[0:05] [Music]
[0:12] thank you
[0:14] viewers of my channel over the past year
[0:16] are functioning eardrums I've probably
[0:17] noticed that I use a lot of persona
[0:19] music in my videos and just in case you
[0:20] haven't connected the dots yet I like
[0:22] persona
[0:25] Persona is one of my favorite video game
[0:26] franchises of all time and while I
[0:28] haven't played much of the wider
[0:29] mechaten franchise that spun off off
[0:31] outside of smt5 although I definitely
[0:33] will someday my love for these games
[0:34] cannot be understated I'm not going to
[0:36] sit here and explain in depth how
[0:37] incredible these games are because most
[0:39] of you watching have I ever never heard
[0:40] of persona or have only played Persona 5
[0:42] so I'll just go out in a limb and say
[0:44] please play them through any means
[0:46] necessary
[0:48] you as someone who's been especially
[0:49] bored the past two years because of
[0:52] um these have been my beloved Comfort
[0:54] games ever since Persona 4 Golden
[0:55] gotport to the PC thank God and I'd love
[0:58] to make a full retrospective on the
[0:59] franchise someday including the games
[1:01] that Mandela affected themselves out of
[1:03] existence please put your games at this
[1:04] I beg you as with any incredibly popular
[1:06] video game franchise adaptations of the
[1:08] story in depth of medium such as TV and
[1:10] film are expected but what's strange
[1:12] about Persona specifically is that the
[1:13] series wasn't really that popular until
[1:15] Persona 5 exploded over in the West in
[1:17] 2017 and the majority of the adaptations
[1:19] personas had were released years prior
[1:22] that's not to say Persona wasn't known
[1:23] at all it had a decent following from
[1:25] Persona 3 onwards and especially after
[1:27] Persona 4 but you'd usually expect these
[1:29] kinds of adaptations once the series in
[1:31] question reaches absurd levels of
[1:32] popularity I mean hell is the Mario Bros
[1:34] movie at the decency to release after
[1:36] Super Mario World and then I actually
[1:38] began taking a look at how many
[1:39] adaptations Persona has had over the
[1:41] years and the list is bloody extensive
[1:43] like we're not just talking anime here
[1:45] we're talking manga drama CDs and Stage
[1:47] Productions
[1:49] [Music]
[1:55] Persona 1 had a serialized manga in 1996
[1:58] well you do now how some of these go
[2:00] past being adaptations end up being
[2:02] extensions of the series as Canon
[2:04] exclusive to that specific medium I'd
[2:05] love to cover all of these someday if I
[2:07] can even get my hands on some of them
[2:09] okay that's [ __ ] up getting back on
[2:11] track and ignoring atlas's questionable
[2:13] Ventures into making money it just
[2:15] simply surprised me that they were doing
[2:16] stuff like this before Persona five heck
[2:18] before Persona 4 but that's all for
[2:20] another day we're here today to talk
[2:22] about the more well-known adaptations of
[2:23] the franchise so as being the Persona
[2:25] anime and movies when tackling a series
[2:29] of games for each installment can take
[2:30] up to 100 hours to Simply complete
[2:32] trying to condense a lot of that down
[2:33] into 24 episodes or simply 6 hours
[2:36] spanning over four films can be quite a
[2:38] challenge Persona 3 4 and 5 are
[2:40] intimidatingly dense games and creative
[2:42] Liberties need to be taken to ensure
[2:44] that an anime adaptation can present the
[2:46] main story in a digestible format paired
[2:48] out of trying to give the mute
[2:49] protagonists of each game their own
[2:50] distinct personalities and you've got
[2:52] yourself a daunting task ahead of you
[2:53] some have notable moments of success
[2:55] some absolutely succeed and some of them
[2:58] well you know some of them could be
[3:00] better so with these games having such a
[3:01] long history of anime adaptations and
[3:03] with such varying levels of quality I
[3:05] thought it'd be fun to go over all of
[3:07] them or at least the ones people
[3:08] actually know of and doing in depth
[3:10] review comparing them to the games how
[3:12] they stand based on their own narrates
[3:13] and doing a ranking evolving towards the
[3:15] end a lot of this video will be very
[3:16] opinionated and biased but I'll try to
[3:18] keep most of it on level of which most
[3:20] of you can understand also there will be
[3:21] massive spoilers for each of the modern
[3:23] Persona games in this video so if you
[3:24] haven't played them yet and I suggest
[3:25] you do so unless you don't care we're
[3:27] good let's begin the operation
[3:29] [Music]
[3:33] I've decided that instead of going in
[3:35] order of release I'm going to go in
[3:37] order when the games were made because I
[3:38] think that'll make the video flow a lot
[3:40] better so yeah Persona 3 is my favorite
[3:42] game in the franchise
[3:44] if I'm using the controllable party mod
[3:46] on PC but apart from that Persona 3 is a
[3:48] fantastic game the atmospheres are
[3:50] luring the characters are mostly
[3:51] compelling outside of the villains you
[3:53] little the story is a little slow to
[3:55] start and the gameplay has its quirks
[3:57] but you've got yourself a remarkably
[3:58] solid game with well-executed themes and
[4:00] moments that emotionally destroy me 70
[4:03] to 80 hours is the average run time for
[4:05] this game possibly 100 if the answer
[4:07] gets you staring down the barrel of your
[4:08] evoker if you catch my drift that's a
[4:11] lot of video game so how is it adapted
[4:13] well uh four movies there's a lot to
[4:17] cover here the Persona 3 chord Trilogy
[4:19] was produced by AIC well I lie the first
[4:22] movie was produced by AIC but the other
[4:24] free movies were produced by none other
[4:26] than
[4:27] A1 pictures but don't worry the majority
[4:30] of Staff who worked on these movies were
[4:31] carried over from when it was produced
[4:32] by AIC which explains why the animation
[4:34] doesn't give me the urge to stick a lit
[4:36] firework in my eyes I'm bringing up who
[4:37] produced these movies so I can gush
[4:39] about the animation for them because
[4:40] these are some absolutely gorgeous
[4:42] looking movies everything from the
[4:44] lighting the colors the aesthetic the
[4:46] detail you could not ask for better
[4:48] looking movies that captured the essence
[4:49] and atmosphere of Persona 3 with music
[4:51] by The Man himself Shoji meguro
[4:53] returning to give his soundtrack from
[4:55] the original game more cinematic Flair
[4:56] as well as composing multiple original
[4:58] absolute bangers I'm gonna go over these
[5:01] movies as fast as I can but be aware
[5:02] that there's a lot of content here so
[5:04] let's start from the beginning
[5:05] [Music]
[5:13] as far as adaptations of video games
[5:15] tend to go spring of birth is probably
[5:17] as faithful as you can possibly get this
[5:19] movie adapts roughly the first 15 to 20
[5:21] hours or so Persona 3's story so from
[5:23] the beginning to the second full moon
[5:25] operation and the recruitment of fuka
[5:27] and it's rather straightforward with
[5:28] that my main issue with the film is the
[5:30] incredibly janky pacing that it has
[5:32] obviously trying to cram 20 hours of
[5:34] gameplay into an hour and a half is
[5:35] going to present some issues but if you
[5:37] chose to adapt an 80-hour game as a film
[5:39] series then prepare for unforeseen
[5:40] consequences or get back to the drawing
[5:42] board you can feel the movie tended to
[5:44] rush through several scenes that becomes
[5:45] quite apparent when you realize that in
[5:47] order to even make Cuts in 20 hours or
[5:49] something down to 120 for that runtime
[5:50] work they have to skip over several days
[5:52] of gameplay to progress the story then
[5:54] it kind of takes away from the Persona
[5:55] experience Persona games at least the
[5:57] modern ones work on a calendar system
[5:59] where everything you do progresses the
[6:01] day forward time is fleeting you only
[6:03] have so much of it so try to make the
[6:04] most out of the time you have with your
[6:06] friends while balancing out your school
[6:07] Life and Adventures through the game's
[6:09] respective Shadow worlds so seeing these
[6:11] movies take massive leaps from specific
[6:13] days on the calendar is understandable
[6:15] to keep the main story in Focus but It
[6:16] ultimately takes away from the second
[6:18] main appeal of the series The Social
[6:20] Links now I'm not about to say Persona 3
[6:22] starter Social Links are the best in
[6:24] this series Kenji can take a hike into
[6:25] Satan's ass crack and The Gourmet King
[6:27] can have a coronary heart attack right
[6:29] in front of me and my response would
[6:30] still probably be I don't care but
[6:32] reducing the Social Links to Mere cameos
[6:33] or showing them in montages to show the
[6:35] passage of time sort of hurts the appeal
[6:37] of persona because if you don't at least
[6:39] dedicate a small bit of time to show
[6:40] Makoto interacting and helping his
[6:42] friends of seas and there's no real
[6:43] reason to put the calendar system in the
[6:45] movie aside from aesthetic purposes
[6:47] because we don't feel like the fleeting
[6:48] of time is remotely important or that
[6:50] Makoto is spending his time wisely
[6:52] outside of these montages there's a bit
[6:53] of a debate as to if Persona can
[6:55] actually be perfectly adapted from video
[6:57] game to Anime in theory it should be
[6:59] easier since RPGs usually have far more
[7:01] detail than substantive plots than most
[7:03] video games but factoring in persona's
[7:05] story length paints a very clear picture
[7:07] it's a stretch to say that a single
[7:09] season of a show can cover this much
[7:10] content is usually enough story and
[7:12] Slice of Life moments in Persona to feel
[7:14] like two to three seasons of an anime so
[7:16] making the percent of free movies well
[7:18] movies feels like a major handicap and
[7:20] at least the series feeling like a
[7:21] glorified highlight reel of events from
[7:23] the game at times I'd like to remind
[7:25] everyone the Persona 4's anime came out
[7:27] before this movie and while it didn't
[7:29] handle the Social Links in the best way
[7:30] it at least made an effort to show them
[7:32] helping of characters outside the main
[7:34] cast
[7:35] I have a doubt where I'm just salty
[7:36] Makoto didn't romance to hero and that
[7:38] this discontinued this line of thinking
[7:40] uh rights Makoto you probably heard me
[7:43] say that well a big hurdle each
[7:45] adaptation had to overcome was the
[7:46] character of the protagonist each
[7:48] protagon each Persona game is in use
[7:49] with no personality other than the one
[7:51] you give them for your dialogue choices
[7:53] so whether or not Joker is a timid nerd
[7:55] or a massive troll is down to you I knew
[7:58] you were gonna say that obviously this
[7:59] wouldn't work for an anime as a protagon
[8:01] is required to talk so they not only
[8:03] need a Canon name but a personality to
[8:05] boots enter Makoto Yuki so your dreams
[8:08] of naming the MC banging kawakami are
[8:10] unfortunately over I'm aware that is
[8:12] called Minato in the manga but I don't
[8:14] [ __ ] care Persona 3 had a lot of cold
[8:16] and apathetic dialogue choices that you
[8:18] could choose with the most common one
[8:19] being a massive meme well you should so
[8:22] in Spring of birth Makoto is essentially
[8:24] the essence of those dialogue choices
[8:26] he's hilariously called and apathetic
[8:28] towards anyone and anything and while he
[8:29] can come off as having the personality
[8:31] of cardboard in this movie the rest of
[8:33] the movie's majorly improve him and
[8:34] towards the end of this movie he does
[8:36] get some interesting development due to
[8:37] being emotionally scarred by the death
[8:39] of his parents 10 years prior Makoto was
[8:41] emotionally shut himself off from the
[8:42] world choosing not to get attached to
[8:44] people out of fear of being hurt when he
[8:46] loses them you may be hearing Nissan
[8:47] going but that's chidori's Arc but Imma
[8:50] let that slide it fits the themes of the
[8:52] story quite well and it's not a
[8:54] one-to-one recreation of chidori's Arc
[8:56] so overall I think they handled Makoto
[8:58] well also there's one scene at the end
[8:59] where he rides a motorcycle to his
[9:01] friend's rescue while mass destruction
[9:02] plays and I thought it was pretty funny
[9:06] [Laughter]
[9:08] or who cares
[9:13] okay I won't lie that it's actually
[9:16] pretty cool aside from Makoto I was
[9:17] surprised to see that jinpay's
[9:19] characterization is a Monumental step up
[9:21] from how the game presented him I gave
[9:22] that Jim pay's entire point in the game
[9:24] is that he's a selfish twit who
[9:25] eventually starts taking things more
[9:27] seriously and I love him but I won't
[9:29] deny he boarded on being intolerable the
[9:31] movie still shows Jim Bates kind of an
[9:33] habitat but shows his struggles earlier
[9:35] on June pay is a character who joins C
[9:37] is to play Hero and get some kind of
[9:38] recognition in his life since he doesn't
[9:40] care for studying and as a person is
[9:42] seen as unremarkable which is why he
[9:43] grows incredibly jealous of Makoto
[9:45] easily obtaining the spotlight thanks to
[9:47] him being a better fighter and being
[9:48] able to wield multiple personas during
[9:50] the game this jealousy is really drawn
[9:52] out and he's a total dick to you at
[9:53] times however in the movie well they
[9:55] don't completely froze Ark out the
[9:56] window just having him grow respect from
[9:58] Makoto as they work together during the
[10:00] first full moon operation does so much
[10:01] Justice for him and the toning down of
[10:03] his more annoying Tendencies helps to
[10:05] make him a flawed but very likable
[10:07] character I honestly see it as an
[10:08] improvement I also appreciate how fuka
[10:10] was handled establishing her presence
[10:12] earlier in the story and instead of just
[10:14] pooping her into the plot later on
[10:15] Lakota gets to establish a bondling
[10:17] connection to fuka and fuku's friendship
[10:19] with natsuki is a lot more believable
[10:20] especially after makota gives her a
[10:22] satisfying reality check in fact I
[10:24] appreciated that they tried to change up
[10:26] how the second operation played out by
[10:27] having Makoto guard natsuki at the end
[10:29] while the others find fuka and tackle
[10:31] the shadow though it is a little shaky
[10:33] and I didn't like how much of a [ __ ]
[10:34] yukari was which is saying something and
[10:37] ultimately it works in favor of
[10:38] progressing Makoto's character and
[10:40] breaking his apathetic shell but it's a
[10:42] little odd the film aims about a real
[10:44] sense of closure which wow no way really
[10:46] but it's still an Abrupt end it's very
[10:48] much a part one film and overall I found
[10:51] it enjoyable but only really as a fan of
[10:53] the video game I wouldn't really
[10:55] recommend this to someone unfamiliar
[10:56] with the games I still find that to be
[10:58] the superior experience but for a video
[11:00] game adaptation it surprisingly alrights
[11:02] it's very faithful regardless of its
[11:04] pacing issues and a good way to set up
[11:06] the next three movies
[11:09] [Music]
[11:12] please
[11:16] okay so this movie rather ambitiously
[11:18] takes a fourth of the overall story and
[11:20] does its best to adapt it but at first I
[11:22] wasn't really on board not only did the
[11:24] first half of the film feel like it was
[11:26] on autopilot but how questionable the
[11:28] pacing was but it also felt like they
[11:29] were rushing the new characters into the
[11:31] plot without any of the grace the game
[11:32] had I guess was introduced all right I
[11:34] guess but canvas frantically dropped
[11:36] into a scene that he wasn't in
[11:37] previously and Koro how do you rush Koro
[11:40] he's a dog I won't lie the movie had
[11:42] some funny moments and for some reason
[11:44] kashiwaki from Persona 4 is on the beach
[11:46] during the Babe hunt scene and I know
[11:48] that this happens in Persona 3 Portable
[11:50] but why but the film was very clunky for
[11:53] its first half and I was judging how the
[11:54] rest would go
[11:55] that was until my boy Shinji
[12:01] Shinji just literally barges into a
[12:03] scene that he was never in during the
[12:05] game no elaboration and kicks total air
[12:07] because the movie had been handling his
[12:09] return to seize a hell of a lot better
[12:11] by stopping it from being so drawn out
[12:13] he comes to everyone's Rescue by his own
[12:15] will after their lives were threatened
[12:17] by Strega which not only gives my man
[12:18] some more death but it's also the
[12:20] Catalyst from the Monumental Improvement
[12:22] on the game's storied the second half of
[12:23] this movie is oh yeah I'm going there
