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[yusuke-of-valla]

Salty asks: 7 & 10

(I think Tumblr forgot to tell me about this ask when it first got sent in, sorry)

From this list

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

It’s not that I can’t stand it but I do enjoy shu//ake a lot less than I did first playing p5.

I also don’t hate Miraculous Ladybug but I have a lot more mixed to negative feelings about the show and fandom than I did back when seasons 1 and 2 were the only ones out.

10. Most disliked arc? Why?

Oh definitely the Okumura arc, specifically the part after Okumura dies. Like I get what they were going for, but they all spend so much time agonizing over if they were responsible, which I’m sorry I don’t buy.

I’ve talked about this before but we would have gone after Okumura anyway because of Sae’s data, no one was really interested in the polls (Ryuji cares but he’s willing to step down because the others are uncomfortable, Morgana says he cares but he’s actually using it as an excuse to hide his real feelings) and honestly leaving Haru at the mercy of a sexual predator because we were worried our Fans and the hype would get too crazy is ALSO a betrayal of what the Phantom Thieves stand for.

Basically they spend a bunch of time being upset over how they must have caused this somehow when they really didn’t, the entire course of action would have happened anyway. It’s not like Goro needed them to clear the way to Okumura’s shadow to pull off the hit, and they really didn’t even betray anything they stand for (except for Morgana sort of but that’s another rant)

And like, if that was the point, if because the Phantom Thieves are all abuse victims who have been conditioned to take responsibility for the bad things other people inflict on them, that’s fine, I would just like them to maybe grow out of that realize “hey this isn’t our fault, even though we’re the ones who have to fix it.”

Alternatively, the Phantom Thieves could have ACTUALLY made a mistake and had to reckon with themselves. Maybe Sae’s data points them to the SIU director or someone other than Okumura, but because of Okumura’s popularity in the polls, they go after him and miss the chance to talk to someone who knows anything because Okumura has nothing to do with the conspiracy. Then they ACTUALLY have to stop abd examine where they went wrong.

But instead there’s no real growth or character development, everyone is just sad for a bit before realizing it’s Akechi’s fault, and that’s so much less interesting than what it could be with the ideas presented