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Title. When I first beat Persona 5 in ‘22, I found myself annoyed with Ann by the end of the game for her very scattered and confusing social link, heavy emphasis on her airheaded demeanor, and role as the fanservice character.

So when I replayed it this year, I was genuinely surprised when I was like “oh yeah, Ann’s arc in the Kamoshida palace fucking rules. Oh wait, I fucking loved Ann at first.”

Her whole thing with Shiho is just great. The moment where she has a chance to kill
Kamoshida goes hard and arguably forms the whole ethos and pathos of the phantom thieves more than Joker and Ryuji do.She comes off as more sensible than later in the game, probably because Makoto took over the “sensible one” role. Even when she was involved in comic relief scenes, it felt like she was an agent within the joke rather than the butt of it (like with the food bit and even the near nude painting with Yusuke thing. Yes the last one was leaning into perv humor but the joke was how she responded to the situation, not “haha naked woman is uncomfortable.”)

Then her social link is just…kinda all over the place. Her relationship with food, her kinda random desire to be an actress…it’s at its best when it focuses on Shiho. I feel like there’s a way to expand her agency without relying on that but this wasn’t it.

Idk. Thoughts?