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coquelicoq · 6 months

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[Image description: 6 stills from the anime “Natsume’s Book of Friends” featuring the characters Natori Shuuichi and Matoba Seiji as teenagers with tumblr text posts edited in.

Image 1: Natori scowls as he watches Matoba walk away from him and Takuma at his first meeting of exorcists. The text post is by tumblr user LibraryTicketss and reads "I believe in annoyed at first sight"

Image 2: Natori and Matoba stand facing each other in front of a pond lined with trees. Natori, who is blond, is wearing a black jacket, while Matoba, who has black hair, has on a light gray hoodie. Text post by guccigarantine reads "is he… you know…. your narrative foil?"

Image 3: Natori stands outside glaring up at Matoba, who's sitting in an upper-story windowsill offscreen. Text post by clouiis reads "what is a rival if not a crush ur mad about having"

Image 4: Natori walks away as Matoba stands in the distant background staring out at the river with his back to Natori. Text post by yarrayora reads "characters dynamic that's like 'they weren't in a relationship but they're definitely exes now'"

Image 5: Matoba laughs and waves his hand as Natori glowers. An anonymous ask placed over Natori reads "request for you to not be a bitch" and the answer by tswift, placed over Matoba, reads "request denied"

Image 6: Matoba smiles blithely as Natori exclaims in offense over something he just said. Text post by forbiddnfruits reads "sorry i called you a fucking idiot i was trying to flirt"

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teen natori shuuichi: *has lots of inconvenient emotions* i am going to create a me that is so good at hiding his emotions. better than everyone else even. i'm going to get so good at it that i become famous specifically for being good at it. and then we'll see who's laughing

natsuyuu characters as text posts 3/?

#meanwhile teen matoba seiji: i am getting a good grade in getting a reaction out of shuuichi-san #something that is normal to want and possible to achieve #maybe a little too possible. not much of a challenge really #natsuyuu characters as #text posts #my posts #horrible exorcists #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #exorcist flashbacks #hexfest2k23 #i swear i will someday do some of these that are about other characters lol. just let me get this out of my system first

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izumisays · 6 months

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OK ok what's happening here??

A. matoba seiji decided to quit exorcism and pursue his dreams of achieving a husband excellence in modelling industry

B. a user picture on matoba's dating profile lovingly prepared and run by nanase-san (views: zero)

C. the artist found a reference she liked but no energy to come up with a context

D. other, please state below

@hexfest here we come!!

#horrible exorcists #matoba seiji #natsume yuujinchou #hexfest2k23 #my pictures #god i forgot how digital art works ENTIRELY please forgive me

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twilighthomunculus · 4 days

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Saw all these inid head canon posts soI’m sharing one of my own:

Initial D Characters and their pets

Fujiwara family- they’ve always been too poor to keep anything officially, but Bunta and Takumi both feed the ally way cats

Speed Stars- I haven’t figured out anything too specific but I share @steakrogers ‘s HC that Kenji owns a ferret that acts as the Speed Stars mascot.

Mogi- her family owns a gorgeous orange long haired cat named something very stereotypical for a cat

Takahashi family- Ryosuke had a gold fish before Keisuke was born but since then his family never allowed pets. Even still Keisuke would try to bring home and keep any animal he found. In the Sims I gave Keisuke a jack Russel.

Kenta- he has a pet hamster at his parents. On free weekends he’ll dress it up for photos.

Fumihiro- he grew up on a farm so has plenty of experience with ungulates and fowl. Really wishes that capybara can be kept as a house pet, settles on a couple of guinea pigs. When he “grows up” he wants a big dog.

Nakazato- he’s never had a pet but he’s always dreamed of having a Bunny

Shingo- He has owned rats since high school, replacing them whenever they die so the other doesn’t get lonely. Despite his unkept appearance and attitude the rats are well taken care of with more space in his apartment than he has

Impact Blue- Mako has a well kept salt water fish tank which Sayuki helps to try to feed every so often. Sayuki is a designer dog enjoyer and might get one if they get a bigger place. Mako’s mom owns a crusty maltese and Sayuki’s grandparents own a gloster canary.

