Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Jul 10, 2008
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is a role-playing game developed and published by Atlus for the PlayStation 2. It is chronologically the fifth installment in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona series. Like its predecessor, its gameplay combines a traditional role-playing game with elements of a social simulation. Its critical and commercial success spawned a sizable media empire, including several spinoff titles.
What is your favorite P4: The Animation episode? (14-19)
Since I believe there are 25 episodes to this series, this should be the penultimate poll.
Haha, boy did I mess up that first poll option... Or was it the system?
Anyways, this was the hardest group of episodes for me to choose a favorite because there were several great ones. I decided to vote for episode 14 as I enjoyed seeing how everything referred to in episode 13 was explained and how all of the Social Links came together. I also liked the flashback that accompanied the Death S. Link.
I havent watched any of these.....
And also, why do Japanese words written in english spelled in a different way compared to how theyre really pronounced?
@Animasta said:
@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:
I havent watched any of these..... And also, why do Japanese words written in english spelled in a different way compared to how theyre really pronounced?what exactly do you mean? give an example.
Yea, I'm confused, too. Do you mean how Persona would be said perusona? That's just how Japanese works, man.
@Video_Game_King: Wow. I've seen plenty of images but that art really looks fantastic in motion, and those scenes you posted were excellent.
I really have been missing out; I'll get to fixing that right away.
episode 15 easily , when mass destruction kicked it it was amazing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoSgivgRHk&feature;=related
@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:
I havent watched any of these..... And also, why do Japanese words written in english spelled in a different way compared to how theyre really pronounced?
If you're referring to certain vowel sounds, (ex: pe ru so na,"), the "u" is often silent or de-emphasized. For example, the common male name "Yosuke" sounds more like "Yoskay" than "Yosookay," and "desu," a commonality of the Japanese language used to end sentences in a formalized manner, sounds more like "des."
But really, it's just a function of how the language works and is understood. After all, in English, we don't prnounce "knight" as "kuhnighit," unless we're referencing Monty Python.
Its just a question I always asked when I was young. Like sake and wasurenaide. I get how thats probably the easiest way to spell if but if someone who doesnt know Japanese tried reading it, the pronounciation would be all convoluted. Wouldnt it be easier if accents were on some of the letters?@Animasta said:
@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:
I havent watched any of these..... And also, why do Japanese words written in english spelled in a different way compared to how theyre really pronounced?what exactly do you mean? give an example.
Yea, I'm confused, too. Do you mean how Persona would be said perusona? That's just how Japanese works, man.
@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG:
I still don't get what you're saying. Do you want pitch marks? Other than, all I can say is "Japanese people drop and mesh syllables like crazy, and I don't know how to anticipate or understand any of it".
@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:
@Video_Game_King said:Its just a question I always asked when I was young. Like sake and wasurenaide. I get how thats probably the easiest way to spell if but if someone who doesnt know Japanese tried reading it, the pronounciation would be all convoluted. Wouldnt it be easier if accents were on some of the letters?@Animasta said:
@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:
I havent watched any of these..... And also, why do Japanese words written in english spelled in a different way compared to how theyre really pronounced?what exactly do you mean? give an example.
Yea, I'm confused, too. Do you mean how Persona would be said perusona? That's just how Japanese works, man.
Not really. This method of romanizing Japanese was developed a long time ago and has become the standard. A person that knows Japanese but doesn't know English would bungle a lot of English pronunciations at first because they don't understand the way that the words are actually spoken by a fluent speaker.
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