Katanga: Runes and Men 2

Katanga: Runes and Men 2 is the sequel to Persona 6: Runes and Men, and the second game in the "Runes and Men" series. It's developed by Atlus and Italian company Bushido Games for the Playstation 6.
It's set in Lubumbashi, capital of the Japanese exclave of Katanga, south of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 
Unlike the first "Runes and Men" game, this one has a fully voiced main character from the start, Yoshitsune Sankara, leader of the Anti-Colonialism Order. Sankara is not a high school student and is native to Lubumbashi. As such, the cast has a lot of black people (including Yoshitsune himself) who have Japanese-sounding names and coexist with white Japanese coming from the mainland. 
Voice acting is in Japanese, English and Kikongo. 
Personae of the main characters are themed after African deities. 
== Gameplay ==
This game is reminiscent of Persona and the first Runes and Men game, in that it alternates between dungeons and life simulation. 
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== Setting == 
The game is set in Lubumbashi, Katanga. While the city is reminiscent of the real-life one, it adds various elements reminiscent of Japan, including Shinto-style temples where deities from traditional Congolese animism are worshipped (in reality, animism is rare nowadays and Congo is mostly catholic).
It's set five years after Persona 6- Runes and Men. 
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== Plot ==
Yoshitsune Sankara is a recent college dropout, already married with Kazuko Yozawa and with a newborn child, Kiyoshi. He gets a job as an employee for Nakamura Constructions. Secretly, he's Emmetsu, the leader of the Anti-Colonialism Order, which is responsible for attacks against corporations from the West and mainland Japan. 
== Characters ==
=== Anti-Colonialism Order ===
Yoshitsune Sankara "Emmetsu" (the Hanged Man)
Masafumi Ito "Nigensei" (the Hermit): A J-pop singer, occultist and activist coming from mainland Japan. He and Hodr the Blind have founded the Japanese National Bolshevik Party and its associated paramilitary organization, the Japanese National Bolshevik Militia. Ito has created the Anti-Colonialism Order along with Sankara as the Katangese branch of the JNBM. He uses his trademark assault rifle "Crux Gallica", his ultimate weapon in the original Runes and Men, which cannot be changed. He cannot be romanced, as his boyfriend is Wotan Tsuchiya. He can switch between the two Personae Wakinyan and Tyr. He is only playable temporarily, and has specific dungeons for himself. 
Hyoga Kasongo "Tsurugi" (the Justice)
Harue Kumwimba "Aoame" (the Temperance)
Wagner Joker (the Star): A Japanese-American boy, son of the late Siegfried and his wife Makoto Niijima. 
Yasuyuki Ngole "Kaminari" (the Sun) 
Nobuko Kabwe (the Tower) 
=== Social Links ===
Fool- Wotan Tsuchiya: Masafumi Ito's boyfriend and the little brother of the famed Hodr the Blind. He acts as this game's equivalent of Lavenza, assisting Philemon in the Velvet Room and being a Social Link, but he also appears in the real world. He looks Chinese, but is technically an Ainu from Hokkaido. 
Strength- Kazuko Yozawa: Yoshitsune's wife, and mother of Kiyoshi.
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== Trivia ==
Lubumbashi is a real city, but it was a former Belgian colony, not Japanese. Japanese presence in Congo is scarce, though Japanese mercenaries did take part in the Stanleyville Mutinies.
The game does not confirm a gender for Hodr and Wotan: while Wotan is male, it's because they occupy Baldur's body, while Hodr is only shown masked. Since Wotan and Masafumi are a yaoi couple, it's implied Wotan's true identity is the male Einar, while Hodr the Blind is the female Sigrun (Masafumi is bisexual, but couldn't be romanced by a female protagonist because he doesn't like girls who "behave like men").
Wotan and Masafumi are the overarching heroes of the Runes and Men series.
Wagner, as Social Link in the first Runes and Men, was Fool, but he's Star in this game as playable character.
Since most party members are black (they're Congolese) they cannot sport anime hair and don't look as distinct as previous Persona party members. They compensate by having distinct-looking costumes when using Personae.
The Runes and Men series, unlike Persona, has voice acting in obscure languages native to the setting: while Runes and Men 1 had Ainu voice acting, this one has Kikongo. Future games are going to have Mongolian, Inca and Italian voice acting (not Chinese and Spanish, despite a lot of Mongolians and Peruvian people speaking those languages). Japanese voice acting is not removed, and most character names are derived from a mix of Japanese and native languages (for instance, the protagonist of the Mongolian arc is named Naranbaatar Takahashi, the one in the Peru arc is named Hisanori Kamakura and the one in the Italy arc is Elisa d'Annunzio, though only Elisa is of Japanese descent). 
The future of the Runes and Men series involves it being set in various places in the world. Future games involve Cuzco: Runes and Men (set in Cuzco, a town in Peru), the fourth is Ulaanbaatar: Runes and Men (set in Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia) and Toyotama: Runes and Men 3 (set in Toyotama, a small town in Calabria, southern Italy). 
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