Persona 5: The Animation

It is a very good anime, although it lacks a little more music and battle scenes, but the rest of the story is complete, but the original or royal game is recommended, but the anime is a good start to understand what it is about or see what the story is like, but in an anime, the design of the characters and the whole city is very well done, which is very good for beginners or lovers of this type of story.

The opening and ending are very different from the original version, but the lyrics and the game are very good to listen to for a while.

Highly recommended

I give it an 8.5/10 for its story.

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.

The soundtrack is good as it matches the tone of each scene. However the animation in this is awful in comparison to the game. Just look at the intro & you'll see what I mean. It's passable maybe to some but for me, it's a failed attempt for entertainment. It has its moments but they are shortlived due to the horrible animation. And the battle scenes are the worst! It's not fun to watch & makes you wanna fast forward them! They were done so much better in the game!

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.

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.