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atlus has announced official persona 5 nuigurumi / plush keychains for the rest of the phantom thieves who didn't get a keychain before:

i'm holding out for the rest of the persona 4 cast (plus adachi) to get keychains sob. (dunno if they would really include him since they seem to just be doing the school kids, but i can dream.)

edit: all of them are available to order from ami ami ami btw

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"japan doesnt like kanji or ryuji because they're delinquents"

this statement is rly funny cause the p4 protagonist's affectionate jp fan nickname is "bancho" (delinquent gang leader). like, atlus even made it canon by using "bancho" as part of his title in p4 arena.

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p4 novel chapter where adachi messes around the dojima house

to recap: "your affection" is an officially licensed p4 novel from 2009. idk if it's canon or not. each chapter is a side story about the characters besides the protagonist, each from a different month in game. adachi appears in the october chapter. this is a summary of the events of the chapter, which i totally read at 5am when i couldn't sleep.

tl;dr = adachi can't fold laundry

nanako returns home from school one day and suspiciously finds her dad's shoes lopsided in the entryway, the laundry has been taken down from the backyard and sloppily thrown onto the couch, a letter in the mailbox with no sender (the 1st threat letter), etc. she knows that its not the protag who did this because he would've properly folded the laundry and whatnot, and she wasn't expecting him home afterschool cause he had to go to a club that day. nanako thinks someone might have broken into the house OR MAYBE IT'S A GHOST???, so she goes back outside.

naoto is roaming around and ends up near the dojima residence, seemingly driven by a desire to see the cats that hang around outside the house lol, and she comes across nanako outside. nanako explains, and naoto takes her back inside to investigate. as they go found the house, they find more oddities: nanako sees the newspaper rolled up and assumes her dad hasn't come home yet (as he would've unfolded/read it), the bread she was going to use as toast for breakfast is gone, the mokoi doll in the protagonist's room was knocked off the shelf, there's a futon laying around...

eventually, dojima comes home, and he's like "?" because naoto is there. naoto explains nanako's concerns, and dojima realizes what happened but doesn't explain to either of them. he serves naoto coffee, which she finds really bitter so nanako brings her some cream and sugar. dojima mentions the protag sometimes takes his with cream and sugar too. they start talking about protag, and dojima asks some prying questions, like, "what do you talk to my nephew about huh". naoto knows she cant say "uhh we talk about murders", so she says like, "well i tell him about my childhood and he tells me about you and nanako!" dojima replies about how naoto should live a normal school life and not get involved in anything weird, and naoto thinks that he's kinda like kanji.

suddenly, the doorbell rings, and nanako gets the door. adachi is there. he dropped by to find dojima as he wasn't at the station. it turns out that they got some kind of forensics report back about a theft at a hardware store. dojima yells at adachi b/c he could've just called. he knows it's more like... adachi came over to the house to tell dojima in person because he wanted to waste time / slack off lol. naoto hears the word "theft", and is reminded of the curious case earlier, which dojima knew the truth about but didn't share. so naoto asks, "wait, who did it?" and dojima goes, "this guy", referring to adachi.

what really happened was adachi asked dojima if he wanted to go drinking after they got off duty. dojima got absolutely shit faced drunk. after nanako and protag had left for school, adachi brought dojima back to the house and dumped him on a futon. adachi himself was hung over, so he napped on the couch. adachi woke up after noon and had some time to spare before he had to go back on the clock, so he went back to his place.

before he left, though, he noticed it was windy, so he very shittily folded the laundry and threw it on the couch. something from the laundry blew away to the 2nd floor of the house, and adachi wound up in the protag's room to get it back, and he knocked over the mokoi doll in the process. he also got thirsty so helped himself to a drink except he also broke/dropped the glass. and he ate nanako's bread at some point. he claims that he asked dojima for permission to eat it and dojima said okay, but like, dojima was also hung over, so uh... adachi... lol...

btw, while he narrates the part about his Very Shittily Folded laundry, he's like, "wow nanako is such a hard worker who is always doing all of the household chores! i wanted to help her out! nanako, you should be really thankful to me!" and nanako is, in response to this, described as "having an odd look to her face" lmao.

naoto then scolds both dojima and adachi since dojima made nanako worry (dojima never read the newspaper that day, but nanako thought it being folded meant he never came home and someone broke in) and adachi was doing whatever the fuck adachi does. dojima gets a call about another case, and him and adachi have to take off. dojima asks naoto to stay with nanako for a bit, and the chapter ends with naoto taking nanako grocery shopping.

pretty cute overall.

