![]() ![]() In Royal, Kasumi Yoshizawa expresses the belief that while the Phantom Thieves have good intentions, the general public should not become dependent on the group to change society. Additionally, several members of the police began to open up to them, those being Zenkichi Hasegawa and Miyako Kaburagi. While public reception of them is mixed after the final confrontation against the conductor, they become less morally ambiguous, especially during the extra campaign of Persona 5 Royal and the events on Persona 5 Strikers, where they are willing to steal the hearts of anyone who attempts to cause disorder and stagnation within the public, including those doing so with well-intent, and actually make them atone as better people. In the end, they find out that they were sponsored and manipulated by a conductor, and were destined for ruin in the end, which explains their morally ambiguous activities and their targets not atoning properly after their change of heart. Despite it being said that the Phantom Thieves had lost sight of their original goal before getting framed, it does not stop them from actually reforming minor Mementos targets or high profile targets, and Okumura, who was used as bait, certainly gave the Phantom Thieves a reason to steal his desires to protect their friend Haru Okumura. The plan was successful, and not only were the Phantom Thieves caught off guard, but after Okumura's death, they were labeled as violent murderers by society and became despised by many, as well as the reason behind targeting them being linked to him being the highest ranked person on the Phantom Aficionado Website in terms of votes, deliberately engineered to lure them into this trap. They would use the Phantom Thieves's popularity to set them up by framing them for the death of Kunikazu Okumura, a political opponent of Masayoshi Shido and plunge them into the bottom in all of an instant, by framing them for the death of multiple would-be-opposition to said Antisocial Force. ![]() Not only that, this resulted in the retaliation of authorities, currently being taken over by a powerful conspiracy backed by unnatural forces. Furthermore, Medjed themselves would attempt to suppress public support for the group by threatening individuals with "confiscation," and would later announce they'd crash Japan's economy should the Phantom Thieves not reveal their identities, exploiting the powerlessness of the public, as well as artificially giving the Phantom Thieves some to have them be blamed for not taking responsibility. The story would develop over time, eventually suggesting the false notion that they might be fabricating confessions for crimes that haven't been committed, and even compare them directly to the psychotic breakdown incidents and Medjed. In the public eye, while some view them as heroes who fight for justice and protect the innocent, the Phantom Thieves's have been met with various illegitimate criticism for the purpose of swaying public opinion and forcing them to concede, rather than objectively analyzing the events at hand, and the events would develop to directly question the strength of their justice by harming them by powerful forces in return: Goro Akechi would actively try to denounce them by deeming them to be a dangerous group who have no right to forcefully change the hearts of people, believing that doing so makes them no better than the criminals they target. To combat this injustice, they surpass the preconceived notions of morality: although it is subjective as to whether the Phantom Thieves are "right" or "wrong," they reject both inability and hypocrisy by carefully establishing their tools while working together towards the same vision of righteousness. They are willing to exploit the supernatural if it means bringing the masses freedom and liberation. The Phantom Thieves of Hearts is a group of persona users largely consisted of former victims of Kamoshida and Masayoshi Shido (or his co-conspirators), and their goal is to confront "corrupt adults" by stealing their "corrupt hearts," and change the world in order to rebel and fight against the complex, sophisticated and well-ingrained system of slavery they are trapped in, reinforced by the General Public's selective apathy that enables abuses against them to basically go unchecked and unopposed. Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Roundabout Special.Persona 5 The Animation The Day Breakers.Persona 5 Comic Anthology (DNA Media Comics).4.4 Persona 5 The Animation / The Day Breakers.
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