I forgot to mention in the video, but if you want to see how Madarame in particular really shows what filial piety looks like when taken to the extreme, I recommend checking out my Yusuke video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp2RZ8d3yLquh3U.html Also just want to make a comment on the Shido section, it was so easy to start rabbit-holing for me here lol. I feel like unlike most of the other topics I've covered in the past, even extensive ones like Akechi, there's just an ever-increasing amount of related things I felt I could comment on when it comes to what Shido represents. Given how extensive Abe's PM-ship has been, there's just so much... At one point his section was already ~4x longer than the rest, so I had to cut it down to only the most relevant stuff. Also thought it was worth addressing the elephant in the room: to everyone who has seen parallels to Trump and other alt-right figures/movements that have cropped up all over the world in the later 2010s, the big thing that separates Abe from them is that, he wasn't some outsider or populist and/or fringe candidate. He and his party were legitimately the establishment in Japan's government for decades. The entire Diet has *always* contained a significant amount of members who were ultra-nationalist revisionists. finally I rarely mention this, but my first couple years of college I was double-majoring in international affairs and social work-- it was only until after I came down with transverse myelitis that I gave up one since it was too much with my health issues. I went social work since it encompasses pretty much all the broad topics and issues that are of interest to me,, and I'm happy I was still able to finish with concentrations in international work (and geriatric population but that's neither here nor there lol). All of this to say, these topics are of much importance to me, so I'm so glad to finally talk about all the Palace rulers, but *especially* the inspiration for Shido! __________________________________________________ ~NON-PERSONA MUSIC I USED by part and in chronological order~ Against All Odds (Inazuma Vers.)- Genshin Impact, Past Light (Calm vers.)- Fire Emblem Fates Kamoshida: Demon's Yell- Trails to Azure Madarame: Schwarz Auction- Trails from Zero Kaneshiro: Killing Bear- Trails from Zero Okumura: Confronting Reality- Trails from Zero, Anti-Hero (both vers.)- P5 Strikers Shido: Beyond the Paradise of Lies- Trails to Azure ____________________________________________________ 🎮TWITCH: www.twitch.tv/ladyvirgilia 🐤TWITTER: @VirgiliaLady twitter.com/VirgiliaLady 🌟PATREON: www.patreon.com/LadyVirgilia

A friend of mine pointed out the reason Americans and Japanese like to idolize each other's cultures is because of our similarities and differences. We're just similar enough, even in the bad ways, to find familiarity, but just different enough to intrigue each other, thus enticing people to visit.

Kamoshida was always the scariest villain for me. I've never encountered a mob boss or a plagiarizing artist in the real world, but more than half of my high school teachers had at least one of Kamoshida's vices, whether it's sexually assaulting the girls, physically beating the guys, or just detaining/suspending/expelling students because they don't like them. The only way to deal with those teachers was the Gray Rock Method.

Your whole video series really makes Igor's disclaimer at the start of Persona 5 much, much funnier.

Lived in Japan for 3 years doing English teaching. I caught some students cheating on a test and passed that information on to my superior and she asked me "why did YOU let them cheat?" Like it was my fault that I didn't stop it from happening in the first place. From then on out I just didn't want to report any cheating and just turned a blind eye to it because I knew I'd only risk getting reprimanded for it. I had first hand experience on how the system can force you to just say, "shouganai" I also heard 2nd hand stories of people trying to report sexual abuse to children in elementary schools / daycares and being met with fierce resistance. It's a very sad situation.

While I was replaying P5R on PC, I had noticed how often Madarame used the excuse of Yusuke "owing his life" to him. So I think with Madarame that whole point against filial piety is especially emphasized, as in, "just because a person raised you doesn't give them the right to abuse you"

I think that even without the Japanese societal context that the themes resonate with so many people the world over just illustrates that feelings of helplessness and frustration with existing power structures is a global phenomenon.

