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The Tokyo Persona-User Team

Three years ago, six students joined together on a junior high basketball team that became well-known throughout the nation. Okina Middle School was the academy where they all united, and by combining the unique talents of all the players involved, these six embarked upon an unprecedented series of successes that lead to the team being anointed the strongest generation of talent in Japan's short history of national basketball. And the six students who comprised the talented middle school team were hailed as future stars for the country, with many speculating what they might be able to accomplish at the high school level and beyond. However, there was dissension amongst the team, and their goals began to differ. Realizing that if they stuck together they would go unchallenged for their high school careers and wishing to see whose ideology was more correct, they made a pact to split and all attend different high schools in Tokyo where they would become rivals, not teammates. Despite their split, however, the team remained in contact...but when one of their own, Itachi Kishikido, went missing during a strange incident, they joined together to track down their lost friend...becoming entangled by sheer bad luck in an incident much larger than any one of them...

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Together, these five friends and rivals learned of the existence of creatures called shadows, and one-by-one, awakened to a power called Persona. Lead by their former team captain, Akashi Seijuurou, their adventure brought them into contact with these shadows, lead to their forming friendships with others outside of their circle who were also caught up in the investigation, and tracking down the evil being at the heart of the incidents. Through many trials they became stronger, drew closer to one another, coming ever-more within sight of the truth behind the mysteries.

They were an efficient, talented, and powerful team.

Akashi Seijuurou, the leader and former Captain of their former Basketball Team, whose calm, cold foresight and leadership abilities make him the ultimate general for a team of persona-users. His teammates' absolute faith in his orders allows them to do their duties without fail, knowing that they can trust his words as law. He takes victory as a given, and meets those who do not adhere to his commands with a sharp tongue and a heavy punishment. His abilities are in his eyes and his mind, but his physical abilities are top-class as well.

Midorima Shintarou, the sharpshooter and shooting guard of their former Basketball Team, a superstitious young man who adheres closely to astrological signs, always carrying with him lucky items and doing things in a perfectly measured rhythm. He never takes chances with his actions, knowing precisely when to attack, when to defend, and so on. His fingers are deadly weapons, and he keeps them wrapped with tape most of the time to protect them. While he is physically capable, his long-range attacks are the most deadly of all the team.

Atsushi Murasakibara, the massive defensive wall and center of their former Basketball Team, he is an incredibly large person for a high school student. He is tall and thin, but has a wingspan that makes him a wall both on the court and on the battlefield. Surpassing him to attack his friends is nearly impossible when he is serious, but unlike the others, he finds little joy in any of what they are doing. He merely does it because he is good at it, and would prefer to be somewhere eating snacks, which he spends his every penny on in his free time. Despite that, he likes his friends, and his talent in absorbing attacks and returning the damage is second to none. But if one were to think that his size and defensive prowess means he can't attack, it would be a foolish thought...

Kuroko Tetsuya, the tiny phantom sixth man of their former basketball team. His skill is his lack of presence, a barely-noticeable ally to the other talented members of their squad...while his physical abilities are quite sub-par, his talent is in misdirection and using merely that and his piecemeal attacks and supporting skills alone, he has earned the right to stand on equal footing with the monstrous teammates around him. Often his friends and enemies alike completely lose sight of him on the field or court, only to find him in their blind spot, attacking their weak point with precisely the sort of attack that could bring them down. He may not have power, but his deceptive skill makes him as dangerous as any of his other friends...though his plainly good heart means that he never uses this ability in anger or maliciously.

And Kise Ryouta, the jack-of-all-trades shooting forward of their former basketball team, a man with near-perfect muscle memory who can watch someone attack and mimic their movements and skills to the letter. He was the last one to join their group of friends and the basketball team, but his rate of improvement is impossibly fast. He learns as he watches, and incorporates new skills on the fly, making him the player and fighter with the highest potential of all of them. He loves to compete, loves to make new friends, and even does some modeling in his free time, meaning that he is a slight celebrity in Tokyo at the moment. Probably the nicest member of the team, he is also one of the most fiercely competitive. And while he is capable in every area of fighting, that is not to say he has any weaknesses. With the absence of Itachi from their group, Kise is the unquestioned Ace...even if he lacks that special something that makes Akashi their leader (and the most dangerous member of their team).

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Others joined them along the way, including a certain girl named Momoi Satsuki who became the heart of their team...a kind girl who had been their manager during their Middle School days, who couldn't ignore the voice of someone crying out in need no matter how dangerous the situation became. Every member of the team was fond of her, but even so, Akashi could never get used to her diversions from his plans which put them all (and her especially) at risk. When someone was in pain, she would go whether he warned her or not...she was simultaneously someone very important to the team and to their Captain alike, and someone who brought him great grief. But there was no grief that could prepare them for the mission in which they lost her, a trap set by their enemy which lured her in with a cry for help. She could not resist helping someone in need, even though Akashi had warned her not to go...and in spite of his orders, she had gone. And by the time they found her it was already too late. Satsuki died in Kuroko's arms...and their team was never the same.

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Friends and rivals became coldhearted comrades with a single purpose: victory over the enemy that had taken so much from them. Driven to an incomparable grief over his inability to foresee her death, Akashi became a devil who punished violently those who disobeyed him. "If only she had listened to my orders, this would never have happened..." he was known to say, though his friends knew that his anger was more like a mask for the guilt that wrecked him. They were all in pain...but none more than their leader, whose powers and abilities should have been able to prevent it. And even when he began to go too far, when his anger drove them out of Tokyo in pursuit of their enemy, tearing down anybody who got in their way, they followed him for reasons twofold...

To defeat their enemy at whatever cost and avenge Satsuki, treating their leaders words henceforth as law and never disobeying him out of a mixture of trust and fear...

...And to protect their leader from himself, to never leave him alone lest his grief overwhelm him.

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And as they passed down through the country in pursuit of their great foe, the watchful eye of the country's protectors followed them, sensing the great threat posed now not only by their enemy...but by the team itself.

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Now, their path of righteous vengeance brings them to the town of Inaba, where their enemy seeks to lay claim to a certain power...a power that will allow it to unleash a storm unlike any that has come before on the capital.

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And the Generation of Miracles, this hurt and powerful team of persona-users formerly from Okina, come down from Tokyo to take their revenge, will do anything...and destroy anyone who thinks to get in the way of their revenge.