#p3 bunkichi

[persona-game-info]

P3 Artbook- Character sprites

[zipsunz]

hierophant // justice

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[nejishadow]

Another set

I spent almost 2 hours on the last post and this, because along with editing, I had to spend quite a bit of time downloading and sorting all sorts of sprites from P3, P4, and P5. Hopefully future edits don't take that long cause I should have everything I need now!

[dullorangepulp]

whenever sakuya connects with another person, he moves his hair out of his face. almost like he's trying to put in the effort to not hide from the world, to not plug his ears or cover his eyes like he usually doesfdssdfkjfdsjkgjk

symbolism

[loitersack]

3 more social link playlist covers + ryoji!!

Kamiki - Bunkichi & Mitsuko

Miyamoto - Ryoji

Playlists are not completed, like at all. Kaz literally has one song in his so far 💀

[all-pacas]

anyway i feel like p3's social links are a bit all of the place - later games definitely polish them better - but since i've been playing the remake i've been trying to figure out why.

tonally, they are all over the place, and i think later games do a much better job with tying the Tarot Theme to the storyline. all social links always require you telling the person what they want to hear, but p3 is silly about it. tell the jock to ignore his health and injuries! encourage the friend to break the law! -- between that and the tonal whiplash, it's just. weird.

but i think i figured out the theme, and i don't know why i even had to think about it, because it's the same theme of the entire game: Accepting Ends.

accepting change. accepting death. it comes up in every social link in one way or another. a character is living or acting in a certain way, and either they have to face a huge change, or they're living in reaction to it without accepting it.

Kazushi and Mamoru both want to excel in sports, and are in denial over the fact that for both of them, those dreams are ending. Kazushi's injury can't keep going untreated; Mamoru's family needs him to work.

Maiko is in the midst of her parents divorce, and doing everything she can to prevent and ignore it.

Bebe has to leave Japan, but thinks that if he works really hard, he can stay.

Keisuke is torn between the path he's expected to take and the path he really wants, although interestingly, the two swap places completely during his story.

Other times, the change has already happened: Bunkichi and Mitsuko have already lost their son, but are still struggling with it and clinging to his memorial.

Mutatsu lost his family, and is pretending he doesn't want them back.

Nozomi is drowning himself in food and denial instead of coping with his brother's (food related) death.

It's a bit more subtle here and there. Yoko's "accepting of change" is actually a positive (as fits the Strength arcana): she's discovering her calling, even if she's slow to embrace it. Kenji and Maya both think everything is going great, only to discover the truth at the last second and that the story isn't what they believed.

Akinari is actively dying and knows it, but is struggling with accepting it. He's more or less the thesis statement of the game in social link form: you WILL die, things WILL end, sometimes none of your dreams work out and you have to ADAPT. Make the best of it. Memento Mori!

[crescentfool]

literally minding my own business and then i think about how one of my favorite things is how messiah and ryoji share the right hand on the chest pose.

i don’t think this is anything new to anyone who’s been into p3 for awhile but given that reload’s portraits are shoulders up as opposed to half body, it does make me curious how some of the portraits will be adapted... i like the style of reload’s portraits, it’s very fresh, but i will miss the body language that could be conveyed with half body portraits a bunch...! (e.g. bebe, bunkichi, etc.)

i mostly point out ryoji because i’m a Very Biased Guy, but from my own screenshots of FES, i don’t recall ryoji using the... right hand on chest pose in his model, so it’ll be a bit sad to me to see this detail go poof.. only real ones knows!! /s

of course it’s not to say that messiah being such a great representation of ryoji and minato’s bond will be lost on people, as ryoji’s connection to thanatos is made explicitly known but.. i will miss you ryoji hand on chest portrait... but i will look forward to the style update nevertheless 🙏

[best-persona-arcana]

Been seeing stuff with characters of the same arcana interacting and thought this would be neat.

Tournament where the best "arcana" wins, this being judged by how much people like the characters associated with that arcana.

Wanted to put out a survey first to get some feedback on what characters should be included (ex. spin-offs or no) and how long the tournament should be. I'll close the survey May 23 10PM EST

