at first I thought Aigis was just another typical clingy anime waifu trope. but her story arc, development and social link is so touching it legit made me cry in the ending portion of the game. one of my favourite Persona character ever
Yeah as soon as December started I started to love Aigis even more than I loved Yukari. And once she got her evolved persona and she grew as a person, she became my all time favourite
I find it's one way for her to ask for Forgiveness for forcing Pharos/Death/Ryoji into Makoto, and though it all even if he doesn't care most of the time, he really enjoys that Aigis is really giving it her all, even when she can't or doesn't understand being a human until the end.
@@Thomas-gx3md it doesn't really matter you had this heated discussion in another vid of Persona Q to put it bluntly who the hell cares you are an almost silent protagonist with the will to do whatever you like just accept the fact not everyone is gonna agree Makoto and Aigis are their OTP because it may be "canon" Atlus never said it was and they never will because its what YOU do in the game that counts not what some sneaky hints that point to a ship it happens all the time in games with no confirmation of Canon so in simpler terms stop trying to provr a point which is invalidated (In case it bothers you no I don't hate Makoto x Aigis it's one of the best developed relationships in the game but even I find it ridiculous to call it Canon)
@@candidpepper You are in denial dude, Aigis and Makoto are pretty canon. Atlus has went out of their way to ship Aigis with him since P3FES was released.
He vanished while he was lying on her... it's so sad bro I wish they can make another chapter and I think they shall call it "Persona 3 the movie #5 : Back to life"
What really gets me isn't the Aigis x Makoto ship, or this scene by itself, but the context. Spoilers: Makoto, having lost his parents at an early age, shut himself off from forming relationships. Even between strangers, he kept interactions to a bare minimum to avoid the pain of losing someone again. However, by some twist of fate, he meets the S.E.E.S. and is forced to cooperate with them in "some" capacity. At the same time, he's befriended by Pharos, a little kid who exists as a part of Makoto. Now, in the first movie, it's made clear that he has immense survivor's guilt and no longer fears death (even accepting it, and sometimes chasing after it). His immediate friends can see that and worry for their sullen friend who shuts his heart away. However, by the end of the first movie, he gains a modicum of a desire to protect his friends and the bonds he's formed. At least, for now, he has a reason not to die (as faint, and fickle, as it may be). Fast forward to the second movie and two new relationships are thrust into his life: Aigis and Shinjiro (the latter being the more important of the two for reasons I'll get into later). Unlike Shinji, Aigis forces her way into Makoto's life and stays attached to him at the hip. Whether or not he wants this, he is stuck with this relationship and will undoubtedly develop said relationship because of it. Shinji, on the other hand, is someone the veterans had a previous relationship with before severing ties with them due to a freak accident. At this point, Makoto still believes (or maybe understands) that relationships are fickle and can dissipate just as quickly as they formed. Because of this, upon realizing that they'll be putting an end to the dark hour soon, a dilemma gets thrust upon his shoulders: end the dark hour (and risk losing his bonds), or give up (and knowingly allow humans to be preyed upon by shadows if it means protecting his bonds). Unfortunately, him choosing the latter costs the team precious time in getting to Shinji when it mattered the most. Choosing to protect his bonds cost one of them their life. We close the second movie with this fact weighing on Makoto. This weight leads into the third movie where, immediately, Pharos bids farewell to Makoto with a solemn reminder that everything will end one day, bonds included. At this point, Makoto is at his lowest. He is terrified, not of dying, but of losing his bonds or worse, costing one of them their lives again. For a sizable portion of the movie, Makoto stops interacting with anyone from S.E.E.S. Terrified of this inevitability, he begins a downward spiral. Makoto begins to regress back to his character from the first movie. Except, this time, his survivor's guilt has created a suffocating weight of which only his bonds could help ease. "If his actions led to his friend dying, then he never deserved the responsibility and pleasure of having these relationships to begin with." It's at this point that Makoto heads out on his own. After coming across a mysterious young man, whose relevance will only become known after this scene, we are given strong implications as to his intentions. However, before he can carry out those intentions, Aigis tracks him down. Broken, beaten, worse-for-wear Aigis alone finds and stops him. Why? Because despite the inevitability of mortality, Aigis is the one person that breaks the mold and defies that universal standard. She is both tied to him at the hip, and will persist long after Makoto passes. This scene gets me because the implications that I mentioned earlier are further supported by the fact that Makoto is trying to get Aigis to leave him (severing his final bond and freeing himself to do what he set out to do). Makoto wants to commit suicide to prevent himself from killing another one of his friends, while also freeing himself from feeling the pain of loss that he felt with his parents, Shinjiro, and Pharos. Aigis saved him simply by reminding him that she will be by his side forever.
