PERSONA5 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.

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!

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 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.

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.