Shido is the most real villain here, we have tons of Shido in Latin America. so people that call him a "Cartoon villain" Are either dumb or are just thinking about his Shadow which is indeed a more exaggerated ver of the real Shido but that's how he sees himself.

I did hear that the inspiration for Shido is why P5 has 20xx as the year, instead of the more realistic 2009-2010 for Persona 3, 2011-2012 for Persona 4.

When people call persona 5 villlians cartoonishly evil, I can only think of the fact cartoonishly evil people do in fact exist. When I look at the villains I definitely did think they were generalized generic problems. However now that I know that there are real life cases these are based off of, I can't help but gain appreciation for the game

Honestly, people saying "Persona 5 villains are too cartoonishly evil" makes me think they're living in the So Happy World, because holy shit are they so wrong

The fact that Shido was not-so-subtly (at least to the Japanese) based on the ultra nationalist prime minister Shinzo Abe is wild. Especially with Abe having been assassinated just this year by a former military serviceman and ex member of the Unification Church (which many people consider a cult). Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.

I’ve never understood the claim some people make that Persona 5’s villains were overly evil to a cartoonish degree when the only unrealistic part, in my opinion, is simply that Shido was somehow connected to EVERYTHING. Sexual predator teachers are real problems and plenty of real stories show that staff will turn a blind eye if they get results. Madarame’s specific acts of plagiarism might not be prevalent but abusive parents who take advantage of their children for personal gain is all too common. Kaneshiro’s blackmail scheme is an actual racket done in Japan. Okumura is literally just a CEO, they all think like him. Sae’s fabrication of evidence to get convictions might be a massive problem in Japan but int happens plenty all over the world. Shido, minus how he randomly had connections to a specific high school for no real reason, is just a story of how almost every fascist dictator came to power. They’re all very real threats to society

You do get a lot more out of it with Japanese context, but I think the messages of the game can be applied to many other cultures which is why Persona 5 is so popular overseas. Everyone has dealt with abusive authority figures in their life, and many people don't stand up to it. The theme of rebelling against abuse and corruption is something that can resonate with anyone who wants the world to be better. It was very interesting seeing all the possible direct inspirations behind the palace rulers tho.

Something I like about the way P5 is structured is that each subsequent case pulls the curtain back further, showing how entrenched the problems the youth face are. From their school life, to the art world, to the criminal underworld, the corporate ladder, the legal system, and finally to the political institution of the country itself. That’s also why the final act is so important to the story, since it drives the point home that the phantom thieves spent the whole game cutting the heads off a hydra-Sure, it’s great that Kamoshida is gone and the abuse at this one school has stopped, but how many more kamoshidas are out there? And given enough time, another will eventually come to replace him, because it’s not the moral failings of any individual scumbag causing society’s problems; it’s the flaws of society itself.

Great video, but you forgot Sae Nijima 's palace which was a pretty spot on indictment of Japan's criminal justice system. Persona 5 resonates worldwide so I had no idea it had specific cases in mind.

This is why I hate when people talk about "unrealistic/cartoony villains." Captain planet villains are more real than we like to think and the same is true about P5.

From the first time seeing P5 the story always felt the most possible, in a sense that the characters felt like they could exist, and that the way people acted towards what happened didn't feel contrived to an extreme degree, so its interesting to learn that alot of it was based on real events not just an extreme of them. I'v got no meme to end this with so Happy holidays and well wish's and all that

50:40 In Spain we have an old saying, "Ajo y agua" (garlick and water), which in turn is actually the polite, short version of the actual one, "A joderse y aguantarse" (get fucked and put up with it). It´s basically our version of all those phrases, except with our own rude yet witty take that characterizes us.

