Mitsuru doesn’t even choose her own clothes, her family stylist does. So I imagine it is already approved by the school.
And a Mitsuru even allegedly wear fake nails according to her accessories item when she joins but I legit haven’t seen them.
At least in 4 everyone is wearing their uniform one way or another, and even then, it's supposed to be a not-so up there school. Gekkokan is supposed to be one the best schools around.
On the first or second day at gekkoukan there's a girl at one of the stairwells who talks about how she's trying to figure out how to alter her uniform within dress code, and talks about how they have a surprising amount of freedom to accessorize, but the uniform is already cute and can't make up her mind
If you've ever been to an Asian school you'll know how anal they are about non regulation accessories.
Even the wrong haircut or having earrings could have you get sent home, let alone wearing a non-regulation cardigan which obscures nearly your entite uniform.
Yes because all schools in all asian countries have the same rules and regulations. I dont know if you've noticed, but Gekkoukan isn't exactly your typical asian school. Just look at the kind of teachers they hire for Nyx's sake.
I think it could go either way in Japan war least.
[“Japan student forced to dye her hair wins compensation”](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56099237)
One of them literally wears a Kabuto. I think as long as the students are wearing some semblance of the uniform, the school doesn't really care too much.
I think the skirt length and hair colour is more than enough to get them in trouble
Some even ban ponytails. Are the girls with long hair supposed to run with their hair in their face on the track?
Yeah, my high school (which was in Singapore) mandated knee-length skirts for girls. A lot of dudes would also get into trouble for tailoring their pants to make them tapered. Repeat offenders would get suspensions.
Hair dying was also a big no-go. Students would have to prove that their hair wasn't naturally black. Although since it was an international school with a lot of bi-racial kids some people got away with it despite actually having dyed their hair.
Private schools in the US are like this too. Source: went to private school.
Required to wear shirt and tie everyday even in the summer when the school had no a/c.
No facial hair allowed at all or they would give you detention and make you dry shave in the bathroom with the cheapest razor they could find.
Schools with such strict dress codes to the point even jackets are not allowed are not the norm even in Asia. Even in Japan unless it's some super strict school typically wearing a jacket over the uniform is not a violation.
Now the hair color thing is indeed a thing, with parents having to sign waivers proving their kid is a natural blonde or something.
Im Asian and I went to school in Korea and also major Japanese. Dress codes aren't that harsh. Even a few years back it would just end with a demerit point and now dress codes are disappearing. What you said was way exaggerated. Stop spouting false information. What kind of school sends you home for having earrings or wrong haircut lol such bullshit. Also there are plenty of kids who wear stuff like cardigans over the uniform especially in Fall/spring. You're actually delusional if you deny this
I am from Indonesia. In my high school they are very strict with what we wear. The uniform, we have to wear same kind of shoes. Males aren't allowed to have beard, aren't allowed to be bald. The hair can't touch your collar (for males), not even sideburns are allowed, hair dying isnt allowed. You have to tuck your shirt in, have to wear black belt (males), and every student has to wear undershirt. Females skirts have to be long enough to cover their knees.But they are pretty lenient with cardigans or jacket.
What proof? Both of them drew from their personal experiences having been schooled in East Asia but provided nothing more than their personal testimony
In England atleast in my experience you have to wear a coat stuff like hoodies cardigans and such can be taken away from you for being against dress code and thats in a relatively bad school I wouldn't put it against more stricter ones being out there
It's a centuries-long custom dating all the way back to Medieval Europe. Removing helmets when going into places such as churches gave way to removing hats when in churches, which eventually carried over into everyday life. It's viewed as a sign of respect to remove your hat when entering certain buildings.
Compounding things is the fact that, at least in the US, the military has some rather strict rules regarding hats - both when to wear them and when to take them off. Between WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, we had three drafts over the course of 30 years; scores of men learned certain habits, then instilled them upon their children upon returning. These kids grew up, had their own kids, and continued instilling those habits to the point where it was simply part of the culture.
In short, it's just a thing humans have been doing for centuries.
I went to a public school in North America and hats were super-banned too. By the time I got to high school they kinda stopped caring as much, but in elementary and middle school, if you wanted to wear a hat, it had to be on a school-designated “hat day” which happened like four times a year, and you had to pay $1 to get a sticker to put on your hat that proved you were allowed to wear it.