Wataru- He reads as some sort of tank creature owner, unsure if it’s a mammal like a hamster or a reptile like a gecko, whichever his parents always goaded him into sharing the pets chores with his sister and sometimes cousin.

Kyoichi- he owns no pets personally but on occasion he has to pet sit his grandmothers chihuahua, everyone on Iroha can’t help but think they’re very alike

Seiji- owns a cat he picked up on the side of the road. Like Keisuke, he tries to be friends with every animal but his apartment only allows one pet. Constant user of the phrase ‘if not friend why friend shaped’

Kai- he has always been a bug kid, keeping beetles he find in the wild. As an adult he owns a tarantula named Dumpling. Most of his friends are too afraid of the tarantula to come into his room when they hang out.

Todo School- own a shop cat or two

Rin- in an alternate universe where his fiancé doesn’t get fridged and their relationship is healthy, I like to think they own a black mastiff.

#initial d #head cannon #twi writes #feel free to add on

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p5x-theories · 3 months

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I think that since it’s pretty much confirmed Joker, and maybe the other thieves, will be apart of the story, that maybe the other gacha thieves will actually be apart of the story in some way or another. Like Seiji getting an actual codename, and also kinda Kiyoshi, and the fact that Joker and the other thieves are said to just be cognitive beings when they seem to again be apart of the story. Plus the fact that you seem to run into a lot of the gacha characters a lot in the main story. Like you seem Tomoko several times throughout the beta, even though she’s just supposed to be a phantom idol. Same goes with Kayo, Kiyoshi, and now Yaoling in the third beta, Wonder keeps seeing them, like besides the start of their social links. Idk maybe it’s my own wishful thinking but maybe just maybe they’ll have story relevance, because to me at least, just having 5 actual thieves feels like too small. And besides more the merrier right?

I definitely agree that I hope the Phantom Idols will have more story relevance! Tomoko has been appearing a lot, though that might just be because of her personal involvement in the first arc, haha. Kayo is sort of an outlier in a lot of ways, so I don't know how to classify her, but... Well, anyway, totally with you on this sentiment!

The fact that this game involves at least one parallel world seems like it'd be a great opportunity to show us more parallel worlds, perhaps one where the Phantom Idols are actual Persona users or something! That'd be one way to include them in the story, at least.

As a slight correction, though, it's not only five story thieves- right now we have Wonder, Cattle, Closer, Soy, Wind (Riko), and then also we know about Polter, Enco, and Wuhexi from the files, too! So that's an eventual eight, haha. But definitely, the more the merrier!

#hatdude5236 #theories #third beta

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fangsforiris · 16 days

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Aesthetic Boards ༊*·˚

Diabolik Lovers~

Started: 12/03/2024

Last Updated: 14/04/2024

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Enjoy and find a state of calm whilst you look through their aesthetics!

౨ৎ There will be different prompts each are provided that suit each character, some provided by you stars, and some thought up by myself ౨ৎ

So feel free to create requests !! ౨ৎ

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Yui Komori:

Cover Art/Introduction

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The Wives:

Cordelia:

Oops! It’s still pending…

Beatrix:

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Christa:

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Extra:

Kino:

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Karlheinz:

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Richter:

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Seiji Komori:

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Sakamaki’s:

Shū (Ririe) Sakamaki:

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Reiji Sakamaki:

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Laito Sakamaki:

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Kanato Sakamaki:

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Ayato Sakamaki:

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Subaru Sakamaki:

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Mukami’s:

Ruki Mukami:

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Kou Mukami:

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Yūma Mukami:

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Azusa Mukami:

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Tsukinami’s:

Carla Tsukinami:

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Shin Tsukinami:

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NOTE: This was slightly inspired from the truly wonderful, talented, and precious @batsandgore , along with some other users when seeing aesthetic boards.

