A female phantom thief that has a different stance from the protagonist… What kind of character is she? you’ll be excited to find out.” The idea of ‘phantom thieves’ in itself has manga-like elements, right? Like with the protagonist, wanted this new character to have that ‘coolness’ that everyone normally expects from a phantom thief. “Kasumi doesn’t form a pair with the protagonist, but since was drawing her as an icon of P5R, designed her phantom thief appearance to feel like it goes alongside the protagonist’s. Now that I talked about her winter uniform, I can move onto her Phantom Thief attire and its relation to Joker’s outfit.īack to Weekly Famitsu magazine #1588, Soejima says the following when discussing about her Phantom Thief design: If anything, it seems like an intentional design choice to make them more similar. This may not seem like much, but it’s rather strange that the one thing they change to their uniforms is the shoes. Like the protagonist, Kasumi switches out the standardized shoes (in her case, she trades them out for some red loafers). Now let’s compare the protagonist and Kasumi. Instead, he switches them out for some dress boots. It’s hard to tell here, but the protagonist doesn’t wear the standardized shoes. Compare the concept art for the protagonist to the concept art for the Shujin uniforms. The protagonist and Kasumi actually have a twist in their design (this isn’t counting the protagonist’s glasses or Kasumi’s ribbon as they don’t take away from the uniform). The only other character to not have a twist on their design is the protagonist. Soejima even points that while most of the main cast have a twist to their designs and how it relates to their archetypes (remember that the rest of Phantom Thieves, including Akechi, are meant to be deconstructions of their given archetype), he decided to be straightforward for Kasumi’s design and how she’s supposed to reflect her given archetype. With most of the characters in Persona 5, we really design them to have kind of a twist, kind of make them unique and different from what the standard character archetypes might be like, but with Kasumi, we wanted to just go straight for that heroine type of girl”.īased on this, the reason why Kasumi wears the standard Shujin uniform is because she embodies the classic heroine. Maybe in the States or in the West, it’d be a cheerleader type of girl. really wanted to just shoot for that female protagonist archetype. This might be a little bit different in the West, but in Japan, the manga grew up reading, the main characters always had a ponytail, and their club activity was gymnastics. “With Kasumi, really wanted to create just a straight-forward heroine type of character. In the November 2019 issue of Game Informer magazine that was released digitally on the 1st, there was an interview with Soejima and he states the following about Kasumi’s design and how he came up with it: With that out of the way, let’s talk about her design and how it possibly relates to the protagonist’s design (for the sake of this post, he’ll be referred to as the protagonist when talking about his civilian self and Joker as his Phantom Thief self). Also going by this, she was most likely never meant to be a FeMC in the way people were expecting when the second P5R teaser was dropped. Kasumi was always meant to represent another perspective towards the story and themes of the game. Kasumi was created after much discussion about what kind of character would allow us to realize that”. Introducing a new character adds a new perspective and meaning to the story, while also letting dig deeper into the characters we already know and love. Since she goes to the same school as the protagonist and his friends, there’ll naturally be many points of contact between them. “Kasumi Yoshizawa is a new student at Shujin Academy, who has been a high achiever in rhythmic gymnastics since middle school. When Ito talked about Kasumi, he mentioned the following: Weekly Famitsu magazine #1588 had an interview with producer Kazuhisa Wada, director Daiki Ito, and character designer Shigenori Soejima about P5R. I’ve been working on this for a while and it might kind of messy since this is the first time I made a post of this nature (plus, I want to post it before the game’s Japanese official release).īefore I discuss about Kasumi’s design and its connection to the protagonist/Joker, it’s best to look at the reason why she was created in the first place. I also wanted to share my speculation about her design along with how and why her design is possibly connected with the protagonist/Joker by using given information about the game and the designs themselves. In honor of Persona 5: The Royal coming out in 1 day, I decided to dedicate my first post to this topic since I’ve seen people talk about it. Kasumi’s Design and How it Compares to Joker
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