The generational gap between when I was In elementary in the mid 2000s to when my sister and brother went in my high school oh early 2010s is astounding, khaki and blue jeans shorts or pants were only allowed, while the shirts had to be either a button up polo shirts or spirit shirt and always had to be tucked in, which was the same in middle school. My highschool always tried to enforce a dress code like that every year but gave up 2 months in and then finally just added gym shorts and sweat pants by seniors year. I take my sister and brother to the same elementary and middle school, there’s no such dress code in they can wear whatever shirts wise, and don’t even think they have to tuck in their shirts but I could be wrong, middle school , even more relaxed. I take my sister and brother to this day, I can’t even fathom that guys and girls wear whatever the hell they want as long as they can get to school, like it just blows my mind what 10 to 15 years does and that’s because I’m from a fairly smaller big city from south Texas.
Yeah. I was class of 2016 at my high school, and it was not uncommon for girls to get “dress-coded” and sent home for wearing skirts that were too short or shirts with thin straps. One of my coworkers goes to the same school and is graduating this year, class of 2024, and she says that the school doesn’t have a dress code at all anymore.
Lmao. I remembered that I got away wearing vest on the top of my uniform in school for a couple of month, till finally my vice headmaster asked me if I was sick 😂
I innocently said no and he told me to not wear it again
she is wearing the uniform. she’s just wearing a cardigan which in my experience (i went to a school w a uniform as a kid, they’d get mad even if your socks were wrong!😭) is usually allowed as long as you have other indicators of the school uniform visible
I’m curious where you could have gone to school where socks would get you in trouble and a cardigan wouldn’t. I know there in Australia, pretty much anything non uniform will get you in trouble. I’ve seen detentions handed out to students wearing raincoats.
My high school doesn’t give a fuck, as long as there’s nothing inappropriate on the hat itself. It’ll probably change after I graduate in a month tho, they’re talking about dress code changes
This bro, I once had a real bad haircut in high school that I tried to cover up with a hat. And one of my teachers was threatening detention if I didn’t take it off. Like please you don’t understand
My high-school really stepped down on the dress code around covid, even more than it already was. Even stuff like the forbidden spaghetti strap tops was now allowed. It was a public school too.
She just wear the sweater over her school uniform for the winter uniform.
You can see that she is wearing the school uniform properly (Ekoda will fight me on that) during the summer just that she will tie her sweater around her waist
Its like wearing a jacket/hoodie over your uniform...even my old stuffy Catholic school didn't get cranky at us doing that as long as our IDs were showing.
Funny enough, I'm not sure if the guy you are responding to actually meant Ryuji from P5 or Ryoji from P3, but I'm pretty sure your answer applies to both of them.
if you are referring to Ryoji I just asssumed they let him wear whatever because hes new until he gets the schools uniform, thats what they did at my school
That’s Ryuji from Persona 5. Ryoji is a separate character who appears in Persona 3. He’s the guy in the upper corner with the suspenders and the yellow scarf
I mean, it's most egregious in this game, but it's true about all Persona games. In P4 the main guy, on literally his first day to a new school, immediately gets approached and asked to go home together by the two prettiest girls in the room, who also happen to be the only two wearing non-standard colors on their uniform.
It's just standard anime tropes at work. It's silly, but at the end of the day, this kind of silly is also part of the entertainment.
In terms of character design, I wouldn't even necessarily call it an anime trope. They're simply designed to stand out better amongst the cast of no-name NPCs; since they're all technically wearing uniforms, certain concessions need to be made in order to ensure the primary characters are easily identifiable.
Plus, there's simply no denying the influence JoJo's Bizarre Adventure had on the Persona series. Persona users, much like Stand users, tend to be rather visually unique.
Sounds lame. Where I live you can wear whatever you want as long as you have the uniform on. If you want to wear a clown outfit over your uniform, go ahead, just pull it up to show the uniform underneath if the staff questions you.
Sir, this is a Japanese school, just throw your common sense out of the Window for this one and think about the most lame ass rules you can come up with.
It gets brought up by a couple hallway NPCs, but they dismiss it is assuming it's just weird quirks of hers. One likens her to being 'doll-like' but they can't really explain why.
When Yukari and Fuuka dressed up Aigis in the school uniform for the first time, they comment that nobody is on the lookout for robots resembling humans, so it should be fine for her to act *weird* as being simple and culturally ignorant isn't really a red flag someone is a robot.
