The story of the Persona series. Part 6. Persona 3 Portable, Persona -trinity Soul-, manga and anime
We all love money. And even more money is loved by large corporations and ideally, if this money goes to them the simplest way. Atlus, Like most Japanese companies are very greedy. Their love of money can be compared with Electronic Arts. Apparently the Japanese in the genes have been laid down to love money, from that and the prices of the game are appropriate. But! There is one big “but” when compared EA And let’s say, Atlus – This is quality.
I already told you that Fes The version of the game Persona 3 – lazy attempt Atlus Selling the game for the second time and the Japanese themselves understood this. Whether they stopped selling the same games in the second circle? Of course not, Atlus found a way with which they can make money, and players will be happy.
In 2009, after the release of Persona 4, The Japanese decide to port Persona 3 on then still relevant PlayStation Portable. And instead of stupidly cut and cut something out of the game, because everything that entered the usual one will not fit into the portable console, the developers also decided to make a bunch of changes to the game. And of course, the most significant change is many, the favorite, female version of the protagonist.
Male Protagonist – on the left and the female protagonist – on the right
At the beginning of the game, we will be kindly offered to choose the floor of the character, which can significantly affect the game. If you choose a makoto, then the game will almost literally repeat the original game, but if you choose a schoolgirl, then without changes in the events of the game will definitely not cost. And let’s immediately decide on the name of our heroine, as it is amazing, but Atlus did not give any at least a half -handonical name to the girl. Therefore, the players gathered together and decided to name the female protagonist Minako Arisato, by analogy with Minato Arisato, the name of the protagonist of the third Persona From manga. Indeed, in 2009, players had only manga, and before the anime of adaptations, where the protagonist was given an official name, Makoto Yuki, was still far away.
Minako causes some disputes in the community on Persona, Someone loves her, and someone even hates her and that’s why. Minako Arisato takes and destroys the whole topic of death and cold in the game and naturally some players infuriate. And I do not understand why such people do not understand that this is all and the meaning of the female protagonist. The developers specially wanted to give absolutely different experience from the game for different characters, because Minako is not just Makoto in a skirt, she is almost another person with her character and manner of communication. Why “almost” you ask? Minako and Makoto are still the same person, just in different universes, because they have the same person orpheus. Although Orpheus Minako and Orpheus Makoto are still different, because the person Minako is more feminine and brighter in color. Although in a sense it is a pity that this is the same person, because there was a beautiful theory that Makoto and Minako were a brother and sister. In one Universe, Minako died in a car accident with her parents, and Makoto died in another. But no, Makoto did not have a sister, but Minako’s brother.
Playing for Minako, Persona 3 really starts to give a completely new experience from the game. Yes, the topic of death has gone, because the interface menu was repainted into pink, and Minako herself is a brunette with a red eye and this is the exact opposite of Makota. Makoto is a serious, low -emotional guy who needs to be forced to smile, and Minako has a character precisely opposite. Many characters in the game noticed the girl’s sweet smile and craving for communication. Even the preferences in the clothes of these two are different, Makoto will rather put on a boring shirt, meanwhile Minako will try on a bright pink blouse. While the cold comes from Makoto, Minako gives heat. The full opposite of two protagonists is indicated by the Minako hairpin in the form of a Roman number 22. The Tarot deck is the path that begins the Arcana “The Jester” and ends the “Mir”. The new path begins the 22nd Arcana, which is also a “jester”. The game also changes in the game depending on the gender of the protagonist. They do not change the mood strongly, but purely subjectively, the everyday soundtrack for Minako is felt a little easier and more relaxed than the original.
Okay, it’s time to tell about gameplay, since it has changed no less than the half of the protagonist. The 3D graphics were completely removed from everyday gameplay, now we are watching everything from above, and when it comes to conversations and plot, then Persona 3 turns into a purebred visual novel. Only in Tartarus we are given the opportunity to run in all three dimensions as before. Of course, due to the power of the portable console, the graphics had to be cut down anyway, but not critical. In the ominous tower, Minako will be armed with purely Japanese weapons – naginate and unlike the original, in the portable version the protagonist cannot wear other types of weapons, except for his original. In this version of the game, by the way, shadows can steal ordinary people in Tartarus and the player should find them and save them. Some of the missing people turn out to be our Social Link’s: girl Maiko and old Bunkichi. For the salvation of people, the officer Kurosawa will reward us.
A resident of the velvet room will be aware of the missing us, and no, not Elizabeth, but Theodore is the younger brother Elizabeth. Theodore was named in honor of the character of Theodore Bomer from the film "Ghost Frankenstein". When at the beginning of the game Minako gets into the velvet room, the game will offer to choose who will help Igor and Minako. But in the case of Makoto, this will not be a choice. Theodore gives the impression of a real adult and smart gentleman. Although he knows little about our world, basically he learned everything from the words of his sister Elizabeth. Who, by the way, loves to mock his brother. Theodore complains that one day Elizabeth fraught with his dog food, saying that these were delicious. And the gentleman knows how to determine the exact temperature of the object by one touch, I do not know why you need this information, just live with this. The rest of the pastime with Theodore is the same as with Elizabeth, except that the guy reacts differently to the same things as his sister. Theodore will also fall in love with the protagonist and with the guy as well as with Elizabeth, it will be possible to fight. By the way, if you choose Elizabeth at the beginning of the game instead of Theodore, then the girl will still fall in love with Minako. And here it is not known to the end whether the lesbian is Elizabeth or due to the fact that she is not a person, for her it doesn’t care what kind of gender her partner. Perhaps that is why Makota was not given the opportunity to choose theodore in order to avoid potential gay scenes. Homophobe is a developer? Perhaps, but I don’t mind. As well as Elizabeth, Aigis will also fall in love with the protagonist, regardless of gender. But the other Social Link’s female will not experience such feelings for Minako, now the player can build relationships with men’s social ties. And, about the good, there was an opportunity to refuse love, and not forced to change, although because of this, the Social Link will be broken.