@@leakypeach6250 Yeah this just a really great character analysis. They did such a great job with Makoto in the films. They took what little the game presented and how fans interpreted as and just expanded upon it. It was so cool watching they movies and seeing how they made his character because it was like how interpreted him and I just thought they did an incredible job. He’s my favorite persona protagonist
@@Tabarnthebrave He's one of my favorite anime protags. The movie's interpretation of him provides such a sobering, and realistic portrayal of depression and lack of self-worth. He even has moments where he regresses after making so much headway (i.e. this clip).
This was a beautiful analysis, I whole heartedly agree. What elevates and strengthens the meaning of this for me are the lyrics of "Memories of You"/The end credits theme of Persona 3, as this analysis falls greatly in line with that song, the song which one could say is from Aigis' point of view.
Its very obvoius in the main campaign and afterstory that Aigis is the canon partner of Makoto Yuki. But for P5 Royal, even though they have a new playable girl character as the canon girlfriend, the actual pairing is someone you won't expect. Its more of an interpersonal relationship between 2 sides of the sane coin, which is Ren and Akechi. The remade link and 3rd semester role Akechi have is a bit akin to Aigis, though presented differently due to different story theme/circumstances. However, not sure if its intentional, Alechi and Aigis are way too similar in terms of story roles in the enhanced versions of the base games. Plus both are extremely popular characters in the jp community in the base despite the story not presented much. The remakes/enhanced versions made them loved even more. Plus Memories of You and Our Light is written in the same manner, a perspective (song) of an individual to their loved ones.
@@vanessachowjiaying4423 Just to add some clarity the two aren't "Lovers". In fact Akechi makes it clear he hates the MC more than anyone yet at the same time they respect and admire each other to. Seriously that social link especially the 8th link was brilliantly written
27Bayleefs when akechi says he "hates" mc he doesn't literally mean he hates him though. morgana even comments on this during the engine room scene, and multiple times throughout the game goro proves he actually cares for mc very much, and wishes things could've been different. it's less of akechi hates mc, but more of akechi is envious of mc for being able to grow from his past and outperform him even though akechi was trying his hardest to be the best due to his circumstances.
English VA for Makoto Yuki is married to the English VA for Mitsuru/Elizabeth in real life. Aka Makoto × Elizabeth is canon. That's not a joke btw, it's pretty cool. Tho Aigis is definitely 10× better than Misturu and Elizabeth.
I wouldn't go too close to a robot with such strong sparkles. They are probably either deadly or at least hurt a lot, but given the fact that these robots have like unlimited power it's gonna be death for you...
I watched this movie series like 4 times and I will never get bored of it... I am planning to watch it for the 5th time and I am sure that it will be as good as always.... This movie is a masterpiece 🖤
Although I really like Aigis I don't like how the movies removed many interactions between Makoto and Yukari (that always happen in the story of course, not the optional stuff) just so Aigis can have more time with him. (Though Fuuka got like extra two scenes which was nice).
