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aaaa i forgot about the ADACHI CAKE

this is from episode 6 (the same episode where madono tried the cursed meat gum for everyone's sake). the episode aired on july 25th, shortly before madono's 50th birthday (july 28th), so they gave him a birthday cake with (blushing!) adachi on it lol. the chocolate sign says "happy birthday, mitsuaki madono!" and the bottom left is the two hosts' avatars saying "congrats!"

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fragrance re-runs

if you're capable of importing products with alcohol (they arent supposed to be shipped via air cause of the alcohol), the p4/p5 fragrances are being re-run on primaniacs website. they announced p3 was coming "soon" too.

i own adachi, yukiko, yu, aigis, and kotone's... adachi smells fruity (because he's a fruit), yukiko smells like fuckin' soap, yu smells like The Most Generic Man ever, aigis's notes are fruity but she smells uhh fresh? (idk how else to describe this), and kotone is another fruit. (imo, kotone's smells the best of these 5.)

notably, there are reviews on primaniac's webpage, and one of adachi's reviews is an essay about how the scent progression from top to lasting mimics his character development in persona 4: he starts out as this kinda friendly guy due to the berry / citrus smell (top notes), then the smell changes to something more subdued due to the jasmine (middle notes), and the lasting notes are heavy yet fade quickly, like adachi is lost in the fog and leaves only an insignificant scent behind. yet the lasting scents also have warmth to them, symbolizing his memories of his time with the dojima family. and after the scent dissipates, it's like him accepting that he fucked up and starting over.

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for the release of p4u / p4arena, soejima drew various artwork of teddie w/things that reference different areas in japan. for shibuya, he drew teddie as the hachiko statue near shibuya station, and the nameplate uses the same name kanji calls him, kumako.

teddie's other nickname

o yea, teddie has yet another nickname besides kumakichi.

kanji also calls teddie "クマ公", pronounced "kumako".

this is the same "ko" as in hachiko the loyal dog. (well, the dog's name was actually "hachi".) the name we know it by, "hachiko", was an affectionate nickname made up of hachi's name + "ko" tacked on at the end.

when added on to the end of a name like that, "ko" can be affectionate orrrr it be a bit belittling. like, "kumako (complimentary)" versus "kumako (derogatory)". given that teddie is a bit of a nuisance sometimes, i think kanji means it in both ways lol.

btw, when you visit the movie theater in golden, the movie kanji really wants to see is the one that plays in october -- dachiko, a parody of hachiko.

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omg, persona club p4 lists out all of the dates that adachi can be found at junes. he is at junes in the ps2 game during june 5-14, july 12-18, august 24-30, and september 2-7. the june dialogue is the one previously posted about him buying a magic set.

the july dialogue is the one where he's cabbage shopping, which can be seen in this older post. it exists in golden, and i put the golden version in the reblogs. it only shows up if you finish his social link first, then talk to him sometime in july. (it might be the same dates as the ps2 game - 12-18th.)

the august dialogue isn't in the something awful let's play, but persona club p4 lists out what he says/does when you encounter him, and by process of elimination, he was probably talking about bumming junes' free air conditioning during august lol.

the september dialogue also happens to be in the something awful let's play, where it's raining and he takes shelter at junes:

aside from the cabbage shopping dialogue, im not sure if the others can be seen in golden. like the magic set one might have been removed and instead implemented into him talking about becoming a magician in his slink...?

adachi's npc's other ps2 dialogue

in the ps2 game, when he had no social link, adachi used to appear at junes through the summer months (june/july/aug/sept) for a few days, and he had dialogue whenever you spoke to him. the july version of this dialogue is where the cabbage shopping dialogue comes from, and that can still be seen in golden (as long as you max his social link first).

but i remember he had other dialogue for the other 3 months, like one where he talks about buying a children's magic set? (giving him an association w/doing magic tricks and stuff before his golden social link), and im wondering if that got removed from golden, or if you have to max his social link before it shows up, or maybe moved to another date...?

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i knew i wasn't imagining this. the something awful let's play has his june dialogue screenshotted / transcribed:

but does this play anywhere in golden? hrmm...

adachi's npc's other ps2 dialogue

in the ps2 game, when he had no social link, adachi used to appear at junes through the summer months (june/july/aug/sept) for a few days, and he had dialogue whenever you spoke to him. the july version of this dialogue is where the cabbage shopping dialogue comes from, and that can still be seen in golden (as long as you max his social link first).

but i remember he had other dialogue for the other 3 months, like one where he talks about buying a children's magic set? (giving him an association w/doing magic tricks and stuff before his golden social link), and im wondering if that got removed from golden, or if you have to max his social link before it shows up, or maybe moved to another date...?

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adachi's npc's other ps2 dialogue

in the ps2 game, when he had no social link, adachi used to appear at junes through the summer months (june/july/aug/sept) for a few days, and he had dialogue whenever you spoke to him. the july version of this dialogue is where the cabbage shopping dialogue comes from, and that can still be seen in golden (as long as you max his social link first).

but i remember he had other dialogue for the other 3 months, like one where he talks about buying a children's magic set? (giving him an association w/doing magic tricks and stuff before his golden social link), and im wondering if that got removed from golden, or if you have to max his social link before it shows up, or maybe moved to another date...?

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waaait. nakase also voices sayoko, the nurse from the devil social link, and yosuke is into... nurses...

random junes shower thoughts:

since junes is named after the french word jeunesse (for youth), and yosuke is associated with junes, i guess thats why he has another french word (ressentiment) in his title in arena?

(speaking of which, in ps2 persona 4, there was class room a question where morooka asked you about ressentiment, but in golden it was replaced by another class room question.)

saki's jp voice actor, hina nakase, also sings the jp junes jingle. so like, in-universe, every time yosuke hears the junes jingle, is he reminded of a dead girl he had a crush on...?