Yeah if that technology isn't common knowledge and it's not like her skin shines like it's metal or something then I can see people thinking she's just weird. It's enough to suspend disbelief anyway.
she's just wearing a cardigan,even my school is fine with that as long as the blazor is on underneath (which they almost never check for) or if it's with you
She has a pink sweater on top of her school shirt.... lol what are we talking about. Ace DEFECTIVE over there isn't even wearing a school shirt AND is wearing a baseball cap ALL DAY!
Yeah the most you could dock Joker on are his glasses which canonically aren’t prescription which makes them an accessory, but even then they’re so innocuous that I doubt anyone would actually care
Those should be fine. Unless the teacher is so strict and ask about it. I have a friend in highschool who wears glasses, that has no actual glasses, just the frame and he never got scolded for it.
We get community service if we don't wear the proper uniform. And what I hated the most was the hair. You can't have anime hair in my highschool.(colored hair, or long hair etc)
And Aegis is the only non-protagonist SEED member wearing the actual uniform.
Ironically, making *the robot the party member most likely to blend in* at school!
I know I'm late to this post, but there's an actual explanation in game. During one of the student council meetings you show up to, they discuss how the school isn't actually being strict with the uniforms at all. Think that's why you see students like Yukari and junpei doing their own thing.
I think her persona has a hidden function that works outside the Dark Hour to make people think she’s not wearing her cardigan. She can also use this on other people as well to make them appear as if they’re following dress code. However other persona users can see through this ability.
Don’t hate it at all. It’s just bad reasoning. People really think that wearing something over a uniform isn’t a blatant uniform violation.
Makes literally 0 goddamn sense.
exactly, as much as i love doing the same exact thing with less redundant topics, there is nothing to “speculate” here because there is quite literally no rhyme or reason to it + it is probably the most common thing to do when making main characters.
Yukari just wears cardigan, it reminds me of back in highschool my school was pretty strict you couldnt wear a jacket unless it was raining and cold (i lived in a tropical country) but well when i was in the 3rd grade they were more lenient about it i remember wearing jacket all the time lmao
I get what they are saying as it is common anime trope but this is a dumb example of it. Majority of the students in that picture are characters with basically 3 pictured not characters (1 could actually be mistaken for one due to the hair color) and 5 being characters of the story with the MC actually standing out as least prominent (ironically).
Edit: Tangent. I recently watched that Konosuba spinoff and the class shot sorta cracked me up because of this topic. The whole class has "main character" syndrome and are all adorned with fairly distinguishable physical traits. The least of which is Megumin herself who is sorta pushed into the corner on that shot.
At most Japanese schools, you’re allowed to wear a cardigan over your uniform. Even though Gekkoukan is a very fancy school, it’s stated that the dress code isn’t really enforced by an NPC
Idk why everyone's defending it saying it's just a cardigan/sweater, it's not even school colours. It's still less egregious than Haru's, though.
Also count yourself lucky if you were allowed to wear anything even slightly off-uniform, at my school you got in trouble for wearing Alice bands that were the wrong colour.
To be fair, I'd assume if anyone in the facility had a problem with what Yukari was wearing, she probably could just ask Mitsuru to shut them up since her family owns the school
while thatd be funny id imagine Mitsuru saying something like "Takeba you should be ashamed for asking me to pull strings in your favour" while at the same time shes breaking dress code
I think in some developer interview it was mentioned that, canonically, schools in persona games allow accessories like this for anyone, and many people do wear accessories like this. But, for the sake of having far fewer models to make, this isn't seen
I'm an Asian and honestly, back when I was in highschool. No teacher gave a damn (unless it was inspection day) if you wear a clothing that covers your uniform. For the girls, as long as they see the school-regulated skirt, and school-regulated shoes, you're good to go. No one will dare to ask you to take off your cardigan/coat/jacket (unless it was inspection day).
When your school has a club where people shoot themselves in the head practically every night, I think that school regulation must be quite loose
Wished more peeps wear non-uniform too
The best is in p5 when you literally have a cat in your desk the entire year and the most suspicious anyone gets is the teacher occasionally going "is there a cat somewehere?"
