Why do people like him so much? He is a literal irredeemable murderer who spends the entire game acting like he is "superior" to every other character. Royal just made him worse too by turning him into a one-note edgelord character.
Why do people like him so much...
Cute boy.
Females like him
Except he loses his cuteness by being an over-the-top edgytard.
Also, gayshit is not an argument.
Why though?
Honestly it is extremely concerning to me to think any woman finds this kind of man "attractive".
If there was a guy IRL who went around mass-murdering people and giving cartoon villain-tier monologues every 5 minutes, would they find him attractive too?
It's insane.
it's actually very much an argument, straight men like evil bitches all the time, it's not a new thing
Dudes go awooga for murderous barbarian women and also evil women and fantasize about anally sodomizing them into submission. Or to get absolutely amazon pressed by them.
Women go awooga for murderous feminine men and also evil men and fantasize about anally sodomizing them into submission with a strapon. Or to get absolutely mating pressed by them.
You're not thinking, you're complaining.
who spends the entire game acting like he is "superior" to every other character.
That sounds like most people here in general.
Do you stop finding girls cute because they're funny in the head
He's has an amazing character design. I only played Royal and would probably have dismissed him as a trash character if I played 2016. He does feel like two, half-written characters, but his love of his mother without becoming an Oedipus gives him a strong, emotional core.
True!
You barely even get anything about his mother though.
Pretty much all Akechi scenes are either:
him LARPing as the detective prince character (basically all fake)
vindictive revenge campaign against shido
3rd semester edgelord behavior, cackling like a maniac cartoon villain and talking in an exaggeratedly evil voice 24/7
It's just really strange because there's the backstory there to make Akechi into a tortured anti-hero kind of character, but they just refused to do it. They make him into a joke instead
I don't mind Akechi and I kinda like him as a foil to the Phantom Thieves. I'm more mad at how epically he fucking JOBBED. After the reveal, it's like a misstep over a misstep over a misstep. This dude IQ dropped like 100 times over.
He should have had a bigger presence in Shido's palace. As it is he shows up, has an insane spergout, fights and then dies to save you from like 5 normal enemies.
One of the worst written characters in a series full of poorly written characters.
like have him be the edgelord but you have to make him win sometimes or it makes him come off as a giant cock. which he did. like jesus fucking christ how do you waste fucking kira yamato.
Name a well written character, and a well written video game series.
Because there's very little about the story that has much weight, so it's hard to take his murdering seriously.
He's not my most favourite P5 character, but Royal literally humanized him with his confidant and gave him his own redemption arc by sacrifcing himself to stop Maruki. What the fuck are you saying?
Does a character have to be a good person for you to like him? Can't you appreciate a fun old mentally ill psycho?
but Royal literally humanized him with his confidant and gave him his own redemption arc by sacrifcing himself to stop Maruki
Literally how? It's the exact opposite.
Vanilla had a somewhat satisfying conclusion to his arc, yeah it's a bit overdramatic and generic, but he has that meltdown in Shido's palace and then gets himself killed to allow the PTs to escape and change Shido's heart.
In Royal they bring him back and he becomes this overly exaggerated edgy fucker. He talks in his "evil voice" literally every line, basically implies he wouldn't give a fuck if Sumire or any of the other PTs died, and has unhinged schizo outbursts mid-battle if you use him. It's so blatant it almost feels like someone wrote his Royal character as a joke
Hated him then
Hated him now
He's a cunt and it's absolutely obnoxious the way Atlas ruined the ending to force him into it. No more road trip, because we gotta show you that Akechi got away with murder.
Fujos are a mystery best left unsolved.
All of that was so bad, when I got to Royal I just peaced out with the early ending.
Literally killed Futaba's mother
Literally killed Haru's father
Straight up tries to murder Joker
Seriously. I seriously can't understand WHY half the P5 fanbase loves this sociopath so much.
I can't not like edgy dickheads and him instantly being "hey what the fuck is this shit turn it off" at being revived in Maruki's reality is unfathomably based. Dude got woken up and wanted to go back to sleep.
have you never watched an anime before? like damn you fuckers treat this shit like wait a minute american tv has the exact same bullshit as this. who tf are these intellectual fags who moralfag this bullshit????
you should be saying, "he fucking jobs all the time", how tf does P5 fanbase love this sociopath so much?
In Royal they bring him back and he becomes this overly exaggerated edgy fucker
yeah that was what he is actually like when he isn't forcing the "detective prince" persona. his first move when battling you was to use his "drive person violently insane" power on himself. he is a shown many times to be a powertripping asshole pissed off at the PTs stealing his spotlight and makes that clear, telling you outright that he fucking hates you.
of course he has psycho outbursts. of course he is a sadistic murderer. that is what he always was. his elegant appearance was a cartoonish facade. now he's exaggerating in the other direction to rub it in your and your team's faces and reveling in being a psycho for funsies. everyone in your team despises him and this is explicitly an alliance of convenience, so he mocks you right back.
What concerns me more than the fanbase's reaction is how Atlus's writers treated him.
Like what the fuck were they thinking? How could they ever imagine Futaba and Haru would forgive him so easily they'd be tearing up at his death in Shido's palace? They should've been laughing and pissing on his grave at that point.
Not to mention they make Joker look like a psycho by having him wish for Akechi to be brought back in Maruki's reality. "Oh this guy murdered my friends' parents in cold blood, and he shows literally 0 regret or remorse for doing so, but he's my heckin EPIC RIVAL and I want to fuck him in the ass so pls bring him back daddy Maruki!!!" Wtf?
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tfw you realise that Akechi is just a pretty boy Adachi but worse written.
Seriously why the hell did they copy the nihilistic sociopath angle but change it from actual nihilism derived from a shitty childhood and adult life to literally just daddy issues?
