Ann Takamaki Long Hair Concept Art Ann Takamaki Concept Art

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Hello and welcome to Wasted Plotential, where we discuss the wasted potential of our favourite waifus.

I've had Persona on the brain a lot lately, and watching this slap-up video series dissecting P5'south characters from a Japanese cultural perspective, the word of how Ann is handled in the immediate aftermath of the opening arc got me thinking about how jarring that part actually is over again and how it could have easily been handled better.

To recap, Ann Takamaki (best Phantom Thief girl fight me) is a mixed race highschooler who is being sexually harassed by her teacher, Kamoshida, along with her best friend Shiho. The abuse reaches the betoken where Shiho attempts to finish her own life. This gives the fledgling Phantom Thieves the bulldoze they need to alter Kamoshida's heart fifty-fifty with the risk of killing him, and Ann joins the team to assist take the abuser down. Ann's perseverance is genuinely inspiring and the game takes its story very seriously in this arc. There's a reason this arc is generally seen as the strongest in the game.

Then, in the very side by side arc, Ann is blackmailed by Yusuke into posing nude for a painting and the entire affair is played for laughs. Over again, correct after the game took her sexual exploitation very fucking seriously. And yeah, Ann dressing up in an obscene number of layers to purchase herself fourth dimension is a funny bit, but the placement of this story is all incorrect. Information technology'south about on par with having Ann'due south dramatic awakening immediately precede a fight against a demon on a fucking toilet. And on superlative of that, it's astoundingly out-of-character for Yusuke, who typically seems mostly oblivious towards the opposite sex, and not most as aggressive every bit he's presented here. Coming back to this scene subsequently getting to know Yusuke, information technology seems totally alien for his grapheme to exist doing this.

So, I take ane change for each graphic symbol to brand this part work a piffling better. It doesn't set up information technology entirely, but I'1000 not sure you could do that without a total rewrite of the scenario, peculiarly since Ann's plight here is also used to innovate the concept of secure locations in the real earth being bulletproof in the Metaverse and how to go around that.

First, nosotros have Yusuke. Again, this whole sequence feels totally incorrect for him, given how he is characterised in every other scene he is a part of. What we're going to say is that there is an external force compelling him to act this way. Yusuke is being pressured into doing a nude painting, either by Madarame, who understands the value of such pieces and wants to exploit Yusuke for his upcoming exhibition; or Yusuke is taking office in some art competition and nudity is pivotal to the theme, if only from Yusuke'south later-established express understanding of art and beauty.

This manner, this baroque graphic symbol plough feels less jarring because he'due south non taking the initiative to do this. He'due south being pressured into making this rather intimate art slice that he struggles to do, since he's quite awkward and hasn't been able to secure a model due to that. In his agony, he is compelled to abuse this leverage he has over Ann. He volition, of form, later apologise to her over this and she'll forgive him considering she understands what information technology's like to exist backed into a corner where you feel similar yous don't have any other selection. This helps to strengthen her ain characterisation as well past showing off her empathetic side some more.

Given how of import the concept of forgiveness evidently is in Japan, based on how often characters are just abruptly forgiven for heinous acts, it seems shockingly rare for them to actually apologise and seek forgiveness and redemption themselves, instead of just existence handed it on a argent platter past the people who take suffered because of them!

Equally for the other alteration, the way Ann is forced into this by the writers would likewise change. Instead of Ryuji very casually saying, "Welp, estimate you gotta," and Joker's only option being to wish her luck, we'll take Ryuji and Joker be very reluctant to ask her to become through with this because of contempo events, even if it is their all-time option at that point. Ryuji tin can say, "Hey, you don't have to do this" and Joker says, "We can discover another way," but Ann will say, "No, I can do this," with fierce decision. This changes the scene from Ann existence exploited again and creating an astoundingly tone-deaf scenario, to her deciding for herself that she will go through with this, showing her growth from the previous arc by finding the determination to go through this to save Madarame'southward victims, including the 1 trying to coerce her right now, and reclaiming her sexuality in some way.

We tin can still keep the multiple layers of clothing bit, though, since, in addition to being a funny scrap, it also works as Ann thinking outside the box to buy herself time. Maybe we can even slip in something of Ryuji's and Joker's to Ann's habiliment collection to suggest the boys helped her a little here.

It's not perfect, but I call up a small alter like this would assist a lot, and is the type of thing the team should absolutely have considered in Imperial, along with cutting or reworking the girls chirapsia up Ryuji for no reason that in one case, instead of more than pointless faffing around with Yoshizawa.

You lot know, the rereleases are a bang-up opportunity for the devs to look back over the story and consider, "Could this take bene done amend?" "Is this affair a bit of a trouble?" "Does this makes sense with how the characters finish upwardly beingness adult afterwards on?" and working to brand the core experience of P5 improve, instead of just setting up the new story arc that, every bit I've said earlier, would've bene amend served equally a carve up game, where we would have more time to actually explore that narrative.

However, for all P5 and Royal's faults, at least they didn't push Marie as a viable love interest, so the writing is certainly improving...

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Today'southward recommended video is the aforementioned Ann Takamaki & Japanese Sociocultural Issues by LadyVirgilia.

"And Ann-" Cos I saw in the script that it said "Ann join the squad" last time I was going over it. I put "Anns bring together the team." Multiple Anns? When did this happen? Why did no ane tell me? ?There tin can't possibly be 2 Anns!

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