"oh my god, a white guy!" Junpei when witnessing Teddie's human form, Persona 4 Arena

I'm really proud of this one for some of the stuff involving his mythology that I feel I've never seen talked about on the English side of the internet. Hope you get as mind-blowing as I did multiple times making this!!! (Also I know this is the wrong account but oh well)

An interesting tidbit from the Japanese version of P4, Teddie didn't really have a name before the IT found him. In Japanese, he has a verbal tick where he inserts 'kuma' into most of his sentences, so when Yosuke asks Teddie his name he just says "Kuma?" and so that's what they call him, for lack of anything better. Also, in the Japanese version, it's pretty clear Teddie has no idea what he's talking about when he says something he shouldn't. For example, the 'scoring a hot stud' line is is "逆ナン," or "reverse nanpa," which literally means "reverse picking up girls," which is not correct. So every time he says it to 'sound mature' or whatever, it's just showing how much he doesn't know about the world. On top of that I've heard he uses Katakana a lot when talking about 'adult' stuff, showing he's just quoting something he heard from somewhere else (I haven't gotten that far into JP P4 yet, so I haven't seen it myself). Just a bit of extra depth that couldn't really be transferred over to the English version. There's actually a lot of stuff like that. My favorite is during Naoto's rank 10R, instead of asking about the pitch of her voice she asks "僕が「僕」っていうの、おかしいですか？" or "Do you find the fact that I use 'boku' strange?", to which you can answer (don't quote me on this) "直斗の好きでいい" or "「私」がいい.” I feel like the translators did a pretty good job with translating the first part, since obviously there's no 'boku' equivalent, but I think "whichever you prefer" isn't a great substitute for "直斗の好きでいい."

Teddie is like a little brother : he can be insufferable but at the end of the day you still love him.

Honestly, I don't hate Teddie...I just hate how much the cast lets him get away with and their refusal to correct his behavior, even when he's clearly hurting his friends. The girls are especially bad about enabling him with only Rise handling the situation appropriately on a regular basis. The groping scene with Rise is actually worse than you described. There's two times when Rise hugs Teddie: 1) When Teddie returns to the group after disappearing. This is what you were referring to, but not the time when Teddie gropes her. 2) The group learns that Nanako has a full recovery. This is after Nanako nearly *died* and Rise is so overcome with joy that that she starts crying and hugs Teddie. It's this scene where Teddie takes advantage of Rise's emotional vulnerability and gropes her. Now *that* is seriously messed up. I don't normally approve of the "violent anime women" trope, but Teddie totally deserved that punch.

I think the fact that Teddie awakened to his second persona automatically, aka without the help of the protagonist, or more specifically, the effort of you the player, adds to his character. The fact that he came to such a conclusion almost entirely by his own thinking and reflecting really adds a lot for me. Same could be said for Morgana and the entirety of the P3 cast.

Fun fact: The voice actor for Teddie, Sam Riegel, and the voice actress for Marie, Eden Riegel, are siblings