I'd love to see a video on the mementos targets who were almost bad enough to have palaces, like the host club guy who tricks girls into sex works, the parents blackmailing Kawakami or even the Parent's of Futaba's friend who force her to be a grauvere idol

As an American, this is a bit weird to look at. Societal pressures are nothing new, and I knew that they were on steroids in most Asian cultures, but as someone who's grown up with individualism thrown in my face most of my life, this is crazy. It's even more insane to think that people like this can do what they do on a regular basis and get away with it. We all like to think of Kamoshida, Madarame, Shido, Kaneshiro, and Okumura as cartoonishly evil, and to an extent, they are. But the fact that they've been inspired by real life individuals who might have gotten away with their schtick their entire lives makes for an absolute horror show. It's a lot easier to digest this stuff when it's just me using a magic ghost to punch society's problems away, I guess. Learn something new every day.

And people were trying to downgrade the villains of P5 as 'cartoony', turns out the social commentary is as deep as MHA.

Abe getting assasinated hits different after realising Shido was made so heavily in his image.

I'm more surprised with how people can't relate P5's villains to real life figures. I mean, Shido is a walking caricature of nearly every politician out there. Even Sae is the definition of the Glass Ceiling phenomenon gone rogue. Though it's interesting to see it from a Japanese perspective. Just goes to show that Japan has its own bundle of problems that really aren't brought to light when discussing about their culture. Racism, sexism, and xenophobia being prominent issues.

You really have the best p5 videos of all. People need to watch this.

Politician Nonomura’s apology video had in tears laughing! Omfg that made my day! Thank you Lady!

Wow, I always said that pesona 5's only bad mark was that the villains were so overly evil it takes away all of the moral issues the PT might face. They lightly touch on it the day before Shiho attempts suicide but otherwise they're up against people who can only be dealt with by changes of heart. I had no idea that this was legitimately what happens in Japan. Damn, I always told people that I wanted to move to Japan since they would be more cultured and accepting. As a tattooed (with fucking flowers too God I'm stupid!) Gay man, I'd probably be absolutely hated in Japan. Oh well, there's great Japanese food and culture here in the states.

I think videos like this show how both American and Japanese are both similar and different in a way. While there times where American fans can related to dealing the abuses of villians and understand stuff like kamoshida(especially since me too start to happen around persona 5 western's release), Okumura, and even Kaneshiro(if you live in a bad neighborhood) and shido. However the way is present can be lost to some. It didn’t help that were a fuss about the “freaks” joke and unfortunate implication(I.e making of lgbtq+ in a bad way). It interesting to see as a American, that most Asia societies have a too collectivist problem, while the USA it the opposite with hype individualism. In fact we call it this hype individualist problem as “F”ck you, got mine”

Worked in factories my entire adult life where the majority of my coworkers were East Asian immigrants. They definitely had the overtime mindset and I got sucked into it, was used to an easy 80-100hr week. They were so afraid of being viewed as worthless to our supervisors if they didn’t do this, at least it wasn’t mandatory and we got paid 1.5-2x for that overtime.

It's always interesting to me how games connect to the real world in ways we never thought. Especially Japanese games. Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire allude to the land reclamation battles that were happening at the time in the region of Japan Hoenn is based on. The entire Phoenix Wright series is commentary on how ridiculous the Japanese justice system actually is and how much it relies on guilty verdicts. And now the connections in Persona 5 with real issues that were happening in the country at the time are being made known thanks to you. Thank you for examining these kind of themes in Persona 5 and giving more context to those of us who were missing it. When I get around to playing Royal, keeping all this stuff in mind will give me that much of a greater grasp on what the game is really trying to say.

As someone who did suffer under an abusive teacher in my freshman year of high school, though thankfully he was only psychologically abusive instead of physically or even sexually, seeing Joker, Ryuji and Ann gain their Personas from standing up to Kamoshida felt so empowering to me and basically told me how much I would relate to all the Thieves.

It’s helpful to note that the Liberal Democratic Party has always been a bad translation. It’s not Liberal, it’s Libertarian. The party’s name is 自由民主党 or literally “Freedom Democratic Party” Whoever translated it mixed up liberal, which means doing things (such as making changes) without restraint, with libertarian, which means the government not getting in the way of the people and allowing them to live freely. Both of them have the “without restraint” or “free” idea, but they’re used in different ways.

