Persona 5

Persona 5 is the sixth installment in the Persona series. It is proceeded by Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and is succeeded by Persona 5 Strikers. Ren Amimaya is the main protagonist and Masayoshi Shido is the main antagonist. The Seven Deadly Sins are the villainous faction in this game.

Persona 5 is the fifth numbered game in the Persona series, the sixth in total. It is the third game not to be directly connected to its predecessor, where starting with Persona 3 set a precedent for later Persona games.

Persona 5 first released on the PlayStation 3 in 2016.

Starting in 2016, a manga adaptation by Murasaki Hisato was released. In 2019 VIZ Media began publishing it in the United States.

Starting in 2018, an anime adaptation titled Persona 5 The Animation was released by CloverWorks. It ran for 26 episodes.

In 2019 an enhanced version of Persona 5 titled Persona 5 Royal was released on the PlayStation 4. It featured new gameplay enhancements as well as two new social links, and a third semester added to the school year.

Official Description
Persona 5 is a fantasy based on reality which follows a group of troubled high school students: the protagonist and a collection of compatriots he meets along the way. These disturbed and troubled teenagers gradually realize that they are living in a toxic and dangerous world resembling a prison full of slavery, oppression and injustice, ruled by corrupted and twisted adults. They can't live with the system and can't live without it, and simply existing means they are at risk of being doomed and condemned to a life of slavery.

Summary
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Cast

 * Ren Amimaya - Xander Mobus
 * Morgana - Cassandra Lee Morris
 * Ryuji Sakamoto - Max Mittelman
 * Ann Takamaki - Erika Harlacher
 * Yusuke Kitagawa - Matthew Mercer
 * Makoto Niijima - Cherami Leigh
 * Futaba Sakura - Erica Lindbeck
 * Haru Okumura - Xanthe Huynh
 * Goro Akechi - Robbie Daymond

Spin-Offs
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Trivia

 * Unlike previous Persona titles, which were set in fictional locations, Persona 5 takes place in Tokyo, primarily in the Shibuya ward. A lot of the locales in Persona 5 are heavily based on real-life Tokyo.
 * Because of this, Atlus had to ask Persona fans to stop bothering and inconveniencing the locals and trespassing.
 * The art assets in the game, such as UI and portraits, had to be redrawn and redone when the game was also being developed for PlayStation 4, as it meant a jump from 720p to 1080p. The PlayStation 3 version has a max resolution of 720p.
 * The box art of Persona 5 has a similar style to Persona 4 's, in that the main cast is featured surrounding the protagonist, who stands at the front of the group, with the game's setting and the protagonist's Persona in the background.
 * It's giving Marvel movie poster.
 * Persona 5 includes Nuclear and Psy elemental skills, along with the Kouha and Eiha lines of Light and Dark skills, which have not been seen in the franchise since the Persona 2 duology, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner and the original Megami Ibunroku Persona, respectively.
 * The Arcana written on the tarot cards are based on the Tarot of Marseilles deck, using French names of the cards. The Death tarot card is unnamed accordingly because Death (La Mort) is also known as "The Card with No Name."
 * The credits of Persona 5, while showing the party, does not display the party's Personas, unlike Persona 3 and 4. However, it does show the protagonist awakening to his Persona, whereas the rest of the casts' awakenings are not shown.
 * Persona 5 is the first Persona game to use circular chronology in its storytelling.
 * Persona 5 is the first-ever entry in the entire Megami Tensei series to support dual audio.
 * Persona 5 is the first mainline Persona game to drop the Shin Megami Tensei supertitle after Persona 4 Golden.
 * Persona 5 is the first Persona game whose physical release options are supported on more than two PlayStation consoles, those being the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 (via backwards compatibility support for PS4 titles).
 * While the Persona 2 duology is supported on a grand total of five PlayStation systems, PSVita's backwards compatibility for Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment is only available via online download. Additonally, Eternal Punishment is only available on the PS3 and PSP systems via online download.


 * During the third semester's new alternate ending, Ryuji eats his eho-maki at the north-northwest direction, which matches the same Eho (the direction that one should eat the eho-maki at Setsubun, a 5 year cycle) as 2017.
 * The third awakening scenes were fully dubbed in both the Japanese and international releases, although the voice acting was removed for the final release. The voiced dialogue is significantly different from the actual in-game dialogue in terms of wording. Only Akechi's third awakening remains fully dubbed.
 * This also applies to the counseling sessions throughout the game with the Phantom Thieves and Maruki, and the ideal reality scenes from January 3 to January 8, again with completely different wording on both versions.
 * In the Persona 5 Royal Official Completion Guide, an interview with the staff states that the developers intended for neither of the new endings added in Royal to be considered the "True" ending. Internally, the two endings were referred to as the "stay ending" and "return ending," referring to whether the player chooses to remain in Maruki's reality or to go back to the original reality. The conclusion to the story was meant to be "there is no single path to justice."
 * This is supported by the PlayStation trophy for completing the game, called "The Path Chosen." This achievement unlocks regardless of which ending the player chooses, and is simply described as "Witness the ending," further alluding to the idea that neither ending was meant to be the "true" one.

Continuity

 * A blue butterfly appears to Ren in the beginning of the game. This is Philemon showing himself to Ren, like he did the protagonists from the previous two games.
 * Unlike previous entries in the Persona series, the game takes place in "20XX," leaving the exact year ambiguous. However, in-game references suggest the exact year is 2016; for example, a TV report regarding Rise Kujikawa stating that she "gained a lot of sex appeal since she hit 20," who was 15 during the events of Persona 4, which takes place during 2011. Additionally, examination of the exact dates (via comparing days of the week and leap years) shows that they line up exactly with the 2016 calendar.
 * This is the third time that a Persona game takes place in the same year it was officially released (particularly in Japan). Megami Ibunroku Persona takes place in 1996 and Persona 2: Innocent Sin in 1999.