10/28/2020 c30 Dasgun
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10/27/2020 c30 5Darth Necron
Ah...at last, time for the final Urban Legend so lets unleash a final review. ( cracks neck) Its go time.

First off, the Avatars...sadly more like recaps then anything but, guess this chapter was stuffed enough as it was.

That being said I am curious why some like Hunter X hunter's King or Galaxia were chosen since they were mostly puppets.

Well, to me the likes of Darth Sidious, Aizen or Yhwach from Bleach, Blazblue's Hazama and a few others seemed like a better fit but eh, not my story so oh well, would have been short either way at this point.

Is odd that Star Wars is the only movie that the hero's watched that did not take part at all, poor Luke Skywalker gets shafted again and again...oh well.

Also...so...the Luigi and Yoshi with Sora...is that a nod to the Nintendo hearts story by Kingdom Key? Oh well.

Heh, evil Sailor Pluto...like, Charon eh? So she is allied with Zeedmillenniummon ...wonder if that imply s anything for Dawn of Chaos...guess I'll see soon enough lol.

Cool to see Sailor Mars use the Phoenix Force, and for a brief X-men Cameo lol.
But with them out of the way we go back to, ahem," Kylo Shoe"...he sure seems more like the always moaning Ren then Vader lol.

Sadly no Leouch to further the own-age but the poser still got wrecked...eh, Gai is not one to talk as he was used to if I recall, oh well.

Oh, and stay dead Mana, VV did your role better.

Well, the Void User got owned by everyone but sort of redeems himself to take down the Yami blobs...and that would be a meh finale on its own, but kudos to you for not having it end there, as we have a FF9 style Necron when Pandora appears!

Greatly happy to see a Persona boss be well, the final boss, and while I personally like Nyarlathotep more, Pandora being the original final boss makes it work well so, for that nice job, extra points for having aspects of all the main Persona boss's.

Well, Persona one was a hell of a tough time so no duh Pandora pulled out a tough fight after merging with so much. Even so, this Aesidoria threw everything and the kitchen sink, but she made the fatal flaw of being weak to her own box, and after a ton of blows went down with style.

With that, and Buffy's random OP power the First Evil joins the rest of the evil in defeat.

And, with that we see one more look at the Guilty Crown cast...as Sho gets undeservedly rewarded as Kylo did in Star Wars episode Nine I guess...blah.

And with that, with a quick wedding that makes me wonder if Yusuke will take a hint, that's a rather swift wrap.

So, final overall review time. I'll admit I am a far bigger Persona fan then any of the others, but seeing you trying to combined two different series reminds me how Tales of the Cosmic Wars first started with me wanting to have a crossover between the Final Fantasy and Tales of Series along with others like Star Ocean and Xenosaga, inspired by the likes of Kingdom Hearts, The Super Robot Wars series, Marvel VS Capcom, Smash Bros and more.

You were able to pull it off, and, while I found stuff I disagreed with, must be doing something right as you have a story that most seem to finish reading to the end without much prodding lol.

I won't go TO big just because, want to save something for Akane No Mai. But for now I'll say, sorry you been stressed, my own father had a heart attack when I was in 7th grade and my mother had cancer six years ago so, I understand how stressful such things can be.

I been trying to get published myself. On Ficiton Press I been writing my Zilos trilogy, inspired by everything I like in fiction, but I realized the changes it would need to be done to get accepted by publishers would be so drastic its been overwhelming, though I am getting a smaller novel , a drama romance published so, we will see where that goes.

2020 has been one hell of a brutal year, lets just hope it gets better and not worst from here. Sitll the updates to Urban Legends have been one of the things to mark the time with so much of life locked down so, thanks for that.

Mido was good at being a sadistically brutal scientist type on par with the likes of Hojo or Relius Clover so he did his job well...should have just stayed around till the end instead of Kylo Sho but that's just me lol.

Kriemhild and all the Valkyrie stuff got intense alright...sometimes George Martin levels of intense lol. I'd be lying if I said I have not had shameless sexy fan-service in my own writing, but honestly, having to many sexually brutally graphic events makes me worry you enjoy writing that stuff a little to much at times lol.

