Carve out that reform Sae!! 💪
Honestly though, the "hostage justice system" as it stands is insane......

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This puts into perspective a small detail they added in Royal that can go unnoticed.

P5 Royal changed the Rental Shop mechanics to an annual membership where you don't have to return the movies you pick up anymore. They ask Joker to sign the contract for the membership and Morgana, who's in his bag as usual, comments on how his hands were shaking while signing the papers. Joker has a trauma from being charged with assault, likely suffered enormous abuse from the Police and was forced to sign a confession under duress.

Joker is easily one of the best written Silent protagonists I've ever seen, the fact he has a voice and personality makes him much more interesting to me personally

Here I thought Akechi's "99% Conviction rate" comment was an exaggeration. Man, this video put Sae's palace into perspective for me.

I didn’t know that Joker’s flashiness in the meta verse was also a sign of defiance. I just thought he was having fun with his little backflips. That was really insightful!

The shunning in the school is not something that felt strange. The same would of happened in my western country. However the fact that your family kicks you out THAT shocked me. Same goes for the brutal justice system.

Imagine hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent Japanese people still locked up to this day. Shit's depressing.

As someone who has visited Japan for work nearly every year for the past 30 years, and who does not look like "The Typical Westerner" (I'm 7' tall, weigh well over 350lbs, powerlift as a hobby, haven't had a haircut in many years, have a large beard, but wear nice suits for work), I can tell you that I have been hassled by the Japanese police so many times.

I have had trips where I have been stopped every single day that I was there (and sometimes I'm there for up to 3 months), and often multiple times per day.

I work with the Japanese government, and they actually assign someone to hang out with me full-time while I am there, to mitigate and minimise the police harassment issue.

Over the years, I've accumulated a lot of stories regarding both Westerners and native Japanese being railroaded by the police. it's a real issue. In many countries, a bored police officer can be a bad thing, but in Japan, it can be a dangerous thing.

Can't explain how helpful this video this is to open foreigners' eyes to the actual injustices that exist in Japan. It's not all ramen and "Hello Kitty". There are real social problems in Japan.

This is kind of why Japan is a perfect place to host a story about Rebels. America is literally the land of the rebels of course we know the move. But in Japan its a really huge risk but Joker takes it anyway

With enough torture, a zealous prosecutor can get an innocent person to confess to tying twenty-nine unicorns to the CEO's left leg and racing them all in different directions to cause his massive knee injury, and as long as no one pays too much attention to the fact they confessed to using unicorns, they'll get sent to prison for assault with grievous bodily harm.

I always pictured Joker kind of like Superman. He’s a quite mild mannered highschool kid in the real world but when he’s in the cognitive world he’s like Danny Ocean/Lupin 3/Spike spiegal

No wonder why in Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright is treated like a joke by prosecutors. I simply thought it's a video game so they need to make things dramatic, but it's actually a thing in Japan.

Some fans may find Ren/Joker boring but I actually like him. He isn't some douche or baseless as some other silent protags are. He actually has morals that he stuck to since the beginning of the game. In the animation, which a lot of fans bash on but I actually like, shows off Ren's laid back and strong willed personality perfectly

Another great video! I'm kinda grimly fascinated by the "guilty until proven innocent" mentality of the Japanese justice system ever since discovering Phoenix Wright was actually a satirical look at the "hostage" justice system. It was sort of a rude awakening when I realized how screwed up it was. But I didn't know about denying lawyers. Oof. And, another good game that involves the justice system, honor and shame, I'd check out "Judgment", from Ryu Ga Gotoku studio. It's very interesting and requires basically no previous Yakuza knowledge, so it's a good place to start the series too.

And, with Joker, his sense of justice and his will of rebellion are deeply connected. Not only is Joker, due to his experiences, more likely to doubt power figures, but in my reading he is also very well aware of what it feels like to be wronged and having nowhere standing for you. And that goes all the way back to the justice system, and how someone wrongfully convicted like Joker feels completely left out by the system's workings.

And, last but not least, really appreciate you linking the sources on the description. Makes for a pretty good way to branch out on the things you present! Keep up the good work!

Being Asian (Chinese) and American, I understand both sides pretty well, shame vs guilt. It's still really really sucks that Japan is such a mess in their social issues and criminal justice. I remember watching another person's playtrough in Sae's Palace, they mentioned just how the 99% conviction rate is a huge issue esp due to prosecutions being biased and went on a longer tangent about this issue, esp Sae's stress as a prosecutor. The criminal justice system in the USA is pretty bad too but for Japan, this feels just as bad or even worse. Geez.

I had recent thoughts that in order for the rumours surrounding Akira/Ren to be this bad, the story would have mentioned  a forged criminal record document(more counts than the supposed assault) that would make him out to be far worse than he actually is with Kamoshida having ties with a forger in Kaneshiro's gang.

Joker and Phoenix Wright - both commentaries on Japan’s criminal justice system

Many have already mentioned Ace Attorney as good satire on the Japanese criminal justice system, but I wanna go to bat for a personal favorite of mine. It doesn't deal with the criminal justice system, but it deals with how teenagers who go against societal norms are villainized in education and ostracized by most adults.
It's a slightly old series called 'Gokusen'. The main character is a teacher with a family background in organized crime, so the idea of one's family reputation playing a big part in the individual's personal life is also prevalent, as the main character has to navigate keeping her grandfather's business a secret to not get fired from her teaching job.

I was shocked when the game started a 16 year old boy beign brutally beaten up by cops it was one of the most unbelivable scenes in a videogame