i was talking about this last night but i’m still thinking about how rise from the ashes was a pretty weird attempt at making edgeworth sympathetic since his depiction in AA1 was like... depressingly grounded in the reality of japanese prosecutors

to western audiences we tend to think of things like edgeworth’s perfect win record and say, the interrogation scene in P5 as an exaggeration, but no these things are very real due to japanese courts prioritizing a confession over evidence

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47113189

to give a better idea, here’s another article on false confessions in japan which includes the experiences of a former prosecutor

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20810572