Persona 3 Portable I went out later Persona 4, Therefore, in this game we can meet another representative of the velvet family – Margaret, at the moment the oldest assistant Igor in the velvet room. Margaret helped the protagonist of the fourth Persona, Therefore, I will talk about her later, but about her role in this game now. By the end of the game in Tartarus, a silver door will appear, which leads to the abyss of time from the epilogue The Answer. In the abyss will be Margaret, which will offer to go through all the doors in which the players will meet all the big shadows. Having again defeated the old enemies, the protagonist will be able to challenge Margaret. Unfortunately, this is the only place in the game where we will see the abyss of time, since the place for The Answer on PSP was simply not enough. Portable version of the game Persona 3 Fore up at Persona 4 A couple of gameplay features, for example, a slightly diverse shuffle time, the protagonist can earn money, thereby receiving money and pumping his skills. As well as pumping some Social Link’s, SEES members will receive different opportunities, by type: save the protagonist from a deadly attack, or start a joint attack.
In general, to other changes in the history of Minako. Probably the most significant change between the history of Makoto and Minako is the Social Link’i. The first Social Link to get a girl is a connection with the Arcana “Mage”, which is not tied to Kenji, but to Junpeya. And in terms of Social Link, for me the story of Minako wins at times compared to Makoto, since the game gives us not only the female part of the Sees, but all the man’s. In the original game, it seems to me, without the opportunity to spend time with guys from Sees was a big assumption.
So, spending time with Junpeem, we will understand how sensitive and caring. And not because the main character is now a girl and he would like to start meeting with Minako, because, as Junpeh himself said, Minako for him as a sister, he cannot perceive her differently. Well, and even more so Junpei already has Chidori. At one point, Minako will have fans of perverts who will secretly photograph the girl. And then a Junpeh will enter the stage, which, as is characteristic of his Arcane, will impulse to react to this. And soon the guy will find those who follow Minako and will repap them to their desire to approach her. Although Junpey will also get in the process of this, but this shows how much the guy appreciates friendships.
Already a romantic relationship can be started with Akihiko, whose Social Link is not tied to his Arkan “Emperor”, since the developers decided to leave the plot branch of Hidehiri and cut out the weaker Social Link Mamora. Arkana Mamoru was a “star” and now his Social Link moved to Akihiko if you play for Minako. The situation is the same as with Aigis, the character has one lasso, and Social Link has another, and this is not the only case in the portable version of the game. Arkana “Zvezda” for Akihiko means his popularity at school and his faith in the future, which he acquired, communicating with Minako. At the end of this, Social Link’s Minako becomes closer to Akiyko than his dead sister Miki and the guy begins to cherish his girlfriend the most in the world, since he does not want to lose her too. If you think about it, then starting an affair with Akihiko and given the end of the game where the main character dies, for a guy this event becomes an incomprehensible blow. And unfortunately, in the game, as I said, there is no epilogue Thenswer to find out how Akihiko reacted to the death of his beloved. Obviously more painful than the death of Makoto.
Added Social Link even for Koromar, although he is not a person. In his Social Link, the Arcana “Strength” nothing significant happens. It’s just that during his story you can once once again be able to act the actions of Koromar and how he saves the missing dog once, bringing her food.
You can start dating even with Ken, who at the time of the game is 10 years old, yeah. But as in the case of Akihiko, we will just get an expansion of his personal drama. Ken will tell how he lives, being an orphan and about his hobbies by manga and series about superheroes.
They added even a semi -eared Social Link “Fortune Wheel” and it is attached to Ryoji. The social connection of Ryoji is tied precisely to this lasso, since death is directly related to the cycle, the main attribute of the “Wheels of Fortune”. During communication with Minako, Ryoji will not behave fervently, as usual. The guy will constantly think about himself and the fact that he had already seen Minako somewhere. And then I have a complaint about the plot of the game for Minako. Death lived in a protagonist as much as 10 years. And during this time, death acquired the body and voice, which is very similar to the protagonist. In the manga on the game for the similarity of Makoto and Ryoji, they focused on. Well, I think you understand what I am. In theory, Faros and Ryoji should also be female, and it turns out that Röji has the appearance and voice of Makoto, which in the Universe Minako simply does not exist.
In the game for Minako, 2 completely https://coincasino-pro.co.uk/bonus/ new Social Link’s appeared with new characters. Minako can join a tennis club or volleyball, which are intended exclusively for girls. There she will meet Rio Ivasaki along with her Social Link’s “Chariot”. Rio, like the Arcana “Chariot” – decisive, concentrated, and also emotionally closed. Rio is in love and not in any of anyone, but for a lover of older women, in Kenji. However, Rio does not understand this and because of such emotions unknown to her, she begins to quarrel with the whole club. Here the shadow part of the “chariot” is manifested – a quarrel and a riot. However, not everyone turned away from Rio, of course, Minako remained and both girls began to train together. Later, Rio will understand his feelings, but she says that Kenji will wait a bit to recognize love. Instead, Rio restored friendships with the club. Another interest in Rio is that she and Minako will go to competitions in another city. And naturally, the girls will stop at the hotel and not in any kind of, but at the Amaga family hotel. We will even meet the young Yukiko Amaga, so far this name does not tell us anything, but this girl will soon become a person-juzer and will be a key figure in Persona 4.
