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[[File:p4arena_faithful_announce_alt_6528.jpg|frame|Left to right: Chie Satonaka, Yu Narukami and Teddie invite you to summon the fighter within.]]
 
{{quote|I'll face myself to cross out what I've become. Erase myself and let go of what I've done.
|'''[[Linkin Park]]''', ''What I've Done'', from the album ''Minutes to Midnight'', which is shown on Yosuke's room}}.
 
'''''Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena''''', also known simply as ''Persona 4: Arena'' in America, is a fighting game sequel to ''[[Persona 4]]'' and, to a lesser extent, ''[[Persona 3]]'', developed by [[Arc System Works]] under the supervision of [[Atlus]]' [[Persona 3|Team]] [[Persona 4|Persona]]. The gameplay is purported to be similar to ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' with the stand system from the ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' fighting game.
 
The game is set three months after the end of ''Persona 4'' and two years after the end of ''Persona 3'', it follows the True Ending of P4 with everything in Inaba brought back to peace, but strangely enough Teddie turns up on the Midnight Channel to announce his P-1 Grand Prix, a tournament for Persona users to fight each other and decide who's the best fighter around; The Investigation Team takes note of this and decides to drop in to make sure this is just a friendly competition set up by Teddie; [[Persona 3|Aigis, Mitsuru, and Akihiko]] also drop in due bearing suspicion of a never seen before tournament where Persona users gather to fight against each other.
 
It hit Japanese arcades in March of 2012. A [[PlayStationPlay Station 3|console]] [[Xbox 360|version]] [http://www.siliconera.com/2012/02/21/persona-4-arena-coming-to-north-america-this-summer/ has been confirmed] for a release date of August 2 and 7 in Japan and America respectively, with [http://www.siliconera.com/2012/05/25/persona-4-arena-airs-in-europe-later-this-year/ a European release confirmed] for later in 2012, courtesy of [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Zen United]]. In late May it was announced that the release date had been pushed forward from August 2 to July 26, with no word on whether the US version will follow suit in some way.
 
The Arcade build of the game began with 10 characters, but more have been added over time (Labrys, Elizabeth, Shadow Labrys and Asterios) and there is still the possibility of DLC.
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* From ''Moonlight'': [[Class Representative|Labrys]]
* [[Original Generation]]: [[Shadow Archetype|Shadow Labrys]], [[Evil Knockoff|"Shadow Yu"]]<ref>Actually Shadow Labrys posing herself as Yu via Asterios</ref>
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* [[Actor Existence Failure]]: Like with ''The Animation'', Igor's few lines in the game are directly taken from game audio files due to his Japanese voice actor having passed away in 2010.
* [[A Load of Bull]]: Shadow Labrys' giant shadow familar, Asterios.
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Labrys is Cretan for axe.
* [[Mini Boss]]: {{spoiler|Shadow Yu/Asterios}} seems to be one.
* [[My Name Is Question Marks???]]: {{spoiler|Shadow Yu/Asterios.}}
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Yukiko with Konohana Sakuya, she coordinates the Persona's fire attacks with her fan.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Mitsuru has a white fur coat to wear over her catsuit.
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* [[Shock and Awe]]: Akihiko with Caesar, Kanji with Take-Mikazuchi and Yu with Izanagi summon their Personas for electricity based attacks.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The name for Teddie's tournament: ''P-1 Grand Prix'', obviously inspired by one of the editions for the late japanese Kickboxing championship league: ''K-1 Grand Prix''.
** The Alternate Costumes are either shout outs to [[Guilty Gear]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]] or [[Persona 3|Previous]] [[Persona 2|Persona series]] (excepting strangely [[Persona (video game)|the first Persona]], with one reference to a previous iteration of a character already present and the [[Atlus]] mascot:<br /><br />Yu: [[Guilty Gear|Ky Kiske]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Ragna the Bloodedge]], [[Persona 3|P3 Protagonist + Orpheus]]<br />Yosuke: [[Guilty Gear|Chipp Zanuff]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Jin Kisaragi]], [[Persona 2|Eikichi Mishina + Hades]]<br />Chie: [[Guilty Gear|Jam Kuradoberi]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Makoto Nanaya]], [[Persona 3|Yukari Takeba + Io]]<br />Yukiko: [[Guilty Gear|Anji Mito]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Carl Clover]], [[Persona 3|Chidori + Medea]]<br />Kanji: [[Guilty Gear|Potemkin]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Iron Tager]], [[Persona 2|Baofu + Odysseus]]<br />Teddie: [[Guilty Gear|Faust]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Taokaka]], [[Series Mascot|Jack Frost + Pyro Jack]]<br />Naoto: [[Guilty Gear|May]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Hazama]], [[Persona 2|Yukino Mayuzumi + Durga]]<br />Mitsuru: [[Guilty Gear|Axl Low]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Litchi Faye-Ling]], [[Persona 2|Maya Amano + Artemis]]<br />Akihiko: [[Guilty Gear|Slayer]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Bang Shishigami]], [[Persona 3|Takaya + Hypnos]]<br />Aigis: [[Guilty Gear|Justice]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|v-13]], [[Persona 3|Metis + Psyche]]<br />Labrys: [[Guilty Gear|Baiken]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Lambda-11]], [[Persona 3|Aigis + Palladion]]<br />Elizabeth: [[Guilty Gear|Dizzy]], [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Relius Clover]]<ref>Which may... cause a little funny paradox, seeing as Elizabeth and Carl share the same [[Miyuki Sawashiro|seiyuu...]]</ref>, [[Persona 2|Joker + Joker-Nyarlathotep]]
** One of Yu's costume made him look like [[Mobile Suit Gundam AGE|young Flit Asuno]], while one of Yukiko's made her look like [[Magic Knight Rayearth|Umi Ryuuzaki]]. On the other hand, one of Kanji's made him look like [[The King of Fighters|Shen Woo]].
** Akihiko "[[Walking the Earth|walks the earth]] to [[Street Fighter|perfect his punch and become the best fighter in the world]]". Going further, his Insta-Kill involves Caesar slamming the opponent into its globe, then Akihiko [[Death From Above|drops in]] in a similar style to [[Street Fighter III|Dudley's]] Thunderbolt attack.
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* [[Whole Costume Reference]]: One of Teddie's outfits in ''The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena'', with its [[Japanese Delinquents]] style hat/golden skull and lightning bolt motif/purple cape/etc, looks suspiciously like [[Street Fighter|a certain martial arts tournament hosting dictator's]].
* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: Kanji, many of the attacks with his chair are wrestling moves: body slams, drops & etc.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Persona 4]]'' meets ''[[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]]'' with some of the system mechanics of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' and a bit of ''[[Street Fighter]]''.
 
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