This development blindsided me completely. As the game progressed, it always felt like Sophie was already one of the Phantom Thieves, it was so easy to simply forget that she had yet to awaken a Persona. The moment Pandora asked "Can you wield that strength?" the realization hit me like a dump truck, and I realized that this was the ultimate moment of Sophie's growth. And I was so, so proud.

I popped off when Pandora first spoke to Sophie. The thought of her awakening a persona didn't even cross my mind so I was legitimately shocked and on the edge of my seat for the scene. Awesome stuff

I like with both the aigis situation and sophie, you can hear their voices go from robotic and almost monotone, to filled with emotion and human. A simple change, but an effective one

The pained voicelines of her struggling to overcome Ichinose's control are so well delivered, it's almost like she's really crying. I also wanna mention how much I love Ryuji in this game.

I think Sophia's awakening had one of the greatest "I am thou, thou art I" segments ever.

Persona only awakens to those who has heart. The fact that Sophie, an AI, to awaken one is beyond epic for me.

From the infamous box to the lady who opened it. That's an upgrade if I've ever seen one.

I love how her Persona is Pandora, just like the last boss of Persona 1. But instead of focusing on the aspect that cursed all of humanity, hers is focused on the last ray of hope at the bottom of the jar.

Sophies scream as she summons Pandora **CHILLS**

Like I said before about Wolf's Awakening, THIS is The Ultimate Test for the VA Also similar situation as well, so, Megan Harvey as Sophia... ...ALSO VERY GOOD Choice :)

The moment an A.I. evolved into...a "being" with a soul.

The “Awakening” track is perfection. It’s the perfect song to exemplify the physical and psychological struggle that comes with getting a persona. In this case, when you can tell the struggle is so much harder, the song parallels it. Joker’s awakening was like being hit with a brick. This was like being hit by the entire god damn house.

Everyone's talking about sophie, ichinose Lets talk about RYUJI they took p5, made him better in royal, basically perfect, and now strikers, they made him BETTER???! HOW?N

Finally, a robot ai challenging you

Ichinose feels like a foil of both Maruki and Wakaba. Ichinose believes that humanity is better of as dolls without desires, whereas Maruki wanted to grant everyone’s desires/make everyone happy. She’s also a quirky scientist like Wakaba but whereas Wakaba cared for Futaba and wanted to use her research to help people, Ichinose threw her first daughter (Sophia) away and used her research purely for her sole benefit.

I already loved the little marshmallow as just the adorable companion character, but my god if this didn't make her twenty times better. I never realized it until Pandora started speaking to her, but she was inducted into the Phantom Thieves without a proper awakening scene; just a moment where she summoned some funky containters to fight "just cause that's what you guys did". And I just accepted it, and accepted her as a cute robot helper character, but then she was forced to confront her duality as an AI both just following her protocol to do what she's told and desperately wanting a heart and soul, and her rebel spirit awoke. I don't think I've ever felt so empowered by something so adorable.

Probably the best awakening. They will be hard pressed to top that. Megan Harvey did a phenomenal job voicing Sophia and this scene is perfectly done. Her dialogue to Ichinose, the tone, cadence, the quiver in her voice, all of it was just perfect. When she screams 'Pandora!'; icing on the cake. Telling Ichinose that she is going to steal her twisted desires, that is the cherry on top!

The whole talk about how Ichinose deluded herself to her own lonely world by accepting that she was truly heartless... that really hit like a truck to me. Putting away emotions to seem strong, or at least to seem like how people around you expect you to be and not showing weakness or wanting to accept mistakes, many people do it in some form or sort. This whole thing broke me free from a mindset that I didn't even fully realise I was in, until Sophia spoke of how Ichinose came to be. I had locked away many things in my mind to appear strong from the outside despite all odds, but as a result I boxed myself into my mind, creating a very strict comfort zone. And it's only now thanks to that I'm breaking free. Props to the voice Actress here. Really touching, I surely let out a few tears to be honest.

notice how at 16:50 when Padora awakens, she is made up of Pithos and is just a large box, and when she awakens, she opens, meaning, the Pandora's Box has been opened.

