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Is Marie's name actually supposed to be Marie?

This is pretty random, but... Marie's name is written in katakana as マリー and pronounced Marii. This isn't weird at all - for example, Marie Antionette and Marie Curie are also マリー.

Typically, the name Mary would be written メアリー, pronounced Mearii, which is a lot closer to how we say it in the west. But then I've seen signs in Japan that say マリー and then in English will say Mary. Even a Bloody Mary is a マリー rather than a メアリー. And if you play as Marie in P4AU, the announcer, who is shared between the Japanese and English audio, pronounces her name like Mary rather than Marie.

Idk, it feels like they use マリー for both Marie and Mary. Wonder if they intended for her name to be Mary. Maybe she's supposed to be Mariye.

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PSC Eps 12, 13, 18, 19 "Ah-ha, I SEES it!"

Last time: Ep 1 + Explanation, Eps 2 + 4, Ep 5, Eps 6 + 7 (no Q&A), Eps 8 + 9, Eps 10 + 11 (plus PSC Cafe)

I paraphrased some of the phrasings, except for the fish question. I left that as-is because it impressed Isocchi so much she rewarded the viewer who asked it with a t-shirt.

Episode 12

Q: Does Rise wear earrings with a piercing-type backing, or does she wear clip-ons? A: Clip-ons.

(This sounds dumb because language thing and Atlus's answer. In JP, a "ピアス / pierce" is for pierced ears, but an "イヤリング / earring" refers to clip-ons. In English, we just call all of these "earrings" lol. The viewer asks if Rise wears a pierce or a clip-on or a magnetic clip-on, and Atlus answers that she wears clip-on, but not if her ears are actually pierced or not, hence my weird phrasing.)

Q: Where did Aragaki live before moving back into the SEES dormitory? A: He was probably living somewhere by himself, or he kept being an unwanted guest at the homes of his shady friends. Probably a big reason why he got to know Strega so well was cause he spent so long as a vagrant. Q: During Episode Adachi in P4AU, Adachi mentions getting tired of seeing the Moonlight Bridge when he was in the city. Did he used to live in Iwatodai? A: He didn't necessarily live there, but he worked in the city center, and would take the scenic route back to HQ by driving over to Moonlight Bridge to imitate a character on a popular detective drama.

(See this post for more about the TV show in question.)

Episode 13

Q: Who is Margaret's favorite (hot guy) Persona? A: I think Ardha, Helel, and Yoshitsune are her favorites since she swaps between them a lot. She uses Oberon for the 9999 damage Megidolaon, so maybe she's got some obsession with him? Q: Why does the P3 Protagonist wear his MP3 player in Tartarus? It makes sense during his everyday life, but it doesn't work during the Dark Hour, and it seems like it would be annoying swinging around during battle, or I think it would break when he gets attacked. Did he just forget to take it off? A: Part of the reason why is that he will sometimes he listen to it on the way to Tartarus. The other part is that wearing it has become a habit. Q: In Persona 3, what's with the wound on Sanada's forehead? I'm worried because his ribs healed in a month but the wound on his forehead still hasn't healed after a year. A: The band-aid on the left side of Sanada's forehead is just to express that, "He always has injuries cause he's a boxer". Due to his past, he's the type who wants to train to the extent that he's bullying himself, so it seems he has a lot of fresh wounds on his face.

Episode 18

Q: In P4D, Kanamin's costumes include her plain jersey with a shirt that says "Life" (人生) on it, and it seems like the writing changes when she dances. How many variations are there? A: 13 total ("Life" + 12 others). Q: When did Sho from P4AU get that scar on his forehead? I thought the story would explain something about it since it glows when his eyes glow, but even after clearing the story, there was no explanation. A: The scar on his forehead is related to "that one thing" being implanted into his forehead. The blue glow is due to the influence of "that one thing" and the red glow is due to the influence of "the big guy".

(Contextually: Blue = Plume of Dusk and alternate personality, red = Hi-no-Kagutsuchi.)

