![]() The boy who represents the Tower Arcana merely came off as a conceited child who looked down on everyone and who needed Yuu to show him the value of friendship. Similarly, the boy that the fox led Yuu to, Nakajima Shuu ( Ichiki Mitsuhiro), didn’t have the same issues as he did in the game, nor were his issues explored in much detail either. Unfortunately we were never shown the reason why the fox wanted those wishes granted in the first place. It was a clever idea to make the fox, which represents the Hermit Arcana, as the one who started Yuu out on his August adventure by using the wishes made at the fox’s temple. Three of the stories managed to retain the gist of the issues that Yuu helped out with, but the first two stories were not as lucky. The stories themselves don’t actually take that long to tell.Įven still, putting together five social links in one episode was still too much so each one had to be drastically cut back and altered from what it was like in the game. People probably complained that some of the past episodes were rushed because they forgot that the languid pace of the game was mostly just a product of the game mechanics. What’s worse was that all this time spent trying to develop these social links during the summer meant that there wasn’t any time left to be spent with the Investigation Team, so I’m very glad that this series changes things up to address this disconnect. This has been especially evident in the past few episodes as the showrunners have used the different narrative freedoms of television to retell the source material in a novel way, often combining it with anime-original material and humor to great effect.Īlmost all of the social links in the game were presented slowly – there were days where the story didn’t even progress at all because Yuu hadn’t said the right words and could only hang out. I really must commend Persona 4 for changing the narrative structure for each episode because it can be really easy for a series to fall into the “dungeon/social-link of the week” formula that the game employed. It’s an interesting change of pace for the show, almost like it was continuing with the detective/mystery tv show theme from the previous episode. After watching last week’s preview, I really didn’t believe that the show would actually finish all five social links in one fell swoop, much less actually tie them all together.Īt first, hearing the episode with narration was a bit jarring, but it eventually grew on me, even if I would have preferred Chie as the narrator (no offense Yousuke). Price of combining five social links into one episode?Ĭramming five stories into one episode is a tall order, but surprisingly, Persona 4 was able to pull it off in an entertaining fashion – even if much of the real drama and backstory was lost in translation. ![]()
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