i already read about the discussion about NG+ being added in the category, but it seems that it wont happened for now or soon, so here is my suggestion:

1.) if someday in the future NG+ category will be added, ofcourse DLC's will still be banned but what if some persona will also be banned? or a skill like that Hassou Tobi skill? so that the run will still have a challenge and not easily beaten by one spamable skill?

2.) if NG+ is gonna be allowed, i know this is somewhat a dumb / stupid suggestion but, what if there will be a certain persona available per castle? like for example; Kaneshiro's castle /only mid tier personas are availale (like lvl 20-30 or something)

3.) restrict some weapons when enetering Castles (like for example; Madarame's Castle, weapon with damage above 180 is restricted or something like that)

4.) if NG+ will be added set the difficulty rules to merciless mode only, other mode that than is prohibited.

i know this is some weird suggestion but i had to guys..... i mean restricting a certain persona and a weapon is kinda weird but the reason why i suggest this is because since we are gonna run NG+ in the future if its gonna be added in the category, we already have some End Game items / weapons, so farming those things wont be getting in our way all we need is just a restriction of using it on different castle to avoid having an advantage of it and abusing it to clear a castle, so there will still be some challenge on the run into it.

thank you for taking time to read! i hope you guys will consider this suggestion in the future :) cheers to everyone and have a nice day!

Adding random restrictions to NG+ runs would be very silly in my opinion, if they did exist on here.

NG+'s point is precisely that it isn't difficult, it's mostly optimization of movement, menus and so forth. So trying to go out of your way in-game to make NG+ more difficult seems silly.

Can also be argued Merciless is easier than Hard. In my opinion, it is.

I'm afraid what you're suggesting has no resemblance to a speedrun category.

Sometimes I have a lot of trouble sleeping and I don't know why, could anyone please help me with this.

Everything necessary has already been said. Super arbitrary restriction like these have no place in speedruns.

Honestly, the only possible alteration to NG+ run I can see that could potentially make it a little more difficult would be if it were to become NG+ solo run. I'm not saying that this should be a thing, I am just saying that that is the only run I can see getting some attention in the NG+ category.

NG+ is essentially a solo run. It's much faster that way.

Why would you want to make NG+ more difficult, though? It's the "run through everything with Hassou Tobi with maxed Yoshitsune stats" run.

I mean if you're going out of your way to make stipulations to make NG+ more difficult, it would probably make more sense to just do NG.