Persona 4 Golden Boss Shadow Adachi and Ameno-Sagiri [Very Hard] 

"After School" well god forbid they kill a god during school

I don't say this to sound nitpicky, but if we're all being honest: There was never really a "Shadow Adachi". It's just Adachi. He has fully accepted his true self, there wasn't anything to really deny. I think it was just the unique power in the way he harnesses his Persona but there's nothing for Adachi to deny about himself. He has conviction in his actions and feelings.

“All I did was put people in here. It’s the world that really kills them, isn’t it?” But all I did was pull the trigger. It was the bullet that really killed them.

Adachi literally personifies this old Ethiopian proverb "The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."

"This will probably be our last battle... Let's hit him with everything we got!" Atlus' way of telling you that it's not the final battle

Yu: All women are QUEENS! (Draws sword) Adachi: If she breathes, she's a THOOOOT! (Cocks gun)

I guess he accepted his Shadow the moment he set his eyes on it.. and got his Persona..

33:30 So after all that, the thing that finishes him is a basic attack reflected back at him.

2:25 "Y'know why I applied? So I could legally carry a gun..." Naoto, who illegally carries gun as teenage detective : *heavy sweats*

Adachi: “Those who actually succeed in life just happen to be born with the magic ticket called “talent.” Once you realize that, all you have left in life is despair.” Johnny Young Bosch: Having war flashbacks on Bryce Paperbrook and their collab in Danganronpa 2.

So Adachi has his gun drawn and points it at the others, but never uses it? They should have given him a gun attack like Takaya. He says that he joined the force just to have a gun, so it makes sense that he would use it during this confrontation.

Adachi is the literally personification of the phrase “ _Some men just want to watch the world burn._ ”

It interesting that Adachi is the opposite of the Main Character, in how he acted and his Presona is Shadow version of his. So the Main Character finally gets to beat his shadow, but it's in human form.

39:24 Chie went through every emotion in the span of 2 seconds

The funny thing about all this is that Adachi wasnt wrong. Those with talent live such easier lives. This battle even proves it.

Mitsuo was the killer? No! Namatame was the killer? Nope! No wait, it was Adachi! Wrong! Ok, Marie? Heck no! *sarcastically* Lemme guess. It was the gas station attendant! Yeah, it muuuust be so! DING! DING! DING! You are correct!

35:37 This is easily Yosuke’s best moment.

I like how he threatens to kill you while holding a revolver throughout the entire fight ... which he never uses. I mean, if Persona 3 taught us anything, it's that Persona users aren't really that bulletproof.

You know, the scariest thing about Adachi as a villain is that he was actually right to some extent. It would be easier if we could live in our own fantasy worlds and not have to face reality. It also makes sense about how he talks about how more people are blessed with talent than others, and how sometimes things happen in your life that you can't control. These traits are what makes him a very well written antagonist in my eyes. However I don't think that destroying all of humanity along with our world would be an effective way to deal with it though! 😅

I always loved how Ameno-sagiri was just like "Aight, u beat me. No more fog lmao"

"Shadow Adachi". It's just Adachi.

Adachi just wants to live a quiet life as a shadow

Why can I imagine this is how adachi got his persona His shadow: your a complete an utter waste of space and the world would be better whith out you. You like to stay away from others because your afraid to atully have friends so you spend most of your time sitting alone contemplating how boring every thing is and if you eff up once it game over Adachi: true dat

1:55 if someone fills a hole with lava, and you threw people in it You’re the killer, not him

Persona 4 is a heroes game. But, in my opinion, Adachi is totally correct, it still doesn't excuse the things he's done. In the end, the reality of the real world is harsh and it'll kick your ass. Little Adachi's are born from it.

"Living is too painful for you, but you don't want to die...of course no one would understand! Because it makes no sense!" Actually, it does. The natural instinct of a human is to live, so naturally they'd be afraid of death. All those cases of people committing suicide is not only because of a distortive chemical reaction in their brain that leads them to doing so, but because their desire to die, at that point, blocked out their instinctive will to live. I mean there's a specific case of someone who tried to commit and half way from meeting with the ground, they began regretting their decision (They lived and told the story)...so it's not that far-fetched to be tired of living, but not want to die.

Adachi may be right in some ways about how life is easier for the talented. He is right in saying that but the end doesn’t justify the means here. Adachi is one of those characters that makes you think about the finest details in a story and presents an argument that is, in many ways, correct. Whenever an antagonist makes you question your outlook on the story or even the world itself you know they are a good antagonist and adachi is a prefect example of this.

He signed it to just be able to carry a gun wait a minute... babybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybabybaby

2:15 I mean he's right... look at the SIU director and the interrogators in Persona 5...

To me, the most disturbing part about the dialogue with Adachi before his fight is how for the first 90%, the portraits he uses are the normal ones he uses in regular conversations across the game. Because to him, wishing for the normal world to cease existing is as normal as an everyday conversation.

