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"Now listen up! This town is miles away from your big city of perverts and assholes, in more ways than one. You better not even think of getting involved with the girls here, let alone abusing them! But what do I know... it's not like the old days. Even here, kids grow up so damn fast. Every time I turn my back, you're fooling around on those damn phones, checking your life-journals and your my-places..."
—Kinshiro Morooka to his class, Persona 4

Kinshiro Morooka is a character in Persona 4. A teacher in Yasogami High School and the protagonist's homeroom teacher. He is given the nickname of "King Moron" by students.

Appearances[]

Design[]

Morooka is middle-aged, with straight black hair in a bob-cut, hazel eyes and buck teeth. He wears a dark navy suit with pinstripes, a white collared long-sleeved shirt with a yellow-and-light orange checkered tie. In Persona 4 The Animation, he wears a plain yellow tie.

Personality[]

A condescending, judgmental and archaic man, Morooka's attitude is based on enforcing an inflexible societal norm that does not account for the purpose of individuality. Morooka treats his students like immature, dependent young kids, making him unpopular with the students. He does condone shaming in the traditional sense, and sees exam results as merely a means to make fun of failing students.

He constantly expresses his hatred towards modern teenage culture and what it has evolved into. He won't pass up any faint opportunity to complain about it: if the protagonist goes to ask him about the clubs in faculty after school, Morooka will turn it into a lecture on the spot. He will often bring up his dislike towards the big city and modern applications. He scorns his students for being dull and obsessed with technology. One of his most prominent rants revolving around the idea that the male students constantly want to hook up with the girls.

Morooka would also one-sided gossip about other students and their pasts. Kanji Tatsumi expresses annoyance towards that as Morooka doesn't know the first thing about him, and can't help but feel annoyed even if it's true. Morooka would even speak ill of the deceased Saki Konishi and Mayumi Yamano.

Although much of his teachings are one-sided, Morooka is also irresponsible in nature: not only would he get himself intoxicated with alcohol during the school's camping trip, throwing up in the river nearby the next morning, but he would apparently have brought a photo album of Rise Kujikawa to school.

Despite his negative attitude towards his students, Morooka is said to occasionally give heartfelt counsel to the female members of the student body, in which he spoke to them in regards to their potential future career paths. Even in Golden, he went out of his way to bring a school jersey to the protagonist, though he made him find him in the middle of the night for it.

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Persona 4[]

Morooka rudely interupt toward Yu

Morooka accuses Yu of leering at the girls.

Morooka is first seen during the protagonist's first day attending Yasogami High. The protagonist enrolls into Class 2-2, in which the homeroom teacher happens to be Morooka. He instantly makes snide and inappropriate remarks against city people and spews out a repetitive rant about how entitled city folk are.

During the school's camping trip, Morooka, acting as his class' chaperone, took his job of supervising his students lightly. He takes advantage of his position, and orders the class to return to their tents earlier than scheduled, so that he might drink with the other teachers.

The protagonist, Yosuke and Kanji gossip about Morooka in their tent. Kanji reveals Morooka has threatened to expel him countless times, and often refers to him as "garbage."

Later, after a news story documents a teen idol's return to her home town of Inaba while on hiatus, Morooka expresses disgust towards the event, and rants on about how pointless the whole news piece is. He chastises his students for getting excited over a "scatterbrained idol." However, through the gossiping of students, it is revealed that Morooka is actually a closet fan of Risette, and is known to have bought her pin-up books and magazines.

Morooka death

Kinshiro Morooka beaten to death, and hung on a water tower instead of an antenna.

Morooka is, however, killed in a similar fashion as the bizarre murder cases in Inaba, a fact that greatly confuses the Investigation Team. They had deduced that the victims in the Midnight Channel are those who appeared on TV; however, Morooka was never shown on the TV, nor did he appear on the Midnight Channel at any time prior to his death. To add to their confusion, Teddie also exclaimed that he did not sense any human presence after the Team left. In reality, Morooka was killed by Mitsuo Kubo, a copycat who merely wanted fame by claiming himself as the killer of Inaba. Mitsuo bludgeoned him to death and then hung his body upside down from a water tower, and Morooka was never thrown into the TV in the first place. He is later replaced by another teacher, Noriko Kashiwagi, who is nonetheless still an unpopular teacher in a different regard.

During the time the Investigation Team dedicates to examining Morooka's death, Yosuke admits that, while he thought Morooka was a "Capital-A Asshole," he still felt disheartened by his death. Motivated by Morooka's death and Yosuke's words, the Investigation Team swore to work harder to solve the mystery. While exploring Mitsuo's dungeon, the Void Quest, floor dialogue implies Kinshiro's gotten Mitsuo expelled from Yasogami in the past.[1]

Etymology[]

  • The name Kinshiro means "gold/metal, money/cash, currency" (金) (kin), "four" (四) (shi) and "son" (郎) (ro).
  • Kinshiro's surname Morooka means "various, sundry, many, several, different, numerous, diverse/diversified, varied" (諸) (moro) and "ridge, hill" (岡) (oka).

