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AQ NEVER BEATING THE ALINA ALLEGATIONS

If you'd allow me to add:

Alina Gray get OUT of your fursuit.

Why doesn't anyone mention that a) the entire Lighthouse is very painting themed and b) the energy cubes that restore points are LITERALLY ALINA'S GREEN CUBES?!

Yeah my Discord chat for Exedra has been yelling about this lol but may I also point out that we have a chain of Kimochi stones wrapped around the Fate Weave door that looks just like the one Infinite Iroha has (or alternatively that one Kimochi Rabi and Infinite Iroha cg). And also that the background used for every MGS Episode 0 is the blue space background used in PH to denote we're inside the Magia Record. And also- *is shot*

It's this meme all over again:

Oh! I recognised the background, but not the chain, good point. But to be honest, because of this I'm a little confused. The Lighthouse is very Alina influenced, that much is clear. And it looks like we're collecting the pieces of Magia Record Iroha and Co recorded for... something. But Alina herself never became a part of Magireco conclave,so... what the hell? It would have made much more sense,if she was among the recorders, but she wasn't.

But she did talk to the Uwasa Queens at the end of the final Atelier event and say she wanted to go into the Magia Record! She was told she couldn't, ofc, but this is Alina Gray we're talking about. So I figure that was in fact foreshadowing and that they're doing something with that. Maybe they stuffed her into Mokyu or something.

Oh,I didn't get to read the final Atelier,I should fix that. Interesting. But this makes me think that this entire ordeal is just Alina being stubborn and creating the Lighthouse (isolated space) and using it to steal pieces of MR by using Namae, because she couldn't get there herself! You know she would. For Art (tm) 🤣

AQ NEVER BEATING THE ALINA ALLEGATIONS

If you'd allow me to add:

Alina Gray get OUT of your fursuit.

Why doesn't anyone mention that a) the entire Lighthouse is very painting themed and b) the energy cubes that restore points are LITERALLY ALINA'S GREEN CUBES?!

Yeah my Discord chat for Exedra has been yelling about this lol but may I also point out that we have a chain of Kimochi stones wrapped around the Fate Weave door that looks just like the one Infinite Iroha has (or alternatively that one Kimochi Rabi and Infinite Iroha cg). And also that the background used for every MGS Episode 0 is the blue space background used in PH to denote we're inside the Magia Record. And also- *is shot*

It's this meme all over again:

Oh! I recognised the background, but not the chain, good point. But to be honest, because of this I'm a little confused. The Lighthouse is very Alina influenced, that much is clear. And it looks like we're collecting the pieces of Magia Record Iroha and Co recorded for... something. But Alina herself never became a part of Magireco conclave,so... what the hell? It would have made much more sense,if she was among the recorders, but she wasn't.

AQ NEVER BEATING THE ALINA ALLEGATIONS

If you'd allow me to add:

Alina Gray get OUT of your fursuit.

Why doesn't anyone mention that a) the entire Lighthouse is very painting themed and b) the energy cubes that restore points are LITERALLY ALINA'S GREEN CUBES?!

GUYS omg I just found this INSANE unreleased chapter from the persona 5 manga??? I can't believe they made shuake canon??????

okay I'm sorry I know the joke gets old, happy april fools day (˘ ³˘) ♥

P5R Collab Chapter 2 Summary

(last updated 3/31/25)

Usual disclaimer: Please keep in mind this game still has no official English translation, so this summary uses a mix of what happens visually, what I understand of the Japanese dialogue, and Google translate for the Chinese text, in order to get the broader picture here. This will be focused on summing up everything that happens overall, without getting into a line-by-line translation.

Contrary to this blog’s name, this post is going to have as little speculation as possible, and stick to confirmed facts.

This post will cover the second chapter of the P5R Collab, also called the “Laboratory Chapter 2”.

I watched the proof of Justice OVA yesterday and I genuinely cannot stop thinking about it. Wdym in the games Goro dies and they dont even give him a second thought, theres no more mention of what happened; In Royal you get third semester but that also just deals with its own stuff.

And then the Anime, the anime, made a whole special thats just about him and Akira dealing with his grief? Parallel to the Valentines special they dropped that. While producing one special that was about the valentines hangouts with the female confidants, they produced another one just about Akira and Goro?

They made a whole fucking OVA - and I'm sorry but I'm not getting over this, set after the Shido Palace, and its just about Akiras grief? None of the other characters are even it it! Its just about Grief, and the fact that he couldnt save Goro and that Goro couldnt save himself!!!

He literally left proof in Leblanc, on purpose, that relates to him wanting to be a hero. I dont even think we know when but he was there and he did that crossword and he left that note at the top. And lets be real here, he knew Akira would fins it, he knew he would recognize it, he knew he would find out.

And he does and he goes literally through the entire city, he goes to all their special spots on his own and they dont feel as special anymore, they lost their charm, but he goes and he thinks about the time he spent there with Goro. He thinks about playing Billiard and going to the Jazz Jin and he asks around if anyone knows what that sentence could mean. Because this is important to him, because every crumb, every sliver that Goro was offering him meant the world and he cared.

Resigned he goes and he hears the child and he connects the dots and GOD. Akira sees a small child, brimming with hope and wanting to be a hero and he sees little Goro in it. He finds out its a quote from the childrens superhero show Goro was obsessed with and he finds the toy store and he realizes that his first persona was related to this the entire time. That entire persona was always his way of being the hero he wanted to be since he was a child. The ray gun and the cape and the quote and it all comes together into this image of pure goodness that he was never able to become.

And Akira stares at this toy store and he remembers Goro in the Arcade saying that if only they met a few years earlier everything could have been different. He lays in bed that night thinking about how he could have saved him if it all went differently. If he just met Goro a little earlier, he could have saved him from all of this. It never had to be like this, but there was also never any way of it ending differently.

And you mean to tell me none of that made it into the actual game

Thought those clouds in the key visual of Madoka looked familiar.

Not surprising, given what she is at this point, really.

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