The Use of Color in Persona 4 [P4G Analysis]
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2022
- My last video debunking Matpat's Teddie video was just a prelude. After much deliberation, I have decided the first part of my Persona 4 Golden Analysis series is The point of color, or The Use of Color in Persona 4. Color theory is often dismissed or seen as looking where there is nothing, in P4 and P4G 's case it was very intentional. New videos will be out soon, so I hope you enjoy, comment and generally support so I can get monetized. Thanks!
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This is the first video to drop but it isn't the "first segment" in the series by any means - as you may be able to tell from it's wording. I just thought this one would be good to start with. Please comment your thoughts below, and if you've studied art/color on your own please feel free to add your own additional interpretations! I'm still away from my computer and recovering from the surgery, but I swear I'm trying my best and will be working again asap.
Dope start! Looking forward to the later installments!
Dude I'm discovering your channel with this awesome video, and l just want to say, don't push yourself too hard! Take your time and enjoy the process when you're ready! Hope you have a nice recovery of body and mind :)
red has another meaning specifically in japan: hero
Reminder that yellow is also a color associated with anxiety (since it actually induces the feeling in some people), a very prominent theme everywhere in Persona 4.
The yellow fog kinda makes me feel like the air in the other world is unclean, which subconsciously does play into that idea of anxiety you brought up
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One thing to note: in some parts of the world, purple and violet are associated with royalty, and Kanji is associated with the Emperor.
For Naoto, Blue additionally can represent intelligence or wisdom or thought. It’s why blue is the color of the mind in games like magic the gathering. Naoto always holds onto her blue, since she will always be the most intelligent party member, but her new outfit keeps it underneath her white shirt, showing that she isn’t so desperate to define herself by her intelligence and detective identity.
That's a good additional way of contextualizing it!
it’s great to see some nice, genuine color analysis that’s not overly extreme in “color is everything!” or “it’s just colors shut up!”. good stuff buddy, get well soon
Thanks, yeah color theory is weird bc it can easily go into some cracked out overanalysis that clearly wasn't the intent of the creator, but disregarding it by default is a discredit to goo mindful art and artists who really do put thought into everything they do. I thought some of the interviews with soejima and his work process did well to lend credibility to what I was saying which while making sense wasn't too reachy imo
This was more in depth than I thought it really could be for character design, it's giving me the urge to go look at the use of color in character designs in the other persona games now!
Thanks, and yeah! I think it's the culmination of a lot of these more subtle, almost subconscious elements that lend this sort of polished professional feeling to the persona games. Like they're elaborate structures and each small cog keeps it together. One of my favorite things are the narrative bits like the black covering Kanji yellow, or Chie losing her green. Thanks hatch!
I don't think any other Persona game is this overt with it.
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So here's my Theory for Yu's Chosen Colors which is Simple but Unique in its own way.
So the most used Outfit is his Uniform (Grey &/or White) which is somewhat Generically used for these Protagonists but behind this, shows his Connection to People who use these same Colors, regardless of it's in a Great or Least Extent.
Now this could be said for the others, but Yu shows a more deeper Connection becuz these are the Colors he uses more than other Characters...
Great work, Hiding! This turned out even better than I expected.
Regarding the yellow vibe of P4 and how it’s often connected to sun/optimism, there is a quote of another game series that fits in so well.
In Kingdom Hearts there is a quote “The closer you get to the light, the greater your shadow becomes” which perfectly ties in with P4. In order to shine the brightest each character have to work through their insecurities, fears, trauma and general “dark personality”.
Since the sun exposes so much it’s often easier to stay in your comfort zone but P4 almost pushes you into the bright colours and in the end it always pays off
Man this is a really good breakdown video. I'm excited to see what colors the eventual P6 brings and what themings it'll go for.
Thanks! Imagine substantiating ideas with examples! Crazy world we live in. I thought this would be a nice entry video although all of them were made to be posted in any order
Hm... white?
