Polite and energetic, Yoshizawa Kasumi is the charming new addition to the roster of playable characters in Persona 5 Royal. Though she only joins uꦏp as a persona user later in the game, you can start her confidant in May, just after finishing the first palace.
Availability
She’ll start popping up at the entrance of Arcade Stree💙t in Kichijoji after 5/30 during the day. The days of the꧑ week that she’ll be available change month by month:
- June: Wednesdays only
- July - August: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Sundays
- September - November: Wednesdays only
- December: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Sundays
The deadline to raise her confidant rank to 5 is 12/22ꦉ - if you don’t, you won’t be able to resume her confidant in January starting at rank 6.
Perks
Kasumi offers small permanent increases of 5 HP during her rank up events up un𝐆til rank 7. In addition, she gra✤nts a few neat perks:
- Rank 2 || Tumbling: Occasionally, you will evade being surrounded by enemies when they assault you first.
- Rank 4 || Chaînés Hook: You can now ambush enemies from a distance by using your wire— enemies will often start the encounter with Dizzy, Confusion, or Fear.
Rank Up Events
As with every confidant, having a persona of a corresponding arcana will increase the number of points you earn with them by one. The point increases with a Faith persona on h﷽and are indicated in brackets next to the regular increases as such:
Prompt 1) point values for ans🍸wers a, b, c [point values with matching persona]
In additi൲on, Kasumi is one of the confidants where scoring high on exams will also provide♉ a bonus. Ranking first in the entire school will give you 1.5x affinity points, while ranking within the top ten will give 1.2x. This stacks with the bonuses from having a matching persona. If you’re receiving bonus points on top of 3 points already, you will still see only three musical notes but gain more within the actual mechanics.
Rank 2
- 1) 1, 0, 1 [2, 0, 2]
- 2) 1, 0, 0 [2, 0, 0]
- 3) 0, 0
- 4) 0, 0, 0
- 5) 0, 0, 0
- Phone call) 1, 0, 0 [2, 0, 0]
Rank 3
- 1) 2, 0, 0 [3, 0, 0]
- 2) 1, 1, 0 [2, 2, 0]
- 3) 2, 1, 0 [3, 2, 0]
- 4) 0, 1, 0 [0, 2, 0]
- 5) 0, 0
- 6) 0, 0
- 7) 0, 0, 0
- 8) 3, 2, 2 [3, 3, 3]
- 9) 0, 0
Rank 4
- 1) 0, 1, 0 [0, 2, 0]
- 2) 2, 0, 1) [3, 0, 2]
- 3) 0, 0
- 4) 1, 1, 0 [2, 2, 0]
- 5) 0, 0
- 6) 1, 0 [2, 0]
- 7) 0, 0, 0
- 8) 1, 0 [2, 0]
- 9) 0, 1, 0 [0, 2, 0]
- Phone call) 1, 1, 0 [2, 2, 0]
Rank 5
- 1) 1, 0, 0 [2, 0, 0]
- 2) 0, 0
- 3) 1, 3, 0 [2, 3, 0]
- 4) 0, 0, 0
- 5) 2, 3, 1 [3, 3, 2]
- 6) 3, 1 [3, 2]
- 7) 0, 0
- Phone call) 2, 1, 3 [3, 2, 3]
If you’ve gotten to rank 5 by 12/22, the confidant wil𓄧l resume i🐠n January.
Non-Rank Events
All the same parameters for bonuses apply to non-rank hangouts as well. All the 🔜events listed below are only available until 12/22.
Meiji Temple
- 2, 2, 3 [3, 3, 3]
(Unavailable on rainy days)
Inokashira Park
- 3, 2, 2 [3, 3, 3]
(Unavailable on rainy days)
Shinagawa Aquarium
- 1) 3, 2, 2 [3, 3, 3]
- 2) 1, 1, 3 [2, 2, 3]
(Acquire room decoration)
Odaiba Beach
- 3, 2, 2 [3, 3, 3]