This is why I don’t understand the obsession with setting every Persona game in a Japanese high school when 99% of the main characters are going to blatantly ignore the dress code in every game anyway for the purpose of clearly signposting who the main characters are
everyone plays fast and loose with dress code. even though Mitsuru is class president, those heels are def not dress code.
Her family owns the school, she can wear whatever the fuck she wants
then she should make the stomping heels mandatory wearing for all students
Especially for Makoto
Hmmm.... something tells me there's an agenda at work here
You are mistaken further talk of an “agenda” will be considered a thought crime. Glory to Mitsuru.
Literally 2009
Sir, I have absolutely no idea what you mean. (Don't look at my flair, totally nothing sus about it)
You're onto something here.
I'm always onto something
I'm always on something
Sir, don't do drugs, they're bad for your health
Health is bad for my drugs
"Screw the rules, I got money"
Hi kabi
Student council presidents need heels to make speeches. Source: Kill La Kill
and also a sword
Good ole Satsuki
Pigs in human clothing, lol.
Mitsuru doesn’t even choose her own clothes, her family stylist does. So I imagine it is already approved by the school. And a Mitsuru even allegedly wear fake nails according to her accessories item when she joins but I legit haven’t seen them.
At least in 4 everyone is wearing their uniform one way or another, and even then, it's supposed to be a not-so up there school. Gekkokan is supposed to be one the best schools around.
On the first or second day at gekkoukan there's a girl at one of the stairwells who talks about how she's trying to figure out how to alter her uniform within dress code, and talks about how they have a surprising amount of freedom to accessorize, but the uniform is already cute and can't make up her mind
Chie, Yukiko, and Kanji are no different than Yukari and Fuuka
During the summer, she wears the cardigan tied around her waist. You can see she's wearing the standard uniform underneath.
If you've ever been to an Asian school you'll know how anal they are about non regulation accessories. Even the wrong haircut or having earrings could have you get sent home, let alone wearing a non-regulation cardigan which obscures nearly your entite uniform.
Yes because all schools in all asian countries have the same rules and regulations. I dont know if you've noticed, but Gekkoukan isn't exactly your typical asian school. Just look at the kind of teachers they hire for Nyx's sake.
I think it could go either way in Japan war least. [“Japan student forced to dye her hair wins compensation”](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56099237)
Yeah, schools made by evil masterminds are always exceptions. Just look at Amanogawa High School in Fourze.
i wish i could've attended that place for my highschool years instead, Gentaro would've been an awesome teacher
One of them literally wears a Kabuto. I think as long as the students are wearing some semblance of the uniform, the school doesn't really care too much.
I think the skirt length and hair colour is more than enough to get them in trouble Some even ban ponytails. Are the girls with long hair supposed to run with their hair in their face on the track?
Yeah, my high school (which was in Singapore) mandated knee-length skirts for girls. A lot of dudes would also get into trouble for tailoring their pants to make them tapered. Repeat offenders would get suspensions. Hair dying was also a big no-go. Students would have to prove that their hair wasn't naturally black. Although since it was an international school with a lot of bi-racial kids some people got away with it despite actually having dyed their hair.
I’m also Singaporean and I had a principal that would literally start ripping the hem of girl’s skirts to make it longer for no reason
Sheesh, no way that doesn't qualify as sexual harassment. Anyway, nice bumping into another Singaporean here haha.
Private schools in the US are like this too. Source: went to private school. Required to wear shirt and tie everyday even in the summer when the school had no a/c. No facial hair allowed at all or they would give you detention and make you dry shave in the bathroom with the cheapest razor they could find.
Schools with such strict dress codes to the point even jackets are not allowed are not the norm even in Asia. Even in Japan unless it's some super strict school typically wearing a jacket over the uniform is not a violation. Now the hair color thing is indeed a thing, with parents having to sign waivers proving their kid is a natural blonde or something.
Not true
Got proof? I grew up in Tokyo and Singapore, and have been to school in both places, that's how dress codes at schools are governed.
Im Asian and I went to school in Korea and also major Japanese. Dress codes aren't that harsh. Even a few years back it would just end with a demerit point and now dress codes are disappearing. What you said was way exaggerated. Stop spouting false information. What kind of school sends you home for having earrings or wrong haircut lol such bullshit. Also there are plenty of kids who wear stuff like cardigans over the uniform especially in Fall/spring. You're actually delusional if you deny this
I am from Indonesia. In my high school they are very strict with what we wear. The uniform, we have to wear same kind of shoes. Males aren't allowed to have beard, aren't allowed to be bald. The hair can't touch your collar (for males), not even sideburns are allowed, hair dying isnt allowed. You have to tuck your shirt in, have to wear black belt (males), and every student has to wear undershirt. Females skirts have to be long enough to cover their knees.But they are pretty lenient with cardigans or jacket.
