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 Hello, I'm here for some coffee, be an insensitive douche, and regale some random criminal and a child about my shithole of a life.
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Akechi talking about his mother is seriously one of the most  events in the entire Persona series. It's just so completely out of left field.
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Feb 2, 2018 20:27
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Akechi is so annoying. Dunk on him.
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Feb 2, 2018 20:28
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Justice Rank 10 is Futaba giving Pleasant Boy a swirly and then stealing his lunch money.
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Feb 2, 2018 20:29
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Aww, and you didn't even get to the best part! (Note: it is not the best part, and if Arist wanted to skip it entirely and just say "a fun time was had by all" and move on, I would not blame him in the slightest.) At least the fireworks scene with Futaba is genuinely sweet, and we really need more scenes of that nature in this series, as far from the exploitation of young girls and girls in general as can be gotten. I also kinda like that bit with Akechi too, even if he was trying to garner sympathy in the most transparent way possible... but darn it, I still can't really talk about why, and won't be able to for some time. But I do still wanna kinda hug him and tousle his nice hair. e: Goddamn it, ought to know better than posting whist watching the giant bomb endurance run at the same time... too much persona. resurgam40 fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Feb 3, 2018 |
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Feb 2, 2018 20:33
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Ugh, if I was the localizer, I'd probably rewrite the whole scene with Akechi to make it less like a transparent sympathy ploy that's out of the blue.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:14
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Robindaybird posted:Ugh, if I was the localizer, I'd probably rewrite the whole scene with Akechi to make it less like a transparent sympathy ploy that's out of the blue. Ehh. It does a good job of getting across what he is really like.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:20
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A simple "I'm used to it" in between two of those lines would have solved most of the problem, he just brings it up for no reason as is.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:21
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resurgam40 posted:I also kinda like that bit with Adachi too, even if he was trying to garner sympathy in the most transparent way possible... but darn it, I still can't really talk about why, and won't be able to for some time. But I do still wanna kinda hug him and tousle his nice hair. I think you're thinking of the wrong game there. Unless Akechi is secretly Adachi in disguise as an 18 year old boy.
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Feb 2, 2018 21:55
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SimplyUnknown1 posted:Unless Akechi is secretly Adachi in disguise as an 18 year old boy. Akechi didn't go full BITCHES N' WHORES mode when talking about his mother so we're in the clear.
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Feb 2, 2018 22:07
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Akechi sips his coffee, studiously ignoring how the temperature in the cafe has plummeted by twenty degrees.
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Feb 2, 2018 22:16
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That loving sweater vest.Arist posted:What is up with all the non-sequiturs, man? Is your brain a loving View-Master, just randomly switching from subject to subject as if by the whims of a small, impatient, easily bored child?
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Feb 2, 2018 22:25
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Akechi is not nearly as cool as he thinks it is, I think its his biggest character trait.
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Feb 2, 2018 22:34
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Pleasant Boy is working really hard to ensure that the rest of Maaku's family Hates The Cops as much as he does.
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Feb 2, 2018 22:35
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HIJK posted:Akechi is not nearly as cool as he thinks it is, I think its his biggest character trait. On top of the dodgy translation making him sound kind of garbled (it fares really poorly with "formal" characters like Sae and Akechi), this is basically it. He's a boy trying to be a prim and proper adult and kind of loving it up.
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Feb 2, 2018 22:35
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Yeah, everything he says makes perfect sense in the context provided? I don't know if this is the same sorta comic anger that sees ya mad that people wear beachwear to the beach but he's trying to fish for sympathy by trying to draw equivalence between himself and Orange there, by showing they were both orphans. It's awkwardly put, but lol if ya playing a Japanimation game and you aren't used to that
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Feb 2, 2018 22:39
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people aren't mad that it's swim suits, they mad it's because it's sexy cheesecake shots of teenage girls - there is no excuse for a close up of Ann's rear end while she's adjusting her bottom or every single girl being in a skimpy bikini
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Feb 2, 2018 22:49
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It's not about the swimsuits, it's the way it's shot and presented, in addition to Katsura Hashino being notoriously horny on main.
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Feb 2, 2018 23:05
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Also I understand why Akechi says what he says, there's just no transition at all and it comes apropos of basically nothing. It's comical.
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Feb 2, 2018 23:09
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Hello fellow children, I too am an orphan. Now that we have something in common, let us bond by sharing our deepest secrets.
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Feb 2, 2018 23:35
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On the other hand I do enjoy how Anne is okay with Ryuji's over-enthusiastic appreciation of her. Maybe it's inconsistent characterization or maybe she's more comfortable with the guys by this point in the story, but it takes an edge off the skeeviness. It's a nice change considering the reactions in persona 4's beach scene and camping trip.
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Feb 3, 2018 00:04
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AriadneThread posted:Hello fellow children, I too am an orphan. I sure do love committing crimes. How many crimes did you commit today? I committed...lots. Lots of crimes. Boy it sure is great to be a criminal. Why don't you tell me all about the crime you also commit? Please speak into this microphone-looking thing on my douchebag sweater vest.