[12:26] throw me into the pits of persona
[12:27] Twitter I don't care second half of
[12:29] Midsummer Night's stream is really good
[12:31] it's not only paced really well but they
[12:34] take good creative liberties from the
[12:35] main story instead of Ken figuring out
[12:37] that Shinji killed his mom in the same
[12:39] scene where Aki begs him to rejoin C's
[12:41] in a millionth time we have Ken and
[12:43] Shinji bonding with each other for a
[12:44] good chunk of time they both learn to
[12:46] care for each other Ken treats Shinji
[12:48] like a parental figure that he's been
[12:49] missing for so long with Shinji trying
[12:51] his best to make him happy knowing what
[12:52] he did to Ken's mom even if it was an
[12:54] accident it's beautifully tragic and it
[12:56] not only fixes the biggest complaints
[12:58] people had about Ken and manages to make
[12:59] him extremely compelling but to give
[13:01] Shinji a much larger and more meaningful
[13:03] presence in the story making October 4th
[13:06] hits a lot harder and while the movies
[13:07] just like the game don't handle Striker
[13:09] that well the claims of hypocrisy they
[13:11] aim at Seas for enjoying the lives they
[13:13] lead thanks to the Dark Hour actually
[13:14] have more of an impact instead of being
[13:16] some petty insult that gin shoots out
[13:18] his mouth as in it not only affects
[13:20] jumping like it did in the game but it
[13:21] also affects fuka as well as Makoto oh
[13:24] yeah Makoto really becomes a character
[13:25] in this film not only says apathy slowly
[13:28] slipping away as he grows to care for
[13:29] his friends and for life in general but
[13:31] he also contemplates ending the Dark
[13:32] Hour as the Dark Hours the reason he and
[13:34] his friends came together in the first
[13:36] place with the Dark Hour gone and
[13:38] without that common goal what reason
[13:39] would they have to stay together that's
[13:41] my coach's dilemma and I think it's done
[13:42] wonderfully and it helps the idea in the
[13:44] game of seas being Collies first but
[13:46] becoming friends over time I think it's
[13:49] definitely the most emotionally complex
[13:50] out of the protagonists not to say they
[13:52] aren't developed either but well mostly
[13:54] you're definitely not developed but more
[13:56] new later but Makoto's the most
[13:58] compelling to me and the ending scene on
[14:00] October 4th is even or heartbreaking it
[14:02] was in the game so uh spoilers
[14:08] thanks to the amazing development given
[14:10] to Ken and Shinji being in the story for
[14:12] more than a month shinji's death scene
[14:13] really hits it not only affects Makoto
[14:16] and the rest of the cast but it's
[14:17] impactful in the way that the original
[14:18] scene wasn't thanks to giving the
[14:20] characters a little more time to get to
[14:21] know each other overall while Midsummer
[14:23] Night's Dream starts out really oddly
[14:25] once you get to the halfway point it
[14:27] becomes an entirely different film it
[14:29] [ __ ] carries how good it is I was not
[14:31] expecting it to be this good however I
[14:34] still have a few complaints first off in
[14:35] percent of three jumping meets Chidori
[14:37] before the hermit boss on September 5th
[14:39] and goes back to meet her several times
[14:41] however in this movie jumpy is present
[14:43] during the hermit boss and never saw
[14:45] Chidori on screen aside from one
[14:47] interaction when at this point in the
[14:48] game he's supposed to have been
[14:49] kidnapped by Chidori after growing
[14:51] attached to her through their previous
[14:52] conversations not only does leaving this
[14:54] out screw of jimpi's character Arc and
[14:56] developments but the way they try to
[14:57] mend this in the next movie makes my
[14:59] head start to spin I also didn't really
[15:00] like how Ken only realized that Shinji
[15:02] killed his mom after his Persona started
[15:04] going berserk I guess you can make the
[15:06] excuses the aggressive and wild nature
[15:07] of the person owner that triggered his
[15:09] PTSD and that's fine but it comes off as
[15:11] a little cheap in execution what I also
[15:13] don't like is how shinji's Persona goes
[15:15] berserk in front of everyone leading to
[15:16] him taking the pills needed to suppress
[15:18] it in front of akihiko while I like the
[15:20] scene between them here and it's pretty
[15:22] heartbreaking I much preferred not
[15:24] knowing Shinji was dying from taking
[15:25] those pills until October 4th and for
[15:27] having the hospital scene where jodori's
[15:29] Persona starts attacking her until she's
[15:30] given the Pill by Shinji having Takaya
[15:33] reveal to Ken and the player that
[15:34] shinji's destined to dino matter what
[15:36] Ken does is a much more effective reveal
[15:38] and having Aki grow suspicious of Shinji
[15:40] for knowing what the pill does was a
[15:42] smart way of letting us know that
[15:43] something's not right with Shinji
[15:44] instead of just telling us that he's
[15:45] slowly dying way before Takaya puts a
[15:48] bullet in his chest other than that
[15:49] though I'd still recommend the movie to
[15:50] people who have played the game but I
[15:52] definitely feel like the second half of
[15:53] it can be appreciated even by people who
[15:55] haven't played persona 3. it's less of a
[15:57] delightful mixed bag with more triumphs
[15:58] than misses like the first movie was and
[16:00] more of a slow burn before suddenly
[16:02] becoming really good kind of film
[16:08] falling down huh yeah that's one way to
[16:11] say it all right I'm not gonna sugarcoat
[16:13] anything here this movie is kind of a
[16:15] train wreck it's an utter bastardization
[16:17] of percent of prehistorian every
[16:18] Department the entire film was dedicated
[16:20] to developing Makoto and that's it
[16:22] Makoto exists in a vacuum compared to
[16:24] everything else which not only takes a
[16:26] back seat it is actively Drop Kicked
[16:28] after the realm of importance this
[16:30] entire film reads like some shady yowie
[16:32] fan fiction from some lovesick Black
[16:33] Butler friend who sadly crawled out of
[16:35] the abortion bin remember ryoji yeah the
[16:37] human Reincarnation of pharaohs the boy
[16:39] makota talks to throughout the story you
[16:41] know how he shows up in November and
[16:43] fulfills his main purpose in the story
[16:44] to be the appraiser of death presenting
[16:46] you and your friends with an ultimatum
[16:48] that will determine your fate and then
[16:49] exits at the end of December well he's
[16:51] here for the entire movie as the
[16:53] righteous decided to tie ryuji into
[16:55] makojo's character Arc along with some
[16:57] implied romantic subtexts apparently I
[16:59] mean I understand that POV but don't
[17:01] quote me on that and I mean fine if
[17:02] focusing on their friendship works from
[17:04] a coach's character which it honestly
[17:05] does I can put up with it what I refuse
[17:07] to tolerate is everything this movie
[17:09] ruins in order to progress the
[17:10] development of a single character the
[17:12] pacing is god-awful the entire film
[17:14] zooms past crucial plot points and
[17:16] scenes that are integral to the
[17:18] narrative and development of these
[17:19] characters remember the resolution
[17:20] scenes yeah those scenes are arguably
[17:23] the most important moments for their
[17:24] respective characters that have been
[17:25] built up ever since the characters were
[17:26] introduced as well as causing their
[17:28] personas to undergo a second Awakening
[17:30] yeah those were such important and
[17:32] character defining moments are the
[17:33] amalgamation of everything they've been
[17:34] through throughout the course of the
[17:36] story being some of the best scenes in
[17:37] the game what does the movie do with
[17:39] them Focus touching goodbye to natsuki
[17:41] allowing her to realize that she must do
[17:42] everything in her power to protect those
[17:44] she's connected with and ultimately
[17:45] becomes a much more outgoing person it's
[17:47] treated like a complete joke as ryoji
[17:49] forced Makoto to start helping around
[17:50] the school to earn some cash and instead
[17:52] of fuka asking natsuka to come up and
[17:54] meet her so they could talk ryoji lies
[17:56] in natsuki so she would come rushing up
[17:57] to the roof just to have a short crying
[17:59] session with fouca where neither of them
[18:01] learn anything mitsuers one to one with
[18:03] yukari where she reassures herself of
[18:04] her own reason for living by fulfilling
[18:06] her father's wish on adding the Dark
[18:07] Hour oh it happens but it is completely
[18:10] happy because halfway through the
[18:12] conversation yukari just suddenly
[18:14] reveals that she watched the undoctor
[18:15] tape from her father which is taken and
[18:17] half from her resolution scene where she
[18:19] realized that her father tried to end
[18:21] the Dark Hour instead of assisting in
[18:22] its creation so instead of getting a
[18:24] scene to herself we have instead slap
[18:26] Dash into the middle of another
[18:27] character's resolution where both
[18:28] characters come to the same conclusions
[18:30] as in the original game but the impact
[18:32] from them both is diminished akihika's
[18:34] resolution at shinji's funeral arguably
[18:36] one of the most emotionally charged
[18:37] scenes in the entire game where Aki
[18:39] Mourns a lot of his best friend and vows
[18:41] to face life's hardships head on and
[18:42] stop running from his past is told
[18:44] through a 20 second flashback that Aki
[18:45] repeats the Makoto just wow I can't even
[18:48] joke about it this is so bad it annoys
[18:52] me to no end especially Aki's resolution
[18:54] how can you screw up that badly remember
[18:56] my comment earlier about how these
[18:58] movies sometimes feel like highlight
[18:59] rules of the game's plots Falling Down
[19:01] is basically just that statement in
[19:02] feature-link form these movies have some
[19:04] really good high moments when everything
[19:06] were works out as seen with the numerous
[19:07] story improvements in mid-summer but
[19:09] then there are some parts that are
[19:10] questionable even for adaptation
[19:11] standards I can't really say I hate
[19:13] these movies outside of this one because
[19:15] they're all really entertaining but they
[19:16] really demonstrate how difficult
[19:18] adapting a game like Persona really is
[19:20] and we aren't even done Jumpy's
[19:22] character changing and life-changing
[19:23] relationship with Chidori being the
[19:25] Catalyst for his Newfound sense of
[19:27] maturity and value in life allowing to
[19:28] end the dark hour after she sacrifices
[19:30] herself to save him from the brink of
[19:32] death is rushed up the Wazoo because
[19:33] someone in the writer's room went cuckoo
[19:35] for Coco Puffs and decided that instead
[19:36] of following the events of the game and
[19:38] for an important moment like your Dory
[19:39] kidnapping gympie in September naturally
[19:40] showing their relationship grows he
[19:42] comes to visit her in hospital they
[19:43] decided she was going to have gympie
[19:45] already kidnapped at the start of the
[19:46] film during the hanged man boss fight in
[19:49] November what and on top of this only
[19:52] deciding to show the glimpses of their
[19:54] relationship through flashbacks after
[19:56] the fact this movie is triggering my
[19:58] autism
[20:04] Oh What A pity such a meaningless death
[20:09] [Music]
[20:13] meaningless
[20:15] [Music]
[20:17] hmm
[20:20] laughs
[20:26] what
[20:29] [Music]
[20:49] foreign
[20:50] [Music]
[21:00] [Music]
[21:07] on top of this we have akutsuki who has
[21:09] like five minutes of total screen time
[21:11] for the previous two films and then it's
[21:13] revealed that the mustache trolling
[21:14] villain of a bastardize plot within the
[21:16] first 20 minutes and since the
[21:17] characters are so hard to write they
[21:18] didn't bother giving him more scenes of
[21:20] him being relevant in the plot that the
[21:21] game did he shows up for about five
[21:23] minutes over three movies rocks up to
[21:25] Tartarus of I guess going La Mao XD
[21:27] shoots miser's father doesn't elaborate
[21:29] and dies if that's happened in the game
[21:31] I would have had a sympathy seizure but
[21:32] of course forget all that nonsense we
[21:34] still have the hot spring scene thank
[21:36] you Atlas
[21:38] so much I have never had a movie Blue
[21:40] bull me this hard before after we go
[21:42] from an arguably great film at least in
[21:44] its second half to a movie that's just
[21:45] plain confusion to think about and
[21:47] there's very few redeeming aspects other
[21:49] than the obvious wow this looks and
[21:51] sounds pretty the only thing I can
[21:52] genuinely praise here when it comes to
[21:54] the storytelling is that despite the
[21:55] focus on the coach and ryoji ruining the
[21:57] film it at least Works their friendship
[21:59] is admittedly touching see Makoto slowly
[22:01] climb out with zapathan depression with
[22:03] ryoji's help is genuinely wholesome even
[22:05] if it overstate its welcome it works but
[22:07] if this new addition to the story is
[22:09] going to ruin all of what there was
[22:10] before it then keep it away this movie
[22:12] kind of irritated me as someone who
[22:14] loves the story and characters of
[22:15] Persona 3 the Sega completely undermines
[22:18] just to tell an entirely new story is
[22:19] frustrating to say the least and apart
[22:21] from these scenes with ryoji and the
[22:22] skimming of the plots nothing really
[22:24] happens here there's no action apart
[22:26] from the very beginning and the very end
[22:28] and while I definitely don't need action
[22:29] for film to be good especially for a
[22:31] Persona movie when all of the actual
[22:33] character writing is squandered it turns
[22:34] the movie into an Archer bore and after
[22:36] I finish falling down I was prepared for
[22:38] them next movie to be just as bad or
[22:40] even worse
[22:41] but somehow
[22:49] foreign
[22:52] [Music]
[23:08] okay that's it this is witchcraft no
[23:11] explanation no elaboration witchcraft
[23:13] you cannot go for making a complete
[23:15] backup of The Story You're adapting and
[23:17] then turn around to make one of the best
[23:19] video game adaptations I have ever seen
[23:21] yeah I'm going there this is one of the
[23:23] greatest video game movies I have ever
[23:25] watched It's Not only a fantastic
[23:27] adaptation of persona 3's ending it's
[23:29] also the first one of these movies that
[23:30] actually feels like a movie instead of a
[23:33] string of events from the game that are
[23:34] tied together by the emotions of the
[23:36] characters this movie is a clear
[23:38] structure and actual pacing it picks up
[23:40] where the last movie ended ryoji is
[23:42] defeated I guess and reveals himself as
[23:43] the appraiser of death revealing the
[23:45] fall of humanity is Drawing Near and
[23:47] that everyone's fate is sealed ryoji
[23:49] presents season ultimatum kill him and
[23:52] live in Blissful ignorance unafraid of
[23:53] death until the day of the inevitable or
[23:55] spare him in order to face off against
[23:57] Nix in a battle for everyone's Souls
[23:59] this is how everything happens in the
[24:01] game but then something odd happens for
[24:03] the first hour or so of the movie
[24:04] everyone has grown scared knowing that
[24:06] their deaths are drawing near it's a
[24:08] slow burn but it's so beautifully done
[24:10] watching as everyone goes through their
[24:12] lives in December scared of what awaits
[24:14] them with yukari specifically regressing
[24:16] so bad to the point where her fear for
[24:17] death causes their person to go berserk
[24:19] and start attacking them personas in
[24:21] Persona 3 are summoned by stifling one's
[24:23] fear of death and we've already seen
[24:25] what happens to people who have to force
[24:26] their personas to come out or have to
[24:27] take pills in order to keep them under
[24:29] control we've never seen a previously
[24:31] stable Persona user like yukari suddenly
[24:33] be attacked like this and it's not just
[24:35] yukaris brought to the lowest point
[24:37] everyone is jumpy has practically lost
[24:39] the world to live akihiko amitsuru are
[24:42] lost Ken has shut himself off fuka can
[24:45] do nothing but tremble and Makoto has
[24:47] lost any reason to care
[24:48] I I'm sorry I genuinely need to be shot
[24:51] the characters are put into these states
[24:52] in Persona 3 yes but the way these are
[24:54] translated to the film is strangely more
[24:57] captivating and the Liberties that have
[24:59] been taken I mean the impact of shinji's
[25:01] death is still felt here and instead of
[25:03] the characters talking to each other
[25:04] over the course of the month and
[25:06] affirming their stance on what decision