The second new Social Link is a “hermit”, which this time is attached to the schoolgirl Saori Hasegawa. Although Saori is also a second one, like Minako, but because she lived abroad for some time, she is now 18 years old, and this makes her the most adult student at school. Sometimes hermits were called alchemists, and it is funny that Saori often helps a school nurse, because medicine was also often attributed to alchemy. Unfortunately, the schoolgirl soon becomes a hermit and literally, because dirty rumors began to dissolve about her and the whole school, except Minako, stopped communicating with her. The next blow for Saori is the statement of parents that they will transfer her to a private school, because remaining in a regular school she will spoil the honor of their family. However, the girl is not angry, sad a little, but does not feel anger or a sense of immaturity, because she understands that she is guilty of everything. Saori always lived on the principle that someone needs her. She always wanted to help, just not to think what to do and because of this she became a light victim for school naps. Before leaving, Saori decides at least a little to clear her name and through the school loudspeaker the girl reports to the whole school that all the rumors about her are a lie. Saori doesn’t care if she is not believed, she made a crazy, in her opinion, a step and does not regret him at all.
Well, the last, most interesting Social Link is connected with Schindjiro, whose lasso is the “High Priest”, but his Social Link is tied to the Arcane “Luna”. Any actions will not take place in his history, basically the heroes will not even leave the hostel. Schinjiro shows the quality of his Arcana “Supreme Priest”, transmitting knowledge of cooking fuke, as well as his Social Link “Luna” indicates his illness. It means that his illness is an uncontrolled person and he must take a drug, which, although he suppresses his person, is deplorable to him. In the end, the guy will also fall in love with Minako and, most amazing – it will save Shinji from death. And here the problems of the plot for a female protagonist begins. In the original game, Shinja’s death was important, it had an effect on absolutely all. On his friends, players and even for those who knew about his death. At that moment, the death of the guy helped to bring all the members of the SEES to the awareness and acceptance of death. Such, as in the original game, gets into Shinji twice, but the second bullet stopped the wrist clock, which Minako found and gave Shinjiro at the end of his Social Linka. After that, Shinji falls into a coma. Agree, the effects of coma and death are very different, here is another reason for you why some people do not like Minako in the community. And the problem is not only in the fact that Shinji survived, and the problem is still how he survived. I’m just interested in what watch watches had Schingja, who were able to stop the Magnum bullet, which is easy to do not just hole it, and the fuck explodes whole watermelons. Of course, I am glad that Shinji remained alive at least in some universe, and the Universe, where Minako lives recently recognized as canonical, by the way, but it would be better if Shinji died and in her history too.
Well, this is perhaps all about Persona 3 Portable, Yes, I did not mention some minor changes, such as a partially redrawn interface and All-out -ttack’i, the place where Minako is sitting at school, the ability to communicate with SEES members in Tartarus. Just these changes are too small. The portable version of the game is really wonderful, in my modest opinion, it is the best among other versions Persona 3. Well, if you are not confused by the quality of the graphics. The plot for Minako is felt completely different, especially when it comes to Social Link’s. If I someday want to rely Persona 3, then my choice will fall precisely on the portable version of the game. Also this version of the third Persona made to understand Atlus how to sell your product for the second time and at the same time save your image. Namely: puff a bunch of changes and additions into the game. Of course, the practice is not the coolest, because roughly speaking we buy, albeit large, but DLC at the price of the main game, but this is still better than what the rest of the 80% of gaming companies do.
So, to the next way to earn on the already released third Persona. Atlus We decided to ozol to ozol with the help of adaptations of both manga and anime. Let’s start with manga, since there is nothing to say about it, because it is very, very close to the game. Manga began to go out in 2007 and finished in 2017, and painted her Shuji Sogabe. Interesting, but Shuji is more connected with the game industry, because he is not only Mangaka, but also an illustrator and designer of characters for video games. The manga itself is delightful and the plot in it was transferred almost literally, so I will not focus on the manga for a long time. Although there is no Social Link’s in it, but then poor Sogab would draw this manga for another 10 years. However, for which I am still ready to criticize the manga is for Makoto Yuki, but in the manga his name is Minato Arisato, but I do not want to confuse you once again. At the beginning of the story, Makoto is identical to his original from the game, that is, he speaks little and is almost unemotional, here the problem lies. Makoto is sometimes too impudent, and the further the manga goes, the stronger it is noticeable. After all, as an idea, Makoto should always be slightly emotional and look like a dead, because this is a feature of his character. It is clear that the author wanted to show the growth of the character, but this was not done in the most elegant way. And I would say that this is a rude minus, if the humor in the manga would not be good, so for changing the character of Makoto, the author can be forgiven. And, and the manga is not translated into English and Russian to the end, eh, we should already get used to.