Holy shit naoto, utterly destroying him before the fight even begins

Adachi: Wow, I'm surprised you made it this f- Naoto: Allow me to confirm the crimes you have commited thus far nigga Adachi: *sighs* here we go again.

"Living is too painful for you, but you don't want to die... Of course no one would understand! It makes no sense" Sorry Yukiko, I have to disagree

I just realised that Adachi summons his Persona in a very similar way to Takaya from Persona 3

Honestly I kind of suspected adachi because it's always the one's you don't suspect

Adachi may sound like he has a point, but... He really doesn't. What defines success is subjective as it changes from person to person, it's true there's people who are born talented and get there faster, but that doesn't mean everyone else is a failure, everyone achieves success in their own way, the only true failures are those who give up at the end or refuse to develop their own talents like he did. He himself admits he only became a cop cuz he wanted to legally carry a gun, him being assigned to the small town of Inaba was also his own doing, he can whine all he wants that it was "one mistake", it had to be something bad enough for him to be sent away to where he wouldn't be much of a hindrance, even in his stint as a cop in Inaba, instead of actually learning from Dojima's teachings and kindness, he decided to just murder two women and manipulate the grieving lover of one of the first victim to go on a kidnapping spree hoping more deaths would ensue... In life you will notice the majority of people who embrace nihilism, are those who don't even want to bother getting out of the sad state of mind they put themselves in to begin with, they'd rather whine that the world dealt them a bad hand and declare themselves victims to avoid accepting responsability for their own life and actions.

I realized something, if you ever start to fall too deep into depression or a negative mind set you eventually begin to think alot like Adachi and that thought scares me because in a way it reminds me of the dark side in star wars

Our heroes found many things with meaning and value out in the "boonies" by accepting themselves and reaching out to each other. Adachi found nothing meaningful, because he'd rather blame reality itself for his own faults and never even tried to reach out to anyone.

I actually liked Adachi as a villain, mainly because i can relate to him. Just a bit, though. I’ve always isolated myself until my 18th. Obviously, I don’t put people in televisions, but i do smoke weed and play videogames to suppress my feelings because i have no one to talk to. Hell, my family ain’t much help either. They yell at me or scold me, but NEVER compliment me.

Remember this all happened because Adachi couldn’t get any bitches

Adachi : "everyone's lifespan is 80 years or so" Queen elizabeth : I'm about to ruin this man's whole career

Naoto literally called him out so hard. The only argument he had left was "Shut up". This game is so fucking good

Adachi proves his point by only having 4000 yen in his wallet 29:29

This is the first time I've seen this fight played without costumes.

Yosuke: When did we wish for that crap ayways!? Me: Persona 3 flashbacks

I-I still love Adachi..he has such a nice tone to his voice

I have to admit, what Adachi said in the beginning about talent is true in real life. But wiping out humanity isn’t the resolution

Adachi's strut is beautiful.

12:33 Adachi’s dying and he’s like “damn, this is pretty mid ngl.

"Living is too painful for you, but you don't want to die... Of course no one would understand! It makes no sense!" This has to be the worst and most heartless textbox in any Atlus game, wtf

41:32 - 41:34 Teddie there looks like he's havin' a seizure

"I'm 14 and this is deep".

Most people here in the comments seems to be forgetting the fact that Yu (literally, you) is talentless at the start of the game. Yu worked his way through to this finale. The key to complete this game is to work smart, not hard, and try to relate to people and your surroundings. Try apply that in real life no matter how awkward things are. Even the talented in the Investigation Team like Naoto, the child genius, and Kanji, his mastery in handicraft skill, are being troubled by their own talents. If it weren't for their efforts to face themselves, they're probably are going to carry those problems for the rest of their lives and become the next Adachi. On the contrary, Adachi himself is actually talented. Which is the reason why he is being ostracized by his peers before coming to Inaba. You all know this story better than me. But he is so stubborn for his belief that he is too late and too old to change his worldview. Even Namatame is a better person than Adachi will ever be if Adachi himself doesn't change his worldview. You all watched the Golden Ending, so you what I'm talking about Namatame. It's not impossible to change people's stigma. I rest my case.

Rise denies what Adachi says about talent impacting your lifestyle. Pretty fucking rich to hear from the pop sensation herself

When mitsuo was a longer and harder boss than adachi

Everyone in these comments: "Man Adachi's a bastard but he's right" Me: "Haha look, Teddy's got a BEAR claw!"

I just realized that the entities in P3 and P4 have inversed roles. What I mean is both have a goddess and an entity spawned from human desires. However: Nyx (P3 goddess) was brought upon humanity by Erebus (P3 entity spawned from human desires) Meanwhile, Ameno-Sagiri (P4 entity created from human desires) was probably brought upon humanity by Izanami (P4 goddess).

"Don't you remember what it was like when your Shadow came out? It must've been enjoying life far more than you." Only someone who's never encountered a Shadow self could say that.