[25:07] to make and what they want to live for
[25:09] they all come to these conclusions on
[25:11] their own all of the arcs that were
[25:12] destroyed in the previous film are
[25:14] suddenly re-established acting like the
[25:16] bad execution never happened they
[25:17] remember everything they've been through
[25:19] they're brought to the lowest point of
[25:20] existence and are then powerfully
[25:22] redeveloped while the way the game
[25:23] handled these moments worked better for
[25:25] it as a game I believe this was the
[25:27] single most poignant and non-rushed way
[25:29] they could have handled the characters
[25:30] in this movie it's perfectly paced in
[25:32] somber nothing is undercut and Makoto
[25:35] look while I'm still salty about him
[25:36] taking up all the falling down it has
[25:38] ultimately led to a character who was
[25:39] now fully realized the scenes of
[25:41] Elizabeth may have come out of nowhere
[25:43] but what they did the story cannot be
[25:45] understated and in the second half of
[25:47] the film we're not even close to being a
[25:48] strong songs the first half and suffers
[25:50] from some slight pacing problems is
[25:52] still rather enjoyable well I'm
[25:54] disappointed that the next fight is
[25:55] essentially a 1v1 between NYX and Makoto
[25:58] it's still animated well enough and
[25:59] tense enough to be worth watching and of
[26:01] course Makoto's sacrifice is still
[26:03] soul-crushing and the climax of the film
[26:05] compared to the game is practically
[26:07] untouched and I'm thankful that it was
[26:09] left that way however who was the Galaxy
[26:11] brain that fought swapping the final
[26:12] boss thing with the burn my dread remix
[26:14] was a good idea this may be a nitpick
[26:17] but are you seriously telling me you're
[26:18] swapping one of the greatest battle
[26:19] themes in video game history with the
[26:21] most thematically Sound song Choice from
[26:23] a coach's sacrifice when they're only
[26:25] one scene apart like shut up well I
[26:28] could complain about petty stuff like
[26:30] Nick's being a CGI it's honestly such a
[26:32] disservice to the rest of the film's
[26:33] animation which is absolutely stunning
[26:35] and while they can complain that they
[26:37] quite literally zoomed past Strega and
[26:39] beat them into a relevancy both the
[26:40] movies and the game handled Striker very
[26:42] poorly and nothing about them being
[26:44] created or being acquaintances with
[26:45] akutsuki is developed enough or
[26:47] interesting enough to be worth talking
[26:48] about overall this movie Perfectly ties
[26:50] together Persona 3's themes and overall
[26:52] thesis and turns the sinking ship around
[26:54] to create one of the most emotionally
[26:56] gratifying and well-made video game
[26:57] adaptations I've ever seen I get that
[27:00] it's not a high bar to reach but it
[27:01] doesn't matter to me I can't believe how
[27:03] great this movie is it feels like an
[27:05] instructor like a film that I could
[27:07] actually show to someone and have them
[27:08] not be overwhelmed if I just explained
[27:10] shortly what happened before it I don't
[27:12] have anything else to really say it's
[27:13] just a solid film all around I'm tempted
[27:16] to say it's a bona fide Improvement in
[27:17] some areas compared to the game but I
[27:19] think both the movie and the game
[27:20] handled the same story in completely
[27:22] different ways and both of them work
[27:23] while I absolutely love the scene where
[27:25] everyone rediscovers their will to live
[27:27] I also appreciate the way the game
[27:28] handled it it's a great adaptation and a
[27:30] thankfully satisfying end to a rather
[27:32] uneven set of movies
[27:38] this is one of the most bizarrely
[27:40] inconsistent set of films I've ever
[27:42] watched the first one is an overall
[27:44] entertaining mixed bag there's a lot of
[27:46] things right than it does wrong the
[27:47] second one is a faster clock for half
[27:49] its run time before suddenly becoming
[27:51] absolutely brilliant the third one is a
[27:53] confusing mess that sacrifices
[27:54] satisfying story beats for its own ideas
[27:56] and the fourth one is a bizarrely and
[27:59] unexpectedly Beautiful film that makes
[28:01] the entire experience seem almost worth
[28:03] it this is a series of films that I
[28:05] definitely enjoyed but they severely
[28:07] suffer from trying to replicate the
[28:08] experience of the game too much as well
[28:10] as not knowing when to rain in when they
[28:12] go too far of the changes ironically the
[28:14] only thing really consistent about this
[28:15] movie is how awful the pacing is until
[28:18] we get to the last movie which is a lot
[28:19] more stable when adapting something you
[28:21] always need to take into account what is
[28:23] absolutely crucial to the narrative and
[28:25] what needs to be changed especially when
[28:26] it's a video game adaptation and what
[28:28] they show glimpses of getting it right
[28:30] it takes four movies for them to
[28:31] absolutely perfect that balance if I was
[28:34] told to recommend this chord Trilogy to
[28:35] people I think I'd be stuck because it
[28:37] all depends on how much more middling
[28:39] content you're willing to tolerate to
[28:40] stick with it to the point where it's
[28:41] mind-blowingly good especially if you
[28:43] plan on sticking until the end it has
[28:45] some standout moments that are clear
[28:47] improvements over the game's story but
[28:49] then there's a myriad of questionable
[28:50] writing decisions and Persona 3 the
[28:52] movie falling down I guess if you're a
[28:53] fan of Persona 3 then checking these
[28:55] movies out won't do any harm but if
[28:57] you've watched through this massive
[28:58] spoiler Fastener unconvinced by these
[29:00] movies then well play Persona 3. in fact
[29:03] overall I'd recommend Persona 3 as the
[29:04] ideal experience it likes a lot of the
[29:06] sporadic story enhancements the movies
[29:08] had but its storytelling is a lot more
[29:10] consistent for filling and impactful
[29:12] overall given that none of it is half if
[29:14] you wanted to get the percent of free
[29:15] movies and watch them legally then uh
[29:17] good luck with that bucko they're barely
[29:19] in stock in the UK despite being rather
[29:21] affordable even on Blu-ray I shudder to
[29:23] imagine what it's like in America look
[29:24] this is probably gonna get me in trouble
[29:26] but every percent of free movies
[29:27] available to watch on YouTube for free
[29:29] because the YouTube copyright system can
[29:31] suck my left testicle personally I
[29:32] watched them on 9anime because I wanted
[29:34] my foots to be in HD but if you can put
[29:36] up with 720p and these are worth
[29:38] watching if you don't want to get a
[29:39] virus the many invisible pop-ups in nine
[29:41] anime and Sir if you wants to watch
[29:43] these movies with English voice acting
[29:45] because the light sync for these movies
[29:46] is absolutely horrid again they're
[29:48] available on YouTube completely unedited
[29:50] and have jumped around regions on
[29:51] Netflix like a kangaroo Coke fiend also
[29:54] possible complications with the cast
[29:55] since fake Magna voices uh June pay and
[29:58] no one can decide if it's innocent or
[30:01] not anyways now that we're done with
[30:02] that
[30:03] [Music]
[30:08] [Applause]
[30:09] [Music]
[30:11] Persona 4D animation is as expected an
[30:14] anime adaptation of the story for the
[30:15] video game but unlike Persona 3 this
[30:18] adaptation was no straight out into four
[30:19] separate films and was instead made as a
[30:21] 26 episode TV series thank God not a
[30:24] dunk 100 of prequel trilogy too hard but
[30:26] it was realistically no way they were
[30:28] ever going to pull off an adaptation of
[30:29] an 80 hour video game of like four
[30:31] movies and not expect there to be some
[30:33] problems when it came to pacing they
[30:35] could not decide whether to stick to
[30:36] being a faithful adaptation or to take
[30:37] massive risks or make small tweaks to
[30:40] the story and while there are examples
[30:41] where this works in its favor it ends up
[30:43] being an incredibly uneven set of films
[30:45] if you are ever going to attempt to
[30:46] adapt the storyline of an RPG to a
[30:48] different medium a TV series will always
[30:50] be the safer bets as you get a wealth of
[30:52] time to explore signs of different
[30:53] characters reliably go through story
[30:55] arcs about the pacing collapsing in on
[30:56] itself and you also have the ability to
[30:58] take creative Liberties without them
[30:59] sabotaging the entire [ __ ] story what
[31:02] I'm trying to say is Persona 49
[31:03] animation is not just a great adaptation
[31:05] of persona 4. it's also one of the
[31:08] greatest video game adaptations period
[31:10] but first let's discuss persona 4.
[31:12] persona 4 holds a special place in my
[31:14] heart and none of the other games in the
[31:15] franchise can touch Persona 3 may be my
[31:17] favorite and Persona 5 comes close but
[31:19] Persona 4 was my introduction to this
[31:21] franchise I picked up the steam Port of
[31:23] the game in the summer of 2020 and
[31:24] played it for about two hours and uh
[31:26] then I stopped obviously for those who
[31:28] have played the game this was simply due
[31:29] to how obnoxiously long the game's
[31:31] opening is so what does a solid job all
[31:33] it sets up to do it definitely overstays
[31:35] its welcome compared to Persona 3 and
[31:36] especially Persona 5 but then I decided
[31:39] to pick up the game again in November
[31:40] that same year I'd finally gotten past
[31:42] the opening three hours and that's when
[31:43] everything fell into place I had never
[31:45] played a Persona game before and to say
[31:47] my knowledge of RPGs was lacking as an
[31:49] understatement I'm pretty sure I didn't
[31:51] know what a Xenoblade was until I
[31:52] remembered chakras and Smash Bros so to
[31:54] save the Persona 4's gameplay and social
[31:56] Sim elements caught me off guard with
[31:57] how good they were is just not selling
[31:59] it hard enough the game's story had me
[32:01] emotionally gripped I saw aspects of
[32:03] myself and many of the the characters
[32:04] they were forced to confront their true
[32:05] feelings meanwhile solving a murder case
[32:07] were trying to balance day-to-day school
[32:09] life and exploring the TV World which is
[32:11] when a meticulously designed and
[32:12] challenging gameplay kept me engaged and
[32:14] excited it was a game that had a
[32:15] perfectly balanced and well-written
[32:17] story constantly for only for a loop and
[32:19] squeezing me until I ended every tear
[32:21] out of my iduct it's been said many
[32:22] times before but Persona 4 makes you
[32:24] feel like you made real genuine friends
[32:26] and relationships this game made me cry
[32:28] like a [ __ ] and it's not even that dark
[32:30] the game had such a cozy and home-like
[32:33] atmosphere and it prevented me from
[32:34] focusing on anything else for the rest
[32:36] of the month like seriously I kicked the
[32:38] duchies and limit of an online
[32:40] photography class I was not screwing
[32:42] around and the ending of this game is a
[32:44] single cheesiest sickly sweet cliche
[32:47] anime ending I've ever seen but holy God
[32:49] it's perfect and I love it I'm biased
[32:52] towards this game unlike any other
[32:53] despite it not even being my favorite in
[32:55] the series which is why I was super
[32:57] anxious going into P40 animation P40
[33:00] animation is just like the Persona 3
[33:01] movie is being handled by AIC and and
[33:04] this time A1 pictures the script clean
[33:06] off of the show but they'll be back
[33:08] God God they'll be back in fact the
[33:10] animation is where I want to start now
[33:12] obviously this isn't a movie series so
[33:14] the higher quality consistency of P3 the
[33:16] movie's animation is not here and it's
[33:18] also worth noting this series was made
[33:20] before the P3 movies in 2011. I don't
[33:22] get why you would make a Persona 4
[33:24] Series first but okay but that's not to
[33:26] say the show doesn't look halfway decent
[33:28] because it certainly does as far as
[33:30] anime goes It's perfectly fine visually
[33:32] I really like the coloring and shading
[33:33] and the characters stay mostly on model
[33:35] I do have a few gripes the start of the
[33:37] show can feel oppressively gray now
[33:39] Persona 4 did start out with mostly gray
[33:41] skies but in the animation the coloring
[33:43] makes it feel all muggy and like it's
[33:44] always about to rain and that is the
[33:46] point considering how much of a role
[33:48] Weber has in P4 but it wasn't as
[33:50] distracting compared to the game like I
[33:51] think the contrast may have just been
[33:53] like severely lowered because it does
[33:55] look a lot greater than how it does in
[33:57] the game it's not a big issue though
[33:58] although there are also a few instances
[34:00] of characters going off model but hey
[34:02] that's nitpicking at this point it's not
[34:03] like A1 animated this animation aside
[34:06] one of my biggest scribes of the Persona
[34:08] 3 movies was that they couldn't choose
[34:09] wherever they were going to be
[34:10] straightforward adaptations with barely
[34:11] any changes or be Rife of new decisions
[34:14] it was a weird tug of war with only
[34:15] winter rebirth getting it done well
[34:17] overall by balancing the two near
[34:19] perfectly so how does persona 4's anime
[34:21] go about adapting the story well they
[34:23] got the balance right after all but what
[34:24] did they change now one thing some of
[34:26] you are probably aware of is that p4a is
[34:28] a much more comedic and light-hearted
[34:30] take on P4 storyline and I mean P4 is
[34:32] already the happiest and rated game
[34:34] about serial murder so that on paper
[34:36] doesn't seem too ideal but by some
[34:38] absolutely baffling Miracle they make it
[34:40] work and if I'm being honest the English
[34:42] dub is the ideal way to watch this
[34:44] series it absolutely kills of how funny
[34:46] the dialogue can get not to rank too
[34:48] hard in the original Japanese voice
[34:49] acting but I always found that Persona 4
[34:51] had my least favorite Japanese voice
[34:52] cast out of all of the games and the
[34:54] voice acting is very good I am not a
[34:56] doubly test at all and I would be crazy
[34:58] to even say that I may be a little
[35:00] biased because I play all the Persona
[35:01] games in English but it's not like I
[35:03] actively hate anything that isn't dubbed
[35:05] Persona 3's English voice acting is
[35:07] renowned for being absolutely ferocious
[35:09] at times despite many standout moments
[35:11] obviously the cast got better over time
[35:13] of subsequent spin-off titles but
[35:14] whoever was in charge of directing the
[35:15] VA for fuka specifically just did not
[35:17] give a [ __ ] and she's not even the worst
[35:19] of it no
[35:21] wow however Persona 4's original
[35:24] Japanese foreign
[35:27] at times when it comes to certain
[35:29] characters you think Teddy sounds
[35:31] annoying in the English dub you my
[35:32] friend have not heard the horrors of
[35:34] Teddy's Japanese voice acting Teddy can
[35:36] get high-pitched in English but is
[35:38] mostly tolerable but this
[35:41] [Music]
[35:46] Elle didn't die for this also Raceway
[35:48] sounds like a four-year-old and it makes
[35:50] her boss fight 100 times more disturbing
[35:52] if she sounded any younger I'd assume
[35:53] anyone who played this game sucked was
[35:55] put on a watch list again another dub
[35:57] purist by any means but P forced up
[35:59] personally just blows the original out
[36:01] the water and with all of the main cast
[36:03] returning in the anime I couldn't be
[36:04] happier to still have functioning ears
[36:06] the English cast to an absolutely
[36:08] magnificent job in the material they're
[36:09] given everyone sounds Pitch Perfect and
[36:11] all comedic moments are executed
[36:13] flawlessly the dialogue specifically is
[36:15] a major highlight usually with anime
[36:16] comedy You're Expecting like bare bone
[36:18] slapstick at the best of time since a
[36:20] lot of Japanese jokes often Get Lost in
[36:22] Translation now I'm not sure how much
[36:23] was lost in translation for p4a but the
[36:25] dialogue can be very witty and simple
[36:27] back and forth between characters like
[36:28] yosuke and chia is a joy to watch if we
[36:31] were standing next to each other talking
[36:32] it'd be too obvious over dork over has
[36:35] always got to be the last thing you say
[36:38] little space between us dork over by far
[36:41] the most notable and funniest part to
[36:42] show when it comes to dialogue is the
[36:44] dialogue that comes from the percent of
[36:45] four protagonists as previously stated
