Persona 5: The Animation

Persona 4 anime was hilarious, full of wink-wink anime gags, and interesting side characters. Persona 5 is heavier on suspense and serious, realistic crime story tone, and it took a while to introduce all the characters, so I didn't feel the group as tight knit as the group in Persona 4.

But the drawings won't disappoint the series fans, and Persona 5 world is bigger, supported by PS4 system.

*Warning* the anime follows the game plot closely, so if you haven't played the game yet, the anime episodes would spoil the plot twists in the game. In my case though, because I enjoyed the anime (episodes 1-26 so far), I don't mind the spoilers. In fact, the spoilers helped me to skip dialogues ahead in the game.

I'm one of the people who actually had fun with the anime, but even I can recognize it has some flaws. For one, it's length. They are trying to squeeze over 100 hours of story intensive gameplay into a show a tenth of the size, however, they try to remain faithful to the story, which means leaving most everything in. This leads to some episodes, like the first, feeling kind of like a rushed mess. Something I know other people may complain about, and I admit to feeling some frustration with myself, is the fight scenes in the anime: unlike the intensive boss fights characteristic of the game, everything had to be over and done with in 15 minutes or less. And the regular encounters are even worse, ending in two minutes. Again, sometimes thus makes things seem kinda rushed. Overall, it was a good watch, but I would recommend playing the game over this.

While it doesn't quite reach the heights of the game, it is still a great watch in its own right. First of all, the good stuff, the cast performances and respect to the source material make it amazing. Each actor suites their character well and they genuinely make you fall in love with their character. The themes stay intact as well and the story holds surprisingly well. Some of the animation is so-so but not terrible. I think its weakest links are the pacing and Jokers character. It makes sense to have a semi-silent protagonist in the game but in the animation he's just kind of there and feels a bit out of place. Also the character development was a bit more fleshed out in the games but the pacing moves things very fast so if you didn't play the game first, it might be confusing to watch. Overall, it's rough around the edges but an enjoyable and engaging series.

The show is a little lack-luster, but has a lot of lovable characters, an amazing story and is just overall a fun anime

Persona 5 the animation try's to do what the game does, but horribly, the anime has horrible artwork, and the amazing soundtrack is used horribly, not to say the pacing is just absolutely horrible. I know you can't fit a 100 hour game in a anime, but to be honest it is acceptable, to anime standards I guess it's alright, so you might enjoy it, but I definitely do see some fun to be had, I enjoy all the Easter eggs, all the xtra details, just I hope if they make a persona 5 R the animation anime, I hope they fix all the mistakes.