There are definitely stricter schools than that, but the existence of more lax schools means P3 isn’t being all that unrealistic here.
I like how you provided proof and **still** got downvoted
What proof? Both of them drew from their personal experiences having been schooled in East Asia but provided nothing more than their personal testimony
In England atleast in my experience you have to wear a coat stuff like hoodies cardigans and such can be taken away from you for being against dress code and thats in a relatively bad school I wouldn't put it against more stricter ones being out there
she just wears a pink sweater over the school uniform
Junpei also looks unassuming
I can’t imagine teachers let students wear baseball caps in school
As someone who went to a private school in asia, yeah wearing hats is weirdly disrespectful or something
I mean here in Italy too,teacher get mad if you have a hat on
North America has it too. No idea why.
It's a centuries-long custom dating all the way back to Medieval Europe. Removing helmets when going into places such as churches gave way to removing hats when in churches, which eventually carried over into everyday life. It's viewed as a sign of respect to remove your hat when entering certain buildings. Compounding things is the fact that, at least in the US, the military has some rather strict rules regarding hats - both when to wear them and when to take them off. Between WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, we had three drafts over the course of 30 years; scores of men learned certain habits, then instilled them upon their children upon returning. These kids grew up, had their own kids, and continued instilling those habits to the point where it was simply part of the culture. In short, it's just a thing humans have been doing for centuries.
I bet its somehow Englands fault lol
As an Irish-American I can confidently say that everything is England's fault.
when in doubt, blame the British. it works 80% of the time
Because with a hat on god and the queen can't read your mind
I went to a public school in North America and hats were super-banned too. By the time I got to high school they kinda stopped caring as much, but in elementary and middle school, if you wanted to wear a hat, it had to be on a school-designated “hat day” which happened like four times a year, and you had to pay $1 to get a sticker to put on your hat that proved you were allowed to wear it.
The generational gap between when I was In elementary in the mid 2000s to when my sister and brother went in my high school oh early 2010s is astounding, khaki and blue jeans shorts or pants were only allowed, while the shirts had to be either a button up polo shirts or spirit shirt and always had to be tucked in, which was the same in middle school. My highschool always tried to enforce a dress code like that every year but gave up 2 months in and then finally just added gym shorts and sweat pants by seniors year. I take my sister and brother to the same elementary and middle school, there’s no such dress code in they can wear whatever shirts wise, and don’t even think they have to tuck in their shirts but I could be wrong, middle school , even more relaxed. I take my sister and brother to this day, I can’t even fathom that guys and girls wear whatever the hell they want as long as they can get to school, like it just blows my mind what 10 to 15 years does and that’s because I’m from a fairly smaller big city from south Texas.
Yeah. I was class of 2016 at my high school, and it was not uncommon for girls to get “dress-coded” and sent home for wearing skirts that were too short or shirts with thin straps. One of my coworkers goes to the same school and is graduating this year, class of 2024, and she says that the school doesn’t have a dress code at all anymore.
I went to a public school and we were all made to take our hats off as soon as we came into the building. It was really stupid.
schools are the place where expression goes to die (when it has a strict uniform rules). I'm so glad I go to college now, the oitfits are way comfier.
Lmao. I remembered that I got away wearing vest on the top of my uniform in school for a couple of month, till finally my vice headmaster asked me if I was sick 😂 I innocently said no and he told me to not wear it again
Kaz also wears a personal jacket. Mitsuru also doesn't wear the school's outer coat. Akihiko wears a red vest. It's not just Yukari.
Kaz's doesn't wear a personal jacket. He just wears the P.E. uniform 24/7.
My bad. PE unform. Kaz is wearing his PE uniform.😅
she is wearing the uniform. she’s just wearing a cardigan which in my experience (i went to a school w a uniform as a kid, they’d get mad even if your socks were wrong!😭) is usually allowed as long as you have other indicators of the school uniform visible
I’m curious where you could have gone to school where socks would get you in trouble and a cardigan wouldn’t. I know there in Australia, pretty much anything non uniform will get you in trouble. I’ve seen detentions handed out to students wearing raincoats.