I absolutely love using Pinterest, and considering it takes up all my screen time with my boards, I thought it'd be suitable to share some with you stars!!

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#diabolik lovers #masterlist #aesthetic board #updated as of: apr/14/2024

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fractiflos · 2 months

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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday @chaosverse-mainblog happy birthday to you!

Here's your gift fic -

(Edit: I forgot to put this here) Summary: Yoichi and Seiji are finally getting married. However, just before they can exchange "I do's" the god of death himself bursts in, causing a panic. Yoichi doesn't know why Seiji looks so surprised; he was the one who convinced him to invite his brother.

Time to convince the god that Seiji is a worthy mortal, and what better way to do that than with a quest to do something only a god could? Picking a golden apple from Hera's tree.

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)

Relationships:

Second One For All User/Yoichi | First One For All User (My Hero Academia)

Sensei | All For One & Yoichi | First One For All User

Second One For All User & Sensei | All For One

Characters:

Yoichi | First One For All User (My Hero Academia)

Second One For All User (My Hero Academia)

Sensei | All For One

Additional Tags:

Weddings

Wedding Fluff

Alternate Universe - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore Fusion

I guess that's the official name for a Greek Mythology AU

Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Language: English

Words: 3,171

Chapters: 1/5

#yoichi shigaraki

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badlydrawndrawnings · 10 months

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*sees that blue-hair student is a Persona User*

*curious to know about his Persona and what it means for the game*

Okay, so a quick search tells me that his Persona, Mandrin, is very likely to be one Louis Mandrin, was a French smuggler/highway man/French Robin Hood (another Robin Hood-like figure!) who was from Dauphiné, located in the southwest of France. Louis Mandrin hated the tax collectors, (which at the time was until the Old Regime that lasted from circa 1500 to the French Revolution of 1789).

In 1753, Louis Mandrin and a friend got arrested for a brawl and Louis Mandrin escaped, for on that same day, his brother was hanged for counterfeiting, and Mandrin escaped, but on swore a personal war against the tax collectors.

Louis Mandrin then joined a gang of smugglers that was in the Cantons of Switzerland, France, ans Savoy, which at the time its own territory state. The gang smuggled bought the goods in Switzerland, and then sold them to the French population that didn’t involve taxes. Also apparently Louis Mandrin and his gang robbed the tax collectors, especially the unpopular ones. This allowed the gang to get lots of local support, but it had the tax collectors wanting Mandrin’s head.

So Louis Mandrin took refuge in Savoy. Remember how I said it was its own territory state? Well, the French tax collectors wanted Louis Mandrin’s head so badly, they sent in 500 men into Savoy in disguises to do that (help that two of Louis Mandrin’s own gang members sold him out). The Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia, Charles Emmanuel III, didn’t approve of this AT ALL, and sent a letter to the King Louis the XV to return Mandrin back, but before the message could be sent, the tax collectors basically speed-run the trial to execute the guy.

Interesting here that this Persona goes back to the theming of the initial three Personas we know of: Jánošík, Awilda, and Rob Roy. They’re outlaws of sorts. The second set of Personas we learned of are Leucothea, Terpsichore, and Styx. They’re from Greak mythology.

I think it’s possible the blue-hair student, not using his name because it seems it’s still unknown at the moment due to different possible translations of the kanji of his name, joins after the initial first Palace. Maybe he’s the fourth party member. Or the fifth, for there’s still that unknown female party member left we don’t know about.

That, or there’s two groups of Persona users in P5x that start out as rivals, but eventually have to join forces to defeat in the new threat of the Metaverse. Group One is the new ‘PT’ of sorts, consisting of Wonder, Cattle, Closer, the Blue-Hair Student, and Unknown Female Persona User. Group Two is the ‘Classic Theme’ users, consisting of Seiji, Mont, Yuki, and maybe Unknown Male Star Arcana User.

