I don't think Adachi is emptiness, either, though I still stick with Souji = hope. I kind of lean Adachi as despair, actually, because he goes on that huge tirade about how the world fucks over your hopes and dreams and it's pointless to be an optimist when you're an adult because the world is unforgiving and cruel. I think Namatame's efforts work for emptiness, too, though, because everything he did was in an attempt to fill the void that his losses left behind. He lost Mayumi and his job and his prestige and his wife, and he had to find something to fill the huge gap it left behind, so he started his SAVIOR!!! routine.
I think Adachi as despair fits with THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE BETTER too, because that's what despair is, it's a resignation to things being always the way they are without any hope for improvement.
I think Souji's victory and the fact that it's brought about by S. Links wherein people change for the better proves he's hope. Even if he's not hope personally, he was a force of hope for those people, giving them a reason to move forward and become better people and say goodbye to who they were before. Obviously it doesn't apply to like ... the fox, lol, but Yosuke is the one I'm thinking of here, how he talks about "everything inside him changed" after Souji came along, and Izanami mentions that people were drawn to the "spark" she instilled in Souji, which could have been that light at the end of the tunnel feeling. The party and other people say a lot that Souji feels like he's something special, and yeah, that's why I hold out for Souji as hope :D
REGARDLESS, BACK TO TOPIC: Yeah I don't buy Adachi as emptiness either and while I can see why people would argue it I think despair was probably the intended choice for him.
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I think Adachi as despair fits with THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE BETTER too, because that's what despair is, it's a resignation to things being always the way they are without any hope for improvement.
I think Souji's victory and the fact that it's brought about by S. Links wherein people change for the better proves he's hope. Even if he's not hope personally, he was a force of hope for those people, giving them a reason to move forward and become better people and say goodbye to who they were before. Obviously it doesn't apply to like ... the fox, lol, but Yosuke is the one I'm thinking of here, how he talks about "everything inside him changed" after Souji came along, and Izanami mentions that people were drawn to the "spark" she instilled in Souji, which could have been that light at the end of the tunnel feeling. The party and other people say a lot that Souji feels like he's something special, and yeah, that's why I hold out for Souji as hope :D
REGARDLESS, BACK TO TOPIC: Yeah I don't buy Adachi as emptiness either and while I can see why people would argue it I think despair was probably the intended choice for him.