#izanami persona

[foxstarjelia]

its 4 am i cant stop thinking about nami

#my art #cw body horror #izanami #persona 4 #izanami persona #persona 4 spoilers

[m0e-ru]

did everybody remember when atlus finally restored the attendant social link in the steam port and how stupid it actually was

#persona 4 spoilers #persona 4 #p4 #⛽️🌫 #moel gas station attendant #izanami persona #souji seta #yu narukami #tohru adachi #margaret persona #marie persona #arttag #tappous #// 'you say good bye to your senpai' okay when do i see him again #// i wish there was a rank10 but margaret said her ex doesnt do 'taught and long lasting bonds' can i at least get a final boss skip #// looking through my liveblog of this was so stupid i havent even shown all the times i kept loading saves that were in-game months apart #// because the correct flags werent triggering and the sl just disappears from the sl menu like HOW can you lose a friend #// like i kept answering the wrong prompts. gestures wildly at the jester and aeon sl. THE DOUBLE STANDARDS ARE SICK!!!! #// the attendant part time job was still working though but it was just child labor at that point with nothing fun to do #// i feel like they really had to focus on marie for this one thats why the whole sl feels incomplete because IT ISS #// atls they just 'restored' this one for fandom points or something I DONT KNOW !!! #// it was so complicated to get this far it was so ambitious but i guess it flopped by the end and we're supposed to chalk it up as 'lore' #// also heard how the last update fuckkeed it up so bad they got rid of the sl again because nobody could play it LMAOOO #// mimis so quirky like that okayy thats it for this week my dearest customers GOODNIGHT‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ #cw unreality #gsa sl au

[dingostrash]

Playing P4 with the bf. He's not allowed to see this for another 40 hours, but you may enjoy it.

#persona 4 #persona #izanami persona #izanami #yu narukami #seta souji #shitpost

[crisplawliet]

HI remember a few months ago how i had done a lineup of the Persona 3 characters? ppl liked that, so i decided to take a shot at doing Persona 4’s cast too 🙂 at first i was gonna do only the main party members + nanako, dojima, and adachi but i decided to throw in a couple of extra characters as well

#my art #persona #persona 4 #yu narukami #yosuke hanamura #chie satonaka #yukiko amagi #kanji tatsumi #naoto shirogane #rise kujikawa #teddie #nanako dojima #ryotaro dojima #margaret persona 4 #marie persona #tohru adachi #izanami persona

[namigleebo]

personer. I guess

#persona 4 #yu narukami #yosuke hanamura #chie satonaka #yukiko amagi #kanji tatsumi #rise kujikawa #naoto shirogane #tohru adachi #izanami persona #mine

[luuxxart]

takeba family card night

[orig]

#persona 5 #persona 4 #persona 3 #goro akechi #yosuke hanamura #yukari takeba #tohru adachi #ken amada #izanami persona #koromaru #uncle adachi au #ignore the missing yugioh mat #the whole Takeba cousins thing is based on that k8flge post w the ‘god made us from different games’ #but Axel kinda solidified it in my head and then i shoved Adachi in there #I need to release the Takeba and Kurusu family trees…. #it’s also technically a Shirogane family tree as well…. #anyway I worked super hard on this all day yesterday reblogs would be hella appreciated 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[leithvit]

Commission for Verlandta ❤️‍🔥

Kinda proud of this

#onmyoji #nue no onmyouji #sousei no onmyouji #izanami persona #hifumi izanami #shikigami #fanart #game fanart #gamedev #visual development #commission art #artists on tumblr #art commisions #portrait #artwork #my art #art #sketch #digital aritst #illustration #digital illustration #concept art #painting #fan art #digital art #ukrart #video games #game art #game skin #украрт

[lesbian-empress-nero]

persona characters r so cool,,,,,,,,

#hey guys its not partitio #persona #persona 4 #persona 5 #tohru adachi #mayumi yamano #izanami #izanami persona #yosuke hanamura #naoto shirogane #goro akechi #joker persona 5 #akira kurusu #ren amamiya

[adachimoe]

Random tidbits from Hashino's interview in the Persona Club P4 book

At the back of the Persona Club P4 fanbook, there's a 6 page interview with Katsura Hashino about the making of Persona 4. This interview is spoilerific and you have to cut the pages of the book to even read it lol. I have 0 desire to translate the entire thing (I don't trust myself with that, ngl), but here are some fun highlights from it related to Adachi. This interview/book was published in 2009, so before the anime aired, before Golden, before Arena, etc.