I feel Madarame also reminds me of Mamoru Samurahochi, especially since he portrayed himself as a musician who was deaf when he was neither deaf nor even a musician, or at least a good one. He was outed by a ghostwriter (I guess that’s what he basically was). So with Madarame not only not being an artist and claiming other’s work as his own, but also being a “humble man” who isn’t humble at all, I feel he’s similar to Mamrou. And the latter “worked” on the dual shock director’s cut of the original Resident Evil, which has some godawful remake of the soundtrack.

Even for me, an Indonesian, these villains are very relatable to our day-to-day lives. Abuse of Filial Piety background, the religion/political fanaticism, Greedy Capitalist, misogynism, sexual and physical abuse are rampant problems that you can also find here, in a somewhat similar sense/dimension with P5's. Regarding "Shikata ga nai" mentality, the current older generations here tend to lean towards "You must be grateful" whenever people are complaining about injustice in their life. In spirit it is the same but with Islamic PoV than Confucianism. Because we're meant to be thankful for everything that happens even the negative ones are served as reminder, which is true but back to your last point, some bad things in life need to be addressed, demanded solution and solved instead of being sweep under the rug with the pretense of being Ungrateful.

Igor: This game is a work of fiction! Me: Cap!

Major Disservice not including Futaba Palace. Futaba castle was all about the ever growing depression in Japanese Youth. Hikikomori is a ever growing issue in Japan.

If anyone thought these situations weren’t/aren’t actually a thing, they really need to get a reality check.

Great Video!! I recently finished P5 Royal for the first time, so it was really cool hearing about all the real world inspiration for these characters!

The term that I'm seeing most frequently these days that could be compared to Gaman is "Cope". There's a growing sense among the youth that the world is screwed and there's nothing we can do about it. I think a game like Persona 5 really struck a chord in that sense, which helps explain its global popularity. Anyway, sorry to hear about your illness, I wish you the best of luck. And remember, it's okay to be upset about circumstances that are unfair, even if you can't do much about it.

As an American who spent several years living in Japan, the game hit the cultural psyche elements dead on. It's one of the reasons I enjoyed P5 so much. It was a great reminder of my time there.

Kamoshida also serves as a reference to Ginji Sazaki from Persona 2 similarly to how Ann borrows elements from Lisa Silverman from the same game. Sazaki was based off music producer Tetsuya Komuro who at the time had a rather colorful reputation and was the manager of the singer HITOMI who was the main vocalist for P2.

Fun fact Samuragochi is responsible for the basement song from the uncut version of the first Resident Evil game

I noticed Shido's campaign posters right away. They do the exact same thing here in montreal, though with a lot more parties than just a few. The visual pollution has gotten so bad now that when election season is over, they are obligated to remove the posters within a few days, or else they will get fined.

I find it really interesting that "Hangure" sounds very similar to the English word "hungry", and that Kaneshiro is associated with gluttony. I don't know if that was on purpose, but it's pretty clever either way.

I think the closest phrase to 'shoganai' in black american culture would be "It is what it is". But for us, our history has been to maintain a culture of protest and vigilance when it comes to injustice in order to avoid ever going back to the atrocities of our past. We have a very real fear that if we dont maintain momentum, all that we've worked for can slip away. Current incidents and uncovered stories tend prove it. But unfortanately we also have to accept the way people are, what things happen to us and how the world works.

Great job, Lady. I was gonna just watch a little bit of this while I was eating, before getting back to the game itself, but I ended up just watching through until the ending section. Pretty interesting to learn this stuff, and thanks for putting in all the effort!

The shikataganai and gaman really hits home, I am from a certain south east asian country that study abroad for 4 years in america. I came home and found myself frustrated with certain situation that I cannot solve by myself, all the people that I ask for help always just says endure it and be patient and things will get better, while I keep thinking most of the time situations will not get better unless someone start do something about it. Life problems is not like a storm that will calm down eventually by itself. Anyway just saying my piece, thanks so much for your amazing video, your channel deserves way more viewers and subcribers. Keep up the amazing work!

