https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-FuxEcAkY this too about the new shadows and palaces

-Ryuji has a healing skill Wait that's illegal

You should be panicking about Kasumi’s 5 RANKS in her confidant first.

She's the hip new form of Marie, this shouldn't come as a surprise

Did Marie only have five ranks in her social link? Sorry, it’s been a while sense I played P4G

No, but Marie was also available way earlier than Kazumi will be, so it'd make sense. i just mean she's probably gonna be a new, somewhat intrusive plot element

I doubt Kasumi is that far down the story for only 5 ranks. We’ve seen her during May

being around and being available for a social link aren't quite the same thing. We know she'll be a party member, which means she won't get her social link until after she gets a persona. It doesn't make sense to totally rearrange the order of the early game when they could just save costs by reusing most of that stuff, which means she's most likely going to be tacked on after you get Haru. They might even save it for the final dungeon depending on what their deal is.

I know that this might be a bad example but we got Akechi’s social link before he joined. Maybe Kasumi will be a similar situation

Depends when Kasumi unlocks as a proper Confidant. If she follows the party member trend or if her Confidant is divoriced from her being a Thief. And we've seen her in the Casino, but so far for sure we haven't seen her up through the Pyramid. So either the Pyramid moved up and Kasumi slots in late Summer, or she's in the Fall. Which probably needed some extra padding anyway. The story moved way too fast after Kingpin was offed.

Akechi's was forced progression so you'd be pretty much guaranteed to use him when he joined up and would theoretically take greater note of him than they would any other late joiner, who would naturally tend towards neglect on account of them being behind on social link bonuses

I know that this might be a bad example but we got Akechi’s social link before he joined. Maybe Kasumi will be a similar situation Akechi's auto-ranked though so we would for sure hit the rank to unlock all his party goodies, though. I sure hope Kasumi's doesn't auto-rank because that's gonna be P4G anime levels of shoehorning in the new girl.

Who’s kingpin supposed to be? Are you referring to the principal?

Who’s kingpin supposed to be? Are you referring to the principal? Principal Kingpin, yes. :P

Sorry when you said kingpin I automatically thought of King Moron from P4 and I got super confused

Akechi's was forced progression so you'd be pretty much guaranteed to use him when he joined up and would theoretically take greater note of him than they would any other late joiner, who would naturally tend towards neglect on account of them being behind on social link bonuses At the very least can we please get Rank 1 without having to clear their dungeon? Baton Pass is the #1 reason I ignore new party members.

Sorry, in the new version you won't even be allowed to look at them until the end of their character arcs

Other info from the trailer concerning kasumi's initial persona : it seems her initial persona is going to be cinderella, if i heard that correctly

After rewatching: the skullpotato accessory is probably what allowed skull to cast dia They added more depth to gun customisation. It seems you can somewhat control what kind of upgrades the gun gets?

Well, basically yeah. Her persona's name is actually Cendrillion, iirc, which is based on a french opera with the story of Cinderella. Although, that might be old outdated info so I might be wrong

No that seems accurate. He does say cendrillon, i just automatically translated her name. Also she seems to have healing and nuke affinity? Mona said kaifuku to butsuri. Kaifuku can only be healing but butsuri is iirc science or chemistry. Why give her makoto's stuff??? They could at least give her light instead..