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Feb 3, 2018 00:06
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Arist posted:
"These are Ryuji and Maaku. When at the beach, don't stare at the girls like the horn-dog teen Ryuji. Instead, be like Maaku."
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Feb 3, 2018 00:27
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obligatory reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C6khcmGnss&t=189s
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Feb 3, 2018 00:42
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Akechi being all "MY MOTHER DIED AND I'VE HAD A ROUGH LIFE, FEEL BAD FOR ME  " completely out of the blue makes me think he has approximately zero real friends and he's desperately trying to make some.I can't tell if that paints him as pathetic, stupid, or a sociopath.
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Feb 3, 2018 02:21
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Kith posted:I can't tell if that paints him as pathetic, stupid, or a sociopath. How likely is it that Yusuke/Ryuji/neither of them would do the same? There's your answer.
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Feb 3, 2018 02:22
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Kith posted:Akechi being all "MY MOTHER DIED AND I'VE HAD A ROUGH LIFE, FEEL BAD FOR ME The closest we've seen to him hanging out with friends is when he's annoying Sae or annoying Maaku.
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Feb 3, 2018 04:22
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MightyPretenders posted:The closest we've seen to him hanging out with friends is when he's annoying Sae or annoying Maaku. Outside of TV interviews we only see him for about five minutes every month or two. For all we know he's leading his own band of spunky crime solving high school students and we just haven't run into them.
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Feb 3, 2018 05:16
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Stroth posted:Outside of TV interviews we only see him for about five minutes every month or two. The Ace Detectives-- just like the Phantom Thieves, except they wear argyle sweater vests instead of masks.
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Feb 3, 2018 05:23
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Stroth posted:Outside of TV interviews we only see him for about five minutes every month or two. Naoto Shirogane watched his show once. Completely stone-faced throughout. Her coffee cup came within a hair of shattering in her hand.
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Feb 3, 2018 05:28
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Maaku and Yusuke's faces when Futaba walks in with her towel face are great. I mean, they look dead.
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Feb 3, 2018 06:22
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SimplyUnknown1 posted:I think you're thinking of the wrong game there. Unless Akechi is secretly Adachi in disguise as an 18 year old boy. Beat me to it, but weren't they both referred to as "Young Detective" early in their respective games? Sure, Adachi was an actual police detective while Akechi is just seen as the second coming of Naoto, albeit only as a cheap knockoff, and the former should still be in jail at this time. Also, yeah that sympathy play at Leblanc by him was pretty drat blatant but still seemed to come out of nowhere and makes him seem like he's trying way too hard.
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Feb 3, 2018 07:21
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Nice outfit to be wearing during a heat wave Akechi.
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Feb 3, 2018 08:10
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Even without taking him being a pig into consideration, Akechi is a loving loser. The sweater is just the latest piece of evidence.
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Feb 3, 2018 08:31
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SimplyUnknown1 posted:I think you're thinking of the wrong game there. Unless Akechi is secretly Adachi in disguise as an 18 year old boy.  Put the twist behind spoiler bars please.Funky Valentine posted:Akechi didn't go full BITCHES N' WHORES mode when talking about his mother so we're in the clear. See, that's what he wants returning players to think. DeafNote posted:obligatory reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C6khcmGnss&t=189s I still can't believe that the Persona 4 Golden localization actually swiped fsteak. (for anyone that liked hiimdaisy/gigidigi go check out Cucumber Quest if you weren't aware already)
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Feb 3, 2018 12:26
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Snorb posted:The Ace Detectives-- just like the Phantom Thieves, except they wear argyle sweater vests instead of masks. Ace Detectives? More like Ace Defectives, Stupei.
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Feb 3, 2018 15:19
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ApplesandOranges posted:Ace Detectives? More like Ace Defectives, Stupei. Or like Dojima. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gzqwqCb8E
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Feb 3, 2018 15:32
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Please stop with the camera lingering on a view of the bare leg(s) of high school girls, thanks 
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Feb 3, 2018 15:53
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How much of the intended audience of this game are teenagers though? If there's anything I know about teenagers, it's that teenagers are perfectly capable of being horny bastards. I'm not saying that sexualising teenagers isn't creepy from the perspective of an adult, but it makes enough sense to me to have "sexy teens" for the sake of appealing to teens.
I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Stephen9001 posted:How much of the intended audience of this game are teenagers though? If there's anything I know about teenagers, it's that teenagers are perfectly capable of being horny bastards. I'm not saying that sexualising teenagers isn't creepy from the perspective of an adult, but it makes enough sense to me to have "sexy teens" for the sake of appealing to teens. It may well be true that the intended audience are teenagers, but that doesn't stop it being weird and creepy when the definitely-not-teenage writers and animators are doing this sort of thing.
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