Persona 4 The Golden Animation Ost "Ying Yang"

"no no no no yes yes yes yes" is both ironically and unironically the pinnacle of Persona music

ying yang more like lotus juice has a rap battle with himself

My name is tohru Adachi, I'm 27 years old and currently reside within the northeast residential villas of Inaba

"I am flawless" "More like thoughtless" Sick burn brah.

Ah yes, Ying Yang, also known as "That time Izanagi and Magatsu Izanagi had a rap battle ft.Izanami trying to mediate."

Love it how Yu & Adachi never question why their main Personas are so alike.

When you realize Yu and Adachi has the same VA. They went all out with the whole opposite, but the same idea.

I posted it elsewhere but I’ll post it here as well. The reason why Adachi serves as such a perfect foil to Yu is right there in the lyrics for Ying Yang, specifically in the line "glass was half full for mine, and it looked half empty for me. Maybe that one glass made the path we took." in reference to Yu and Adachi’s contrasting views on life and what makes a person’s life worth living, as well as the proper way to go about it, or rather what makes a person 'talented' or successful. If you’ve seen Adachi’s past then you’ll know that he worked tirelessly all throughout his college years merely to get a job with the police, however despite his best efforts he lost his position and was sent to Inaba as a result. While he was packing his belongings he overheard an ongoing TV show mention that "those with talent will always succeed no matter what they do", a statement he then echoed in his fight with Yu later on in the animation (which you should absolutely watch in you haven’t). That mindset of 'talent is key' further molds Adachi into who we see in Persona 4, he fully believes that you’re either born with talent or not born with talent (born to be successful or born to fail). However, what he heard was completely wrong and if he was in a better state of mind he may have never murdered people (a jab at the stupidity and toxicity of the media inadvertently breedings monsters and bigotry out of gullible human beings). In reality 'talent' the skeleton key to life, success and leisure that Adachi so craved was not talent at all but connections. Adachi had every opportunity to make those connections in college, on the job or in his personal life but decided to go about it all on his lonesome, he shrugged off connections and so he was always lacking (glass half empty) while Yu embraced his connections and forged new ones as he faced the world around him (glass half full). Going back to my original point, the reason Adachi is a perfect foil for Yu is because Adachi has all the talent, Yu is just about talentless, Adachi is a genius, he’s capable, ferocious and a detective in the police. Yu is just a high school student, on his own he’s weak and vulnerable, he makes mistakes, but for all his flaws he has friends there to help him and draw strength from, you begin P4 as a nobody but work your way to the top by embracing the world as well as your weaknesses allowing you to overcome them, your shadows. Adachi is his own shadow, he rejects all social ties and is left to stew in his misery, he’s strong on his own but in his heart he’s pathetic, he stands alone and at his core he’s completely and utterly lost amidst his own conflicting thoughts. Adachi wants 'talent' or rather the key to life, but he mistakes talent for connections and unknowingly pushes it away making it harder and harder to live his life until he’s certain he’s damned. In plain terms, Adachi has always had talent, the thing he really wanted but never knew he needed was the exact bonds he shrugged off, that is what separates him from Yu, a single wall as stark as yin and yang.

Johnny fights himself in anime form while Lotus raps against himself.

The whole Ying Yang aspect of Yu and Adachi is only strengthened in the English Dub, where both of them have the same voice actor.

What’s scary is how real of a villain Adachi is. He acts similar to a lot of sociopaths in real life. Unlike Shido who was just this random big strong villain. We know about Adachi and his past and how he thinks about everything. Adachi is just a really well put together antagonist

This really should've been Adachi's boss theme

Jesus, I love the symbolism in this game. Adachi and Yu are like the ying and yang: they are both extreme opposites to each other, but at the same time, like any other opposite, they both complete each other - that's why Yu was the only person who could more or less approach Adachi. Adachi is in fact the very personification of what Yu could have become had him not sorted himself out in Inaba.

Adachi, you're supposed to be the villain. I can't not like you when THIS is your battle theme.

Adachi = Black Hair Yu = White hair.

Lotus juice is the only Music artist that can make an entire song thats basicaly someone having an imaginary argument against himself in the shower into a song

Ill turn 34yo this year, still can relate hin because still have a shit life like him. Lowest salary, no friends (at least he have Dojima tho), single, no any penny for saving, except for his crime and his cabbage of course. Its irony I have similar past like him, except he dodge to be friend anyone during his school life while me getting bullied.

Persona 4 Golden: *Is released on PC Modders who want this to become Adachi's new theme: 00:26

That moment when the two smart kids have different answers

Adachi is by far the best Persona villain, because of how scarily real he is. Not everyone is a Ace Detective or a therapist trying to heal everyone. But everyone has been bitter with the world, with society. Everyone has experienced loneliness, and some have even let it consume them like it did Adachi. Adachi is could easily be anyone