Q: I want to know if Shiroku's pet fish Akihiko that's kept at Shiroku Pub is a freshwater fish or seawater fish? The fish itself looks like an oarfish making it a deep-sea fish which would at least need a tank with seawater. But Inaba is surrounded by mountains and the only sea on the map is Shichiri Beach. I don't think it's that far away because the main characters can go there, but Shiroku runs the general store during the day and the pub at night so I get the feeling she doesn't have time to go get seawater. A: If you look into it, there's an "artificial seawater mix" for keeping seawater fish in aquariums as pets and it's very easy to get through mail order. If she really is keeping an oarfish in an aquarium, that's impressive - something no one else has been able to do! I wonder how she does it... There's so many fish you can catch around Inaba...

Episode 19

Q: What's with the distinctive hair styles on Yosuke's Personas Susanoo and Takehaya Susanoo? Did Yosuke wish he could have an afro? A: The flashy hair isn't because of Yosuke's heart, but because the mythological Susanoo had the image of a tempest and a violent storm. It being red is to communicate that, within the game, Yosuke is not just strong against wind, but also strong against fire. Q: During January in P3P, it's mentioned that Sanada and Mitsuru take standardized tests for university admissions. But in P4 Arena, Sanada had been training overseas. Did he drop out? A: No. As mentioned in the P4 Arena story mode, he was just on leave from school. It was probably his own version of a ritual purification before embarking on the path of fighting as a professional, but even Mitsuru told him, "You're overdoing it".

(Since Aki joins the police force to support the Shadow Workers in the epilogue, I assume this is talking about him fighting Shadows professionally, not him thinking about becoming a pro boxer.)

Q: Why does Ryoji wear a scarf? November seems a bit too early for scarf weather. Does the scarf have a special meaning? A: Mainly for impact when you first meet him, but also his values are different than other people's and we were conscious of that - like he's "a foreigner who hasn't gotten used to this town yet".

(Japanese people tend to dress based on the season rather than the actual weather lol. [E.g. an older woman in the countryside asked me, "Aren't you cold?" when I was wearing leggings and a t-shirt on a warm sunny day in spring.] November would usually still be considered fall.)

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Teppei Kobayashi on Adachi in Persona 4 Dancing

This is an excerpt about Adachi being one of the DLC Dancers in P4D from the interview in the P4D Visual Book.

(The responses before this bit are talking about how Smile Saki, Marie's dancer, has a similar personality to Marie. This is why Kobayashi leads with the bit about "someone" -- referring to a hypothetical dancer -- having a similar personality to Adachi.)

Teppei Kobayashi: As for Adachi... If someone were similar to him in personality, I think we'd have a problem on our hands, ahaha. But the actor certainly had a peculiar vibe. Adachi is an apathetic, lazy, good-for-nothing cop. But it's not like he's completely unskilled - thinking about it, he was on track to be an elite officer at the central office, he can do coin tricks, and he's quite dexterous. I asked for his various sides to be represented in his dance. The base is called the "animation dance", which gives off the impression of your body parts being moved one by one. People typically don't move like that, but I think the dance is quite interesting. Furthermore, I wanted to show that anyone could turn out like him, so I requested that Adachi's expressions of sadness also be represented. Interviewer: He's got a different vibe/atmosphere than the other characters. Kobayashi: He dances to "The Fog (Atlus Konishi Remix)" against the backdrop of Yomotsu Hirasaka from P4. Which is also the same place that the protagonist sees in his dreams on his first night in Inaba. In other words, this dance may or may not be Adachi dreaming in reality (laughs). Accordingly, the Narukami who joins in during Fever Time isn't the normal Narukami, but rather Adachi's image of Narukami. So, we made this with the assumption that Adachi is dancing with an image of Narukami that has been burned into his brain. Interviewer: Ah, so it's not as though you're dancing with the real Narukami. Kobayashi: Right. Due to that, even Narukami's dance is different from how he dances with the other characters. When seen from Adachi's PoV, Narukami is this kinda pushy and naive character, and his dance reflects that as well. For those who enjoyed Episode Adachi in the home console release of P4AU, there are some shots that will make you smile, so please enjoy the dance!

The protagonist's dreams on his first night in Inaba, and Izanami later reminding him that he's been here before:

I took mini Adachi to IRL Yomotsu Hirasaka with me last year, but he did not get to dance there:

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PSC Eps 10 & 11 "Ah-ha, I SEES it!"

