He was forced by his benefactors into having the protagonist attend Shujin to keep a close eye on him.

Kobayakawa assigns the protagonist to Sadayo Kawakami's class 2-D, which is also attended by Ann Takamaki and Yuuki Mishima, because it is the only class of second year with vacancy. He appears on the day when the protagonist first arrives at the school on Sunday for registration. Despite all this, Kobayakawa turned a blind eye to his actions, even hushing parental concerns and ultimately strong-arming the faculty and much of the other students into silence regarding the matter, all for the sake of preserving Shujin Academy's image provided by Kamoshida. However, Kamoshida began abusing his students and athletes, sexually abusing the female athletes, and either disbanding other male athletic teams that may threaten the position of his team by force or subjecting his own male athletes to draconian torture-like training. Kobayakawa is the principal of Shujin Academy and spent years building up its notoriety, even employing a former volleyball Olympian, Suguru Kamoshida, as an instructor for the school. Eventually being driven by despair during September, he attempts to contact the police to investigate his benefactors to no avail, ultimately ending up with him assassinated on the spot to frame the Phantom Thieves and merely made himself a petty obstacle and a useless lapdog in front of the ring leader. Unfortunately, this backfired as Makoto herself became a Phantom Thief and gave him a cheap excuse, and he was surprisingly weak willed enough to be convinced in stopping the investigation. He is also willing to use the student council president Makoto Niijima to save his own reputation, by getting her to expose the Phantom Thieves' identities so he may grant her a high academic record and a university of choice. Unfortunately, many of his policies do more harm than good, as he is most well known for condoning Kamoshida's heinous crimes (most notably abusing and molesting students in the PE office or any other private area where he believes nobody can see or eavesdrop) simply because he was an Olympic athlete who was supposed to grant the school reputation for high quality volleyball tutoring. When eavesdropped in Kichijoji in Royal, he even outright states that he's doing this all for himself, and that people might envy him. Kobayakawa is a hedonistic and apathetic man with an overinflated ego who only cares for the reputation of his school and his own status. He wears a beige suit, white undershirt and red bow tie. Kobayakawa is an overweight and bald middle-aged man. Persona 5 The Animation: Supporting Character.Persona 5 / Royal: Supporting Character.

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