Gamers React to: Yusuke's Awakening | Persona 5 

Yusuke: "how many dreams have you trampled on?" Madarame: *How many slices of bread have you eaten?*

People getting squeamish over Yusuke grinding his fingertips is morbidly amusing.

"Though the flowers of evil blossom" For those unaware, this is a reference to Baudelaire's poems collection, regarded a masterpiece in the art of Poetry, Fleur du Mal/Flowers of Evil. Baudelaire was criticizing society in his poems of how clean society wants to be and how society antagonizes and vilifies a certain group of people, like the disabled, the gamblers, the poor, the prostitutes etc. Baudelaire believed that evil itself is how we treat these people as it is the hypocrisy of society itself to vilify these people as they tend to be victims of the society we create ourselves, yet we like to act society needs to be clean. We are evil in creating these people out of our vanity towards society and treat them like less and thus, we tend to create evil itself at times. People want a clean society and yet, with every second we live, we actually do a huge part in doing the very opposite and make life miserable for people and and antagonize the same people and be condescending to them. "Abominations are fated to perish!" The Abominations are not the ones we look down upon, it's those who act all proper and clean but tend to be the most wicked. Like Madarame who sends people into poverty once no longer useful to him but likes to look down on them, when it is him who creates their situation in the first place. "The world is filled with both beauty and vice, it is time to teach which is which" Society pretends there tends to be beauty only and the wicked is shunned. It's because society is so vain to be proper that we have a set of principles of what makes beauty that we label everything else not in our views as vice. And this revolves how vice is merely created by us and how we need to understand how beauty corrupts society. Beauty in itself is vice for it creates it. We need to stop judging and realize that there is beauty in itself in the wicked side of society for we tend to be why they tend to be the way they are.

For those who still need to know, Goemon was a famous ninja - a type of Robin Hood of Japan. The appearance of Yusuke's Goemon is styled after traditional ukiyo-e paintings, but with extra details reminiscent of modern Japanese delinquents.

The way how yusuke grinning before entering the fight is really hyped

10:53 that was quite impressive how bittersweet gamers were able to guess that Goemon would be Yusuke's persona. I am impressed.

Fun fact goemon was a theif who was active in Japan during the mid to late 15th century who made a large amount of wealth by stealing from Japanese nobility if memory serves he accumulated more money than some of the richest people on earth during his life. By today's standards goemon stole a fortune similar to the amount Steve jobs has made in his life

Yusuke is so sick

More people picked "Let's see what you're made of" than "You got this?"

Can we just take a moment to notice Yusuke doesn't even flinch when he takes of his mask?

Yusuke’s the reason I wish there was an option to date the guys, wether it be gay option or female protagonist option

When he says “A breathtaking sight” is so darn satisfying.

Honestly, my favorite awakening! When he grinds he nails on the floor and blood drips from his fingers!!! That shit makes me shudder!

Out of all of the palace owners, Madarame is the one I hate the most, I know what it's like to be betrayed by a parental figure and figure out their true nature, so it just kinda hits home for me.

It's about time someone does a group reaction to P5 scenes. You are a legend

When I saw that Goemon had Ice Affinity, I was like: "Goddamn it. Now I have to sacrifice Jack Frost :("

Congrats on getting your persona Chrom.

We went from pervy dude trying to get Ann to model nude to persona wielding badass (he was never pervy obviously just an awkward artist)

I just remembered that Yuuske's voice was done by Matthew Mercer

I have seen this awakening too many times. I can nearly or perfectly repeat these lines for goemon and yusuke

I'll never get sick of watching him awaken.... What I found interesting, is that Yusuke goes from screaming and writhing, back to calm and collected before gracefully ripping off his mask - he is the only one who manages to somewhat chill before their persona manifests (apart from the last two, but their awakenings are different to begin with). And yet, he still has the best rapeface afterwards. His scream at 4:05, especially in the Japanese dub, still makes my blood freeze everytime I hear it. As for the finger thing: Am I the only one who looked at that and thought how fucking strong he must be to push his left (weak) hand so fiercely onto a smooth surface that he would tear his skin? Yeah, I know, Metaverse and such, still. I was like .. "Oh fuck the hell yes". ... I'm probably going to hell for this, but I found that weirdly hot.

It's fun watching Arnold (MurderOfBirds) all over again. First Persona game, he had only a small clue what he was in for, and he was so into it by this point.

"What's with this pokemon bullshit?" "Isn't that a digimon?" me: *face desks so hard* you people need to get CULTURED

*KITAGAWA-KUN!?*

I love how Goemon appears doing a Kabuki pose

Yusuke is best boy.

I feel like Persona 5 hardwires this song into the players' mind, so the instant they hear it the are fully awake

That floor claw still scares the shit out of me

Basically, Goemon was the Japanese Robin Hood. He stole from the rich to give to the poor during Feudal Japan.

Hearing Yusuke make speeches like this just ends up reminding me of Chrom (FE:A). Yeah, yeah, they probably have the same VA, but it's the _way_ of speaking, rather than the voice this time. Kinda ironic, though.

He baby. Someone give him a hug please.