Still, Urban Legends has been a wild ride, enjoyed most of it and even the stuff I did not at least stood out lol. I do hope you still finish Wrath of the Defiants, this is just me but, hope your original stuff can have a proper finale and all one day or another.

Sorry it stressed you out, but for all my criticisms I did enjoy the story and am eager to see its " Final form".

Till then...as always...do hope you have time for Tales of the Cosmic Wars one day and hope you and Ford will both be able to get to the end of my own crossover, but till then, keep up the great work, and stay golden spacecow,er...Vampire.

10/27/2020 c30 7Chaosblazer
that was some epic fighting to finish this alright, I wasn't expecting Japanese text to be used, that was awesome.

Persona 1's final boss making an appearance and giving the good guys a run for their money was something too, but they still dealt with her in the end.

Surprised Buffy had such an impactful role too

that wedding scene was awesome too, and futaba caught the bouquet...and Sojiro probably flipped out.

There's a lot of stuff to take in that post credits stuff, but it all makes sense in the end, you take the path you want to take and you have my support on that path.

keep up the awesome work as always dude.

10/27/2020 c30 15Allfather-Ford
The final chapter is here. Before I begin, I’m dropping to say Happy Birthday! Hope things will go well.

After a year has passed (Jan 1, 2019) since we first started the sequel of Persona Vein, the early draft story has come to an end. This chapter has scenes/dialogue and summarized sections to show how we need a break on this while saving these related revisions (such as removing the summarized sections) for AnM, it’s due to how we begin to feel tired of the early draft in relation to the author’s concerns of how long it would be. Because originally, the final chapter of UL would have had full scenes/dialogue, but is changed due to both becoming tired of the early draft alongside the author recovering from stomach problems that caused the previous chapter to be finished late. So the only two scenes/dialogue sections are the defeats of Shu/Mana and the farewells of the crossover characters/Io. Again, the revisions are all saved for AnM (due to being the main focus as a revised draft) since it’ll be a while before we get there, alongside goals to how to handle it better with less stress.

The YM avatar forms (Meruem, ZeedMillenniummon, Sailor Galaxia, Master Xehanort, Gilgamesh) have all been defeated, the form of Mana included (In detail, Shu is freed from the influences and especially after the furious Gai gives him a literal ass kicking (Shu’s breakdown and getting one of the most cathartic defeats is literally laughing my ass off), Shu shows guilt of his actions. Ayase, Shu, and Gai sacrifice themselves to stop the YM Avatar/Mana and with the help of Inori’s presence). Leaving the YM avatar in its final phase in becoming Yami Ghidorah, our heroes have Buffy become Ethereal Buffy that they finally wipe out the YM’s existence, it is a fitting end of the reminder ideals of good vs. evil.

The biggest surprise of this story is that you reveal the true antagonist (in pulling an Apocalymon, and remind me of Apocalymon in DFKai’s Season 1) and the one guiding the Yami Matter (Meaning while the YM is created by the after-effects of Saklas’s defeat from the darkness within human hearts, it is Pandora reborn from Sophia and Saklas’s previous clash that made her the original master in controlling the dark force of nature in referencing Pandora bringing the evils to the universe, with the protagonists representing hope to oppose Pandora and the YM), alongside the whispers that every antagonist hears: Pandora of the very first Persona game. This is something I did not see it coming, even it feels like a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere, especially this is a response of the story returns back to its Persona roots and reminds the main focus on the real stars (the Phantom Thieves and Vein Remnants) instead of Shu being the final boss. Since you said that this is an aspect of the real deal (from the first Persona game), this Pandora becomes a separate being from the canon character to remind that to not make UL/AnM an AU. Pandora’s presence reminds of each of the Persona games show the final antagonist being a god-like entity that’s the true perpetrator behind the main stories such as Nyarlathotep, Nyx, Izanami, and Yaldabaoth; Pandora (and a Hijack from Ganon, though it’s a separate being from the actual canon character) is following the same themes. Man, Pandora is clearly strong, but the heroes defeated her.