Ah yes, the most underrated persona character. Allow me to very quickly share some of my thoughts and observations on Teddie: 1. you can actually pinpoint the exact moment where Teddie’s flirty personality forms. After the Shadow Yukiko fight, the team starts to leave to get Yukiko out of the TV. Teddie begins to despair, as he doesn’t want to be left alone again. Then, Yukiko walks over to him, pats his head and promises him she’ll come back. Correct me if i’m wrong, but i think that’s the first genuine act of kindness and affection Teddie has ever experienced. The very next line Teddie has is a direct quote from Shadow Yukiko. To me, this means that Teddie, touched by Yukiko being kind to him, decided to model himself after her to become more likable, and since his only exposure to Yukiko had been her Shadow, that’s what he ended up copying. Also, living with Yosuke probably only served to reinforce that behavior. 2. Teddie doesn’t actually know what “scoring“ means. Teddie repeatedly asks the gang what it means when Shadow Yukiko uses the term, but he never gets an answer. Then the fight happens and all is forgotten, but Teddie still never got his explanation. Fast forward to after Golden: Teddie’s victory quote against Yukiko in Arena reads as follows: “Hey, Yuki-chan! How’d you like my scoring with you, huh? Hrm? That isn’t what “scoring“ means?“ I know that Arena isn’t relevant to the Golden analysis, but the fact that Teddie never got his answer to what “scoring“ is does come from Golden. 3. people often discuss who’s Shadow Teddie is. I personally believe that he was nobody’s Shadow Self, and was instead just a regular Shadow born from the collective subconscious, but there is a pretty reasonable candidate that no one has mentioned yet: Sho Minazuki. Now, i am specifically talking about the Sho personality; we know that Minazuki already has Tsukiyomi. Sho wants to feel bonds, and the only reason he tries to destroy the world is because he doesn’t know how to form a bond. A Shadow Self is someone’s hidden feelings twisted and amplified, so this desire to feel bonds would result in a Shadow that wants to be friends with everyone, that’d go so far as to change it’s physical appearance to be more appealing to humans… If that sounds familiar to you, that’s because i just described Teddie. 4. during summer, you can help Nanako with her homework. During these sessions, other members of the team will drop by to help out. When Teddie shows up, Nanako’s currently working on a task that requires her to write down some proverbs. Teddie, instantly, without even needing to think about it, suggests “cogito ergo sum“. I think therefore i am. That’s literally the perfect proverb for someone like him. Teddie can’t remember his past. A person is formed by their past. Therefore, if you don’t have a past, do you even exist? It’s an existential question that i don’t doubt Teddie has asked himself, and this proverb would be the ideal counter to that argument. If you can think, you exist, because nothing cannot think. I like to imagine that whenever Teddie had doubts about what he is, he reminded himself of this proverb.

I am whole heartedly convinced that teddie is/was nanakos shadow. Nanako doesnt have a bad bone in her body that izanamis corruption can exploit so he breaks free. He is a teddie bear cause kids tend to cling to things like that in times of loneliness. He gains his human form after his ego forms and gains peak admiration for the main character thus imitating his appearance a little. We don't see nanakos shadow in her dungeon. He parallels nanako while he in in the hospital and is the last one to be by her side before she gets better and wakes up.

As someone who got into P5 before P4, Teddie always seemed like a too much on-the-nose mascot, so I never really thought much of him, but this is a very well formed analysis on his design inspirations and motives! As per usual, fantastic video; can't wait for the next☆

It kills me that he got the story of Cu Chulainn right but the pronunciation had my ancestors weeping in their graves Great video other than that

Teddie’s arc has always been one of the most fascinating parts of the main story to me. Someone actively forming their own self, despite what their origins says they SHOULD and NEED to be is something that I’m always a sucker for in media. Teddie is one of the best examples in my opinion. He’s still a bit of a dingus at times. The harassment stuff is super weird. I don’t know how much of that is the time it was written or the writers’ weird sense of humor.

I wish they had gone with some of the freakier Teddie designs we've seen in concept art. I think it would have given his design even more resonance - that he tried to gain shallow acceptance from others through a cute mascot look, only to fail and look a bit "off" instead. Plus, I think that would've helped alleviate some of the problems identified here, by more so pushing the idea that Teddie wants to know more about humanity, but doesn't really have a solid grasp and needs to learn as the game progresses.

One thing I want to mention in this video (which I did enjoy btw) The extra content the third semester added made me appreciate teddie more. Not only do we see him look after the player when they fall sick, but he can also sympathize with marie's situation on a personal level having been in a similar situation and that makes him the more determined to help marie out.

The discussion of pursuing truth reminds me of a Lombardi quote "We will chase perfection, but we will not obtain it, but in the pursuit of perfection we will attain excellence."