adachi inviting dojima out drinking, knowing he'd have to take dojima back to the house, thus giving him an excuse to be there and leave the threat letter in the mailbox, almost sounds too smart for adachi haha. also, thank you to this author for the mental image of adachi folding the protag's pants (very shittily) and rummaging thru his room. (❁´◡`❁)

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in case it was not obvious by what i wrote: i am under the impression that adachi is genuinely surprised in this scene due to the events surrounding rise's kidnapping. i see how he sounds in english as "feigning / pretending to be surprised", instead of "genuinely being surprised", so i see this as the english voice acting being bad and giving the wrong impression about the character. hence why i said, "no wonder ppl are convinced adachi is faking it during this scene".

huh no wonder ppl are convinced adachi is faking it during this scene... that voice acting is... uhhm........ lol...

i can't attach 2 videos in one post i guess, but this is what the jp version was like.

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huh no wonder ppl are convinced adachi is faking it during this scene... that voice acting is... uhhm........ lol...

i can't attach 2 videos in one post i guess, but this is what the jp version was like.

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the other adachi bd/dvd-only anime scene

i think people have seen this one before? in the older p4 anime, there's a scene of adachi reading his letter from the true ending where he goes "yeah i lost" and talks about something bothering him about the case and where he first heard of the midnight channel:

i've noticed on reddit that that ppl dont realize this because of his golden social link, but adachi always sent you the letter even in the ps2 game. if you do his social link, then in golden, the letter continues and he talks about how he looks back on the time spent in the dojima house. hence, the original p4 anime only has him reading the lines about the investigation, while the golden anime only has him reading the part about being at the dojima house.

like the golden scene, this is also bd/dvd only, but for a totally different reason lol. p4 the anime has 26 episodes. in japan, only 25 episodes aired on tv with 25 being the good ending from the game. like, the investigation team defeats amenosagiri and captures adachi, then the anime just ends with yu leaving inaba. but after the credits, it shows igor in the velvet room, and he creates the orb of sight and talks about its ability to dispel lies. a person who has played the game and got the true ending would be like, "oh shit fr?"

a few months after the anime's tv airing finished, there was a limited run theatrical movie called "the factor of hope". if you've seen this art of yu, izanagi, and magatsu-izanagi, it was made for the movie!

the first hour or so is a recap of the anime and how the team came together and how adachi committed silly tv crimes. then after the yu defeats adachi, it cuts to content from the unaired 26th episode where adachi is in jail writing the letter. then yu goes on to fight izanami and unlocks the true ending, etc. volume 10 of the anime's japanese bd/dvd release has the unaired episode and the factor of hope.

the unaired stuff also includes adachi chugging canned coffee in casual clothes and getting the magic handshake.

i imagine some people dont know this since sentai's release of the anime in the states included the unaired 26th episode by default. i dont think they ever included the factor of hope (understandable tbh, it's really just a 1.5hr long recap lol.)

unrelatedly, its assumed sentai lost their license of the p4 anime in 2018 when it was removed from hulu so i think the first anime is always gonna be stuck in some kind of aniplex usa licensing hell.

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gasp. there is persona 4 tie-in novel from 2009 titled "your affection". the premise is that its little stories about the characters going about their lives outside of their relationship with the protagonist, and each chapter is a story from a different month.

like the first chapter is early in april with yosuke derping around on his bike and meeting up with chie and yukiko. they talk about a rumored transfer student coming to school and yukiko says something about a "famous guest" coming to stay at the inn soon (mayumi).

the october chapter is a story about naoto, dojima, nanako, and adachi. from what i skimmed, naoto winds up at the dojima house and chats w/dojima over coffee, except some strange things happened there during the morning. it seems that adachi came by in the morning and mucked around w/the laundry, ate food from the kitchen table, and knocked one of the protag's plastic models or dolls off of his shelf lmao. i believe the "read between the lines" of what's going on is that dojima is trying to grill naoto about protag being suspicious, and adachi is there trying to drop off the first threat letter (october 20th in-game). will have to read the chapter in full this weekend or something.

i'm not sure if this is supposed to be "canon" or not, but it is an officially licensed product with a unique cover art drawn by soejima.

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stuff from interview about p4u2

this is some summarized tidbits from another interview in the issue of persona magazine where soejima goes "why do people like adachi idgi". tbh, i dont think any of it is actually new, but i believe this is the third or fourth interview i've read where someone from arcsys or atlus goes, "WOMEN LIKE ADACHI".

i am starting to think the dudes at atlus are jealous of adachi. women like shitty video game murderers?! tch, this world really has gone to shit!

since p4u, devs heard users asking for adachi, and they would liked to have shown what he was up to after p4, but the issue was, what kind of form would he take in the game?

