Ah, right. I thought it'd been clarified in Famitsu or something
I think the reason second year main characters/cast has stuck in Persona so far is because 3rd yrs have a lot less free time cause of entrance exams. Ergo, more time for social links and missions, ect.The last time we had a senior hs protagonist was P2(Tatsuya).
Your translation looks good to me.
can mean "excel" or "preemptiveness", while the second (尽 can mean "last day" "end" and "exhaust" amongst other similar words. We already know the name is a play on words while still having a specific meaning behind it, which I believe was explained in an interview with Hashino in February.So, I looked a bit closer at this image, and found something...
On the very right, where the yellow kanji are on the "sign" of sorts, the kanji is "教育的指導" which means "educational leadership" or "educational guidance"
I feel this fits even more with the emancipation theme. What if one of the dungeons is a distorted or warped version of Shujin High School? Think about it. What castle with knights and all has a sign that says "educational guidance"? The kanji for "shujin" in Shujin High School is are "秀尽" The first kanji (秀
Those who don't excel or are not already prepared (preemptiveness) need educational guidance, and this is the distorted version of the school, which is formed (I don't mean literally formed by the people, but by their thoughts) by those who were held down due to not being able to excel, and exhausted their efforts. I know the theory does sound weird, but it does make sense. Especially with Hashino saying that he wants this game to have dungeons a phantom thief would infiltrate. Something about this place must be important to the story, or at least important during the point of the game where you infiltrate and explore it. This place even has a flag with an emblem, so there must be some group behind this place or something of some sort.
Maybe the dungeons are all formed by those who are held down or things that hold people down; their thoughts making the occurrence happen. And, the main cast are the only ones who can stop it and "free" everyone by being breaking out of the societal norms. It feels like Persona 5 is going in that direction.
I'm not saying the people literally form it. I mean the things that hold them down themselves may form these dungeons, and may have caused the occurrence at the start of the game. This is just a theory, after all. However, I still find this very interesting.
Concerning the school's name, I think you're overthinking it a bit. In the Famitsu interview, Hashino said:So, I looked a bit closer at this image, and found something...
On the very right, where the yellow kanji are on the "sign" of sorts, the kanji is "教育的指導" which means "educational leadership" or "educational guidance"
I feel this fits even more with the emancipation theme. What if one of the dungeons is a distorted or warped version of Shujin High School? Think about it. What castle with knights and all has a sign that says "educational guidance"? The kanji for "shujin" in Shujin High School is are "秀尽" The first kanji (秀
Those who don't excel or are not already prepared (preemptiveness) need educational guidance, and this is the distorted version of the school, which is formed (I don't mean literally formed by the people, but by their thoughts) by those who were held down due to not being able to excel, and exhausted their efforts. I know the theory does sound weird, but it does make sense.
尽くす as in ベストを尽くす has rather positive connotations and doesn't imply failure/exhaustion.「秀でるように尽くせ」means "give it your all so you will excel." It's meant to be an inspirational school motto. Almost every school in Japan has one or more of these. This being Persona, there'll of course be a dark side to the school, and as Hashino said you can read the motto critically as an example of conformist careerism, but on the surface, I don't think the name necessarily implies all you think.
That's a pretty good theory, that along with this pic
Makes me think that you have to basically steal people's hearts out of the place that is holding them down.
The only flaws in that theory is that it seems to nice, like would these characters do this out of kindness? The other thing that makes me wonder is the seven deadly sins thing and how it would relate to this.
