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Investigation Team is the friendship between Yu Narukami, Yosuke Hanamura, Chie Satonaka, Yukiko Amagi, Kanji Tatsumi, Rise Kujikawa, Teddie, and Naoto Shirogane from the Persona fandom.

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Chie and Yukiko are close friends from childhood, who also appear to be on a friendly basis with Yosuke. When Yu arrives as a new student at Yasogami High School, Chie takes to him quickly. Chie, Yosuke, and Yu begin to hang out after school. One day Chie tells Yu about the Midnight Channel, and the three friends visit Junes to take a look at a larger TV. They end up getting sucked into the TV world, where they meet Teddie and experience the shadows of the world. Upon returning to the real world, they start to realize the true meaning of the Midnight Channel. When Yukiko appears on it next, Chie is determined to save her with help from her new friends.

Using the power of their personas, the trio save Yukiko. Now that she knows about the existence of the TV world, she joins their team. The next victim is Kanji, a first year student who is a known "rebel". They rescue Kanji, and he joins the team. The first and second year students go on a school camping trip, with Yu, Yosuke, Chie, and Yukiko making up one group. Kanji spends most of the time hanging out with them, saying the kids in his own grade are boring. Kanji, Yu, and Yosuke start off sharing a tent, but the boys admit they are uncomfortable with Kanji. He storms to the girls' tent, but Chie knocks him out. They leave him behind, and run to sleep in Yu and Yosuke's tent for the night.

The next victim is Rise Kujikawa, a former idol. The Investigation Team goes into the TV world to rescue her, but her Shadow is overpowered and can predict their movements. Teddie takes this opportunity to run into the situation, defeating Rise's persona. However, this manages to awaken Teddie's own Shadow whom the Team must defeat. Once they do, Teddie is granted his own persona. He decides to leave the TV world, creating himself a human body and venturing into the real world. Both he and Rise officially join the Investigation Team.

The group attends another class field trip, this time to Tatsumi Port Island. The boys share a hotel room (much to their chagrin) and the girls share a hotel room. While out for the day, the Team bumps into Naoto Shirogane, a teenager called the "Prince Detective". Yu suggests that they invite her along with them, as she's a new student and seems lonely. They head to a night club where they are served free food and drinks thanks to Rise's career as an idol. They play The King's Game, but a drunk Rise, Yukiko, and Yu manage to derail it a number of times. Naoto opens up to them slightly more during the course of the game.

Naoto is the next victim of the Midnight Channel. When the group sets out to save her, they discover her secret; despite presenting herself as a boy, Naoto is actually a girl. The others use their personas to defeat Naoto's shadow, and once they return to the real world she asks to join their team. With this, the Investigation Team is officially complete.

Things seem to return to normal. Yasogami High School prepares to put on its Culture Festival, and Yosuke gets the idea to enter the girls into the beauty pageant. Chie, outraged by this, decides to get back at the boys by entering them into a drag beauty pageant. The second year class prepares a group dating cafe, although it proves to not be very popular with the other students. Yu, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, and Kanji decide to run a mock group date to try and drum up interest, which has a variety of player-options and endings. The next day, the boys put on their drag pageant. Teddie makes an appearance as a last-minute entrant, and wins. His prize is judging the girl's contest, and he decides to make it a swimsuit contest. Naoto is too shy to go on stage, but her humble nature ends up earning her enough votes to win.

The group decides to spend a weekend at Yukiko's family inn. They are separated into two rooms, one for the boys and one for the girls. The boys decide to hide out to the onsen, but end up walking in on the girls. Panicked, the girls begin to scream and throw anything they can find at the boys, calling them perverts. The boys run away, and its only after that Yukiko realizes that she mixed up the bath times; the onsen was only supposed to be open for males at the time.

Some time later, Ryotaro Dojima begins to worry that Yu and his friends have gotten too involved in the murder and kidnapping cases. He takes Yu down to the police station for questioning, where Yu confesses everything about the TV world. However, Dojima believes that he's making everything up. Meanwhile, Yosuke and Teddie realize that Nanako Dojima is likely the next victim of the Midnight Channel. Learning from Naoto that Yu is at the police station, they arrive and try to break him out. In they end, they are simply locked up in the interrogation room with Yu. The girls arrive next, and Naoto is able to convince Tohru Adachi to free everyone from the police station so that they can find the man who has kidnapped Nanako.

Dojima is injured in his pursuit of Taro Namatame, the man believed to be the culprit, and he asks Yu and the others to save Nanako. They enter the TV world and defeat Namatame, bringing him and Nanako back to the real world. Nanako is gravely injured from her time in the TV world and is sent to the ICU. The Investigation Team continually visit Nanako in the hospital, hoping for her quick and full recovery.

A few weeks later, the group is called to the hospital when Nanako condition worsens. They watch as Nanako dies, which causes everyone to break down into tears. Dojima storms away and tries to attack Namatame, but is stopped by hospital guards. The Investigation Team visit Namatame next, and Yosuke suggests that they throw him into the TV World to kill him and end all of this suffering once and for all. The player has to get Yu to convince the Team to spare Namatame's life, as well as convince them that someone else is behind everything that has been happening in Inaba.

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Fanon[]

The Investigation Team is a beloved friendship in the Persona franchise. Many fans enjoy the bond that the eight characters formed with each other, as well as the smaller bonds formed within that. They appreciate how realistic the friendship feels, and some believe it even reminds them of their own high school days. While this is primarily a friendship, there are some fans that ship the characters in a polycule (often without the inclusion of Teddie). Typically, however, the large friendship is split into smaller romantic ships, with the most popular being SouYo, YukiChie, and KanNao.

There are currently over 600 works on AO3 tagged with "Investigation Team".

Fandom[]

FAN FICTION
Investigation Team tag on AO3
Yu/Yosuke/Chie/Yukiko/Kanji/Rise/Naoto tag on AO3
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Investigation Team tag on Tumblr

Trivia[]

  • Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad and Phantom Thieves are the Persona 3 and Persona 5 equivalents of this ship, respectively.
    • This is the only group so far to never loses any party members nor leader after the events from their respective game. They are kept active in at least two spin-off sequel games: Arena/Ultimax and Dancing All Night.

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