I always wondered why Yukiko wore a pale blue at the end of the game, especially since the only time she wore blue, it was a dark blue like Naoto’s hair. This was a great delve into the thought of the colors chosen to represent everyone, from start to finish!
Wow, I noticed how the characters primary colours changed in the epilogue but I didn't even think about the deeper meaning the change could hold. Really nice dive into this subject.
I'm no expert on clour theory but I feel there could be meaning in Ryotaro Dojima carrying a dark black jacket on his shoulder but never wearing it as Adachi does at least to my knowledge.
Or maybe they just didn't want to make another model of him wearing it who knows haha. (he wears it in the persona 4 visualive stage play but that's probs not important)
I don't know if im reading to much into this but I'd like to take a look at Teddie. When we first meet him he's blue yellow and red. While we could go into these meanings I have another theory. They're the primary colors making up every other color. Teddie is a shadow, a mix of everyone's thoughts and feelings so it makes since for him to be a mix of everything. His human form? A white top making up most of his sprite but still having yellow hair, blue eyes, and a red flower on his chest. White making up a majority of his character. He's pure to the new world he's exploring and being around so many new things.
Don't Aigis and Morgana (kindaa...) also share the similar red + blue + yellow/gold + cream/white palette? It's basically Soejima's toy mascot color palette
@@minakoarisato5680 I guess haha :) it does make them cute and marketable
@@minakoarisato5680 I have realized that Marie also fits the pattern, her colours are the same than Teddie´s.
I'm suprised you didn't talk about the protagonist and the amount of grey and black in colour scheme. Grey has Neutrality, Balance, Cool as more positive aspects while representing dull, distant, emptiness as more negative aspects. The black in him represents exactly what you said in the kanji part
The hit Chie joke was fire, love the little laugh on that too, great comedic timing on the editing. I find this stuff really interesting when the creators have stated they specifically went in with intent on making it a focus. One that I love is Kung Fu Panda, in the commentary they talk about red = power, gold/orange = heroism, and green = wisdom, and they use that in one scene to show power throughout a jail and every corridor of guards that get defeated, the red torches go out. Really neat stuff.
Loved the video homie, definitely gonna be watching each one of these, the clear effort and research put in really pays off.
Thanks, it was improvised and I decided not to cut it (although I cut me laughing at myself other than the first part) that is neat, when you said kung-fu panda I thought you might be meeting for a sec but then you elaborated. The next couple will be character focused pieces but there's a few I'm really excited for like explaining the midnight channel and what not. Thanks!
great stuff! worth noting that in yukiko's case, the colors red and white together lean even more heavily into that traditional japanese vibe, a la shrine maidens and the like.
really appreciate you trying topics like this out. I feel like a lot of aspects of game design get over looked because people don't feel giving credit to these more abstract evaluations compare to things like mechanics with video games, but I've always felt that it's just a box game critics/analysts put themselves into because they're not confident in the medium as a whole yet. So cheers, really enjoy this and really looking forward to more p4 videos because I adore this game.
I like how you incorporated a look into their post game outfits to demonstrate how they reflect their character development!
Thank you! I think that's one of the coolest points. The fact they all get draped with white, a similar shade of blue and some pinks is so uniform it couldn't have been unplanned
this video is really cool, loved the super in depth analysis of the colors it's super interesting to know. It was also super well edited, with how you highlighted the colors that you were speaking of. Keep up the good work!
Thanks false! It was really entertaining for me, mixing the cor balance and seeing how colors popped in certain situations. Just a really fun kind of niche edit I don't get to use too often
This is really interesting! Honestly I almost never give color theory much thought when I'm drawing and usually just opt for whatever "feels right" even if I cant explain why, but it's always cool seeing it applied in other stories in more deliberate ways ^^
Hey Kal! Thanks for watchingvand commenting. Yeah I tend to overlook color theory a lot of times or not give it much thought, but as I'll show with the other parts, persona 4 is created on so many levels of complexity that I even found interviews stating intent on how the colors were used. Love the layers in this project
P4 yellow simbolizes is like 🍯, is golden, delicious, it stinks like glue for along time and is good for you.