So, anime adaptation, which was divided into 4 films and made its studio Aic a.S.T.A. Together with A-1 Pictures. Films were released once a year from 2013 to 2016. And what I want to note right away is a delightful visual, which is impressive from the very beginning. It is also worth mentioning the production of absolutely everything: battles, conversations and comedic scenes, all this was done in the films simply masterpiece. Here, for example, is the scene where Junpeya shoots such. Even players can go into the game at this moment, as it was specially made fast and unexpected. I also want to talk about Makoto again, which, unlike manga, is also perfect. He is also silent and in it there is no this strange playfulness as in the manga, but for what I want to praise the authors of anime, it is for how they decided to show Makoto’s growth through the adoption of death. The main theme of the game is death, if someone did not understand this in 3 hours of my story, and the authors skillfully took advantage of the main idea of the game. The developers of the game wanted to show the players that death should be accepted, and in the anime, Makoto, with whom we, in theory, must associate ourselves in the game, passes through the adoption of death. At first, the guy does not understand what death is, then Makoto begins to fear her. When Schinjiro sees the death, the guy cuts himself off even more. And by the end of history, Makoto accepts death and this helps him to establish relations with friends and defeat Nyuktu. What, by the way, is still a plus, is that Makoto retains its unemotionalism. When the guy still smiles or even laughs, it causes a certain emotional response from the viewer.
I figured out the main advantages, and now I need to tell about the minuses, of which, unfortunately, there are plenty of. And for convenience, I will go through each film in order. The first film is called Spring of birth and unlike manga, all films in all films, sometimes even critical and many of them still play against anime. However, in the first film, these very changes are very few, and I do not mean changes in the type of “here in the game of the suitcase opened Mitsuura, and in the anime Ikutski, fuuuu shit”, no, I will not even mention such. The most important change in this film is actually quite good, well, almost good. The fact is that Makoto does not go to the second lunar operation where the SEES is saved by fouu. Staying during the dark hour in the hostel, Makoto looks after Natsuki, which was left in the game and this is pure stupidity from the scriptwriters of the game. After all, at the beginning of the game, we were shown that the hostel during the dark hour is not a safe place, and here in the game the heroes decided to leave an ordinary schoolgirl alone in a hostel during a dark hour. So the decision to correct such illogicality in the anime is commendable, but this solution gives rise to another plot hole. In the game, the shadows of the empress and the emperor came to Tartarus because of Faros, who was then inside Makoto, so in the anime these same shadows should attack the hostel, but for some reason did not do this. The changes also did not bypass the velvet room, since in the anime she was removed such great significance for Makoto, because now the guy there can no longer use the merger of the person. Instead, after each defeat, a large shadow, Makoto will learn to call the perfect person of the lasso to which the shadow itself was tied. By “perfect person” I mean the persons that were given in the game for completing Social Link’s. The very idea itself is cool, but just why not leave the possibility of a merger and add a couple of scenes, where Makoto sits for a long time with Igor and thinks over the best confluence option. Yes, and the anime itself violates its rule when Makoto calls Jack Fros, who is not a perfect person of any arcana.
The second film The dream of a summer knight It is the weakest film of all, as he managed to swell the character of the yukari and the plot line of Fuuki. I have already said that Yukari specifically creates the image of a naive schoolgirl, although in fact she is very skeptical and a little even bitchy. In the anime, she is precisely that a naive schoolgirl, even scenes, where Yukari interrogates and does not like Mitsuur. The situation is even sadder with Fuuka, because its complex, related to femininity, is given one, damn it, proposal. And that’s it, Fuuka as a character is absolutely not needed in this anime. It is clear that the game itself is gigantic and some things must be cut or changed, but the funny thing is that the authors could preserve the character of the yukari and the plot branch of Fuuki. However, they wanted to add one new storyline for Ken and Schinjiro. The fact is that Shinji begins to admire the anime, there is even a big scene where all the SEES members go to the summer festival, which was not in the game, and there are friendly relations between Ken and Schindies are strengthened. Added such a new connection between Ken and Shinji so that the death of the latter was even more dramatic. Whether the authors did it? Well, in general, yes, but for the sake of this it was definitely not worth mocking the yukari and fuuka, seriously, sometimes I forgot about the existence of the latter, although in the game of Fuuka – my beloved female character. Ah, and here you have three more dumb moments in this film. At the very beginning, in a battle against lovers and the supreme priestess, the shadows a little destroy the hotel and is logical that in the real world the hotel will also be destroyed, and moreover, there will be victims. Yeah, hell is there, no one even remembers about it. So also Fuuka in this and not only the film for some reason climbs closer to battle. Let me remind you, her character is so strong that she can scan all 250 floors of Tartarus, standing at the very entrance, so there is no sense to walk closer to the battlefield for Fuuki. Well, the last dullness that puts his father to Mitsuur with a broken idite. On the island of Yakushim, during the dark hour, shadows attack Yukari and Makoto, and Aigis saves them. Okay, I thought, in the anime of the action steep, and the presence of shadows on the island is easy to justify, because there were other people on the island, and shadows are born because of people. But no, the anime came up with an excuse more abruptly, the fact is that the shadows are still enclosed in Kirigo’s laboratory and they suddenly ran away. Yeah, that is, 10 years ago there was a terrible explosion due to the collection and study of the shadows, and then suddenly Father Mitsuur, who, in theory, against the study of the shadows, says: “I, Bl*, will do it again”.