Specifically of Gai being so furious. Normally back in the anime whenever he has issues with Shu, he remains cool/calm/collected/indifferent towards him in never giving in to emotion and especially at one point abandons him back in Episode 10 before Shu comes back to save Funeral Parlor in Episode 11. Even Shu killing Gai a second time in the final episode, Gai’s gambit of wanting Mana to be freed and rest in peace and for Shu to kill them both shows that Gai gives his trust towards Shu in doing the right thing. However, Shu relapsed in becoming the Yami King to be together with Inori and destroying/recreating the world as his Eden. Shu revived and brainwashed Gai out of spite. Once freed, this causes Gai to take it personally, as in Shu outright betrays his trust and Gai takes it as a personal betrayal, especially Gai was once a childhood friend of Shu and Mana. Plus, Gai’s mind is still messed up in taking time to recover following Shu’s control, and why Gai gives OOC is Serious Business that this time, he fully gives in to emotion and shows outright hatred towards Shu FURIOUSLY, to the point he gives a painful Bright Noa slap. Even after the Ethereal War is over, Gai still is about to castigate the crying Shu and doesn’t even care/no pity/no sympathy towards him unlike Ayase and the other Funeral Parlor cast, only that he’s stopped by the others (and even Argo is appalled at Gai’s behavior in telling that Shu has enough).

Then we have the final goodbyes of Io and the crossover characters. Shu (which his crying is enough to make Tobey Maguire Peter Parker’s put to shame, and showing sadly his position before he (technically it's a cognition of the real deal, so thankfully the real GC cast won’t have these non-canon events) is regress back to the way he started in the beginning of his anime (as if reminding us that we’re back to the way we started long after CG’s completion in fanfictions, as if we’re still in the beginning before your debut novel is published for a new actual real-life start) before first meeting Inori)’s crying of the consequences of his actions of reaping what he sow, alongside he still has a genuine and sympathetic point to the characters and us that he remains ostracized and wishes to have real acceptance. His mention of wishing for a version of himself and the other GC cast receiving better treatment, well in the final A/Ns, Akane no Guilty Crown is first announced as a plan to celebrate the anime’s 10th anniversary late next year and the first actual take on doing a proper sci-fi setting (Guilty Crown: The Lost Kingdoms that I once did six years ago does not count due to the AU crossover setting) and feeling like an actual stand-alone story (since P5 crossovering are just guests unlike P5/CV crossover with PV/UL/AnM), alongside being treated as a hypothetical sci-fi novel. AnGC is also planned to be an OVA like Shin-YYGDM (but will be more in-depth with a smaller cast (and also hopefully be easier than UL, Shin-YYGDM and AnM) for AnGC such as actual character development plans for Ayase), that’ll split into chapters, and will have both proper scenes/dialogue and summarized sections. The last summarized sections show the aftermath and lead to Hifumi/Skyler’s wedding.

And here we are with me giving commentary to the final A/Ns. As to remind, Urban Legends was first brought up while I was halfway and finish writing the first/early draft known as Persona Vein (which is revised to becoming Book I of AnM), alongside Cross Generations (the series finale of Digimon Fusion Kai) was at its final arc entitled Fiction’s Closure, originally, Urban Legends back then was a sort of a non-canon project taking place in a Character Corner as an intended tie-in of Defiants of YYGDM, before it was completely retooled (and especially remind that Devil May Cry was originally a Resident Evil sequel before completely change to its own thing) and updated into being an actual canon sequel set in the same universe as Persona Vein and allowing Kanius to handle the sequel (and me helping out as the main collaborator) in his first handling of doing something outside of his comfort zone in improving his official writing skills besides us being fresh of being fans of the Persona franchise with Persona 5 as a new gateway. It is a chance to show POVs of civilians since they are more relatable than superheroes. Concepts and stuff are shown in urbanized adventures such as interacting with the Nioh cast and fighting Yokai, Cryptids, AnimeJapan, visiting a full-out AU Persona 5 dimension called Crimson by Dowdz, a darker take on Norse Mythology (which is one of the most challenging experiences and why they were first written in advance before their chapters are uploaded), and the Ethereal War with the crossover characters (and symbolizing a final hurrah relating to the pop culture we grow up with, stuff having endings/cancelled, and how we are inspired by them in making us who we are now). During the writing process of Urban Legends, Persona 5 Royal has been announced and coming to Japan back in October 2019, alongside Code Vein’s proper release back in September 2019, that’s when Akane no Mai is announced for a revised/final draft (with new changes/corrections/finally getting the chance to show the Code Vein lore from the zero beginning/etc) as a consolidated story of PV/UL for a book trilogy, with UL planned to split into two books (meaning finishing UL actually counts as finish writing early drafts of two novels), and the consolidated story is already release in early 2020. While Kanius is writing his first novel; Urban Legends as the rest is history has first helped open many doors besides AnM with Shin-YYGDM, AnGC, and others such as something planned as non-fanfic content called Special Commentaries (they are actually thought off even before Persona Vein and Urban Legends is conceptualized, the first two will be shown in Shin-YYGDM, while another is planned for Ascendancy’s revival chapter) in doing something outside of typical fanfics and finally allowing us to embrace the canon elements (and their a major element of doing official works) of these stories instead of the overreliance of AU concepts. Ever since viewership of typical fanfics such as YYGDM/Triad have become low, dense, and hard to follow with too many crossover events (alongside creative differences such as a Norse story of YYGDM called Valkyrie Advent though we learn something of seeing it as Vindicated by History overtime as a first inspiration for Wulf-Edda); UL gives a resurgence of finally having more faves/follows again and with AnM doing the same thing of a first step of a second chance and being relevant.