The identity of the true culprit - who filled Adachi's role before Adachi?

While developing the story, it originally had Izanami (Hashino very specifically mentions Izanami was planned since the start) and Namatame, and one of the themes was "how the characters get info". From what Hashino says, Namatame's role during this earlier stage in development sounds very similar to what we got in-game. Back then, he was considered the true culprit and he was well-meaning, but he lacked some pretty critical info. After Namatame, there would be the feeling that there was still someone out there, but that someone was Izanami, not Adachi.

The staff felt the plot was lacking, so they wanted to add in a stepping stone between Namatame and Izanami as an extra plot twist - a true, true culprit. And the first character who they considered for the role of the true culprit was................... not Adachi.

The very first candidate for the true culprit was Yukiko. Yup. This came from a half-serious, half-joking convo between Hashino and Soejima. Their reasoning for picking Yukiko was because in the Kindaichi Case Files, whenever there's a murder in the sticks, it's always the lady who runs the ryokan who's the culprit.

The next person who they considered was.......... Yosuke. They thought that because of how his character was shown as a decision maker with a good head on his shoulders, maybe he'd have a relatable reason for devising everything? They talked about making him a villain who would still be adored by players regardless. But Hashino was against the idea of having one of friend group as the culprit.

Ultimately, the reason why neither Yukiko nor Yosuke became the culprit was because their motives for murder would be too personal. Hashino thought that if it's murder driven by personal motive, then players won't be as invested. A personal motive would be too much like the "Tuesday Mystery Theater", a Japanese mystery TV show that was - from my understanding - character driven drama.

Hashino went back to the theme of "how the characters get info". At the time, there existed a person in the plot who's function in the game was to give the main cast information from the police's side. This character just so happened to give you info, and seemingly consequence free on their part - after all, what you did with the info after had nothing to do with them. They were careless. And Hashino followed this train of thought, thinking that kind of carelessness went well with antagonism.

Originally, Adachi was the aforementioned character. He was not the culprit, and he gave the characters info about the police's investigation. Following Hashino's train of thought, then the person who was giving away information would become this new culprit between Namatame and Izanami.

But there was an issue - if he was giving the main cast info about the investigation, then he would stand out among the adult cast, and him standing out might spoil that he's the true culprit. Thus, Hashino changed directions during development and started to create Adachi's character.

(See bottom of this post for a footnote about Adachi's old character design and some ramblings about his old role.)

The Thousand Curses and the Myriad Truths

Per Hashino, Persona 4 is about media literacy (no seriously it says media literacy in katakana wasei-eigo even). Izanami's Thousand Curses represents the lies of the media that humans believe in. The protagonist's Myriad Truths represents how, in this sea of misinformation and lies, you can only trust and believe in the words of those who are close to you.

(I suppose now is a good time to mention that the Japanese name for Myriad Truths is "Tens of Thousands of [Mantras / True Words]". A mantra is a phrase/word you repeat over and over, so it seems the Myriad Truths is a visualization of the protagonist unleashing all of the truths from his social links and bonds. All 10,000+ of them.)

Adachi's Given Name

Adachi's given name was not always Tohru. At first, it was Tamotsu, which is written 保. Hashino changed it to Tohru because the character for Tamotsu 保 could also be read Yasu when used as a name, and at the time, the staff was trying not to spoil who the culprit was.

Why would Tamotsu / Yasu spoil the game, though? Because "Yasu did it!" is an old ancient ur-spoiler meme thing from the 1983 adventure game the Portopia Serial Murders. Think of like... "soylent green is people", "Darth Vader is Luke's father", "Sephiroth kills Aerith", etc. Not only that, but the main character of Portopia is a detective, and Yasu is your buddy cop sidekick.

Hashino was already aware of the Yasu comparisons because one of the staff who read the script reacted by going, "So Yasu did it, huh?" But Hashino thought that Portopia was so damn old that gamers wouldn't know about it. Only turbo nerds working at Atlus know Portopia, right?

Wrong lmao turns out a shit ton of people knew about the Portopia spoiler. After character art of Adachi was released in a magazine promo for Persona 4, people reacted with, "Yasu did it", so Hashino very quickly changed Adachi's given name.

