This is mirrored by the protagonist's initial Persona being Arsène, and his use of the Wild Card ability through taking on different Personas as masks. Akechi's surname may also be a reference to Akechi Mitsuhide (明智 光秀), a 16th-century samurai general who notoriously betrayed and ...
Goro Akechi, also known as Crow and later, Black Mask, is the secondary antagonist and one of the party members of the 2016 ATLUS action-adventure video game Persona 5 and the deuteragonist in its 2019 expanded re-release Persona 5 Royal. He was a detect