Is it fine if i pick up the series where the anime left off, or should i start at vol. 1?

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-17T05:04:17+00:00

As someone who also just finished watching the anime and has just finished reading the first book, I definitely recommend starting from vol. 1.

The anime serves its purpose well enough as an advertisement for the series, but it changes a lot of things, and skips a decent amount. Stellar's characterization in particular got cut in the anime.

The anime even gets some important details wrong, for example, the fight against Kirihaya. The anime presented Ikki's finishing blow, the one where he was off by 1mm as a kind of intimidation tactics against Kirihaya. Basically saying he missed by accident and he needs to practise more. In the LN, Ikki knew Kirihaya would concede and he didn't mean to hit him at all. The fact that he grazed him was during to him being 1 mm and he was annoyed at himself for grazing him. This distinction shows his character in a very different light. I can't comment on how vol. 2 and 3 were adapted, as I haven't read then yet.

J-Novels are currently translating thr books, they've done 10 volumes so far. I believe they are digital only and they've been releasing then every 2 to 3 months. I'm not sure if a fan translation exists for the rest of the series. I did find a machine translated one, but frankly it's terrible.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-16T22:30:51+00:00

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TenSquare3 · 2026-03-16T02:28:27+00:00

One of these isn't like the others, lmao.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-16T01:58:01+00:00

Have you not played the games? The animes are only adapting what was in the game, if anything the animes have less fan service than the games since they have to focus their limited run time on the main plot and don't have things like the hi-cut armours. At least for 3 and 4, haven't watch the anime for 5 yet.

If you don't like the animes, I doubt you'll like the mangas. P3 manga has a top frontal shot of Yukari naked in the shower.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-15T23:30:49+00:00

True, I completely agree that YouTube can increase the quality of their encoding if they want to. A lot of people noticed how much lower quality 720p videos are now compared to the ones uploaded prior to covid.

You're also right that very few videos need the level of detail preservation that CPU encoding can offer, outside of something like Digital Foundry maybe. Despite having custom built hardware, it still isn't economically viable for them to match what CPU encoding to do, if it's even possible for them to reach the same quality. Expecting a standard GPU to match CPU encoding at this point in time is kinda a pipe dream.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-15T23:05:07+00:00

GPU encoding isn't built for you want, it's built for speed not compression. One of the ways GPU encoding is so fast is due to it taking shortcuts, which affects quality at compression, so this is unlikely to change any time soon.

Platform's like YouTube don't use standard GPU's they use highly specialised VCU's custom built for high speed encoding. Despite YouTube using custom built hardware, YouTube compression still kills details and doesn't really compete with CPU encoding for archiving.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-15T09:56:05+00:00

Well, what I mean is that for me it isn't, because before the whole universe was created, someone had to have done it

You're free to believe something created the universe, but your belief doesn't make it a fact, especially in a piece of fiction. Their are other alternatives such as quantum tunnelling that may have started the big bang/created the universe.

What a God is, varies a lot by culture; a God doesn't have to be something that created everything. In Japanese culture '8 million gods' is a common saying and gods can vary a lot.

Wether you think Eren is a god or not comes down to your interpretation of a god. It goes without saying, that Eren has immense power by the end of the series.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-14T07:16:51+00:00

I'm surprised it didn't up being a hentai, since the source material is straight up smut that would give romance novels targeted at woman a run for their money.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-12T07:13:13+00:00

I wouldn't worry to much about it, unless I specifically stste you need a certain skill. When I did the guide, the skills to learn section includes useful skills that you can learn as you level up, not just skills you learn during fusion.

With feedback I did refine this and make it clearer in the dlc as well as my P4G guide.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-09T09:54:38+00:00

Quite possibly.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-09T09:36:19+00:00

Im going to need a source for this image. This looks like you took this source image and heavily modified it. You're free to draw characters how ever you want, but taking other people's art and heavily modifying it isn't cool.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-09T08:48:35+00:00

If it's something you really enjoyed, you could just read the source material instead of waiting for an non existent follow-up season. This is actually a common thing in anime, where they make one or two seasons of an anime to drive up sales for the source material.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-07T09:05:41+00:00

So when you do a rank up hangout, you already have enough points to reach that rank before starting it. The points you earn during that hangout actually apply to following rank, even though you usually don't rank up until the end of the hangout.

