Kanaru morimoto | Persona -trinity soul-

KANARU IS EIGHTEEN

Kanaru Morimoto is a student of Ayanagi City's Naginomori Gakuen high school division. She's a quiet young woman, who struggles with voicing her feelings and has an interest in the concept of Kagenuki. She is friends with Megumi Kayano and Takuro Sakakiba and meets Shin Kanzato on his first day of school. Over the course of the series, she steadily begins to develop feelings for Shin.

Early in the series, Kanaru begins to struggle with what appears to be a growing addiction to kagenuki to the point of developing a following of young men who are interested in performing it with her. Her following calls her Mori, supposedly after the girl who started the trend in Ayanagi. Kanaru's friends catch her in the act of kagenuki and while she promises to stop, she keeps making plans to meet up with them. When her friends spend the night to keep her from going out to meet them, she begins to show symptoms of withdrawal and eventually relapses during school the next day. This is the breaking point for Shin, as he slaps her when he finds out.

Shin's anger and Megumi's support makes Kanaru want to be stronger. Unlike the members of the Ayanagi Investigation Squad, however, she is not extended an invitation to join by Akihiko Sanada when it is formed, despite having a persona.

Shadow extraction aka "kagenuki" is the practice of forcefully drawing out someone's Persona by manifesting the practitioners' Shadow into a Persona. In the anime, shadow extractions have become a popular practice by students in Ayanagi City's Naginomori Gakuen. Shadow extractions are treated as a way to relieve stress and described as giving a euphoric feeling, similar to taking drugs. Rumors have it as being introduced by a mysterious figure called Mori.

Kanaru is more sensitive and apologetic than megumi.

The anime's protagonist, Shin Kanzato, is introduced to the concept of it by Takuro Sakakiba, but when trying it he actually manifests Takuro's persona as well as his own—something Takuro had never had happen during a kagenuki before.

Their classmate, Megumi Kayano is strongly opposed to the concept, viewing it as dangerous after her upperclassman Yumi Tasaka is attacked and suffers from PTSD. There have also been rumors of incidents where entire groups of students would disappear after performing it.

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