YMMV / Persona x Detective NAOTO

• Fanon Discontinuity: Even before the release of Persona 4: Arena Ultimax which rendered it noncanon, a number of fans already thought of Persona × Detective NAOTO as this. The treatment of Naoto (who is a submissive Ms. Fanservice) and some of the new characters, including a blatant Expy of a Type Moon character (Touko Aozaki from The Garden of Sinners specifically) and a male Anti-Shadow Weapon built around Aigis' time have rubbed fans, both Western and Eastern, the wrong way.
• The Scrappy: The majority of the characters introduced in Persona × Detective NAOTO, like Genesis/Sousei (for breaking all kinds of Persona canon), Ai Kurogami (for being a far fetched robot even for the series, and having little personality) and Touko Aoi (for being a complete ripoff of The Garden of Sinners's Touko Aozaki, and being a completely obvious Big Bad) are disliked. A lot of Japanese readers find Genesis/Sousei to be one of the worst parts of the novel, especially since he contradicts Labrys in some ways.

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