By the time UL reaches its final stretches, we become so tired/fatigue while doing AnM at the same time (as in juggling and balancing two pseudo canon stories (both an early draft (UL) and revised/final draft (AnM)), so that’s why UL’s final chapter has scenes/dialogue and summarized sections since we’re saving the energy/revisions for AnM, alongside finally allowing the author to resume writing his first novel after months since this to remind is honestly/frankly/bluntly a bigger and main priority as an actual real-life goal than AnM. Plus, we want to remind that we don’t want UL and AnM to be like a chore (like other better fanfics like Dowdz’s Crimson that has over a thousand follows/faves, yet I honestly question of how long will it take to be finish as a full-out AU story that diverges from P5 canon in being an ‘ideal better version’, because Dowdz being a parent has a family and life to worry about) of not going overboard while writing, because while we of course will show the in-depth revisions of the Code Vein lore crossover with Persona 5 (and Royal incorporations onward) in AnM as an Author’s Saving Throw, we still feel the remind to balance and having learn the first proper experience of the author’s practical writing of UL, we should plan strategies and needing breaks of how to balance chapter lists, not making scenes go overboard, even spacing out updates at times in concentrate more on our futures, and other things. That’s why Shin-YYGDM and the upcoming AnGC are OVA stories instead of main stories (especially AnGC because the GC fandom is small and not popular, I imagine AnGC’s difficulty will be easier than GC (canon)’s screentime in UL/AnM).