While I do get the dislike of the sentence "rotten adults", I feel that people tend to get an unnecessarily surface level reaction to it at times. Ie, it's only taken at face value and makes you think "these kids think all adults are rotten", when in practice, it's more that the PTs hate "adults who are rotten" - that's a very important distinction imo. ^When it comes to adults who aren't rotten, like Sojiro, Kawakami, Sae, Maruki, and the like, the PTs were generally fine with them despite all they've been through - heck, when Sojiro was under suspicion of abuse regarding Futaba, the PTs (not just Joker, mind) were reluctant to believe he was capable of that, and carefully looked into the matter before they jumped to any conclusions/accusations. And it's not just the major NPCs; people like the art founder in Yusuke's Confidant, the Okumura employee who listens to Haru's feedback and calls off her arranged marriage when he finds out the truth, the ever-liked Lala (:P), those reasonable detectives after Futaba's uncle called "assault", and so on... even in a story against corrupt individuals, and all that entails, there's plenty of reasonable people that makes it difficult to say they're merely the exception to the rule. As an adult myself, I saw that thread very early on in my first playthrough of Vanilla P5, and mused how that - like many people tend to do IRL - the "rotten adults" thing was simply a generalization (and not an entirely unfounded one in-universe, all things considered). Plus, our heroes are teens who are still learning much about the world, and themselves; it takes time to develop the more mature views of the world and people at large, which we take for granted when looking at their words from the outside. As such, I believe taking it at face value in the above manner is a disservice to the story, and to the characters

Great video. I, actually, was surprised ,when heard that people think P5 villains are "too evil". Because for my whole life (21 years) I've met and know at least 2 "Komoshida's", who enjoyed to abuse their students, 1 Okumura -like and 1 Shido-like. Shido-like especially pretty realistic, because he rules my country for over 28 years. After collapse of ussr in 1994 were elections and he also said a lot of sweet things, especially to old folks, who missed that garbage - ussr. So majority elected him and almost immediately started to make his regime more powerfull by creating his "gestapo" and "silencing" everyone, who could oppose him. Under him economic became garbage, corruption raised and other typical dictatorship things. And still he does truly belives that what he did was right. There was a lot of protests, involved hundred of thousands people, who opposed him. In result, people who was involved got captured were beaten daily, raped and some even killed in literal concentration camp. Who didn't fled the country got imprisoned for decades. And now I live in another country and can't go back to my home and parents. Well, I think that people, who really think, that such villains are unrealistic - pretty lucky

Best persona analyses are on this channel! Thanks for the extra effort and the personal angles.

I am surprised you didn't go into Sae and the game's references to the Japanese Justice system. It echoes Naoto's Social link in P4 a bit but does discuss some issues in Japanese criminal justice, it's a little distorted thanks to the casino vibe but the idea was that the Japanese courts will do anything for their guilty verdicts, even if it meant using dubious means.

Yes! I've been waiting for this since your videos on the party members! It's gonna be so cool!

Despite Persona 5 being my first persona game, I always like the villains and disagree with the common criticism where people say that they are “cartoonish.” I feel some people did not properly analyzes the villains very well.

This video was amazing! I really appreciate the in depth look. Keep it up!

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing. Context is always enjoyable when you're not a first-party to the info like this.

I wish you would have brought up Mamomoru's most infamous scandal, the resident evil basement theme. Capcom when they were planning the directors cut found out about the ghost writers, and forced Mamomoru to REDO the entire sound track, and it was horrendous. Luckily for anyone wanting to play re classic the ps classic uses a EU copy which was untouched by the scandal

This is an amazing analysis video and does a great job highlighting the cultural significance that Hashino intended!! With regards to gaman and shikata ga nai, the first things that came to mind were "lakas ng loob" and "bahala na" in Filipino psychology respectively, though bahala na can also take on a more confrontational meaning (but it usually does have a fatalist connotation depending on the context)

