Persona 4 The Animation

[TheCoffeeGod]

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The original cast will be reprising all the roles!!! Very Exciting!! And I got to sing the Junes song at least 5 times yesterday! :)

[roriconfan]

Easily the best rpg adaptation of all times. The production values were not the best and sometimes the plot was getting formulaic but overall it was wonderful.

[TheCoffeeGod]

Dub Premiere!
September 6th on Anime Network OnDemand
September 7th on Anime Network Online

Persona 4 The Animation On Demand Promo - YouTube

[hoffstyle]

"True End" ova was awful.

[jugemxjugem]

just finished the anime.
It was better then i thought, since i dropped it initially.
Decent fighting , good comedy , mostly Yu who IMO steals the show completely. Too cool to care , always that 1 step ahead when they r goofing around.

[greg975]

Great show and the comedy scenes were a pleasant surprise, I found some hilarious and that wasn't expected at all. I didn't like the ending at all though, truly THE disappointment of the show.

What the heck was that giant eyeball anyways? What the heck were Igor and the woman?
It may sound stupid but I also like endings which are either totally positive or totally negative. Black or white so I get strong feelings at the end not something lukewarm like Persona 4's "be happy because we won but be sad because I leave and the group will probably split up".

[Aranneas]

know I'm late as late can be but...

Originally Posted by gin

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So...eh, what exactly happened?
Was that shadow some sort of illusionist or something?

I think this was the writer playing with the concept of the 'fear' status effect. if you've ever wondered what it is that gets your dudes curled up in tiny little balls so they can't fight... now you know

[Thrawn]

Monday, so it means the next group of Investigators begin their journey.

Episode 1 and already a HNNNNNGGGGGG moment with Aria of the Soul.
Tower: That one grew on me and it was night.
Moon: Messed up my Casanova-ending. If only we were meant to be...

And again when they played the opener.
Nanako's as adorable as ever and it's moving quicker than the game by cutting out some dialogue, or is that just me? Next episode's the first shadow confrontation (Assuming you've all played P4, which you should have) and I can already hear the badass boss theme. We already got Reach Out to the Truth with the vocals (Thought it'd be the instrumental at first but the sound gets top marks) and most of the music was from the game. Don't know about the EP but it has that P4 English vocal charm.

King Moron is true to character but Narukami should have verbally smacked the shit out of him. Would have given him a few points towards the next level of courage. Which brings up those little goodies for those who played P4; the stats screen for Narukami and the day changes, and just seeing the shopping center shots, good times.

Narukami don't take no shit from shadows, he beat the shit out of them.

[Funkgun]

Aaaannnd sadly I never played the game, or arena's, But I can see the bones of what came before it.

I enjoyed the first couple episodes, but was not wowed by it as of yet. The character designs seem pretty fresh, with somewhat of a small cast so far I would hope that is the case.

The whole midnight waiting for some odd channel reminded me of hell Girl, yet the show does not. Actually, and I hate to even bring this up, Personas remind me of Ichigo from Bleach and his

alter ego -powered whatever dimensional character. (been a while since I saw Bleach, so bear with me) but having a nice puppet to fight for you-go after you-whatever makes for an interesting premise.

Things I find funky,
That :thing" does not look like a bear.
Chie is kinda cute (even in that jump suit)
and I have no clue what I am getting myself into. It's you fault Thrawn!
anyhooo

[Itoukaiji01]

Episodes 1 and 2:

I found these episodes to be a pretty mixed bag. The things I like are the art style, especially the style of the other world. I also like that these battles have an element of psychological to them, at least the one in the second episode did. It's also pretty cool that the whole thing is tied to a murder mystery.

Things I didn't like: bear puns that got old after the first episode. The bear thing is a bit silly to be a guide character, not that it looks much like a bear. Also while the character designs are pretty fresh the characters themselves aren't that interesting and even a bit flat which leads to my main problem with the second episode.

Hanamura should have been the one to defeat his own shadow. I know he didn't have a Persona yet but it takes some of the punch out of his personal issues when he can do little more than whimper and shout at the shadow while Narukami's Persona does the actual fighting. The other problem with this battle is that we don't know the characters very well at this point and they didn't do a very good job of hinting at Hanamura's issues before hand so when the shadow shows up and starts taunting him, it felt a bit random. The fight and design still looked cool but the whole thing struck me as a little off, especially be Narukami got his persona without a fight. Does that mean that he doesn't have any hang ups? I really doubt it or he is the most boring lead ever. I would guess that like usual in these types of shows there is something special about him. Hopefully in the future these battles will be built up a little better because this really is a cool concept even if it's not terribly unique.

Other notes. I thought these were some huge sweat bubbles that they used here. It's pretty common for anime to use those exaggerated sweat bubbles for some reason these struck me as almost comically huge. Also, what the hell is the deal with the teacher? Not only does he look freaky but he acts like a freak too. Then there is Narukami's sister, she struck me as all wrong. I really hate when they have little kids that seem way too precocious and her dialogue is all wrong for a little girl. She talks like a little adult. I doubt she's actually going to be significant but I point it out because it's a little thing that annoys me.

I should also note that I've never played the games so I have little idea where this is going. I'm guess these initial episodes are introducing the characters and getting them their personas before the actual plot starts to unfold.

Overall it was an okay start to the series. I'm left feeling a bit ambivalent towards it because there are definite points I like but also points that I dislike. Hopefully it'll grow from here and I can get a more firm fix on the series.