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Minakomaru is the friend ship between Kotone Shiomi and Koromaru from the Persona fandom.
Canon[]
Kotone and Koromaru are both members of SEES. Kotone is one of the few people Koromaru has grown attached to, the others being Shinjiro and Ken.
Kotone met Koromaru on June 20th when Yukari and Fuuka played with him at the dorm.
She reencountered Koromaru on July 29th, during the Dark Hour, when he got injured after he defeated a Shadow off-screen. After Koromaru joined SEES in August, his Social Link started on August 15th. However, unlike other social links, his social link can only start if the player requires dog food from Fuuka for one of her social links at her cooking club.
Social Link[]
Koromaru’s Social Link focuses on Koromaru starting to grow to trust in Kotone as the leader of SEES and friend. Due to Koromaru having no dialogues, Kotone can only understand him by his body, the few who can understand movements and expressions. This makes Kotone one of the few who can understand how he feels, the first being Aigis, the only one who can understand his language. Koromaru's Social Link is usually tricky since it’s usually from his Social Link rank events or walking with/encountering other Kotone’s Social Links. Most of his social links with Kotone mainly involved spending time with him around the dorm and taking him walks at night. On rank 6, during their night walk, they encounter two trespassers at the shrine trying to break into the main temple. Kotone tries to catch up to Koromaru, who dashes and stops them from breaking in. After Kotone successfully makes them leave, she calms Koromaru, who seems happy they manage to protect the shrine. Koromaru nuzzles her with his head for affection. In Kotone’s inner thoughts, she feels Koromaru is thanking her. After that, they continue their night walk together.
On rank 7, Kotone is the first to discover that Koromaru didn’t finish his meal because he was saving it for a stray puppy he is looking after at the shrine. They both find the abandoned puppy and take it to the police station so they can find its owner. As their bonds grow closer, Koromaru is willing to show Kotone the scar on his stomach from July against the Shadow. He is willing to let her touch his scar since he opened up to her considerably on Rank 8. On Rank 9, if the player chooses the option, “Aren’t we a good replacement?”Koromaru will lean towards her, and she will hug his warm body. She will begin to understand Koromaru fully. Kotone realizes Koromaru doesn’t see her and other SEES as his new owners. He sees them as trustworthy friends. At the final rank of Koromaru’s Social Link, he is willing to give his old collar to Kotone since he wants her to hold it for him. If the player has either option, if she becomes his new owner or if she should wear it, Koromaru shakes his head. She realizes this is from his former master, which Koromaru answered energetically. When Kotone asks Koromaru to continue to stay by her side, Koromaru responds happily by wagging his tail.
The Weird Masquerade[]
Kotone and Koromaru’s friendship has been adapted due to Koromaru not becoming a member of SEES. This is the reason why they don’t interact with each other alone.
Fanon[]
Minakomaru is one of the few well-known fans shipping in the Persona 3 fanbase. Most fans love to portray Koromaru Wingdog for Kotone's relationship with Shinjiro. He will try to get her and Shinjiro to get close to each other. This was seen in many fan art and fan fiction. Koromaru is closer to Kotone than Makoto due to the lack of interaction in the original game.
There are 2 works on AO3, and 8 works on FFN.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Kotone & Koromaru tag on AO3
- Koromaru/Female Protagonist on FanFiction.Net