Thanks for the RYH food. Genuinely upset why they decided to make it non-canon at the last minute. Unlike Q2 and Dancing, I feel like RYH could’ve fit well into canon with little to no consequences. I thought it was until Guernica randomly said at the end “By the way this isn’t canon bye!” and it shows the trio like “Well… I guess that wasn’t canon then!” They don’t even provide a reason why it happens.
mm, disagree. it was clear from the beginning that whatever happened wasn't going to 'happen' given it's set during that one point in november every p5 spinoff needs to take place in, and the whole thing about akechi and sumire finding out the other has a persona.
i figure the 'reason' is something like jerri is working for salmael, salmael's offer to the PTs for letting them go home involves wiping all their memories and the only way around that is to defeat him, he's still a standing god by the end of the DLC so those rules still apply? there's a lot of little things like that in p5r that never really get explained, (the concept of awakening twice, a palace ruler having a persona, that sort of thing) and it is fun to make theories about how it works, but i think (especially given the game is literally about the power of the heart) it's more important to think about those things from an emotional character perspective.
and from a character perspective... i don't mind it. guernica remembers what happened to some degree, and she's the focus character here. from that, her art inspires toshiro to rebel, and from that the main game starts. i think it's cute. sumire and akechi aren't in a space for character growth, and the sort of... abject loneliness they're both experiencing is important to their stories, which haven't resolved yet at the time of the DLC.