Fun fact "Honey can stay edible for years, even decades." Like a certain game. 😏😎🧑🦳🤴
It amazes me how much effort they put in the character designs to express their personality starting with the clothes and hairstyles to the color. I have noticed too that Teddie and Marie have the same colors. Someone already pointed below that they are primary colors, maybe it´s because they don´t know their true self. Yu would be interesting to analyze too, his pattern is black but specially grey/silver and white. It could be related to the blank state as MC but grey represents too maturity, stability, neutral, etc. White is made when you put colors from the rainbow together pretty fitting to him I think, plus represents purity and is related to gods.
About the yellow color, I like how it fits the game: happiness, the sun (very important for Japanese culture) and disease (everybody gangsta until the fog becomes yellow in the town).
i can't believe it's out! i've been waiting for this series for so long!
Me too! Wish I was still working on the parts, but atleast the next few weeks are ready to upload
I love the way that color placement interacts with the designs for each of the characters - for instance, how different characters wear their uniforms and how their primary colors are incorporated into their designs.
Yu is a fairly blank slate, but his design says a lot about the game's central themes and what he (and the player as protagonist) stand for; Yu's flared collar and open shirt represent that willingness to show your true colors, to not hide them under the deep, mysterious blacks of the Yasogami High School uniform. Whilst the pure white of his clothes reflects both his purity and the literal blank canvas he represents as a self-insert, his primary color is actually grey - which is shared with Dojima (that Dojima connection itself is pretty special too, since Dojima repeatedly emphasizes how much Yu reminds him of himself, and how that lets him open up.) It also represents a coolness or calmness - white/grey hair representing wisdom in a lot of mythology as well, which fits both their roles well.
You covered a lot of what I love about Yosuke's design and its incorporation of orange, but there's some hidden story to its incorporation that I love in particular. For one, it isn't plastered over his uniform like some, more proud characters (Chie, Yukiko, ect), rather it's incorporated in more subtle ways - this emphasizes his conformity and willingness to compromise on his appearance more than other characters, which fits his insecurities well. Even the way he pops his collar is like an awkward invitation just begging people to notice his uniqueness, though nothing so radical as to attract too much attention. The color itself is also very inconsistent throughout all of his outfits, and can actually range very wide on the color spectrum between deeper reds and brighter yellows; this fits his character tremendously well, as Yosuke is usually conflicted between two parallel emotions - both cheerfulness and passionate anger, which (at least, he'd like to believe) he hides behind a layer of social conformity.
Last character color scheme I want to lavishly compliment is Nanako's. Like... Her dress is literally a gradient going from an innocent and loving pink, to a blood red. That's such a great design considering her incorporation into the story, and it adds a layer to the tension that the player is really meant to feel throughout the game in terms of Nanako's safety. (Side-note: another pretty valid way to interpret Nanako's color scheme is that it's actually a reflection on how Dojima sees Nanako, since he is the one to buy her clothes. This could add a double meaning to the presence of blood red, as it also represents the part of Nanako that upsets Dojima the most - her resemblance to her deceased mother.)
Frankly, when it comes to complimenting or analyzing Persona 4's characters and themeing, I struggle to stop myself. Good thing there's cool UA-camrs like you here to keep stuff short and concise with these cool ass videos 👍I hope you're recovering well!
I think it’s also important to mention that, although Narukami doesn’t have much of a defined personality in the game, his grays and overall neutral color palette is a good representation of his insecurities in the anime. He feels like without his friends near him, he’s nearly worthless and they’re the ones who give him strength, a feeling that can be connected to gray’s emptiness and characterless/dullness.
@@cyanariesdw04 the Persona 4 anime does a great job of reinterpreting elements from the source material to convert them into a really functional standalone product that, honestly, I can recommend about as much as the original game if you're not into JRPGs.