Am i the only one who likes Sophie's english voice actor espacially when she says persona

Maki:I want my other self back! Sophia: My persona now.

When she says “But if YOUR order is to harm MY FRIENDS… then I… I refuse your command!” I get chills everytime. The voice acting is so good.

Loved how her visor shattered as her version of tearing off the mask to awaken the Persona, also that scream of "Pandora!"... chills.

Ichinose's pure "WTF" face throughout the entire awakening is gold

If you think about it, emma and sophia are sisters, and ichinose's their mom. She has two daughters, one that fell to ruin due to being unable to understand humanity, and the other who gained a heart of her own and essentially became human because she learned to to understand, and even saved her mother from her self-loathing and loneliness. If emma had ended up in the phantom thieves' hands instead of konoe, she might have turned out like sophia. But that never happened. Emma passed on her final wish to her elder sister though. To become humanity's companion, the exact words her creator told her to become.

Ryuji: Forcibly grabs Ichinose by the hand to save her Sophia: _(this looks familiar...)_

Sophie, in my opinion, is like a child version of Aigis from Persona 3. 😊

Her voice actor is SO DAMN GOOD

Anyone talking about how this whole EMMA thing started out is just sad and pitiful? The one who started it wasn't a God of Control. It's not a Persona user. It's not even a supernatural entity. It's just a woman throwing a fit on her pet AI AND she whipped this up because she threw a fit on her pet AI.

Ichinose looking like a snack though On the other hand, Aigis would have been proud of Sophia right here

You know, maybe I'm just projecting, but Ichinose really reads as an autistic woman to me in this video. All of it, especially with her flashbacks, screams "bad at social cues, has a hard time making and keeping friends, dulled emotional sensitivity due to trauma and being unable to healthily process it, and taking things literally and running away from 'failure' along with a black and white world view". I wanna plop her into a good therapist's office, man.

27:15 I expected her to say "You're my mother!"

17:39 Sophia’s Persona gives me HEAVY Artemis vibes from Persona 2...

I did not expected Ichinose to be the most relatable villain to me and whole Sophia speech broked me, because it felt like personal message for me. Ichinose did not understand her own heart and how to feel or how to express it and how to communicate with others and rather than understand our own hearts and how to feel, it would be easier to study hearts and feelings and learn from others, but we are different in the end and we cannot become same unless we had suffered same past or trauma, but mainly we are different but we need guidance and answers so sometimes we stick to easy path and let someone else take control of our lives and our feelings especially it gets more and more complicated to understand and it can be pretty anxious. I also don't understand other people feelings or myself at all. I also always went over happy silly acting like Ichinose did, because to me it's usually easier to go with that and live with our lifes with happy acting without others worrying about me, because we don't know how to express other feelings and how to explain it especially when she was lonely and have always been ignored by other people. Sadly i also suffer loneliness and being many times ignored no matter how many times i tried to greet or try to get to know about people like Ichinose did. That's why i felt so bad for Ichinose and i could see myself too for looking easier paths and let someone else to control our choices and how to live our lifes. Loneliness is pretty serious thing and it can hurt or affect someones minds and their lifes. That's why sometimes we need someone either familys or friends to feel safe and to be loved, but we are also scared to express our feelings. Damn, this is pretty depressing.

Persona 5 Strikers Sophie Persona Awakening But first would you like to see a totally unrelated 6 minutes of destroying shadows and rockin to music?

God, I just got to this part today and...it made me tear up, especially since the stuff sophie said reminded me of my own past...

persona 4 ultimax ring announcer: An AI by creation but she has the heart of a human. A cute look but a strong-hearted person: the heartful companion of humanity: sophia.

