Persona 4 - Boss: Shadow Naoto "Reject" (P01/03)

[mushroomshrub]

You'd expect Romi Park to be better considering all the male roles she's done, but I don't mind Naoto's English VA either. The character is freakin' adorable either way.

[Redrockyjames]

Yeah, Naoto's Japanese voice is better even though I randomly love her in English. The English voice is so feminine though that I didn't realize her being a girl was supposed to be a secret. xD; I probably would have assumed she was a guy though had I seen this version first since a woman playing a young guy isn't all that rare in anime.

[KaitoTheBannedOne]

I just realized the eagle symbol around the dungeon resembles the Shocker Icon from Kamen Rider

[RebornAleph]

Kanji and Naoto really remind me of myself and my girlfriend. Down to the friggin' T.

Which only allows me to say that Naoto is going to completely own Kanji's ass at one point and time and Kanji's not gonna be able to do shit about it, haha!

[stoprainlty]

Damn, Naoto's japanese voice actor is good! She actually sounds like a guy!

[EshtarWind]

@stoprainlty She's Romi Paku. She voiced Fullmetal Alchemist's Edward Elric and Bleach's Hitsugaya Toushirou...

[SoraKairiRiku4eva]

Throughout this I was going.

"Where have I heard this voice ... it's on the tip of my tongue."

*Goes to wiki*

Edward, Ganta, Toshiro, Switzerland!

ROMI-SAMA!!!!

[KeeperOTDH2]

Why is it that these scenes always seem to have more drama added to them when they have the original Japanese dubbing as opposed to the English dub? That's not to say that the English voice dubbing here is bad; rather, its pretty damn good compared to some OTHER stuff that shall remained unnamed. 

[dimasnovi1]

i think the most cool persona summon is CHIE!!

[Kxisxmyxbf]

@dimasnovi1

Thats because chie's the BEST FRIEND EVER!!

[UploaderzDynasty]

I like Naoto's seiyuu better than her english voice

[spongefan1]

My original reaction: "SHE TURNED INTO A FUCKING POWER RANGER!'

[animangamania]

Naoto and Kanji can make a good match. Kanji grows up with "girly" hobbies like handicraft, while Naoto has been living like a boy for most of her life (her dungeon looks like a Power Rangers/Super Sentai villain's lair).

[Agusloquillo]

Cute childish shadow....at least, at the begining.

[spartanhumam]

is it me or just shadow naoto voice looks more like hitsugaya lol XD

[EternallApprentace]

Am I right in saying Shadow Naoto's a....tsundere?

[L0rnch]

tsundere? shadow naoto? no way, bro. LOL. it just has a bipolar personality where it shows naoto's childish side and the side that wants to be a "strong, hard-boiled" detective. a tsundere would be someone such as, err.. well no examples come to mind from P4, but yeah.

p.s. <3 romi park.

[EternallApprentace]

Ya your right.Wow that was only 3 weeks ago,feels like I commented a year ago...anyhow,looked it up to be sure too.

I saw no form of sweetness from the shadow...just a big bitchy crybaby haha

[CGrascal]

A tsundere in P4? Ai perhaps?

[edisjigsaw12]

I usually die AT LEAST 4 times, but I beat this boss the first time!

[KATLONY1]

man i love romi paku for naoto but sometimes in funny moments english better what im saying both of them cool and fits man people seems little harsh for Susan Dalian i love naoto both jap and english

[44phoenix44]

The voice actor for Naoto in the english version's good but i think the japanese one is better as it sounds much more manly....also,the fact that her shadow's voice can change from a playful child to a serious adult is interesting :)

[rashyboy]

@44phoenix44 same JP VA as hitsugaya toshiro from bleach.

[kamikalle485]

@rashyboy And Edward Elric too! And a anothers too... Temari, Nana Osaki, Switzerland... She's good, huh?

[rashyboy]

@kamikalle485 Yea she's a pretty good VA.

[sakuraXmoto]

Paku-san~! I'm in love with her! She is just so awesome!

[YukinaRaven]

Paku Romi is so amazing. <3

[7nam3]

Really? I thought the design was appropriate to Naoto's personality.

[VaatiOfDarkness]

What I don't like is how the early Shadows in the game closely represent the corresponding Personas, yet later on they don't really look alike...

[OEGSProductions]

3:45

Please, Shadow Naoto. Keep robe flight to a minimum. (Srs, it's flying.)

[HayaHamaOtsu]

I thought it was cute :P

[HajikeKingdom]

Chie fear dat she will always got support,so its shadow was Chie holdin Yukiko up.

Yukiko fear dat she will always 'caged',so the shadow was a bird in a cage.

And,so ever.

So,wats Yosuke feared and why dat shadow like dat?

[OEGSProductions]

Yosuke was fearing "isolation", but I haven't a clue why his shadow looks like a skater dude (with a hoodie) attached to an overgrown frog.

[OEGSProductions]

A hoodie whose hood looks like a banana btw. (Oh yeah, he said he was cool playing second banana....Hmm, I wonder if those two are linked.