I just started rewatching this series in the playlist order and I do have to say I really want to compliment you on your ability to cleanly express your points in such a clear, concise way. It suggests a well edited script - which is something that is too easy to take for granted. I can’t imagine the insane amount of time commitment for this entire project, especially keeping in mind how well researched this is in addition to the quality of your videos.
All of that to say: I’m looking forward to rewatching the rest of this series! I remember really enjoying some of the later character analysis segments, especially with how many times you brought up elements of Persona 4 that I don’t see often.
Nice Video Mr. Public! I never realized why Persona 4 felt so much different in tone compared to the other games, but the yellow colour explains a lot! I'm looking forward to the more in depth analysis you'll post later!
This was great Hiding, looking forward to the next videos!!
Also, I hope you have a speedy recovery and feel better again soon!
Thanks! And thanks for commenting! I am mostly immobile and in a lot of pain, but hoping I can get back to being able to walk somewhat normally within the week
I'm definitely going to look at games in a new light with the color theory. Very well done
Recently found your channel and I love these persona videos I’ve been bingeing them:)
Glad you do! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on future uploads
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Haha, I just realized Kanji and Naoto’s outfits are matching! If on purpose, that has wholesome implications
This was really interesting thank you for spending time and sweating blood analyzing a hecc ton.
i only get recommended this video today so i dont care if you see this, buuuut
I loved the analysis.
watching the videos i have come up with own interpretations of certain characters, in particular:
Naotos originally dark blue outfit can be interpreted as a sort of tainted blue, therefore the interpretation of truth again, which makes sense because she is the core of the investigation team as detective, but in a sort of tainted way, as her way to the truth is clouded by the mystery of the case and threated to fail as she has fallen into the tv herself.
same for adachi, the richer, darker colors compared to dojima could indicate the difference between the good cop and a corrupted cop, all the while he holds on to his innocence and that he "didnt do anything", represented by the white shirt underneath.
It was fun putting my head into it, thanks for the video :)
Goes hard bro I'm glad people still love this game enough to go into such depth about it, it's the mark of a good analysis when I really can't tell which aspects of this are intentional by the designers and which are just you being more clever than them.
Thank you! There's a lot of things I knew I could include that I chose not to, here and in upcoming segments. I really tried to act in good faith to extract things I thought were reasonable that aligned with the creator intentions rather than just input my theories or stretches. I think that balancing act is part of analysis
this was very interesting! after watching this video i wonder how i've never thought about these things while playing the game before
Amazing video as always bro!
Keep it coming!
Thank you! I will!
Nice video! This covered some stuff I hadn't thought about with regard to color in character design.
Thanks! Glad to hear. I had a lot of fun doing this and it was only one part!
@@HidinginPrivate I'm looking forward to the rest! (And I wish you a swift recovery from surgery)
glad someone finally talks about the games art direction. im only halfway through 4 but P5 had some of the best stylization I've ever seen.
edit: and if you haven't thought of the idea already, you could make a video exploring all the main cast personas. most of them have mythos attached to them and you could examine how they relate to the persona users personally
He will.
I already have a persona video finished and ready! It mainly just covers the ultimate personas but their initial ones are covered in their own segments
I've seen a few of your videos appear in my feed but this one definitely stands out to me as a nerd for color theory, easy subscribe😎 I'm also a big fan of Ai's social link so gonna go watch that now😳
Sorry it's not out yet, but look out for it. The full video will be almost 20min for Ai. A new video will be dropping in this series every week of 2022 until around October/November- And thanks for the support subscribing!
yukikos colours would look great in a childrens hospital!
What does this mean!
The way to absolution is through understanding this joke
just finished this game and will now binge your series
Nice! Hope you enjoy it!