(this is my interpretation, but i think what wada means is like... would it seriously actually 100% be adachi like the actual guy? versus say... erm... like how sho has a fake ikutsuki that some of the story routes run into? cause the whole "fake shadow" thing lets them use any character.)

the devs went over the details with the people who worked on p4 and came up with something, and so adachi appears in the home console version. there was also a spoiler issue since adachi is an important figure in p4. wada was concerned about spoilers until (development? i think?) was underway. since p4u2 is a continuation of p4, spoilers were inevitable.

BECAUSE ATLUS AND/OR ARCSYS HAVE TO INFORM YOU THAT WOMEN LOVE THIS GUY EVERY TIME THEY TALK ABOUT HIM IN P4U2 AND HIM BEING EASY TO PLAY, I TOO MUST NOW ALSO REITERATE NOW THAT MANY OF ADACHI'S FANS ARE WOMEN!!!, and adachi is a "'one hit' wonder" type character who is easy to use and can do a decent chunk of damage in a single hit. he can increase his attack and defense with heat riser, a skill from p4. his other moves are very fitting of adachi, like him shooting his gun at an opponent's feet, or inflicting the fear status.

(in the past, i translated "one hit wonder" as "powerful", but a fighting game guy recently corrected me on that. i didn't realize it meant something else lol my bad. it's like a character who is effective in one hit instead of a character who has needs a lot of combo moves/strings to be effective. in adachi's case, this is likely referring to how his personal normal / c button does stupid amts of damage.)

by himself, adachi's movement is pretty lame. like his anti air b button kick isnt particularly cool looking (see above), but when you combo it with magatsu izanagi, then it becomes cool as heck. his movements and his combos really display the duality of his character, and iguchiya from arcsys would be quite pleased if you pick up on those vibes while playing.

gonna start keeping a counter of "MANY OF ADACHI'S FANS ARE WOMEN, SO WE MADE HIM EASY TO PLAY".

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tidbit from daisuke namikawa and shuji sogabe's chat

in that same issue of persona magazine that has soejima going "why the fuck do you like adachi", there is also a "yu narukami and soji seta" feature with daisuke namikawa (p4 protag dude's voice actor in the games and anime) and shuji sogabe (p3/p4 manga creator).

when talking about the name soji seta, sogabe says that he was given a list of suggested names from atlus, and he combined together a given name and a family name from the suggestions to create "soji seta". namikawa asks what the suggestions were, and sogabe doesn't remember them, though he does remember liking the name akira, 暁 (*).

namikawa asks why sogabe picked the name "soji seta", then. sogabe jokes that it's because the initials are "s.s.", same as his name own name. but the real reason is based on the kanji and what words/phrases the kanji are used in.

sry these explanations are very simplified but ermmmm...

瀬多 総司 = soji seta

多く (uses 2nd char from above) = many

逢瀬 (uses 1st char from above) = meeting (kind of...)

総て (uses 3rd char from above) = all

司��� (uses 4th char from above) = to manage/handle/be in charge of/etc

sogabe's thinking was that, as the protag, he would "meet" with "many" different people, and "manage" "all" of those bonds.

...even after reading this, "soji seta" still sounds like a cleaning product to me...

* = yea this is the same kanji and reading as the p5 protag's name in the p5 manga. i dont know anything about the p5 manga, but trying to link these 2 together feels like trying to link together two people who happened to both happened to be named bob.

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Amused by this bit in Persona Magazine about P4U2: The interviewer mentions the new characters being added, and Soejima talks about Adachi and how his battle animations were based on how he was animated in P4 (in another interview, an Arcsys guy mentions his walk into his boss battle, etc). But like, Soejima 100% doesn't get it, saying, "Hey so I'm the guy who designed him and I have nfc why he's popular. I guess I'm still learning about him."

People being confused by Adachi's popularity is my favorite genre of interview.

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random thing that i didnt remember being different:

so, kanji steals some paper from an annoying kid at school, the protag reads things on it, and yukiko asks about there being any significance between april 11th and mayumi as they are trying to figure out the pattern of people who appear on the midnight channel.

in english, chie says that was when mayumi and namatame's affair hit the news. in this kind of phrasing, the "when" and "hit" gives the impression that april 11th was the exact specific date the news of the affair broke.

in jp, chie's reply is that she remembers there being coverage of the affair around that time, which is a lot less specific. like the affair could have been leaked a week ago or something. all chie is saying is that it was in the news around the 11th.

