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Persona Community Thread |OT7| P5 is nyaow. (Mark all PQ and P4U spoilers!)
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Adachi having a lot of female fans? Oh, that's been a thing for years. I don't recall where the clip was, but someone took a video of
the November 24, 2013 event in public where people were looking at the large screens, and women were yelling like crazy when Adachi was teased for Persona 4 Arena Ultimax.
He's one of the most popular Persona 4 characters, overall.
A Dead Diehard
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Xenoflare
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Theodoricos
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He's one of my favorite characters as well.
Though of course,
Though of course,
what I like about him is that he makes a very effective and unique villain that's very fitting for the game and its themes. He's also a villain that I genuinely wanted to defeat and is one who has genuine presence.
I'm not sure if I agree with people who forgive what he did so easily, though...
I'm not sure if I agree with people who forgive what he did so easily, though...
Pretty much. I don't understand it at all.
He's handsome, in a dark kind of way.
He has moe tendencies in his unexpected clumsiness.
People find his relationship with Dojima to be sweet.
People love the dynamic he has with Yu in Golden.
He has moe tendencies in his unexpected clumsiness.
People find his relationship with Dojima to be sweet.
People love the dynamic he has with Yu in Golden.
What?
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Your viewpoint is too logical. All of that can be conveniently ignored for the stuff I just mentioned.
A Dead Diehard
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You guys do realize that
have squealing fangirls too, right?
scores of real life killers
Xenoflare
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PK. STOP
Oh, that should be the Shinjuku reaction video. (P4G spoilers!)
They went quite crazy when Narukami appeared for the P4Dance trailer too.
Theodoricos
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What's interesting to me personally is that
Adachi, like most people in Persona 4 itself, is simply very grounded. He doesn't seek to destroy the 4 crystals of the world, he isn't some alien who has come to invade, etc. etc. None of the usual JRPG stuff. He's just a guy. A messed-up guy, but just a guy nonetheless.
I feel like that kind of villain is rarely done, especially in JRPGs. That's a reason why I like him as a villain. I'm certainly not justifying what he's done.
I feel like that kind of villain is rarely done, especially in JRPGs. That's a reason why I like him as a villain. I'm certainly not justifying what he's done.
A Dead Diehard
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Oh it's still terrible, I just mean it's not all that surprising.
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To me,
I like Adachi best because you get to know him as a person
I've got no issues liking a character for how well they are characterized in a story.
There are many memorable and even loveable villians, but I think we love them because they are indeed so evil and because of how well they portray their ideals. But squealing and freaking out over a character implies a level of attractiveness in some way, so it really does draw some weird connotations about what people find attractive.
That said, I don't want to create a double standard. There are tons of "sexy" or "attractive" male and female villians in western culture, and I don't think it's an absolute wrong thing to be attracted to them. It's just something with adachi's direct behavior towards women that makes the whole thing feel explicitly off to me, but that's my personal taste, I gues.
That said, I don't want to create a double standard. There are tons of "sexy" or "attractive" male and female villians in western culture, and I don't think it's an absolute wrong thing to be attracted to them. It's just something with adachi's direct behavior towards women that makes the whole thing feel explicitly off to me, but that's my personal taste, I gues.
Everything he said is true for why that character is popular though. Doesn't have to logical. I find it funny to be honest.
Kinda like how the Joker is the most popular Batman character.
DryEyeRelief
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This is from the P4D thread in Gaming Discussion:
Joker's a good example of a western counterpart. I'm sure he has fangirls (not including Harley Quinn).
A Dead Diehard
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Every time that guy refers to Batman as "darling", a new cluster of fics are born.
I do fully admit to being a guide-using scrub.
Theodoricos
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Yeah, there are certainly people who take that too far. I agree with you - I just wanted to make a distinction between
liking someone as a villain in a story and liking them as a person.
Also, was I the only one who couldn't figure out any of the funky student's riddles and just picked randomly until I was right? They were super difficult!
Love that picture of him, though.
Auron_Kale
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Haven't posted in a while but just paid for my P4DAN vita via amiami this morning so at least I'll get it soon.
Now I just need to probably wipe my 4GB card so I can use that for my JP account and probably buy a JP PSN card for the DLC lol.
