"I'm on your side" "Why?" "I really like your voice"

If you burn this letter, you'll destroy everything you've done up until now, BUT, on the flip side, you MIGHT max out Adachi's weird Social Link... *INSTANT BETRAYAL*

I like how adachi slowly started sounding more and more sinister as the conversation went on

"Yu Narukami has forged a bond that cannot be broken" Oh this has such a different meaning now

Damn, the train scene at the end, with Yosuke saying "Thanks partner". He's not YOUR partner anymore my guy.....

"These genuine bonds.. shall be your eyes to see the truth." lol

me: maxes out adachi social link game: "now you can fuse magatsu izanagi!" also game: ends itself immediately

Maxing out that social link really shouldn't be accompanied by such happy music. GOOD GOD STOP.

You know it's real when you're friends aren't chasing the train at the end.

On the plus side you maxed his social link

It was a prank adachi

>betrayed everyone >A joyous maxed out social link theme plays

"You have betrayed everything you once stood for and burned the one piece of evidence linking Adachi to the crime. You and Adachi now have an indestructible bromance!"

The way everyone looks at Yu with sad eyes as he departs, telling him how much they’ll miss him; meanwhile he just stares back, knowing FULL WELL that he betrayed their friendship and everything they stood for. It’s the morbid curiosity in me speaking, but I would really like to see all of their reactions to actually finding out about him and Adachi. That would just shatter my heart. Also, does anyone else find the social link music very off-putting in this ending? Gives me chills.

I really wish there was a "fuck the city I'm staying here" ending

Oh god the atmosphere is so heavy in this ending

I mean at least Nanako isn't dead.

I absolutely love this ending just because of how chilling it is. Think about it: you've spent so long with your friends and comrades to find the true killer, only to throw all that away to cover up the truth you've sought so hard to discover. Becoming Adachi's "puppet" for all his future plans feels like such a punch in the gut, especially since the friends you met in Iniba were all so genuine to you. In fact, the worst part it all for me was the fact that your friends watched you leave, completely oblivious to the fact that their leader had betrayed them. I swear, when you think about it, this ending really makes you feel. In fact, I still feel uneasy watching it now.

This is such a perversion of the regular maxing social links. An unbreakable bond, founded on blackmail. An item for maxing the social link. Sickening.

This ending is really good, because Adachi has the same power as Yu, and vice versa. Adachi went down the path of lies and evil, whereas Yu went down the path of truth and bonds. Joining Adachi and covering up the evidence to let the culprit free, Yu throws away the truth AND his bonds, making him not much different than Adachi, letting him weild magatsu izanagi

I don't usually like English dub over Japanese games or TV shows, but damn... I have to give props to Adachi's voice actor in the English dub of P4G, he could be goofy at one moment, then send shivers down your spine the next moment, which is just what happened in this scene. And can we talk about that demented laugh? Whew...

Congratulations you sided with a serial killer! *NOW YOU CAN HAVE HIS PERSONA*

gotta max out that social link!

Atleast i can make magatsu izanagi now. Thats a good thing right? RIGGGHHHHTT?

The way Yu clutches his phone tightly as the train passes by Adachi is so heartwrenching. Yu, in regret, realised he messed up big time with no point of return, betrayed and left all his trusted friends in the dark. All the bad endings in P4 are really eerie but this one takes the cake, so atmospherically creepy

Of course they give you the ultimate form of the Jester Arcana, as you are now an official clown

The FIRST time I saw that wide smile, oh my god! That gave me half a heart attack. And this ending is creepy with the fact you're trapped in a relationship with a murderer, and he will always have you in his sights with blackmailing you. You basically doomed yourself and the investigation forever!

also that last scene where yu catches a glimpse of adachi & then grips his phone in regret just as he enters a tunnel.. truly unnerving, possibly one of the best bad endings in a game

*Burns evidence, with Adachi laughing maniacally* Me: *Pulls out revolver* Adachi: Wha...? Me: Can't have any witnesses now, can we? *Gunshot*

Game: Ok so you’re willing to stick up for someone who has, put you through hell, murdered several people, nearly killed Nanako you and your friends, and then burn the evidence so he can get away with everything he’s done?! Yu: *yeah haha jester social link go brrr*

"You want to find the truth without being swayed by the voices of society... But the truth is a sinister thing. it seem like something absolute, yet it exist in everyone's heart". Damn Adachi with that philosophical shit.

