so i think even if Kanji's shadow isn't actually accurate to how he is, to whatever degree that might be, the fact he literally directly accepts at least SOME part of it as accurate should be more the argument we make, not "look at the way it looks, its obvious!", yknow?

Oh yeah definitely. The way each member of the team has to accept the truth of what the shadow confronted them with, before gaining the ability to use their persona, yeah I thought that was really well done.