Last time: Ep 1 + Explanation, Eps 2 + 4, Ep 5, Eps 6 + 7 (no Q&A), Eps 8 + 9

Episode 10

Episode 10 was a Nanako-centric Q&A that took place at the Persona Stalker Club Collab Cafe with Nanako's voice actress, Akemi Kanda, as the guest.

Q: Does Nanako know that the bear costume and the blonde boy are both Teddie? A: People in general think that Teddie is a pretty boy who began working part-time at Junes in an animal mascot outfit. The Investigation Team sometimes talk about Shadows in front of Nanako and she doesn't know find it weird because a lot of things are weird to her at that age.

(This question was more like, "Does Nanako know that Kuma and Kumada are the same person?" Teddie's JP name is Kuma which just means bear. But when he comes out of the TV and into Junes for the first time, we find out that someone asked who he is and he replied, "Kuma da". Da is the copula (to be, i am, is, etc), so he was answering, "I'm Kuma", but "Kumada" is also a Japanese family name, so the people at Junes interpreted this as him saying his name is "Kumada". Because of this, when Teddie is outside the TV in reality and working at Junes and stuff, he goes by "Kumada". This didn't carry over in English - He's called Teddie by people, and the lines at Junes were turned into people mishearing his name as "Terry or Eddie".)

Q: During the omurice contest, Nanako says that everyone's omurice is delicious. Did she really mean that or was she just being polite? A: She calls everyone's omurice delicious, but her voice was clearly different when she tried the protagonist's, so I think she was just being polite. Q: Why does Nanako like Junes? A: Probably because where she lives, Junes is the most fun place she can go to. Also, Nanako likes the Junes commercial because kids her age like those catchy jingles with meaningless lyrics that have onomatopoeia.

Episode 11

Episode 11 was a Yukiko-centric Q&A around Christmas time with her va, Ami Koshimizu, as the guest, also in Yukiko cosplay.

Q: How did the omurice Yukiko made during the omurice contest not have any flavor? It gets wrapped in an egg, so shouldn't you at least be able to taste egg................ A: Humans can deceive their taste buds by manipulating info about their sense of sight and smell. These various factors must have come together to do something miraculous. Hopefully the Amagi Inn doesn't die with Yukiko! Q: What type of hot spring is at Yukiko's inn? What kind of benefits does it offer? Also, how much is it for 2 days / 1 night? A: The type is what's generally known as a radon spring. Radon springs have medicinal properties so that's one of the Amagi Inn's specialties. The price is based on the season, but it's also the most luxury inn around the Yasoinaba area, so the price is reasonable. Q: Yukiko was the one who took over after her mother collapsed, but her father is never mentioned. Is he still alive, or is he dead like Kanji's father? A: No, he isn't dead. But he is the manager of an old traditional inn, so he has a lot of office work and goes to meetings outside of the inn.

(My understanding for ryokans where the family home *is* the ryokan, which is the case with Yukiko's family's ryokan, is they pass mother to daughter. The wife focuses on the guests and the husband does the more clerical stuff. It's gender specific too - Even if Yukiko was a guy, he wouldn't be allowed to inherit the ryokan and would be expected to marry a woman to inherit it. Or, if he didn't marry, the family would "adopt" an adult woman as their daughter so it would still be inherited within the family. This is why Yukiko brings up her and the protagonist running the ryokan together and greeting customers in her romance Social Link.)

Stalker Club Cafe Stuff

Something from ep 10 that people may or may not find entertaining cause it's vaguely Adachi related and this blog is Adachi HQ:

One of the dishes at the Stalker Club Cafe was the "Stretchy Spaghetti with Eaten Eggplant". This menu item is based on a joke from episode 3 of PSC, specifically from the (Purposely) Misheard Lyrics Theater (called Persora - a portmanteau of Persona + Soramimi), where the English lyrics "Could turn out to be" from the Arena opening "Best Friends" was misheard in Japanese as "kutta nasubi", meaning "eaten eggplant".

During these Persora segments, sometimes the Etrian Odyssey illustrator would make doodles based on what the misheard lyrics are. And for "Could turn out to be / kutta nasubi", he drew Adachi eating Nanako's eggplant animal. These animals are left out during Obon Festival for your dead relatives to occupy. The eggplant in particular is supposed to be a cow - chonky and slow so that your relatives stay with you longer.