This is one of the less satisfying ending if you think about it. I personally loved it because it's dark, but Adachi doesn't even acknowledge or thank you for what you did. He just low key threatens you and goes away. There's no bonding. No friendship. Nothing. He just laughs, makes you feel unsafe and tied for the rest of your life and then leaves. You're not even truly his accomplice. You're his puppet. This is what you get for making a deal with the devil thinking he would reward you and pay you back.

Yu Narukami has formed a bond that cannot be broken. You know, because he's being blackmailed.

7:41 - There's no turning back now. Your relationship has become intimate with Adachi

To think, you cursed Naoto to die to the fog in this ending Chilling

Holy crap, when did Jonny Yong Bosch get so fucking scary?! He's supposed to be a swag master, not fucking nightmare fuel!

This is probably just me projecting my own feelings onto the situation, but a part of me believes that the only reason Yu would side with someone who's hurt and indirectly affected the people he cares so much about is because the stress got to him and he started going crazy. That's not the best way to describe it, but the way the narration portrays him makes it impossible for me to believe that Yu was always "evil".

Yeah, I did it. I got the Accomplice Ending. Because I wanted to see what happens. And, you know what? I feel horrible. Really, REALLY, horrible. It’s not just one choice-you have to choose to keep quiet to the group, then choose to confront Adachi, then choose to join him, and Adachi even gives you one last chance not to burn the last incriminating letter. And what happens if you do? He laughs at you. He _ridicules_ you. He’s not even thankful-he’s just impressed that you would betray everyone! Your friends, who you’ve been working with all year to prevent these horrors, Dojima, who gave you a place to stay-you threw all of that out the window, _you piece of human garbage!!!_ You wanna max out the Jester Arcana?! You wanna experience 100% of the game?! _Well, here ya go!!!_ INABA IS DOOMED TO PERILOUS FOG!!! _BUT YOU DON’T CARE, DO YOU?!_ *IT’S JUST A GAME!!!* A game’s ending has to be narratively satisfying. That doesn’t mean that something needs to end happily-a lot of video game endings don’t. It means it has to feel right, it needs to feel complete. But here, there is no satisfaction-there’s only emptiness. And that, in itself, is kind of satisfying. The party is disappointed, the bad guy is getting away. And he’s even threatening you by keeping tabs on you from now on, so you didn’t even benefit from it, either. Everything sucks. I didn’t just betray my friends, I didn’t just betray my family-I betrayed _myself._ *_What is wrong with me???_* *ADDENDUM:* Alright, a lot of you guys have been busting my balls about this, so lemme just say that I was just quoting a KZfaqr when he covered this ending. So, if you have an issue with this comment, take it up with him, not me.

My long-story-short interpretation of this scene is that this was Yu’s last-ditch attempt at forming a genuine bond with Adachi which he does, but in the process, forsakes and betrays the past year and everyone else in order to achieve it. All of Yu’s social links end with him changing their life and him making them realise something, for them to then profess that they have his back. Yu’s a bit of an authority figure here, but in Adachi’s case, he changes Yu by making him give up on his ideals and bonds to adhere to his way, and to control him. There’s a bigger picture too as Izanami’s puppets representing emptiness and hope.