"april 11th is when the affair hit the news" versus "there was coverage about the affair around april 11th".

this feels small and inconsequential, but if we go by what chie says in english, this would mean that on april 11th, all of the following happened: misuzu announces the affair, mayumi's tv appearances are canceled, mayumi goes missing, the paparazzi comes to inaba looking for her, mayumi goes to the tatsumi's and picks up her scarf, mayumi checks in to the amagi inn and says something that causes yukiko's mom collapses, and then adachi comes to the amagi inn and kills her.

for various reasons, i find it hard to believe that this all happened on the same day lol

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Hmm.

Hold on, isn't this...

Sooooooo... How many Social Links do you think Nanako has?

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as it is an east asian work and all, persona strikes me as, at its core, extremely buddhist-y. like, the fool's journey is a stand-in for the cyclic nature of life. makoto and kotone getting the universe arcana and becoming the great seal is uhh symbolic of them resolving their karma, breaking free from the cycle of reincarnation, and achieving enlightenment. adachi's character likely comes from how to live is to suffer and suffering is caused by our material wants. and then you have teenagers giving speeches about how life has some bad days (bad days = suffering) that you have to live through, like they are enforcing this status quo lol. sho in p4au and maruki in royal also seem to come from the school of buddhist suffering, hence why maruki's solution to solve suffering is to give them what he thinks are their desires, as to want is to suffer. (and then smt has the extremely un-subtle digital devil saga avatar tuner where seraph achieving enlightenment is just baked into the plot.) idk i guess it's like when you watch western media and assume that something in the plot or writing goes a certain way or follows a certain set of logic because the creators are from a christian country.

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bonus adachi scene in the bd/dvd version of the golden anime

in the tv broadcast (and also the version from crunchyroll), it goes from yu looking at his window tv to the cake. on the bd/dvd version of ep 12, there's an added scene in-between where nanako gives yu the letter, adachi is in gay baby jail, and you hear him voicing the letter from rank 10 of his social link.

there's ~6mins overall of new stuff added to episode 12. ~30 sec is the adachi rank 10 part, ~2.5min is the ending that shows everyone + marie hanging out in inaba. idk what the other 3 minutes are lol.

edit: oh, wait, i found the other new scenes:

izanami explaining how she was split into two

namatame campaigning in inaba

yu walking around the central shopping district before going to junes

yu lamenting that marie isn't around anymore before they turn on the weather report

yosuke then explains that marie came back pretttttttty quickly and said something about being able to live as a human

rise complaining about marie and her stage name

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What the fuck is it with English-speaking Persona fans and making shit up about Asia when talking about Persona

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Happy 40th Birthday, Adachi!

I learned how to make cabbage rolls ;_;

Little Adachi and Big Adachi with his mousse cake:

And finally, putting him where he belongs:

(✿◡‿◡)

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list of p4 audio dramas

Game Audio Dramas

Persona 4 Drama CD Vol 1 (2009): Audio, script

Persona 4 Drama CD Vol 2 (2009): Audio, script

Persona 4 Drama CD Vol 3 (2010): Audio, script <- ADACHI ALERT

Persona 4 Golden Drama CD Vol 1 (2013): Audio, script

Persona 4 Golden Drama CD Vol 2 (2013): Audio, summary + partial script, another summary

Vol 3 is the only one with Adachi. The rest all take place after Magatsu Inaba. (What... They didn't want a drama cd to show his jail life? C'mon...)

Anime Audio Dramas

Persona 4 The Animation BD/DVD Vol 3 Bonus - Day of the May Fool (2012): Audio, summary

Persona 4 The Animation BD/DVD Vol 8 Bonus - Perfect Delivery (2012): Audio, summary

Persona 4 The Animation Drama CD Vol 1 (2012): Audio, summary <- ADACHI-LESS ALERT

Persona 4 The Animation Drama CD Vol 2 (2012): Subtitled video

Persona 4 The Golden Animation BD/DVD Vol 2 Bonus - Sense of Gratitude (2014): Audio, summary

Persona 4 The Golden Animation BD/DVD Vol 4 Bonus - Boo! (2014): Audio, summary

Aside from the vol 1 CD, the rest of the anime dramas all have Adachi in them.

And finally, there is one more drama to mention: In 2015, a Japanese store called Geo had a P3 and P4 can badge rally where you could win a random badge of a character and lucky winners could also choose from a P3 or P4 audio drama CD recorded specifically for this campaign. I've never listened to either of these and they don't? seem to be uploaded?, but from the news press thing I read about this campaign: The P3 one involved Liz telling protag to go work at a Geo store and promote the badges, while the P4 one had Yosuke go visit a Geo store where the protag happened to be working.