Ichiko Ohya

Ichiko Ohya is the kool-aid guy. She suffers from an incredible lack of development budget and poor design decisions. Primarily, she receives no special animations or scenes from a romance route, with ranks 9 and 10 in romance being virtually identical to the same events in friendship route. She is also one of two romance-able characters who do not have a costume change, the other being Chihaya.

All other things aside Ohya's confidant abilities are useless and arguably don't work as intended. Her "scoop" abilities negate security level while in dungeons to varying degrees, but as this is something that only matter if the player is both unskilled and completely tactless the difference is unlikely to be experienced by most players. "Legendary Scoop" is said to decrease alertness to zero overnight, but as this tends to happen anyway there is little empirical evidence that this actually does anything. These abilities also have no effect during calling card events, as alertness can go no lower than 70% and will not exceed 99%. In addition, since a high alertness level increases the chances of treasure demons spawning, this can be considered a significant handicap.

To make matters worse, one of the earliest Ohya concept designs in the official persona artbook depicts an infinitely more attractive and idealized version of the very same character. This ponytail owning badass was quickly scrapped for an androgynous and relatively featureless person who up until close to release had a headache patch permanently affixed to their forehead.