Karu Plays Persona 5 Royal and Supplies the Thai Voices Live in Part Five of a Run

ALGORHYTHM PROJECT — Karu spent a stream of just over four and a half hours on Tuesday on the fifth part of a Persona 5 Royal playthrough, performing Thai voices for the story as it played. Near the end, Karu said they had been playing, talking and voicing the game for about eight hours that day and that their throat was sore for it.

Karu opened by saying the earlier session that day had ended with the defeat of the painter Madarame, and that what remained was his change of heart. Karu also said they would see whether Makoto, the brown-haired character many fans like, turned up. The evening’s story followed the fallout from Madarame’s tearful public apology over plagiarism, the Phantom Thieves’ search for a bigger target, and a hot pot dinner at the cafe where the hero lodges, with a young artist staying the night.

“Honestly, it’s a great game. However much you watch other people play, you won’t get the feel of playing it yourself and making the decisions yourself.” — Karu, recommending the game

Between story scenes, Karu spent time in Kichijoji with a round of darts, a Big Bang Burger eating challenge and part-time work, then headed into Mementos, the game’s optional dungeon, around the three-and-a-half-hour mark of the day’s play. There Karu fought through shadows and said two requests were left to finish another time.

Chat took to the voice work. One message asked whether Karu was a former voice actor, another praised how cute the voices were, and a third joked that the cat companion, in car form, did nothing but ram enemies. Karu also told the story of a dream in which a viewer sent an enormous donation, and said they woke wanting to check whether it was real. When the stream’s one Super Chat arrived, Karu joked that it was not quite the dream’s sum and thanked the sender.

Karu urged viewers to buy the game, saying it can be played with a Thai translation downloaded from a fan translation page. Closing out, Karu said they were not free the next day and did not know whether they would be back, and went off to bed.