{"id":1943,"date":"2018-02-17T00:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T08:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=1943"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:07:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T07:07:36","slug":"persona5-animation-coming-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2018\/02\/17\/persona5-animation-coming-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"PERSONA5 the Animation Coming April 2018!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aniplex of America announced in a press release that it has acquired <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/p5ausa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PERSONA5 the Animation<\/a>,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is slated to premiere April 2018. The upcoming TV anime series will adapt the best-selling JRPG by ATLUS.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A-1 Pictures is animating the series with Director Masashi Ishihama, whose past work includes being the director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the Other World (Shinseki yori), ERASED<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your Lie in April<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and more. The production staff from the game will also be lending a hand to the anime production staff, including Shigenori Soejima as the original character designer, Shoji Meguro as the sound composter and Katsura Hashino, credited for the original concept.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PERSONA5 the Animation Trailer 1\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ePcZjOOVxdU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An OVA celebrating the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persona 5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> game release was previously released in September 2016. Several of the cast from the special renewed their roles for the anime, along with several new cast members, including:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Jun Fukuyama as Ren Amamiya<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Mamoru Miyano as Ryuji Sakamoto<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Ikue Otani as Morgana<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Nana Mizuki as Anne Takamaki<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Tomokasu Sugita as Yusuke Kitagawa<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Rina Sato as Makoto Niijima<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Aoi Yuki as Futaba Sakura<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Haruka Tomatsu as Haru Okumura<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Soichiro Honshi as Goro Akechi<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The OVA was streamed by Crunchyroll, and it is currently <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/persona5-the-animation-the-day-breakers-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">available <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for viewing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persona 5<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the latest role-playing video game of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Persona <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">franchise, was developed by ATLUS and is available on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. It was originally released in Japan on September 15, 2016, but the world-wide release was delayed until April 4, 2017. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aniplex of America announced in a press release that it has acquired PERSONA5 the Animation, which is slated to premiere April 2018. The upcoming TV anime series will adapt the best-selling JRPG by ATLUS. 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