Akihiko Ultimate Persona Awakening - Persona 3 Reload

Akihiko Sanada Ultimate Persona Awakening - Persona 3 Reload

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[NocturnalNovelist]

Alejandro Saab absolutely killed this. It didn’t feel like a performance at all, it felt genuine and it made me cry.

[TheSiscoKid]

I love Liam O'Brien with all my heart, and I used to think I could never accept this new guy playing Aki, but then I hit this scene and goddamn. Dude knocked it out of the park, into a different city. I feel confident in saying this is 100% better than the orignal. New cast is gonna keep on unfairly receiving bullshit online from people, but overall, they did a pretty damn fine job.

[Lenkii]

This scene made me love Akihiko's VA. The emotions felt so real

[thefinalfighter]

I will NOT hear anyone saying Akihiko was miscast or it’s bad. literally the best performance in the main cast along with Allegra Clark. This made me more emotional than the OG.

[theimpersonator]

This scene manages to almost get to me every time. One of my favorite scenes in Modern Persona and Gaming itself. Probably a top 2 non protag awakening in my view, and helped cement non protein meme Akihiko as one of my favorite characters. Saab also did a good job here.

I really like the elements of Greek Tragedy in this. Akihiko originally started out wanting to protect the people he cared about after the death of Miki. But he lost sight that of that and just became obsessed with power, ignoring other parts of life like being a good friend. He paid the price for it on 10/4 as he forgot about the anniversary of the death of Amada's mother. However, it didnt even matter what he did, Shinji was going to die anyway, whether it be through the suppressants or Takaya. Instead, Akihiko had to learn to move forward and not be trapped by the past, while also paying attention to the present. He now restored his original motivation of wanting to protect others, while also taking Ken under his wing to honor Shinji's wishes. Brilliant character when the writers are not turning him into a meme.

[masterseal]

The emotion from Kaggy as Akihiko after he mourned Shinji's loss, too beautiful and shocking.

[daveking]

I love how, for lack of a better word, "wet" 1:18 forward is. I really love it when the VAs totally get into it. It's not a perfect line reading in terms of diction etc, but it's so real.

[zayamoone]

This scene solidified Akihiko as my favorite character and Alejandro Saab as my favorite voice actor. He knocked it completely out of the park

[madgnnan]

To me, Alejandro Saab aka Kaggy Films did a very bittersweet performance cuz I feel like he was channeling his feelings of losing Billy Kametz, who was one of his closest friends, into Akihiro during this scene…

Or I might just be reading too much into this.

[JamieEhh]

I liked these Persona evolutions more than 4 and 5's. I hope, but doubt they'll return in 6

[TheJerbro]

Everyone is talking about Akihiko's new voice but no one is talking about Shinjiro having a photo of him before Ken's mom's Incident instead of a picture random of him with his red coat. Not only been remembered when he was "more happy" but also making sense when we remember that the funeral is being made by the school, so it makes more sense that they would have a photo of Shinjiro when he was last seen on the school.

[meloncat]

Damn Cy-yu did really good here I’m gonna cry now 😢

[crimsonslayer]

Alejandro Saab made this scene more impactful than the original game’s release. He did such a good job, his casting is easily my new favourite casting in this with junpei’s and mitsuru’s VAs right behind

[cikatheresia]

this was acted beautifully

regardless of the criticism of the significantly deeper tone of voice in akihiko's voice acting, i think Saab did this scene justice. i have no complaints.

[NikPaul]

shinjiros death had me cry but this is the scene that broke me. it was so heartbreaking to see sanada breakdown like this. absolutely amazingly acted by alejandro saab

[LoserOfTheCity]

reload did such a good job capturing emotions, it left a hole in my heart bro its actually so sad

[johndavidtibbetts]

God Alejandro Saab just takes it to the fucking mat in this game

[VerkatosEnsei]

This scene actually broke me, and I think Alejandro Saab did such a fucking phenomenal job here
Already a pretty sad scene, but you hear how he delivers "But I was wrong... And now you're gone, too... God, it's like the world is laughing at me..."
You can tell he's choking up and fighting back tears even as he's saying this, alongside "It doesn't matter how strong I was! Look what happened!"
And seeing Shinji's death, then seeing this scene... I was actually sobbing too, despite knowing exactly what happens (given that this is an old game and all)
No discredit to Liam, he was also excellent as Akihiko, but Alejandro just knocked it out of the park
Same with the rest of the cast, they're giving it their all and helped breathe a lot of new life into this game and its story

[AyylienInvader]

Weird opinion here, but I feel like Auto in this game is a bit *too* fast. It kind of hurts some of the emotion from the dialogue by there being next to no pauses, unless they were kept in the dialogue recording itself

[Goobergurl]

I heard that some people were hating on his new voice actor, but why?! He's literally one of the best new voice actors in the game! Him and Junpei killed it! This scene was amazing to experience all over again. This scene alone is why Akihiko is my favorite Persona character. Not just Persona 3, but out of *all* the games Akihiko will forever be my GOAT