Persona Compendium: The Symbolism Behind Arsene 

"Arsene was never intended to accompany you throughout your journey" Just you wait. Once 5 is on steam I'm never letting him leave. I did it with Izanami and I'll attempt it again. ...as long as 5 doesn't murder my laptop.

i want to see the symbolism behind Raoul 'Arsene's 3rd form'

I would love to see a thanatos version of this

Arsene is definitely my favorite starting Persona thematically and design wise. Good content!

I love Arsene so much, despite being quickly overshadowed by other Personas, I tend to level him up and keep him in most playthroughs of Royal (and OG P5 but now I don't play that at all). Strikers is amazing because they gave Arsene a huge buff and made him a viable Persona to keep with you. Some people have even put out endgame Gun/Technical builds for Arsene. My favorite thing, that I'm surprised you didn't mention, is P5/Royal hinting at Arsene's inspiration in the form of a question in class. I can't remember the exact question or even what date it was on but I knew a bit about the gentleman thief thing before watching this.

i would love to see one for Izanagi , Magatsu-Izanagi and izanagi-no-okami

I would personally love to see the Personas of the gentle madman himself, Azathoth and Adam Kadmon. I think that would be pretty awesome. I really enjoyed this video, and I'm excited to see this expand as a series!

I'd love to see Goemon, Carmen, and Johanna

No matter how bad Arsène is I will always use him, that's what's fun about Arsène is making him good despite how awful he is.

the thumbnails, the content, the confidence in your voice... how exactly do you not have thousands more subs?

Imagine the guy who's name is Arsene playing Arsene. 🌚

Marie's Persona Kaguya is a personal favorite

Something that I thought was fascinating is that, according to TV Tropes, the fact that he is a French thief with wings is in and of itself, a cute nod to the French word “Voler” which not only means “to steal” but “to fly.” I love wordplay. Especially subtle foreign wordplay.

Yes!!!!!!! We need more videos like this one that talk about Persona 5's Themes and Symbolism. I never understand "P5 doesn't have a enough sustance" or ''P5 does a bad job with their message" criticises. P5 got a lot of sustance from Phantom Thieves Persona, The Palaces, The Music and even the color red that shows in the game. Thank You, Keep it up.

The coolest starting persona for the MCs

Ngl the "wings of freedom" mistake gave me some Sasageyo vibes...

I love Arséne’s design and I am angy that you have to get rid of him so early on

I read Arsène Lupin before playing Persona 5 and i’ve always loved the symbolism behind this choice and Arsène’s design. Nice video, it seems you made a lot of cool vids so i’ll make sure to check these out and subscribe

The casts Personas and lore are super interesting so I would love to see videos on them. Keep up the great content, I can see you blowing up soon with all the analytical videos.

You have great videos you should have so mutch more subs

You should really do a video on Valjean! I love how deeply his story ties into Zenkichis character arc.

Wow, I had no idea the lore behind Arsene ran so deep! I can't wait to see you do these for the rest of the Phantom Thieves' Personas, and hopefully then we'll see some about the Personas of the playable characters from the other games.

Ahh, okay, so that's why Robin Hood is given to Akechi. Then, it changes to Loki because instead of doing for others, Loki only does for himself.

quality video. criminally underrated, even. that combined with the suggestion of our goddess has earned you a subscriber

Well, you've definitely earned a sub. As for requests, let's go with the evolution line of Mr.Phantom thief himself, Ryuji. Captain Kid, Seiten Teisei, and William.

Fantastic Video! Thanks for the very well presented insights!

You have to talk about loki and robin hood

Aight this a fire series. Lowkey wanna see futaba’s personas on this series.

I’d love to see a version with Loki’s different personas. Robin Hood, Loki, and Hereward

Something like this deserves so many more views.

Izanagi and the rest of the P4G gangs personas would be cool!

Subscribed, but only because I want you to cover some of the main personas of Persona 4 and showcase the history and culture they are based on. Great video. :)

Great video I'll be sure to subscribe

I always thought that Arsene looked like Dante's Devil Trigger design from DMC3 but in a fancy suit

I love his design which we could have kept him till end game. Btw you get a sub from me love your voice

This channel deserves wayyyyy more subscribers

Cool video dude! I really love this kind of lore videos about personas and their inspirations. Keep on the good work!

