[ENG SUBS] Arai Persona Awakening - Persona 5 The Phantom X

[@elite6321]

Info on her Persona: Awilda, also known as Alwilda, was a famous fifth century Scandinavian princess who embraced piracy to avoid her betrothal to a prince. The historicity of her tale is disputed by scholars and some consider her account to be that of legend. According to legend, her father, King Synardus of Gotland, kept her in a tower guarded by two venomous snakes and declared that any potential suitors who could best the traps of the tower and reach Awilda could take her as his bride. One day, Alf, prince of Denmark, succeeded in besting these traps and snakes and requested Synardus' blessing to marry Awilda. Awilda, knowing nothing about this mysterious prince, fled in the guise of a man from the tower and, with the help of some female friends, managed to commandeer a captainless pirate ship and eschewed royalty to become a pirate. After many conquests, Awilda drew the attention of the king of Denmark, who sent Alf and his naval army to dispatch the pirates terrorizing Scandinavian seas. Alf confronted Awilda's crew and bested them, binding them in chains. He approached Awilda and removed her helmet, and in that moment she revealed her identity as the former princess to him. Awilda, impressed with Alf's skill and bravery, offered to marry Alf after all, and the two were wed on the spot and lived happily ever after as King and Queen of Denmark. TL;DR: Scandinavian pirate queen. We see shades of both Ann and Ryuji's persona awakening here with Awilda desire to escape the clutches of a previous obligation. Oh and there's also the piracy and sports motif that she's borrowing from Ryuji. Her design shares alot with Captian kid and borrows from Ryuji's yellow color pallette too.

[@jasonmunozjr]

I really love how she took the intense headache. Motoha only had to put her hands on her head, TWICE, both of which were there for JUST A FEW SECONDS!

[@jasonmunozjr]

I still believe Makoto took it far better than Motoha... But the latter taking it herself is a close second, for sure!

[@khoaha6095]

The new main characters take out their masks with ease. No blood on faces or no pain like the old ones.

[@jasonmunozjr]

That's China's censoring style. But maybe this issue will die in the other versions. That's a big MAYBE.

[@jesusvice6664]

i like how this is the one of the only persona games where a girl is the first of the friends to awaken their persona

[@Crimson_Knight004]

It should be noted that Arai’s surname isn’t Suwa like it was first thought, but Motoha! Kiuichi refers to her as Arai Motoha in the beginning here.

[@BuffMaister]

Funny, I just went back to the wiki and it has been adjusted to Motoha when I saw you write this. The external links are still referred as Suwa Arai.

[@RosyMiranto]

It was Given Name, not Surname. Arai is the Surname

[@Crimson_Knight004]

@@RosyMiranto Well eff me, I’m not sure how I was able to keep everyone else’s names straight but get hers reversed, haha. Thanks for the correction! /gen

[@RosyMiranto]

@@Crimson_Knight004 probably because it's common for people to refer to someone by their surnames in Japan. So it's rather understandable.

[@jasonmunozjr]

Love how the Sub-Boss actually recognizes what was up with her transformation.

[@Werewolf293]

Arai & Chie might become bestie if they meet 🤔

[@shellman1yt816]

Awesome transformation

[@typeofcrayon]

Judging from this, it seems that merope's lack of yellow eyes could be censorship as arai does not have them during her awakening.

[@emilio9912]

But why in this case, i understand with the blood in the face, but the yellow eyes why? :/

[@jasonmunozjr]

@@emilio9912 Ask China. They have a very stupid censorship style. Luckily for us, I think Japan and everywhere else will most likely change that for their versions.

[@hollyhills657]

Soy had yellow eyes in his awakening. This is an early beta build so it’s probably not programmed in yet

[@jasonmunozjr]

For some reason, I wanted to see Motoha suddenly scream as her anger suddenly explodes over finding out the villain's true intentions.

[@jasonmunozjr]

Motoha's looking really cute in this cutscene.

[@cameronmclean6804]

Lol the ball in the face bit is so funny to me

[@jasonmunozjr]

Funny? Um, she actually got hurt here. I could tell because she was CRYING.

[@cameronmclean6804]

@@jasonmunozjr yeah she is it’s mostly the fact the ball literally comes out of nowhere

[@jasonmunozjr]

@@cameronmclean6804 But you watched the cutscene, right? In it, there was a machine that kept shooting them at her. Sure, it was seen for a very brief moment but still...

[@X1erra]

It does look a little goofy because it's not clearly depicted where the ball came from, and the angle / speed of the ball being thrown is weak, so it shouldn't have hurt that much. Had it been shown that Kiuchi actually throws it at her, it'll be a lot more serious.