Teddie's on that long list of post Persona 2 characters most don't understand or take too seriously, i want more talk of Morgana because he gets so overlooked that people don't understand his character or only focuses on his crush on Ann, telling people to go to sleep or the fighting in the Okumra arc

I've always been ashamed to say this, but I think Teddie might just be one of my favorite characters from Persona 4. Sure, he's annoying, perverted, and sometimes just down right insufferable, but his story and character arc when looking back on it in retrospect helped me to understand who I am, coping with the beliefs I've had back then and moving on from them in a new perspective. I love Teddie, and I'm no longer afraid to say it. He's genuinely kind and works hard, even sacrificing himself on many occasions to help his friends. I do have a personal theory on why Teddie acts as perverted as he does. I haven't quite finished persona 4, but taking the logic that Persona 5 has for shadows (That being they are created and manifestations of desire), I would believe that Teddie doesn't fall too far from that tree. If Teddie desires to be loved, they will create a body and appearance to be loved. If Teddie desires to do some perverted things, he's going to do it. If Teddie desires to risk his own well being to save his friend, he's going to give it his all. This doesn't excuse his actions, especially since he's well aware of what he's doing and has shown restraint before, having an ego and all, but I believe it puts things into perspective on why Teddie is the way that he is. It's not a pure "innocent curiosity" thing, I believe it's a lack of being able to control that desire at times. I wouldn't blame anyone for hating Teddie, I hate what he does when it comes to the whole "pervert" thing all the god damn time. But as a character and as a person, I love Teddie with all my heart.

I absolutely love the growth parallel between Rise and Teddie. It's beautiful and complex writing.

absolutely great! even though a lot of people don't like Teddie and personally i also think he's annoying sometimes i still love him like how can you not, great analysis on everything about him and his honestly really good character arc good job :-)

It is sad that people think Teddie is just a archetypal mascot character. Teddie's arch is such a beautiful metaphor for how a shadow develops an ego to form a persona. His flirty personality comes from his orgin being a shadow, which is dark side of people that they try to hide. We know how people in Japan tries to hide their flirtatious feelings and childish behavior due to the fear of being an outcast. So it is only natural Teddie behaves in such ways. Hell, I'd say Teddie is quite a modest character all things considered.

As odd as Teddy can be as fascinating is the background of his character. Great video. It was super interesting to watch

Honestly, this might seem like a sort of surface level observation but I've always considered Teddie's more sexual behaviors are based off of behaviors that can be seen on television. If one can interpret his bear and human forms as being based off what everybody would like on television, ie a mascot and a pretty boy, I don't think it would be a stretch to say he's unfortunately adopting the persona of a harem protagonist. Which, from a sort of alien/outsider perspective one can interpret as universally likable because they "get a ton of women". Honestly what redeems him for me is his very wholesome and kind interactions with Nanako, showing he's not just a deranged pervert.

Great job Hiding-kun. Amazing analyses of my favorite game.

I think the reason why I have issues with Teddie is the translations from Japanese to English with what he says, like what Brandon mentions below, and the fandom. Why is it that it's fine that Teddie can become from a shadow to a humanoid creature but it's wrong for Morgana to be the same thing? Because Teddie did it first? It just rubbed me the wrong way. Media shouldn't be limited because 'something' did it before.

Teddie kinda gets a bad rap for mainly two reasons: the slice-of-life segments that happen in late summer and autumn, and Persona Q. As we all know, the TV World is pretty much a dead place. So for any inhabitant to enter and live in the real world, I cannot blame Teddie for going crazy and getting swept away in its myriad sensations and experiences, even if he fails in reading social cues. In other words, most of Teddie's shenanigans happen during his first few months in the real world, and PQ takes place when Teddie is still in the throes of earthly hedonism. It is only after the sobering events of Nanako's dungeon and hunting down the real killer does Teddie calm down and start to mature. I've never played the game myself, but I heard that in Persona 4 Dancing All Night, which takes place six months after the main game, Teddie has gone back to his sweet, helpful self. In his core, Teddie is a true sweetheart. In Persona 4 Arena, Teddie's route has him rescuing Labrys and he off all people would know about wrestling with his humanity in a non-human body. His kindness and understanding of Labrys was a true delight to see, and it can only happen because Teddie is Teddie.