Current roster under cut, feel free to check if anything is wrong or missing

Fool [0] | P3 Protag, P4 Protag, P5 Protag Magician [1] | Yuka (P1), Kenji (P3), Junpei (P3), Yosuke (P4), Morgana (P5) Priestess [2] | Maki (P1), Fuuka (P3), Yukiko (P4), Makoto (P5) Empress [3] | Yukino (P1-2), Mitsuru (P3), Margaret (P4), Haru (P5) Emperor [4] | P1 Protag, Hidetoshi (P3), Akihiko (P3), Kanji (P4), Yusuke (P5) Hierophant [5] | Nanjo (P1-2), Bunkichi & Mitsuko (P3), Shinjiro (P3), Dojima (P4), Sojiro (P5) Lovers [6] | Lisa (P2), Yukari (P3), Rise (P4), Ann (P5) Chariot [7] | Masao (P1), Kazushi (P3), Rio (P3P), Chie (P4), Ryuji (P5) Justice [8] | Hidehiko (P1), Katsuya (P2), Ken (P3), Nanako (P4), Akechi (P5) Hermit [9] | Toriumi (P3), Saori (P3P), Fox (P4), Futaba (P5) Fortune [10] | Jun (P2), Keisuke (P3), Naoto (P4), Chihaya (P5) Strength [11] | Yuko (P3), Koromaru (P3), Kou (P4), Daisuke (P4), Caroline & Justine (P5) Hanged Man [12] | Baofu (P2), Maiko (P3), Naoki (P4), Iwai (P5) Death [13] | Eikichi (P2), Ryoji (P3), Hisano (P4), Takemi (P5) Temperance [14] | Bebe (P3), Eri (P4), Kawakami (P5) Devil [15] | Reiji (P1), Tanaka (P3), Sayoko (P4), Ohya (P5) Tower [16] | Mutatsu (P3), Shu (P4), Shinya (P5) Star [17] | Ulala (P2), Mamoru (P3), Teddie (P4), Hifumi (P5) Moon [18] | Maya (P2), Gourmet King (P3), Ai (P4), Mishima (P5) Sun [19] | Tatsuya (P2), Akinari (P3), Yumi (P4), Ayane (P4), Yoshida (P5) NON STANDARD Judgement + Aeon [20] | Eriko (P1-2), Sae (P5), Aigis (P3fes), Marie (P4G) Jester [0] + Hunger [11] | Adachi (P4G) Councillor [1] | Maruki (P5R) Faith [-] | Sumire (P5R) Apostle [6] | Zenkichi (P5S) Hope [-] | Sophia (P5S)

Prioritizing the Arcanas in the OG P3 over P3P because of themes, also I have a friend that will kill me if I do otherwise

I know the Arena games also have characters associated with some of the arcanas, but want to hear feedback on including spin-offs first as well as hear from people more knowledgeable about them

[social-link-showdown]

SOCIAL LINK SHOWDOWN, P3 EDITION ROUND 1, PART 1!

MItsuru Kirijo (Empress) VS Bunkichi and Mitsuko Kitamura (Hierophant)

[thisusernameisridiculous]

WOW P5's social links don't even compare to P3

Rank 2 of Bunkichi hit me right in the kidneys

[persona-game-info]

Character portraits for the second wave of social links

[shadow-schemer]

...hey actually the p3 social links now have extra voice lines.

I can't wait to hear from Chihiro, Hidetoshi, Kaz, Bebe, Bunkichi, Maiko, the Sandwich boy, the Pink Alligator Man (and watch him die at the Social Link's end), and that girl who did nothing but thirst after Mitsuru outside the classroom again!

[ct-multifandom]

Y’all know Bunkichi and Mitsuko would be real disappointed by some of the shit y’all post online.

[babypandawrites]

Silent Conversations

Pairing: P3 Protagonist x GN Reader Warnings: Hospital Mention, Amnesia Word Count: 460 Summary: Oftentimes when you were with Makoto, silence would fill the air rather than conversation. It never bothered you, but standing silently next to him in the bookstore did something that scratched at your brain and tensed your muscles. (In other words, Makoto starts your Social Link)

Note: Cross posted on my Ao3

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"Do you come here a lot?"

You hadn't noticed Makoto snuck up behind you until he spoke up, his sudden appearance spooking you just a bit.

Offering a nod, you glanced at him as he moved to stand next to you. "Yeah."

He didn't offer a response, which wasn't unusual. Any conversation- if you could even call them that -you had with Makoto were typically short lived, you would exchange a few words every once in a while but most moments were spent in silence when it was just the two of you. He wasn't much of a talker, and neither were you apparently.

While the silence that followed him around seemed to bother Yukari and Junpei, you never minded it. But today, something about it felt off putting. You couldn't exactly tell what the problem was, and that only proved to bother you more.

"Around this time last year, I woke up in the hospital with amnesia." You started talking without thinking, absent mindedly running your finger tips over a books spine. "I'm not sure why, but after my first day back at school I came here."

Makoto raised an eyebrow, looking at you curiously. "Muscle memory?" He suggested.

You offered a shrug. "Probably. Bunkichi-san and Mitsuko-san recognized me, but your guess is as good as mine. This was the only place I didn't feel lost in, so I would come here everyday after school."

"It must be hard- Not remembering."

"It was, but I've gotten used to it." You sighed out a tense laugh. "Sorry, I'm not really sure what got into me. I didn't mean to go babbling about my past."

Or lack thereof. You'd thought, but didn't say out loud.

"It's okay." Shifting his gaze to one of the stores book shelves, he slipped his hands into his pockets. "I don't mind."

"You might want to pick your words more carefully Yuki-kun, or else I might bother you talking about all the things I don't remember." You joked, gently nudging him in the arm.

He shook his head softly, a fleeting smile tugging up the corner of his lips. "Oh no."

You pulled a book off the shelf, hugging it to your chest. It was a fairytale that was probably meant for kids, but the golden trim of the spine was alluring and you couldn't resist. "I'm gonna go ahead and go back to the dorm, I'll see you later?"

"Yeah, later." He returned the wave you gave him with a small nod, before turning his attention back to the many books filling the store.

You got the book for rental as you usually did- never being able to find it in yourself to commit to an actual purchase -before making way back to the dorms.

[uselesslesbiab]

Any favorite P3 social links?

This is not in any ranked order this is just the order they popped into my head

Saori

Yuko

Junpei

Ryoji

Tanaka

Shinjiro

Yukari

Maiko

Akinari

Bunkichi and Mitsuko

Bebe

[a-single-solitary-bread]

Nothing would make me more uncomfortable than slugging a sad, grieving old man in the face in front of his equally sad, grieving wife