Thanks for the video and still willing to talk about it even as the game had passed beyond their 5th anniversary mark. I think the longer we've been with the game, the more we need this kind of indepth video to see it with authorial intent as fanon and fan theories can only get wilder overtime as the main canon story has "ended" long ago. These video series you've done had always been a reminder of what the game and our world once was, back when it was created as a reflection of life in Japan in mid 2010s. Videos like this makes me wonder how a persona game would even looked like in current, post-covid, post-truth world if Hashino keep the ball on making another coming of age story set in contemporary setting. I think theres alot of beauty waiting in it. Thanks for your work with these video, again!

Started a replay recently and found this utterly fascinating, thanks!

I just found this, but I really want to say it: Thank you. I always love to learn new things about the culture of other places and all of this really stick out to me. Thank you, and have a nice day!

I think Kameshiro is a very interesting villian who is marred by the fact that, as a coward who uses proxy, you dont see much of him in his arc (Which Ryuji even notes) but the idea of litterally using money as a weapon is pretty evocative.

I am only a recent subscriber to the channel but I have to say, this was really interesting! Discussing the implications behind these characters and how they relate to real-life was a brilliant idea. Thank you for all the effort you've put into them so far! It sounds like you had a lot of fun making it which is really great too! I shall definitely be coming back for more :)

Very impressed by the video. I completely persona 5 royal literally the day this came out so it made for a good recap with context

This is exceptionally well researched. It looks like you're finally getting the attention you deserve.

The most powerful scene for themes in my opinion was the final dungeon. Having people turning a blind eye not wanting to think for themselves be basically palace rulers was genius and pointed out the big issue in every society. As long as people turn a blind eye and don't want to be inconvenienced, nothing can change. I am assuming this hits even harder in Japan, but even in western countries this feeling of powerlessness was conveyed perfectly. Humanity's ignorance would have been humanity's doom, were it not for the new generation taking charge and actively changing society (even when it's one small step at a time instead of killing a god)

This is a great cideo. I had no idea how accurate all these P5 villian topics were

17:47 Samuragochi gained some notoriety in the video game world for being the lead composer for the Director’s Cut rerelease of Resident Evil 1. Yes, this is the “Clowns Farting” guy

Really enjoyed this video and am now diving into your P5 character analysis videos. Great stuff!

This was a delight to watch and very informative. Onde of the best videos on P5 themes for sure

Holy shit! 10,00 WORK-RELATED DEATHS PER YEAR?! No wonder the majority of Japan's population is above retirement age!

Thank you for the real world parallel. It's interesting how much difference we have between cultures, but when have people with the same villainous aspirations.

sheeesh, i really got see those character dives. good video!

This was really interesting, thank you.

I had always written Kaneshiro off as "some cliche yakuza guy", but yeah looking back on it he doesn't have any ties to the yakuza and never claims to. I'd never heard about the rise of hangure and this video gave me a new appreciation for what he's meant to represent

Duuuude, I'm so grateful for your perspective on this! Thank you so much for producing these videos - I haven't seen your channel before, so I am immediately going to go watch the backlog of those character-specific videos. I just love it so much, this is SO helpful! Amazing!

I just want to say thank you for all the P5 videos you have done. You have added so much to my understanding of one of my favourite games and in doing so have aloud me to enjoy my current playthrouth on so many more levels.

I had no idea the story was so deep into the real world, this is a great video, well done!

Excellent video! I always kinda figured Shido had roots with Shinzo Abe, but never understood the full context. I remember Shin Megami Tensei IV also had a Shinzo Abe expy that wasn’t… flattering either. I remember the American Atlus office did a livestream of the English version of vanilla P5 right before release and the hosts repeatedly said that several moments in the game would resonate with Americans. In all honesty, I wondered if Shido’s translated campaign message was meant to be evocative of Trump’s 2016 message. That clearly wasn’t the case.

This video was very educational and informative. Thank you for giving the cultural context to this great game.

Thank you for creating this content. I enjoy listening.