[36:47] with Persona 3 the anime adaptations
[36:49] have to find ways of fleshing out the
[36:50] mute Pro tags of the video games like in
[36:52] Makoto's case they're presented as an
[36:54] apathetic softy who slowed the overcomes
[36:56] his depression with his friends and
[36:57] desire for living as his motivation now
[36:59] P4 is a lot less serious than p3s they
[37:01] couldn't make the protection brooding
[37:03] and emotionally distant guy if anything
[37:05] they did the exact opposite enter you
[37:07] narakami so your dreams of naming the MC
[37:09] banging kawakami are unfortunately over
[37:11] yet again I'm aware that he has a
[37:13] different name in the manga but he
[37:14] appears to be the only protagon in the
[37:16] series that's consistently named and no
[37:18] one cares about the manga and if you
[37:19] thought the I don't care memes where it
[37:21] reaches for Makoto you are gonna despise
[37:23] the chat memes for narakami narakami is
[37:25] definitely the most unique at the
[37:27] Persona Pro attacks the dude is
[37:28] practically beaming with confidence and
[37:30] above all else narakami is a troll
[37:33] nearly every line that comes out of his
[37:35] mouth especially in the English dub
[37:36] provided by the legendary Johnny Young
[37:38] Bosch it's just him taking the absolute
[37:41] pants you suck mukoto in the first movie
[37:43] was written by the guy who chose I don't
[37:45] care for the first half of the game now
[37:46] rakami was risen by the guy who throws
[37:48] every hole dialogue option in Persona 4
[37:51] and it's glorious to watch
[37:56] oh dude oops wrong guy you see my coach
[38:00] doesn't care because he's apathetic you
[38:02] doesn't care because he's just too cool
[38:03] and he is aware of it and yes the chat
[38:05] memes definitely originated from the
[38:07] Kings game scene if there's any scene
[38:09] from this show that you've saw without
[38:10] being a Persona fan it's probably this
[38:12] one you is such a badass that literally
[38:14] robbed from a coach's Battle Theme just
[38:16] to unbutton his shirt and aim a precise
[38:18] Dart throw
[38:20] [Music]
[38:24] I've seen some grave robbing in my day
[38:27] but holy wow at the same time no while
[38:29] you was easily the funniest part of the
[38:31] show he's not strictly a gag character
[38:33] he does have an actual character Arc
[38:35] he's still a human being with real
[38:36] emotions p4a attempts into the idea of
[38:39] you being Reliant and having friends in
[38:40] his fear of being alone you doesn't have
[38:42] a character in Persona 4 at the start of
[38:44] the game we're told that he's
[38:45] transferring to a school in Ann Arbor
[38:47] because of his parents changing careers
[38:48] and was apparently pretty well liked at
[38:50] his original School due to how many
[38:51] students voice their disbelief for him
[38:53] moving in p4a on the other hand is
[38:55] completely different he moves to another
[38:57] but he doesn't seem to have this massive
[38:59] Social Circle or reputation that's
[39:00] implied in the game he's more alone and
[39:02] moving over to inappa ends up being more
[39:04] life-changing as a result finally being
[39:06] able to make friends and memories that
[39:07] will last a lifetime another interesting
[39:09] tidbit is that you as the only main
[39:10] character in Persona 4 that doesn't have
[39:12] a shadow in P4 all of the main
[39:14] characters confront their Shadow cells
[39:16] which are suppressing at the size of
[39:17] themselves that they don't want to see
[39:18] but taken to a massive extreme it's
[39:20] essentially their emotions going haywire
[39:22] but still having some truth to them so
[39:24] no kanji is not gay just because his
[39:26] shadow has uh vague themes of
[39:29] homosexuality it's just his emotions
[39:30] going haywire because of how much he
[39:32] suppresses the side of himself that
[39:33] enjoys activities that are traditionally
[39:35] viewed as feminine everyone has trouble
[39:37] accepting their Shadow which results in
[39:38] their boss fights and they learn to
[39:40] accept that part of himself after the
[39:41] boss is done manifesting their personas
[39:43] in the process you however does not have
[39:45] a shadow in Persona 4. he is seemingly
[39:47] chosen by izan now made the orchestrator
[39:49] of the game's events to be capable of
[39:50] within the power of the Wild Card which
[39:52] allows him to use multiple personas now
[39:54] to p4's credit narakami being perfect is
[39:57] not a story issue since he's just meant
[39:59] to be you the player but obviously this
[40:01] can't happen in Persona 4D animation
[40:02] because he's independent of your control
[40:04] so while he still receives his Persona
[40:06] at random by isanami's choice he
[40:07] eventually confronts his own shadow at
[40:09] the end of the adaptation a
[40:10] manifestation of its fear of being alone
[40:12] in his Reliance on his friends and this
[40:14] was so damn cool to watch and made him a
[40:16] lot more fleshed out his backstory and
[40:18] character Arc may not be as heavy as
[40:19] Makoto's but it doesn't need to be now
[40:21] it's not all fun and games foray well it
[40:24] is a lot lighter in tone and has a lot
[40:25] more comedy in the game it still deals
[40:27] with a murder mystery as its main plot
[40:29] while many moments don't have the same
[40:30] impact as they do in the game a lot of
[40:32] them are still very well done and hell
[40:34] some of the changes work a lot better
[40:35] God the scene with nanako at the
[40:37] hospital this was the first time a video
[40:39] game had maybe audibly SOB no matter how
[40:42] many times I replay this game nothing
[40:43] can prepare me for this moment
[40:45] specifically even when I know that
[40:46] Nautica comes at the other end
[40:47] eventually this moment between you and
[40:49] her as she slowly dies in front of you
[40:51] is emotionally devastating and I'm
[40:53] weirdly glad that the anime somehow made
[40:55] it even more tragic Johnny Young Bosch
[40:57] is one of my favorite voice actors and
[40:58] they manages to provide the dialogue
[41:00] that you never had in the original game
[41:01] without overdoing it there's clear
[41:03] desperation in narakami's voices
[41:05] nanako's life slowly but surely Slips
[41:07] Away in front of him it's heartbreaking
[41:09] and you know I didn't mind the original
[41:10] scene had music playing during it
[41:12] because the song itself is devastating
[41:14] in this context but removing all the
[41:16] sounds aside from the heartbeat monitor
[41:18] and use voice makes the dread of
[41:19] nanako's death even more impactful
[41:21] especially for people who have already
[41:23] played the game who are used to how the
[41:25] original scene plays out and holy [ __ ]
[41:27] the scene where the investigation team
[41:28] contemplates from namatami into the TV
[41:31] is fine enough in the game but since
[41:32] narakami is no longer a Flawless God in
[41:34] the anime this scene is elevated to a
[41:36] damn near Masterpiece
[41:41] what are you doing in narakami's one
[41:43] moment of weakness he breaks away from
[41:45] being the calm Wise Guy hero and drags
[41:47] us screaming narutami over to the TV of
[41:50] the intent to kill him showing no
[41:51] emotion in the process he truly believes
[41:54] that namatami was the one who killed
[41:55] nanako an acting on pure emotional
[41:57] instinct to avenge her stopping himself
[41:59] at the last second to defuse the
[42:01] situation it's even more terrifying if
[42:03] he played the game because you know that
[42:04] namatami is innocent you was mere
[42:06] moments away from ending an innocent
[42:08] man's life to Avenger's cousin and the
[42:10] scene afterwards of him crying in the
[42:11] snow clinging into yosuke for Comfort
[42:13] Jesus Christ for such a comedic
[42:16] adaptation they really know when to pull
[42:18] out the big guns for the darker moments
[42:19] of the story and it's brilliant they did
[42:21] a wonderful job at characterize and
[42:23] developing narakami and is easily my
[42:25] favorite Persona protag as a result
[42:27] unfortunately while there are many
[42:28] scenes that are made even more impactful
[42:30] in the anime there are also a few too
[42:31] many that aren't treated with as much
[42:33] respect sometimes the comedy can go
[42:35] overboard and it can turn a scenes such
[42:36] as I attempting to [ __ ] kill herself
[42:39] into a more laid-back and lighthearted
[42:41] scene p4a struggles with tonal
[42:43] consistency a fair bit and the pacing
[42:44] will light years ahead of the P3 movies
[42:46] but then again taking a height across
[42:48] the freaking Mojave Desert is better
[42:49] than this it's still rather flawed in a
[42:51] few areas Persona 4 isn't as long as
[42:53] Persona 3 usually clocking in around 70
[42:55] hours but that's still a very long game
[42:57] and while they definitely made the right
[42:58] call to translate it to TV they are
[43:00] always going to have problems with the
[43:02] story moving a tattoo fast or a dialogue
[43:04] being a lot more condensed than the
[43:05] original game's story and that makes
[43:07] sense of course not everyone has the
[43:09] patience to listen to adachi ramble like
[43:10] a psychopath for 15 minutes but without
[43:12] the dialogue feeling as uh big I guess
[43:15] compared to the anime it can leave some
[43:16] scenes feeling a little rushed if you've
[43:18] already played the game although I can't
[43:20] see it working for those who are
[43:21] discovering Persona 4 through the anime
[43:22] you know what's also rushed Social Links
[43:25] well technically one of my main issues
[43:27] with the percent of free movie is that
[43:28] they basically discarded one of the main
[43:29] things that made Persona unique and
[43:31] emotionally engaging outside of its main
[43:33] story and that's the Social Links Social
[43:34] Links are admittedly a bit of a game
[43:36] mechanic first and self-contained story
[43:38] next their main purpose in Persona 3 4
[43:40] and 5 is to increase the XP to a person
[43:42] it will gain when you fuse one of the
[43:43] corresponding Arcana which can help you
[43:45] learn very powerful skills can give you
[43:47] the advantage earlier on and stopping a
[43:49] lot of unnecessary grinding outside of
[43:50] your own health and SP increase while at
[43:52] the same time providing Side Stories for
[43:54] the characters you start your Social
[43:55] Links with where you mostly please them
[43:57] and be friendly with them for the first
[43:58] half but as the stakes tend to rise they
[44:00] usually appreciate the more grounded
[44:02] answers that they need as if Bond
[44:03] forever grows maxing at level 10 where
[44:05] you forge an unbreakable friendship with
[44:07] that person and is also where you can
[44:09] officially establish an intimate
[44:10] relationship if you decide to pursue one
[44:11] with a girl on a related note resay is
[44:14] overrated now with something like that
[44:15] they obviously can't include the
[44:17] gameplay benefits of the links since the
[44:18] anime is not a video game and when you
[44:20] take into account the Persona 4 has the
[44:21] largest amount of Social Links in the
[44:23] franchise it is 100 impossible for them
[44:25] to cram all of them into p4a with
[44:27] adequate depth but Persona is largely
[44:29] defined by its social Sim aspects and
[44:31] not including any Social Links at all is
[44:32] a bit of a letdown in that regard but
[44:34] thankfully unlike the P3 movies p4a does
[44:36] actually bother with the social link
[44:38] somewhere there are a few episodes and
[44:40] moments that are dedicated to specific
[44:42] links and to say the paste properly is
[44:44] up for debates but there's a good loss
[44:46] of them here and they make the calendar
[44:47] system from the game actually feel like
[44:49] it has a purpose in the anime managing
[44:51] to give you the balance between the
[44:52] social life and fighting in the TV world
[44:54] the past of time doesn't feel so
[44:56] trivialized like it does for p3's
[44:57] adaptation and I'm glad that they at
[44:59] least put in the effort to show some of
[45:00] the links here it's also funded for side
[45:03] plots showing other mechanics from the
[45:04] game that also take up time slots in
[45:06] your day like you going fishing
[45:07] part-time jobs stuff like that it's
[45:09] pretty neat now into the actual plot
[45:11] which remains largely unchanged from the
[45:13] video game aside from the obvious
[45:15] dialogue changes in the actual episode
[45:16] there are a few changes to certain
[45:18] events though and some are kind of neat
[45:20] like showing you tsunami first
[45:21] interacting with adachi but then there's
[45:22] stuff like giving Yukiko a pet bird just
[45:25] to make the visual metaphor of her being
[45:26] a bird trapped in the cage about to
[45:27] Sutter was the implied pain of being hit
[45:29] in the face and then there's holy
[45:31] original stuff like me detective nanako
[45:33] stuff narakami dressing up in Teddy's
[45:35] costume looking after kids and I'd go as
[45:37] far as to say that some of it can
[45:38] qualify as filler it's entertaining
[45:40] fellow but it's still filler and when
[45:41] you have to adapt 70 hours of gameplay
[45:43] in 26 episodes I don't think showing
[45:45] stuff like this is a good idea overall
[45:47] though it still follows the same story
[45:49] murder mystery that hangs over Innova
[45:51] people getting thrown into the TV by the
[45:52] suspected killer and it's up to the
[45:54] investigation team to save the ones
[45:55] being thrown in and solve the case
[45:56] Persona 4's story is a novelty that
[45:58] doesn't have the same punch on repeated
[46:00] playthroughs but if I could have raised
[46:01] my memories just to play this game blind
[46:03] again I would and the anime adapts the
[46:05] story well hell I go as far as to say
[46:07] the p4a instead of just my way of
[46:09] experiencing Persona 4's story if you're
[46:10] intimidated by the link for the game or
[46:12] just don't want to play it although I
[46:14] highly recommend you do because it's a
[46:15] much tighter more consistent experience
[46:17] again p4a feels a little rush towards
[46:19] the end of many of the plot twists not
[46:21] hitting nearly as hard to say did in the
[46:23] game I was surprised by how flat the
[46:25] adachi reveal was and I think if he got
[46:27] a bit more screen time it may have
[46:28] worked in the game he is always around
[46:30] every month for a bit of Chit Chat not
[46:32] disregarding his social link in Golden
[46:33] but the anime doesn't do him much
[46:35] Justice and I also added this Series has
[46:37] some fire openings and endings my
[46:39] personal favorite is the second op
[46:40] because it sounds a lot more grungy than
[46:42] the previous one but they're both
[46:43] visually great and musically sound I
[46:45] love the symbolism of the stack it's
[46:47] really cool and the endings while not
[46:49] offering a whole lot in terms of visuals
[46:51] have absolute bangers for their songs
[46:53] when it comes to the music in general
[46:54] though a lot of it is carried over from
[46:56] the games which is fair enough no pointy
[46:58] composing and recording a lot of new
[46:59] tracks if you already have perfectly
[47:01] good music available from your Source
[47:02] material but there are still plenty of
[47:04] original pieces here and they all sound
[47:06] good and fit the scenes they're featured
[47:07] in many of the songs here should have
[47:09] been in the game because they're
[47:10] honestly amazing just wanted to touch on
[47:12] that really quickly but this is a series
[47:13] I could genuinely recommend to people
[47:15] who have never played Persona before
[47:16] it's a genuinely great series not many
[47:19] video game adaptations manage to be as
[47:21] funny charming and as faithful their
[47:23] Source material while also offering new
[47:24] ideas to improve its already fantastic
[47:26] story or I'd still recommend playing the
[47:28] game first you can easily jump into p4a
[47:30] without having the knowledge of The
[47:31] Game's plot it's a very solid anime very
[47:34] funny and keeps Persona 4's incredible
[47:36] emotional beats while adding many of its
[47:37] own albeit a little off when it comes to
[47:39] pacing
[47:40] [Music]
[47:43] however despite Persona 4D animation
[47:45] being a great show worthy of the Praises
[47:47] accumulated throughout the years there
[47:49] is another person of four anime and just
[47:51] as I foreshadowed earlier A1 pictures
[47:53] was here to spoil the fun
[47:55] [Music]
[48:05] [Laughter]
[48:09] all right okay Persona 4 Golden is an
[48:12] enhanced re-release the Persona 4
[48:14] release exclusively for the PlayStation
[48:15] vs
[48:21] in 2012 it contained enhanced gameplay
[48:24] features extra story sequences a new and
[48:27] very bad dungeon changed some other