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References[]

  1. "Waahahahahahaha! How dare you stand against me for being a rotten orange! I'll make a worthless human like you taste endless pain! Take this!"
    —*, Void Quest, Chapter 2, Persona 4


Characters
Playable Protagonist - Yosuke Hanamura - Chie Satonaka - Yukiko Amagi - Kanji Tatsumi - Rise Kujikawa - Teddie - Naoto Shirogane
Social Link Margaret - Nanako Dojima - Ryotaro Dojima - Naoki Konishi - Kou Ichijo - Daisuke Nagase - Hisano Kuroda - Sayoko Uehara - Yumi Ozawa - Ayane Matsunaga - Ai Ebihara - Fox - Shu Nakajima - Eri Minami - Marie - Tohru Adachi
Major Igor - Mayumi Yamano - Misuzu Hiiragi - Saki Konishi - Mitsuo Kubo - Hanako Ohtani - Kinshiro Morooka - Noriko Kashiwagi - Taro Namatame - Old Lady Shiroku - Master Daidara - Minoru Inoue - Yuuta Minami - Kaneko - Aika Nakamura - President Tanaka - Chihiro Fushimi - Mr. Edogawa - Kanami Mashita - Moel Gas Station Attendant
Major enemies Shadow Yosuke - Shadow Chie - Shadow Yukiko - Shadow Kanji - Shadow Rise - Shadow Teddie - Shadow Mitsuo - Shadow Naoto - Kunino-sagiri - Ameno-sagiri - Kusumi-no-Okami - Izanami
Locations
Inaba Central Shopping District - Dojima Residence - Junes Department Store - Samegawa Flood Plain - Velvet Room - Yasogami High School
Midnight Channel Twisted Shopping District - Yukiko's Castle - Steamy Bathhouse - Marukyu Striptease - Void Quest - Secret Laboratory - Heaven - Magatsu Inaba - Hollow Forest - Yomotsu Hirasaka
Other Okina City - Shichiri Beach - Midnight Trivia Miracle Quiz - Tatsumi Port Island (Gekkoukan High School - Club Escapade - Iwatodai Station)
Music
Albums Original Soundtrack (Persona 4 / Golden / The Animation) - Never More -Reincarnation- - Persona 4: The Golden Animation Special Arrange CD - Persona 20th Anniversary All Time Best Album - Re:BRiLLiANCE
Songs "Ain't Nobody Can Hold Me Down" - "Alone in this World" - "Aria of the Soul" - "Studio Backlot/Backside of the TV" - "Beauty of Destiny" - "Dazzling Smile" - "Falling into Right Places" - "Heartbeat, Heartbreak" - "Heaven" - "I'll Face Myself" - "Just Like The Wind" - "Key Plus Words" - "Koisuru Meitantei" - "Never More" - "Next Chance to Move On" - "Pursuing My True Self" - "Reach Out To The Truth" - "Shadow World" - "Signs of Love" - "Sky's The Limit" - "SNOWFLAKES" - "Someone Else's Man" - "Time For True Revelation" - "Time To Make History" - "True Feelings" - "True Story" - "The Way of Memories" - "We Are One and All" - "Ying Yang" - "Your Affection"
Archives
Terminology Persona (Initial / Ultimate) - Persona user - Glasses - Fog - Shadow - Shadow Self - Party - Tactics - All-out Attack - Shuffle Time - Arcana Chance - Fusion Forecast - Weather Forecast - Investigation Team - Mystery Food X - Phoenix Ranger Featherman R
Lists Arcana - Personas - Shadows - Skills - Items (Persona 4 / Golden) - Requests - Status Changes - Activities - Calendar - Golden Trophies - The Animation / Golden Animation Episodes - Patches and Updates - Steam Profile Items
School Life Weather Forecast - Seasons - Social Link - Social Stats - Yen - Class - Studying - Books - Movie Theater - Bed - Fishing - Cooking - Part-time Jobs - Shrine - Scooter - Gardening - School Club - Bug Catching - Refrigerator - Crane Machine - Chagall Café - Tanaka's Amazing Commodities - Cat
Other Media
Games Golden - Arena - Arena Ultimax - Dancing All Night
Productions The Animation / -The Factor of Hope- / The Golden Animation - Visualive / the Evolution - Persona Stalker Club - 「PERSORA AWARDS」 - PERSORA AWARDS 2 - PERSORA AWARDS 3 - Persora -The Golden Best- - Persona VS
Publications Manga - The Magician - Dengeki Comic Anthology (the Animation / The Golden / The Golden Animation) - Kiri no Amnesia - Your Affection - Persona x Detective Naoto (manga) - Yasoinaba Case File - Persona Magazine
Drama CDs Persona 4 (Vol.1 / Vol.2 / Vol.3) - Persona 4 The Animation (Vol.1 / Vol.2) - Persona 4 Golden (Vol.1 / Vol.2)
Mobile Games The Card Battle - Colors - Persona 4: The Slot - Persona 4 the Pachinko
Events Music Live 2008 - Music Live 2009 - Music Tour 2010 - Music Live 2012 - Music Fes 2013 - Music Box 2014 - Super Live 2015 - Livehouse Tour 2015 - Super Live 2017 - Super Live 2019- 25th Anniversary Symphonic Concert
20th Anniversary Festival - 25th Anniversary - 25th FES
Miscellaneous Merchandise
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