>Literally killed Futaba's mother
I don't care if he killed a background character offscreen
>Literally killed Haru's father
I don't care if he killed a shithead we despised offscreen
>Straight up tries to murder Joker
Didn't stick anyway
Also have you ever heard of a "villain" anon? They do bad things. That is what a villain does
i think he was suppose to be a "got screwed over by society and tried to REBEL the wrong way", it's a more extreme case of the PTs like SOCIETY brings forth monsters or something.like no seriously who are these moralfags in persona discussion shits so weird.
There's a villain and then there's a 'villain'. Akechi is just a whiny piss baby that thinks he's a special snowflake and that's why these retards latch onto him.
yeah that was what he is actually like when he isn't forcing the "detective prince" persona.
No it isn't. "True" Akechi is an incredibly insecure basket-case who looks to other people for validation because of his daddy issues. Both the charming prince and the edgy criminal were facades he put up to cover this. If you think that the latter was his true personality, then you missed the whole point of his character (as did the writers of Royal)
his first move when battling you was to use his "drive person violently insane" power on himself.
That is literally not his first move. He initially attempts to battle Joker and the other Phantom Thieves with Robin Hood. He only reveals Loki and his other outfit when he decides he has nothing left to lose.
Akechi is the result of a dumb slut trying to baby trap a politician.
How could they ever imagine Futaba and Haru would forgive him so easily they'd be tearing up at his death in Shido's palace? They should've been laughing and pissing on his grave at that point
Have you ever actually played the third semester? Nobody in the team beyond Joker is at all happy that Adachi's there
Adachi's life is not at all shitty and never was, what are you on? Literally every problem he's had is either a nonissue or something he deliberately created. People are constantly reaching out to him and yet he shuts them off and insists he's lonely. He never puts in any actual effort anywhere (by his own admission he joined the police force on a whim, because he wanted to have a gun) and bitches about not being given opportunities. He's pratically a silver-spooned child bitching about middle class problems and saying the world's unfair when he's never ever had to struggle for a fucking thing in his life.
His parents forced him to focus solely on his grades and didn't let him have friends. Resulting in him having zero socialising skills
This caused him to have an image of how his life was supposed to go as per what his parents said
He joined the police force but apparently messed up unce and got transferred to Inaba
His lack of people skills gets him chewed out and belittled all the time
Eventually realises how fuck he is in life due to his parents
Begins hating everything as a result
The concepts of friendship and empathy are foreign to him due to his parents
Agrees to Izanami's little 'game' because reality sucks
He only reveals Loki and his other outfit when he decides he has nothing left to lose
And now he, once again, feels he has nothing to lose (as he is a corpse walking around who will disappear once Maruki's world ceases), so he doubles down on that persona. I do not see the issue.
Akechi acts that way even prior to knowing his fate in Maruki's world.
>His parents forced him to focus solely on his grades and didn't let him have friends. Resulting in him having zero socialising skills
The only actual source we have on this is Adachi bitching, and considering how damn near everything else is a filthy fucking lie I wouldn't put high hopes on that one either.
>This caused him to have an image of how his life was supposed to go as per what his parents said
Woop de fucking doo. Things didn't turn out like my parents told me they were. And Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy aren't real, thats just shit you have to learn.
>He joined the police force but apparently messed up unce and got transferred to Inaba
Do you know how legendarily thick as thieves the Japanese police force is? How hard it is for one of them to actually be punished for a fuckup? For him to actually face the music he had to do a big fuckup, that's for sure, and either way his punishment is a complete nothingburger.
>His lack of people skills gets him chewed out and belittled all the time
He gets chewed out by his superior for being lazy and incompetent, which he is. He could stop being that if he wants to not be chewed out by his boss. And everyone tries to reach out to him, including that superior; he just shuts them down because what Adachi wants isn't to have friends, it's to bitch about not having them.
>Eventually realises how fuck he is in life due to his parents
lol
>Begins hating everything as a result
lmao
>The concepts of friendship and empathy are foreign to him due to his parents
fucking lol
>Agrees to Izanami's little 'game' because reality sucks
Yeah woe is Adachi in his cozy, guaranteed job in a quaint little town, right? If he wants to go back to the city so much he can quit. He hasn't. This is because Adachi enjoys bitching. He lives off of it. Unless his job was to get his dick sucked all day, he'd still have bitched about it. He's impossible to please because the only thing that pleases him is not being pleased.
Have you ever actually played the third semester?
I'm not talking about third semester, rather Akechi's initial death in Shido's palace where all the PTs are tearing up and getting emotional at his sacrifice. Literally just 5 minutes after he was determined to murder them all on the spot...
Nobody in the team beyond Joker is at all happy that Adachi's there
That kinda makes it worse though. Makes it look like Joker is just obsessed with this guy even though he did unspeakably horrible things to his friends.
women
Because he is a piece of shit, and he is a cool piece of shit. kinda.
where all the PTs are tearing up and getting emotional at his sacrifice. Literally just 5 minutes after he was determined to murder them all on the spot
yeah and now he's just died for them. they tear up a bit because a guy just fucking died right there. soon they get over it because he was trash.
Why do people like him so much?
It's just women who ship him with Joker
It's bizarre because Akechi doesn't show any romantic or sexual interest towards Joker at all.
If anything, Akechi is asexual. He is so self-centered I do not believe he has ever had desires for another human.
He was fucking Sae
The first time I played P5 I honestly thought Akechi had a thing for both the Niijima sisters.
Almost none of that is at all a justification for what Adachi does. He is ultimately nothing but a spoiled manchild throwing a tantrum because he isn't getting the life he thinks he's entitled to.
The man has a stable job and people who would gladly reach out to him if he would only let them in. The only thing that sucks about his life is himself.