[48:28] miscellaneous things gave us a single
[48:30] best line of dialogue ever put in a
[48:32] video game I'm sorry teddy only people
[48:34] have human rights I did an epilogue for
[48:37] getting the true ending of the game and
[48:38] also changed the opening song to
[48:42] generally golden is viewed a lot more
[48:44] favorably compared to atlas's previous
[48:46] Persona re-release P3 FES which
[48:48] contained the answer and that's kind of
[48:50] self-explanatory but it did have a few
[48:52] changes that many thought blocked it
[48:54] down compared to the original PS2
[48:55] Release with the third semester
[48:56] specifically being appreciated for
[48:58] social and completion but also being
[49:00] kind of you know added on and while I've
[49:03] only played a bit of the original P4 on
[49:05] an emulator I can see why some of the
[49:06] changes annoyed people though I will not
[49:08] accept any slander of Shadow world thank
[49:10] you that song slaps and you know it get
[49:12] past the harmonica and you will see what
[49:13] I mean I saw an offense when they hear
[49:15] good music and you'd think with golden
[49:17] being released after the original
[49:18] Persona 4 anime there wouldn't really be
[49:20] a point of making another P4 adaptation
[49:22] well someone Atlas probably saw a
[49:25] decrease in their weekly salary of about
[49:26] 5 cents because Here Comes A1 pictures
[49:29] with Persona 4 the golden animation and
[49:31] it is extremely not very good nearly
[49:33] everything we've talked about so far has
[49:35] had merits and has been plenty enjoyable
[49:37] the only outlier I can think of is the
[49:39] third Persona free movie but everything
[49:40] so far has been solid genuinely great so
[49:43] it's a shame that I have to finally
[49:44] start getting pretty negative here now I
[49:46] realize I've been a little salty about
[49:48] A1 in this video so I'll just be like
[49:50] I'll just give some context finally A1
[49:52] and Atlas have been working together for
[49:54] a while on Persona they provided all the
[49:55] animated cutscenes four percent of four
[49:57] for example but wait why do the
[49:59] cutscenes not look bad here's the thing
[50:00] about A1 Pick just all right you gotta
[50:02] pay close attention to what products
[50:04] they're working on first or how was
[50:06] their priority in a current anime season
[50:08] and you also got to pay attention to
[50:09] who's working on the projects A1 has a
[50:12] bad reputation for often providing
[50:13] incredibly sloppy animation because they
[50:15] take on multiple projects at once and
[50:17] clearly dedicate most of their time and
[50:18] resources into a few this is why shows
[50:20] like Black Butler and kagiasama lovers
[50:22] war two of my favorite Productions from
[50:24] them have consistently clean animation
[50:26] because at the time of their production
[50:27] they really priority due to budget
[50:29] constraints this is also proven by the
[50:30] fact that at the very time golden
[50:32] animation was being animated A1 were
[50:34] working on three other shows for that
[50:36] specific season out of Noah zero Black
[50:38] Butler book of circus and the devil
[50:40] spawn commonly referred to as Sword Art
[50:41] Online now I haven't watched arthno at
[50:44] zero and you couldn't pay me in peanuts
[50:45] to watch Sora online again but from the
[50:47] clips I've seen the animation for both
[50:48] of those were consistently clean Black
[50:50] Butler book of circus is the only one of
[50:52] these shows I don't regret watching and
[50:53] I still think it's one of black Butler's
[50:55] best story arcs and that shows
[50:56] specifically looked great in terms of
[50:58] lighting Aesthetics and overall quality
[51:00] aside from some issue of detail from
[51:02] afar so you have A1 working on all these
[51:04] shows at once all of which looking
[51:05] pretty damn decent from an animation
[51:07] standpoint and then there's Persona 4
[51:09] the golden animation I won't dwell on it
[51:10] for too long but Christ the animation is
[51:13] terrible the first episode lures you in
[51:16] with some fun visuals but after that
[51:17] it's off model janky undetailed horrible
[51:20] looking slop it is a clear rush job from
[51:23] beginning to end the aesthetic is also
[51:25] way off look at the aesthetic of the
[51:26] original P4 anime and then look at
[51:28] Golden the colors are sickly bright and
[51:30] the shading doesn't support them making
[51:32] all of the coloring look flat and
[51:33] uninteresting unlike p4a which
[51:35] consistently looked pleasing and don't
[51:37] get me started on the number of still
[51:38] frames talking head scenes lack of
[51:40] detail also golden animation never got
[51:42] dubbed I don't know why maybe licensing
[51:45] maybe none of the va's gave a [ __ ] I
[51:47] don't know but we're still stuck with
[51:49] the Japanese cast this time and I admit
[51:50] I warmed up to some of them eventually
[51:52] but I still think p4's dub is King you
[51:54] may also realize that there's a new face
[51:55] here on the poster this is Marie and
[51:57] when she isn't being hated with every
[51:59] fiber Persona Twitter's being she's
[52:01] being hated by me [ __ ] Marie that's a
[52:04] little rude let me start over Marie was
[52:06] introduced in Golden as part of the
[52:07] extra story content and to say she's
[52:09] unpopular of most people is putting it
[52:10] lightly her frustrating personality
[52:12] along with her existence in the story as
[52:14] a whole is puzzling she was added as a
[52:16] way for the writers to explain where the
[52:17] mysterious Funk that covered Inova came
[52:19] from and which is you know something we
[52:21] really didn't need explained and her
[52:23] social link would honestly be a complete
[52:25] waste of time if it wasn't for the fact
[52:26] that Marie's surgery link is required
[52:28] for you to get the true ending of
[52:29] Persona 4 Golden that includes the
[52:31] epilogue her social link is not very
[52:33] substantial it's a compilation of her
[52:35] learning about the outside world due to
[52:36] suffering from heavy Amnesia and just
[52:38] getting along with the investigation
[52:39] team but was essentially a string of
[52:41] pure accidents on her pie and also
[52:43] consists of the game desperately trying
[52:45] to make her important by pointing you
[52:46] towards clues of where her Arc goes and
[52:48] ending with narakami telling her that
[52:49] she doesn't need to worry and be scared
[52:51] about her old memories so long as she's
[52:52] making new ones of her new friends which
[52:54] is sweet and all but after she remembers
[52:56] who she originally was and after a boss
[52:57] fight there is an absolute pushover her
[53:00] impact on the story is next to nothing
[53:01] she didn't need to be in Golden now what
[53:04] does the animation do to potentially
[53:05] alleviate this problem but how did every
[53:08] [ __ ] scene ever including the concert
[53:10] scene why not the entire point of this
[53:12] anime just seems to be fan service for
[53:14] people who'd wanted to see Marie get
[53:16] animated as well as some of the other
[53:17] golden exclusive events because the
[53:19] episodes don't exactly go in a
[53:21] recognizable structure golden animation
[53:22] is more like an anthology series that is
[53:24] specifically tailored for Die Hard fans
[53:26] who just wants an adaptation of golden
[53:28] like the series isn't completely devoid
[53:30] of Merit like there's an interesting
[53:31] theory that the reason why the plotting
[53:33] is so weird and why narakami seems
[53:35] strangely used to everything that's
[53:36] going on does it this series is supposed
[53:37] to be narakami going through New Game
[53:39] Plus which will not only explain why
[53:40] Izanagi gets away with all of this in
[53:42] the first episode but it also makes this
[53:44] next social stance that appear behind
[53:46] you and in the second opening make a lot
[53:47] more sense it's an interesting idea but
[53:49] translating it to a series does not work
[53:51] the pacing is it's about that good but
[53:54] you probably guessed that there's almost
[53:56] no new music here either and as of the
[53:58] original tracks I think there were the
[54:00] only one that stood out was the theme
[54:01] that plays during you and adachi's fight
[54:03] called yin yang which is essentially
[54:05] Lotus juice having a rap battle between
[54:06] himself with the two sides forming an
[54:08] arakami and adachi's outlooks
[54:10] respectively and it's a really cool song
[54:12] I kind of wish it was a dachi's battle
[54:13] theme in the game actually I will be
[54:14] modding it in for my next playthrough
[54:16] and as for the openings we don't talk
[54:17] about the first one the second one now
[54:19] that's a good opening the song next
[54:21] chance to move on is just so Persona 4.
[54:24] its chill it has this overwhelming sense
[54:25] of euphoria capturing the game's happy
[54:27] atmosphere and has some really cool
[54:28] looking visuals of the characters having
[54:30] thick outlines and their Shadows
[54:31] reflecting their personas I just wish
[54:33] they were using the better anime there
[54:35] were also some semi-interesting scenes I
[54:37] did like showing at sadachi's past but
[54:38] you really couldn't pay me to care
[54:40] because that was never important the
[54:41] golden animation is a tragic misfired I
[54:44] would only recommend to Die Hard fans if
[54:46] they really wanted to watch another
[54:47] Persona 4 anime I mean at least it
[54:49] shorts around 12 episodes if you don't
[54:51] count the OVA the OVA is titled thank
[54:53] you Mr accomplish and it's essentially
[54:55] an alternate timeline to the series that
[54:57] covers the chilling accomplice ending in
[54:58] Golden where you side with adachi in
[55:00] fact if there's anything you should
[55:01] watch from this anime it's probably this
[55:03] the animation is still garbage but it's
[55:05] intriguing to see this be animated
[55:06] however the game does it a lot better
[55:08] but why would you ever do that to
[55:10] yourself overall golden animation is
[55:12] very bad it's not good it's not just a
[55:14] bad animation it's not just the horrible
[55:16] pacing it's not just the fact that it's
[55:18] incredibly lazy to the point of reusing
[55:19] Shadow Worlds the song for its first
[55:21] opening but it doesn't do enough to
[55:23] justify its existence if you were gonna
[55:25] watch a P4 adaptation there's already a
[55:27] really good one you can watch and have a
[55:28] good time with even if you've played
[55:30] golden and not the original I don't see
[55:32] much of a reason to watch this series
[55:33] it's quite bad
[55:36] [Music]
[55:42] now for some of you this is probably the
[55:44] main reason you even clicked on this
[55:45] video because let's face it it's not a
[55:47] secret Persona 5 of the animation is a
[55:49] god-awful piece of [ __ ] and I want to
[55:51] hurt it now personally I think Persona 5
[55:53] and especially Persona 5 Royal is
[55:55] objectively the most well-designed game
[55:56] in the franchise from the gameplay
[55:58] perspective everything is beautifully
[55:59] streamlined stylish UI helps make combat
[56:02] and daily activities more engaging and
[56:03] Visually stimulating the amount of stuff
[56:05] you can do is insane and despite the
[56:07] game getting incredibly easy with how
[56:08] overpowered you could become before
[56:09] getting halfway through it Persona 5 is
[56:11] still a fantastic video game when it
[56:13] comes to storytelling though I think
[56:15] that's where issues arise now some wise
[56:17] wanks in the mega 10 and Persona
[56:18] communities have tried to arguing the
[56:20] Persona 5 as overall bad writing just
[56:22] because its story is not as good as
[56:23] previous games this happened with
[56:25] Persona 4 and it happened with Persona 3
[56:27] as far as you can tell from looking at
[56:28] whiny posts on game FAQs from 12 years
[56:30] ago and it will absolutely happen when
[56:32] Persona 6 releases a few years from now
[56:34] look Persona 5's got writing issues
[56:36] plenty of them but arguing that it's a
[56:38] terribly written game is far too
[56:39] disingenuous for me it has inconsistent
[56:41] bumps and quality throughout the
[56:43] adventure and I would only go as far as
[56:44] calling one story arc of the game truly
[56:46] questionable and you know exactly which
[56:48] one I'm talking about okay but overall I
[56:50] still think P5 tells a good story with
[56:52] powerful themes and despite the
[56:54] occasional Plotkin drivers that drives
[56:55] me up the damn wall I'd love the high
[56:57] concept story compared to the previous
[56:58] games I loved every single character
[57:00] except Morgana I think the game has many
[57:02] of the best Social Links sorry
[57:03] confidants in the series the game is
[57:05] still an emotional roller coaster and
[57:07] regardless of the inconsistency in story
[57:09] art quality it always remains gripping
[57:11] the most gripped I've been by a Persona
[57:12] story honestly it's not my favorite
[57:14] obviously but I appreciate Persona 5's
[57:16] story and I still overall loved it but
[57:18] one thing that even knows you have
[57:19] played Persona 5 are aware about is that
[57:21] the game is Mega Super Deluxe Ultra
[57:23] super incredibly long now P3 and P4 were
[57:26] already long games but they could still
[57:28] in theory be adapted into an anime
[57:30] without much trouble Persona 5 on the
[57:31] other hand not counting Royal since
[57:33] there's no anime for that thank God
[57:34] takes on average 100 hours to Simply
[57:37] finish the story not even counting extra
[57:41] side content and that's without 100 in
[57:44] the game and with a story there's a lot
[57:45] more Supernatural and high Concept in
[57:47] comparison to the Cozy and down to earth
[57:49] nature Persona 4 and the simple but
[57:50] effective nature percent free you can
[57:52] see where there may be some potential
[57:53] problems an enemy like this needs 4 4
[57:55] and planning as to how it will progress
[57:57] a decent budget and animation that
[57:58] consistently pull off visually
[57:59] interesting fight scenes instead of
[58:01] static RPG battles where characters just
[58:03] shoot colored energy each other as well
[58:04] as being able to replicate and smoothly
[58:06] integrate aspects of persona 5's
[58:07] gorgeous visual style and aesthetic into
[58:09] the animation it needs a lot more than
[58:11] 20 or so episodes since this is a 100
[58:13] hour video game would greatly benefit
[58:14] from a larger season and it also needs
[58:16] to balance live Sim day-to-day life and
[58:18] relationship building via conference and
[58:19] expressing their importance with the
[58:21] high stakes Adventures of defense and
[58:22] thieves and the metaverse and it also
[58:24] needs to give a sudden protagonist
[58:25] decent personality to differentiate
[58:27] himself from the blank safe version in
[58:28] the video game all of this stuff is
[58:30] basic anime stuff that even the basic
[58:31] adaptations have managed to get right
[58:33] now let's see how many of those they
[58:35] [ __ ] up
[58:37] [Applause]
[58:41] okay now take percent for the animation
[58:44] persona for the animation story while
[58:46] not having the greatest fight scenes or
[58:47] attempts at Social Link integration at
[58:49] least managed to retell it the story of
[58:50] the video game in a fun and interesting
[58:52] way but more specifically and
[58:53] alternative way making it accessible for
[58:55] newcomers who can't play the game and
[58:57] also appealing to those who have already
[58:58] beaten it Persona 5D animation is much
[59:00] akin to prisoner for the animation and
[59:02] it retells its story in an interesting
[59:04] way however it does that by sucking
[59:05] massive STD riddle Jesus where to begin
[59:08] okay the stock storytelling it tries
[59:11] really hard to follow the plots of the
[59:12] video game almost religiously there's no
[59:14] extra touches to make it unique no real
[59:16] like substantial additions it attempts
[59:18] to be a straightforward adaptation the
[59:20] cardinal sin of the Persona 3 movies but
[59:22] it somehow fails at doing that by being
[59:24] different to the game and how everything
[59:26] is paced and moves along Persona 5 is a
[59:28] game of massive pacing issues but not
[59:30] even the percent of free movies got to
[59:31] level of Watts that this series did it's
[59:34] like they set their sights on doing
[59:35] stuff tried to squeeze in some of the
[59:37] confidence into the story but screws
[59:38] them up cholesterol damage realizes they
[59:40] don't have enough time goes back to
[59:41] following the story skips through
[59:42] everything that may Persona 5 story and
[59:44] dialogue and character interactions
[59:45] interesting has never cracked with the
