Junessic Land

Junessic Land is the second Labyrinth of Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

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A reality in the movie world whose name is a fusion between Junes and Jurassic Park. It is a movie reality where genetic manipulation has created a wilderness inhabited by dinosaurs. It is a world where the strong, carnivore dinosaurs (Appearing as F.O.Es in the Labyrinth) rules over and terrorizes the weak Herbivore Dinosaurs, who constantly fight the carnivore dinosaurs for survival. However, the Herbivore Dinosaurs are subjugated by a rule where the decision that the most amount of Herbivore Dinosaurs agree with is the only and final decision, regardless of how nonsensical or detrimental it is.

The party first enters the movie as they clear the previous dungeon and get the key from Doe. Shortly after entering the Labyrinth, they were confronted by a hostile P4 hero, who briefly clashes with the P5 hero, with both in even hands. The rest of the P4 and P5 cast saw this and were at first shocked, but quickly settled with each other and most of the P4 cast joins the party, with the exception of Yosuke Hanamura, who was found missing. They encounter a dinosaur with Yosuke's head which introduces himself as Yosukesaurus, and he was accompanied with other Herbivore Dinosaurs. Together, they team up to trap a carnivore dinosaur F.O.E. in an electric gate and rescue the real Yosuke who was seen fighting it, and Yosukesaurus even seemed friendly and actually wanted to help against the F.O.E. However, the Herbivore Dinosaurs begin making strange decisions, such as agreeing to go against the carnivore dinosaur F.O.E. head on, and after the party manages to trap it, they all agreed in unison to lynch the party from the movie, with Yosukesaurus forced to do so because it was the will of the many, even it was against his true intentions and he simply wanted to help the party out.

Eventually the Herbivore Dinosaurs recognized the party as an enemy, because they all agreed with it, despite the party were helping them out to outsmart the carnivore dinosaur. They all forced Yosukesaurus to attack them against his will, and he is driven berserk and attacks them, transforming into a dinosaur that resembles Jiraiya. At the battle he calls the other Herbivore Dinosaurs for help, but was defeated. After his defeat the carnivore F.O.E. appears and attacks the party, but is forced to flee due to the party's efforts. Yosukesaurus then thanks the party for defeating the carnivore F.O.E. and the movie ends with the staff credits roll, with Hikari and Nagi watching the movie. After the end of the movie, Nagi congratulates the party for the efforts of making Hikari like the dinosaurs in the movie and Doe creates the key to the next area with the same violent reaction as before.

Connection with Hikari's past
Later on, it was revealed that Junessic Park is formed from one of Hikari's traumas that resulted in her extreme depression and low self-esteem. When she was in secondary school, she was often bullied and had insults drawn on her desk and trash being dumped on it. However, she did have a few friends in the school. She has one of her friends, Miyuki and she cleans her desk. She asks her out to watch a dinosaur movie, which had a group of herbivore dinosaurs teaming up to fight carnivore dinosaurs, where they defeat their suppressors in a clutch situation by gathering their power, and she was touched by the movie and saw it numerous times. She asked the other girls that act as her friends to watch the movie, but they all refuse. At the next day, she got a different set of insults written on her desk and more trash on top of it, and the girls returned to kick her out of their friend group because she enjoyed the dinosaur movie while the other girls did not. They call her a weird girl and an outcast and shortly after, Miyuki is forced to join the other girls in kicking her out because they had the number advantage.

The appearance and title of the Herbivore Dinosaurs are based on the 3 girls that kicked her out of their friend group because she doesn't share a view as them, with the dinosaur with a bobcut and glasses representing Miyuki, and the other two dinosaurs representing the unnamed girls. Effectively, they are cognitive existences created by Hikari. The girls that bullied her appear as the carnivore dinosaur F.O.Es in the movie. The plot of the movie reality is based on the dinosaur movie that Hikari liked to watch, but in Hikari's movie reality, instead of gathering their power to defeat the carnivore dinosaurs in a clutch situation, the Herbivore Dinosaurs in the movie simply acted because they unanimously agreed with each other without thinking of any consequences and shunned anyone who didn't agree with them, making them no different than their oppressors.

Trivia

 * Junessic Land represents a modern society problem, continuing the Persona 5 theme. In this case, it represents a lack of will to think for oneself and the blind belief that democracy is the solution to all, regardless of the viability or appropriateness of its decisions. The opinions of the minority does not matter when the majority has the voice, effectively turning it into a tyranny comparable to dictatorship and fascism. The Herbivore Dinosaurs in the reality constantly make inappropriate or outright nonsensical decisions, such as charging head right into a carnivorous dinosaur F.O.E or even forcing the friendly Yosukesaurus to attack the party against his will, just because the majority agreed with it. This form of democracy has no mercy or tolerance against anyone who share differing opinions or think for themselves instead of the majority.
 * The "different" dinosaur is also chosen as Yosuke Hanamura in a setting known as "Junessic Land", which refers to the establishment of Junes in Inaba resulting the shutdown of many stores in the Central Shopping District, and the people of Inaba start to consider Yosuke an outcast not because he had any involvement with the shutdown of their stores, but simply because he was the son of its manager. Effectively, the "democracy" representing the majority of Inaba has outcast the "oppressor minority" Yosuke without any substance behind it.