I would love see Kasumi's Cendrillon Analysis 👀✨✨

nice video

I've seen Arsene before

This is a really, really good video, dude. I'd love to see more of these.

real chads keep their initial persona. Why yes I DO have a lvl 78 Arsene with Cleave

Of all the Persona's in P5R I think one of the most interesting persona's are the one Yoshizawa has. Cendrillon and Ella has interesting parallels to Yoshizawa's character and story which is a foil to the tale Cinderella. I fell like if you were to compare the elements of the cinderella fairy tale and people's positive and negative preconceptions of the character to Yoshizawa's story you'll definitely get an interesting analysis. Because while you can say that Yoshizawa's story is the tale of cinderella, Yoshizawa herself is not merely cinderella but also the step-sister in her own story. I guess what im trying to say is that Yoshizawa's story is a story about the step-sister that becomes cinderella. Simultaneously, Yoshizawa's story is also the transformation from the lazy "false" Cinderella that was handed over a happy ending by a spell cast by the fairy godmother (the cynical interpretation of the fairy tale) into the industrious "true" Cinderella that though helped by the fairy godmother worked and earned her own happy ending. (the idealistic interpretation of the fairy tale) There's also the glass slipper motif that fits her narrative quite well. I feel that Yoshizawa starts of as the step-sister figure that can't fit trully fit the shoes of her older sister and that she has to cut a part of herself in order to wear the glass slipper that could not have worn in the first place. The stepsister in the tale cuts of her heels in order to fit the shoes and pretend to be Cinderella while Yoshizawa cuts off her own identity to pretend to be her sister. But as grows by understanding her sister's point of view (being in her shoes) she comes to find a way to make those shoes her own and strive to live for her sister's dream and happy ending.

I immediately fell in love with Arsené when I first used one of his abilities when I played Strikers around this time last year and I’m currently 1 month into Royal and Im at Furaba’s change of heart arc

[Some minor Persona 5 spoilers ahead] Maybe I'm looking too deeply into it, but I noticed that Morgana's second Persona, Mercurius, had wings styled very similarly to Arsene's wings on his shoes. When I first saw this, I immediately made the connection and assumed it might be a reference to how Joker has helped uplift and elevate Morgana towards freedom throughout the game, so putting the wings belonging to Arsene as a symbol of freedom would make a cool connection. Maybe I'm just looking for symbolism where there is none, but it's an interesting thought. Anyways, awesome video! Keep up the good work! Edit: lesson learned, editing a comment un-hearts it, weird.

This is gonna blow up, I just know it

Nice to see that Arsene remembered who he was going to be before Atlus retconned that idea.

His liver has shut down.

Great video! I wonder if you would do izanagi?

I need more vídeos like these

I love pretty much everything about persona 5 especially the symbolism. Since you've done Arsene would you consider doing Orpheus or Izanagi?

Great video keep it up

You're really not going to mention that he was originally going to be Mephisto?

3 waifu: arsene intended to be fused into something more powerful me who make cracked up max stat gun shatter aresene with ice and light imunity and seth cracked up passive infuse, while using two gun amp accessory with unlimited ammo in strikers : I beg to differ

Arsene is the coolest Persona🤩🤩🤩🤩

okay, i know this video is almost two years old but i want to share a possible explanation why Arsene, as a starting Persona, has two weaknesses and why it's Ice. Joker's Persona as we figure later is heavily based on Satan and if you had read Dante's Divine Comedy, *_Satan is trapped inside the ice_* . From the book: " *_... Satan's bat-like wings are flapping, creating a cold wind that freezes the ice firmer. Dante stands dazed and shaken in the presence of this hideous being and can only attempt to describe him._* *_Satan is bound in the ice to his mid-point and has three faces - a red one, a yellow one, and black one. In each of his three mouths he chews a sinner._* " " *_...trapped in the ice, punished as the rest of the sinners, perhaps worse._* " Arsene in his vow says about being readsy to conmit any sacriligeous acts for 'thy justice'. So Joker, and essentially Arsene, sees himself as a sinner that is punished whose is bound by chains and ice and whose role is to punish other sinners, Which is, what he does in the game by stealing treasures of the *_Sinners_* . edit: formatting for pretty looking text lol

can you make a symbolism video on the persona spinoffs(persona Q and Q2 on the 3ds)? (if you haven't already) id love to hear your own interpretations on the dungeons and bosses.

I watched when I was on my way with a PS5.

The butler suit makes him look more like Arséne though

I’d love to see some one Akechi’s personas (Robin Hood, Loki, Hereward)

I doubt anyone cares, but I’ll just go ahead and say, that “corset” is called a waistcoat, and the spiky heels are called stilettos

I would love to see a video on raoul he was supposed to be in the original game but they made DLC in persona 5 royal but it's still jokers persona

Maybe you can do Orpheus or Izanagi too

Maybe Captain Kidd or Seitan Taisei?

Izanagi?

Oh yeah you can say Joker is hot, but you can't say Arsene is hot?

Would you that for the shin megami tensei demons?

4:17 - 4:27

Do Valjean

:)

It's not that deep, chill dude.

I love this game so much but I’m absolutely terrible at it