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Honestly who is Haru?
Ok let's be honest....is Haru actually a character or just a throw away plot device
Mao
It's a secret, nobody knows
Haru is a psychopath.
Like I feel we could replace here with a piece of cardboard and nobody would notice?
Haru is a woman whose voice is a grown up Nanako
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Haru is r34 filler
Haru is great tho...
I'll be honest, she served 0 purpose in my first playthrough because I wasn't good enough in proficiency to get her rank up and thus, she never got baton pass and was permanently useless. Granted, she did do work on Shido's boss fight.
HOWEVER! She is too sweet and gave me type-2 diabetes send halp. plz.
Haru Oh koomorah
@Hibiki yea but she joins so late in the game I feel like she doesn't belong with the phantom thieves like she doesn't really need to exist other then the arc involving her father and that's it
The same can be said for a lot of members of the team.

For example, after Yusuke joins the team, Ann becomes more or less irrelevant to the plot. It happens to a majority of the cast, actually.
This is the one way to expose my bias for Hifumi.
She doesn't join THAT late into the game really, honestly I would argue the same could be said about Naoto in Persona 4, and I would get skewered. But really though, I agree with Hazama with Ann.
@hazama yea it started to feel Iike a one man show towards the end of the game besides Morgana I wish they gave each character more time in the lime light after they join the team
The problem I have with Haru is that she's WAY too sweet.

A sweet girl is nice but hell that sweetness and voice sounds way too pokemon for me.
@Hibiki the only character I feel like that gets more time in the plot compared to other party members is makoto and that's only because of her sister Sae.
The ONLY problem I have with Haru is that her Confidant is borderline impossible to do on a first playthrough. Either that or I'm really bad at raising social stats.
@Hibiki I did hers first play through but I got bored of her towards the end and lost interest in completing it
I liked her Confidant I just couldn't do it my first playthrough cuz of I didn't get the stats to continue it until literally December 23. I am actually the worst when it comes to social stats.
@Hibiki saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
@Hibiki I like ryujis only because he reminds me of one of my close friends from school
Terrible confession I did not max a single Phantom Thieves Confidant my first playthrough.
I only managed to max Ohya, Takemi and Yoshia
@Hibiki I just wish I got to know Haru more outside of her social link
@Hibiki I mean the second awakenings aren't that important, so long as you got all their other junk.
I only maxed Makoto on my first playthrough...
I maxed ryuji, Ann, futaba, makoto(waifu) , yoshia, the king, and hifumi
Mao
I maxeed makoto and hifumi on first playthrough
Don't hurt me I only ever got Makoto high enough to get Baton Pass and then i ignored her
@Hibiki it's ok we all have different opinions
Although makoto will always be the best
Best waifu
I love the way Makoto dresses.
My proficiency was maxed WAY before I even met Haru, so I did her confidant ASAP. Mainly because I liked her design.

Also, imo: Haru>Hifumi>Takemi>Makoto>Kawakami>Chihaya>Ann>Ohya
I just really like her character design as a whole I honestly don't know why cuz in RL I think I would hate her lol
Trust me as the only person who exists on this earth who likes Ohya's character and Confidant, I know we all have opinions.
You're all still wrong though and Haru is best girl and this topic is an insult to my religion
The art director for P5 did an amazing job designing the characters we can agree on that?
@Hibiki I'm sorry but the Queens Guard will not stand for this slander on our queens name
i will protect milady's honor at all cost
I did her to rank 10 on my first run. Got everyone but devil to 10 in fact. Bragging put aside though.

I think she's okay, to sweet to be interesting and should of gotten screen time before she joined like say Naoto. And her fiance was a bug missed target. I was sad we never took his heart. Also I wish we got to see that psycho side she shows in mementos sometimes but that goes for the other girls as well.

I did like that she ends up actually sorta standing up for herself. And her Persona was kinda cool.
Tatsuya your a good man one of the few I respect
@Tatsuya I really liked her persona too I think it's one of the better designs next to captain kidd
Yeah the guns sold it for me. Though her lack of Rapiers is kinda glaring.
I mean Haru herself on the Rapier.
I kinda like her weapons as is
though I gave her Death Contract for most of the game so i was just entertained at my party having a knife, hammer, katana and shovel for a while
Yea the Axe feels out of place lol
Futaba deserved a sniper rifle
Imagine getting into a Mementos battle and Futaba just flies in and a hatch opens in Necronomicon and Futaba just jumps out with a sniper rifle and starts blasting away and it enters an auto Hold Up
That would be rad
I'm still convinced that Haru is just a piece of cardboard pretending to be a character