Because normally, we would have not have a long final A/Ns of UL, but because it's still a final chapter of UL to reflect of how the author develops anyway, alongside 2020 is a horrible year (and one of the worst years of human history of how the 2020s started off bad as the Great Depression in the last century) by the time its finish, we clearly want to vent at real-life itself after many years of struggles and crap. Unlike CG Ch 29’s A/Ns, UL’s final A/Ns finally allows actual hurtful and guilt emotions of the consequences of looking back of writing comfort zone typical fanfics for too long (and reminding our other friends/classmates move forward and improve in life (especially those content creators that are younger than you are more skilled, one of which is the test screener of Wulf-Edda (Since now we see why you were once depressed back in the Ch 13 A/Ns in finally revealed in the final chapter A/Ns uncut and not mentally bottling it) that she’s the same age as me and graduated from a good university in Australia), while we felt we are still left out in no getting actual real-life progress as if we’re blacklisted in society and left out/irrelevant.). I understand and relate about the growth of finally have the chance to do official skills and looking back of should have done this sooner, one of the reason why high school classmates and related are mentioned is me giving a reminder of remembering it's a 10 year anniversary since I started senior year of high school (September 2010) leading to my high school graduation back in June 2011. It’s a long complicated story of looking back of worrying about high school graduation requirements (including state achievement tests that are not relevant outside of high school and the real world, me and everyone remember the nightmares about them), I was also a transfer student that made it felt different (looking back upon playing P5 the first time made me remind my school to Shujin Academy and myself to Ren), I haven’t took AP classes, having mixed experiences of my high school’s anime club before I left by the time of senior year, and other outside factors that made me have a different path upon graduation, such as starting on a community college instead of a 4-year school right away like most others before I eventually transferred to a 4-year uni and graduated (I also remembered back in my first year of undergrads in my community college, I was originally an art major while doing general studies, embarrassing isn’t it, before I changed to Economics since I transferred yet elements of my artistic and creativity are retained that still help me in the long run); when I look back wonder if real-life honestly/frankly treats me better relating to not feel left out/ostracized (I find ostracism remain worse than bullying) (Even though I remember I did made good friends in high school, getting along with the student president who went to Harvard and is in graduate school in NYU, and I went to a 5 year reunion) in sorrow/tears and others personal issues, my parents (thankfully/luckily they remain together and not divorced, they are good parents, of course they don’t speak good English (like they refer me as ‘Fod’ instead of ‘Ford’) like I do that a common issue of communication for most Asian parents of my generation) and families receiving better treatment instead of having complicated issues, even I wish and regret of could have gone to a four year university such as living in a dorm that most of my friends/classmates started that I saw in regret (even though looking back in also worry of tuition, and even nowadays college (it’s not just community college, it’s also 4 year college) becomes high school 2.0 (in feeling it holds me back on my eventual future potential, to the point that I at times have PTSD-related dreams (not kidding when I mention this) of force to take unnecessary/repetitive classes that I actually did not take in real-life, high school setting is just hard that screws me and people I knew over of holding back and being treated as kids instead of adults and real people) and undergrad degrees become like the new high school diplomas. So life making higher education expensive and student loans makes everything difficult anyway, and that the real developments are from the real world (something I receive more than back in undergrads) upon graduation.).

It’s true, LazerWulf (one of the major inspirations of Kanius’s life before I came along)’s name is once again mentioned as a follow up to UL Ch 22’s A/Ns in not being dated after hearing his answer. Though he only briefly helped, it’s not proper help unlike YYGDM-01 in relation to his burnout lately. At first to let out, I was upset even mentioning to the author of feeling emotional chest pain (recalling the times where Lazer had disagreements with the author (especially the Norse story) despite being an important figure), but at the same time, both look back of hearing Lazer out of feeling the labor of its a mutual decision, even looking back of foreshadow a few years back such as feeling less active (while we did the Norse story in YYGDM) alongside having a new job he told us on emails. Plus, another reason relating to the burnout from us and Lazer is while we finish many of YYGDM-01’s stories with only the series finale remaining, other readers I feel didn’t show gratitude and appreciation such as one of them who first come up with a Lex Luthor expy (that’s back around the late 2000s when that character first made a cameo in a YYGDM movie fic of the Taiyoukai) for YYGDM’s series finale as the main antagonist yet haven’t had the chance to talk to and grateful to Lazer for all the hard work and still talks to Kanius a lot more as an ideal pedestal than a content creator with flaws (like everyone else in real-life that have a lot of support from millions). Lately in the second half of 2020, even I show burnouts after helping out fanfictions and fandoms in general for far too long (I should have relate to Lazer and the others’ situations sooner) in realizing I’m still the same stagnant bubble while other people I know have move forward to new paths (to the point I’m still hurt in looking back the past experiences and wishes that life doesn’t screwed me like a chew toy), something I want to rebound and recover of finding something in the future, even I’ve been thinking of doing a two-year masters at the same university I graduated with a bachelors after having another parent talk of reminding what to do next in life. Likewise why we feel the same feeling of doing a second chance of UL and AnM, of wanting people both online and real-life to reconnect and rediscover our existences instead of being permanently obscure out of society and history. Thus, showing the reminder of Kanius as a great person brings great inspirations the genuine humor and tone of his stories and authentic hope to me and others while enduring the hard and dark times in real-life and why I convince him of doing official works alongside myself wanting to be involve as a main collaborator to make a change, and eventually meeting more people along the way.