They had already recorded the audio for the game at this point, which included a line of Adachi saying, "I'm Tamotsu Adachi" when he introduces himself. Hashino had the audio team cut out him saying "Tamotsu", and this is why Adachi says, "I'm Adachi" and not "I'm Tohru Adachi" in April.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where his name stayed Tamotsu and in that universe I am instead blogging about how you can read it as "Yasu" while explaining the Portopia Serial Murders. :')

Footnote Commentary

If you're familiar with the Persona 4 Design Works, Adachi's page mentions that originally during development, he wasn't the culprit but rather a misdirect. After his role in the story was revised to be the true culprit, Adachi's design was also revamped to be the design we know of today. But this red haired design was his original design back when he was apparently just a leaky faucet. I suppose since we know his name used to be Tamotsu, we can call this version of him "Tamotsu" lol.

Hashino doesn't really go into what he meant by "create Adachi's character", but I'm assuming since the Adachi character already existed in the plot, he meant like... "re-create" the character to fit this new role as the true culprit with this consideration about how he'd come off in the plot.

Hearing that the character originally gave you legit info about the police investigation is interesting, cause in the Design Works, opposite this page of Adachi's old design, Soejima also mentions that Adachi was originally a red herring. I can see how those go hand in hand - a guy feeding you accurate info? How would that not be suspicious?

I also get the impression that Hashino is indirectly saying that the Adachi we got in-game also feeds you bullshit, as to make him seem *less* suspicious, if him giving you legit info would make him more suspicious. Which, well, considering the first thing he says is, "Yukiko did it!" ...Hmm yeah okay lol.

I was pretty amused to see that Yukiko and Yosuke were names being tossed around to be the true culprit. Wild to see that the ancient internet rumors are actually true. Notably, Dojima is still not true. Very funny to read that the real origin was some partially nonsense convo between Soejima and Hashino where they're like, "Hey, so, about the Kindaichi Case Files."

The real moral of the story here is that Adachi is truly no one's first choice. Even his role as the true culprit was originally just a confused Namatame.

#persona 4 #tohru adachi #yukiko amagi #yosuke hanamura #izanami persona #taro namatame #interview #katsura hashino #shigenori soejima #日本語ヘタです #im going to be laughing about the yasu thing for a good year #adachi going “yukiko did it” when she was the first pick for the true culprit is really fucking funny #persona club p4

[rosecolouredpigment]

runner up contestant for best slouchy stance of 2009 + hot evil demon creation goddess gf cameo

#adanami #izadachi #persona 4 #p4g #persona 4 golden #p4 #persona #tohru adachi #izanami persona #izanami #adachi tohru #it isn’t fair he doesn’t know how beautiful he is to me #sorry these r messy i did them on aggie dot io #i love him so fucking much he’s so ugly but so alluringly pretty to me #it’s his axolotl face and my tendency to gravitate towards incel coded weirdguys #he reads as so transhet to me i want to give him attention and pay for everything for him #he ignites my sugar mommy dreams i want to give him everything he’s ever wanted and more #sorry i’m deranged

[foxstarjelia]

anyways have some sillies

#persona 4 #tohru adachi #moel gas station attendant #izanami #izanami persona #my art #persona 4 spoilers

[m0e-ru]

what are you

#persona 4 spoilers #persona 4 #p4 #moel gas station attendant #izanami persona #⛽️🌫 #arttag #boot.tingting #tappous #// i love you boy. thing. whatever #// it's not trans swag it's not even nonbinary swag it's completely incomprehensible to human understanding swag #// i love low saturation contrast for mimi because you'll understand how they'll melt into one silhouette without the stupid uniform

[dingostrash]

Divorce selfie!!

#persona 4 #yu narukami #seta souji #souji seta #Izanagi #izanami #izanami persona #izanagi persona

[tenderlambkin]

Not gonna spoiler the main post because the twist of this game is one of the worst kept secrets on the internet. Anyway, Grimace shots under the cut for your memey uses

#Persona 4 #Persona 4 spoilers #adachi tohru #tohru adachi #yu narukami #Taro Namatame #persona memes #izanami persona #grimace shake

[namigleebo]

ok i wanted a cool caption but you are not getting one

#p4 #persona 4 #izadachi #tohru adachi #izanami persona #my art

[krisdice]

Real

#persona 4 #yu narukami #yosuke hanamura #chie satanoka #yukiko amagi #kanji tatsumi #teddie persona 4 #rise kujikawa #naoto shirogane #ryotaro nogami #nanako dojima #tohru adachi #izanami persona #marie persona 4 #margaret persona4 #taro namatame #mitsuo kubo