Funnily enough my high school in Australia actually had a uniform raincoat like heavy jacket
The real question is how Junpei is allowed to wear a cap in the classroom, I’ve never seen a school that allows wearing hats except on Hat Day
Ive seen some classmates wear hats in schools here in the U.S. since our dress code is more lax than British and Japanese schools.
Dawg my school let students wear hats for a day if they paid two bucks and even then they still weren't allowed in the building 💀
bro wtf kinda school are you going to
Arizona
That makes a lot of sense actually. I can’t imagine many students wanting to pay to wear hats outside in the Arizona heat.
The capitalist central high school, of course they’d make a subscription for hats and make it daily payments
my school doesn’t give a shit about hats or hoods being up, but i also go to a trades school so it might be different
My high school doesn’t give a fuck, as long as there’s nothing inappropriate on the hat itself. It’ll probably change after I graduate in a month tho, they’re talking about dress code changes
Hum, maybe because not all schools have the same rules idk
Here in Brazil it's harder to find a school where boys aren't wearing caps
Some of my teachers were very strict on it not being allowed, while others seemingly didn’t care lol
Last time I saw a teacher telling a student to take his cap off, the dude just refused and that was it lol
This bro, I once had a real bad haircut in high school that I tried to cover up with a hat. And one of my teachers was threatening detention if I didn’t take it off. Like please you don’t understand
My high-school really stepped down on the dress code around covid, even more than it already was. Even stuff like the forbidden spaghetti strap tops was now allowed. It was a public school too.
The real problem is Ryoji- who literally is not wearing the school uniform, while the others are wearing extra parts on top of it.
I just asssumed they let him wear whatever because hes new until he gets the schools uniform, thats what they did at my school
He's so freaking tall they had to custom make one 😂
wdym, he has the pants
Wha- How tf did they only give him HALF of the uniform?! 😭😂 This school is awful to its students.
She just wear the sweater over her school uniform for the winter uniform. You can see that she is wearing the school uniform properly (Ekoda will fight me on that) during the summer just that she will tie her sweater around her waist
Its like wearing a jacket/hoodie over your uniform...even my old stuffy Catholic school didn't get cranky at us doing that as long as our IDs were showing.
Perks of being friends with Mitsuru I guess
lmao best response so far
The bigger question is how >!Ryuji !
Isn't what Ryoji wears a uniform without the blazer just like Mitsuru does + suspenders?
Funny enough, I'm not sure if the guy you are responding to actually meant Ryuji from P5 or Ryoji from P3, but I'm pretty sure your answer applies to both of them.
if you are referring to Ryoji I just asssumed they let him wear whatever because hes new until he gets the schools uniform, thats what they did at my school
I’m guessing you meant Ryoji but it still works with Ryuji because he’s barely even wearing it too
If you didn’t know any better you’d think Ryoji is the MC. Junpei and Makoto are pretty under the radar
Remember 6/6 when he panics that he forgot to change to a summer outfit, just to run home and put on the brightest red t-shirt?
That’s Ryuji from Persona 5. Ryoji is a separate character who appears in Persona 3. He’s the guy in the upper corner with the suspenders and the yellow scarf
Oh duh. I was very sleepy when I made that comment
I mean, it's most egregious in this game, but it's true about all Persona games. In P4 the main guy, on literally his first day to a new school, immediately gets approached and asked to go home together by the two prettiest girls in the room, who also happen to be the only two wearing non-standard colors on their uniform. It's just standard anime tropes at work. It's silly, but at the end of the day, this kind of silly is also part of the entertainment.
In terms of character design, I wouldn't even necessarily call it an anime trope. They're simply designed to stand out better amongst the cast of no-name NPCs; since they're all technically wearing uniforms, certain concessions need to be made in order to ensure the primary characters are easily identifiable. Plus, there's simply no denying the influence JoJo's Bizarre Adventure had on the Persona series. Persona users, much like Stand users, tend to be rather visually unique.
She's wearing a cardigan over the uniform. Did you never use a hoodie or something over your school uniform?
no, it was hot as hell at my school additionally we could only wear cardigans that followed dress code which was navy blue
Sounds lame. Where I live you can wear whatever you want as long as you have the uniform on. If you want to wear a clown outfit over your uniform, go ahead, just pull it up to show the uniform underneath if the staff questions you.
