>>5432Idk, to me it doesn't matter because it's clear what the intention of the writers was. And Akechi is actually alive if you get the proper ending in the post-credit scene. All the coomer waifufags saying it's somehow a hallucination are coping hard, it's clear that the scene meant that Akechi was able to escape death. That's his entire theme too, it's tied to his personas, specifically Hereward, but I don't expect dudebros to read anything beside hentais of their waifus.
They can seethe all they want, but at the end of the day fujos got game content that further developed the character that was already heavily plot relevant in the original game, they made it canonical that the one desire of the protagonist during the third semester was to bring him back to life (but he wasn't dead to begin with), we got sexually charged lines while he is in the team (also a big win), him laying down with Joker in the opening movie, or them being together in the Maruki "bad ending" cards (fun fact, in the very last one Joker and Akechi are the only ones looking at the camera). They even put more effort in their special attack together with shit like "two sides, same coin", the whole game is full of intentional parallels between Joker and Akechi alone but of course the coomers can't pick them up. And what do they get? Some flat new waifu that didn't fit at all (no matter how hard they tried to spin Kasumi as part of a "Royal trio", nobody fucking sees her as that and the coomers don't even care for her), and some awful female confidants that are irrelevant to the game's story. Basically they've got the side fanfictions, while we got the entire canonical game that they also were forced to play through.
A reminder that Atlus writers managed to make an established coomer cheater character like Vincent into a canonical bisexual with Rin, and he has actual chemistry with him (they also deadname the tranny character lol).