Meme was made by me.

Saw this on my NG+ merciless run. Apparently before you enter Kamoshida's palace, this is how it looks.

Sauce: https://twitter.com/akaripley/status/1190176030461313025

I've never even been to Japan IRL and I know about it. Why doesn't Joker?

It’s honestly crazy to me how hypocritical people are. So many players completely ignore the fact that you can literally romance your high school teacher (Kawakami) or a literal adult journalist (Ohya), but the moment someone chooses Futaba—a girl who is only a year younger than Ren—people start throwing extreme labels around. Even Kasumi is a first-year student, yet no one loses their mind over her.

Personally, I chose Futaba because I deeply relate to her character and see a lot of myself in her struggle. Her growth, her loyalty, and her bond with Ren feel genuine.

Why can’t people just let others enjoy their romance choices in a single-player game without turned-off brain moralizing?

It took me months but I'm really happy with how they all turned out! The torsos, legs and heads are Lego pieces with UV printed details. The hair/mask pieces are 3d printed, painted with Army Painter miniature paints, then sealed with UV gel nail polish.

The most difficult part for me was painting the masks that aren't just solid colors. I simplified the designs of them because I just couldn't paint those tiny details. If I were to make them again I think I'd try to paint them with the base color and then use UV printing for the details.

There are a few things that aren't quite right. Ann and Futaba's gloves aren't the right color because I didn't have any minifigures for that on hand. I struggled to get Haru's feather to stay in place and put excessive amounts of nail polish on, masking the feathers details.

But I'm largely happy with this project! If anyone wants further details on how I made them, I'm happy to share.

Persona 5 essentially gives you two trios:

Shujin Trio: Joker, Ann and Ryuji
Royal Trio: Joker, Akechi and Yoshizawa

(Morgana comes either way so no point mentioning him)

So, which one do you prefer? I don't know if this counts as a hot-take but I prefer the Shujin because they are close friends with better internal dynamics while Royal Trio were never friends in canon beyond Atlus marketing.

For some context, this was in my original playthrough of p5r, and I was already in a relationship with haru. So I had to make the unfortunate choice to reject ann, at her lowest point too. 😭

I actually feel bad now. Maybe in a future playthrough, i'll do her romance arc. Still this is really sad :(

Source: https://x.com/i/status/2079959713048150251

Apparently it was found in the game files and honestly I’m excited. Fortnite have done well with collabs recently so we should hopefully be getting items that actually look accurate.

I’ve only played the game in Japanese, so I’m curious to see how the following parts are phrased in the English version.

1. The hot pot welcome party for Yusuke

(How is the "grand finale" of the hot pot—the final dish prepared using the remaining broth—described in the story? Hot pot is a very Japanese concept, and in the Japanese version, Yusuke is incredibly particular about this final stage of the meal.)

1. The mountain of pickled red ginger Ryuji piles on at the beef bowl shop

(I wonder how that’s described. It shows up in Ryuji and Yusuke’s "Showtime" segment, too.)

If there are any other parts that made you think, "Huh?", please let me know.

Sumire might go to useless bum tier because I cannot remember if she was actually a part of the PT going after that dude who wanted Joker gone or not, rest I think is self explanatory.

EDIT: NOPE! I COMPLETELY FORGOT-HER COACH SAYS 'I know exactly who to call to get him out, just keep practicing'.

COMPLETELY VAGUE. PUT HER IN FLACCID TIER.

So I just started the third semester and I know I don't have enough time to get them all to rank 10 , so how many could I get

Ranks so far

Haru - 3

Sojiro - 6

Ann - 9

Ryuji - 8

Futaba - 5

Iwai - 6

Twins - 8

Kawakami - 5

Ohya - 8

The gaming kid - 6

Hifumi - 7

One of the biggest things I’ve noticed people point out about 5’s awakenings is how painful most of them look in comparison to 3 or especially 4 but I think this makes sense when you consider what the characters from the former games go through and realize those are pretty painful too.

4 is the easier of the two to understand. There is a very much mental pain of being confronted by ”your true self” or what effectively devolves into an accumulation of your dark thoughts. None of the characters with shadows want to accept them at first and are all clearly mentally hurt listening to them. Every party member goes through this, and Yu himself also has to in the anime. in game he’s given his persona earlier intentionally.

im 3, Personas are effectively scared out, as evokers are meant to push the user over the edge into summoning them. however every character naturally awakens to a second persons through more pain. the pain of losing a loved one and then needing to learn how to move on. Only then does their Persona seem to more naturally evolve in a way.

in 5 they are much more visually painful because the user awakening is dealing with both a lot of pent up anger and what’s implied to be a shadow all at once. Futaba appears to be noticably much less so than the others because she naturally accepted her shadow self. the others seemingly had to do so in the midst of awakening (hence the same glowing yellow eyes shadow self’s spot) so of course it’s gonna be a lot harder to do at first

a lot of rambling but presuming this was the intention I find it pretty neat