Akechi: the Royal experience

[@alexinator-hh5fe]

P5R was just an Akechi dating route and Atlus wasn't even subtle about it. "I'm alone right now."

[@worldendingcataclysm]

tbh i actually wanna date akechi

[@zobozo5059]

@@worldendingcataclysm Do you mean in the game or in real life? lmao

[@worldendingcataclysm]

@@zobozo5059 in game, i'd be dead if i dated him in real life lmao

[@zobozo5059]

@@worldendingcataclysm Why would you be dead in real life? I doubt he'd kill you tbh

[@marjbon5008]

@@worldendingcataclysm i would not date the guy irl either lol. I would only date akechi in the game because i think he is the most likely canon romance for joker.

[@cactusrosi1409]

You gotta admit, Maruki writes some damn good fanfiction.

[@ferchii13]

Hack yeah lol

[@caramel_camel_green_grenade]

Atlus wouldn’t allow gay akeshu moments so Maruki harnessed the power of God and said “fine I’m going to fucking do it myself”

[@supremeoverlord0]

@@caramel_camel_green_grenade This is why Maruki is my favorite. (After Futaba)

[@ModernAegis]

I can do better.

[@kirr3ne]

@@ModernAegis sauce?

[@staying_silent]

"I hate you." *Rank up!*

[@ThunderMouse1999]

I thought it was *Rank up!* "I hate you."

[@NocturnalDecay]

Joker: We're rivals, aren't we? Akechi: :O

[@thatweirdgirl8466]

Speaking Akechi’s love language

[@jordie9706]

“I’m alone right now”

[@penplease3602]

Sounds gay to me

[@Prinetta]

@@penplease3602 i love how one of the new weathers in Royal is 'Hot Night' so after reading that text message you can spend a hot night with him lmao

[@Laevatei1nn]

"HOOKAAY"

[@zobozo5059]

@@Prinetta I didn't even know that lmfao

[@jillreyerma7592]

@@Prinetta God I love this game.

[@wumbe3520]

Royal went and said "Joker is a simp, take it or leave it."

[@marjbon5008]

And mona knew joker is a fellow simp because in the 3rd semester he mentioned how he is really hitting it off with akechi.

[@zobozo5059]

Persona 5 Royal a.k.a Joker simps for Goro Akechi

[@worldendingcataclysm]

@@zobozo5059 mhm sound about right

[@zobozo5059]

@@worldendingcataclysm Glad we're in agreement

[@nickbarlas5544]

No, no they didn't. Actually play the game akechi puts on a fake mask for 2/3rd of the game. do people actually forget this my god you people re fucking dumb

[@ottokallen]

sometimes i can't believe akechi genuinely let us fuck up his hair and put glasses on him he always seemed definitely like the don't touch me type

[@kirr3ne]

maybe akechi's secretly into that type of thing

[@squiddies6896]

@@kirr3ne the phone call afterwards?? hello?? he was super into it 😭😭 like what the fuck atlus

[@kirr3ne]

@@squiddies6896 if only atlus decided to include that dress up thing, DAMN IT

[@InternetPers0n]

​@@kirr3newait what dress up thing? 👁️

[@isapu1948]

I think he's the "I only enjoy it if it comes with a good reason" the reason being hiding from fans I'm like that with makeup and accessories I only enjoy them if I'm trying to cosplay or otherwise act like someone else If not, i get really annoyed with the sensory experience and a little...idk Dissociative maybe?

[@clo.d2217]

Lavenza: Are you regretting? Joker: No its okay Lavenza: But it doesnt look like.. Joker: * ugly sobbing* *I said its okay*

[@FazPersona]

Not even 30 seconds in and the zoom in on Akechi then the pancakes made me ugly laugh. Thank you Oink

[@oinka]

I'm glad you had fun! If I had to confess, the initial zoom in on Akechi is a reference to people focusing on... uhmm... him aiming the shot lol

[@deepfriedcheesecake5976]

oinka his ass?

