My brother was talking about this yesterday.
I don't torrent so I guess I'll be waiting awhile. XD
My brother was talking about this yesterday.
I don't torrent so I guess I'll be waiting awhile. XD
I have to check it out myself now. Ill download the episode again just to make sure.
Peace.
It sucks when these translations are all suspect. I guess I'll stick with Shinsen, cause I have no idea about the others.
I'm confused about how the personas work (have the video game, but haven't had a chance to play). In the second episode, Shin destroyed that gang member's persona without killing him. Yet in the third episode when Ryou destroyed a persona it ended up killing the host.
I think there's a difference between stolen personas and natural personas. So I'm guessing that if someone is using a stolen persona, it wouldn't affect them physically if it was destroyed, because it wasn't theirs to begin with.
Edit:
Ep 4 by Shinsen
Ep 4 by Ainex
Ep 4 by Oi!
Episode 4 was a pretty melancholy episode. It revealed a bit more about the brothers' past, and yet presented us with a whole lot more mystery. Maybe those of you who have played the game can correct me, but it seems to me like a persona is akin to someone's soul. And it definitely seems like their sister's persona, and hence, her soul, are residing within Jun. The two seem to retain their separate personalities though.
Also, talk about Mr. Emotionless. Ryou doesn't seem phased by anything. Shin is going to have to do something ridiculous to get any sort of a human response from him. They do seem to have come to a bit of a truce at the end of this episode, in their shared experience of looking for Jun.
Last edited by KitKat; Thu, 01-31-2008 at 01:04 AM.
Link please?
I think Shin came to the conclusion that Ryou still cares about them, after seeing him rush towards Jun faster than he did. That's why he didn't tell the other cop (Was his rank vice chief?) about the list.Originally Posted by KitKat
Thanks for your interpretation. Didn't think that people could use stolen personas. I've come to think that Ryou's just used his persona in an extremely destructive manner -- Shin doesn't seem to have control over his persona yet, so his simple attacks might not destroy the host.
Now that Jun has shown his persona, hopefully the next episode Shin will get an explanation of whats happening in this city.
Last edited by Everon; Thu, 01-31-2008 at 11:45 PM.
hmm, yes the interpretation does make some sense, especially when you consider that they called Shin a "natural".
QUICK RANDOM QUESTION.
Do they shoot themselves in the head in the anime?
Hmm... So far there have been no suicides in the anime, if that's what you are asking. No shooting oneself in the head, no hanging oneself, no slitting wrists. People have been taking pills, though, and jumping from high places but they didn't die.
o.o nononononono, shooting as in summoning their Persona that way.
But I'll take that as a no..;_;
Yeah, there haven't been any suicide induced summoning yet. I wonder what the pills do though. Shin doesn't take them yet, and Ryou's been taking them since the start of the show, but they both seem to be able to use their Personas. Only thing that occurred to me would be that Shin's has never come out in a non-dire situation, except the Shadow pulling thing. I guess you can consider that sort of dire since an unknown Persona comes out right in front of you, so it's more accurate to say it has never come out for any other reason other than to face another persona.
Yeah, the only thing I can think of is that somehow the pills facilitate controlling one's persona, since Shin's seems to act on its own accord without any direction from Shin, whereas the others seem to be controlled very directly. Or perhaps this could just be an issue of experience, and the pills are for something else entirely.
That's exactly what I was thinking as well, and even more so from the moment we saw Shin's brother also use the pills. I thought they were some sort of psychic/mental medication. Because honestly Shin's numerous descriptions of his dreams made me think people with strong persona might lose their mind eventually. Just like the criminal dude whose persona Shin offed. He was eating the pills pretty desperately already.
Aha, theory confirmed! They are indeed stealing personas, and not being very covert about it either. I wonder if personas stack, if a person can obtain several. Would they all just mush together into a mega-persona? It kinda looks from this week's episode that the stolen persona is subjugated and absorbed into the host's persona, but still retains its own individualities. At least at the beginning....
