I don’t know if it’s in a older retrospring (sorry if it is) but I’ve seen you speak about p4au Akihiko and even trinity soul and stuff, but I was wondering how you felt about the persona 3 dancing characterization of Akihiko recently? I feel like it is a bit more positive than the others [•: ——— 2 months late on this but i was balls deep in my semester gomen. overall i really do think p3d akihiko is the closest akihiko's come to good characterization since p3p (gamewise - i think the p3 the movie drama CD easily otherwise, that was released in like 2014). the manga and the movies are pretty good (the movies tend to play up his angry moments but not to the point that i'd say anything dissenting about it), but the rest of his depictions seem like they got tainted by the arena touch. the my-name-is-akihiko-and-my-only-personality-trait-is-that-i-like-to-train-and-i-eat-a-lot-of-protein touch. p3d surprised me because yeah, while a lot of what he talks about is training/fighting and he does have like 2 social events where he mentions his lame little Gimmick, the wider scope of akihiko's character is prevalent throughout most of the social content, something that i really hate about his other depictions (and how those depictions seem to lack any attempt to show his multidimensionality or include the full gamut of his personality). he's mature and rational and genuine but still awkward and obtuse and he talks about going to college and how regimented he is and he has some really fun interactions with people. his social events are just kinda solid all around. so while i still feel like it's not a particularly extensive depiction (there's only 8 social events on his end, then his appearances in others, and then his dance lines) and while i still feel that didn't need to lean into the training/fighting as much as it did, i do think it's probably includes the least amount of what i hate about akihiko's post-p3p characterization. and it also makes sense for him to have fighting on the brain given it's set in january right before the nyx fight. and it's not to the extent that it overshadows his discipline and foresight and aoogh. i really appreciated that social event with mitsuru. in a way it got my hopes up that reload would write him good and while i was disappointed by that that's not P3D's fault