Junya Kaneshiro

"Don't make me laugh. I feed on dumbshits like you. There's not a snowball's chance in hell that a bright future lies ahead for you!"

- Shadow Kaneshiro, Persona 5

Junya Kaneshiro is a character from Persona 5.

Design
Kaneshiro is a balding, overweight man with long brown hair. He normally wears the typical cheap suit of a higher-up in organized crime and typically wears golden jewelry.

Shadow Kaneshiro has violet skin, wears a silver business suit and has a mustache. When he transforms into Baal, his eyes become large orange compound ones and he grows insect wings. In the second phase of his fight he summons a mech resembling a piggy bank to pilot.

Personality
Kaneshiro is greedy, obsessed with wealth and money and even dedicates a giant room that filled with a large amount of money which disturbs Ryuji Sakamoto and disgusts Makoto Niijima. Makoto claims he's "nothing but a disgusting fly swarming to dirty money" and a "money-grubbing asshole". His Shadow Self (who, like the other targets, is nearly identical to his real-world identity) later reveals that he believes that selflessness is a weakness with no place in monetary matters, a philosophy he picked up when he was a much poorer man. He has something of a victim complex, viewing society's prejudice towards the overweight and poor as responsible for driving him to a life of crime.

Persona 5
Kaneshiro is a Yakuza oyabun (the equivalent of a Mafia boss) who rose in the criminal underworld through clever use of blackmail. He thinks of himself as a businessman and a banker, as revealed in his Palace, a floating bank. The Phantom Thieves of Hearts]] plan a heist at the Kaneshiro Bank to steal his heart under Makoto's request to prove their justice, or else she will reveal to everyone the recording that proves them to be the Phantom Thieves. When the Thieves have difficulty locating him, Makoto risks herself by asking Kaneshiro's henchmen of is whereabouts, prompting the Thieves to follow her. This leads Kaneshiro to blackmail them by taking their pictures in his club and threatens to leak it to the media unless they pay him.

After the Thieves defeats Shadow Kaneshiro, he reveals there is a third party other than them who has the ability to manipulate the Palace for his own ends without caring about what happened to the people in reality.

Trivia

 * In the Japanese version, the exact phrase used by Makoto to label Kaneshiro "money-grubbing asshole" is "narikin" (成金) which means "upstart". When the two kanjis are reversed, it looks very similar to Kaneshiro's surname (金城) and also the kanjis of "" and "" share the same Sino-Japanese pronunciations, namely "jō" and "sei".
 * Kaneshiro's Japanese voice actor, Kazunari Tanaka, is allegedly the second voice talent whose last professional voice performance in the video game category ended with Persona 5. The first is Chihaya Mifune's voice actress, Miyu Matsuki. Atlus Japan's Persona announcement twitter account issued a eulogy to Tanaka's sudden death at the age of 49 on 11 October 2016.