[@CyberQueen2004]

3:30 {If I was the protagonist} Me: Arai! Are you really gonna let him have his way? Arai: Huh? Me: After standing up to him…for the sake of your friend, are you really gonna let him take not only your innocence and dignity, but also your desires? Arai: my desires? Me: yes, a person once said to me that giving up on your desires is the same thing as giving up on yourself. So tell me, are you gonna give up on yourself and become his little plaything…or are you gonna stand up for yourself and take back what’s rightfully yours? Arai: what’s rightfully…mine… Kiuchi: you should give up, after all, you have to pay me back for making me give up my baseball career! Arai: Quit acting like you were the victim, you goddamn bastard. Kiuchi: Huh? Arai: You decided to gave up baseball on your own…and because you said so, I gave up on it as well. I loved baseball…so dearly… Luffel: Heh, just as I thought. Arai: Why must I, Tomoko, and everyone else…be responsible for YOUR choices and actions? It makes me so angry…I won’t be silent anymore! *then Arai was suddenly overcome by a mixture of fear and agony. After a while, I suddenly realized what Luffel was talking about. When the mask appeared on her face, Arai said those important words as she ripped it off her face: “Thou art I” and in a blue flame came a new addition to the phantom thieves.* Kiuchi: Don’t just stand there! Throw a ball at her! *a ball flew at her, but Arai picked up a bat and hit it right at Kiuchi’s car which then started up and drove off* Kiuchi: You guys…execute those intruders on my behalf…you hear meeeee?! Arai: with this power, I can get justice for Tomoko and show Kiuchi what for. I can do this! Luffel: We’ll back you up. Me: Show us what you’re made off, Arai. Arai: Alright, here we go, Awilda!

[@루메-f7h]

Story Summary : ryuji+ann

[@jasonmunozjr]

I got a bit of translation from this video's translator. It wasn't that great but it's really all we have right now.

[@NoobMasterr25]

Kamoshida but Baseball

[@looney1283]

Cutscene 3:47

[@Zexeniths]

Yoo arau reminds me of the mysterious girl from phantom rose. I wondered why she looked so familiar to me.(mostly the mask though)

[@jasonmunozjr]

So is every single new phantasm thief gonna give an awesome speech before their Awakenings? Matoha did just that before hers.

[@lunarrabbit21]

Am I the only one who thinks Motoha's metaverse outfit looks similar to Six from Little Nightmares?

[@thequietestengine]

so it seems Yuki is not going to be connected to the story, she is just a gatcha pull support? Hmmm, thats a shame. Though now i wonder, i know this retreads Ann's awakening, but i'm curious of the details in this backstory. Like why was this guy bumping into people in the real world on the subway? Hmmm....

[@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv]

If it’s anything like other character gachas has it simply allows you to pull for future characters despite only appearing in the story mode later on. If you are lucky. She will probably will have a story related to her down the line.

[@olivierluisin1790]

Awilda? Can explain who the persona it is supposed to be ?

[@TheHICking]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awilda

[@BuffMaister]

The smt/persona wiki is the usual info source, latley its been attacked for having miss/outdated info for the older series. megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Awilda

[@jasonmunozjr]

Hey, could someone please let me know if this clip has an English version? Cuz I wanna hear her dubbed voice. I imagine that she'll sound somewhat cooler.

[@BuffMaister]

No English dub, China only with Chinese sub and Japanese Dub.

[@jasonmunozjr]

@@BuffMaister Huh??? Why're they using THOSE subtitles rather than Japan's?!

[@BuffMaister]

Japanese company gave it over to a chinese dev to make a mobile gacha out of it. It's only out in china as of now so having japanese subs wouldn't make no sense if its only in china.

[@jasonmunozjr]

@@BuffMaister Wait... If it's just for the mobile version, I personally believe it's a bit too early to rant on just 1 version of it.

[@jasonmunozjr]

@@BuffMaister Maybe it'll be reverted back to normal once the other versions come out.

[@Whit3WolfXArcadia]

Wait this is just a bad copy of anns awakening

[@usonohoshi6165]

Visually it looks like Ann's. But story wise it feels like Ryuji's story. She mentions giving up on baseball, or something. While Ryuji stopped running due to his injury.

[@firebirdfiction7590]

Not really. The being tied up at the beginning is the same but it is not sexualised. He blames this character for making him give up baseball. Given her persona is a pirate it is more like Ryuji's thematically

[@jasonmunozjr]

Isn't there an English version of this Awakening yet?

[@TrashPANDA658]

So is this Japanese voice acting, and Chinese subtitles? If so, then why isn’t the game available to Japan?

[@darryljack6612]

its still in beta and being made by a chinese studio, more than likely once it is finish and the look over the feed back from this test it will get a japanese and even a western release.

[@paperluigi6132]

@@darryljack6612 and I hope a western release gets an English dub

[@divinity1495]

​@Paper Luigi I doubt it'll get an English dub if atlas aren't even the devs behind the game Because another game (Seven Deadly Sins Grand Cross) was developed by the Koreans and when it came out globally 8 months later it didn't come with a dub

[@RangerRobin0404]

So is her weapon.. Baseballs?

[@X1erra]

It's chain and ball, an ancient chinese weapon.

[@theamazingsomething7167]

Man this awakenings are ass! They lack impact! That wasn’t satisfying at all….

[@ilovedentistry3934]

What do you expect from Chinese base game, the eye not change, no blood when release the mask, so frickin boring

[@anonanon69]

@@ilovedentistry3934very racist

[@jasonmunozjr]

I sincerely hope Japan takes back ownership of this game series because as of now, with all due respect for China, their version of this gache is actually shit. After all, the character models keep glitching up.

[@jasonmunozjr]

This is coming from someone who's never played a Persona game EVER!