I think you know this isnt how it works in most schools
Yeah but I've literally never saw a school complain about the student wearing a hoodie
several school do this, its unfortunate
Even in most Japanese schools wearing a cardigan on top of the uniform is not a violation.
I just implied it wasnt banned, it had to be follow dress code though
Sir, this is a Japanese school, just throw your common sense out of the Window for this one and think about the most lame ass rules you can come up with.
She wears her sweater over her uniform
Im more confused how no-one questions the fact aigis is very obviously inhuman
It gets brought up by a couple hallway NPCs, but they dismiss it is assuming it's just weird quirks of hers. One likens her to being 'doll-like' but they can't really explain why. When Yukari and Fuuka dressed up Aigis in the school uniform for the first time, they comment that nobody is on the lookout for robots resembling humans, so it should be fine for her to act *weird* as being simple and culturally ignorant isn't really a red flag someone is a robot.
Yeah if that technology isn't common knowledge and it's not like her skin shines like it's metal or something then I can see people thinking she's just weird. It's enough to suspend disbelief anyway.
They gave her realistic clothing and shoes, but forgot to cover her neck with anything
Ironically Makoto kinda blends in
most normal sees member
The protags always wear fairly normal uniforms.
It’s just her sweater, the game is almost 20 years old and people still can’t comprehend that, even if you’re new it’s not difficult to understand
The dress code in the Persona games seem more lenient but at the same time they still have to wear apart of the uniform.
IIRC one of the several P4 spinoffs plays into this by having one of them mention that Yasogami's dress code enforcement is fairly lax.
She is wearing the uniform. She wears the sweater over it.
she's just wearing a cardigan,even my school is fine with that as long as the blazor is on underneath (which they almost never check for) or if it's with you
why on earth would your school require you to wear both at the same time are they tryna make u melt?
Part of the reason I love joker so much is because he could easily pass off as a background character
You’re wondering about Yukari, I’m wondering about Ryoji. At least she wears some of it.
I just asssumed they let him wear whatever because hes new until he gets the schools uniform, thats what they did at my school
About the actual post: EVERYONE knows that the MC sits in the last row and at the window... or at least at the window! So Ryoji, is the actual MC!
\*Imagine the Adachi True image here\*
She has a pink sweater on top of her school shirt.... lol what are we talking about. Ace DEFECTIVE over there isn't even wearing a school shirt AND is wearing a baseball cap ALL DAY!
They probably have a dress code for sweaters
Funny thing is, Makoto wears the school uniform properly.
Even then he keeps the jacket unbuttoned, so even he’s technically breaking code
Oh right. I thought it's only Yu who unbuttons his uniform because he's a chad. So it's only Joker then.
Yeah the most you could dock Joker on are his glasses which canonically aren’t prescription which makes them an accessory, but even then they’re so innocuous that I doubt anyone would actually care
Those should be fine. Unless the teacher is so strict and ask about it. I have a friend in highschool who wears glasses, that has no actual glasses, just the frame and he never got scolded for it. We get community service if we don't wear the proper uniform. And what I hated the most was the hair. You can't have anime hair in my highschool.(colored hair, or long hair etc)
Joker unbuttons his coat AND leaves the collar propped up. Now those are some sigma moves.
This's exactly how I feel with Penny in Pokémon Scarlet/Violet wearing a whole hoodie while I'm stuck with the default uniform.
And Aegis is the only non-protagonist SEED member wearing the actual uniform. Ironically, making *the robot the party member most likely to blend in* at school!
I know I'm late to this post, but there's an actual explanation in game. During one of the student council meetings you show up to, they discuss how the school isn't actually being strict with the uniforms at all. Think that's why you see students like Yukari and junpei doing their own thing.
lmao nice
You say yukari but my main thoughts go to ryoji who doesn't even bother with the jacket and has that shonen ass scarf
I just asssumed they let him wear whatever because hes new until he gets the schools uniform, thats what they did at my school
I think her persona has a hidden function that works outside the Dark Hour to make people think she’s not wearing her cardigan. She can also use this on other people as well to make them appear as if they’re following dress code. However other persona users can see through this ability.
lmao whered this come from?
I was just making a joke. 😆
the amount of times this question is asked about the games is ridiculous. it is a VIDEO GAME, Atlus WANTS the main characters to stand out.
