Vox Chaotica
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AtlusUSA even discarded me in doing so, therefore Chie must be best girl.
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Persona Community Thread |OT6| Where 6 Comes Before 5 (No PQ or P4U spoilers!)
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AtlusUSA even discarded me in doing so, therefore Chie must be best girl.
ScraftyDevil
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Absolutely stunning art as always, arue.
Can next week be Da Man Week?
Can next week be Da Man Week?
LelouchViBritannia
Member
It's been quite a while, but we're finally back...
(Click image for Episode link)
On this Episode PK, cjkeats, Armada, and myself discuss the notion of waifu culture being encouraged and created by a lot of corporations. It sounds weird(and it is) but this was actually probably the most fascinating discussion on the podcast to date. It's also as close as you're going to get to the often joked about "waifucast".
Hope everyone enjoys it!
I really do enjoy when Armada is on the podcast.. He always provides a very informative and psychological perspective on the discussed topic. Most of the psychology and marketing concepts that were mentioned, were things that i studied greatly in my degree, so its always interesting to hear them being applied to different subjects and areas.
Glad all you guys are finally back.
Oh wait a sec, I just got hit by an inspiration bomb
Yukiko: Ummm that seems a bit cliche... even for you Yosuke-kun.
Chie: So how did you do it?!?
Yosuke: A magician... never reveals his secrets.
Kanji: Dude, you sound WAY too proud about all of this...
Yukiko: Ummm that seems a bit cliche... even for you Yosuke-kun.
Chie: So how did you do it?!?
Yosuke: A magician... never reveals his secrets.
Kanji: Dude, you sound WAY too proud about all of this...
I'm a nerd. A big dumb trashy nerd.
For Lisa Silverman Week (◕ω◕✿
That's your work. Damn dude, that's fantastic. Wonderful work.
For Lisa Silverman Week (◕ω◕✿
Lovely.
Thanks for the comments guys!
Your theory makes sense, especially #3, but what about the character cards? Does it still have room for one more character?
Your theory makes sense, especially #3, but what about the character cards? Does it still have room for one more character?
Ganzlinger
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Awesome, awesome podcast. Where are you guys getting that P5 characters are gonna be mad attractive?
Also, I don't think that P4 and P3 characters were marketed to be anything (other than Marie) while they were actually making the game. I just think the game design and Soejima's amazing portraits sold everyone on them.
You guys were really honest in how you feel about certain characters, whether you think they're ugly or attractive...it's true that marketing companies, and the players as well, generalize characters that way. It's tough to admit for some people.
Best podcast I've heard from you guys.
There's a lot more I can say but I hate typing and losing interest.
EDIT: Also, I was hoping one of you would bring up SAO when the topic was about self-inserting. Kirito/Kazuto is probably the greatest example.
Also, I don't think that P4 and P3 characters were marketed to be anything (other than Marie) while they were actually making the game. I just think the game design and Soejima's amazing portraits sold everyone on them.
You guys were really honest in how you feel about certain characters, whether you think they're ugly or attractive...it's true that marketing companies, and the players as well, generalize characters that way. It's tough to admit for some people.
Best podcast I've heard from you guys.
There's a lot more I can say but I hate typing and losing interest.
EDIT: Also, I was hoping one of you would bring up SAO when the topic was about self-inserting. Kirito/Kazuto is probably the greatest example.
A Dead Diehard
Member
Ganzlinger
Member
C'mon, there is no better sprite for that quote. lol
Oh, and I forgot to mention, great Lisa, arue!
Just keep them sprites out when Danganronpa 2 finally hit the stores. Don't think many fancy PGAF turning into Pseudo-DanganGAF yet again like back in Feburary...
Ganzlinger
Member
Don't worry, man. Leave it to me!
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
So I rewatched Ep.4 and you know after the credits they show a preview of the next ep. I got kinda worried because I didn't see Naoto in there. I hope Marie doesn't replace her during the Junes concert. What's Marie gonna do? she can't play...
Speaking of self-insertion.
Isn't Satomi Tadashi in Persona 1 & 2 because he liked Tamaki's design and ended up having his character start dating her?
The P4 gang learnt musical instruments within three days or so. Wouldn't put it past them to make Marie magically pick up some musical skills as well.
MarieXGong confirmed.