Teddy is like the inversion of Ryoji from P3, but he was able to become fully human unlike Ryoji

I'm so glad someone else appreciates Teddie like I do. I made my own video about him some time ago, and we raised a lot of similar points. Felt very fufilling for someone else to spot the connections between Teddie and Rise.

One of the most interesting Persona 4 videos so far. Great work!

I just recently found this series and I’m glad I did. When P4G came out on pc it lead to my love for the whole MegaTen franchise and so many amazing moments. Happy to be here when a video comes out.

As strange as Teddie is and as immoral as he can be, he’s actually my favourite mascot; I like the video, great job.

Your work is amazing!

I just caught up and a new video comes out, woohoo!! This was a very good, well written and thought out analysis. I can’t wait to see how you handle the other main characters! The mythology about Teddie was particularly interesting. It was really cool to see background for things about him I didn’t know about and how well integrated it was in the story yet how it wasn’t required prior knowledge to really understand him. But knowing it makes him and his story even more clear! Really enjoyed that part. You say you’ll analyze “every part” of persona 4 golden so I wonder how specific that will get or if it’s more broad in categories like story, characters, symbolism, etc. I’m asking because I think it would be particularly interesting to see your analysis of Yu’s relationships with the other characters esp his teammates because while the Links are covered it’s always centered about the Link’s owner and not about Yu and how he might feel or care about the characters. This might get covered in a Yu analysis but I’d be really interested to see on the flip side of how Yu influences others you’d cover how he is influenced by them and how close he feels to them, or feelings he has hidden between reactions or with what’s implied he’s said. (He’s a much more expressive guy than he seems when you pay attention to him!! He laughs and talks and reacts a lot more than Joker did, I noticed it right away how expressive he is, which is actually interesting given how the names of his stats are different and expression is one of them. I’d also be interested to hear your thoughts about how his stats are represented in the name and what he does to grow them!) Like I said it might be covered in his analysis since you’ll probably talk about the Arcana and what the represent for him but I just wanted to put it out there in case you didn’t consider it before!! Thanks for the video, can’t wait for more :)

Great analysis, there are many others and different theories about Teddie but not a further analysis including the mythology references and origins, specially keeping in mind that everything takes place in Japan and the influence of its culture in the events of the game. I didn´t know about Kumamon, that makes total sense for Teddie´s appearance. I think that he´s an underrated character, that many people hate him for his actions and I can understand that but in my eyes he´s like a kid who does whatever he wants without any control. Having the IT on his side doesn´t helps too. He learned the "scoring" stuff thanks to Yukiko´s shadow, then Kanji and Rise came after, lives with the pervy Yosuke.. how Teddie cannot turn into the "Beast in Heat"? In Arena he seems to be totally aware of what he´s doing, his comments prove it but that doesn´t changes the fact that he has little understanding of human world and how it works. He truly wants to date a girl but at the same time doesn´t knows how to interact in the proper way. He wants to marry the IT sensei included but doesn´t knows what marriage is as we see in Q and Dancing. I must to add that I love his interactions with Labrys in Arena and Ultimax. They give me the impression that Teddie was just flirting and playing until the moment but that he truly has fallen in love with someone. It gives a little of character development.

17:40 I have not studied Sartre enough to be sure, but from my perspective it's not like it's flawed, it's more like when we ask ourselves about how to save the most being possible and the answer is to anihilate humanity. Yes it is technically true, but only cause the question, the problem itself is absurd, like the shadows reasoning usually are. here, we could said that the flawed perspective is that defining what other humans are by our actions is violating their rights, a shovel wanting to start a family doesn't follow our definition of a shovel, but stating that shovels can have a family isn't a sin, it doesn't hurt the other shovels. this is me going on a weird rant, but it seams like an answer to Teddie too ...

Fun Fact: Teddie is my favorite Persona 4 character.

