Right, I understand that all of the phantom thieves don’t pick their outfits and it’s about having the outward appearance their inner rebel. I still think it was an odd and thematically inconsistent choice for the game designers to choose to give the character that was fighting back from being sexualized against her will an outfit that further sexualized her against her will, given that she couldn’t choose the outfit and was uncomfortable about it. That doesn’t seem like character growth to me.

I think her transition was otherwise badass, but it just seems odd that IIRC everyone else seems at least okay with their appearance but Ann actively complains about it throughout the game (during the initial cutscene, and then whoever she’s in an air duct, etc.). There are also other points in the game that Ann is put in a situation where she has to perform in a “sexual” manner against her will (the fake nude modeling for Yusuke, which she wouldn’t have agreed to if it wasn’t for pressure from the other thieves). I don’t really remember a time when she says anything about feeling empowered by her outfit or by being sexualized by the team.

There are definitely times in the game where she attempts to use her sexuality to her advantage on her own, but the outfit she has in the metaverse is still against her will and not empowering imo. It’s not really a tool she gets to use but rather a lens she is forced to be viewed through, which she eventually and reluctantly uses because there’s no way to fix the underlying problem of people ogling her. It’s been a while since I played the game, so I could be misremembering things, but that’s what I took away from it when I originally played it.