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i guess children in p4 like to repeat after chie lol

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new persona 3 stage play announced

this stage play series is titled the "act" series (or so atlus calls it on their page), and the first play in the series, "lunation", will be at g-rosso this summer. unlike the weird masquerade, it's not a musical, and it has a new cast. the protag has also been named kanata shiomi.

i'll be living in japan starting near the end of this year. maybe i can catch one of the other parts in theater. (btw, this theater is near the "pancake" that mona asks about in p5 lol.)

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random junes shower thoughts:

since junes is named after the french word jeunesse (for youth), and yosuke is associated with junes, i guess thats why he has another french word (ressentiment) in his title in arena?

(speaking of which, in ps2 persona 4, there was class room a question where morooka asked you about ressentiment, but in golden it was replaced by another class room question.)

saki's jp voice actor, hina nakase, also sings the jp junes jingle. so like, in-universe, every time yosuke hears the junes jingle, is he reminded of a dead girl he had a crush on...?

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i was reading the ffxiv 7.2 patch notes and when i saw that door on the left, i thought to myself, "adachi?!"

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you know how yosuke gives yu a golf club to use for self-defense? i imagine yosuke stole it from his dad. and uh, yu doesn't seem to return it at any point - you can even sell it to daidara lol. do you think his dad noticed it went missing, assumed this was yosuke's fault, and made him pay for it? this seems like something that would happen to yosuke...

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kaguya's design

one of the details i like about kaguya's design is how her "robe" thing doesn't seem to actually be on her, but rather floats around her, held up by ribbons:

in the tale of princess kaguya, kaguya eventually remembers that she is actually a being from the moon who was sent to earth. then, beings from the moon come down to earth to take her back to the moon. and upon placing the celestial robe on her shoulders, she instantly forgets everything about her time on earth and how she lived amongst humans and grew attachment to them.

with marie's story, she eventually remembers who she is and its her attachment to humans that causes her to try to disappear from their lives. but she also remembers her time with humans, and the robe seems to be placed on the persona without it actually touching her, as if to communicate that her memories didn't get wiped.

(the ears are totally cause of the "bunnies on the moon" thing tho.)

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the FUCK IS THIS BED FOR

on nov 5th and march 20th, yu gets taken to this room at the police station. the chairs and desks arranged so two people can face each other and whatnot in the room suggests it's an interrogation room. very scientific source for this btw: i've watched/played entirely too many things where someone gets taken into an interrogation room to not know what the jp media stereotypical interrogation room looks like by now (especially that damn lamp). but... ive also not seen something where an interrogation room has a bed? what is this room and why does it have a bed lol

when dojima takes you there in nov, the jp text just describes it as "a room at the inaba pd":

a room that might have beds is the nap room as some stations have those. but in the photos i saw of those, they were tatami floor you could put multiple futons on so that multiple officers could go pass out:

additionally, the poster i can read on the bulletin board says that they are strengthening citizen patrols in the area:

(i can't really read anything besides the large text either so im not rly sure what "strengthening" means here - are they trying to hold citizen patrols more frequently? recruit more citizen volunteers? train them?) ok wait actually i guess the meaning is irrelevant, it's more like... even though i'm under the assumption this is an interrogation room, but im not sure if that's the kinda flyer you'd have on a board in an interrogation room?

we also know that the inaba branch doesn't seem to be very big. like we're shown that adachi was on traffic duty when rise came to town.

so ya idk. perhaps this room at the inaba pd is some kind of "we have no budget" interrogation room that also doubles as a nap room? (and also has a bulletin board with community info on it?)

but also: maybe this is the only room like this and dojima took protag-kun in there on purpose cause it has a bed? he seems to be under the impression he's protecting yu by holding him at the station after all and he even tells him to stay overnight.

btw, in the 2020s era search results, i noticed that some places that had these napping rooms shifted away from the tatami rooms w/futons and started doing individual arrangements (capsule hotel style, small rooms, etc) to prevent the spread of corona. maybe the inaba pd has a bunch of individual rest rooms and it's actually very ahead of its time.

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tbqh, the idea of p4 being remade is completely off putting to me lol

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which phone number does adachi give us anyway?

happy "throw away the murder case to get adachi's phone number" day.

that said: i wonder what phone number does adachi give yu in the adachi ending anyway?

on december 3rd, yu gets a phone call from adachi, and he knows it's him before picking up the phone, implying that he got adachi's phone number at some point in the past.

this was the same in ps2 persona 4 too, so it's not like this was something new added in if you did adachi's social link either.

did atlus forget that yu already has adachi's phone number? is the number yu gets in the ending like... adachi's personal phone (or some burner phone?) and he called before on dec 3rd from his work phone or something? (this got me wondering about "do police officers get work phones", and jp google suggests it varies by prefecture. tho i feel like the inaba pd is small. maybe they don't get work phones. hmm.)

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teddie's other nickname

o yea, teddie has yet another nickname besides kumakichi.

kanji also calls teddie "クマ公", pronounced "kumako".

this is the same "ko" as in hachiko the loyal dog. (well, the dog's name was actually "hachi".) the name we know it by, "hachiko", was an affectionate nickname made up of hachi's name + "ko" tacked on at the end.

when added on to the end of a name like that, "ko" can be affectionate orrrr it be a bit belittling. like, "kumako (complimentary)" versus "kumako (derogatory)". given that teddie is a bit of a nuisance sometimes, i think kanji means it in both ways lol.

btw, when you visit the movie theater in golden, the movie kanji really wants to see is the one that plays in october -- dachiko, a parody of hachiko.