you dont understand how much Chair Car Adventure means to me and how much it explored the attendant's, Mimi's human facade, character and personality and even the dynamic and possible relationship they could have with Adachi.
I do not CARE if im giving them too much credit for this skit. Hell, Asanuma (director and writer) and Masami (Adachi's actor and good friend of Asanuma-san) could've just played p4 once and go "yeahh this guy'll make a gay joke" and say it'll be the funniest thing intermission comedy skit ever. And it was. And it's the best thing ever
The amount of flavor and character they gave this scene and to these characters in particular is just......great. It was literally both their first days. A detective who got transferred out the metropolis and the gas station attendant asking how to use a gas pump. They were both in shambles.
That Adachi bothered to drop his clown act of being stupid and clueless since there was already a clown in front of him, colors and all. But they were truly stupid, truly clueless. Every step in an attendant's protocol to serve a customer, from ushering a car in, cleaning, offering services, and saying goodbye were all done, but executed quite......differently.
They ushered a car in and got it dented. They yelled "attack" instead of "stop." They asked for "regular or replacement" instead of "regular or high octane." They wiped the store's windows instead of the car's. They sang a song the worst way possible. They threw out the ashtray instead of the contents in the ashtray. Made a gay joke. Continued harassing their customer by embarrassing him through the radio. Asked how to use a gas pump. Almost lit a fire trying to smoke at a gas station itself. Attempted to take off their pants for fire safety protocol despite there being no fire at all. Tried to pray for help and safety instead. Tried to make small talk with their customer and offending him again. Laughed at possibilities from the characteristics of his story instead of its contents. Laughed too soon and too hard and fell to the ground.
And they joined hands not from a normal welcoming handshake, but the because they had to be picked up? Which was entirely Adachi's decision and will to even help the guy despite the hell he was put through?
That later on was it revealed he didnt even think it was all that bad and even treasured that memory somewhat and fought for his life, whining, trying to talk about it even asking the person he's trying to talk to turn off his phone?
these virtually do not exist in my brain and will continue not to
i dont wanna say im mad at localization again, but the energy and personality the original jp text and dub was.....washed out in the eng loc. Maybe due to the fact it was hard to even translate casual speech and interpret without dub. But there's just so much facets to this personality of theirs that dont get explored in other media leaving people to interpret them based on 3/20, farewell day--which should be crystal clear--isn't them acting in their facade anymore.
i dont want to blame anyone either because of how the nature of players and the consumption of content just make it so that these details are so obscured, ignored, or even left out entirely making a whole deal of misinformation that really can't be helped. and of course there's no entirely right or wrong way to view a character either.
anyway lmao go watch visualive thanks