Damn this video is some hot sauce on a perfect plate of chicken and fried rice. This is some informational goodness. Thank you so much, you made a fan of me.

Never knew I nneded your Persona 5 vids, until recently. I hope your health gets better and happy holidays, Lady Virgillia. Sending you lots of hugs from Mexico!

This was a fantastic video, and very informative!

Very interesting how this video was recommended to me. I haven't watched any persona related content in a long while, but just came by from another video talking about the story behind Shinzo Abe's assassination and his ties to the Moonies. Great game and great video

So, part of Madarame's inspiration is the "farting clown song"

this might be the most important video about persona 5

Brilliant video, Persona 5 has really captured some very important aspects of Japanese societal issues and the way you touch on all of these issues is very respectful and helpful. Thank you! I feel especially bad for the youths, life is damn hard for young people. Sadly, there is a lot of Kamoshida like people in UK news too lately in sports and schools, e.g. British Gymnastics has many abusive coaches like him and people suffered in silence for decades and were very scared to speak out (until only very recently).

great video!!! i have only played the first palace but i was really looking for a video like this explaining the culture behind the game!! i will watch your other videos about persona!

Each one of the 7 main Palace Rulers are also titled by the 7 princes of Hell as well With Kamoshida's being ............. Asmodeus the Prince of LUST (Also, his Arc on it's own made me want to kick the guy's teeth in) Madarame takes on the title of the Prince of Envy/Vanity Kaneshiro was the Lord of the Flies (Hate his dungeon) And so on

I’m also a Japanese American, and I enjoyed the cross cultural ideas too! 😊 loved your discussions!!

Extremely interesting video! I had a surface level understanding of some the characteristics of japanese society depicted in the game and discussed in this video (like the deference to authority and the basically obsessive work mentality), but seeing a much more in-depth discussion of these and other topics (like the phenomenon of the "hagure", which I had no idea existed) was very enlightening!

Fascinating breakdown, thank you!

What a great video. Thank you. By the way, this may sound odd, but your voice reminds me a lot of the maid teacher confidant from P5.

As someone born in Korea and now living in Canada, I could not help but notice the similarities between Korea and Japan - specifically the issues that are plaguing the young people. I too was accustomed to the expected obedience to one's elders (even the nasty and uneducated ones), and corrupt politicians in bed with corporations "too big to fail". On a more personal level, my wife has been struggling with her parents for much of her life. While it is still a work-in-progress, she has been attending counselling with a social worker for a few months now, and it has been helping. I am sure you will also help many people who are in need of your expertise. Congratulations on finishing one your studies!

This was very good to watch! You can feel all of this in the game and other medias from Japan, but with the context and parallels you brought, it made so much more sense! Subscribed ❤

This was a very interesting video. Thank you :)

Eastern games, or media, have always experienced a degree of values dissonance in the western culture due to their difference in society and culture. Maybe because I am in more contact with japanese media, like anime, manga or literature I can see some of those critics. While many aspects of the game's story still resonate with Western audiences due to its fairly universal themes of rebellion against corrupt authority, many of the finer details are lost in translation due to cultural differences, so I wasn't surprised when some of those critiques went over some people's head. But I was surprised that even I didn't knew about some of their critiques or their deepth. Your videos shows how Persona 5 gets this dissonance especially hard due to its very intense and deliberate focus on examining and criticizing fundamental aspects of Japanese society and Japan's culture. Or at least shows deeper meanings and the reasons of the why. As an example, I knew that bastardy is seen horrible in eastern society, but not at what degree or why. Good video analysis, Lady Virgillia. :D A must watch for those who want to enjoy better their Persona 5 experience.

Another amazing video with great insights into Japanese culture, Persona 5's storytelling, and why certain elements resonated or didn't resonate with Western audiences. Your work always makes me appreciate the Persona series more

I've watched a lot of Persona related video essays but this is by far the most enlightening, bravo!

I appreciate this videos so much! Necessary 👏👏