Good developments this episode, with the guys learning to at least bring out their personas on command. I like how there's still some of the 'new friendship' awkwardness between Shin and his classmates. Jun continues to exhibit strange behaviour, and it seems he can hear personas, and somehow affects them differently. Maybe some sort of an amplifying effect? Shin also took a tougher stance with Ryou, and managed to be very non-confrontational about it too. Ryou can't just keep ignoring them, and now he can't get rid of them either so it'll be interesting to see how he chooses to proceed from here.
Finally caught up on this. From what I saw, it looks like it's holding the persona captive. They might be able to drain power from them, but somehow I don't think there'll be any merging. The guys were talking about the machine at the beginning that could extract personas without killing the host. That makes me think that the guys/girls they're taking if from there are their subordinates, and they're extracting the stolen personas while leaving the original one behind, since they weren't really concerned about killing people before.
And the next installment to this series:
[Shinsen-Subs]_Persona_-_trinity_soul_episode_6.avi
Yeah, I kinda got impatient waiting for Shinsen and watched the Ainex version of this ep. At first, I was disappointed that Persona was one of THOSE animes that threw in goofy episodes. Upon reflection though, it wasn't as goofy as it could have been, and I couldn't help but laugh when Ryou beat up those thugs while wearing his bear costume. Here's to hoping something awesome is going to happen in ep 7!
I thought it was funny when the guy asked what the Chief does when there's a Chief-for-a-day, and Jun looks over at the bear leaning against the rail. Guess Jun's intuition extends beyond personas. Dunno why, but Shinsen is slow on this series.
edit: Jun's "No way" at the park was probably in response to his brother in a bear costume.
Shinsen says they drop because it sucks and was a let down, when it was supposed to be a sequel to Persona 3
http://www.shinsen-subs.org/Persona is dropped, unless you help! posted by Cyprene on Mon Feb 25 01:14:36 2008
Persona sucks. I'm done with it. I tried watching through 7 and 8, and it didn't help. Not funny, not dramatic, no fan service, no action, no anything. It's like a video camera following around a bunch of particularly boring high schoolers, and occasionally there's some action that's so hard to follow you may as well be watching a blank screen and listening to a "1001 movie sound effects" CD. I still can't figure out what the hell was happening in that fight at the end of episode 3.
I'd planned on waiting until Vincent got back to discuss this with him, but since he hasn't bothered to tell me where he is or when he's getting back I'm not waiting anymore, since that's not fair to any retards who are still watching this show for some reason and waiting for us to release an episode.
If for some reason, like maybe you were dropped on the head as a child, you want to continue watching this show, there are a number of other groups doing it. I can't make any suggestions as to which to watch, but I think Anime-Planet had a decently long comparison thread. If anybody has any suggestions, I'm lifting the restriction on discussing other groups work for this thread and this thread only, come tell the viewers whose version they should watch.
So that's where we're at. Now all this is my personal opinion, members of the group think that it may, possibly be worth continuing, as it might get better in a few eps, maybe somehow possibly. So the project is lacking a TL, the rest of the staff is in place.
If you want to TL this for us in my place, they'd be happy to have you. But there's a caveat. You need to not suck. I've given TL tests to a lot of people who wanted to translate this for us, but they were all such horrendous fail that it's better for the group's reputation and for fansubbing in general that they never be allowed near any anime, ever. So non-suckage is a prerequisite. Ask yourself this question: "Could I play the Japanese version of Persona FES (The one that's not out in the states so you're knowledge of the US version won't help you) with 99%+ comprehension? If the answer isn't yes, then don't bother. I mean that. When I talk to you I will ask that question and if the answer isn't an unabridged "Yes, I could." then I'm going to simply kick you from the channel and not talk to you. And you're not going to be able to fool me either, because the test for this is going to be murder-death level. Persona is not an easy anime by any means, and it's probably going to get harder if it gets more psychological. Also if you haven't seen the show as high up as its aired, watch it before applying, because I'm not kidding about it being really really bad. I loved the game. I was looking forward to this anime for months. And it's a huge let down.
Interested applicants, if by some miracle we've got any, should come by #shinsen-recruits or post in this thread. I think there's a contact email somewhere around here, you could email that too. Or you could come by the Shinsen channel. Or PM me. There are a lot of options.
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