Or I could be wrong on both accounts. Still, this gave me a lot to think about!

#persona 5 #persona 5 x #p5x #anaylsis #theory #this is a text post

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quirkwizard · 2 years

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I was wondering if you could possibly mix Stain and Seiji's Quirks? Paralysis via blood consumption and manipulation of the human body could make for a horrific combination.

New Quirk Name: Affliction

This Emitter type Quirk activates whenever they consume the blood of someone. Once they do, they may exert control over their bodies, capable of inflecting a variety of changes. This can come in smaller ways, like making their leg suddenly fall asleep, or cause insane changes, such as forcing someone's eyelids shut or making their arm recede into them. The more blood of the target is consumed, the greater control the user can exert. The user can spread out the effect, like gaining a large sample and using it on smaller issues. This can result in more positive changes as well, like causing wounds to seal up or forcing a person's body to fix itself. The user may apply the Quirk to themselves if they drink their own blood and may undo the changes whenever they wish. This gives the user a dangerous ability, capable of helping their allies or inflicting terrible change on their opponents. They can debilitate their foes with changes, keep their allies stable after being injured, puppet their own body to move in certain ways, combine afflictions together in strange ways, or just mentally scar people with alterations. Though this does require the user to consume blood of other people and will need more blood to exert greater changes. The changes must be maintained via the user's concentration, meaning that knocking the user out can undo everything they made, and will eventually go away after a period of time, especially more drastic ones.

#My Hero Academia #Quirks #Quirk Marriage #Chizome Akaguro #Stain #Bloodcurdle #Seiji Shishikura #Meatball

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goldenlaquer · 1 year

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FOR THE RECORD:

who among your ocs smoke, why do they smoke, how do they smoke, can they shotgun the smoke into my mouth?

WE NEED ANSWERS GOLDIE ٩(ఠ益ఠ)۶

I ANSWER I ANSWER

Pretty much everyone, except Hiro, smokes.

Surprisingly, Teito is the heaviest user. He developed the habit because of Hijikata. Wanted to grow closer to Hijikata, and he thought to only way to go about it is join him on smoke breaks and keep up with the number-one-factor-for-edo's-air-pollution. Can't easily break the habit anymore. Was nearly at death's door when that smoking ban episode came about. Teito is a good boy and avoids second-hand-smoking; shotgunning will bring him great concerns 🥺

Then, Seiji. Does it for leisure, fer funsies. He uses a pipe, a kiseru. Uses a particular blend of tobacco he designed himself to be not so damaging on the lungs while amping up the pleasant buzz. He just puffs puffs puffs away while cooking up methods for immoral human experiments. Ya want it? He'll haul you in for that shotgun with pleasure, be not worried.

Yan. A social smoker. Abuto smokes like mad, just like most Yato on the 7th division (whaddya expect, they're all glorified delinquents), and Yan joins on occasion. Ask him nicely for a shotgun experience and he might indulge.

#LMAOOO how does 75 percent of my ocs being smokers reflect on meeee??

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thagyann · 8 months

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INTRODUCING : YUKI ( LAST NAME REDACTED ) - yuki is a curse user who comes 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚛 . his ability is tied to EVENT ORDER MANIPULATION that grows into intuitive precognition.. a part of @traghoul 's canon / boyfriend to seiji . a silent , collected type not interested in the tomfoolery of others. can be TERRIFYING IN HOW HE FIGHTS and known to have best many special grade 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬.

#structure : yuki .

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coquelicoq · 6 months

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[Image description: 7 stills from the anime “Natsume’s Book of Friends” featuring the character Matoba Seiji with tumblr text posts edited in.