All of these also relate to Shu’s guilty and crying response and a certain character from Cross Generations Ch 29’s crying. Why the first time in A/Ns the mentions and words of people know in real-life, humility (Something that other contributors (Especially from Lazer, since it’s one of the real factors why a lot of creative conflicts from you two happen in YYGDM that caused you to lose interest in several occasions) of your fanfiction team failed in encouraging you to mention this word up until I came along (Even the Wulf-Edda test screener has more experiences of humility). Believe me, I’m learning a lot of it after many years of experiences.), consequences, feeling actual hurt that we’re tired and cannot stand (cannot take it anymore) of the fixated status quo limbo of the past decade, wanting to change after years of fanfics, the detail mentions of how 2020 is a horrible year of wanting it to end (and tired of the crap that 2020 gives us and others, of being a respected figure and people will see me in a new light, why I don’t want to go back and don’t wanna regress

9/19/2020 c29 The Anguished One
So Shu Ouma is the final boss. Given how the crossover elements got cranked to 100 the past few chapters, it makes some matter of sense.

9/18/2020 c29 5Darth Necron
Sorry for your health issues, hope its nothing to major, but for now lets see who this Yami King is. And its...Shu from Guilty Crown? Um...er...back to that later.

To start off formally, the clones once more and hopefully once and for all get beat down hard enough to stay down for the count.

Nice to see the two Yusuke's team up, and of course, once more RIP to Chadwick Boseman, but, Goose? Ugh, god damn Disney for making both Nick Fury and the Skrulls a joke in the films...but moving on.

And once more Sephiroth goes back to the shadows, you think he'd realize between here and in Persona Vein how he needs new tricks lol.

And Mido came back to serve as a re fight in the Megaman games and show he's doner then done when him and the Anna clone are sent back to the shadows alongside Raygo, Makishima, and the others.

As for Zamasu, nice to see the two fused hero's unite after all...confused why Golden Cooler would be on the good guys side though...even in Dragon Ball Hero's he just was fighting to break out of Fu's world.

Anyway, Zamasu thankfully did not take the universe down with him this time.

And Darkside falls next, if Superman vaporized his head how he talk to them?

Thanos joins him soon after, they were just lucky he did not have his Infinity Gauntlet with him, even the watered down movie version would have shut them down fast lol.

And so with all of these bad guys out of the way after 29 chapters this Persona/ Code Vein/ Nioh crossover's ultimate final enemy is...Shu from Guilty Crown...after Guilty Crown elements were only really introduced last chapter...( Facepalms)

I'm going to be completely honest...this felt like the Scooby Doo movie when the bad guy was revealed to be Scrappy Doo...but to be honest this even more feels like if Judge Doom in who framed Roger Rabbt was revealed to be Scrappy Doo, and then everyone was confused because till then Scooby Doo had nothing to do with the story, just like how all of a sudden this becomes a Guilty Crown story...

Look, I'm a crossover writer myself but its just, this felt, random. Like, I can get behind a disgruntled hero doing this, honestly, would have been cool, to me at least if the Yami King was like, Minato from Persona 3 or Tatsuya Suou from Persona 2 as both got rather raw deals and could have been a cool tie in to the mastermind being Persona's Nyarlathotep, as after all he was such a jerk he posed as Hitler in Innocent Sin and could have been a rather cool way to tie things together.

Ah well, would have been cool since they would have been more of contrast, since at first I thought this was a Persona story more then a Guilty Crown story and, maybe I missed something but this did not seem built up at all.

But since we end up with Guilty Crown's lead, it seems you liked him enough to make him the final boss, but hate him at the same time, oy. True Shu got a raw deal, though I would say Shinji Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion might have had more things to be angry about unless Rebuild really turns things around.

Hell Amuro outright died to stop Neo Zeon and Char once and for all, and double hell, Mikazuki Augus from Gundam Orphans might have had the rawest deal of all, he died and the bad guys won, though his friends got a break because Rustle had a change of heart.

But I guess, Shu is just the most, bitter about it. C'mon Shu you should be grateful, you still got off better then your successor from Valrave, Haruto Tokishima, who also got a raw deal and was even more of a watered down knock off I forgot who he was till I looked his name up.