So yeah, this is a drawing of Adachi eating an eggplant animal (that Nanako probably left out for her mother...) based on trying to hear English lyrics as Japanese words.

At the cafe, Kanda mentions that it really looks like there's a bite missing from her eggplant, and the hosts joke about that being because of Adachi, like the illustration, then they start blaming his voice actor for this lol.

Cabbage.

Lastly, some very important info here -- the menu at the Collab Cafe included a dish called the Cabbage Cop's Simple Snack based on the cabbage dish Madono mentions during the episode 5 Q&A (cabbage, seaweed, and sesame):

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"Chidori gave Junpei the necklace, made by an apparel brand she likes, as a present."

Chidori living is confirmed canon??

I guess so? Since there weren't any scenes in Persona 3 (or the re-releases) where she gives Junpei a necklace, it stands to reason that she must have gifted him the necklace after the events of Persona 3~

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Hii! I so, so appreciate your posts about Adachi! One of my friends hates him and she's about to become my ex-friend. </3 (/lh) She thinks he's a boring villain. :( I want to share with her some of your writings. What would you recommend as a starting point?

Not liking adachi? tsk tsk... you're right to cut her off imo...

HMMM that's hard to say because I think my posts are probably going to be better received by people who already like Adachi lol

If she dislikes him because of his role in the plot ("boring villain"), then maybe these posts which talk about the plot:

What the bad endings teach us about Adachi

Adachi's fixation on Mayumi Yamano

Adachi is the person in the fog who shows up in the shopping district

Adachi's imaginary dick waving contest with Namatame

But these posts also get super specific about plot details in Persona 4 which I know is not everyone's cup of tea. And tbh all of this reaaaaally just makes him look even more pathetic haha.

There is also this post, which may or may not tap into why people find him relatable and thus like him:

A long and meandering post about Adachi and the Investigation Team

Personally I find him relatable because he eats fatty tuna and uni, and he sees someone on a TV and becomes obsessed and gets headcanons about them. (✿◡‿◡)

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As a certified Maaya Sakamoto simp, I would be lying if I said I hadn't thought about "Are Aigis's robo tiddies soft" before, but would I submit that as a question to ask Atlus on a talk show??? HMMM.

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Persona Stalker Club "Ah-ha, I SEES It!" from episodes 8 and 9

Last time: Ep 1 + Explanation, Eps 2 + 4.

Episode 5's Q&A I wrote about last year. Mitsuaki Madono, Adachi's VA, was the guest on that episode so they had all Adachi-centric questions. I think due to this episode, Adachi was the character with the most questions/answers for him by the end of Stalker Club's whole run.

Episodes 6 and 7 had no QA. Here's a little aside about what happened in them instead.

Episode 8 was back to the "Ah-ha, I SEES it!" part.

Q: How is Aigis able to wear shoes with her Gekkokan uniform when her feet are shaped like that? Why isn't such a visible part of her more human-esque? Is there some dev with a robot girl fetish? A: When wearing her school uniform, Aigis has optional foot attachments with ankles. Also, the tiptoe foot design is to make her more mobile and have better jumping capability. This design was inspired by Bambi and horses. Q: Are Aigis's breasts, butt, and thighs hard or soft? Since she's a robot girl, I imagine they're hard, but part of me is also like, "Can you put 'mountains' of silicone on top of her hard armor" or "It'd be more romantic if her breasts were soft". A: Aigis's exterior body is made of reinforced fibre that's fireproof, bulletproof, and bladeproof to give her defense when fighting Shadows, but it's not particularly thick since she needs to be able to wear clothing over it. The rest was made to imitate a human. Q: The necklace Junpei wears in P4AU looks similar to the sword Chidori has on her head. Did Chidori make the necklace herself and give it to Junpei? A: Chidori gave Junpei the necklace, made by an apparel brand she likes, as a present.

Episode 9 was Teddie-centric questions because his VA, Kappei Yamaguchi was the guest. (For the sake of my sanity, I'm going start paraphrasing stuff.)