Gods I love this ending. It just really is a terrible ending to the story. To say your actions are "monstrous" is no joke. And the ending credits music is just perfect for leaving the unsettling feeling of what you did sink in. The melody is almost like trying to convince yourself "its going to be okay" but you know its not. And then the final cut scene gah! So good! xD

Can we take a moment just to appreciate how GLORIOUS Johnny Yong Bosch voice is ? As a french player, i usually don't really like english voice acting for japanese games; but this time .... oh god, there's no comparison, J Y B really beat the original voice acting. This is so good. And that laugh man, amazing ! I think his voice is one of the part of why i'm so addicted to Adachi haha, sorry, i'm fangirling too much ~ And this ending is REALLY my favorite, i love how twisted it is, this is really interesting to be in the bad guy side !

does that mean he betrayed all of his friends ? i mean the friends from investigation team

The P4GA version of this ending is even darker. You see Yu's regret to have taken that decission and even Margaret and Marie reactions to that. They didn't believe what Yu has done. Marie's Face was like she was shooked. This is a very good example of a bad ending.

When Josuke becomes Kira’s accomplice

i wanted to be friends with Adachi but not like that god damn

A very disturbing ending... One of the reasons Tohru Adachi is one of the most interesting characters in all of video games. EDIT: Y'all I posted this 4 years ago 😂 My opinion has changed. I still ADORE Adachi with my whole heart, but I don't think I'd go so far as to call him "one of the most interesting characters in all of video games" anymore, LOL. I just think he's neat.

5:01 Jesus that face is so creepy and disturbing... it will haunt my dreams forever!

This ending is disturbing and absolutely stunning with how tense it feels. The shot where you get Adachi's trust is very telling. Yu turns his back on us--the audience, his friends, the victims--in order to protect a sleazy, sadistic, misanthropic killer--who, in the same shot, is framed by the DOOR. The only exit. The only way out from EVERYTHING. I fucking love that shot (beginning at 2:23, just about). I also like how the importance of framing continues from there; Yu's head is framed BY THE TELEVISION at one point. "If you get calls from this number, you'd better pick up." CHILLS, MY GUY. Adachi and this ending are number one.

"Thank you, Mr Accomplice." -Tohru Adachi

this is what my uncle got when he was playing this. He got a huge L i guess lmao.

I hate this ending so much, it just breaks my heart the type of betrayal that this scene means. It literary is a F you ending, everything that could go wrong went wrong and even then, even when you break every piece of bond you did to reach out the truth this ending gives you the one an only Adachi....

Margaret: Hey, I'll give you this Persona if you get me this guy's number. Yu: Sorry gang, have to get compendium completion.

When somebody's phone number is a key item.

When you like Adachi *TOO* much.

“Good job. You maxed out the fool arcana. You fool.” - Mr. Depresso

notice how in the other endings when the protagonist fails to deduce the culprit, he stares at the sky along with naoto and yosuke. after deciding to protect adachi, he stares at the ground as the other two face the sky.

True ending: Player Accomplice ending: G A M E R

I was so sure that Adachi was going to blow up the train in order to tie up loose ends.

6:10 You betrayed your friends and everything you stood for for the past year. Cue the happy music.

“Your decision was monstrous..” ... ... ... “But on the plus side- ADACHI LEVEL 10 SOCIAL LINK!”

I can't listen to his laugh without thinking of Lelouch...

I really don't get why adachi was standing near the moving train

The virgin happy ending vs The chad betrayal ending

If his friends knew what he did, I would HATE to see their reactions

The happy music when completing the social link feels insincere, with "you have formed a bond that cannot be broken!" Feeling like you've trapped yourself in this, a deal you can't refuse. But being able to fuse Magatsu Izanagi is pretty cool though.

This would be so much cooler of an ending if Yu had any reason at all to do this. Not you the player, but Narukami the character. What's the motive? He's clearly not "just evil," he's done a ton of stuff throughout the game without any player input that he wouldn't do if he was like Adachi. He has a whole group of friends that care about him, so it isn't Adachi's "I'm bored and lonely so I needed entertainment" excuse... it's just out of left field. Yu gets absolutely nothing out of this and has literally everything to lose from it. If they had set Adachi up to toy with Yu psychologically throughout the story and give him *some* reason to do it, I could see it, but the ending unfortunately just falls flat for me because of this. It just makes no sense, even applying Persona world logic.