"So, son, what were you up after school?" "Me and my friends killed a TV god" "Okay, be careful with those weapons, they're quite dangerous"

You know what I find interesting about how adachi summons his persona? Its the fact that he literally holds his head and screams in pain it proves that it still hurts to look at yourself and reject every part of it

When you listening to the Villain’s Speech and they lowkey making a lot of sense

Adachi: Come forth, Magatsu Izana- Yu: Get your own voice. Adachi: ..Pardon? I dunno what you're trying to- Yu: *ONLY ONE PERSON CAN HAVE JOHNNY YONG BOSCH VOICE THEM AND IT AIN'T GONNA BE YOU!*

The reason why i lost? It’s because i had no talent whatsoever.

"Talent", "Despair", "Hope"? What is this, Danganronpa?

Adachi is my favorite Persona character. Both in this game and for what they did with his character in Persona 4 arena

I do like how the adachi is the game’s way of telling you that this is what happens when you don’t touch enough grass

I like the part when adachi said "it's adaching time" and adachied all over the investigation team

This video is actually what got me to play Persona 4. Seeing Bosch play a villain and Adachi's theme were the driving force behind the first few hours of my playthrough. After that, the next 200+ hours were because the characters were fucking great, and imo, better than Persona 5's. That being the first Persona game I had played, finished 4 Golden, and am currently in September of P3P.

"I will become the ruler of the new world, and you won't be here to see it done" Johnny Yong Bosch: _getting violent flashbacks to Lelouch_

So JYB plays the protagonist and the final boss in this game. That’s awesome! It’s astounding what VA’s can do.

3:23 That's not very growth mindset of you Adachi

Yu and Adachi are just like two sides of same coin Both have Izanagi, voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch and their arcana is number 0

33:32 The ultimate “No u”

It’s appropriate to use Yosuke here because he killed the girl he was in love with

8:37 Rise, how the heck do you think he got in here in the first place?

Adachi vs Yu is just like Jotaro vs DIO in one aspect: Same type of Stand/Persona

Adachi truly lives in a society...

SPOILERSSS . . . . . . Am i the only one who found it ever so slightly annoying how many times this game was like "this is the *true* one behind this!" Ah it's Adachi ok! Oh.. now its Ameno Sagiro Ah.. now its Marie Now its izanami Uhh Ok? Mitsuo and Namatame i can excuse because they were red herrings in the mystery. Dont misconstrue this as me hating the game, i still love it to pieces. Jus a lil thing.

I remember those days when people hated Adachi for being cartoonishly evil. Only after recently that people begin to understand him, and perhaps even relating to him more than Yu.

What people dont understand is that life puts you in a mold and forces you to live in a system that provides to you the illusion of free will, so when you cant bear to live in this life you break, you either hurt yourself or others and i am the former, life is so incredibly shit and honestly i relate so much to adachi, im very similiar

This fight lasts three minutes if you have yoshitsune (with good strength, power charge and you use hassou tobi) and Chie with god hand and power charge

Persona 4 be like "this isn't even my final boss"

7:32 is when the battle with Adachi starts

Ah yes, Investigation Team, "No u" is the best arguement against valid statements

gotta say, when I'm younger, I'm on the side of investigation team, and wonder how could Adachi say that with straight face, but now when I'm older, I realize almost everything Adachi said is true

It pissed me off how the party responded. On some level I identifed with adachi and his opinions and was anticipating with how the party will reason him out of it. But all they did boiled down to "lol just get over it, no one but psychos like you think like that".

Adachi: making his epic speech in thanking them and saying his speech of how the world is boring and shadows should take over and his experience in humanity is lost Investigation team: ALLOW ME TO SAY YOU THREW THEM IN THE FUCKING TV WITH NO EMPATHY AND YOU MANIPULATED PEOPLE AND FAKED YOUR IDENTITY.

A young girl is in critical condition and you're laughing. You're laughing! Two people were killed in the last six months because of what YOU did.

Ironically. Adachi is right about life.

7:57 Looks like Evil Nero activated his Devil Trigger.

I can’t believe they finally caught the Miami Mutilator!

Anyone else realize that for all major story events all Naoto really does is summarize what's going on?

Does anyone notice the boy's name was "Makoto"?

Yosuke is voiced by the same guy as Sasuke They both awaken to a Susanoo. That is more than just a coincidence

Adachi did nothing wrong, he just wants a peaceful life in a simple duwang.

Studied more into adachi and now I feel super bad for him I just wish he didn’t do the things he had done

My favorite thing about the fight with Adachi is that he summons his persona by saying “Damn”, “Dumbass” or just laughing

3:35 Adachi is just the grown up version of Hajime who lost to Junko and became Izuru again

……so basically Adachi is the shadow of the Protagonist personified he’s a mirror 🪞 he’s what the protagonist could become if he wallowed in stagnation

bruh adachi's frown looks like a smile flipped upside down