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Apollo couldn't be a prosecutor anyway.....apparently in the AA world there's some rule against a prosecutor being a defense attorney and vice-versa, which was talked about in Trials and Tribulations, in the fifth case.

Also, I ended up getting Gyakuten Saiban 2 and Gyakuten Kenji (Ace Attorney Investigations) at the flea market, so I now have all the Japanese versions of the games, except for Gyakuten Kenji 2.

I think the point in 3-5 was that Edgeworth couldn't act as a defense attorney since he wasn't a defense attorney. To become a defense attorney, you have to jump through some hoops, and to become a prosecutor, you have to jump through some other hoops. I don't think there's any rule saying that you're not allowed to jump through both sets of hoops. After all, they let Godot become a prosecutor without checking whether he had ever been a defense attorney.

So Apollo could train as a prosecutor in the time between AJ and AA5. After all, Phoenix himself probably has to jump through some hoops to become a defense attorney again (he mentions "taking the bar again" in the credits of AJ), so there is probably a decent time gap between AJ and AA5. Also, Apollo even has an obvious choice for a mentor (Klavier).

I don't personally believe it, but I do think it is possible.

Well, I can safely say that Apollo's new design is......unexpected, to be sure.

They confirmed that it's only been a year since AJ, so maybe Apollo could have jumped through hoops to be a prosecutor. Problem is, why would he? And he would have to have pretty much started trying to become one at the same time that Phoenix took the bar exam. Maybe this will actually happen and Capcom will explain it.

We know a lot more about AA5 now. There's a brand-new prosecutor, and Apollo is playable (and still a defense attorney).

Something interesting: the English title of the game is Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, and the trailers make it seem like Apollo is just as important as Phoenix. Sure, the English game title has "Phoenix Wright" in it, but the Japanese games have never had character names in their titles, so that's probably just for marketing purposes.

Maybe the two defense attorneys will actually get roughly the same amount of screen time. In other words, maybe we shouldn't be talking about Phoenix being the "main protagonist" and Apollo being a "guest protagonist". Maybe the game genuinely has two protagonists! That might be very interesting.

That's funny, because I actually love Franziska. She is my favorite character. Part of it is her sex appeal (I'm into tsunderes, the whip just makes it better), and I can relate to her being "spoiled" (I've been called that at least once in my life) and wanting to be perfect and the very best at everything she does.

Well obviously you have to say something like that, Mr Godot, or else you would seem conceited. But let's be honest here, everyone knows that you are the best character.

By the way, it turns out that the new prosecutor for AA5 is an badass hawk who has a pet human. Or was that the other way around...?