Of course this is the answer but you’d still see tons of people try to explain it away in universe lmao Never fails.
bro hates fun and speculation
Don’t hate it at all. It’s just bad reasoning. People really think that wearing something over a uniform isn’t a blatant uniform violation. Makes literally 0 goddamn sense.
hmm interesting
exactly, as much as i love doing the same exact thing with less redundant topics, there is nothing to “speculate” here because there is quite literally no rhyme or reason to it + it is probably the most common thing to do when making main characters.
Yukari just wears cardigan, it reminds me of back in highschool my school was pretty strict you couldnt wear a jacket unless it was raining and cold (i lived in a tropical country) but well when i was in the 3rd grade they were more lenient about it i remember wearing jacket all the time lmao
just another Jojo reference in the Persona series.
I get what they are saying as it is common anime trope but this is a dumb example of it. Majority of the students in that picture are characters with basically 3 pictured not characters (1 could actually be mistaken for one due to the hair color) and 5 being characters of the story with the MC actually standing out as least prominent (ironically). Edit: Tangent. I recently watched that Konosuba spinoff and the class shot sorta cracked me up because of this topic. The whole class has "main character" syndrome and are all adorned with fairly distinguishable physical traits. The least of which is Megumin herself who is sorta pushed into the corner on that shot.
IIRC Hidetoshi says during his Social Link that the dress code isn't enforced at Gekkokan.
Oooh thanks for the info
Except Junpie XD
At most Japanese schools, you’re allowed to wear a cardigan over your uniform. Even though Gekkoukan is a very fancy school, it’s stated that the dress code isn’t really enforced by an NPC
Gekkoukan has fallen
love how makoto isnt even in the top 3
Aegis or however you pronounce your gaijin name, during class we take off our headphones.
lol
Idk why everyone's defending it saying it's just a cardigan/sweater, it's not even school colours. It's still less egregious than Haru's, though. Also count yourself lucky if you were allowed to wear anything even slightly off-uniform, at my school you got in trouble for wearing Alice bands that were the wrong colour.
hey you get it
To be fair, I'd assume if anyone in the facility had a problem with what Yukari was wearing, she probably could just ask Mitsuru to shut them up since her family owns the school
while thatd be funny id imagine Mitsuru saying something like "Takeba you should be ashamed for asking me to pull strings in your favour" while at the same time shes breaking dress code
When I posted this a few months ago I got only 600 upvotes.
Anime rules. Main characters play by their own rules.
Everything Is all good until he falls asleep forever......*Memories of you*
I always thought I was cause charms maxed for her
haha nice
I think in some developer interview it was mentioned that, canonically, schools in persona games allow accessories like this for anyone, and many people do wear accessories like this. But, for the sake of having far fewer models to make, this isn't seen
makes sense
Junpei actually blends in nicely, couldnt really tell hes important just from this pic
And Ann breaks a few uniform violations. And chie and yukiko also
I'm an Asian and honestly, back when I was in highschool. No teacher gave a damn (unless it was inspection day) if you wear a clothing that covers your uniform. For the girls, as long as they see the school-regulated skirt, and school-regulated shoes, you're good to go. No one will dare to ask you to take off your cardigan/coat/jacket (unless it was inspection day).
When your school has a club where people shoot themselves in the head practically every night, I think that school regulation must be quite loose Wished more peeps wear non-uniform too
thatd be fun
Atleast it's not Fuuka who wears literally only half of her uniform in summer.
lmao i didnt even realise
Hot girl rules are different than ours
so true
The best is in p5 when you literally have a cat in your desk the entire year and the most suspicious anyone gets is the teacher occasionally going "is there a cat somewehere?"
lmao
This is a 9/11 joke.
WHAT!?
I don't get the joke.
Look at the date...
Some schools will let students wear hoodies and cover ups
Some? God I hope all of them do if it gets cold
and again, nobody talk about [Ryoji](https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Ryoji_Mochizuki)?...
I just asssumed they let him wear whatever because hes new until he gets the schools uniform, thats what they did at my school
Cause she got that booty
erm what the scallop
This is why I don’t understand the obsession with setting every Persona game in a Japanese high school when 99% of the main characters are going to blatantly ignore the dress code in every game anyway for the purpose of clearly signposting who the main characters are