[VaatiOfDarkness]

I think the cape thing has to do with him wanting to be a hero in a boring town (his Shadow even says that) and the frog is probably representing being stuck in the "boonies" (Inaba).

[Keyblade660]

Haha the japanese Naoto sounds a lot like the Naoto in the english version xD.

[FateOfTime]

I think it's slightly more manly. It disguises her better

[collvia]

wow! her shadow has 2 personality~ this movie is better than the other chars~~~

[OEGSProductions]

Naoto's Shadow: Personality 1: "WAAAAH! NUUU! DUN LEAVE MEEEE!!"

Naoto's Shadow: PERSONAlity 2 (hahaha pun): "lulz ur rong noob"

[7nam3]

lol.

[KairuIshimaru]

TRAP!! FTW

[hangjebat21]

Goddamn, Naoto's one hot reverse trap.

[apaantugaguna]

03:45 the coat laughs with her lol

[sober2blur]

Even someone as cool as Naoto can lose her Sanity.

[yamihikarilightdark9]

Oh man, I love Naoto's shadows voice. xD Kinda scary in this version since she really changed her voice when she stopped fake crying. Still awesome though. 8D

She's so cute with the coat that's too big for her. c:

[drzero7]

It is Paku Romi. She's well known to do boy VA acting. Fits the role of doing both guy and girl voice at the same time.

[Darkdrako111]

Naoto's Voice reminds me of Mithos from Tales of Symphonia.

[Jedimasternate4]

lol I love how shadow Naoto sounds in both english and Japanese dub, she just sounds so cute Naoto FTW!!

[SilvarusLupus]

Oh god and I thought that the English Shadow Naoto was creepy... -_-; This one switches voices...*shivers*

[elephantlawst]

Man Naoto makes a hot chick and a hot guy

[ilikesquiggly]

who can blame kanji either way

[lulilu99]

Lol wat is Yosuke looking at 7:23 XD

[SummonerX]

Right, I've never imported a game from Japan, so quick question....

Why is everything in Japanese, but your actions are in perfect English?

I've nearly beaten P4 now. Just one boss left, I think. Naoto wasn't all that hard....she just took awhile to get to for me. The hardest boss for me was Kanji.

[DragonVictor]

Probably because he played the game in english and just prefered the cutscenes to be in jap

Or something like that

[DragonVictor]

Whoops i didnt really get what you meant so i typed in a wrong comment

soz

[WaR1436]

OMG!!!!At 3:29..it's SHOUTAROU~Who voiced out SHIKAMARU!!!I knew it!!!!!

[foxboy9]

naoto reminds me of minato *sniff*

[Lycoris1618]

SHE is supposed to be Minato's reminder...

[apaantugaguna]

and raidou kuzunoha

[rpgguy999]

haha i knew it!

Naoto is a girl

[xXxSasuHinaLoverxXx]

wow, it changed voices, like a eerie scary voice and a childlike girly voice, wierd, but Naoto is still awesome

[faeriepresea]

I am so spoiling myself, but I DON'T care. xD

[lightningbro]

Me too, Is she making her other cry?

[siggy423]

no she is not she just looks like a boy you get to see what she looks like when you max out her link

[lightningbro]

I KNEW IT!!!!

[otsubaki]

It's a shame Romi Paku couldn't do the Eng dub... her voice fits Naoto so well!

[DragonFist2500]

who is that?

[hangjebat21]

The Japanese seiyuu(VA) for Naoto. She has one sexy masculine voice!

[DragonFist2500]

oh, well there's one problem. she is a japanese voice actor. I don't think she can speak english. or I could be wrong

[makoeyes7]

I think it's Romi Park, the VA who did Edward Elric. She does lots of male roles and totally pwns them all. ^_-

[xxfoodmuncherxx]

Yeah, it's Romi Paku*

[swordaxe]

nevermind naoto is a girl

[swordaxe]

r u sure naoto is a girl cause on the website it said that naoto is a boy

[HajikeKingdom]

itsLOOK LIKES a boy.See when her SL is maxed

[RougeBurstAngel]

Naoto is pretty ^^ I like how she looks like a boy though

[cragon3]

i still think Naoto Looks liek MC from P3 just wearing a hat

[Dragonkaiser20]

That's the first thing that came into my mind when I first saw her haha!

[sonicthehedgehog211]

This boss is lame cuz Naotos fear is that people treat him like a kid so that is why his shadow is like a flying toy that has lazer guns, can fly, has some parts of other toys, and he looks like a robot

[Jonathanx458]

Naoto is a girl Actully haha.

[RougeBurstAngel]

lol that sounded kinda dumb

the shadows ARE the fears. Rise feared that her career would turn into sex/drugs etc... like it happens all the time in the real world, her shadow was a stripper

chie feared always standing under someone elses (Yukiko) spotlight and always having to support them, so her shadow was pretty much Yukiko in shadow form ontop of 3 pale chie's, holding Yukiko up

Naoto fears being treated like a kid forever in her life, so her shadow is a "Toy"

phew

[AngelusPr0ducti0ns]

that boss sure looks lame D:

[kawaiihanabi]

Naoto is a girl~

[number48]

Does it ever actually say that?