A breathtaking sight indeed. ;P

Goemon actually reminds me of jiraiya

9:20 Shenpai?!

He's a shogun actually. Yuskue's persona. Goemon was a samurai long ago. Pretty famous one. Basically the equivalent of Robin Hood in the West. Not a Pokemon..

I love that he straight up turns the guards to solid ice with his awakening. Like, b r u h

When Yusuke said “what a breathtaking sight” I was like that’s not the first thought that comes to mind

If you combine Yu and Yosuke, do you get Yusuke?

How many of us know this scene, line by line?

So Yusuke is voiced by Mat Mercer who also voices Chrom and Jotaro in the dub. Goemon looks like he got the Josuke hair. He shares vc with Kanji in persona 4, In my opinion Yusuke is as close to joker as Yosuke is to Yu Narukami. Yusuke always spends time with Joker and it actually feels natural while Ryuji kinda drags Joker along. Yusuke is my favorite persona character. Such a greatly written character.

“A breathtaking sight... Imitations they may be, but together, they make a fine spectacle... Though the flowers of evil blossom, be it known... Abominations are fated to perish!”

I love how so many people pick "Let's see what you're made of"

fun fact: goemon's eyes seems to be inspired on the old japanese art, if you search for goemon on google you will instantly notice it

i know barely anything about kabuki theatre, so i won't really elaborate, but i think it's really cool that goemon has the music style of kabuki in the background and does the sort of dramatic pose thing they do in traditional japanese theatre. like how goemon shakes his head and then poses. there's so many interesting things to pay attention to during yusuke's awakening

I’m just gonna say it: I’m a simp for him.

Yusuke is BEST BOI

Chronos' isn't that a digimon. What a mood

The smile Yusuke makes at the end when joker delivers his line before the fight makes me think of Sasuke

Did anyone else notice that Cohh had the exact same pose as Yusuke at 1:33? XD

Does anyone know Yusuke's reaction to "You better not run away."?

tfw you played both mystical ninja and samurai warriors and see Goemon in this game

Yusuke is 100 percent my favorite character in p5

You should've kept going with TheMusicalGamer's reaction. The funniest part is in Yusuke's first battle.

5:58 Unfortunately Yusuke, you are correct

* The imitations surrounding you make a fine spectacle... * You question how many HOPES and DREAMS Madarame has exchanged for riches * Your heart is filled with REBELLION

5:55 it's THAT DUDE

When I first saw this I though he looked just like jiraiya with that pose of his He did the ya yoooooo

First. Love persona 5

Ti3ejejek I love yusuke and i want to watch this video but watching him scrape is fingers across the floor more than once is making me qweezy

I haven't realized ann gloves were pink (focusing on other part of her) on my first gameplay, until im binge watching this reaction..

Do gamers reacting to Ryujis sacrifice

The most badass in my opinion of all awakenings because of how badass what he says is

I'm probably the only person who ever clicked on "You better not run away" XD Mind you, I didn't choose that to chastise him... at least that's what I was thinking at the time. I chose that because I thought that was more of a encouraging line out of the three lol ^^; I dunno. Did anyone else click on it?

2:11 Yusuke Reeves

The Awakening theme is so good at building hype.

Goemon looks like Josuke

My precious boy

needed to include the dialog at the start of the battle

lol Shenpai seems to have been a little grossed out by the finger pain hmm

Get these lads some painkillers If you throw your ass on the ground thats one sick ass migraine

Goamon The Mystical ninja

I love Matthew Mercer in this game.

everybody loves yusuke. i love him even more than kanji from p4 mainly because yusuke is more unintentionally hilarious.

5:10 - Seems Azazel stood out in his voice slightly

This game gave us goosebumps until the end

Yusuke: "Goemon Ishikawa, IS IN THE HOUSE." Ren: "YoooOOOOO~!!!"

I'm just here for the fingernail part.

Nobody; Yusuke: *Whole giant speech planned*

Okay I’m now convinced the bittersweet guys are geniuses for guessing Goemon

Goemon was the Japanese version of Robin Hood, but Goemon was real.

Yusuke best boy

I think Goemon is my favorite persona lore wise

given all the lupin the third inspiration in this persona making one of them Goemon was probably a given

Yusuke best pretty boy and is second best boy next to akechi

Goemon is always hype

When the DM has had enough.

One of my favs

9:00 “🎶Old Macdonald had a farm-“

i wonder what they would says wehn the see yusukes newst personas form

The only awakening that is better than this is ryuji’s. It’s better because when he screams as he rips off his mask makes me have goosebumps.

Nobody knows even the name Goemon??? Come on!

Is he gay or European?

Matt Mercer gave this shit his all

I know that each persona game is entirely separate from each other. But I still want a explanation as to why the awakenings keep changing!!!

The best awakening because saying Jokers is cheating

Am I the only one that chose "you better not run away"?

5:03 - Yoshimitsu.

I feel goemon should have been like hoowah

Hey where ma boi etika and when Makotos awakening?

Ripping off face = cool Fingers grinding on floor = so you would like crush coal into diamonds with your bottom hole?