@@Komoreb But it really just wasn't. As far as the game goes Aigis was as much side character as the others really and but had more scenes but it's only the ending ones. In the anime the way they changed the scenes to add Aigis didn't add anything at all to the story, heck it changed the original by a bit. Example: In the game right before December 31st Aigis evolves her Persona into Athena and pretty much becomes less robot, more human. When Makoto decides not to kill Ryoji Aigis just accepts that fact and even speaks with him for a bit. In the anime her character doesn't change at all throughout the whole thing and it's never even implied that Aigis became less robot and more human cause of the way they handled the Persona evolutions and how they (for some reason) removed the scene right after Makoto burns his bread and Ryoji speaks with the others in the Sea of Souls (or space thing, whatever you want to call it) where Aigis cries. On top of that when Makoto doesn't kill Ryoji Aigis becomes angry ??? and tries to shoots the shit out of Ryoji in the fucking dorm with everyone is next to her (that's extremely fucking dangerous). By changing and adding those scenes the anime made Aigis less likable than in the game and ruined her character progression.
@@thegamerfe8751 I think her trying to gun Ryoji makes sense because by that point, whether she acknowledges it or not, she has become fully human on the inside, as if she were still a robot on the inside she wouldn’t have acted so irrational in response to how Makoto was handling the crisis at hand, and she wouldn’t have expressed genuine panic and despair at SEES’ decision. Aigis’ biggest insecurity was that she wasn’t a human like the rest of her comrades, that she’ll never be truly like them, but that scene, as well as the following scene where Makoto finds her on the school rooftop, is supposed to show the audience that Aigis is already like them. SEES’ recognizes it, but Aigis didn’t until later. No robot with competent specific programming would make an irrational choice, no robot would feel or express distraught over another entity’s decision, and no robot would ever get emotionally attached to anyone. Humans can be irrational, humans can feel distraught, and humans can become attached to someone else. Aigis experienced all of those things, so in that sense she’s human.
@@thatoneguy5343 if it made sense then it would have happened in the game, but in reality that scene happened just so Aigis can get more screen time because apparently the people working on the anime just fanboy her too much.
@@thegamerfe8751 That I won’t deny. I think the scene in the movie actually suits her more as I found it really odd in the game that she just accepted Ryoji as a friend even though he almost killed her last month and their past history.
I know Persona 3 'tried' to avoid having a for sure love interest but gid damn did they fail. I mean, implied or not.... the game, *ESPECIALLY* FES made it so obvious that it was Aigis that you'd have to be dumb, deaf, and blind on rop of completely not understanding either Japanese or English to muss the ship that is Makoto and Aigis. And the movies practically spell it out for you in loud and obnoxious neon letters. Yeah there's shades of Yukari, I guess... but holy shit does it feel one sided as fuck from that angle. Add in theeur backstory and yeah, these 2 are about as meant to be as you can get in a Persona game. Oh, there's also Elizabeth, but I get the feeling that those 3 could make an OT3 wirk out. She's got the 2nd most blatant ship tease and she, as of post P3 'did' leave the Velvet Room to try and free his soul. ...Tho, P3 dis atart the trend of VR Attendants being pretty much the secret/2nd love interest to the MC, with Jojer being an idd case cuz Lavenza is basically 3 girls in one.... which is hella hot. ...But I digress. My point is... Nakoto x Aigis!
Everything's much easier with and android...They obey orders without ever complaining, they can cook, discuss philosophy with you, have intimate relationships according to your desires and they never say no. Obviously they are the perfect partner... Everyone deserves happiness, why deprive yourself for so-called moral reasons when a machine can make you happy?
Bro Aigis is literally having a short circuit and she is a robot. The moment that guy kiss her he fucking dies. Although well he hugged her havin freaking earphones. . .forget I said anything 🤣
feel stupid for asking, but this video is. awfully high quality considering p3's release. does this come from the p3p port or was there new persona 3 media released?
Dude if you played the games especially FES you know that even Yukari admitted she wasn't as close to Makoto as Aigis was. Which sadly meant she had even more reasons to try and kill her when she had the chance in The Answer. At least it ends well for her and Yukari isn't grieving and being jealous anymore about her father, Makoto, her mother or Aigis. Now that I think about it the only development she had was that she stopped being jealous of Mitsuru and stopped blaming her familiy. Which was a HUGE step having in count she was literally in the team looking for an opportunity to kill her and her father.