Ganzlinger
Member
My thoughts about ep. 4: It was good. Not great, but more like a decent episode in terms of story (the quality of the animation was terrible, though). Not a funny one like the others, but it handled well
Also, it was a nice way to put the Quiz inside the story.
Marie's amnesia and the group's support on that delicate matter.
The writing is so tacky, though (like most anime):
"MEMORIES!"
Marie-sona is the weirdest thing. And I don't recall the animation in P4A being this bad.
It was. Oh it was. It was slightly fixed for the BD/DVD release, but the original TV airing of P4 the Animation was hilariously awful at times.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
True.
Off-topic. Aren't you tried of the Otaku pandering in today's Anime?
Anyway, the animation is weird but it's still enjoyable. (to me)
Spectrasonic
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DryEyeRelief
Member
Marie is going to be the lead singer.
I assume it was because they wanted to go all out and embrace the stupid of that scene.
I mean for crying out loud Yu senpai plays Trumpet every single week why is Chie playing it instead.
A Dead Diehard
Member
No! Even better!
The IT sucks until Marie joins in to empower them with author favoritism!
EDIT:
She's playing it because Yumi is better than Ayane
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
Stoooooop. You're validating my theory about P4G being a fan fiction found on tumblr.
I'm enjoying it though.
Hey guys,
Help me get into p3p. I absolutely loved p4g. I've played thru it twice and will probably go thru again to try for platinum if I can just get all those Marie lines. I love the character interactions and really everything about it.
I decided to give p3p a shot. I went with a male MC because it was suggested for first time players. The game starts out so differently and really throws you right into the situation. I'm ok with the difference between the dark hour and the midnight channel, but the game seems so much darker overall. And while p4g slowly introduced you to new people, I feel like I was thrust head first into this team.
Should I just roll with it and try and enjoy the ride? Navigating around the school also seems less enjoyable than actually doing all the running around.
Help me get into p3p. I absolutely loved p4g. I've played thru it twice and will probably go thru again to try for platinum if I can just get all those Marie lines. I love the character interactions and really everything about it.
I decided to give p3p a shot. I went with a male MC because it was suggested for first time players. The game starts out so differently and really throws you right into the situation. I'm ok with the difference between the dark hour and the midnight channel, but the game seems so much darker overall. And while p4g slowly introduced you to new people, I feel like I was thrust head first into this team.
Should I just roll with it and try and enjoy the ride? Navigating around the school also seems less enjoyable than actually doing all the running around.
Chie is worst girl confirmed.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
Ganzlinger
Member
Roll with it. You are at the beginning right? Maybe you just need a time to get used to the new story and game. My first game was P3 and when I started to play P4 I felt the game to be slow paced but then it developed well. But yeah the story is more dark and serious than P4. Actually, P4 is the only lighthearted game of the series. Also, there are people who doesn't get P3P and when starts to play P3 FES they feel the story much better. The exploring system might do that. It's much better when you can walk around in the school and city.
She is already dressed as Avril Lavigne.
If she doesn't sing I'll be surprised, she is already singing every ending in that anime.
Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
They're gonna perform Hello Kitty.
Ganzlinger
Member
ka-ka-ka-ka-kawaii!
I seriously hope the fanbase take this idea ahead. lol
A Dead Diehard
Member
Meh. P4GA is the target of ire for me. She's fine in the actual game.
Come to think of it, I haven't seen much of anything of Marie in PQ, so the writers clearly know how to turn their attention away...
The human used as a basis for their personality constructs (Arena Spoilers)
was a dying girl.
P3P should only be experience with FemProtag. MC is better in FES.
A Dead Diehard
Member
So this proves
Detective Naoto and its transforming male anti-shadow weapon
It was non-canon when they
couldn't figure out what generation anti-shadow weapon it was
Ganzlinger
Member
Unfortunately no,
as long as they can use the excuse of Kirijo Group using a male human as base of the new Robocop project. Unless they say in that manga that the dude is from the same generation as Aigis and Labby.
Persona 4:Golden:The Animation
What a fucking mess this week's episode was. I've been okay with this show pretty much every step of the way until this week. I kept telling myself "Oh, they're not doing the plot because this is a supplement" and "Oh, the characters aren't getting development for this same reason," but this week's episode was just terrible.
