Obnoxious

Yohohooo, while P4 prolly isn't my most faved Persona game, the colorful themes and all new designs sure added some fresh mint into the too dark of a world created by Kazumi Kaneko

Besides I like Shigenori. I like Stella Deus, so i don't mind ATLUS incorporated his style into this game. Anyway, let's enter to the world behind the TV!!

Well, to tell you the truth, the storyline didn't differ that much from the game.

We still had the protagonist, but he wasn't silent anymore. Instead we got this cool banchou that's just a bit quiet with a bit of expression


Yuu just moved from his hometown to Inaba, a quiet little city in a quiet little somewhere. He stayed with his macho uncle Ryotaro and his cute little cousin Nanako. Along the way to his new home, he met with a gas station attendant, whom i'm sure if you had played the game and met the true ending, you'd want to shake hands with him too... And then Yuu got a little bit dizzy, but the story goes on.

The quiet little city suddenly went busy when a murder happened, an Enka singer suddenly found hanging on a telephone pole (the dead pose was scary, ATLUS still hasn't lose their touch nee?) and a lot of buzz followed after the story. But our Yuu was a hipster, so he didn't care much about the case. He enjoyed a normal school days and met with his new friends in the class, Yosuke, Chie, and Yukiko. Those friends were just like any other teenage students, they loved silly rumors! So the newest rumor was looking into the TV in the middle of a rainy night to meet with your future love!

silly, i know

but that didn't stop them...

and so they tried to prove it the next night, and THEY all really saw someone. Funny enough, it was a girl, so they couldn't be the future love of every other girls staring at the TV, right? Yuu was confused, so he touched the screen, and he almost got sucked into the TV (i'd like to try that someday... could they use any other screens?) The next day they shared the story and tried it on a bigger flat screen in Junes. Through a very silly event, they all fell into the TV. After a few minutes of walking around, they found a scary room with damaged posters of the Enka singer. And then they got out after talking with a very huge bear who liked to make unfunny pun. I know it didn't make any sense. Enjoyed the anime anyway.

a few moments later, they realized the girl that they saw on TV was from their school, in fact it was a Junes worker that Yosuke liked so much. So they decided to get back into the TV. A little bit too late though, seeing the girl had been dead a day before. But maybe they could catch the culprit inside the TV world. Together with Yosuke, Yuu entered the TV and found another part of the TV world, the one that looked exactly like some street shops in Inaba. Guess what they found?

Shadow Yosuke!

You know, i kinda missed this shadow characters, simply because they didn't have it in P3. Crazy and twisted shadows in P2 was a fun target for killing (and exercising fusion spell or testing your new weapon. And the game's title was persona, you had to fight your own shadow, right?), so i was glad they got back in the game. And in the anime.

Too bad the characters themselves didn't have real weapons (when highschoolers brought long swords and kunais, you'd wonder what they were studying at school. Fuck logic, it was a japanese RPG!). Anyway, here's where Yuu showcased his usefulness for the first time.


Yeah, no slashing using your own weapon and battle around like a true warrior (P3, anyone?). Instead you got this synchro style where those big bad shadows copied your every movement (God Gundam, anyone?) It wasn't as exciting as the game, im telling you. And their movements were way too slow! But whatever to keep the anime going.



After a few good slash and a moment of exposition, finally Yosuke realized the shadow was himself. This sudden realization put a glitch in the already-turned-to-monster-shadow-Yosuke, and the monster reverted back to himself. And Yosuke accepted him. And tada! Jiraiya! Yey for frog faced Ninja! Your go to guy for windy scenes.

Then the story moved on to Chie. The TV later showed that Yukiko was different, very different, she was trying to score a hot stud (i'm embarrassed, really) and entered a big castle. Chie, being the best girlfriend of Yukiko tried to rescue her, together with Yuu and Yosuke. I remembered that just a kick from her could kill a stupid low grade shadow, but here she ran very fast before the shadows could confront her. She left Yuu and Yosuke in the dust, making the two busy mopping down the floor with every shadow that got in their way. I wonder why no money or other stuffs came out of those dead shadows? poor gang for doing unpaid job.



But before they found Yukiko, Shadow Chie presented herself first! It was kind of lame, yeah she was tomboy, but beautiful and people still could tell her gender (unlike that certain last character). Apparently she never saw those plus side of hers and went on envying Yukiko, poor girl... Then her shadow self turned into a long haired dominatrix supported by 3 of pale Chie(s) (okay that was awkward...)


And then we had Tomoe Gozen, the girl with Bruce Lee costume and weird helmet drawn with very thick lips and complemented with a Naginata, your go to girl for physical and icy attacks. Okay, let's move on.

Yukiko was a real damsel in distress, she tried to find her prince charming (Chie? are you serious?) for a happy ending fairytalesque mode. Not gonna happen. Ever. Should i mention again about her traditional inn in the middle of a quiet little city in a quiet little somewhere? So yeah, prince charming was so nooooot gonna happen (but maybe Natsume could happen, just saying).


And it was revealed that Chie was the reason behind her obsession with red and thousands of her red sweaters (or maybe she only had one and had never washed it ever since). She turned to be a harpy (not creative? okay...). Yeah, really taking this 'beautiful bird in a golden cage' story too much, she happened to be a red harpy with human head and sat in a cage (awkwaaaard)


After the defeat of red harpy, we got Konohana Sakuya, a very big pink tokusatsu girl with mask and big pink flower petals... whatever. She's your girl for fire and healing spells. Nothing snowy about her at all.

also a little bit of comment


Equip him and pray you don't get iced! That's the rule of that world. That harpy didn't stand a chance against this Jack if she kept using fire. Who the heck writes this part? Certainly needs to replay the game, that idiot.


that's it right now for part 1, stay tuned for part 2.

Maybe later, maybe never, but whatever, have fun!

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