Q: Was Teddie's human form based on / inspired by someone else? A: It's how Teddie imagined an ideal cool guy who would be loved by all. Q: Chie says that Teddie caused a commotion on the women's floor of Junes. What did he say? Was it dirty? A: Yes, dirty. It seems he began yelling about the brand names and shapes of underwear that caught his eye. Q: How does Teddie make the glasses in P4? A: Teddie skillfully constructs them using tools from an optician's store located in the TV World's Inaba and materials he gathers from around the area. Q: Did Chie and Yukiko's curry have any curry powder? Also, what kind of seafood did they include? A: Yukiko probably knew that you needed "curry powder" of some kind, but based on how she picked ingredients plus Yosuke's reaction, Yukiko probably used random yellow powders and spices instead of a solid roux block. As for the seafood, the girls probably didn't use raw fish for health reasons. It's possible they bought fish that doubles as being good for making soup stock -- such as frozen squid and frozen shrimp, scallop, frozen tuna for impromptu sashimi, and dried/preserved fish used for ryokan breakfast -- thus they could kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Those kinds of ingredients might have been why the curry had such varied textures.

After the last question, the hosts surprise Yamaguchi by revealing they will be making the curry with the same ingredients on the show. He then attempts to put on the Teddie outfit (he wore it earlier) and escape and even does Teddie's voice lol.

Yamaguchi comments on the smell being bad / fishy, but it's... edible...? In some manner...?

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Some asides about Persona Stalker Club episodes 6 and 7 (no Q&A segments)

Episode 6: This ep had no Q&A.

Instead, there was a segment where Adachi's VA Mitsuaki Madono was back as a guest in Adachi cosplay and he had to complete stages of Adachi's Challenge Mode in P4AU (mode where you can practice combos versus a training dummy), then he had to fight versus the AI. Madono is a beginner at fighting games. For each thing he completed, they would preview cutscenes from P4AU's story mode. (This was before P4AU came out on home console w/story mode.)

If he failed, then he could make up for it by taking an L card and subjecting himself to their recreation of Chie's meat gum (beef jerky ground up into... uh, something, then sprinkled on a regular stick of gum).

Madono successfully completed the Challenge Mode combos, then beat Yosuke's AI, but then he lost to Yu's AI in the next stage. For the sake of all the viewers, he tried the gum, and they showed a clip of the scene where Adachi runs away to throw up in the beginning of P4 bwaaaaaaaaaaahahhahahah.

Episode 7: Also had no Q&A. During this episode, they had voice actor Tomokazu Sugita as a guest cosplaying as Yukiko, and he got schooled in P4AU by a dev from Arcsys named Mysterious Masked Man, who was indeed a mysterious man in a mask (with a Jack Frost hat).

In order to give Sugita an edge versus the dev, before matches Sugita was allowed to draw a card from the "Persona" box and the card would have instructions for one of the hosts to distract or hinder Masked Man in some way. E.g. one of the cards was that Masked Man had to be hooked up to a low frequency electrotherapy device (he played Shadow Kanji for this match lol).

If Sugita lost, he also had to draw a card from the "Shadow" box which made him do stupid stuff as a form of punishment. One of the punishments was the same meat gum that Madono had in episode 6, and he dragged everyone else down with him by making Mafia Kajita and Masked Man try the gum too. Another one of the Shadow box cards was challenging Sugita to do a "One-Man Persona Show", which is what this clip is from:

(This episode of Stalker Club was pre-recorded so the in-game graphics and stuff were added in for the airing.)

Sugita was a guest this episode because he is a huge nerd who voices Ragna the Bloodedge in BlazBlue, also made by Arcsys. He would later voice Yusuke in P5. (It's possible that he had already recorded Yusuke's role at this point as script and voice work often gets done before other dev work.)

(I looked at the rest of the Q&A segments and I am terrified of the length of some of these questions and answers lol. Like, in ep 8, someone asks if Aigis's robot tiddies are hard or soft, and they take 1.5 text worth of screens to daydream about this.)

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Persona Stalker Club Eps 2 + 4 Q&A

For a rundown on what these are and the origin of the name, check out my post about episode 1.

From episode 2:

Q: Please tell me where the eyes are on Yosuke's Persona, Jiraiya. A: The two holes in the middle (next to the yellow stars) are the eyes.

Q: What music does Yosuke listen to during battles? A: Western music so he can pretend to be an expert in western music, Japanese music so he can talk to girls about it, movie soundtracks like Trial of the Dragon, etc.