I'll also be heading to AX, though I won't be covering it as press this year, but rather I'll be working a booth for a friend's company. Will be nice to be able to just "relax" this year versus working on coverage.
Now I just need to probably wipe my 4GB card so I can use that for my JP account and probably buy a JP PSN card for the DLC lol.
I'll also be heading to AX, though I won't be covering it as press this year, but rather I'll be working a booth for a friend's company. Will be nice to be able to just "relax" this year versus working on coverage.
On the topic of DAN, can anyone explain this Amazon UK listing for the Disco Fever edition? I assumed it was just an import someone put up, but the fact it says it's sold by Amazon EU S.a.r.L has thrown me for a bit of a loop. Do they show results from the US store now or something? It'd be great if I didn't need to import should the EU have a significant delay on getting the game.
I agree with both of you, those are the reasons I really like him as a character.
Honestly I'm more surprised to see people thinking that it's weird for him to have a big fanbase. I don't see how liking a character would imply that you agree with what they think or do, that's not what liking a character means at all.
Theodoricos
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Ha, good to know I wasn't the only one. I might as well have done so myself.
I'm kinda hoping he'd somehow make a reapparance in Persona 5, though. Or someone equivalent to him, anyway.
Yeah, exactly. I think that's basically what boils down to for most people. There are some who take it to extremes, yes, but others simply like him for the role that he plays.
I don't agree with the attempts to make him so forgiveable in the spin-offs, though. Him helping the Investigation Team reach the true ending was enough, I think.
Ganzlinger
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I was gonna say exactly this.
But the Joker is cool as fuck, even guys like him. Adachi is just too meh.. :/
I think you'd be able to do that now if you wanted to, yeah.
DryEyeRelief
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Do you think now would be a good time to go on a media blackout for P5? Or should I wait and just enjoy the hype train with everyone else?
Silver Arrows
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Just enjoy it by this point.
A couple of English Persona 4: Dancing All Night screenshots. Nothing much... except for the English, and some new costume shots.
Silver Arrows
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Xenoflare
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Wow the story flow is just like Ultimax
please enjoy yukiko's fake out ending redux
Auron_Kale
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
Mine is still on 'preorder taken' (from Nin-Nin Game).
That sucks man. Hopefully it'll change and ship out soon. After watching the unboxing video, can't wait for the slim vita to be my daily driver so my OLED can retire quietly.
To be honest, when I got the email this morning, I thought it was for one of my figures that's supposed to be out this month too but was nice to see that it was for the Vita.
Thinking about the spinoffs today, I think I would have enjoyed them more had they not taken themselves seriously at all. The ideas are dumb, but I think they could have played more dumb along with it in the writing, a little more self-awareness.
Oh well, I'm going to assume that none of them were written by the original writers, and they didn't want to spit on anyone else's work.
As I said numerous times before, I think it's fine to like a villian for their villany and how they're portrayed as a character. There are countless villians in fiction that I really do love and consider my favorite characters. But squealing and hollering like he's a hearthrob? I dunno, kinda strange considering what he is and what he does.
Oh well, I'm going to assume that none of them were written by the original writers, and they didn't want to spit on anyone else's work.
As I said numerous times before, I think it's fine to like a villian for their villany and how they're portrayed as a character. There are countless villians in fiction that I really do love and consider my favorite characters. But squealing and hollering like he's a hearthrob? I dunno, kinda strange considering what he is and what he does.
So do imports not come with the P5 Blu Ray?
If so, then damn. ATLUS knows what they're doing.
All first-print copies of P4D will come with the Blu-ray, import or not. Mine's a digital version of the game.
Marie's announcement made me think back to this:
The first thing I had thought when I saw it was Marie's VA contributing to P4D. Might have actually been what it was.
Everybody else's reaction:
I know being abrasive and obnoxious is kind of your shtick, but do you think you could knock it off with these kinds of posts? There's no reason to put people down like that.
The Persona 5 thread got closed
It was just a big circle jerk of "Did it leak yet?"
It's probably for the best.
Silver Arrows
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I'm not getting into this bullshit, I've already had a bad enough day. Let me just say this: I am not abrasive or obnoxious, and I wasn't putting people down at all. Chances are, if that same news was posted in the P5 thread, that GIF would be present as well.
Again, I'm not getting into this bullshit.
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