[@oinka]

@@deepfriedcheesecake5976 W-whaaaat?!

[@wumbe3520]

The 2 iconic p5 royal content people, now all we need is Harry type C

[@ButterflyScarlet]

ATLUS really said "hey we created an entire new story and a wholeass new character with godlike powers who wants you hang around with Akechi and go on jazz dates but we SWEAR it's not gay but like also here's a scene where he explicitly tells you he created this reality for you both haha no homo tho"

[@cactusrosi1409]

I just pray p6 lets me date and confess to both genders please. My heart can't take these cute hints. I need the full love. 😭😭😭

[@zobozo5059]

@@cactusrosi1409 Tbh I never cared for the dating mechanic but an option to be gay would be nice

[@Imjudah-]

@@zobozo5059 There’s a gay rout in p2 and it’s pretty much cannon

[@zobozo5059]

@@Imjudah- So I've heard! I've never played p2 so lol

[@IceQueen975]

@@cactusrosi1409 Also some consentual polygamy. That'd be nice...

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

HIS SMILE BEHIND THE SHUTTERS-

[@IceQueen975]

I let out a choked sob THANKS!

[@moved9095]

The fanfic text overlay ended me

[@Finity_Dust]

"Honey, I'm home" Joker plz "You're back awfully late" Akechi are u just not going to react

[@pancakes4life804]

that was the reaction! it's a common trope in japan for a stereotypical husband to go "honey I'm home," with the wife commenting on how he's later then he said he'd be. so basically, he played along with joker's antics, most likely used to him by now lmao

[@marjbon5008]

@@pancakes4life804 Akechi being best waifu.

[@zobozo5059]

@@pancakes4life804 I loved that he played along lmao

[@stageoflight]

honestly. the. "let's go back. to our true reality." he said that so softly. the amount of pain i can imagine he was hiding

[@zigazav1]

Even with it meaning he goes back to being dead, Akechi follows his sense of justice till the very end.

[@mizi7011]

So the million dollar question is: Does Joker keeps Akechi’s glove in his pocket all the god damn time??

[@nickbarlas5544]

Probably just forgot it in that pair of pants he wears

[@Imjudah-]

I think he uses it as a fleshlight

[@rigistroni]

@@Imjudah- fucking cursed

[@TallTapper]

hands

[@Apotheosister]

@@Imjudah- Based, but probably correct.

[@cloudymizuki]

Akechi: "I'm alone right now." Joker: *"OKAY!"* (rushes to see Akechi)

[@akirahyrule2157]

He keeps Akechi’s glove in his pocket. That’s honestly one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen.

[@spicy_shumai]

Akechi is like Persona 3 social link with girls, it doesn't matter if you want to or not, you're in a relationship now.

[@axolotl7155]

I honestly can't stop imaging Joker messing Akechi's hair and then give him his glasses.

[@Kingofavolon]

The game is trying to force him onto you more than Kasumi or Makoto combined. I mean...I’m not complaining🤷‍♂️

[@oinka]

I should have included the part where Mona says "guys' night out at the aquarium? I guess it's not that weird"

[@zobozo5059]

@@oinka You should of! Morgana over here like "Y'all gay" lmao

[@zobozo5059]

@@alicefrizzarin2424 Lol it's ok. I think it's scenes like when Sojiro asks Joker and Makoto if they're dating and when Joker pushes Makoto out of the way from getting hit during the Cognitive Wakaba fight that make people think they're trying to force Joker and Makoto as canon

[@zobozo5059]

@@alicefrizzarin2424 Lmao no problem

[@thatweirdgirl8466]

@@alicefrizzarin2424 this is an old comment but they also threw Makoto in as a social link/PThief/character in general last minute. If you spend time with Hifumi Togo you learn that she sees herself as a QUEEN over her shogi pieces and that her father is chronically ill and that her shogi fame would BRING THEM MONEY to help the expenses. (This is 100% confirmed I’m not making this up) Hifumi was supposed to be a Phantom thief, presumably the one that awakens in Kanashiros palace, implying that her family may have owed loan sharks money because of her fathers sickness. Makoto was swapped out because someone on the team drew her up and they liked her enough to swap them out. Personally I think we could’ve had both of them but time/money/coding Etc