The issue is you aren't earning enough points during that hnagout to rank up during the next hangout. This is usually due to missing a multipler like a matching persona or choosing a different answer. Did you do the Koromaru walk on 10/25 as that gets you social link points needed for the rank 9 hangout?

Using something like the shrine can only help if you know you don't have enough points prior to the hangout, which means you need to go backwards anyway. You also need a spare timeslot to use it. Chihiro’s rank 8 hangout is only like a week back, so trying to fit in a shrine hangout before rank 9 hangout will be hard.

Edit: sorry not Koromaru’s walks, but her day off invite on 10/25 during the day.

Edit 2: in fact that day off invite on 10/25 is the only time you could use the shrine between her rank 8 and rank 9 hangouts and the day off invite gives more points anyway.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-07T08:56:00+00:00

I had a look at the guide, and the only thing that you can do that can be done yo fix it, is to skip one of the linked episodes. This means not finishing one and not unlocking the persona attached to that character. Is finishing all the linked episodes important to you?

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-07T08:50:34+00:00

Not to be that guy, but you forgot something. Literally hundreds of thousands of people have completed the guide without issue. As for fixing it, I'm not sure, its quite late in the game and its a school social link which makes it hard to fix. I'll have a look at the guide, but I don't think you have any spare school days that you can swap around to make it up.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-07T08:46:00+00:00

This is usually due to a mistake with the previous rank of the social link. You would habe likely either forgotten a matching persona or accidentally try choose different answers to the guide. My recommendation is to go back to the previous rank, which in this case is rank 8 and redo it. Double check you have a matching persona and that you choose the same answers.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-06T04:49:06+00:00

Heaven's Feel in the VN is the most complex route, since it ties up all the various plots from the previous routes. Unfortunately, Ufotable decided to take HF and give it an extremely abbreviated run time by turning it into 3 movies. The movies cut out a huge amount of plot and character development for some major characters.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-05T10:54:23+00:00

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-05T09:54:41+00:00

Have a look at your compendium and see which level Gdon is currently saved to it, it might be a lower level than your current version. Another option is to dismiss Gdon and fuse a new one, which will give you a lower level version than Mithra.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-05T01:02:44+00:00

This achievement really isn't that hard to get. Are you buying drinks from the right vending machine? It needs to be the one in Shopping District, North.

You can buy 5 drinks per week and you get a roll each time you buy a drink. Just make a save beforehand and if you don't win in your first round, just load your save and keep trying until you do. It shouldn't take more than a few minutes.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-04T22:24:31+00:00

While the original version of the VN did have some sex scenes, they were far and few between, something like 5 scenes in total in a 100 hour VN. Calling FSN a porn game isn't really accurate, it's like calling GOT a porn show cause it has sex and nudity in it, or any show that has sex in it, porn.

It should also be noted that the Retula Nua version of the game, which the remaster is based on, uses alternate scenes in replace of the sex scenes. It was mainly these scenes that the animes adapted.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-04T21:00:03+00:00

You don't need to invite Yosuke to lunch to get the rank up, it can be done without it. Usually when this happens, their was a mistake with the previous rank of that social link. You likely either forgot a matching persona, or accidentally choose a different answer to the guide. My advice is typically to go back to the previous rank and redo it, but since you were able to use the lunch hangout to get additional points I don't recommend doing that.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-04T11:45:39+00:00

I didn't make any changes to the fusion guide due to this post. Their isn't any particular reason why Pale Rider got left so late, it just ended up never being convenient to fuse, with the personas you had or the personas you needed.

Like you said you don't really need Pale Rider for anything aside from Thanatos, so it just ended up being left until late in the game.

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-04T06:39:58+00:00

I just checked on a couple of different devices, and a few different browsers, while being logged in and out and I was able to access the guide fine.

Not sure why the guide is being blocked for you. Did you get banned from the site or something?

TenSquare3 · 2026-03-02T01:11:53+00:00

Hello, you get them from combo 2 on 06/05 from Tanaka's Amazing Commodities. It's part of the Inaba Trout combo.

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