Hey atleast i can make a reskin of Izanagi now

You realize how fucked Yu is now, he literally can't do anything and if this was the cannon ending then holy shit thats dark

1:47 *Let’s say, hypothetically, i am the culprit*

Watch Narukami come back to blobs of shadows lmao.

This ending is so fascinating... I would have never imagined you could have maxed out the Jester arcana instead of the Hunger. Great addition on Atlus' part.

What if you say no or/and blackmail him or/and refuse to burn the paper, will he push you in? I mean the TV is there, in the, _just_ big enough for the main character to barely fit in.

I'm glad you posted this. Unless they are a completionist, nobody would even think about doing this ending

I still like how Adachi is just doing this for shits and giggles

That ending is Dark,Disturbing,and Deep

Unfortunately, Persona 5's bad endings are a lot more lackluster, the only ending worth seeing in Persona 5 is the good ending, really.

So THIS IS why people ship them...

This ending fascinates me because in my opinion at least,you really can’t call it a “Bad ending” like with the ones on 12/03 involving Namatame. While yes technically, it is literally the worst possible thing that could happen with the true killer walking free and the one piece of incriminating evidence being destroyed, but at the same time, it still feels like a better outcome than the other bad endings. The other bad endings leave you with a feeling of emptiness, and a sense that you missed quite a bit, but this ending doesn’t make you feel empty, it makes you feel like you legitimately have done something awful. Not from a gameplay perspective, but from a narrative perspective, and that’s what makes it stand out to me. It’s that you get to the bottom of the case, what the player had set out to do from essentially the beginning of the game, and yet the ending still makes you feel bad. I think this ending is super cool, and really can’t think of any other games that have done something like this.

5:15 the way he said that doesn’t sit right w/ me.. like even adachi is guilt tripping your decision..

Fuck the true ending. I live for betrayal stories

6:26 "A pact between one of the false gods and a human we placed our hopes on..." "You had even undone your contact...You are a Jester,after all..."

What would happen if the MC just came there to say goodbye? 🤔

"Thou hast established a genuine bond." Hol up...

I love adachi but I have no clue why

I laughed so hard when the option to say "don't tell others; protect adachi" popped out, it felt so ridiculous

Is it wrong that this is my favorite ending?

Have to applaud to Atlus for actually going so far as to make an ending for all psychopaths out there. Not something every developer has the balls to do, even in role-playing games.

OMG, that was so damn creepy.

This is a funny alternate ending i thought of. Adachi: You destroyed evidence, that's a crime you know! Adachi: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Yu (Wearing a wire) Lol ikr, i'm so evil.

This ending seems so wrong... Ugh

I love how adachi is sitting here trying to blackmail the guy who wants to help and just burned incriminating evidence for him lmao

One of my fravorite things about this ending is that if you choose to do new game plus after this. Adatchis number stays in your key items like the other social link items. An eternal reminder of your betrayal.

The reassuring music for the max social link status doesn't feel so satisfying anymore....

just watching this ending makes me feel so empty...

Getting Magatsu-Izanagi (the evil version of Izanagi) this way, it truly symbolizes that you went on a evil and dark path. And there is no going back

Just call the phantom thieves lmao

Here we have footage of Johnny Yong Bosch speaking to himself.

Adachi never intended for him to have partners, he used everyone and everything in order to get closer to his goal, his job in order to avoid suspicion, the guy who was saving people but was actually killing them (forgot his name), dojima in order to send threating letters to Yu and so on. And if Yu decides to help him for some reason, he doesn't even get anything in return, adachi keeps tabs on him and Yu's life is basically fucked. This is a bad ending all right, mostly because Yu has no reason to do this, he just felt like "sure, I'll commit a crime just so that I can keep adachi from being suspected, betraying all my friends in the process even though they all welcomed me with open arms and treated me well" not only does adachi keep tabs on him now but all his friends are oblivious that their leader, friend, and possibly to someone's lover betray them but they'll never know because they'll turn into shadows.

Thanks for posting this it's awesome to be able to see it!

Why is it I enjoy the part of this ending when Yu grips his phone?