Man, I really feel for ichinose, though. It just sounds to me like shes neurodivergent and has faced ableism all her life. Just because she doesnt experience or exhibit emotions in a way others understand doesnt mean she lacks them

I hate to admit it but the moment Pandora appears across her mask had me crying. It's just such a powerful scene

Me: (Upon first meeting Ichinose) "Well, i WON'T be happy if she turns out to be a villain or something like that" *Ichinose finds out about the Phantom Thieves* Me: "Well, that could've gone better? Still, this is what happens when you make plans out in the open, wait until you get to the RV next time!" *Sees her as the villain in the jail* Me: "I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN!" *Defeats her* Me: "I can sympathise (I don't cry much myself), but at the same time... I can't, what good is a world where all you have is peace? You only get peace when you overcome all your obstacles, and as such... they no longer get in your way"

Pandora. The first human woman ever created, by Hephaestus on order of Zeus. Bestowed many gifts and taught many skills by the other gods, but born as a deceitful evil to plague the men of Earth, as she bared a jar, or better known as a "Pithos", full of countless plagues. She was granted to Epimetheus, the representative of man, as a gift from Zeus, and while among man, she opened the Pithos and scattered the plagues upon humanity, thus filling the world with evil. But a paltry substance remained in the Pithos, never released among the evils; the most minor drivels of hope. As the original prototype of EMMA, the deceptive evil that spread a wealth of plagues upon Japan as designed by the AI Wunderkind without a heart, I cannot think of a better mythos to assign to Sophia's Persona. Sophia is the hope that remains within Pandora's Box, and she has finally been released.

The minute the Awakening theme starts, its time to pop off! Not even Goku could see how fast I jumped out of my seat. I absolutely love this game.

I cannot believe I cried during this scene and I just cried again damnit. This is easily the best scene in the game imo. When I got to this point, I was expecting Ichinose, but I was NOT expecting all this.

clicked on this, no knowledge of strikers, just thought Sophia's design was interesting. First time seeing who Ichinose is. Instantly recognised her voice as Risa in PSO2 lol.

Aigis is so proud of you Sophie 🌸

I love how Ryuji's had it with Ichinose's stubbornness and drags her ass out at the end hahaha

I cried Edit: I legitimately cried when Sophie started saying about loneliness and change…. Damn that hits me like a whole skyscraper

Everyone’s talking about Sophie while I’m impressed by Futaba’s VA at 7:00.

Ren, Skull, Zenkichi and Sophia's awakenings are my favourite.

I swear, for the first half of that awakening cutscene, I thought her persona was going to be Pinocchio.

I teared up a bit watching this. Sophia deserved better than to just be used so I was so happy for her that she finally got her own Will of Rebellion.

Looks like Pandora's Box opened was really an anime girl

I love that this is the start of Ichinose's break down, she's so damn certain she's right about Sophia but awakening to a persona prooves that she's full of crap about Sophia being a doll and it's so glorious to watch everytime.

Skull in the end : "u coming whether you like it or not"

Anybody else thinks that Sophie's Ultimate Persona "Pandora'' kinda looks like Maya Amano's Ultimate Persona ''Artemis'' from Persona 2?

Sophia: “Don’t worry about it, Ichinose. Ryuji did this with me, too” Ichinose: “Ayo what the fu-“

Can we just agree that Sophie is awesome

ok, why am i crying

0:33 Vietnam flashbacks of Maruki’s cognition

can i just talk about how much better this and Zenkichi's awakening is than the ones in P5? idk what it is, maybe it's the fact that they scream their Personas' name's but who knows, i just like these a lot better. I felt literal chills watching both of these awakenings, and I teared up at Sophie's.

Can we appreciate Sophie’s English VA’s amazing voice acting job here!

Okay I'm gonna be honest. Ichinose's voice is great.... Before the twist, I really can't take her seriously. She sounds like she's trying to pass herself off as a mean girl. I still really like her voice.

If you weren't convinced Sophie was sentient by this point, you'd better be now.

I was so glad this sequel kept true to form with the awakenings, for both new characters, even brought back the badass theme song too

This game throws Persona awakenings to a whole new level! So damn good! And this persona fits Sophia perfectly, to grasp hope from the depths of despair, thats so like her!