[@Killawhale244]

Robin Hood hitting himself is so humiliating im crying

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

"Two at once, the way I like it!" Akechi... what? As if we weren't concerned enough by, "More brainwashed than a cult member." 😂

[@frisolaxod3835]

he also says "full circle, this is going to be great!" or something like that. Like, Akechi...we already know you're gay.

[@marjbon5008]

@@frisolaxod3835 Akechi does like the PPs it seems.

[@zobozo5059]

@@frisolaxod3835 "Jokers enraged!? I kind of like it but its not you! Calm down!"

[@assiaelmabrouki5552]

2:18 the fact that he answered to it like it was a perfectly natural thing says it all

[@Arcsin27]

Completely unfazed. Does this happen a lot akechi? 🤨

[@jalencanspell_2518]

Akechi’s starlight outfit kinda slaps though

[@maverick5169]

Best character in the game. Also he is very well alive in the end, a figure with greenish uniform and a *left* glove? Yeah right, it's easy to pick Atlus' signals up

[@Prinetta]

It's also worth noting that you don't see him (or the figure that resembles him) in the after credits scene if you didn't max rank his confidant so that confirms it even more.

[@a.dykeman1980]

There's actually an unfinished cutscene (there are clips out there on KZbin of people playing the incomplete version left in the code) which pretty directly implies that in the real timeline, Akechi does somehow survive the cruise ship, and he's still missing because he goes to some mountain resort that he used to visit with his mom, and he stays there for a while while he recovers from his wounds, regains his strength, and tries to figure out what to do with his life.

[@maverick5169]

@@a.dykeman1980 Akechi dies only in P5 Vanilla, even in the anime he cheers the thieves against Yaldabaoth

[@cloudycat5535]

@@a.dykeman1980 I'm pretty sure it's actually a rehab center

[@oglxkzz4962]

@@a.dykeman1980 wait for real? Can you send a link pls?

[@CrescentUmbreon]

Omg, Maruki the Shipper, I'm dead! The best part is that I actually read a fanfic once where Maruki really was a fanfic shipper and kept altering reality to create tropey contrivances in an effort to get them together.

[@keiraharding3071]

*cough cough* link?

[@missasyan]

*coughchchchc* link?

[@CrescentUmbreon]

Haha, oh holdup... Might have to get back to this later

[@CrescentUmbreon]

@@keiraharding3071 Link in my other comment, enjoy the silly

[@keiraharding3071]

@@CrescentUmbreon I can't find it (Tʖ̯T)

[@FaeriichanII]

I don't know why, but I lost it at "Goro and Akechi's Showtime has been unlocked." 8:20 timestamp

[@YellowPingouin]

"Taste my *curry* " I'M LOSING IT RN

[@Ellisepha]

Joker: "Taste my curry!" Akechi: "This isn't good." Joker: "Die, DIE!"

[@yotsubato3]

God this makes me want to replay the whole game just to experience Akechi again 😭😭😭 Came here for the memes and left in tears lol

[@oinka]

working as intended

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

Anyone else wish he was walking the other way in the ending scene so we could see that his glove is missing-?

[@oinka]

I know right haha I even played that clip in slowmo to see if I can catch a frame with his bare hands... no hand was shown

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

@@oinka ★ A reply from Senpai~! ★ But it's got to be him, nobody else wears his outfit and would be mildly arrested outside a train station. 👀✨

[@oinka]

@@CelestialBunnyPaws I think so too, but I also feel like the devs purposefully create doubts by not showing his face.

[@inplane9970]

Its actually confirmed that Akechi is in rehabilitation after the events of the game. There is a removed cutscene and dialogue showing him talking to 2 people who are presumably rehab volunteers.