This just cleared up so many things I didn't quite get even on a second playthrough ❤

Regarding the Sagiri connection, when I originally played Vanilla P4 I assumed he was meant to be Yu's equivalent to what Ameno and Kunino sagiri are to Adachi and Namatame, someone for Izanami to keep an eye on the three players in her game (or more generally to keep an eye on the investigation team as a whole). I don’t know if that was ever intended, nor whether this makes sense after Marie gets introduced but it was what I concluded at the time.

i always thought teddie being gross was him trying to be likable by being a comic relief character, considering how much sexual humor there is in anime generally

Your videos are great! Wow! Keep it up!

I like Teddie although some of his actions are infuriating like the groping. It makes me sad that in persona q they just reduce him to this fiend who is always making inappropriate comments about the girls and ignore such important parts of who he is. Also great work this video, one of ur best ones yet

Been waiting for this one.

Frankly, I don’t know jack about philosophy or anything like that, but personally I think it’s good to live in a middle ground in regards to the Problem of Induction. Sure the past can be used to ascertain the probable future, but I think we tend to overestimate and overly rely on our ability to do this, as while the future will eventually become the present, it is not the present, and therefore can’t be predicted with 100% certainty. It’s like in the video you did about Nanako, where you mentioned children will often feel that bad things that happen are their fault. They may experience things that lead them to this conclusion in the past, and will then use this past experience to predict the future, which is often not a pathway to truth. So then, the answer is not to give in fully to blissful ignorance due to a completely unpredictable future or to a constant reliance on patterns formed in the past and present. Though I initially wrote this before I got to the part of the video where you discussed objectivity and it’s distinction from 100% certainty which addresses what I just wrote, I still wanna post this comment because I went through the trouble of writing it. :)

This video vlew me away! Not only was it a million times better than expected, but also that absolute destruction of existentialism has made me convinced that this project is in good hands.

Nice work once again.

the thing that I find the weirdest, obviously Teddy is supposed to be the perverted with a heart of gold archetype, but I always found it weird how his perversion only really manifests once he grows a body. I always wondered, is this an effect of wanting to be human? As a shadow he would never be seen as a potential partner by no one but once he ha sa body he is all over it

i hope these videos get the views they deserve

Pretty sure the crux of Hume's problem of induction is that you can't justify induction with inductive reasoning, i.e. "induction has worked in the past, therefore induction will keep working" is circular reasoning (we have to assume induction to be true for it to be true). There isn't a way to deductively justify an inductive argument, hence the problem of induction.

I introduced a friend to P4 and they immediately fell in love with teddie. They understood why I love him almost immediately. Was such a fun thing to see

Just my opnion but I think Teddie go somewhat out of his way to do "bad" stuff just so he can actually know that its wrong. As many people know, knowing something is bad and actually experiencing it are two different things.

The main character of Golden Boy being named Kintaro makes a lot of sense

I love Teddie he’s my favorite Persona character period :)

God I love your videos ❤

The mythology around Teddie was really cool! I like hearing you talk about this stuff because I'll see the names like Izanagi or Amaterasu and not really know any of the mythology behind it. I love everyone in the main cast but hoo boy some of Teddie's scenes go too far. I actually forgot about the two times he just groped Rise like that. You can throw that in with scenes like the Chie money incident or the camping trip swimsuit part as stuff I'll never try to justify characters I like doing to the other homies. At the end of the day though, Teddie is still ride or die for Yu and his friends like you said so I still love the guy. His character arc was pretty good and he does grow as a person by the end of the game. Awesome job explaining Teddie, Hiding! I'm stoked to watch your Yosuke and Chie vids soon!

Thanks for the video.

I can't quite remember how they translated the 熊田/熊だ pun, but I feel like I remember it being enough of a disaster to be surprised you didn't mention it with all your 日本語上手ness. Great video!!

teddie is such a weird character. most things he does are modelled off what people do. but at the same time he is somewhat self aware? i saw the other comment about katakana and stuff and i feel like if we had stuff like that in english itd make a huge difference. also i loved the segment on shitty philosophies. like, what differentiates humans from other animals is our ingenuity. scared because you dont have a fire? make one. depressed because of lack of purpose? find one. worried you dont have an identity? create one. in a way teddies and maries links are really similar because both involve finding out that they arent human and they are something they dont want to be. marie overcomes that by being forced to live. teddie overcomes it by being forced to introspect and try harder theres too much for my usual single focus analysis comments and also i forgot my pre-video comment lmao

I like the video as usual. But was it intentional on not covering his arcana the Star.