Image 1: Matoba smirks and side-eyes an offscreen Natsume and Natori in a dark cave. The text post is by tumblr user sulkings and reads ":) (threateningly)"

Image 2: Matoba sips tea while sitting across from Natsume at a low table in his estate in the Eastern Forest. Text post by ChewyPussy reads "arent you tired of your current issues? don't you want new problems"

Image 3: A shot from above of Natsume lying on the floor unconscious as Matoba and two of his henchmen loom over him. Text post by TheirMajestyFang reads "Contrary to popular belief, I do not approve of senseless violence. I only approve of very sensible and rational violence, which is all the violence that my buddies and I specifically commit"

Image 4: A teenage Matoba smirks slightly after shooting an arrow to banish a youkai that several other exorcists had failed to banish. Text post by notdestinym reads "sometimes I think I'm better than everyone else but then I remember I am"

Image 5: Matoba stands in the background holding his bow as Nyanko-sensei (in his larger form) lies in the foreground with an arrow sticking out of him. Text post by BuckyKingOfMemes reads "you call it 'a heinous violation of legal and ethical rules,' i call it 'creative problem-solving'"

Image 6: Matoba stands in front of the dungeon in which he's had Natsume imprisoned. His eyes are closed and he's making a mudra with one hand while reciting a spell to torture a youkai as Natsume begs him to stop. Text post by kalichnikov reads "im not gonna release your soul from my magic gem. so stop asking"

Image 7: Matoba smiles at an offscreen Natsume he has kidnapped and tied up. Text post by LH-78 reads "smile… it confuses people."

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[guy who doesn't want to have to share his pastries with anyone voice] do you want some food? it's not poisoned /_^

natsuyuu characters as text posts 2/?

#natsuyuu characters as #text posts #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #matoba seiji #my posts #hexfest2k23 #he is NOT gonna release your soul from his magic gem. unless of course he needs to release it to eat another soul #that's making mischief. but after that it's going RIGHT back in the gem #happy birthday baby boy :) you suck and i love you

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crossoverquest · 1 year

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For @geckosquid, @bergeronprocess, @boymagicalgirl, @neopolitansworld, and @amyfevernight

Happiness Charge Precard: Big Time

Magic Type: Offensive

Magic Phrase: “B-B-Big Time! Time to change~”

The Big Time Precard gives its user The Big Time’s ability to create powerful explosions at will, an ability known to the Happiness Charge Cures and the Inaka Musume Cures as the Jigen Bakudan Dynamic. Its user must be careful; the attack will hurt themself if it misses or hits anything that isn’t an organic target. Megumi has a particular liking of this Precard’s magic.

“She’s winding up!”

“No! She’s counting down!”

“5, 4, 3, 2, 1- Your time is up! BOOYAH!”

-Seiji, Ribbon, and Cure Lovely in that order to a horde of Noh Choiarks

#pretty cure #happiness charge precure #pretty cure oc #inaka musume precure #thumb wrestling federation #crossover quest

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onestrangenovelist · 1 year

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rating: m relationships: nicholas/seiji, jesse/seiji tags: dual timeline, angst, misunderstandings, canon-related au (aka what if fence was tinted darker and melodramatic as all hell), i wrote this for me etc etc, warning; elements of dub con word count: ~14.7k summary: Maybe this type of devastation was inevitable. || Or: A story about Seiji and relationships.

here for 🔒 archive users on AO3

#fence comic #nichoji #what the hell do we call the other ship??? seijesse? does it have a name???!#anyway hi. i did a thing. you may look at it but dont look at me lol #my fic

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p5x-theories · 3 months

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What We Know About P5X

(updated 1/23/24)

Persona 5: The Phantom X (P5X) has now had three beta tests, the first of which ran from March 29th to 31st 2023, the second of which ran from August 18th to 25th 2023, and the third of which is running from January 16th to 31st 2024. Here’s a summary of what we know about the game itself so far. Hopefully this’ll be useful, whether you're new around here or not!

I also have updated posts about the game's story and playable characters so far, which can be found in this blog's pinned post (along with this post!) once they're all done.