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

@@inplane9970 Oh yeah! In the deleted scenes, right?

[@icaughtalopunny]

>sees text notification >it’s from akechi “I’m alone right now.” >forcefully turns Morgana into a car

[@TrivatorGaming]

Ren had more chemistry with Akechi than with Sumi

[@Kagetora-]

Sumi still waifu though

[@ebynbell6408]

Fellas, clearly the answer to this, is both

[@jonathangp65]

11:08 When you hear footsteps outside but then realize you don't have an open window.

[@zobozo5059]

Joker cares so much about Akechi though. It hurts.

[@oinka]

Something we don't get to see in the vanilla p5

[@zobozo5059]

@@oinka right! Royal really improved Joker and Akechi's relationship so much, and just Akechi's character in general. I don't know what the hell they were on not giving Akechi an actual confidant in the original

[@coolhwhip49]

@@zobozo5059 I've only played Royal so I have nothing to compare it against, but I hear a lot of people who played the regular version say Akechi was a really bland/bad character in it. I can't even imagine that. He's so fucking good in Royal that I'm literally changing 2 of the attacks on my main persona in my NG+ run just so I'm not covering his role and he has a place on my team.

[@zobozo5059]

@@coolhwhip49 In the original, Akechi's confidant was automatic which means it progressed through the story so you never hung out with him. Also, after Shido's Palace, he never returns. I wouldn't say he was a bland character but since you never even got to hang with him, the whole relationship between him and Joker just felt forced. Like how do you expect me to believe Joker and Akechi have this close relationship when they never hung out? Royal fleshed out his character a lot better by actually giving him a confidant, establishing Joker and Akechi's relationship a lot better and with the third semester, by having us seeing more of the real Akechi. That was the problem with him in the original in my opinion is that they didn't flesh him out so many people just thought his character was just this psycho killer when that isn't the case. I hope this may sense lol but Royal definitely gave Akechi justice

[@Jattel_2006]

Shwinky if anything he was better than haru and still is

That palace ruler's image looks like Gandhi before it is revealed.

[@oinka]

Now I can not unsee

[@lily-sv9ds]

The 'I hate you' RANK UP as the same power as Akechi killing the guard in front of you and 'I feel like my bond with Akechi is growing deeper' and I live for it 😌✊ (All not so kidding aside, I love this video and all your other ones. Thank you for sharing this masterpiece with us! ☺️👌)

[@oinka]

Thank you, I'm glad you like it!

[@azureicewind]

that had me ugly laughing

[@ButterflyScarlet]

Can we get Joker's murder kink out of the chat please?

[@TrivatorGaming]

The funny thing is when I played Third Semester I set Akechi to Act Freely because of his character

[@mars3122]

i was ready for the haha funnies but instead i just Cried. so that was fun

[@ManuCarrotman312]

To all them Akechi haters who won't even bother realizing the depths of his character, his relationship with Joker or how much Royal enhanced the whole thing, I have nothing but pity. Might as well be playing vanilla. A particular person comes to mind but I'm not gonna call out names.

[@jalencanspell_2518]

“Two at once! The way I like it!” Lmao 😂

[@ramenxek]

Sound gay and polyamerous to me

[@dcrowssj5624]

"Goro and Akechi's showtime has been unlocked" I died

[@Ammy-q4w]

If you replace the word 'rivals' with 'boyfriends' the scenes are still exactly the same

[@BURNTOASTSR]

