13 Frogs in a trenchcoat

Looking at the main tag it's a bit better than a couple weeks ago since there's a lot more fanart and analysis but when I came home after seeing it in theaters and looked up the tag to see people's thoughts it was just goddamn wall-to-wall reader-insert fanfic thirsting over him. Like I had completely forgotten the guy's name by that point so until I saw a few with pictures of the actor I thought they'd collectively hallucinated an OC or something

I'm pretty sure this is like the sixth game in the series. I have no idea who any of these character are nor how we got here. At one point one of the defense lawyers strangles the other. I think this man is supposed to be both british and a samurai. His co-worker keeps mentioning his famed 'psychological manipulation' technique and he literally just insults the witnesses until they do what he wants. He's not even supposed to be on this case, he just sat behind the defense bench and nobody made him leave. Also I think he's been to jail. The main reason he's here to begin with is because he really wants soba. There's a magical Indian(?) elf man who can summon butterflies and does so every five minutes. The accused is completely wasted for 90% of his screentime and passes out multiple times (but still rides a skateboard without incident). Nobody understands how doors work. One of the defense lawyers is psychic in a way that's *completely different* from the other psychic I'm familiar with and everyone keeps giving her bird-themed nicknames. There's a clown. The judge wants to fuck the clown. Someone let a hawk into the courtroom. The hawk is sent on an errand to buy alcohol so the entire cast can try to get slightly drunk. In addition to the defense throttling their own side at one point the butterfly man assaults the defense woman multiple times and tells her she's going to hell. The entire case is predicated on a Japanese art form that at one point the prosecution spends several minutes meticulously explaining why it's funny. One of the witnesses is a guy who's actually four guys and one of them is five years old. The case hinges massively on interrogating the five year old. The five year old is my new favorite character. The victim was suffocated with pasta. I have no goddamn idea where the hell Phoenix is. To my understanding this entire thing has literally nothing else to do with the rest of the game. This is completely fucked. I love it