That being said, with all the crossovers its a real shame you did not have Leouch and Shu clash. After all, Shu wants a reason Guilty Crown was forgotten? Its because Kill La Kill, Attack on Titan and the others stood on there own, Guilty Crown is just one of the many failed attempts to recreate Code Geass's success, because in the end Shu, Gai and Inori are forever just going to be know as inferior clones of Leouch, C2 and Suzaku Kururugi, and when Code Geass returned Guilty Crown had nothing left but to fade in failure like what happens whenever the sub is discarded when the original returns.

Just saying, while I enjoy Edd ed and Eddy, might have been cooler to see that clash between the original and the knockoff.
Well, between this and some of your other stuff I see you REALLY like Ghidorah since the final fight is a army of them lol.

Cool to see the other hero's thin the ranks, to bad we did not see the vintage God Cards or the newer Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon's...for the record are the guys like Yugi, Takato Sailor Moon and the others suppose to be the originals or the versions in Dawn of Chaos? Just, checking.

Anyway, the final showdown leads to more Guilty Crown reunions, I really see Shu's trip to the darkside being more like Kylo Ren then Vader...he fits that nature better lol.

Well, kind of odd that the Sword Art duo are more part of the final battle then the Persona gang but, we will see how things go...

I just REALLY don't want the end of this story to just make me see this story as that Persona Fic that randomly decided to be a Guilty Crown fic in the climax...till next time.

9/18/2020 c29 15Allfather-Ford
It starts with the heroes finally defeating Yami Persona’s Ascendancy and the crossover villains that side with the YM. Rest in peace Chadwick Boseman, and fuck cancer. Our heroes then regroup in Shinjuku.

The big surprise (and hilarious not impressed surprise coming from Sion), Ouma Shu appears as the Yami King and leader (and counterpart to Ayase) of the crossover characters that side with the YM. Having seen a lot of characters comparing him to Anakin Skywalker (“I hate them!” “For my point of view, the Jedi are evil!” “I HATE YOU!”) makes it a coincidence. In developments originally, Shu would have been brainwashed by the YM, but is then revised to being ‘More Than Mind Control’ upon the dark matter capturing and convincing Shu, and that Shu then willingly accepts the YM’s offer to become the Yami King and believes that Ayase and the others have held Inori’s spirit hostage. This shows Shu is a special case of why he’s chosen as the leader, in standing out from antagonists who simply join the YM and there are those that are brainwashed/controlled. This makes Ouma Shu the main perspective antagonist with a moral agency of the final YM event (since the YM Avatar itself is a force of nature). Shu’s endgame is to save Inori and to destroy and recreate a new world (and meta of wiping out the P5/CV and allies, and the crossover characters and his home anime series, especially how ‘Shoe’ is clearly FURIOUS (Yet, he REFUSES to take responsibility for his actions that it’s clearly his fault that his polarizing whiny personality is what cause his anime’s reputation to be controversial) that Guilty Crown is overshadowed and ostracized by popular works), a new Eden where Shu and Inori are the new rulers with a new human race to live in peace. Shu being the perspective final boss acts as the foils and shadow archetypes of both Ren/Joker and Skyler/Sion, since these three are the main protagonists in their respective works. Both Ren and Shu are outcasts at their high schools, but while Ren improves, Shu deteriorates in the second half of his anime. Joker in his Persona’s Ascendancy has a three-headed dragon form, while Shu has versions of King Ghidorah to command as a dark counterpart, but while Joker destroyed the Crimson dimension’s Shibuya out of anger and out of control, Shu willingly commands the Ghidorahs to rampage during the final battles to rid of everything. Both Skyler and Shu’s appearances are similar, are swordsmen, and have connections with mysterious girls (Skyler - Io, Shu - Inori), but obviously Skyler is braver and likable than Shu.

I remember back in 2015 of one of Kanius’s reviews in Shinnen saying and relating to Shu in Urban Legends five years later “Must say whoa on Canon!Shu's rant on the bullshit he's had to put up with. His series is getting lost in the shuffle and he can't stand not being accepted. He pulled no punches when he ran down the list of popular series and fads that have stayed popular. Lol on his Slut la Slut, Attack on Titan-ASS, the retarded ninja remarks. It sucks for him, but I'd say it can be the internet's fault for making or breaking a series. There are times I just hate how the internet has ruined some things, including making TV obsolete, killing off video rentals, killing off the bookstore chains, killing physical home video, and being a place where cowardly trolls exist. You're on point about people moving on from one fad to another. It's a fad cycle all right and GC hasn't been able to survive with the times, but you're at least making efforts (with others) to rebuild/preserve the series through fanfics. Your Lost Kingdoms is a definite new take that I enjoy better than the actual show, but it's a shame there probably won't be another chance to fix those mistakes and make it better (though, never say never in the animation world).”