Even if Akechi hadn't been the villain and got the treatment of the average party member, I still think he would be one of the most dynamic, fleshed out, and loved characters. Even before his reveal, he is open to an extent about how he hates Joker and why, and how he respects him too. There is no other party member in Personas 3-5 that has ever had a dynamic this believable and real. If he weren't corrupt, he would still yearn for that recognition and the excuse to be condescending to everyone around that, but he can't do that around Ren. In 3-5, with the exception of early Junpei, everyone looks up to the protagonist since he is a good leader and the most reliable in combat, and they accept that and ultimately blindly trust him. Makoto goes against the wishes of the party and sacrifices himself. Yu can become an accomplice, and the party would never suspect him. But with Ren, Akechi is the only party member to ever be open and about his distaste (besides maybe Makoto before stealing Kaneshiro's heart, before she's reassured) with any decision and open about his desire to surpass the leader. He is so disappointed when Ren chooses to live in the false reality, and expresses such. Akechi ultimately accepts that Joker is stronger, but he nonetheless constantly keeps Ren under pressure because he expects a lot out of him. If anyone is going to be better than Akechi, they better do a darn good job at it. Gosh I love this character

[@realfakeluna]

Akechi is the epitome of "Tell me you're gay, without telling me that you are gay."

[@John-Stark]

0:17 now I know why Akechi's Dart's score is so high...

[@markuscaesar670]

“We should go somewhere, the three of us, as a group. We’ll call it our little celebration for Yoshizawa-san’s success” And thus, the greatest three way in history happened

[@Coldchary2468]

With fireworks, champagne and a pony

[@kison7715]

Akechi : one card left Joker : 13 cards left, plays 8 Akechi : 3:56 Joker : *spamming pairs* thanks for sharing your royal experience with us it was delicious

[@oinka]

I actually lost that round of Tycoon :x haha

[@kaibathephantomthief.9042]

Common misconception: Aketchi’s rank 3 persona Hereward is actually a rank 1 fusion persona, Robin Hood and Loki are two different personas, He has access to both Loki and Robin Hood since he first joined the team.

[@finch6078]

People: joker and Akechi love each other Also joker and Akechi; Akechi: I hate you Joker: I know

[@holycrusader7649]

Yeah fam we really need a female in p6 so the female ain't always going yoai

[@melonsauce1474]

​@@holycrusader7649 It could go yuri.

[@amort3z]

@@melonsauce1474 based

[@Ghost-np2ey]

Joker on the outside: you two have history? Joker on the inside: Step away from my man!😡

[@OKHolly]

I might have had Joker romance Makoto, but Akechi is still his boyfriend.

[@CrescentUmbreon]

Yo, the almost-zoom to his butt that you switched immediately to the pancake on the wall really got me. Well played

[@thepillowhead2453]

Akechi: bitch. ARCANA Justice *RANK UP*

[@yomiyomi]

my heart cant take this

[@sanuria1]

This... was a spectacular and *royal* experience. Loved it!

[@poledra4153]

Just realised At the end, we just see one side of the " man that looks like Akechi" We can't see if he has his two gloves

[@melonsauce1474]

Well he needs to be missing one.

[@ramenxek]

6:38 Nobody: Akechi towards Joker: I want to kill you but I don’t want you to DIE

[@Astr0m1cAp0ll0]

6:48 “Akechi, whatcha cooking?” “Shadows.”

[@donglegs]

I laughed so hard at “but the waves washed away my swimming trunks”

[@razerx76]

8:37 this had me dead

[@pastelaine_art]

*20 mins in zooms in* me: yeah zoom dat as.... *zooms to pancakes* me: that looks good too

[@raidev_]

"i hate you" bond ranks up

[@ouui]

The way he doesn't answer weirded out when you say 'honey, I'm home!' But he goes along with it MAKES ME SOFTTT

[@theycallmemagic]

There's a cut scene that confirms Akechi is alive after the ship where he goes to the bath house his mom used to leave him at which ends up being a rehab center

[@ramenxek]

Nobody: Altus being “subtle”:

[@yomiyomi]

this is too perfect

[@bigboibebop]

2:51 seeing the “akechi jig” with him in the dark outfit is blursed

[@Sabiyori]

2:23 O H B O I Those moans

[@Fantas1ze_]

The part at 3:58 absolutely killed me.

