Persona 4 the Golden Animation: Thank you Mr. Accomplice

The Accomplice Ending is something that caught my attention ever since I first heard of it.
For those unaware, this was an original ending added for the first time in Persona 4 the Golden which was a 2012 PS Vita port of the 2008 PS2 game. This special adapts that alternate ending which you get if you complete Tohru Adachi's social link.

Admittedly, this ending isn't as dramatic as what I thought it was gonna be. What I had in mind was that during the boss fight with Adachi, Yu would betray and turn against his party members mid-battle to join Adachi and take out his friends ... one by one LOL. But what we got was more grounded than that and is actually fairly interesting in its own right.

This special is just 16 minutes long as you might've noticed and I would've preferred it if it were longer. But any longer than this and I'm sure A-1 Studio would start cutting corners with their animation work again and what we might've ended up with was another disastrous episode. Thankfully the artstyle is pretty consistent as you should expect from an adaptation of such a highly acclaimed video game.

There was nothing wrong with the cinematography of the original scene in the video game so you could watch that for a slightly better (and longer) experience. But there's nothing particularly wrong with this adaptation either. If you played the game then you don't need to watch this since it's not very different from the source material like P4GA was.

Still at 16 minutes this is an OK watch if you've played the game a long time ago and need a quick refresher or just looking for a timekiller after finishing watching P4GA.

6/10.

I played ps4g and wanted more context to the popular accomplice ending in that game, the ending in that game was super distressing while in the anime, not so much. Firstly the animation of this series is overall below average, secondly, they didn't add enough to the original persona 4 game accomplice route. Playing the game would basically give 98% of the info in this episode so sadly this episode didn't really do its job well and that combined with the sub-par animation and the fact that the game executed the scene a lot better and made it more distressing makes this a bad anime ... adaptation. It is still worth watching just for the heck of it if you are interested in persona 4 but the episode would have to be disgustingly offensive for it not to be worth watching.