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cherubchoirs · 5 years ago
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I like splitting the anime Akira and the game akira, so the anime Akira in my mind is Ren and and game akira is Akira the Asshole lol, this is also the same case for yu/souji for me too, so it's yu the anime Chad and souji the big gay baby
OH definitely i’m the same here. i separate out ren as the anime protag, who is decidedly different from akira as my in-game protag. i feel sort of bad for it, but i just really don’t care for ren as a character and his only real value to me is having a twin au. 
honestly, i have to say i think atlus was going for a different character than what the anime presented - his character design was specifically made to be mysterious, intense, and alluring, and his character is meant to be representative of both a rebel and a criminal. i mean like his glasses were incorporated into his design to disarm his eyes that were meant to striking and piercing (i read this awhile ago…i wish i had a link for the source hhh sorry). akira has an air about him that was basically just one of intimidation, and the messy hair + the glasses are how he’s trying to hide it now that he’s on probation and doesn’t need any more trouble than he already has. in short: he’s not a soft person, and he doesn’t look like it. he can frighten people just by looking at them, but they really softened his features for the anime (and, as an aside on this, it bothers me that a-1 is doing the animation for the royal bc they’ve softened the in-game akira now too uugh he was never too intense in the original cutscenes, but god you can see the difference in character design from the new anime portions of the royal) 
i feel being presented with both of these things sort of naturally leads the player into characterizing him a certain way? i didn’t get into p5 right when it came out (bought it a couple months after release and then took awhile to get around to playing it), but there seemed to be such a consensus of a cocky asshole earlier in the fandom as opposed to post-anime and the fans that are around now. and honestly…i’m not sure why they went with this characterization, although i really don’t know how he was received or thought of in the japanese fandom. it was clear there was a shift, although i will say i’m glad it didn’t seem to affect p5d given his voiced lines and the choices you can make for his responses, but idk what the motivation was for it. maybe they like it more in japan? maybe it’s just due to having different directors doing different adaptations? obviously i have a wait and see attitude with the royal, but it makes me a little concerned given the shift to a-1 for the cutscenes and having a different director bc i just…don’t want akira managed in a way that lets me down since i adore p5 so deeply. i think it should be ok, since he’s back to being a silent protag, but they incorporated a character in him in vanilla p5, and i would hate to see a shift for the royal toward the soft ren character type.
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