As a fan of the games, the Persona 4 adaptation is a real shame. It exemplifies everything that can go wrong with video game adaptations. Not only is it poorly done in respect to anime as a whole, but it is poorly done even compared to some other video game adaptations. I fully expect I'll get a lot of hate for this, so please let me explain first.
Video gamers can look forward to more of Persona 4 in future: an updated port of the original game on Playstation Vita, and a spin-off fighting game on PS3/Xbox360. Note: An unaired episode that adapts the video game's True Ending is scheduled to be released in August 2012.
“There is no Persona 3 anime-kuma.” Right, and no Tsukihime one either. So let’s leave those BEARied and forgotten and go back to what I was talking about. The characters become easily likable and both visuals and soundtrack are extremely faithful to the original source.
Yes Teddie, I agree, BEAR with it. But guess what, so far Persona 4 appears to have broken the circle of bad karma and as an exception it looks GORGEOUS!
The dub had some pretty great moments. Anyways the anime was overall decent. So it's great to watch it whether you've played any Persona game or not. If you have played the game to completion, and if it is the Vita (Golden) version, then yes, you can watch both anime and get a quick review of the storyline.
1 Answer. Show activity on this post. You have to watch Persona 4 before watching Persona 4 the Golden, the reason is in P4G they skip most of the plot presented in the original series and pretty much only animate the parts with the new character, Mary.
overall, i'd recommend this anime, even if the reviews aren't the best, it's ... overall, the anime is pretty good, i played the game and enjoyed it alot, since i liked the game so much, i decided to watch the anime. the anime is for sure not as good as the game, but this is persona were talking about!
A Masterpiece Persona 4 Golden is as great on PC as it was on PlayStation Vita. Its turn-based combat is fast, fun, fluid, and encourages strategic thinking. The contemporary, rural setting and Jung-inspired narrative sets it apart from other JRPGs and allows it to tell a story that breaks genre conventions.
Persona 5: The Animation is an anime television series produced by CloverWorks based on the Persona 5 video game by Atlus. The anime series is directed by Masashi Ishihama and written by Shinichi Inotsume, with Tomomi Ishikawa adapting Shigenori Soejima's original character designs for the animation.
A second adaptation based on the game's PlayStation Vita port, titled Persona 4: The Golden Animation, aired in Japan between July and September 2014. Unlike the first series, this adaptation was produced by A-1 Pictures and is licensed in North America by Aniplex of America.
The cast of Persona 4 is referenced in Persona 5, as Goro Akechi is described as being the second coming of the Detective Prince, with Naoto Shirogane (one of the party members in Persona 4), being the first.
In fact, the game's pretty much been confirmed to be in development. In 2017, Persona Central translated a job listing that mentioned hiring a team for a "Persona 6" game. Later, in a 2019 interview with the same site, Daiki Ito, the Director of "Persona 5," said that the development team has ideas about the next game.
Persona 5: The Animation has learned nothing from the success of its predecessor, turning Ren Amamiya into one of the most boring one-note characters in the entire series and falling far short of doing justice to the character's potential.
Obviously, it's a better-looking game, and on most days, I'd say that P5 has the better soundtrack of the two. I also like that you can date your hot teacher, who also works as a maid prostitute. Any game that lets you do that is OK in my book. Beyond that though, Persona 4 is superior to Persona 5 in every way.
When focusing on the main objectives, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is about 72½ Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 119 Hours to obtain 100% completion.
6 Longest: Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 It's part simulation, part RPG. The main story can be rushed through in about seventy-two hours, but this is easily a ninety plus hour deep dive. Persona 4 is often heralded as the best by fans.
Besides going into TVs to stop a psychopathic killer, Persona 4 is about learning to accept yourself, both the good and bad. Inside the TV world, the characters are forced to confront the darker sides of themselves—the parts we all like to pretend don't exist. Whether a girl denying her very gender or a guy trying to deal with the fact that he likes "unmanly" things, Persona 4 deeply explores these emotional and personal truths that many people secretly struggle with. Watching this anime (or playing the game, I assume) might actually help people come to terms with some of the more "shameful" parts of themselves—and that is something commendable for any work of fiction.
Yu Narukami is one of the oddest characters in any work of fiction ever. This is largely because he isn't a character. In the game you control him, so you decide his actions and the reasons he does said actions. The anime has no such viewer interactivity. As you never know his past or the motivations that drive him, all his actions seem random and inexplicable. And as he is often silent, this makes Yu a total wild card in his own story: You never know what he is going to do in any situation.
Each time another crime occurs you feel the heroes are getting closer to the answer and the suspect list gets smaller and smaller. Yet, thanks to twists and turns in the story, putting the whole thing together is challenging enough that there's a good chance you won't be figuring it out before the characters do. In other words, it walks the fine line of a good detective story perfectly.
Persona 4, like Persona 3 before it, has a great soundtrack that somewhat defies classification (J-pop-techno-rap maybe?). Despite this, it fits the world perfectly and sets the tone for the series. Even though I had never heard the sound track before, the first few cords of the opening theme were enough for me to think, "Yep, this is a Persona soundtrack alright."
A community for the game series Persona. Persona is a spinoff series from the Megami Tensei series published by Atlus. Discussions related to the main series and its spin offs can be found here.
No, the P4 animation is pretty good. They actually gave Yu a character, Ren doesn’t have any character at all, granted I’ve only seen the first 3-4 episodes of the P5 one so far. The P3 movies are really good as well.