Might be kinda late but I loved the vid. But, and this could just be me, I wish ya wish ya woulda talked about Yu Narukami. but before I get into that I just want to put down my thoughts that I came up with for Dojima. Starting with his coat, I was really sad that you didn't mention it at all but I'm kinda thinking of it as he's holding his black jacket or mystery over his shoulder, looming over him. But for the most part he's wearing white and that red tie you mentioned, showing that he is upfront with the player and compassionate, but those are just my thoughts. Now for Yu, I think his normal outfit is pretty self explanatory? he wears alot of black and white for purity and mystery, but what I want to go into is his final outfit which I though was white and blue striped t-shirt but I think is actually just blue for the most part. My thought on this is that when you beat the game and grasp the truth that Yu has essentially gotten rid of the mystery surrounding himself and inside him and his personality, and thus is now pure as symbolized with white and content with blue, due to him fitting in and finding his place in Inaba.
Sorry for the ramble but that's my thoughts. Anyway I just want ya to know your video was great and got me to kinda research colors and rewatch the final portion due to you not including Yu so maybe it was intentional but still thank you for your content. I realize as well that you cover the "optional" arcana's and all that but I was kinda wondering about just bringing Rise to your attention. I get that alot of the parties members stories and morals are pretty simple and blunt, well not to say that the game isn't upfront about most the morals and lessons which I appreciate, cause it is annoying when a story does dance around there ideas instead of bluntly I suppose attacking the player with the thoughts and themes the game is trying to convey. Anyway getting back to Rise, I find her story pretty heartfelt and somewhat relatable as it is somewhat hard to come up with a personalities which is all of you, so she goes and assumes arc a types of herself, and I'm kinda losing the point as I type but her story is just simply and bluntly wholesome.
Oh and omega spoilers I suppose, for a vid on Adachi if you ever do one since he's already got a some vids on him. I think it would be cool and maybe even true to bring up that the main cast all have flaws but if they didn't overcome them they would have led worst lives but not be in as bad a state of Adachi. I think I'm losing the plot again but the idea is that Adachi suffers from all the flaws that the cast overcomes? maybe? For the final time I loved the vid and I hope to hear your thoughts on the other characters and themes of Persona 4.
I think that many persona players think the yellow is to show off the more fun and lighthearted parts of the game, but miss the point completely.
Thought the game Murder happens, even with the more tame moments, but the color actually, in my opinion is alluding to Carl Jung’s Ego, Superego, and Id.
So in basic terms I’m going to use the town (which relates to what I’m going to say) in those definitions. The Ego is basically the fact it’s a peaceful small town with that good old values, the normal, on the surface depiction of Inaba. Then you have the Id, which like the shadow versions of the investigation team, is the murders, the people having “personas” disguise their inner parts of themselves (Naoto being a girl, Kanji maybe not being a tough guy and in my opinion straight (I think it’s Pansexual though), and the other’s struggles within), and the threat of the killer. Then the superego is the investigation team saving people and being heroes for the town, as well as giving them strength (the arcanas and supplies and such). It also plays into the duality that the game has as well, the shadows and the personas, the light vibes and the darker vibes underneath, and the big thing, the normal town at the beginning and the fog (as well as the shadow world) becoming one. The fact that there is a darker part in the game, even if it’s more lighthearted, makes me think Yellow is used as a deflection of those parts of the game. Even in the title track (the original one) talks about finding one true self, which I think is a reference of the unconscious mind realizing more about itself.
So basically, that yellow is used for the lighthearted parts of the game, but also to throw off the dark side of the shadow world and the killings. Which to me is similar to my small hometown, which has an underbelly of unsavory things.
And honestly, I actually find it creepier that the game doesn’t have that grimmer vibe that most mystery stories would (it’s like a cozy murder mystery vibe), which is kind of like fear of dolls, like their faces are happy, but they seems more dark…like that.
The subtleties that define the feel of the game, even if you don’t know the meanings of color art like me it still defines the character subconsciously. In your head it just fits you can look at someone and have a good idea who they are. This just gives a deeper appreciation of the game for me
I thought you might have wanted to delve into the connection between the faded yellow's meaning of deceit and its correlation to the yellow tinted fog, but I guess I'm reaching.
When I mentioned the yellow draping the scenes to represent things like illness and deceit it was mainly a case of me assuming 2 and 2 for the fog stuff. I really wanted to cover how the characters and their arcs reflect through their outfits
@@HidinginPrivate I figured as much. It's probably better being this concise.
