The Persona series, as iconic as it is, has always featured a protagonist with two undeniable qualities in each of its entries - but creative producer and chief director of Atlus' renowned Persona team Kazuhisa Wada has a good reason why the main characters are always young and male.
As covered by Famitsu, Wada reveals during the CEDEC + KYUSHU 2024 conference why every Persona lead is a high school boy - and the answer is quite simple. "Persona is a story about growing up," says the producer (translated via Google, DeepL). "Such a setting can be most effectively used with students on the verge of becoming adults." That's not the only reason behind Atlus' decision to feature young men, however.