[59:46] confidence screws it up realizes they
[59:48] won't be able to include all of them so
[59:49] they pick a random selection of ones to
[59:51] go through still manages to shaft him
[59:52] goes back to the story do you need help
[59:54] you know people may rag on how long
[59:56] Persona 5 takes to establish its main
[59:57] plot and how stuff like the metaverse
[59:59] functions but at least it's competent
[60:01] Exposition and ties everything together
[60:02] without being confusing Exposition is a
[60:05] narrative tool for a reason not
[60:06] everything can be established with show
[60:07] don't tell p5d animation rushes through
[60:10] the story so badly that by the time they
[60:12] begin infiltrating Kar machines as
[60:13] Palace you have only the most basic
[60:15] explanation of what the Phantom thieves
[60:16] are doing and how it works like it's
[60:18] easy to understand what they're trying
[60:19] to accomplish and what's going on in
[60:21] general but the how and why are
[60:22] completely missing or are so poorly
[60:24] explained it makes keeping up with the
[60:26] story in utter chor and let's talk about
[60:28] confidence for a second because holy God
[60:30] if you focus on the force anime shafted
[60:32] them the way Persona 5's anime intends
[60:34] to interacting the story is messy at
[60:36] best a substantial number of characters
[60:38] are reduced the background characters
[60:39] some characters get some scenes with the
[60:41] protagonist but nothing really
[60:42] substantial and the character arcs of
[60:44] defensive fuse themselves are developed
[60:45] in the most superficial level imaginable
[60:47] they are casted deep into the shadow of
[60:49] the vastly superior Source material I
[60:51] think most Persona 5 fans will look
[60:53] great at Makoto's Confidant was one of
[60:54] the least satisfying gripping in the
[60:56] game it was okay but it largely focused
[60:58] on you and Makoto saving her new friend
[61:00] from being boost to work for an illegal
[61:02] business it doesn't focus enough on
[61:03] Makoto as the character now for the
[61:05] anime adaptation this is a perfect
[61:06] chance to take creative liberties with
[61:08] the source material and potentially
[61:09] improve on it taking the brief moments
[61:11] received a much more interesting family
[61:13] situation Makoto has with her sister and
[61:15] the death of her father however p5a
[61:16] doesn't change anything from the
[61:18] original story unless you count the fact
[61:19] it does everything a hundred times worse
[61:21] so we get the exact same boring
[61:23] confident storyline now made worse due
[61:25] to the pacing and unsubstantial dialogue
[61:27] this Rings true for every Phantom FIFA
[61:29] show tries to develop ryuji on yusuke
[61:32] Makoto Futaba Haru all get their arcs
[61:34] remade but we'll shoot their dialogue
[61:36] and pacing so all the stories themselves
[61:38] might be great like use game for Thomas
[61:40] conference which are some of the best in
[61:41] the game they are done basically zero
[61:43] Justice confidants outside the Phantom
[61:45] thieves that are acknowledging the anime
[61:46] are passable at best like Mishima and
[61:48] kawakami but are just jaw-droppingly bad
[61:51] at worst hifumi is best girl fight me
[61:53] yes while on a purely subjective level
[61:55] flushing out some confidence from
[61:56] outside the Phantom thieves as a step up
[61:58] from p4a on an objective level p5a
[62:00] butchers so many of these arcs to
[62:02] straight up ignores some of the best
[62:03] ones so much and so often that I would
[62:05] have honestly preferred if they stuck to
[62:06] trying to tell the main story and even
[62:08] if they did do that they would not have
[62:10] enough time a two-core anime season is
[62:12] simply not enough for a game of their
[62:14] scope it is filled with emotional
[62:15] informatics substance with a colossal
[62:17] story spanning over a hundred hours this
[62:20] needed two seasons at a minimum what
[62:22] doesn't help the b-tech retelling of the
[62:24] game's story and its confident plot is
[62:26] that they are backed up by a shockingly
[62:27] boring protagonist if there's one thing
[62:29] I can very easily commend about the
[62:30] adaptations for P3 and P4 is that they
[62:33] took the silent protagonists of their
[62:34] respective games and expanded upon head
[62:36] cannons based on the game's dialogue
[62:37] choices while still giving them their
[62:39] own individual personalities and
[62:40] character development so the reason why
[62:42] narakami is even considered the best
[62:44] Persona protag by most people is because
[62:46] of how much Justice the anime gives him
[62:47] the anime was the blueprint for use
[62:49] characterization which has remained
[62:51] consistent over the Persona 4 spin-off
[62:53] games like P4 Arena and dancing all
[62:54] nights even Makoto who can't even appear
[62:57] in future games due to the consequences
[62:58] of being dead was done so much justice
[63:01] as an emotionally compelling character
[63:03] overcoming its apathy and depression in
[63:04] the movies and is arguably the one thing
[63:06] each movie consistently nailed the
[63:08] animes for both of these games had
[63:09] nothing to work with aside from vague
[63:11] dialogue options to build a character
[63:12] from and came out on top of Two fleshed
[63:15] Out characters that work within the
[63:16] game's story now we come to Persona 5's
[63:18] protagonist Joker if there's one
[63:20] character you know from Persona if
[63:21] you're an outsider it's probably Joker
[63:23] he's the face of Persona 5 he was the
[63:25] Persona rep in Smash Bros he's on every
[63:27] piece of promotional artwork looking or
[63:29] Sly and smug and enjoying himself I gave
[63:31] him credit he has more lines of dialogue
[63:33] than any of the pro tanks in the video
[63:34] games Makoto and Yu never spoke outside
[63:36] of battle when even then it was mostly
[63:38] grown
[63:41] actually talks and makes brief comments
[63:44] on stuff outside of battle there is a
[63:46] clear difference between his soft-spoken
[63:48] timid side in the real world and is more
[63:50] enthusiastic lines when exploring the
[63:51] metaverse that right there gives you
[63:53] more foundations than the previous two
[63:54] pro tanks and that's not even
[63:56] considering his dialogue options where a
[63:57] large number of them came off as defiant
[63:59] sort of sassy you know he's a quiet kid
[64:01] who holds resentment for the society
[64:03] that's wronged him and he enjoys being a
[64:04] phantom Thief you see more of an
[64:06] innocent smile on him when he's not in
[64:08] the metaverse but when he Dawns the
[64:09] masking clothes he's a phantom Thief
[64:12] this is mainly my head Cannon dudes a
[64:15] theater kid he loves the theatrics and
[64:16] getting back at Society while keeping to
[64:18] himself in the real world even if you
[64:19] don't agree with that head Cannon I
[64:21] think all of us can agree that it's a
[64:22] country mile better than how Joker is
[64:24] handled in the anime enter Ren Ami Maya
[64:27] so your dreams of naming him banging
[64:28] kawakami are again dismissed but at
[64:30] least in this game you can in fact bang
[64:32] kawakami wanna know why I've only been
[64:34] calling him Joker by his code name
[64:36] because no one I repeat no one can can
[64:39] decide what this kid's actual name is
[64:40] it's more divisive than the debate
[64:42] between Minato and Makoto honestly and
[64:44] it's largely because Joker's manga name
[64:46] Akira karusu sounds a lot cooler and
[64:48] stands out a lot more to some people
[64:49] obviously not for everyone people still
[64:51] call him Ren but personally I swap
[64:53] between the two when I feel like it for
[64:54] the time being though I will simply be
[64:56] calling him Joker given Joker's a lot
[64:58] more to work with when creating an
[64:59] independent character with actual
[65:00] thoughts and feelings divorced from the
[65:02] players it really saddens me to say that
[65:04] joker is bafflingly uninteresting in the
[65:06] anime just to be clear I am trying to
[65:08] judge all these adaptations without the
[65:10] dots in mind first p4a is still really
[65:12] funny without the dub even though the
[65:13] dove does greatly enhance the experience
[65:15] mp5a's dub is something I'm going to
[65:17] talk about in a sec for now though
[65:18] judging pivave slowly through watching
[65:20] it subbed I was absolutely bored to
[65:23] Tears by Joker's characterization his
[65:25] dialogue his impact on the story
[65:26] everything despite talking the most out
[65:28] of all the protags in the games Joker
[65:30] somehow speaks less than Makoto does in
[65:32] the anime and when he does open his
[65:34] mouth about a quarter of it is over him
[65:35] grunting saying a singular word or
[65:37] stealing a line from Eugene the times
[65:39] where he's speaking four sentences he
[65:41] just doesn't say anything interesting he
[65:43] barely has any impact on conversations
[65:45] there's no real difference between this
[65:47] behavior in reality and the metaverse
[65:49] his voice acting is good but it doesn't
[65:50] save a fundamentally boring character
[65:52] the protagonist of an anime series
[65:54] barely talks and when he does it amounts
[65:57] to nothing I cannot begin to describe
[65:58] how much this hurts this already wounded
[66:00] puppy of an adaptation Joker has a
[66:02] reason to be subtle in the games his
[66:04] personality is decided by your dialogue
[66:06] choices and he gets plenty of them
[66:07] firmly establishing that he does have at
[66:09] least some input on what's happening I'm
[66:11] fine with Joker being a quiet kid in
[66:13] fact that's a great bit of
[66:14] characterization for him but there's
[66:15] nothing else to the guy at all he
[66:17] doesn't get a smidge of noticeable
[66:18] character growth scenes in the game
[66:20] where he actually has plenty of dialogue
[66:21] choices to provide the illusion of
[66:23] audible input are neutered in the anime
[66:25] and it's like he doesn't talk at all he
[66:26] has no compelling Arc no notable
[66:28] character traits he's more of a blank
[66:30] slate than the blank slates all he does
[66:32] is fill the role of the protagonist and
[66:34] leader of the Phantom thieves simply by
[66:35] virtue of building multiple personas he
[66:37] is the same character from the moment he
[66:39] arrives in Shibuya to the moment he puts
[66:41] a cap in God's brain this reeks of a
[66:43] script that tries too hard to be
[66:45] faithful to a story or he has no hope of
[66:47] adapting properly taking the aspects of
[66:49] it that require gameplay in order to
[66:50] work and retroactively ruining them
[66:52] Joker is such a disappointment in this
[66:54] series and I have to seek his suspicion
[66:55] not a fact just a sneaking suspicion
[66:57] that it's because this interpretation of
[66:59] his character received mixed reviews
[67:00] when compared to narakami Joko remains a
[67:02] mute character in Persona 5 Strikers
[67:04] like what reason was there for Joker to
[67:06] remain a mutant Strikers exactly
[67:08] narukami is out here speaking four
[67:10] sentences in multiple spin-off games and
[67:11] Joker's still stuck with the dialogue
[67:13] choices although I will admit the
[67:15] dialogue choices in Strikers get so
[67:16] consistent sometimes that it's sort of
[67:18] clear what character they want Joker to
[67:20] be what dude shut up alright I'm getting
[67:22] sidetracked you want to know what's
[67:23] funny all of this butchering of the
[67:25] story and the characters because of the
[67:27] rushing of the series and they still
[67:28] need an innovate to wrap things up
[67:30] that's right p5a's last episode is
[67:32] literally just a catchy killing Joker
[67:34] and then it ends I didn't see the other
[67:37] two episodes before that so I I found it
[67:39] pretty funny there are two hour long
[67:41] ovas going over to Shido Arc and the
[67:44] finale of Persona 5 respectively are
[67:46] they any better uh no all of the same
[67:49] problems as the anime just with a much
[67:50] longer run time and a massive Reliance
[67:52] on CGI like holy hell a lot of CGI I
[67:55] tend to find CGI complaints in anime
[67:57] rather Petty especially when it looks
[67:59] perfectly fine but there's honestly no
[68:00] excuse here this stuff just looks bad
[68:02] the only thing good about these is the
[68:04] scene where Morgana returns after
[68:06] supposedly dying is executed better in
[68:08] the anime and throws more natural in the
[68:09] game but if I only get to praise one
[68:11] scene for the show in comparison to its
[68:13] source material I'm a funny guy all
[68:16] right now let's talk about the dub if
[68:18] you ever feel like watching the show
[68:19] don't then go and pick the dub this is a
[68:22] very strong recommendation this whole
[68:23] time I've been talking about p5a as it
[68:25] stands from watching the subbed version
[68:26] however while the show is still a
[68:28] dumpster fire well dubbed p5a's English
[68:30] voice actors must have gotten told or
[68:31] something because they managed to make
[68:32] the anime rather entertaining at times
[68:34] Persona 5 easily has the best English
[68:36] dub cast in the series hands down the
[68:38] voice acting is really good in both
[68:40] English and Japanese yet the English dub
[68:42] feels like an Abridged Series at times
[68:44] and usually I'd say this hurts a dub
[68:46] more than it enhances like yes the
[68:48] narrator from Lover's war is funny but
[68:49] it's really distracting but when you
[68:51] have an anime like p5a that gets so
[68:53] achingly boring a little silliness can
[68:55] go a long way
[68:58] especially from xandermobos as Joker
[69:00] Joker may be an uninteresting character
[69:02] in The subbed version but damn it Xander
[69:04] managed to deliver his lines with really
[69:06] good comedic timing and sounded like he
[69:07] was actually having a lot of fun
[69:11] [Music]
[69:14] show me your true form
[69:18] get it together dude
[69:22] my bad joker sounds like he has a
[69:26] personality even if his actual character
[69:27] writing leaves a lot to be desired his
[69:29] voice is soothing of a hint of dorkiness
[69:31] that makes him easier to like welcome
[69:33] hey
[69:35] are you old enough hey uh in his voice
[69:39] in the metaverse is powerful and
[69:40] commanding of your attention
[69:45] because the issues with Joker as a
[69:47] character but the dub does Joker so much
[69:49] Justice all the dab actors managed to
[69:51] make the dialogue more engaging actually
[69:52] there are several new scenes in p5a
[69:54] between Joker and a catchy establishing
[69:56] that they have more of a friendship and
[69:57] playful rifle even shown in the game
[69:59] while discussing their ideals they give
[70:01] this show some honest to God credit this
[70:03] is good Joker and a catchy's
[70:05] relationship was dramatically
[70:06] underdeveloped in vanilla Persona 5 a
[70:08] Persona 5 Royal finally giving a catch
[70:10] in all new Confidant that blows the
[70:11] original game out the water the anime
[70:13] scenes were simply a Band-Aid fixed for
[70:15] this issue before Royal came out but
[70:16] they're all greats and the conversations
[70:18] between a catchy and Joker and the dub
[70:20] sound natural and interesting largely
[70:21] because Robbie Damon and Xander Mobis
[70:23] have a lot of underutilized chemistry
[70:25] together and we get to see glimpses of
[70:27] that here I just wish Joker talked more
[70:28] man and I mean at least the dub doesn't
[70:30] bore me to tears and can produce a
[70:32] decent chuckle from me just like p4a I
[70:34] recommend watching the dub on this one
[70:36] no hated the Japanese voice actors at
[70:37] all they're really good but The Abridged
[70:39] take on some of the scenes and dialogue
[70:41] for the dark match to make a shooting
[70:42] adaptation slightly less painful right
[70:44] what else is there oh yeah the animation
[70:47] you know the main thing people tend to
[70:49] dunk on about this show yeah it's no
[70:50] secret by now that Persona 5 the
[70:52] animation is one ugly looking anime now
[70:55] there are a few misconceptions about who
[70:56] actually made this anime many people
[70:58] just say it's A1 pictures and writes it
[71:00] offices never failing by them and what
[71:02] they technically aren't wrong this show
[71:03] is actually animated by none other than
[71:05] cloverworks thing is at the time
[71:07] cloverworks was still a subsidiary of A1
[71:09] had not split off yet so while it is
[71:11] true that A1 was involved with the
[71:12] show's production and potentially are
[71:14] responsible for the state of its
[71:15] animation since they take on a lot of
[71:16] projects at once and seemingly just
[71:18] handy clever works the key is told them
[71:19] to have it ready by 2018. I did want to
[71:21] point it out that this wasn't exactly a