My favorite persona moment, right here, it's so amazing

The moment pandora appeared on her visor, I popped off yo

20:30 Ann: Sophie! Are you okay now? Sophia: Ye

god the 'my name is' is such a good fucking touch

Wow, I love the voice they used for pandora. Especially “then you need only call MY name”

I haven’t played any persona games, but this is bringing me to tears

Knew I'd like Ichinose from the moment I met her but I didn't expect her to be a character I'd relate a lot to, man,,,,,

Wow pandora such a cool idea being the mythical one with the box. I just love the writers for these games they bring the emotion deep and hard.

So we are fitghing again for see what win, chaos or order?, yep a normal day in SMT to me

The fact that counterstrike is the song that plays in the background just makes this much more beautiful If you haven’t read the lyrics it’s basically about Sophie and Ichinose’s development so yeh

When I saw this for the first time, I HAD CHILLS!!!! Only Joker, Skull, Panther, and Yusuke gave me those chills! I now add Sophie to that list as well as Wolf!

Maki: "Hey, who summons my other self?"

Two years yet this scene *never* gets old for me. Sophie and Ichinose is my favorite characters in P5, excluding Maruki that is.

18:24 its the fact she did not fail her task, she found the meaning of a heart

Every persona from 3 onward has a robot person. Lol!

16:18 - 17:26 Persona 5 (2017) - Awakening (Original Soundtrack Version)

Aigis would be very proud of Sophia

16:51 That soul shattering scream was everything. 😱

When she screams Pandora I *always get chills*

"Can you wield that strength? Dare you unleash catastrophe upon this world? Can you cling to the paltry hope that remains? Is the puppet ready to cut her own strings? Shall the doll seize her own destiny? Than you need only to call my name. I am thou, thou art I, my name is... PANDORA!" Of all the persona's monologues, I find Pandora's to be my favourite.

So, Sophia debasing herself and falling to Earth in pursuit of a true understanding of the Monad, Pandora's Box being opened to reveal humanity's worst vices and also their hope for a better tomorrow...P5S is using these as a metaphor for the realization of a Technological Singularity...for the breakthrough in AI's ability to transcend being more than a tool without a will...to think, these seemingly modern possibilities, in all of their terrifying, brilliant potential, have existed in occult knowledge for so much of human history

I can't really see Sophia has a romance option. Because she feels more like Joker's daughter. Like I see Futaba as a little sister. I love them both but as family.

Can we talk about futabas part This triumph voice of her when she hacked ichinose was just so empowering knowing you allready won cause the lasers gone

I love how it started with Pandora and ended with Pandora

So, her Persona is the final boss of the very first game? Interesting.

All the thing between Ichinose and Sophia, Sophia awekening and everythin really got me crying somehow. Not even sumi's awekening in royal got me as much.

I shit myself when counter strike started playing in that fight, it was so out of no where and unexpected, but it was SO GOOD

I got this game and I just got to point out that this has became one of my favorite moments in P5S.

Maisters strategy is the most cursed thing ive ever seen in this game. And I beat cerberus by mashing the showtime buttons while being null to fire. Ez mode :D

P1: Pandora, the first shadow P5S: Pandora, the last awakening

She was becoming more human by the end of the game, that’s why I like that she reacted the same way everyone else did when their persona spoke to them

I finally just finished this game and this awakening caught me completely off guard. It didn’t even occur to me that Sophie could even awaken to a Persona. Not to mention she had already been fighting alongside the Phantom Thieves. This was an incredible moment.

The screen cracking instead of being pulled off is a nice effect. And one only Sophia could have pulled off, really.

I love how Ryuji always has the first worded response to an Awakening, i Hope they continue these awakenings in future Persona, i know they did it in P4 but i always liked seeing them accepting their faults and becoming stronger :)

if you haven't already, listen to the japanese voice for this scene, the scream hits just as hard