Keeping this as succinct as I can, but it's still a little long, so under the cut it goes.

Overview

P5X is a turn-based RPG mobile game with gacha elements, developed by Black Wings Game Studio and published by Perfect World Games. While not directly creating it, it is officially licensed by Atlus and Sega. Atlus has apparently been very involved in its production, including Shigenori Soejima designing the protagonist and his Persona.

The game's setting has been confirmed to be an alternate/"parallel" world to Persona 5's, though translated promotional information also confirms the plot has something to do with these two worlds interacting through "time and space".

As Perfect World Games and Black Wings Game Studio are Chinese game companies, P5X is produced in Chinese, with no current official English translations, though the third beta had files that possibly indicate future plans to translate the game into English, Spanish, and Japanese, among other languages. The dialogue in-game is voiced in both Japanese and Chinese, with Japanese and Chinese voice actors for the characters.

There are specifically two main gachas in the game- a character gacha for gaining teammates, and a weapons gacha for gaining better weapons for those teammates.

Right now, we know the game will release on both mobile and PC, but it’s unconfirmed whether it will release anywhere outside of China, Taiwan, Macao, Hong Kong, and Korea, and we don’t yet have a release date for even the Chinese version of the full game. All three of the beta tests so far have been closed betas available only in China, Taiwan, Macao, and Hong Kong, where players could sign up for a chance to get in, and actual beta accounts were given out via lottery.

The Characters

So far, there are 16 new Persona users. These characters can be divided into story teammates and "Phantom Idol" (gacha-only) teammates.

The story teammates so far are the protagonist (codename Wonder), an owl named Ruferu in Japanese which has sometimes been translated as "Luffy" by fans (codename Cattle), an athletic classmate of the protagonist's named Motoha Arai (codename Closer), and a boy from another class with an interest in cooking named Shun Kanou (codename Soy). These teammates have all joined as part of the plot of the game.

The "Phantom Idol" teammates ("Kaidoru" in Japanese) are described as being cognitive beings created by Wonder's Velvet Room attendant, Merope, to assist him in the Metaverse, and seem to be based on people Wonder meets, though they are only copies. So far, they include Motoha's friend Tomoko Noge (codename Moko), first year student Kiyoshi Kurotani (codename Key), Wonder's family friend Kayo Tomiyama (codename Okyann), college freshman from China Yaoling Li (codename Rin), an aspiring acting student whose real name may be Reo Kamiyama (codename Leon), a student from Kosei High named Yukimi Fujikawa (codename Yuki), rich high school student Seiji Shiratori (codename Fleuret), a former ice skater whose real name may be Kotone Montagne (codename Mont), an online friend of Wonder's who goes by the name Yui (codename Bui), a children's fashion model whose real name may be Hina Nishimori (codename Riddle), an unemployed fisherman whose real name may be Toshiya Sumi (codename Sepia), and the runaway daughter of a local politician whose real name may be Miyu Sawara (codename Puppet).

The original Phantom Thieves from Persona 5 also appear as Phantom Idols: Joker, Mona, Skull, Panther, Fox, Queen, Oracle, Noir, and Crow. Datamining also found some of Wolf’s battle voice lines from P5S at least in the first beta, and an icon from P5S with Sophie in all three betas, suggesting they may later be added as well. No sign of Violet has been found yet, other than the Faith Arcana card in the files. Joker, at the very least, seems to have some larger role in the plot, as Wonder has a dream about them fighting at the start of the third beta, and later what seems to be a Phantom Idol Joker comes out of nowhere to rescue Wonder and Cattle in Mementos.

Munehisa Iwai, Tae Takemi, and Chihaya Mifune also return in P5X. Iwai runs the weapon gacha, Takemi sells medicine like in P5, and Chihaya tells fortunes. The other original P5 confidants’ portraits and 3D models have been found in all three betas' data, and the Councillor Arcana card was with the other cards in the second and third betas' data specifically, but it’s currently unknown whether they’ll actually return in any capacity.

