit some truly malicious acts.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He formed genuine bonds with the rest of the Phantom Thieves after infiltrating their group with the original intentions of betraying them.
- He is tragic as his own father Masayoshi Shido raped his mother who was a sex worker that later got became pregnant and give birth to him, After this his mother shamed him for having a child like him out of wedlock, and committed suicide, And never had any genuine friends as a child, When he was older Shido later treated him as a puppet to kill others and later says that he was planning to kill Akechi after he becomes the next prime minister of Japan.
- Due his tragic past, up bringing, and loneliness, He has insecurities that are played for sympathy, As he wants attention and validation.
- He redeems himself by sacrificing himself to save the Phantom Thieves.
- Helps the Phantom Thieves defeat Maruki who was going to rewrite reality that would of undermined all of their achievements.
External Link[]
- Goro Akechi on the Villains Wiki
- Goro Akechi on the Heroes Wiki
- Goro Akechi on the Megami Tensei Wiki
- Goro Akechi on the Inconsistently Admirable Wiki
Navigation[]
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