[71:23] high priority show for A1 now today most
[71:25] of you known cloverworks for their
[71:27] really good animation in plenty of
[71:28] critically acclaimed anime like Wonder
[71:30] egg priority my dress up darling and
[71:32] most recently spy X family they are a
[71:34] very talented and capable studio so it
[71:36] really does beg the question of why this
[71:38] Show's animation turned out so bad A1
[71:41] this work does not look professional
[71:42] this is something I'd expect a freelance
[71:44] animator on YouTube to propose Pilots
[71:46] the artwork is low quality lacking
[71:48] detail even when really close and when
[71:50] it's far away where you'd expect there
[71:52] to be less detail it just looks like a
[71:53] child Druid that's not even mentioning
[71:55] the actual animation which is stiff
[71:57] janky all the action scenes in the show
[71:59] look over extremely Janko just
[72:01] consistently personas hurling colored
[72:02] energy towards each other there's no
[72:04] impressive fight choreography none of
[72:06] the colors pop and the show looks
[72:07] incredibly washed out there's no even
[72:09] spectacle it just looks bad I'm
[72:11] struggling to decide whether this or the
[72:13] golden animation look worse I've never
[72:14] watched an anime where characters go off
[72:16] model this consistently and all attempts
[72:18] at making the action look cinematic full
[72:20] flat
[72:21] combine this with the awful CGI in the
[72:24] ovas and you ever showed it honestly
[72:25] hurts to look at you know what's most
[72:27] embarrassing about this well there
[72:29] aren't many of them the anime cutscenes
[72:30] in Persona 5 the game look a bajillion
[72:33] times better than the anime like they
[72:35] aren't even that technically impressive
[72:37] but they're competently composed there's
[72:38] good lighting consistent character
[72:40] models with great detail it looks
[72:41] acceptable an anime at the very least
[72:43] should make its animation look on par or
[72:46] better than a video game cutscene
[72:48] Persona 4 managed that the anime blows
[72:50] The Originals animation out the water
[72:51] granted percent of 4 came out in 2008
[72:53] but there's not that much of a Time gap
[72:55] between it and its anime p4a still looks
[72:57] mild special than p5a which released
[72:59] seven years after and I don't really
[73:01] want to hear that the show was rushed
[73:03] because yeah no [ __ ] the animation is
[73:05] still really bad and not only does this
[73:07] look bad it also just doesn't look like
[73:09] Persona 5. you've got the characters
[73:10] here you have the phone aesthetic
[73:12] there's an attempt an all-out attack
[73:15] what the [ __ ] am I looking at but
[73:17] overall the anime looks Bland the colors
[73:20] are the saturated every scene outside
[73:21] looks extremely muggy and also where is
[73:24] the style the most highly discussed and
[73:27] widely recognized thing about Persona 5
[73:28] is its impeccable visual style and
[73:30] aesthetic the game is personality
[73:32] incarnate the Punky rebellious manga
[73:35] scrapbook whatever you want to call this
[73:36] style it's easily the most memorable
[73:38] part of the game's art Direction I'm not
[73:40] saying to animate the show primarily in
[73:41] red black and white but nothing about
[73:43] p5a's animation screams Persona 5 to me
[73:46] at the very least incorporate the visual
[73:47] style into the action scenes actually
[73:49] that already exists ladies and gentlemen
[73:51] I give you percent of five the
[73:53] daybreakers this was a promotional
[73:54] animation for the release of Persona 5
[73:56] that was animated by none other than A1
[73:58] pictures not cleverworks or any Studio
[74:00] they just dumped this project onto Atlas
[74:02] pay to have a promotional 24 minute ov8
[74:04] promote the release of Persona 5 in
[74:06] Japan and I think it's a shame most
[74:08] people don't know or care that this
[74:09] exists because oh my God not only are
[74:13] the character models consistent with
[74:14] good detail but the colors just look
[74:16] much brighter this could be a cut scene
[74:18] from the game and I honestly wouldn't
[74:19] notice and that's not even the best part
[74:21] when the thieves Venture into mementos
[74:22] we get an absolutely spectacular action
[74:25] sequence there's some gorgeous animation
[74:27] fluid and snappy movements eye-popping
[74:29] colors and they even throw in the visual
[74:31] aesthetic of Persona 5 into the fight
[74:33] scenes they appropriately managed to
[74:35] stylize their action scenes to make it
[74:36] look like something from Persona 5. also
[74:38] while it's not much Joker feels a lot
[74:40] less restrained here and you can easily
[74:42] tell the difference between how he is in
[74:43] reality and how he enjoys being a
[74:45] phantom Thief this is an an extremely
[74:47] high quality OVA that has literally none
[74:49] of the issues the anime has and it's
[74:51] literally a [ __ ] commercial it
[74:53] astounds me that A1 poured their heart
[74:55] and soul into this OVA yet then we get
[74:57] Persona 5 the animation I'm not
[74:58] expecting this level of quality per
[75:00] episode I think that's slightly
[75:01] unreasonable but just having consistent
[75:03] animation would have worked wonders not
[75:05] to mention this OVA is an expansion of a
[75:07] Memento side quest in the actual game
[75:09] giving it more of a story while having
[75:10] it take place realistically during the
[75:12] main plot of persona 5. now imagine this
[75:14] p5a isn't a one-to-one attempt at
[75:17] retelling the game's story and is
[75:18] instead a series of memento's missions
[75:20] from the game that are more fleshed out
[75:22] letting us get to know the characters
[75:23] involved their struggles desires and
[75:25] then having the plot focus on solving
[75:27] that while p5's main plot progresses in
[75:28] the background hell it doesn't even have
[75:30] to be missions from the game and can be
[75:32] entirely new ones that we don't see
[75:33] represented it would be formulaic
[75:35] knowing each episode would end in a big
[75:36] fight but I could have seen this working
[75:38] wonders and it would have honestly been
[75:39] a neat companion based on the main game
[75:41] perfect for fans while not entirely
[75:43] ruining the story or spoiling anything
[75:44] substantial for newcomer actually
[75:46] something of that sort already exists
[75:48] Persona 5 mementos missions is literally
[75:50] an original manga about this exact
[75:52] concept it's not technically Canon but
[75:54] compared to the P5 enemy as well as the
[75:56] manga adaptation of P5 it's honestly a
[75:58] lot of fun I was surprised at how much I
[76:00] enjoyed it since it doesn't really take
[76:01] itself that seriously and it's just a
[76:03] fun piece of spin-off content just make
[76:05] an adaptation of that alas I can only
[76:07] dream there's only a few more things to
[76:09] cover here so I'll go over the openings
[76:11] the running joke about discussing the
[76:12] show is that all the budget just went
[76:14] into the openings and honestly I do see
[76:16] that opening one captures p5's visual
[76:18] style and has some really nice symbolism
[76:19] some really cool shots and the song
[76:21] Break in the breakout is a pretty good
[76:23] song and if it's the story rather well
[76:25] Dark Sun on the other hand oh God I'm
[76:28] gonna get my heart changed for saying
[76:29] this but I really don't Vibe with the
[76:31] song that much it is really good when
[76:33] you get to the drop-off dark son
[76:35] wherever you shine I see but I find it
[76:39] pretty bland leading up to that what's
[76:41] not helping other visuals all the fans
[76:43] of foods at the start distractingly
[76:45] undetailed but second half of this
[76:46] opening is some straight garbage what
[76:49] the heck is this what does this mean why
[76:51] is ryuji naked Anna Makoto are dating I
[76:53] guess good for them Yo futaba's freaking
[76:54] bowling holy [ __ ] these visuals are
[76:56] utter nonsense they have absolutely
[76:58] nothing to do with the main plot or the
[77:00] characters except maybe Morgana but even
[77:03] then they're so comically dark and out
[77:05] of place this is not a good opening the
[77:07] ending themes are a lot better I like
[77:08] these a lot the music well most of it is
[77:10] just taken for B5 soundtrack and that
[77:12] needs no introduction whether you're a
[77:13] fan of the series or not you have 100
[77:15] heard this soundtrack using a YouTube
[77:17] video at some point it's really good the
[77:19] original music that is here isn't too
[77:21] bad either well that was a very long
[77:22] rant so overall Persona 5 the animation
[77:25] is a textbook example of a garbage video
[77:27] game anime and there are quite a few but
[77:29] the others are usually garbage for being
[77:31] too different this one is garbage for
[77:32] being too similar because the story
[77:34] doesn't work as an anime that's this
[77:36] short maybe if they were given two
[77:37] seasons but it's a video game anime of
[77:40] course they weren't getting that as much
[77:41] as the golden animation sucked it at
[77:43] least had some entertainment value from
[77:45] seeing the people forecasters interact
[77:47] with each other p5a is a joyless cash
[77:49] grabbing adaptation to honestly either
[77:50] deserves better or shouldn't have been
[77:52] made in the first place if you've
[77:53] watched this anime and haven't bothered
[77:54] playing Persona 5 you are actively
[77:56] making your life worse my guy just play
[77:58] Persona 5 better yeah play Persona 5
[78:00] Royal the re-release it has new content
[78:02] and ending since one of the best games
[78:03] I've ever played it's coming to steam
[78:05] Xbox and Nintendo switch on October 21st
[78:07] this year so pick it up when you can you
[78:08] are doing yourself a disservice by
[78:10] letting this piece of garbage serve as a
[78:12] substitute for Persona 5's narrative
[78:14] just play the game and stay far away
[78:16] from the show if you aren't curious it's
[78:18] a waste of time
[78:21] all right well that's all the
[78:23] adaptations out of the way I feel like
[78:25] something's missing though
[78:28] okay since this is an anime of the
[78:30] Persona name though it's not an
[78:31] adaptation I'll give it a brief look
[78:36] oh
[78:38] yeah
[78:41] [Music]
[78:47] ah yes Persona Trinity Soul just a
[78:50] question for all my Persona one and two
[78:51] fans out there what's it like to feel
[78:53] neglected because I'm telling you guys
[78:55] just because Atlas doesn't make games
[78:56] for you anymore doesn't mean they act
[78:58] like you literally don't exist Trinity
[79:00] soul is an anomaly of sorts this is less
[79:02] of a black sheep and more of a lost than
[79:04] forgotten cat I can count a number of
[79:06] people who I know who have watched this
[79:07] show on one hand Me Trinity soul is not
[79:11] an adaptation of any of the games it is
[79:13] in fact an original series taking place
[79:14] 10 years after the events of Persona 3
[79:17] and was supposedly Canon at some point
[79:18] until Persona 4 arrived a few years
[79:20] later saw the idea of adults not being
[79:22] able to use personas said LOL no and
[79:24] created adachi then feeling unsatisfied
[79:26] Persona 4 Arena arrived a few years
[79:28] later and promptly passed all over its
[79:30] grave now it's just a non-canon
[79:31] alternate universe set 10 years after
[79:33] Persona 3 though you'd probably forget
[79:35] that when watching it because Persona 3
[79:37] isn't really a required viewing or
[79:39] playing to watch this although it does
[79:41] help when akihiko just sort of pops up
[79:43] for a few minutes that was a thing that
[79:45] happened you know it's kind of hard to
[79:46] dig into what exactly Trends your soul
[79:48] is what it's trying to be because in all
[79:50] honesty I don't really know it feels
[79:52] like after the breakout success of
[79:54] Persona 3 Atlas just didn't really know
[79:56] what to do of that success so they tried
[79:57] creating something akin to the social
[79:59] set of Persona 3 of the noir-esque style
[80:01] Persona 2. if that sounds like Persona 5
[80:03] to you then yeah basically but Trinity
[80:05] Soul was evidently a testing ground for
[80:07] that kind of concept the big critique
[80:09] that often gets levied against this
[80:10] anime is that it's incredibly slow like
[80:12] this is the slow burniest of slow Burns
[80:14] but it unfortunately doesn't really
[80:16] excite you a whole lot of what happens
[80:17] at the end of that Slow Burn there are
[80:19] long stretches of time in the show where
[80:21] nothing happens the atmosphere is
[80:23] incredibly dry and it's somewhat
[80:25] refreshing for a Persona property but
[80:27] the execution doesn't fare too well
[80:28] there is sort of a Serene calmness with
[80:30] the show's atmosphere and pacing though
[80:32] it's different and can often be
[80:34] unbearable but it's hard to knock the
[80:35] chill Vibe they wanted to go for many of
[80:37] these scenes the story revolves around
[80:39] Shin an official protagonist in The
[80:40] Persona 3 Canon that Atlas wants you to
[80:42] forget ever existed and the show filled
[80:44] to Convention of the Persona formula a
[80:46] kid transfers to a new town new school
[80:48] has to live there for a while before
[80:50] eventually getting tackled up in
[80:51] Supernatural nonsense although Shin
[80:53] doesn't really get a Velvet Room Igor
[80:55] just shows up to him in person it's like
[80:57] they realize this guy wouldn't amount to
[80:58] much but Shin isn't alone here as he
[81:01] transfers with his younger brother June
[81:03] the stare of his older brother Rio with
[81:04] Brotherhood being a main theme of the
[81:06] series so just like any modern Persona
[81:08] gamer has a starting formula but it's
[81:10] what it does with that formula that
[81:11] makes each game unique whether that's
[81:13] the specifics of the plots the themes
[81:14] that are covered or and the Dynamics
[81:16] between the characters Shin's in the
[81:18] right protagonist is nothing to write
[81:19] home about but he still puts him above
[81:21] sub version of Ren in my book as The
[81:23] Show Goes On you'll learn more about the
[81:24] bond between these three their family
[81:26] what their parents did because as his
[81:28] customary of most stories like this the
[81:29] parents are to blame and you get the
[81:31] sense that they all do care about each
[81:33] other they're not bad characters they're
[81:34] just nothing really special Rio is cold
[81:37] almost his brothers to stay out of his
[81:38] work and out of Harm's Way frustratingly
[81:40] even after they awaited their Persona
[81:42] which is just but he's fleshed out just
[81:45] enough for you to believe that okay this
[81:47] is an actual person that's probably the
[81:49] best summary for the Trinity Soul cast
[81:50] they're Simply Good Enough they're
[81:52] possible Shin's classmates consist of
[81:54] megumi takuru and kanuru out of the
[81:56] three megumi is easily my favorite and
[81:58] is definitely the best character in the
[82:00] show although there's not a whole lot of
[82:01] competition she's one of the few
[82:03] characters that feels like she could
[82:04] have been in a Mainline Persona game
[82:06] she's peppy extroverted in a generally
[82:08] likable character but of course has to
[82:09] have a track as a backstory when in a
[82:11] car accident as a child her Persona
[82:13] protected her and her parents but wasn't
[82:14] able to protect her brother as a result
[82:16] she hates herself and personas in
[82:18] general but the former sentiment is held
[82:20] very much by her mother who admits to
[82:21] her from a young age that she loved her
[82:23] son more than her and wished it was
[82:24] megumi who had died Instead This trauma
[82:26] and bitter divide between the two Lisa
[82:28] megumi getting a one-off episode
[82:29] dedicating to men that Bond her mother
[82:31] realizing that magumi had protected all
[82:33] of them that day and feeling sorry for
[82:34] what she had done it's a moment of
[82:36] actual Brilliance and it feels
[82:38] incredibly out of place with the rest of
[82:39] the anime it's sort of powerful actually
[82:41] if there's one episode that deserves to
[82:43] be watched here it's undoubtedly this
[82:44] one it feels like it belongs in a
[82:46] Persona game this is a genuinely well
[82:48] written and impactful storyline that
[82:50] single-handedly turns a likable but
[82:51] bland archetype of the extroverted girl
[82:53] character into the best character in the
[82:55] entire anime it is legitimately not even
[82:57] close Sakura is fine enough but it's
[82:59] clearly another attempt at the comic
[83:01] relief best friend character and that
[83:02] doesn't really go a long way when
[83:04] nothing funny ever happens instead