For instance, this episode was about the Midnight Channel Miracle Quiz, but that featured in for like, maybe five minutes at the very end. The rest of it was a mishmash of Marie's social link, and that's normal enough for this particular show, but there's got to be a better way to arrange an episode than that. Nearly twenty minutes of the most contrived situational angst (where in previous episodes I'd felt it was at the least tolerable) boiling over into what I felt was just about one of the most pointless scenes in any anime I've watched.
To explain why I hated this scene, it's necessary to reiterate that I love the cast of Persona 4. I feel like they're a vibrant, fun group with an excellent chemistry and dynamic that really captures how I feel about my own high school friends. Each cast member has a fair amount of thought and development put into them, and a personality which is a distinct and guiding principle of their actions within the setting.
But not in this episode. Outside of Yu, the rest of the cast may as well have been a hydra incapable of independent thought or action. They were just there to stand around and provide bodies to remind you this OC ship is taking place in the Personaverse. It all comes to a head when the cast sits around a table and each and every person at that table feels it necessary to say Marie's name and basically nothing else. It barely contributes to the conversation, let alone the plot, and could as easily have been uttered by paper mache marshmallow placeholders as it was by the cast.
Bad enough to have the entire cast rooting for Yu and Marie to hook up or be hooked up at diverse points in this Social Link, but good God can the writers not find a way for the party to be themselves at all? If Yukiko banging on a button is the only moment in which her quirky personality is given even a second to breathe, and Chie remains all but silent during that scene maybe you've fucked the writing up, I don't know.
Some of you feel that Labrys is a heavy handed sell and I can see why, but holy cow Marie is so much worse here. I'd hoped this little ditty would help alleviate the problems with her incredibly forced nature, but rather here we are with the decision made to completely scrap the cast's character's in favor of the kind of love story George fucking Lucas would've written back in the early years after the turn of the century.
What a trainwreck of an episode this was.
What a fucking mess this week's episode was. I've been okay with this show pretty much every step of the way until this week. I kept telling myself "Oh, they're not doing the plot because this is a supplement" and "Oh, the characters aren't getting development for this same reason," but this week's episode was just terrible.
For instance, this episode was about the Midnight Channel Miracle Quiz, but that featured in for like, maybe five minutes at the very end. The rest of it was a mishmash of Marie's social link, and that's normal enough for this particular show, but there's got to be a better way to arrange an episode than that. Nearly twenty minutes of the most contrived situational angst (where in previous episodes I'd felt it was at the least tolerable) boiling over into what I felt was just about one of the most pointless scenes in any anime I've watched.
To explain why I hated this scene, it's necessary to reiterate that I love the cast of Persona 4. I feel like they're a vibrant, fun group with an excellent chemistry and dynamic that really captures how I feel about my own high school friends. Each cast member has a fair amount of thought and development put into them, and a personality which is a distinct and guiding principle of their actions within the setting.
But not in this episode. Outside of Yu, the rest of the cast may as well have been a hydra incapable of independent thought or action. They were just there to stand around and provide bodies to remind you this OC ship is taking place in the Personaverse. It all comes to a head when the cast sits around a table and each and every person at that table feels it necessary to say Marie's name and basically nothing else. It barely contributes to the conversation, let alone the plot, and could as easily have been uttered by paper mache marshmallow placeholders as it was by the cast.
Bad enough to have the entire cast rooting for Yu and Marie to hook up or be hooked up at diverse points in this Social Link, but good God can the writers not find a way for the party to be themselves at all? If Yukiko banging on a button is the only moment in which her quirky personality is given even a second to breathe, and Chie remains all but silent during that scene maybe you've fucked the writing up, I don't know.
Some of you feel that Labrys is a heavy handed sell and I can see why, but holy cow Marie is so much worse here. I'd hoped this little ditty would help alleviate the problems with her incredibly forced nature, but rather here we are with the decision made to completely scrap the cast's character's in favor of the kind of love story George fucking Lucas would've written back in the early years after the turn of the century.
What a trainwreck of an episode this was.
For Lisa Silverman Week (◕ω◕✿
Loving all the Ginko art so far. Great job.
A Dead Diehard
Member
Anyone feel like photoshopping the IT's faces onto Mother Harlot to help ease the pain?
DryEyeRelief
Member
(Homer pitches some suggestions for the Persona 4 Golden the Animation show.)
Homer: One, Marie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Marie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Marie"? Three-
Homer: One, Marie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Marie's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking "Where's Marie"? Three-