The third film Fall – The most funny and, thank God, in a good way. Yes, this film shows the death of Father Mitsur and Chidori and they are shown well, but otherwise I was touched while watching. The anime decided to introduce a completely new plot branch between Makoto and Ryoji, in which they form their own school club and help everyone for money. Since Makoto accidentally broke the costume to President Tanaka, when he molested the girl Maiko, and yes, in anime, only so there are Social Link, which is pleasant. This plot branch is filled with various funny fun and also does not forget to deepen the character of both guys, something similar was already in the portable version of the game for Minako. And then there is a trip to Kyoto and Stlas Mission in the bathhouse, which was turned into an anime into a military drama about how the soldiers should abandon their comrade to get out of the war. Also in this film, Aigis’s concern was multiplied by the fact that Makoto communicates with Roji and this also increases the number of funny scenes. If you have not watched and do not want to watch the anime of adaptation, then just look at YouTube cutting funny moments from the anime, that’s what, but with humor the film is fine. In this film, by and large, two big changes. The abduction of Junpei, and then Chidori, occur much later, not in September, but in November. Well, the bridge on which the last battle took place against the arken shadow was destroyed, and this was displayed on the real world, unlike the hotel.
The last film Winter of rebirth Very good, he still lacks the depth of the original, but how the authors of the anime did all of December is just amazing. Unlike the game, there is snow in the film, in the game it was not due to technical restrictions. And how he plays steeply on the atmosphere, because all of December, members of the Sees are experiencing the adoption of their imminent death, so that all the characters fall into depression, someone in deep, and someone is not very. And in the anime this depression is shown stronger from an emotional point of view than in the game. It even comes to a little fight between Akihiko and Junpeem. To someone, the first half of the film may seem boring, since there is little in it and a lot of gray, long, but very atmospheric plans of the city. Apparently, I am just a fan of films by Denis Villenev, who also likes to transmit the atmosphere with the help of long plans. Although the first half of the film is remarkable, but without shortcomings it was not there. For example, Yukari fell into depression so much that she had not eaten for several days, and once her own person would attack her, as if if she had lost control of her. I have already started to think that the anime is going to expand the idea of monitoring the person. Allegedly, if a person was awakened due to positive motives, then when your thoughts become too gloomy, your person will begin to go crazy and therefore Shinji being not artificial per … aaa, it was just a dream and hallucinations of yukari. And another sore theme of this, and indeed all films is the awakening of perfect persons. Perfect persons are a strong resonance in the soul, which combines a large event in a person’s life and a change in the soul of a person. So, the anime spoils this rule, since almost all the SEES members awaken their perfect person during the last battle. That is, as it turns out, a large event and a change in the soul of all the characters occurs when they are threatened with mortal danger? That is, not the death of Shinji for Aki and Ken, not the death of so much for Mitsur, not separation from his best girlfriend for Fuuki, not a genuine video of his father for yukari and not the adoption of human emotions for Aigis. Only Junpey and Makoto have good awakening. Since the awakening of the Trismegist in the anime decided not to change in any way, and Makoto arouses the Messiah while he sees that his closest friends almost killed the shadows.
I know that this anime adaptation is disliked by fans of the game, and now I scolded it very much. However, I received a lot of pleasure from watching, well, except for the second film, it is just bad. I just decided for myself that one should not relate to this adaptation as something independent, since in the image of an independent anime product a sufficiently average. I treated this anime as a pleasant bonus to an existing game and I liked this bonus, especially December, damn it, how good it is. By the way, about pleasant bonuses, Suji Meguro recorded a little original soundtake for anime.
In the third Persona 4 novels came out, and the first of them Fragments of the end I went out in 2006. And how could you guess the translation and certainly will not be, but even for a brief retelling from the Internet I was interested in this work. The main character in this novel is Akihiko, and events take place a month before the start of the game. Unfortunately, I can’t give you a straight picture of everything that is happening in this short story, since I doubt that everything is described to the smallest details in the retelling of their Internet. But in general, here we are shown that Akihiko, Mitsuur and Schindjiro are very close to each other, like friends. Mitsuur even says that Akihiko fully trust their life. A new character of Aya Tokitou appears in the novel, who can experience the dark hour, but it is not completely clear whether she can call a person, so Mitsuur offers AE in the hostel for some time. Aya is good and caring and secretly in love with Akihiko. Interesting, but in the novel we are shown how Shinjiro and Akihiko use Fusion Spell and not the one that was in Persona 3, Namely from Persona 2. In the end, Aya forgets everything related to the dark hour and she, like a graduate, leaves the city to study in college.
The second novel was released a year later in 2007 and it is called Crying shadows. This novel tells about Strega and the narrative is on the behalf of Gin parallel to the plot of the main game. The long-standing acquaintance of Gina, also an artificial person-lecturer amazum, who was supposed to die 10 years ago, when Kirijo had experimented the long-standing. However, the guy managed to survive and escape thanks to the explosion in the laboratory. Two years ago, Izumi was saved by Ken’s mother, and having learned about her death, the guy asks Strega to find and kill the killer. Now Izumi lives with the nurse and her daughter, who even calls the Izumi father and Jin is somewhat envied by the guy’s calm life. After conducting a small investigation, Gene finds clues that indicate Shinjiro. However, during this, a incomprehensible creature will attack Gin and the guy saves Schinjiro. Izmi himself turned out to be this incomprehensible creature, because his person, roughly speaking, is broken and does not have a certain form and does not refer to any god. In the end, Strega has to kill the monster and after the short story in the Strega game itself is holding a promise to the guy, killing Schinjiro. This novel shows that Jin and such not such villains, they have their own values, they can also lead the usual dialogue with each other. And of course, Gene himself reveals most of all, who created the image of the assistant to the main villain in the game, but in the novel we are shown that he suffers because of his decision to abandon the outside world.
