#yu nishimura

[blueiscoool]

Yu Nishimura Cat Family

Signed and dated 2021 (on the reverse). Acrylic on canvas. Executed in 2021.

[topcat77]

Yu Nishimura

A Man in a Forest

[thunderstruck9]

Yu Nishimura (Japanese, 1982), thicket, 2020. Oil on canvas, 102 x 71 ¾ in.

[tyger-land]

𝗬𝘂 𝗡𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗿𝗮 thicket. 2020. Oil on canvas: 259 × 182 cm (102 × 72 in).

[mentaltimetraveller]

Yu Nishimura, Gaze (2023) Oil on canvas, 145.5 x 112 cm⁠

at Crèvecœur, Paris

[campsis]

Yu Nishimura a litter of kittens, 2024

oil on canvas, 27.4 x 41.2 x 2.3 cm

[arinewman7]

Cat on Chair

Yu Nishimura

2020

[nerdygingergremlin]

I've been playing Persona 3 Reload (again) and maybe this is the 3 am obsession brain talking but the biggest difference between any version of Persona 3 and Persona 4/Persona 5 is the inherent tragedy. Because for Minato/Makoto/Minako, their story was always going to end up this way.

It was set in stone long before they knew what consent was. They were chosen in some way (or maybe sacrificed) to be the Great Seal when they were 6 years old that night on the Moonlight Bridge. If it wasn't for Aigis, they would have died and become the Seal then. Minato-Makoto-Minako was always doomed. Persona 3 is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way.

Personas 4 and 5 are, in a looser definition, tragic because their stories didn't have to even start, but they did between a mix of their own actions and outside forces. Ultimately, they succeeded because their story wasn't concrete. It wasn't set in stone. They always had a chance to change course. It's only a tragedy if you fail in Persona 4 and Persona 5, and the tragedy is that it didn't have to end up that way but it did.

Persona 3 is the definition of doomed by the narrative and that's why I love it.