Jun Inoue

Friggin cognition of the mob.

Never! I demand complete and absolute victory Also, it does bother me how shitty most "professional" websites still are towards popular franchises, even if it's a no-brainer that it'll always happen.

Am I the only one saddened by the terrible certainty that BotW will win goty while P5 falls behind basically cuz the franchise is nowhere near as mainstream?

You can ship it to me whenever you want.

If you ever hear it ingame.

Lel, poor Funya. Here, have a super cool track.

But I thought you didn't have the console? Or what is it that you said.

Karma strikes.

Seikaisuru Kado continues to impress by being very interesting while doing almost nothing for 20 minutes. And I don't mean this in a bad way, it's truly odd. The anime is super paused and calm, but never actually stops, so episodes go by in a flash when it could have otherwise felt like an eternity.

Random thought: we are considering the "dem rotten adults are evil!" to be a flaw of the game, setting up a white and black context. But... aren't most teenagers like that? I mean, we are seeing and living the game's story as teenagers, and ones that have been abused or suffered some form of oppression from society. And it's at that age when people are no longer young enough to just ignore what's around them, but not really adults to consider all the complexities and different aspects, so they look at society and think "wow, shit's so fucked up, this is almost a dystopia". And who can they blame? Well, the only people with power in society... adults. So while it's logically flawed, I'd say this dumb black-and-white concept is what makes most sense narratively for our characters. If normal teenagers are like that, how could these characters who've personally suffered this kind of stuff feel any differently, if not blame adults even more intensely? I'm at the beginning of the 5th palace, so dunno if things get dumber or not, but that's pretty much how this has felt to me up till now.

I think you just defined both Persona 4 and 5, honestly. P5 doesn't have the balls to paint in greys, and P4 doesn't have the balls to tackle the issues it initially seems to go for but ultimately ignores.

All for Persona. Also, found a JoJo reference today. Quite amusing indeed.

Still anime

Same, also prefer P5. Also, while P4 digged deeper into the characters, with its flaws and such, they ultimately felt superficial to me. The best example I can think of if Kanji, who confronts and accepts this supposed "side" of himself, and then the topic is promptly buried, no further self-discovery done (pretty sure we all know what I'm talking about, regarding Kanji). Even Ryuji, who's pretty boring as a character, feels more fleshed out than Yusuke. So while the P4 cast has deeper, more complex arcs, I believe they had far less meaning than the P5 cast's acts of "rebellion". It's why I'm enjoying P5 more in basically all areas. It explores its characters' faults less, but the cast already feels very nuanced and human from the get-go. (and I'm playing in English; no one will take away my dear Matt Mercer)

@JibrilWhat about Seikaisuru Kado? This season feels very formulaic, regarding the anime that feel "clichéd but enjoyable." Although I'm counting neither Shingeki nor Academia, the first for being bad and the second for still being in the entertaining and "good" part of the story. Shuumatsu looks somewhat interesting, but what the fuck was that musical at the beginning. So out of place and a bunch of minutes of episode lost. It's too early for it to mean anything to us.

If I am to depict my enjoyment of P5 for now... well...