There is little to say about the last two novels. Novel An alternative heart -This is just a retelling of the main game, but about the story Blue velvet Little is known. It is only known that in this short story the main character is Elizabeth. In this short story, Elizabeth watches Minako and how she spends time with Theodore and communicates with Margaret. And so, when we ended with the novels, you can raise the question of their canonicality. Novels Fragments of the end, Crying shadows And Blue velvet Kenichi Fujira wrote and he very well entered his stories into the world of the game, so that they do not contradict each other. Therefore, these three novels can be considered canonical, since they do not break the world of the game, but on the contrary expand it, which should do good spin-off.
In the community Persona a meme has been going on for a long time that Atlus Forgot about Persona 1 And 2, since they release content only by Persona 3.4 And 5. So, there is a work in a franchise Persona, Even some ardent fans do not know about, Persona –Trinity Soul-. The soul of the Trinity, This is how the name is translated, it is 26 serial anime, whose events unfold 10 years after Persona 3, That is, in 2019. And the question that I want to put: does it deserve an anime to be all forgotten? Okay, I will not keep an unnecessary intrigue and just say that yes, deserves. But first the plot. Anime tells of three brothers: about the older Ryo, the middle tire and the younger June Kanzato.
Shin – right, Ryo – on the left and June – in the middle
The main character is Shin, who, with his younger brother Jun, returned 10 years later to his hometown of Ayanagi to his brother Ryo. However, the elder brother is not particularly happy to see the tire and June, since being a detective he is afraid that his business can touch them too. And Ryo’s business is really dangerous, since he is already a person-yaszer with experience, Ryo 28, and he aroused his person in childhood, therefore it was he who catches the criminal organization of Marebito, in which the owners of the person are exclusively owners. Marebito is very similar to Strega, all its members are artificial persons-speakers, and experiments were put on them in childhood. Marebito in all seriousness can be translated as “not like everyone else”. The persons of this organization are special, as they can absorb persons of other people. The removal of a person in a person can lead to his death and very terrible. A person who has lost his person literally turns inside out. Well, or the absorption process can be interrupted, then the person of the person will most likely be damaged and he will become the victim of the Apathy syndrome already familiar to us. In general, everything turns out that Marebito attacks the tire, but the guy was able to call his person and recapture the attack. Jun’s younger brother also has a person, but the guy’s person belongs to the type of navigator, so the battle in battle is contraindicated to him. Most likely, June has the strongest person navigator, as he is even able to look into the past of people and feel their emotions. The rest of Person users are friends of the protagonist Takuro Sakakib, Megumi Kayano and Kanaru Morimoto. After some time, it turns out that the parents of the Kansato brothers who died 10 years ago were scientists who studied Person and set up experiments on people. And one of the experimental, at her own free will, the daughter of the chief scientist Ayana Komatsubar. And according to the classics there is a failure that led to the death of the girl. After that, Kanzato’s parents abandoned the work of scientists and acquired a large family. Initially, the Kanzato family was not only three brothers, but also the sister of Yuki. June and Yuki are twins, but in 2009 the ghost Ayana finds Kanzato’s parents and tries to kill them. Little Shin sees how his parents are killed and because of this his person awakens, giving a rebuff to Ayana, who accidentally throws great energy to the whole city. Because of this emission, many people suffered and people with apathy syndrome began to appear. Gemini June and Yuki, who, seemed, were destined to die, but an experienced doctor was able to save at least Juna, transplanting half the brain of his sister to him. Now June sometimes suffers from a bifurcation of personality, since his late sister Yuki lives in him. The psyche Shin after the death of parents and sisters almost broke, so the older brother Ryo decides to erase his memories of these events. It seems that the Dr. Slieter June turned out to be the very scientist who sent his daughter Ayana for terrible experiments, Komatsubar. The anime is definitely not said, but there is a possibility that Kyoske could save both Juna and Yuki, but decided to conduct another experiment to merge the minds, at the same time revenge on the death of his daughter Kanzato’s family.
After 10 years, Kyoske is considered the dead, but it is he who is the head of Marebito, who wants to return his daughter to life. His plan was that his minions absorb strong persons and later the clone of his daughter Ayan, whom he himself created, would absorb all Marebito members, and in general, this is what the scientist himself dies during all this. Before that, Kyuske tried to kill Ryo as much as twice. The first time Ryo took revenge for the death of his sister and then the scientist became a cripple, and the second time the senior Kansato decided to kill Kyoske for good. However, this does not come out for the guy, he almost dies, and his person got out of control, while killing his beloved. Returning to Marebito, one cannot fail to note how they caught strong people. After all, the clone of his own daughter is not the only creation of Kyusca, he also created a cyborg, to whom he gave the identity of the schoolgirl and called the Kanar Morimoto. For a long time she herself did not suspect that she was a cyborg that helps Marebito. She helped Marebito by the fact that the canar loves such a thing as “kagenuki”, which can be translated as “pulling the shadow”. Kagenuki is something like a “dog buzz”, when a person slightly strangles another to get the same high. In the anime, it is not entirely clear how this process comes, but people also get a buzz and, moreover, during this process, a not yet awakened person can come out. So Marebito calculated powerful persons and absorbed them. In the end, the canar realized that she was a robot and the girl was ready to live with this, but Kyoske was able to put her a limit how much she could still live. And so the gang dies in her arms, in which she fell in love not so long ago. At the end, the clone of Ayana and the ghost Ayana merge so that they can go to the sea of shower and find peace, simultaneously destroying absolutely everything of the person for all people. Ryo joins their plan, who also believes that one grief and tires begins a battle with his older brother in an attempt to stop Ayana. His friends Takuro and Megumi join the tire and together they were able to first convince Ryo to help Ayana, and then prevent Ayana from destroying all the persons. As a result, everything returned to normal, but his older brother Ryo dies in the hands of the tire, since that wound in the fight with Kyoske was fatal, Ayana was just helping Ryo to stay in the world of the living, at least a little.
