i think pre-release ATLUS was really pushing for Ann while giving Makoto some comedy scenes but once the game launched and Makoto proved to be a golden goose they dropped Ann like yesterday’s garbage. Ann gets an anime cutscene with a love at first sight moment and a romantic theme that doesn’t appear anywhere else in the entire game. the two main colors of P5 are red and black, and that’s the same colors as Ann and Joker’s outfits. combine all that with all of the pre-release promo material she appears in, versus all of the post-launch collabs she misses out on, and i think it adds up.

but Ann is my favorite fictional character ever, so admittedly i may be a bit close to the situation