[83:06] takura was largely carried by his
[83:07] one-off episode except unlike megumi
[83:09] it's simply not as impactful basically
[83:11] due to confusing plot stuff and an event
[83:13] that happened 10 years ago his father's
[83:15] mind was swapped with this woman causing
[83:16] takura to be abandoned by his father at
[83:18] a young age with no knowledge of where
[83:19] he went or what even happened this woman
[83:21] is takaro's Father only in anime ladies
[83:24] and gentlemen and it's a fine episode
[83:26] nothing much else it's sweet very weird
[83:28] but sweet then there's kanuru and here
[83:31] it becomes evident that they'd maybe
[83:32] just you know just maybe borrowed a few
[83:35] ideas from Persona 3 kanaru as a robot
[83:37] in the love interest of shin who dies in
[83:38] Shin's arms Makoto is rolling in his
[83:40] door grave obviously there's the
[83:42] difference that I guess wasn't the one
[83:43] who died it was Makoto but this is still
[83:45] a very on the nose inspiration I'd
[83:47] hardly call it inspiration honestly it's
[83:49] just straight up theft speaking of
[83:51] Persona 3 here comes the blue Peter
[83:53] versions what were already Bargain Bin
[83:54] antagonists the maribito are a joke
[83:56] they're not even a funny joke I can't
[83:58] even make fun of how laughable they are
[84:00] because I just feel bad they mean
[84:01] absolutely nothing in the grand scheme
[84:03] of things outside of this chick who I
[84:05] forgot the name of because she was the
[84:06] only one allowed to actually have an
[84:08] input on the main plot back to kanaroo I
[84:10] mean hell even comparing her to I guess
[84:12] is doing I guess a disservice because
[84:13] kanuru isn't all that interesting her
[84:15] backstory kind of is but she's as Bland
[84:18] as a piece of Yukiko I mean cardboard
[84:20] otherwise she's addicted to something
[84:21] called Shadow extraction oh right I
[84:23] haven't really mentioned details about
[84:24] the main plot have I sorry if this
[84:26] section is disjointed but Trinity Soul
[84:28] really did bore me to tears it's not
[84:30] even a bad anime but it's just not that
[84:32] interesting and it's honestly really
[84:33] forgettable I'm only including it here
[84:35] because I know there'd be some [ __ ]
[84:37] Troublemaker smt fan who'd chew me out
[84:39] for neglecting it in a video about
[84:40] Persona anime back on track the main
[84:42] plot revolves around something called
[84:43] Persona extraction basically a number of
[84:46] corpses are turning up with their skin
[84:47] removed which is definitely a 2000s
[84:49] Atlas idea it's wonderfully dark and it
[84:51] involves the you guessed it extraction
[84:53] of one's Persona this is the case that
[84:55] Shin's brother Rio was working on and he
[84:57] knows the person who is behind it a
[84:59] neurologist named kaisuke a man obsessed
[85:01] with Reviving his dead daughter ayane
[85:03] for the use of personas there's also
[85:05] another process called Shadow extraction
[85:07] where instead of stripping a person of
[85:08] their Persona they're stripped off a
[85:10] part of their Shadow which gives them a
[85:11] great sense of euphoria this is a
[85:13] legitimately cool idea too bad it's not
[85:15] explored in the way that does it much
[85:16] Justice you see Shadow extraction is
[85:18] instead uses a massive allegory for
[85:20] anything the series wants to make a big
[85:22] statement about whether that's drunk
[85:24] driving drugs or unprotected Scaro is
[85:27] addicted to Shadow extraction and is
[85:28] placed into the majority of the show's
[85:30] social scenes because it's not a [ __ ]
[85:32] Persona media without at least one
[85:34] moment of contradicting your own themes
[85:35] she's a naive reserved girl and is
[85:37] honestly a character I don't like she's
[85:39] not very interesting outside of her
[85:41] backstory and before she gets the chance
[85:42] to be worth appreciating she's already
[85:44] dead the reason why I've been going over
[85:46] the characters first and I've left the
[85:47] story on the back burner is because
[85:48] Trinity soul is a very character in
[85:50] conversation based series there's not
[85:52] much action here and the action scenes
[85:54] that are available are short and crappy
[85:55] and I don't mind that if it has some
[85:57] sort of flare or personality but so many
[85:59] of these scenes are just boring
[86:01] Exposition or just moments where nothing
[86:02] happens you can appreciate the calm of
[86:05] Trinity soul but not when there's little
[86:07] to nothing happening as a result it's
[86:08] just easier to talk about the characters
[86:10] in any actual plot points because this
[86:12] show still finds a way to make things
[86:13] super convoluted towards the end it's a
[86:16] weird series and I can see why Atlas
[86:18] treats it as if it doesn't exist it's
[86:19] not even getting into the stuff
[86:20] pertaining to adults using personas
[86:22] Trinity soul establishes that adults
[86:24] cannot use their personas and the ones
[86:26] that can have to take special drugs that
[86:28] allow them to use them effectively but
[86:30] not taking them will result in their
[86:31] Persona going berserk and attacking
[86:33] others or the user this is basically an
[86:35] expanded concept of the pills from
[86:36] Persona 3 that we use this helps
[86:38] suppress a violent Persona in Persona
[86:40] users who couldn't summon their personas
[86:41] naturally which applied to Shinji as
[86:43] well as every member of Strega this is a
[86:45] really neat concept and it's Unique to
[86:47] this series explaining why Rio can use
[86:48] his Persona at age 28 however this
[86:52] concept was completely thrown out the
[86:53] window of Persona 4 with its spin-offs
[86:55] not treating Trinity Soul as a Canon
[86:57] sequel to Persona 3 and if you want to
[86:58] go even further back this concept
[87:00] completely contradicts Persona 2 where
[87:02] personas could be summoned by adults and
[87:03] if you want to get even more specifics
[87:05] and kichi from Persona 5 Strikers is the
[87:07] first Persona user in a long ass time
[87:09] who awakened their Persona as an adult
[87:11] basically it's easy to see why this
[87:13] concept didn't last outside of this
[87:15] series and why this series is ultimately
[87:16] not considered Canon as previously
[87:18] mentioned akihika from Persona 3 shows
[87:20] up in this series but he's the only real
[87:22] connection between Trinity soul and
[87:24] Persona 3 if he didn't show up you could
[87:26] show this anime to a lot of people and
[87:27] they wouldn't even be able to tell you
[87:28] that it was a Persona 3 sequel as for
[87:30] Aki himself he does nothing like
[87:33] literally nothing he shows up for a few
[87:35] episodes but he doesn't discuss C's or
[87:37] any of his friends the Dark Hour
[87:38] Tartarus next personas he doesn't even
[87:40] act as a mentor as a fool with guidance
[87:42] he just shows up without being able to
[87:44] use his personal in adulthood and does
[87:46] nothing beyond that it's just really
[87:48] lame taking one of p3's best characters
[87:50] and doing nothing with him I'll take
[87:52] Arena zakihiko over this any day at
[87:54] least he has a personality you know
[87:55] despite being flanderized into a walking
[87:57] protein advertisement all in all true
[87:59] soul is not a bad anime it's not
[88:01] offensively awful or anything and there
[88:04] are things here that I like and Concepts
[88:05] that have a lot of potential that I
[88:06] think should be recycled for future
[88:08] Persona projects but you can't help but
[88:10] feel indifferent to the series it's a
[88:12] perfectly fine slowly paced anime that
[88:14] borrows elements from persona but
[88:16] weirdly doesn't feel like much of a
[88:18] Persona series your enjoyment will
[88:20] largely stem from the pacing I have a
[88:21] lot of tolerance for slow pacing Steins
[88:24] Gate is my favorite show of all time and
[88:25] it's infinite for having its first half
[88:27] being incredibly slow but stuff actually
[88:29] happens in Steins Gates it all serves a
[88:31] purpose Trinity Soul half the time feels
[88:33] like dead air a failed experiment for
[88:35] Atlas to try and capitalize on percent
[88:37] of free success without knowing how fun
[88:39] fact this was actually one of the first
[88:40] anime A1 pictures ever worked on and for
[88:42] one of their first projects it doesn't
[88:43] look too bad for an anime released in
[88:45] 2008 characters are on modeled the
[88:47] artwork is clean and actually looks like
[88:49] an adult through it it's the animation
[88:50] that has its issues with plenty of
[88:52] talking head scenes and underwhelming
[88:54] action the show isn't stiff it just
[88:55] doesn't have much going on overall I had
[88:58] to include Trinity Soul because it
[88:59] counts as a Persona anime Canon or not
[89:02] it's a fine series that I don't really
[89:03] recommend but I don't suggest you avoid
[89:05] it like the plague either
[89:11] holy wow after 10 months of working on
[89:14] the script on and off and it's finally
[89:16] done Jesus Christ Persona will forever
[89:18] be a series I hold close these games
[89:20] were having their share of writing
[89:21] problems are all about their characters
[89:23] telling interesting stories with
[89:25] powerful themes and populating them with
[89:26] these believable lovable people that you
[89:28] grow emotionally attached to all brought
[89:30] together by its marriage of these
[89:31] elements with its dungeon crawling RPG
[89:33] gameplay that remains fun and engaging a
[89:35] Persona anime will never be a perfect
[89:37] way to experience these stories there's
[89:39] so much content and substance held in
[89:41] these games that you have to be in a
[89:42] very fortunate position with episode
[89:44] orders to even cover half of it
[89:45] extremely well but as we've seen
[89:47] throughout the course of this video the
[89:48] best adaptations are the ones that know
[89:50] their limits and respectfully expand
[89:51] upon the story of The Originals with
[89:53] their own ideas acting as faithful but
[89:55] well-made companion pieces that in some
[89:57] areas even surpass elements of the games
[89:59] Persona 3's movies had brief glimmers of
[90:01] being something far greater before
[90:02] eventually coming into its own with an
[90:04] emotionally powerful conclusion Persona
[90:06] 4's anime took what it could reasonably
[90:07] adapt and did so accordingly with minor
[90:09] hiccups while injecting its own sense of
[90:11] humor and incredible interpretation of
[90:13] the game's protagonists into the mix if
[90:15] Persona 6 ever gets an anime which it
[90:17] most likely will or if they decide to
[90:18] give P5 Royal its own anime akin to
[90:20] Golden I hope they take their time of
[90:22] crafting away in which to adapt the main
[90:24] story and the social elements that they
[90:25] can but to also not limit themselves by
[90:27] trying to effectively retell everything
[90:29] stay faithful to the source material but
[90:31] use the anime as a way to explore more
[90:33] unique Concepts or different
[90:34] interpretations so long as I don't end
[90:36] up conflicting with important parts of
[90:38] the game or if by some miracle they're
[90:39] given more than 24 episodes use that
[90:41] time effectively no filler no [ __ ]
[90:44] if adaptations of these games have to be
[90:46] made they should at least be unique
[90:47] companion piece that doesn't fly in the
[90:49] face of what made the game so great p4ga
[90:51] and p5a suffer the most from being
[90:54] incredibly rushed and handling
[90:55] everything poorly and I'd very much like
[90:57] for that to be avoided in general I
[90:58] prefer these games not be adapted at all
[91:00] I spoke too soon Sega please stop but if
[91:04] they have to be made make them like p4a
[91:06] winter rebirth Etc either way if you
[91:08] haven't played the games yet and are
[91:10] aware that I just spoiled them all
[91:11] rotten I'd still recommend picking them
[91:12] up and experiencing them for yourself
[91:14] these are all fantastic top shelf RPGs
[91:16] and I'm glad they're finally becoming
[91:18] more accessible after all this time
[91:19] alright now it's time for the ranking
[91:21] this shouldn't take too long so let's
[91:22] have a look
[91:24] at the bottom of the list we've got
[91:26] Persona 5 the animation Persona 5 is a
[91:28] game packed with so much content and
[91:29] story depth that a single season anime
[91:31] adaptation was frantically doomed from
[91:33] the start and the schizophrenic way
[91:34] handled confidence character development
[91:36] and the main story didn't help
[91:37] especially with how ugly it looks
[91:39] beating it out by a small margin we've
[91:40] got Persona 4 the golden animation
[91:42] golden aims to do something different by
[91:44] being an anthology series which is
[91:45] commendable but an execution doesn't end
[91:47] up working and comes off as very
[91:49] disjointed and doesn't justify its
[91:51] existence harmed by its incredibly poor
[91:53] visuals and animation beating out by a
[91:55] considerable margin but still not being
[91:56] viewed too favorably in my eyes we've
[91:58] got percent of Freedom Movie Falling
[92:00] Down despite boasting gorgeous artwork
[92:02] and satisfactory animation along with a
[92:03] fantastic new soundtrack falling down
[92:05] suffers greatly from throwing percent of
[92:07] prehistorian characters out the window
[92:08] and doing them a horrible disservice
[92:10] just to try and put Makoto and ryoji in
[92:12] the spotlight up Nexus Persona Trinity
[92:14] Soul Trinity soul is a literal
[92:16] definition of a 5 out of 10 anime it
[92:18] gets the job done none of it's faltered
[92:20] that detrimental but it generally does
[92:21] nothing special outside of some very
[92:23] rare standout moments and it's slow
[92:25] pacing makes it a slog to watch through
[92:26] Persona 3 the movie spring of birth this
[92:28] is a perfectly enjoyable well animated
[92:30] adaptation of persona 3's first 20 hours
[92:32] and does a lot of things right including
[92:34] some stuff that works better than the
[92:36] originals unfortunately It suffers from
[92:38] being too much of a straightforward
[92:39] adaptation at times which leads to poor
[92:41] pacing and a complete absence of Social
[92:42] Links despite keeping the game's
[92:44] calendar system makes it feel more like
[92:45] a highlight reel of events in a cohesive
[92:47] narrative Persona 3 the movie Midsummer
[92:49] Night's Dream despite the first half
[92:51] being bogged down by some issues that
[92:52] plague the first movie the film's second
[92:54] half is so unfathomably good in
[92:56] comparison that makes the weight worth
[92:58] it being a legitimate Improvement on the
[93:00] game's story in nearly every aspect with
[93:02] very few hiccups Persona 4 the animation
[93:04] the crown jewel of anime adaptations of
[93:07] video games p4a is a hilarious and
[93:09] genuinely great way to experience
[93:10] Persona 4 even if you're an outsider to
[93:12] the series and containing a plethora of
[93:14] interesting and emotionally satisfying
[93:15] creative decisions to help it stand out
[93:17] balancing the game's story and has
[93:19] decided to be different near flawlessly
[93:20] despite the shafting of Social Links and
[93:22] finally at the very tipty top we have
[93:24] percent of Freedom movie winter of
[93:26] rebirth despite not being the easiest to
[93:28] get into as an outsider is to say
[93:30] visually stunning emotionally gratifying
[93:32] and damn near perfect adaptation of
[93:33] persona 3's final story arc finally
[93:35] managing to set itself apart from the
[93:37] anime as a new experience while
[93:38] Faithfully adapting the story capturing
[93:40] and in many ways improving the feeling
[93:42] of dread and heartbreak the eighth
[93:43] percent of Bree's conclusion so
[93:45] impactful I'll be honest I thought a lot
[93:47] of these would be worse when going into
[93:48] them some of them are certified stinkers
[93:50] for sure but I was surprised with just
[93:51] how much potential was buried under
[93:53] somebody's perfectly adequate shows and
[93:54] movies and was pleasantly surprised with
[93:56] how some of them finally unlocked that
[93:58] potential and became something genuinely
[93:59] great when it comes to video game
[94:01] adaptations you can certainly do a lot
[94:03] worse than Persona I'd say I'm satisfied
[94:05] on that note thank you all for watching
[94:06] I've been working on this video for far
[94:08] too long and I'm finally happy to be
[94:09] done and dusted so I will wrap things up
[94:11] with a request go stick your Studios
[94:13] with low priority projects on a low
[94:15] budget don't skimp past important
[94:16] emotional scenes and to Atlas
[94:18] specifically stop overpricing your
[94:21] [ __ ] games
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