It is here!
Great video!
It is here!
i like how persona 4 had a really Vibic colors, and give me feel in high
I like vibing
I’ve been wanting to get back into p4 but I lost an 40 hour save and I haven’t really felt like redoing it. This vid kinda made me wanna start chopping away at it again
I can understand why you'd get frustrated. If you're playing on PC you could probably fast forward most scenes, and play with high money/xp and catch up in a few hours if you wanna make it less taxing
That's why you have multiple save files
@@Lside1340 no like all my data got lost on my computer
@@Boyhood__ hah, same situation! 100 hours here, I kept stalling on fighting the final boss. Plenty of save files but the problem was the computer. I’m not too upset about it though, P4 just lost a lot of its appeal over time
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So true!
very good very cool i have been coming back into p4g to finish everything past ameno sagiri but am busy with school again
Great analasys my friend
Thanks! I have videos coming on the sagiri and more specific things after that point but they likely won't be out for a while
the way this video starts is kinda jarring but the content in it is great , i cant wait to see the rest , get well soon man
You don't like the intro?
Are you thinking of doing this for each game? Maybe a video for specific characters and/or personas as the analisys starts getting lengthy? Persona5 having the alt outfits and all
Aldo, im surprised you didnt touched the arena game outfits, showing yet another time skip for the characters, way after this conflict was solved and even more growth
this is a great video but i still can't hear "color theory" without thinking about that post with the red trail and handprints in the children's hospital
tumblr is a trip
Gladly I'm unfamiliar with that. When I hear color theory I think about halfa$$ed literary analysis for highschoolers
my interest for persona and its characters, fashion, and color is living right now.
Glad you liked!
This was a great video, looking forward to the rest. Also, is there a link of the interview at 2:12?
Thanks! And sure. I gathered from a few sources but the one I specifically refer to and show is this one:
personacentral.com/nocchi-atlus-tour-part-2/
Good video. Love your content.
Thank you. Much more to come!
Good vid and great choice of songs :3
Thanks! Spent a lot of time with the vid
@@HidinginPrivate It came out well~
Looking forward to seeing more of ya stuff
This was a great video!
Thank you!
Awww man you’re making me wanna draw and play Persona 4 again!!😩😩😩
Persona 4 good!
Great vid broski! U just earned urself a new subscriber ;P
Thanks! Glad to have ya. Hope you enjoy all the other videos that are yet to come
@@HidinginPrivate lol, ya don't thank me for liking the good content YOU made broski. ;P
I'm just glad UA-cam kept recommending this to me! Here's a list of each color representing the main cast, their motives, struggles, and leitmotif:
Yu Narukami/Soji Seta: Gray/White
It ties to him as the main character, his connection to the player, and the eventual traitor Tohru Adachi(even sharing the same English VA). Gray or white aren't interconnected to color whatsoever, but it can be used as a metaphor for light, and Adachi's color black to darkness; yin and yang in particular, even balance.
Yosuke Hanamura: Orange
Orange can be a color representing passion, or energy; Yosuke is quite swift and optimistic akin to yellow, the neighboring color. Always there to help those in need, while also quite enthusiastic. Orange as well as yellow are colors in relation to the shop he works at, and the link to the Shadow World, Junes; that includes sunflowers akin to his last name(hana meaning flower in Japanese).
Chie Satonaka: Green
In the previous mainline installment, green was more of an omen than anything else(hence why it was used to represent the Dark Hour and Tartarus in the majority of P3); Persona 4 and 5 subverted this thought by having green tie with more useful and energetic characters like with Chie and Futaba. Green next to blue(which is discussed more in Naoto's entry) are reliant on wisdom. It makes sense with Chie in the beginning of P4, since she's devoted to help Yukiko out and insists on saving her while she's trapped in the Shadow World(Futaba on the other hand serves as P5's navigator and support figure to the Phantom Thieves, also giving green another purpose than just in Persona 4).