("Trial of the Dragon" is the DVD Chie lent Yosuke. It's named after the Japanese TV drama about a female martial artist called "Seiryu Densetsu" or "Legend of St Dragon" but replaces the characters for Seiryu with the characters for Jackie Chan's name.)

Q: Why does Mitsuru's father wear an eyepatch? A: It seems that he was injured by Shadow(s) while exploring Tartarus.

Episode 3 had no Q&A segment. (I think due to the extended segment where the hosts showed off Persona Q.)

From episode 4:

Q: Since Tartarus used to be a school, does it have stuff like air conditioning? A: The school's original AC units might still be there, but it's highly unlikely that they still function since electronics quit working during the Dark Hour. Q: During the crossdressing contest, Teddie got 1st place during the story, and Kou mentions during his evening hangout that the protagonist got 2nd place, but what about Kanji and Yosuke? Personally, I'd vote for Kanji; he's sexier. A: We'll leave that to your imagination, but for Yosuke and Kanjis' sakes, we recommend you not dwell on it too much. Q: What causes the sound effect that occurs when a Persona is summoned? A: The sound effect represents the summoner breaking the boundary between the conscious and unconscious to use their Persona's powers.

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Persona Stalker Club Ep 1 Q&A

I will be (very slowly because I already did the Adachi questions from this) compiling the fan questions and Atlus answers from the "Ah-ha, I SEES it!" segment of Persona Stalker Club. One of the hosts would read the fan question, then the hosts (plus guests, if any) would talk about what they think the answer is, then they would play the response from Atlus and everyone would react to it.

Episode one questions:

Ep 1 Q1: What happens if you unzip Izanagi's dick zipper the zipper between Izanagi's legs? Ep 1 A1: Inside [the zipper] is a Shadow. A Persona wearing a zipped battle suit represents controlling your suppressed ego with strong willpower.

(The fan might not have said DICK ZIPPER but we know they were thinking that.)

Ep 1 Q2: Why does Shinji wear his cap and coat even during summer? Ep 1 A2: His Persona suppressing drugs interfere with his body's temperature regulation

(One of the hosts, Issochi (Hifumi VA), reacts to this answer by pointing out how like... "Wait wtf but Takaya is shirtless tho?" haha)

Regarding the segment title:

The JP name is "Naruhodo na, SEES" based on this line in P3 where Aigis goes, "Naruhodo naaa", with naruhodo meaning like, "I see". IIRC, this line is considered a real cute / charming line due to her voice actor's delivery. During later episodes, they get the P3 movie plush dolls of Aigis with a voice chip that plays that line when you press it lol. And the idea is that after hearing Atlus's responses to these questions, you react by going, "Naruhodo naaa". I tried my best with the "Ah-ha, I SEES it!" translation lol.

Here's a clip from Reload of her doing the line:

For the Adachi Q+A stuff, see these older posts:

PSC Ep 5 QA

Bayside Shakedown (from PSC Ep 12)

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am amused at some of the things said in this 2009 interview about p3 portable and femc's route, namely how they took "the male experience" into account. for example, hashino mentions about male players having mixed feelings of sorts about playing as a high school girl, and he talks being embarrassed at doing stuff like akihiko's social link as femc and how akihiko would act sweet w/her and it was like seeing a different side to his bro. kido says in femc's social links you can choose to do romance or platonic routes, unlike dude mc, because they received feedback that male players would find it off-putting if it was all forced romance.

yes i am for sure an asshole who cherry picked the most eyeroll worthy parts of this out, but also: lol?

other random cmts from this interview: femc's orpheus is still male because "lol you can't just change orpheus's gender" (someone show soejima fate/stay night?), meguro likes yukari's slink even tho ppl around him don't (i think he means friends/family) cause he values the realism (he likes her main story scenes too), and hashino likes kashiwagi (ofc he does lol).

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now that i'm an adult, part of me is like, "i think the protagonist should've just stuck his hand into a tv in front of dojima back in april".

but back when i first played p4, i was teenager, and the thought of "go tell your cop uncle about the magic tv" never even came to my mind. why would i do that?!

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Avatar Tuner Gunpla

I hope Gundam ALC Encounter is another yuri Gundam...

During the fox's quest to help the owner of the plastic model shop, you get 6 plastic models to build:

The descriptions of the mechs themselves are references to the original Mobile Suit Gundam 0079. They also share names with Atma and bosses in DDS Avatar Tuner. In PS2 P4, you only got the green and red, and the other 4 were added in Golden.

