The Internet Reacts To Sonic Forces' Persona 5 Costume

Maybe you forgot that Atlus, the creators of Persona, are now owned by Sega, the makers of Sonic. Well, the internet got a terrible reminder of this fact yesterday, and it’s hilarious.

Sonic Forces, the next 3D Sonic game, will have a costume that dresses custom original characters as the protagonist of Persona 5. The “Joker” costume on its own doesn’t look too bad, I don’t think, except that it’s weird as hell to see Joker without his gloves. Okay, maybe it’s strange to see such a dapper hedgehog, too. Mostly, though, the internet seems to be riffing on the idea that this is actually Akira’s fursona, not Persona:

Correction 4:27 PM: This article originally identified the hedgehog as Sonic, when in fact it is an OC.