Yukiko Amagi: Red
Red may have connections to rage, but it also alludes to power in addition to fire. The latter makes sense with Yukiko, as she uses Agi based spells automatically equipped to her Persona throughout, the former shared plenty of connections to her dungeon as Yukiko's shadow believed to be the most dominant out of her entire family, hence the royal palace theme(thus carried over to Persona 5 also having a castle dungeon in the beginning of the game with Kamoshida's Palace, except with lust added). She usually sports red like during the spring and autumn sessions of Yasogami High, or in the winter after school.
Kanji Tatsumi: Purple/Violet
Kanji's main color purple was often misinterpreted as a sign of homosexuality(also matching with his struggle manifested into a bathhouse inspired dungeon), but it can also allude to royality hence why his arcana is the Emperor like what one comment to this video pointed out, and purple is one of the few colors to electricity and lightning(aside from yellow, blue, and white), his Personas are exclusive users to Zio magic, as mentioned earlier.
Rise Kujiwara: Pink/Magenta
Pink is more in line with a feminine color, likely used for female idols in the music industry, especially in Japan. Pink is also a sign of sexuality and love; which is why it parallels Rise's arcana The Lovers. Her dungeon is based on a stripclub, thus relating to Rise's struggle where many believed she is a sex symbol instead of a normal person like everyone else.
Teddie: Yellow
Yellow can also be interpreted as a color of anxiety or stress, but also happiness and positivity. Teddie's Junes mascot uniform mixes yellow with red, and blue for his fur. In human form, Teddie's hair is yellow as well. He associates to the TV World, since the dimension is to the brim with Shadows; as he too used to be malevolent like the others aside from Marie, but vow to fight for good, then solve the murder cases and fog with the friends he cared for.
Naoto Shirogane: Blue
Even though blue shares introspection to characters in Persona with wisdom, akin to green, it is also a sign for masculinity. Naoto wanted to be accepted as a woman, even though she usually guises as a man, while also having the surname of 'Detective Prince'. She's timid for revealing the truth, but when realizing her shadow is the same just like her, Naoto decides to accept the identity she kept veiled for so long; considering the allusion to trans and how pale blue and pink(the signature colors to men and women) are used to represent transexuality, the former color felt perfect for garnering Naoto's realization and acceptance.
Honestly seeing how Naoto turned out in Golden at the end was such a treat. She was already adorable before but HOT DAMN did she own it at the end. Best Girl.
I love Naoto
You may have noticed that Teddie isn't in the video, this is a subtle reference that he is annoying af
Good catch!
VERY PSYCHED for tons of Persona 4 content my man
Let's get real,
Yellow is an awesome color.
And that's the truth!
Gamer!
Good stuff.
Thank you!
I think Dojima's gray represents his age and baggage. He's exhausted and unhappy a lot of the time to the point of neglecting his daughter, which saddens them both. Since his wife died, life has lost its luster for Dojima. That his tie is still vibrant red represents the his still aching pain and anger culminating in his passion for the case. On the other hand, it could also represent his (potential for) renewed vibrancy for life that the protagonist provides him from their social link
btw, that was a great video best boy!
Thanks Yuki!
I really need to play this game
You should!
I'm going to subscribe, cool video
Thanks! New one will be out each week
i think it's curious cause yellow in persona 4 is used as an acceptance color and scary/anxiety color
When you said blue represents conservatism for Naoto I just imagined her in a MAGA hat and I can’t get the idea out of my head.
You left out Yu himself? Going from neutral tones to bright colours, self-representing as yellow while covering himself in grey and black and white, ending in pastels? There's a whole thesis of colour there!
His will be in his own segment, but speaking strictly for p4 and p4g he is almost always in the normal yasigami garb and is mostly greyscale. Even his hair is grey.
Hey boss. is there a problem with the playlist because these videos seem out of order? This one comes right after the intro but is referring to older videos.
I feel like we’re forgetting something…
Nah probably not, enjoyed the analysis.