Oh, the characters of Ed Edd n Eddy and Codename: Kids Next Door have scenes and dialogue in writing them in-character (and not out of character) as in canon in case for us remember these two cartoons back in the day. Another reason is that these two relates to many fans remember loving these shows such as EEnE having a large fanbase and KND relates to childhood memories connecting to growing up in our adulthoods. I remember back then they appeared in Cornerverse’s House of Madoka, but the scenes I wrote from these characters felt fanfic quality despite the personalities being in-character (and I remember doing old fandom-related stuff from these cartoons, and that was around the time before I first joined Kanius’s group). Having them finally appearing for the first time in a canon story and writing them in actual canon quality from their personalities to their character dialogue is another personal apology for me as an older and mature fan compared to my younger self many years back. The mention of Big Picture Show references how EEnE has moments of breaking the fourth wall, especially the ending of that movie mentions it took a lot of episodes, specials, and a movie for the Eds to finally get accepted and get a happy ending. In developments while writing the chapter in google docs, the KND scene is the final scene written.

And the first part of the final battle royale begins with the Godzillas vs. the Ghidorahs in total fucking awesome action. :D Ayase and Shu, two leaders and having ailment cripples, reunite and have their duel (with Legendary’s Godzilla and Ghidorah fight simultaneously references Ozaki/Godzilla vs. Controller X/Monster X in Final Wars. Originally, I know there is a Shin King Ghidorah exist in the Evangelion crossover ride collab, but he’s not selected (and Desghidorah is chosen while fighting Shin Godzilla) because not a lot of general audiences know him outside of the ride tie-in and because he hasn’t appear (like has yet to appear) in the actual Shin-continuity in a film for his first proper appearance (Okay granted, Broly God and Black Janemba appear outside of the main anime are used, it’s justified because of how more attention Dragon Ball is getting while Shin Ghidorah’s presence feels minimal), not to mention of not want Keizer Ghidorah (as the sole quadruple Ghidorah) being the odd one so Desghidorah added as another quadruple is a balance. One by one, the Ghidorahs are slain. At last, Yuu finally gets to properly interact with the GC cast outside of Shu, much to them not happy of seeing the envoy of Da’ath’s presence. I see the use of Buffy’s powers from the Twilight crisis is given a reference from the canon comics taking place post Season 7 of the show. Then, the YM Avatar splits into pocket dimensions that the heroes follow inside them.

Now the second phase of the final battle begins. And I’m listening to Thomas Bergersen - One Million Voices. The YM Avatar splits into six forms, one of them shown is Ouma Mana. Shu, Gai, and Mana, knowing each other since childhood before Lost Christmas, now become a trio of enemies that the protagonists fight. Oh and Arisa is killed off in the most brutal horrific and graphic death, nobody misses you. We see Ayase and Mana finally fight outside of Shinnen, technically to remind, this is not really the real Mana since it’s one of the YM Avatar’s forms, so Ayase and her dialogue/interactions against her enemy is not personal since the YM Avatar is a force of nature and not an individual character/being with agency. Oh look, Lacia is here to join the fun. And here we go, one of the crowning moments of awesome parts show Sion tearing down Shu in verbal insulting details leading to Shu’s villainous breakdown and literally screaming in regressing to his Japanese voice (meaning using his Japanese voice actor). Gai is freed in the final part of the chapter, and he’s so furious that he’s willing to lend a helping hand to defeat the little bitch.

Only one more chapter of this story left, and there’s a lot of reflections thought of since UL first began. Doing the final stretch when writing the final YM event the first time is challenging in becoming stressful, because of this, the final chapter to help out should finally calm down (It’s more like the final chapter of UL will have summarized sections since we had enough of wanting a break from this, and the scenes/dialogue alongside revisions are saved for AnM).