If we Take away his pervy moments he is one of my favorite persona characters right behind yosuke and morgana

All of the videos are great, not just the rise one.

I'm so sorry, I know it's really dickish to come in and correct pronunciation in a video but the figure Setanta turns into is pronounced Coo Cullen with hard Cs. Love your analysis videos on Persona and will continue to watch through this series!

I am so sorry for this joke... 6:59 - Many Rises Make up pieces of the true Her. Rises Pieces.

Kuma is such a underrated character. Can't wait for the Rise video!

sometimes it seems like the devs throw in moments that are just gross because they think it's funny or whatever to uplift the mood and it just falls flat. (Like the ryuji moment in p5 after shido's dungeon goes boom. Why would you beat someone up after they're revealed to be alive what the FUCK)

Yooooooo new vid

Hey new video! It's Teddie Time!

Teddie like Morgana has the hate way overblown, but teddie I can get a little more. Morgana I feel like people really overreact and leave out the good to hate on him.

I always found Teddie's "upcoming" to be so odd. Cause he basically explains that he was a shadow that wanted to be more than a shadow, but for every single on that we have seen across the entire series, it really makes me wonder if any shadow has the capability to actually form into better beings like Teddie. Is Teddie just a single exception, or is any shadow capable of just turning into Teddie just like that

21:25 you thought you could sneak oki's theme in there without anyone noticing? Well i did.

We are contradictions but we are able to understand what we are to be what we want to be

3:10 oh my god. As an Irish man this pronunciation is insane. All the vowels in “setanta” are spoken in a slender form (set ant ah) and the two “C”s in Cúchullain is sharp whereas the first ú is a long sound (cooh cull ann)

It's Teddie! Wow! The character I'm really annoyed with but who has some really great moments!

As a Teddie enjoyer this video makes me very happy :))

Shadow Yukiko: Imma score myself a hot stud. Teddie: It’s a free real estate!

Oh boy, we're getting into the main cast now.. *readies popcorn for the videos on the only braincell in the investigation team and cabbage boi

What's frustrating about the characters getting perverted is that it really does just pull them out of character. It's blatant that, within the game's narrative, these characters KNOW better. So it's really just the writers projecting their own perversion onto them, and it makes the characters look bad for something that realistically, they simply wouldn't actually do. And that's what makes it hard to hate these characters for these acts.

That moment when you said "Teddie!" And showed Morgan'a dancing and then moved out made me laugh so bad.

More algorithm fodder for the amazing persona youtuber!

very good

16:38: Which is why the "butter passing bot" is so horribly callous.

Great analysis regarding Teddie. He can get annoying and drags the fanservice joke from time to time, but still cant help but love him in the end. His growth and personal struggles just shine too brightly for me. If he was similar to Yosuke with showing more maturity over the course of the game he would have been far more liked.

While teddy is my least favorite of the mascots we've gotten so far, (and nothing will likely ever top Koromaru for me personally) I've always still liked him. Even if he can be incredibly cringe worthy and often outright creepy at times. I never really quite noticed just how heavily he picks up the comic relief roll from Yosuke upon his introduction into the real world part of the cast until you mentioned it though I tend to forget how heavily Yosuke gets used for gags in the first part of the game outside of the initial "critical hit to the nads" scene(s) and the series constant broke high schooler jokes throughout the game (which always felt weird to me in the series due to me constantly sitting on as much yen as a Yakuza game half the time.

Teddie coming up from the floor also parallells all other shadows you approachin dungeons.

There are two types of people, those who love Teddie, and those who are wrong.