Yeah, there are a lot of events for 26 episodes, oh how sorry that it was extremely and extremely boring to watch all this. The plot is weak, although there are rudiments of good thoughts. For example, at the beginning we are shown how dependence on something can lead to sad consequences, but still this topic is not stupidly disclosed. Moreover, after a certain series, no one recalls the dependence of the canar on the kagenuka. The characters are faded and uninteresting, although not even so. The characters become interesting in the last 7 episodes, since it is then that they begin to disclose them. Yes, in the beginning, too, do not rush to the disclosure of the characters, it is better to open them gradually. And here it turns out that the authors of the anime remembered that the plot was coming to an end, and their characters were as dummies, they remained with them. Therefore, they quickly show us how Takuro reconciles with his father, who ended up in the body of a woman, since the souls of the dead began to return from the sea of souls, but not to their bodies. Megumi reconciled with her parents, and the girl also realized that she was not to blame for the death of her younger brother. In fact, throughout the entire anime, only two characters are of interest: the older brother Ryo and the younger June. Although the storyline of the latter is also unfinished. But Ryo is really cool, being the chief of the police, he is strict and serious. During his life, he experienced a lot of things: the death of his dog, the death of his parents, the choice to transplant half the brain of Yuki June and the death of his beloved. And only the latter giggled a little and Ryo took the path of radical actions. Although personally I would break after the first point. Well, the last plus of this anime is that it is trying to mow under the old Persona, not by quality of course, but at least atmosphere. The anime is quite gloomy and cruel, which costs the death scene of Kansato’s parents, despite the fact that a little tire is watching this.
Oh, and now I will tell you why this is a weak anime not only as a separate work, but also as part of the universe Persona. The biggest minus is the trick of the entire series Persona, Persons themselves. They are bad in almost everything, starting with the action scenes with them and ending with a semantic load. I’m not so strict for design, Shigenori’s clear business was not invited to create a person’s appearance, but some persons look good enough, even though most are like robots. For some reason, they decided to make a person in the anime, how would they be the perfume, but because of this action, the scenes look like the maximum mess, in which nothing is clear. Symbolism in persons preserved only three brothers. Ryo – Cain, killed his brother Abel, Person Shin, and this symbolizes the clash between the brothers at the end of the series. And the person of Juna is a wise Sif, who was also the brother of Cain and Abel. And everything, the rest of the persons of the legal entities is such an uninteresting symbolism that even if he is, I do not want to mention him. And from unsuccessful people the following minus flows: where is my lasso? Arcana is an integral part of the entire franchise, but here they simply are not, as there is no interesting symbolism. The main character has also no ability, that is, the tire, call for a lot of people. Damn, seriously, the creators of the anime at least, well, it was, played the game? For example, Igor appears in the anime, once and for a couple of seconds. But nothing that Igor should help the main character in his journey? Fileon created Igor for this task, and here it turns out that Igor said a couple of abstract words to the tire and let him understand further. Even a velvet room did not appear. Not only Igor is a familiar face in this anime, when Ryo received a serious wound and disappeared without a trace, he is replaced by Akihiko Sanada. After 10 years, Akihiko became the chief of the police, who is especially interested in the drug that calms the person. At one time, this drug slowly killed Shinjiro, so it is clear why this topic is so worried about. However, Akihiko, in fact, does not need this story at all, I did not even mention it in my brief retelling. And then I will tell you about another delirium scriptwriters, delirium from the point of view of the canon. In the anime, we are told that adults lose the opportunity to call their person, so Akihiko does not participate in battles with Caesar. Ryu is already 28 and he can call his person, as he takes the same drug that improves person control. So, there are two problems. The most important thing: this concept begins to break the canon, since before we were shown that adults could call their persons without any pills. In Eternal Punishment in general, almost all heroes for 20. So this is an age restriction – pure nonsense. The second problem is the unwillingness of Aki to take pills and call Caesar, since Akihiko wants to be strong in order to protect the weak. Yes, if you think about it, his person is the strongest of all presented in the anime. Awakening of persons is something special for a person, therefore, in the games of the series, the moments of awakening were made very pathos and cool, but not in this anime. Even in the very first Persona The awakening of its “second I” looked cooler than in anime. Moreover, in Trinity Soul We decided not to insert the very lines that all the awakened persons say “I am you, and you are me”. We also decided not to insert the names of the person themselves, that is, the whole highlight of the whole franchise is that the heroes call for mythological creatures disappears. Person’s call lost any zest. In the first Persona During the use of a person around the hero, a blue cloud and a characteristic sound appeared, Persona 3 I am generally silent. IN Trinity Soul the persons just fly out of the bodies of the heroes and that’s it, boredom. She made another violation of the anime when she decided not to add shadows or demons, and this is also an important part of the franchise.
