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i also made this.

thing made for local comic con

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thing made for local comic con

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fuckers.

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ooo swoon

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adachi, à la fleabag…

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the FUCK IS THIS BED FOR

on nov 5th and march 20th, yu gets taken to this room at the police station. the chairs and desks arranged so two people can face each other and whatnot in the room suggests it's an interrogation room. very scientific source for this btw: i've watched/played entirely too many things where someone gets taken into an interrogation room to not know what the jp media stereotypical interrogation room looks like by now (especially that damn lamp). but... ive also not seen something where an interrogation room has a bed? what is this room and why does it have a bed lol

when dojima takes you there in nov, the jp text just describes it as "a room at the inaba pd":

a room that might have beds is the nap room as some stations have those. but in the photos i saw of those, they were tatami floor you could put multiple futons on so that multiple officers could go pass out:

additionally, the poster i can read on the bulletin board says that they are strengthening citizen patrols in the area:

(i can't really read anything besides the large text either so im not rly sure what "strengthening" means here - are they trying to hold citizen patrols more frequently? recruit more citizen volunteers? train them?) ok wait actually i guess the meaning is irrelevant, it's more like... even though i'm under the assumption this is an interrogation room, but im not sure if that's the kinda flyer you'd have on a board in an interrogation room?

we also know that the inaba branch doesn't seem to be very big. like we're shown that adachi was on traffic duty when rise came to town.

so ya idk. perhaps this room at the inaba pd is some kind of "we have no budget" interrogation room that also doubles as a nap room? (and also has a bulletin board with community info on it?)

but also: maybe this is the only room like this and dojima took protag-kun in there on purpose cause it has a bed? he seems to be under the impression he's protecting yu by holding him at the station after all and he even tells him to stay overnight.

btw, in the 2020s era search results, i noticed that some places that had these napping rooms shifted away from the tatami rooms w/futons and started doing individual arrangements (capsule hotel style, small rooms, etc) to prevent the spread of corona. maybe the inaba pd has a bunch of individual rest rooms and it's actually very ahead of its time.

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this gives me headcanons! inaba pd doesnt necessarily give work phones, however in his honchō (national police agency) era hed got one (later handed in cuz transfer) and he just knew how pLeAsiNg it was having work and life phones separated. then he got a new work number by himself. he felt great.

which phone number does adachi give us anyway?

happy "throw away the murder case to get adachi's phone number" day.

that said: i wonder what phone number does adachi give yu in the adachi ending anyway?

on december 3rd, yu gets a phone call from adachi, and he knows it's him before picking up the phone, implying that he got adachi's phone number at some point in the past.

this was the same in ps2 persona 4 too, so it's not like this was something new added in if you did adachi's social link either.

did atlus forget that yu already has adachi's phone number? is the number yu gets in the ending like... adachi's personal phone (or some burner phone?) and he called before on dec 3rd from his work phone or something? (this got me wondering about "do police officers get work phones", and jp google suggests it varies by prefecture. tho i feel like the inaba pd is small. maybe they don't get work phones. hmm.)

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dachy w his very first cancer pocky

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dunces cap

*inspired by brigitte bardot

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p4

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japanese heisei-shiki

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happy new year 2025

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Can Adachi even afford a TV?

I'm not sure if this is a shitpost or not, but can Adachi even afford to buy a TV??????????????????????

First off, police officer salary in 2008 (I'm going by the year that P4 was released since that would've been the dev frame of reference). Per this survey of government worker salaries in 2008, police officers in Yamanashi made an average of 347k yen per month, and officers in Tottori made an average of 348k yen per month. Officers in large cities like Tokyo made around the same, but had a bigger allowances budget; remember how Adachi complains about the station not comping the dry cleaning bill for his suit?

Second off, the price of a TV at Junes:

Based on the signs in the store, the higher end models in the first screenshot are 214k / 169k / 234k. Chie then asks to see the cheaper models, which leads up to the 2nd screenshot. While we can't make our those numbers as clearly, the one to the left of Yosuke's head seems to be 125k - still a six figure purchase.

Lastly, the cost of rent. I somehow very conveniently found a comparison of rent prices for both 2008 (when P4 came out) and 2011 (when it takes place) lol... What a coincidence...

In the Koshinetsu area where Yamanashi is:

And in Chugoku where Tottori is:

I thought it would be okay to use these statistics because these are for "1K" style apartments, meaning a small apartment but the kitchen is separated from the living/sleeping space by a door. Basically, realistically the type of place that Adachi would be living in.

So Adachi's salary per month is something like 347k - 348k yen (in 2008 USD/Yen, this was around $3300; in 2024 USD/Yen it's $2400). Of that 347k, he's possibly spending 43k - 46k Yen per month on a 1K layout apartment. And TVs at Junes, even the smaller lower end models, are six figures with the cheapest model we saw in the cutscenes being 125k Yen.

Adachi would seemingly be able to afford a TV if he devoted 1/3rd of his pre-tax monthly paycheck to it.

(The more realistic answer is probably something like, "he brought one with him from Iwatodai" (but then you still have to wonder where he got it to begin with?) or "he bought the smallest cheapest shittiest model possible it's just off-screen at Junes". Buuuut c'mon I didn't Google search shit and use the top result for nothin'.)

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IZANAMI WHAT ARE YOU DRAWING?

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