Arima Kousei MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Arima Kousei? Arima Kousei is an ISTJ personality type in MBTI, 6w5 - sp/sx - 694 in Enneagram, RLOAN in Big 5, SLI in Socionics.
I see a lot of INFP vs ISTJ arguments, right now so, I'm going to be writing one on why I think he's ISTJ (feel free to give commentary, and feedback on this. I'd really appreciate it!) Spoilers below: Dominant (Dom) Si: From the very beginning, the one thing Kousei has always done is compare the present with the past. I definitely don't think this was a Fi-Si loop, but I do believe this was just his Si after an uncomfortable loss. Also, we can't ignore the way of how his high Si use while playing the piano. Having to memorize all of the sheet music, by memory storing it in his memory for his future use of playing it on piano. That's all Si! He also trusted the past deeply and everything his mother told him, which made him extremely depressed in the near future. Obviously, it wasn't just the piano where he showed this. The flashbacks he had, from the past for how his mother treated him and how he clings on to it. It's dumb to say, that he still didn't cling to the past after Kaori die because he will. He'll cling onto the memory of Kaori and probably won't move on. He kept remembering his mother, and the events that included her and looked at how they affected him. Auxiliary (Aux) Te: I see a lot of people saying he has 0 Te because a lot of you just think Te = Hella Competitive Extrovert which definitely is not what it is. Kousei is very results orientated which is a huge Te trait, he wanted to prove to his mother that he could accomplish it. An INFP would most likely just want to do well by their standards, not so much as winning the competition, but actually doing something creative and moral. An ISTJ would want to win the competition and match its standards accordingly. As Arima did exactly. Tertiary (Tert) Fi: This was one of his functions that were undeveloped, but later started developing as Kaori helped him. At first, he didn't want to understand his own feelings and tried erasing the piano from his life since he didn't think that was his true self. Yet, after meeting Kaori she started to help him understand his own feelings a bit, he got to express himself more. He tried seeking harmony with the memory of his mother from within his own values. But all of this definitely took time and wasn't as natural as his Si was. He had to develop it and it's obvious it isn't his dominant function. Inferior (Inf) Ne: Well, a Ne dom Kaori helped Kousei be a bit more creative. Also, you can see that when Kousei was at his lowest: he was all over the place. His sheet music was scattered everywhere and he was extremely stressed, I'm thinking this was a Ne grip of some sort, I could be wrong. I'll write more about this later. Anyways, I hope that makes sense?
Biography
Kousei Arima (有馬 公生 Arima Kōsei) is the main protagonist of the Your Lie in April series. He is the son of Takahiko Arima and Saki Arima and a student attending Sumiya Junior High School who was the youngest winner of the Maihou Piano Competition.
