YMMV / Persona 5 Adult Confidant AU

• Awesome Art: Likely what made the concept so popular in the first place. The designs and artwork for the characters is expressive, striking, and detailed. The artist is especially popular for commissions.
• Cargo Ship: A potentially canonical example with Shido and boats. He tries to kiss Kawakami's Persona, Anne Bonny, who is a pirate ship, in a bonus comic.
• Crack Ship: Shido and Kawakami’s persona Anne Bonny (who resembles a ship).
• Epileptic Trees:
  • Neither had made a physical appearance at the time, but thanks to the silhouetted person in this comic resembling the former, many suspected that Joker had taken Igor's/Yaldabaoth's place in the AU. This was debunked in the first chapter, where Igor/Yaldabaoth still appears to be the same one from the original game. Meanwhile Joker's place in the AU is still unknown.
  • When it was revealed that Sojiro's Persona is Robin Hood (the Persona used by Akechi in the original game) some people immediately guessed that this meant Arsene (the protagonist's original Persona) was going to be given to Shido, who takes Akechi's place in the AU.
  • When Scruffy upload this piece of art featuring the cast in both their Phantom Thief and civilian forms, many notice what is believed to be this universe’s version of Takuto Maruki from Royal, who might have taken Kasumi’s role as the new member of the PTs. Also that cat looking icon on his cell phone screen caused many to think that is Morgana merged with Sophie from Strikers.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Mishima's role in the AU is one as a student counselor at Shujin Academy, which was given to him long before Persona 5: The Royal introduced a counselor confidant in the form of Maruki.
  • Persona 5 Strikers introduced a new Phantom Thief member in Zenkichi Hasegawa/"Wolf", who bears a striking resemblance to AU!Sojiro’s Phantom Thief form. Scruffy himself took notice.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: In the original game, Ichiko Ohya wasn't exactly hated, but she was one of the less popular Confidants due to being considered overall uninteresting and her perks being fairly useless, and as a result tended to be mildly disliked at best. However, Scruffy himself wanted to get fans to like her more with his interpretation of her and, according to a poll he ran, he more than succeeded as she ended up becoming one of the most popular characters in the AU.
• Unexpected Character:
  • Many were pleasantly surprised to see Nameless and Belladonna make an appearance in this comic.
  • The identity of Sojiro's Persona was a mystery for a long time, even after the other members had their own Personas introduced. All of the other Phantom Thieves got new Personas exclusive to the ACAU, so many assumed that it would be the same for Sojiro. Cue everyone's surprise when it instead turned out that he has an alternate version of a Persona returning from the canon Persona 5. Specifically Robin Hood, Goro Akechi's fake Persona!
  • In one comic, Tae and her friends attend a Gas Chamber concert, with a 34-year-old Eikichi Mishina at the mic. It was only a cameo, but not many expected him to show up, especially considering how the first two Persona games have largely fallen into obscurity.