[@EthanSchmethan]

I love how you stopped the music at the jazz club so it only says “People come-“

[@InFmouseGmer-wk8in]

Akechi: TAKE THEM DOWN ROBIN HOOD Joker: uno reverse card

[@Arcsin27]

Can’t believe they added the jazz bar from the tv show into royal /j

[@moomoo9973]

bro i just finished p5r and i must say jfc why couldnt we date Akechi... 😭 like dude, joker carries his glove, doesnt know how to feel now that akechi is gone (as in he's not sure what he did was the right thing) and him even talking (more like arguing) with Akechi the day b4 fighting maruki and u have the option to live in the world where Akechi is alive or live in reality but Akechi is yelling at you bc he thinks you are basically insulting his wishes for you to live in a world without him

[@J.Blazer]

The "I am thou" thing really got me

[@C0RP0]

"TWO AT ONCE!? THE WAY I LIKE IT~!" BRO I CANT-

[@apathy3196]

0:44 "I am thou, thou art I"💀

[@souhiyori6959]

"This isn't good." Edit: 6:54 hey get out this vid ain't about you Kasumi

[@keiraharding3071]

Omg. Its sou hiyori the ultimate bottom

[@ShinyKyu]

wait you can go to the jazz club on the last day to get something? ;-; I didn’t know

[@oinka]

no, that was edited lol But you can talk to jazz club owner!

[@halffullofit]

5:08 him saying that he’s going to kill joker and then getting bitch slapped to the game over screen will never not be funny to me

[@klarth.lester]

2:23 excuse him, making that sound? And the dialogue 😅😂 Wild.

[@sigmadraconis8207]

3:56 "Is this your signature move?" *cuts to Yoshitsune*

[@edwardsuou]

I guess it is since Yoshitsune (without including izanagi no okami which is obviously Narukami’s) is the strongest.

[@yacinekunplays5876]

Akechi : I hate you Confidant rank up

[@videogaming1000]

trolling akechi in real life is better than in online

[@cloudycat5535]

After three years I officially sailing on this ship again

[@liamg2943]

Love the editing lmao

[@mvunsin]

Bless you for this masterpiece, I thought it'd be funny (it is) now I wanna cry

[@derrickman6304]

my manz double pancaked up on a thursday afternoon

[@bitfrosteseigeheim5605]

Akechi's confidant route: MC: Akechi and I are pretty closed, can you please keep it quiet? Ichiko ohya: wtf why I'm hearing a p*rnh*b BGM!!!!

[@cactusrosi1409]

OMG I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT GOING BACK TO THE JAZZ CLUB!

[@KAHN571]

Yeah this video sums it up perfectly

[@MistyShnekin]

I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THAT TALK AT JAZZ JIN WTFFF

[@39ゆき]

1:11 ooh something's not right

[@hopeshineseternal]

excellent edit WHY DO I NOT REMEMBER 3:08 is that real oh ok I figured out those are... dreams based on who you're close to?

[@SakuraKishimoto]

This is amazing!! Thanks for making it!

[@zenny8877]

hysterical slap, aka the sr pelo attack

[@yomiyomi]

i come back to this video months later and it still hurts

[@booshbush1487]

9:35 "oh wtf I thought I killed that bitch?"

[@donglegs]

Still waiting for Atlus to explain “two at once”

[@lotololo]

Oinka, you are the GOAT 🙏 This was fun! (also, this was inspired by xXMishaxX's original Akechi experience video, right? Pretty cool inspo! I remember loving that one just as much, hahah)

[@oinka]

yeah! But I mainly wanted to make a video of how his character/story change from beginning to end. I was gonna title it the "royal roller coaster" haha maybe I'll change it?

[@lotololo]

@@oinka Oh, no you're totally fine! The intention of the video comes across perfectly fine so no need to change titles or anything 😊 I just thought it was a neat little callback, haha Since things really changed for his character, it's even nicer to look back and compare the two, it makes me appreciate the new changes/additions a lot more

[@oinka]

@@lotololo I agree, Royal made a proper rivalry between akechi and MC that it's nice to see.