Anything else you would have liked me to talk about?
@@HidinginPrivate I was just poking fun about completely disregarding Teddie as part of the main cast, but then again, nothing much of importance to mention about his change.
I've never noticed how long yosuke's neck was until I saw his timeskip portrait. Why is he girraffe coded?
6:20 omg look at that neck
True!
i love color theoy and compasition
I love compassion
@@HidinginPrivate :)
Good vid
Thanks!
Top content
Thanks
Persona 4 has a jaundice problem
Mainly during the really sunny days
What would you say for Yu?
pretty good video
Thanks!
If your plan isnt to make one long video, could you maybe restructure the playlist to be in order of how the segments are supposed to line up, would greatly increase viewing pleasure
I have two separate exported versions of each segment. One set are made as youtube uploads, the other set will be compiled into the master video that will drop at the end. The full video version will also include a lot of bonus analysis not contained in any individual segment
@@HidinginPrivate Hell yeh great to hear, hopefully thatll be churned through youtube algorithym and gets big views
I should note that the characters New look only happens in the apologue in persona 4 golden not persona 4 original
Honestly I feel that p4 has the least use of its main colour (Yellow) compared to yhe others but still does agreat job with it.
Yeah, funny you say that too since p3 wasn't even blue by intention from the start haha. If you look at early concept art for p4 it even has a lot more blue than yellow
@@HidinginPrivate Yeah I think I checked that out a while back, it's pretty interesting that p3 just sorta is blue without to much intention behind it.
What's your outro music?
Maya's theme
When the persona 4 Adachi?!?
True!
Cool video
Thanks
What's the name of your outro theme?
Maya's Theme from Persona 2
Persona 4 color is very golden
So true!
i thought hope was green
The blue in Naoto probably also represents maleness?
Yeah, I was surprised that he didn't mention blue being traditionally viewed as a masculine color, especially darker blues like the ones Naoto wears. She's literally trying to cloak herself in a veneer of masculinity.
what if all os us see color differently(obviously we all do but thats not what i meant)like...i see red as ive always seen red,but maybe for example YOU see red as what I call YELLOW you call it red and all of us call it red as its been categorized as "red" but maybe if i was in your eyes id see "yellow" but you categorize it as "red"
Color is a spectrum of wave like frequencies that our eyes decode with light into colors. The frequencies are always the same, and except in specific cases the way our eyes are genetically made are the same too so we know at this point my red is your red, unless you have accuse color blindness that doesn't register enough then maybe it would be a very slightly different shade.
@@HidinginPrivate ahhh
Another piece of obvious color theory is how izanagi starts being black and later going white. This obviously representing the truth that he has found, this is contrary to the black which is almost representing a delinquent who doesn't follow rule, which ties into how he defys people's outlook on them
Persona 4 being the Chad of games
What about Teddie and Narukami?
I thought Narukami's was pretty straightforward especially for how minimal his colors stay most the time. For teddie I should have included a more direct segment, but his primary colors are yellow, white and red which I feel are also pretty straightforward with previous explanations. I wrote these segments with the whole series of essays in mind so I actually talk about teddies colors with a lot more context in his own segment (which will come out eventually) thanks for watching! I hope you enjoyed. A ton more stuff is coming
@@HidinginPrivate I didn't expect a response so quickly. Agreed, Narukami's colors are intented to be neutral and 'colorless' in a sense. It was a really interesting video bro, Can't wait to see the next ones
No teddy? Or did I miss it😭
Sorry. He has such little outfit variety and I cover it in his own segment more so I left him out here for redundancy sake concerning the project as a whole
Is that an add I see? Did ya get monetized?
Also.. let's hit Chie.. with a car. XD
If you saw an ad that's just youtube monetizing my work 💀 the channel still isn't monetized. I have to get another 1300 watch hours before they'll let me
@@HidinginPrivate let's hit youtube with a car.
Purse owner four
My favorite purse owning simulation game
@@HidinginPrivate Saying good bye to your legally owned purse collection at the end
hits hard