The green is the Mass Produced Brahman (shares name with the final boss of DDS2). It being green and being called mass produced make it equivalent to Zeon's mass produced Zaku unit.

In the English version, Brahman was renamed to the MF-06S Brahman. This is a reference to the Zaku's model number, MS-06F, swapping the S and F.

The red is called Agni (also the name of Heat's Atma), and the description mentions that it's "three times faster". This is a fairly well-known Gundam meme about how Char Aznable had a red colored Zaku that is said to be three times faster.

The black is Harihara (Jenna's Atma) and the Japanese description says it has a hammer that can destroy a Zako in one hit. Zako is a reference to the Zaku (what the Brahman is based on) and how the Japanese word zako means trash and is used in anime/games/etc to mean "trash mob / weak mob / easy enemy / scrub", etc. The bit about the hammer that can destroy it one hit is a reference to an episode of Gundam where Amuro gets a stupid Gundam Hammer and actually destroys a Zaku in one hit lol.

The white is Dyaus (Cielo's Atma) and the description mentions that the arms are just for show though it doesn't have any arms as you can see on the model. This is a reference to the Zeong from Gundam and how Char comments about it not having legs.

The blue-ish one is Varna (Serph's Atma) and the Japanese description says it has a "This is no Zako" vibe to it. Again, Zako is a replacement word for the Zaku (see Harihara). The "This is no Zako" bit a reference to Ramba Ral who piloted a Gouf and the quote everyone associates with him is "This is no Zaku, boy, no Zaku."

The yellow is Prithvi (Argilla's Atma) and it uses double Heat Shields (Heat Tate). The "double heat [x]" arms are based on the Zakrello which is also yellow and uses double Heat Natas.

I feel like references to UC Gundam (especially the "red = three times faster" bit) are pretty common.

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Some concept designs from the P4G Premium Book Thing

These weren't included in the P4G in-game gallery thingie. I scanned these with my garbage scanner/printer combo so they kiiinda suck.

More casual looking Marie outfit

Kusumi no Okami and her Magatamussy

Kanji and Teddie's Swimsuits

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On Teddie's Shadow

I got a question via Reddit DM about Teddie's Shadow and if "the magical lore book you cite" (lol) ever talked about it. The P4G premium book does have a little remark about it:

Teddie's Shadow was born from a combo of his suppressed [mind/heart/thoughts] and meddling from Amenosagiri. [The Shadow's] piercing eyes look as though they are chiding Teddie for turning his eyes away from the truth about himself.

Personally, I interpret this to mean that Teddie really did have a Shadow(*), but this isn't something that should/would normally happen cause Teddie himself is a Shadow, and it was made possible by Amenosagiri doing [whatever] in the background. Hence Chie and Rise's exchange when Shadow Teddie appears. Once Teddie has a Shadow, it follows the normal script and turns into his Persona.

When you fight his Shadow in-game, it has the Moon arcana which is different from Teddie being the Star and breaks the pattern of your party members Shadows having the same arcana as them, so I think you were meant to be suspicious of it in general or get the vibe that it's not a normal Shadow.

(*) The person who dmed me about this seemed to be under the impression that Teddie's Shadow was never really "real" because it was really just Amenosagiri all along and that Teddie's Persona just materialized out of [something undefined/unexplained] because his Shadow never gives him an approving/understanding nod. Tbh, that doesn't follow my understanding of what Ame is doing in the plot, but the book also doesn't define what the hell "meddling" means so really who knows I could be off base here.

[adachimoe]

A-hah.

Around the 2:35 timestamp, Hashino explains why Golden is in the title: It is supposed to give the impression of a late night TV show (say... one that airs at Midnight, ohoho) being moved into Golden time (7pm-10pm) to gain new viewership.

The use of the phrase "The Golden" likely comes from Japanese Prime Time TV. Prime time is 7pm to 11pm, and within that 4 hour block, 7pm to 10pm specifically is Golden or Golden Time, and it's supposedly when the most people watch TV. (I imagine this statistic has changed since Persona 4 came out due to recordings and streaming and whatnot?)

Notably, this time period doesn't include late night (midnight) viewership.