Music

Several new songs have been heard in P5X, four of which feature vocals by Lyn: "Last Strike", "Wake Up Your Hero", "Shadow", and "Fatal Desire". The new instrumental tracks so far include background music for the first two Palaces, background music for special fights, a new music track for Mementos, and some music for P5X's rhythm minigame, where Wonder plays music with fellow students.

Locations

The majority of P5 and P5R’s locations have been confirmed for P5X, including Yongen-Jaya, Kichijoji, Shibuya, and Shinjuku, but the protagonist lives in a new location called Zoshigaya, and goes to a new school called Kokatsu Academy. Another school named Kiga High School has also been mentioned.

(Note that while Yongen-Jaya exists, Leblanc has been replaced with a generic coffee shop, which is eventually purchased and run by someone other than Sojiro Sakura. Similarly, the Big Bang Burger in Shibuya is now just called Big Burger, with no apparent traces of the space theming, and the Crossroads bar in Shinjuku has also been rebranded.)

Mementos and the concept of Palaces also return in P5X, though there are some differences. At least in the betas, Mementos operates as a sort of hub, with characters entering Palaces through Mementos, from the entrance to each Palace located within the massive floors of Mementos. Mementos also has special battle locations apparently similar to “domains” in other gacha games, where completing the fight gives special items to strengthen characters and weapons, themed after P5′s Palaces (so far Kamoshida, Madarame, Kaneshiro, and Okumura's Palace-themed "domains" have been found).

Basic Game Mechanics

For the most part, P5X operates extremely similarly to P5, both in and out of the Metaverse. One notable difference is that the calendar isn't progressed by anything but the story- other activities, such as working, crafting infiltration tools, and spending time with Confidants, instead cost hourglasses to do, without being restricted to a single afternoon and nighttime time slot each day, as was the case in P5.

One interesting and more significant change made in this category is that the Confidants have what appears to be a total of 20 ranks, instead of the series-standard 10. They also haven't been associated with any Arcana, though the P5R Arcana cards have all been found in the second beta's data.

The UI elements of combat look a little different (as well as all the skill animations), appearing to be more optimized for mobile play, but otherwise it seems largely the same to P5, though one notable difference is that it seems Navigator skills can be called in at will (and then have a cooldown), rather than occurring randomly. There is a new kind of special attack called a Highlight Attack, which is similar to P5S’s Showtime attacks where the character executes a special attack with their Persona.

The protagonist can gain Personas by talking to shadows, and fuse them in the Velvet Room. Challenge battles in the Velvet Room, like in P5R, are available to attempt. Palace exploration also seems relatively standard, even if the Palace itself and the method of entering it is different. One major change is that several shadow/Persona designs have been censored; this includes Incubus and many others being given shorts, Bugs' stomach being repaired with the blood removed, Mara being given a large hat, Hell Biker and other skeletal Personas having a helmet/mask that obscures the skull, and several female Personas like Lamia being given shirts. However, these changes are purely cosmetic.

Miscellaneous

It’s worth noting that because the game has yet to be officially translated to English in any capacity (outside of a single file confirming its English title as "Persona 5: The Phantom X"), character names can only be absolutely confirmed when they’re either written in Japanese kana (as opposed to the Japanese kanji characters names are typically written in) or spoken aloud in official material, to confirm which reading of the Japanese name is the intended one for this specific character.

The characters do also have Chinese names, of course, but as the voice acting defaults to Japanese, and the game is set in Japan, the names that would most likely be used by an English release (if it ever happens) are their Japanese ones. As such, the Japanese names are the ones presented in the Characters section earlier in this post, and the main ones that this blog uses.

All the codenames, however, are written in English, and thus the most easily confirmed as official.

And just to close this out, keep in mind that the majority of our information about the game contents specifically comes from the beta versions, so things can and have changed between beta playtests, and similarly may change in the actual release of the game.

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