[Ketsurafu]

Naoto looks like a very sweet character

I wonder who will do his english dub...maybe someone like Mona Marshall. That would sound nice

[0i0w0e]

something like chise (from the anime saikano) should be cool, or maybe a gundam XD

[0i0w0e]

naoto remainds me to minato oxo

[levintine777]

every "greater" shadow said a similar thing on 5:40, whats that mean?

are they convince themselves or somethin'?

[kaichi50]

something like my shadow is the true me, i can't read japanese but since japanese use haman in their writing (chinese word) i can sorta read it

[Kitsuji]

oooo I LOVE shadow battles!.

they were kick ass in Persona 2 :O.

[ilovethesickness17]

reject means that those who cant accept their true selfs

after fightin them theyll truely accept their probs

and yes the way they do r cool

[pronetocrash2]

I dont understand what you mean by ''reject'' and ''accept'' and stuff,anyway from watching this i can say that these shadow battles are gonna be fun! ^_^

[dimastrength]

Amagi said "Naoto-kun"???

[animehero402]

that's because they don't find out Naoto's a girl until after they defeat the shadow and even after that I think Yukiko still refers to Naoto that way because she want's the rest of the people(normal people without personas)to still think she's a girl.

[animehero402]

kinda random but Naoto's shadow has

Buzz Lightyear's wings come on we've all seen toy story.

[PharosP3]

To the infinity and beyooooond

[animehero402]

heh I believe the saying is to infinity and beyond but enough about toy story this is persona 4 and its way better.

[PharosP3]

Lol , your right . i just wanted to do a random comment =P

[animehero402]

we all gotta do a random comment here and there.

[iceninja2]

why is it when a person's shadow is rejected they always passout. what with that? just wondering.

[Betuhblue]

It's like... Naoto's arcana is the fortune,that is related to change in the mind a.k.a cry and arrogant changing everytime. Her shadow looks like an toy because she has fear of people looking she as an child and not an already,mature girl

[fillinthisblank]

buffs and debuffs i think your talking about dekaja and dekunda

[silvermoonarisato]

wait naoto shadows cry why ?

[joe021093]

I like handsome girl~

Does her shadow has 2 personalities? It keep changing from crying to arrogant person

[Leiliel1]

Nope, that's just her Shadow.

It's an abstaction from the real Naoto's personality.

[TheRougeStallion]

well in truth LL, This Persona is representing either Naoto skipping her childhood and growing up too fast. Or her hatred towards being treated like a kid. I also feel that her effeminate side is hidden within the shadow as well. But that's just my theory since she doesn't really act girly around anyone.

[VpowerSP]

First time the boss actually looks like the Person ._. (or did I missed one)

[finalfantasyVII101]

i think Bridget Hoffman would do a good job as Naoto in the English version.

[bajaynyangkut]

Errr... I forget what his voice like...

[StrikeZeroX25]

Dispel buff/debuff should be named Dekaja and Dekunda.

Shadow Naoto keeps picking on Chie =/...

[iwishihadagirlfriend]

great more robots.....

[KayTeeArr]

Looks kind of like a Mega Man boss.

[ifurkend]

I got it, this laboratory represents Naoto's Shadow's wish to transvest her physical body, either gender and maturity.

[bajaynyangkut]

is that Naoto's shadow pretend to be a girl?

allright. i don't get it. what's the meaning of Naoto's shadow, LL?

[meirus]

If you don't want a spoiler, you should have asked.

Naoto is a girl.

[Lonewulf321]

If your watching these videos, chances are you don't care about spoilers. :P

[iwishihadagirlfriend]

ok since some one got pissed at me last time

SPOILERS

Naoto is a girl and i believe well what i read of wikipedia is it said to be her resent of being treated like a child

end of spoilers

[nemowsz]

will you be putting up naoto's S.links? I wanna watch it~

[Flegan777]

You have Ose! Yay! :D

[Jwvermillion]

I got way too many questions to ask... But it looks like that this fight is going to be tough to beat if it was able to use that kind of the attack.

[ddangho914]

Crying Naoto Shadow was kinda cute, and the laughing Naoto Shadow was quite creepy(as usual)

[luckykiller12]

don't you have media

[Roureem]

For reference, Dekunda is 'dispel debuffs' and Dekaja is 'dispel buffs'. Yousuke learned Dekaja a while back, but I'm guessing you might have had him forget it a while ago. :)

[MasterLL]

Yea, because I never thought of Yousuke as being a caster/support.

I might try to create a persona (with no weakness) which has a better SP Regen along with the group buffs and "dekunda" and "dekaja" hopefully.

[rekka1234]

Dekaja(dispelling buffs) and Dekunda(dispelling debuffs) are the spells you're looking for.

[DriedPersimon]

How far are you into the game? O_o

[DriedPersimon]

And Didn't the Lightsaber persona evolve?

[MasterLL]

Chie's shinka is after this boss (I couldn't max her Commu in time before the deadline for the boss).

I'm about 3/4 done with the game or so, since Naoto is the last party member to join I believe.

[DarkmanDS254]

he must of did it after the batttle then