Heartwarming / Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight

• Due to Dancing in Moonlight being Lighter and Softer when compared to the original game, all the characters are much more cheerful, especially Makoto, who spends most of the game and movie tetralogy being moody and emotionless. He even laughs occasionally, either from the background or during Fever Time.
• If Yukari is Aigis' partner, Aigis will step in front of her and hog the spotlight for a bit, causing Yukari to stop dancing and give her a look that's part Quizzical Tilt, part Death Glare. Aigis will then go behind Yukari and hold her hands, guiding her arm movements, and Yukari's facial expressions are a joy to see, especially when she can't help but smile at Aigis' efforts to reconcile and ends up mimicking the very same motions Aigis just showed her.
  • Aigis' reaction when Makoto or Junpei join her during the same dance is to practically squee and happily bounce up and down on the spot before resuming her dancing.
• If Ken is Aigis or Fuuka's partner, they briefly do the patty cake during Fever.
• The Fever Time for "Brand New Days" - If Junpei is Makoto's partner, Makoto will fake Junpei out on a high five before giving one to Junpei as he departs; if Aigis or Fuuka is Makoto's partner, Makoto will hold out his hand in a gentleman-like fashion and guide her in a circle. For Yukari, he does the same movements, but she's not holding his hand, so it looks more like he's stepping aside to show her off, and for Aigis unlike the others who leave the stage after Fever Time ends, Aigis stayed by his side until the segment ends, fitting since she was the one that stayed by his side till the very end.
• The entirety of "Voice (Atlus Tsuchiya Remix)" ^note the ending song of the PSP re-release of Persona which stars Koromaru, who goes about his day in the style of a children's storybook and uses the character models from Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. The music video also goes onto show how close Koromaru is with Shinjiro, Ken, and Aigis — Ken in particular, as he affectionately licks his face when they encounter each other at Naganaki Shrine and watch the moon together.
  • Speaking of "Voice", it was the first DLC song from the first two games to be featured in the Dancing series, somewhat bringing the first game back into recognition. They would later follow up on this by adding Atlus Tsuchiya remixes for the Snow Queen's theme and "Dream of Butterfly", even going as far as featuring the original cast in their music videos (though sadly, Mark still isn't able to dance crazy).
• The group dance for "Burn My Dread" shows just how deep the friendship between Makoto and his friends goes.
  Makoto: You're all so precious to me.
  • Special mention goes to Aigis who holds her hand out to Makoto the last before he accepts it and places it into his chest, out of all of them Aigis is the one whose connection he treasures the most.
  • This moment is echoed in the "Persona Super Live 2022" concert where a shot of Makoto who is consumed by shadows reaches out to the sky for Aigis who proceeds to hold her chest just like Makoto did in the MV.
• Ken brings up Koromaru in his first social scene, and is rather disappointed that Koromaru isn't here to dance with everyone. But then he decides that he's going to dance enough for both him and Koromaru.
  • On that same note, Junpei notes that he’s glad Koromaru isn’t around, as he’s worried that he’d be scared by all of the loud noises.
• Fuuka's social events reveal that she had been talking with Futaba from the future, with the two bonding over their interest in computers as well as poor social skills.
• If Makoto joins Elizabeth's dance to "Poem of Everyone's Soul" (t.komine Remix), when he leaves, the camera pointedly focuses on Makoto walking away with a smile on his face; when anyone else leaves Elizabeth, the focus remains on her.
• During one of Yukari's Social events, Makoto is given the opportunity to inform Elizabeth that he hit it off with the archer^note However the phrase hit it off in the japanese version is ステディな関係 this is used several times in the game such as Fuuka and Elizabeth hit it off or SEES hit it off, meaning it's entirely platonic however It's still worded in a way for Yukari to misinterpret it as romantic . Yukari responds by chastising him for acting out of character in a tone that belies her actual feelings, all whilst blushing and happily smiling because of her crush on their leader.
• During one of Ken’s Social events, Akihiko assures him that he doesn’t need to worry about his size as he’ll grow at his own pace - pointing to his own past growth spurts, and admitting that he was shorter than Ken is when he was the same age. He even offers to help Ken bulk up, if he wants to be built like Shinjiro when he grows up.
• As the game takes place before the Arena titles, nobody knows who Labrys is when they partner up with her. But all of the interactions are basically, "We've never met before? So what! Let's have fun!"

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