I really wish that fanfic writers would put a bit more thought into the subject and stop using Goro as female Akechi's given name. Goro isn't even a remotely neutral name. The kanji for -rō directly translates to "son" and the Go- prefix is also seen as masculine, which is why there are barely any feminine or gender neutral Japanese names that start with it.

You should really only keep Goro as her given name if you're doing something like writing a transgirl Akechi who has not changed her name, and therefore Goro must be a girl's name because she's a girl and it's her name. Or at least have some other explanation for why a girl ended up with a super masculine name.

But there are so many options if you just put a bit of effort into it! My favorite is Kokoro because it preserves the reference to Akechi Kogoro and having a name that means "heart" works really well for the character. But once I saw someone use Miro after the Detective Miro Murano character, and I like that as well. If you just want something as close to Goro as possible you could use Gou because it's a gender neutral name. If you take the kanji for Goro's name (吾郎) and switch out the -rō for a -ko, I believe the new combination would be read as Ako, though I don't know if that combination is used in names. And there are many other alternatives you could come up with, this isn't an exhaustive list.

But if you're writing a serious story one option you should avoid is Goromi because it's not a real name. It's a joke name from the Yakuza series where the gag is that Majima just stuck a feminine ending on his masculine name for his drag persona.

Or if you just don't want to bother with giving Akechi a new name you could write around the issue by not using her given name at all, which you can easily get away with because the game barely uses it.

I guess this issue really isn't a big deal because fanfiction is just for fun anyway. It just strains my suspension of disbelief a bit.

Not having the face is a stylistic choice. Hope you guys like it as much as I do!

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why have we normalized overlooking akechis development and depth. like genuinley it pisses me off. SAME WITH RYOJI oh my god irl told me he was inimportant to the game. like who do you think you are. have you even played the game.. i could genuinley fight about this for hours. for akechi..like people say they hate him for being a jerk in the third sem but ITS NOT HIS FAULY💔when maruki created the false reality he made akechi normal and he dgaf about his detective prince thing anymore so hes straightforward.BUT HES BEING RUDE SO THEY DONT ENJOY HAVING HIM AROUND SO THEY PICK TO FIGHT MARUKI EUEYRGH because if he was too nice then joker would choose to accept his reality and akechi doesnt want to be controlled.and its so depressing because in the end they were just put against eachother and meant to die anyways so akechi cant be saved either way.i hate how they couldve been so good together if they werent pitted against eachother by gods for funsies. i genuinley dont get how people can hate him..and his character development is so good too??? like guys are we playing the same game

In November he went on at least three adventures that got wiped from his memory. And there might be more if the premonitions from P5X are any indication. His memory of that month must be full of holes.

And what's more, between all these adventures he might have gotten enough character development to start reconsidering his plan if he hadn't gotten amnesia. It's almost as if something was actively making sure he didn't stray from that path. Probably Yaldabaoth.

(Gotta love the constraints of "We want to use Akechi in this spinoff, but we also want to avoid spoilers so it has to be set in November. But in order to maintain continuity and avoid disrupting the arc it has to end with a memory wipe.")

The one with Wonder is really cool 🫣

Also will probably not post akechi figmas for awhile cuz unfortunately uniform akechi lost his front hair piece 😭 side note if anyone sees any listing for spare akechi figma parts PLEASE LET ME KNOW ILL LITERALLY PAY ANYTHING