The meaning of the Masks

When you are wearing a mask, what is your purpose?
Maybe it's to scare a friend. Maybe it's to have fun at a party.
But the real purpose is to hide your face. To be exact, make others think you're someone else.

A Persona is a character you put out for the world to see. The part of you that you want everyone else to see.

It's a kind of mask. It's to cover parts of you you don't think others will like.

In Persona 5, the characters rip off their masks to unleash their power.
This represents them not hiding anymore and showing their true form to the world, regardless of their defects.

Persona 4 puts more meaning to this. In the game, the characters, in the shadow world, need to face their own shadows, which is basically themselves, but the actual them. The one that has all of the defects the characters are trying to hide from the world.
To get their power, they need to face their shadow and accept that they are a part of them.

The colour of passion and freedom

As some of you, or many of you, may have noticed, Persona 5 uses a lot the colour red.
The reason being, it represents passion and freedom.

The main characters in the game are bounded by the rules of society untill they decide to rebel against everyone and stand up against, as they call them, "rotten adults"; those who have become corrupted and are blinded by their own distorted desires.

When they do manage to stand up against society, a bright red colour appears in their eyes. It is also the colour of the calling card they send to every target.

Red also represent the colour of revolution and how they are willing to spill blood to manage to make a change.
And finally, it also represents danger, to let their targets that nobody is safe from the Phantom Thieves and that everyone should watch their step and behaviour.