If existence is meaningless then we create meaning by being the contradiction

isss my boi tedddy less go

I already know he's Lucifer, I saw it on Game Theory

I love the random Chris sighting

3:20 hey just a heads up , Cú Cuhlainn is pronunced like coup-cull-hinn. That's how the myth has it pronounced

When talking about the past present and future thing I was thinking right as you read it, "What? No. That's not how this works. This whole thing is... What's the word for it?" Then you explained your opinion on the subject and that it's pretentious, and that was exactly the word I was thinking of.

As for the ideas about Teddie mirroring people and their secret desires, i want to highlight what Contrapoints said in her video "Twilight": "Fantasies are not a literal wishes. Fantasies construct situations were emotional needs are met and inhibitions to pleasure are removed." This has the dual implication that 1) catering to secret desires-- like Teddie arguably attempts to-- will never land well with people because it's not something people actually want met or taken so seriously, and that 2) Teddie himself serves as fantasy: constructing "fan service" situations while unburdening responsibility of those same situations from the audience, the other characters, and even himself because "he's like a child and doesn't know better." You see this concept of "guiltless" guilty pleasure situations all the time in other anime (think any time there's something unnecessarily lewd-- especially in the magic system). Anime writers know such situations are wrong, but they indulge in them anyway using in-universe justifications and slapstick disavowals to insulate themselves from reproach right alongside their audience who consumes the same fantasy. The weird thing about Persona 4 is that it makes those fan service situations flop harder than typical *and* continues them without addressing it as part of Teddie's character arc. It's like a weird meta thing of "you want to see this thing happen that you've seen so often on tv, so we'll give you it the whole time, but surprise it actually sucks when it happens with any amount of realism." At the same time, I can't tell if this was a deliberate move or just the writers having (somewhat) better priorities while feeding their fantasies like so many other anime writers Anyway, I didn't think about the vault aspect of Kintatou being a reversal of "emptiness"; that was really cool. Something I'll add is that the cape could represent heroism like with superheroes and such, and that the very mechanical design could represent artifice and deliberate crafting of his persona, though I'm not sure about that as i am regarding the cape. Still like the historical reference tho!

I'm not 100% on this since it's been a while since I've been through the base game, but I kinda got the impression Teddies general inappropriateness with women and Kanji was due to him being influenced by meeting the shadows of Yukiko, Kanji and Rise as some of his first interactions after really coming into being as "Teddie", all of whom are inappropriately horny. Still sucks though, if that was the intention then a better game woulda had him learn better, while P4 is unfortunately content to leave it as an annoying trait and a scummy kind of fanservice.

How could we forget Teddie's one of many other occurrences of sexual harassment? The time where he joked that his hand might slip and accidentally pull off of the girls' bathing suits at the beach.. and then he does this except to Kanji mistaking him for one of the girls. Just truly hilarious behavior, what a lovable scamp that Teddie....

let's not forget teddie existed as a shadow for most his life, the id or in lamens terms the devil on you shoulder whispering carnal and selfish thoughts in you ear so him being more naughty makes sense

I like Teddie, he's a weird dude you can't help but feel attached to no matter how weird he is

I feel like Teddie would be more likeable if he didn't know what he was doing was not ok, like it was something he picked up off of people and didn't know it was awful

What's interesting about Teddie is that He's not just any type of Shadow, he is a Star Shadow. A arcana of Shadow that appears to be incredibly rare, as neither Makoto nor Yu ever encounter them as enemies.

teddie is so cool i wish bears existed

My innocence is yours

The part about Hume and the problem of Induction isn’t entirely correct. Hume is referring to cause and effect, and how it can’t be known because we never observe the necessary connection between the two actions. I.e there is room for doubt in any conclusion about what caused something to occur, thus we cannot know anything to do with cause and effect. As cause and effect are how the scientific method works, we can never know that any scientific theory is true. Hume isn’t saying that there is no truth of anything like that, but rather due to the inductive nature of cause and effect, we can never prove it. The problem of induction is very difficult to disprove and has yet to be since Hume proposed it in the 18th century. The criticism you have made isn’t very good, and the whole section isn’t a great explanation of Hume.

You know, that in-game panda mascot may have been the sort of in-game depiction of Kumamon?