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That is an interesting analysis, I knew part of the mythological stuff but the part about Naoto or Teddie it really had surprised me. I think that a character that should have been taken in consideration even if she isn´t a party member is Marie by her ties with Izanagi too. SPOILER I think that her dungeon is a representation of Izanagi and Izanami´s story. She is going to die, Yu goes to the tomb to save her, he discovers that she is a monster but this time she is brought back instead of being abandoned. Yep I know it has nothing in reference to the 3rd personas but I love how the story ties everybody with the MC.
Don't worry Marie has her own segment going fully into this and her character. Her dungeon, boss, social linl etc - but yeah she doesn't have a persona so including her here doesn't make sense. The other forms of the maincast's personas are also given in their respective character segments
They all look great to okay by themselves, but this is the game where Soejima got lazy and made literally every evolution a palette swap of their initial Persona. He started with it in P3, but only in certain cases, and I thought he finally let it go by P5, but of course not. They look so shitty. Kaneko didn't have this problem, literally all of P2's Personas are wholly unique in their evolutions.
@@manuelmateo3392 Personas in P2 were sprites. Personas in P4, on the other hand, all have 3D models and the game had a small budget so, of course, they'd have to cut corners. Video game designers can't just draw whatever they want and expect modelers to put them in. It's not being lazy, it's working within limitations. Kaneko also makes a ton of palette swaps in games where all demons are rendered in 3D.
My favorite persona in the series is Izanagi, but I always laugh at the fact that because of his design many japanese fans call the protagonist of 4 "Banchou" as in a gang leader type of way. I myself thought he looks more like a male oendan (cheerleding squad) member with his white hachimaki and black gakuran paired with the fact that Konohana Sakuya looks like a Cheerleader, the female counterpart to the male oendan clothing. Izanagi is the male to Izanami's female after all.
These videos are really interesting, the fact that your doing far more than just saying the backstories of the Persona's, but also correlating how they tie in with the characters personalities is really cool!
Thank you! I'm trying to deep dive into things, although this is still very light research for what is coming with the individual cast segments in the main party. I'm looking forward to it!
Thank you! This one was definitely a bigger editing load than some of the others but the topic is also much more snappy. The research took forever though haha
These vids remind me of SnicketySlice's ultimate persona compendium series, a lot more depth than the surface level game/story analysis that informs me of all the stuff I wish I knew about the game's background. Probably the best P4 analysis I've seen on this site
Thank you! He and Tonry4you are really the only consistently good analysis I enjoy in the scene. Snickety's videos are very good quality and I wanted to go just as indepth and hopefully further. I'm happy to see this specific comparison
I believe you used some characters' 2nd tier personas instead of 3rd tier. For example, You used Rakuten Maoh for Kanji, but his 3rd persona is Takeji Zaiten
That's something I mention in Yukiko's and the protagonists parts. Yosuke, The protag, Yukiko, and Kanji's 3rd forms are simply more formal sounding, less common names for their second forms. But mythologically they are the same being. Yosuke goes from Susano to Susano'o- the o is for extra formality and denoted greater godliness but basically they mean the same and thry both refer to Susano
This is so interesting! I think the relationship between the characters and their personas is such a neat path to explore. I always get a new perspective when I hear someone talk about it
I wanna watch this video but I’m still playing persona 4 my playthrough is going well. I’m just kinda suck at shadow kanji. Nvm just realised there was no spoilers in the video while writing this comment.
@@HidinginPrivate if your talking about the party members don’t worry I’ve already been spoiled on who they are plus I don’t really consider it a spoiler anyways. Also amazing video
just want to stop here and say this series is amazing!!! i've been watching out of order so far but now i'm on the playlist and watching those that i haven't seen yet. genuinely impressed with the quality, sincerity and research put into these, and i hope this series does well for you!!
These videos are great however I think dropping as one big vid maybe on the day of persona 4 release on all console will net you the most views, but yeh one big vid would make me more likely to watch through, just one flow, set it and forget it i guess. Especially as large super long analysis becoming a more and more popular genre on youtube, either way keep doing what you doing
Wuh woh! I listened to the elusive hiding-kun and now I’ve left a comment on a RU-vid video right after liking!!! Well, it couldn’t be helped I suppose.
Thanks! I sure am. I spent 4 months researching and doing all the scripts/gathering over 50 hours of footage before I dropped the first video. Still have a lot before I'm finished behind the scenes but it's mainly audio and video stuff.
Some of them are I guess? Yukiko, Yosuke, and Kanji are just different names for their second form, but Naoto, Rise, and Chie are entirely different characters in terms of mythology. That's all I can assume you mean by your initial comment
So true! Unfortunately I just couldn't separate her Ultimate Persona lore meaning from other significant parts of her character and arc, so they'll be in her own video once it drops
Wait guys he’s replying to every comment I wouldn’t have made that last one so silly if I know he’d see it! Well uh, now your comment section is a even 80.
Not for a while. The party member videos will come out later since I'm trying to trend the videos on sort of a zigzag from shortest to longest and Rise's video is 47 minutes long haha. You may be able to see edit previews on Patreon though. I dropped one of the Yumi, Ryotaro, Story Analysis, Ai and living world videos earlier today.
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