Social Link/Tohru Adachi

This article covers information about the Jester/Hunger Social Link, Tohru Adachi, including events featured in Persona 4 Golden.

The nature of Adachi's character results in a highly irregular Social Link. The protagonist can start Adachi's Social Link on May 13th shortly after completing Yukiko's Castle. He is found in the Junes Department Store after school and the Central Shopping District in front of the gas station at night. The deadline for the first six ranks is November 1st, and if the Social Link is not Rank 6 before then, it will be locked for the rest of the game. His Social Link is unavailable as long as a victim is inside the Midnight Channel.

The schedule is inconsistent; it is a daytime Social Link for Ranks 1 and 2 before moving to nighttime for Ranks 3-5, then returning to daytime for Rank 6. After ranking the Social Link to Rank 6, it freezes until Heaven is completed, at which point it starts to progress automatically with the game's story, although whether certain Ranks can be attained depend on the protagonist's decisions later on in the game. The Social Link can only be maxed as its original Arcana in a bad ending; should it be progressed after all bad endings have been avoided, the Arcana, and that of all associated Personas, will change entirely.

The protagonist receives Adachi's Letter after the Social Link is maxed, which enables the fusion of Magatsu-Izanagi.

Availability

 * Unlike other Social Links, Adachi has a specific schedule based on the months and days he is available.

Dialogue Options

 * Rank 1


 * Rank 2


 * Rank 3
 * Rank 3 is only accessible at night.


 * Rank 4
 * Rank 4 is only accessible at night.


 * Rank 5
 * Rank 5 is only accessible at night.


 * Rank 6


 * Rank 7
 * Rank 7 is a story event that initiates after completing Heaven.


 * Rank 8
 * Rank 8 is a story event on December 3rd.


 * Social Link and story progression choice, December 5th
 * On December 5th, after the protagonist identifies the culprit as Adachi, the progression of the Social Link (as well as the game's main story) depends on whether the protagonist chooses to tell his friends about Adachi being the culprit.


 * Rank 10, Accomplice Ending
 * Maxing out Adachi's Social Link as the Jester Arcana leads to the Accomplice Ending. The player must choose all of the dialogue choices that lead to the Accomplice Ending for Adachi's Social Link to be at Max rank, with Adachi giving the protagonist Adachi's Number. Otherwise, the "neutral" bad ending sequence (the same bad ending that happens when the protagonist makes indecisive or ambiguous decisions during the hospital interrogation on December 3rd) is triggered and the Social Link will not reach Max rank.


 * Birth of Hunger, Normal/True Ending
 * On December 7th, the protagonist must choose to confront Adachi alone, otherwise the Social Link will be locked for the remainder of the game.


 * Rank 9, Normal/True Ending
 * Defeating Ameno-sagiri automatically ranks Adachi's Rank 9 Social Link.


 * Rank 10, True Ending
 * Adachi's Social Link as the Hunger Arcana reaches Max rank automatically should the player progress the game's story into the True Ending route on March 20th, where the protagonist obtains Adachi's Letter.

There are no dialogue choices.