Persona –Trinity Soul- forgotten and forgotten deservedly. This anime is bad as a separate work and it becomes worse within the framework of the franchise Persona. And if you think so, then with the success of this anime, Atlus could be invested in such projects that talk about other characters with the original history. It’s a pity that A-1 Pictures did not want to delve into the series Persona, to create a worthy anime for the franchise Persona. Looking at the “successes” of this product, Atlus quickly disowned this anime, recognizing this story not a canon and sent it somewhere to another universe. But Atlus Obviously made a certain bet on this anime, here the SODIMA painted a couple of promo-arts with characters from anime. On the anime, novels were released that repeated the plot of anime. CD-Drama, which told how the Kanzato family celebrates Christmas and even thematic radio, which lasted as long as six months in 2008. On it, the actors argued about the anime itself and their characters, and also answered questions. And, damn it, it became a shame that I did not know Japanese, although I didn’t like the anime, but the last seven episodes were good enough to listen to the actors with interest. And in Japan, such radio is a common thing. You can calmly find the same radio on your other favorite anime if it is quite popular. For example, anime radio My heroic academy I heard to the holes.
Wow, and now it will be hot, since various kinds of minor side content on Persona 3 there was a very, very many. And so in 2006 the browser game was released Persona 3: The Night Before, In this game, players could play both for shadows and against them. A certain plot, like the hero, was not, the goal was to pump and conquer Tartarus. For a long time Atlus supported this game, but by 2008 they decided to close it, now it is not available. The next two games Megami Tensei QIX: Persona 3 And Megami Tensei Chaining Soul: Persona 3 In 2007, they went to mobile devices and both were typical puzzles. Back in 2007, it came out Aegis: The First Mission, This is probably the most interesting mobile product that I will talk about today. This game tells us about the first mission of Aigis and, accordingly, it is a protagonist. And we are also introduced to new characters, but only one is worthy of mention – this is Yuu Kimijim. Yuu is a scientist who loves Aigis as a miracle of science, and also argues whether a person has the right to create a new one or take someone else’s life. In general, she will die so and so, by the end of the very explosion caused by Ichiro, the father of Yukari, by the way, he is also in the game, like little Mitsuura. The actions of the game take place on the island of Yakushima, where Aigis straightens out with shadows using his machine guns, grenade launchers and drills, all these weapons of Aigis can pump in the laboratory. Aigis also has a person Palladium and she also pumps. As a result: this mobile game looks good enough for mobile gaming, I can’t even believe that this game has reached button phones. The last game, published in 2007, is Persona 3 EM, or rather, this is even a port Persona 3 on phones and it looks as it sounds. Of course, all would not fit on the phone Persona 3, No matter how many graphs from there cut out, so the game tells what they did on the island of Yakushim. In 2008 Atlus I decided to open another browser game – Persona ain soph, which was similar to the previous one in its mechanics. Unless the plot is not entirely based on Persona 3, After all, this time the players fell into a nightmare measurement and they need to get out of there. The game was closed two years later in 2010. Also in 2008, a decoration and ping-pong on Persona 3 For phones. In 2009, a more interesting project for pocket devices was published- Persona 3 Escape, In this game, Makoto and Yukari had to get out of a love hotel during the 4th lunar operation. Gameplay is made in the genre Point and Click, that is, the game consisted of small mysteries. In 2010, another mobile game was released- Persona 3 Social with original characters, by the way, and they were even painted by his Sajima himself. The actions of the game are all in the same school of Gekogan and everything is with the plot, then only the gameplay familiar to us, with a reservation for the fact that this is a mobile project.
And also by Persona 3 Many, many and a lot of cd drama were released that retell the plot of the game. CD drama even have two versions: Makoto appears in one, and in the other Minako. And yet, yes, the Japanese will still not stop, there were whole theatrical productions that were … Let’s say that they were at least strange and certainly not for people with a Caucasian appearance. And, apparently, that’s all? Wow, I can’t even believe. But no, hell is there, since the characters from Persona 3, Mostly Makoto and Aigis, other Japanese projects from other studios regularly attend. I won’t mention everyone right, since it’s trite to keep track of this, I won’t be surprised if I will wake up after the release of this video and see Makoto in the game about the Simal of the Date. Yes, I know that someone will say that I forgot about significant spin-offs like Persona 3: Dancing in MoonLight And Persona Q, but they are significant that deserve a separate issue and not one. And even more so, almost all of these games are crossovers with other games Persona, which we have not met yet. Therefore, I will release the release exclusively about such spin-offs after analysis of all license plates.
So, the main part of the video is finished, now you can insert your no one on anyone about Persona 3, And yours, already the right opinion, I want to see in the comments. After all, it is interesting for me to read and activity in the comments is beneficial in terms of the promotion of the video. Persona 3 became my second game in the series and I did not like it from the point of view, well, probably, everything. So you understand, my first Persona was Persona 5 And, accordingly, I unconsciously compared the top three. I passed Persona 3 Exactly a year ago, by the way, after its passage, I finally decided to deal with this story of the series, although I did not like the game then, but it still influenced me, at least in some sense. Although the word “did not like” is too loud, since playing was still interesting, rather the game did not cause me such an emotional response as it passed Persona 5. But this summer, when I sat down for the back Persona 3 for the video, then I realized why this game is in the first place in the series. The plot, although it seems simple at first, is still capturing, each character has its own personal and interesting drama, damn it, even the dog in this game is more interesting and dramatic than my. I am generally silent about various symbolism, it is made here at a phenomenal level, and the main message exclusively this Persona – The adoption of death is not arrogant and extremely important not only for adolescents, but also for the personalities. Of course, for me personally Persona 3 did not become the best part Persona, This place is proudly occupied by me Persona 5, But definitely, I fell in love with this game. And that’s all with the third license plate Persona, In the next issue, we will already learn the history of the new owners of people from a small foggy town.
