Nestled in the Sega Sammy FY 2021 Winter Business Report are messages from the Persona 5 composer Shoji Meguro and art director/character designer Shigenori Soejima. The two creatives commented on the game’s global success and what they feel are the keys to that success in the report. Shoji Meguro stated the following: We were thrilled
Persona 5 The Royal
Kadokawa and railway operator Tokyu Corporation announced a Persona 5 Royal (PS4, PS5) riddle game rally taking place in the train stations of the the Tokyu Toyoko Line. The game is titled the Tokyu Line Riddle Game Rally x Persona 5 The Royal Mysterious Railway QQQ. It’s pronounced “three Q” and probably a reference to
Sega and Atlus announced the sales of Persona 5 The Royal (PS4, PS5) and Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers (PS4, PS5, Switch) each reached over 500,000 copies in Japan and Asia. The announcement was made following the PlayStation Partner Awards 2020 Japan Asia event, held on December 2. There, Persona 5 Royal won a
If you’ve enjoyed Persona 5 Royal and the story of its new character Kasumi Yoshizawa, and completely fell for her, you might want to grab her new upcoming figure. Kotobukiya has announced the ARTFX J Kasumi Yoshizawa Phantom Thief ver. figure, scheduled to launch in November 2020, for 15.800 Yen (Tax excluded). The figure is
Because we all needed another Persona 5 Joker figurine (honestly why not, his design is cool), a new one has emerged courtesy of Prime 1 Studio. The company released the new figure under their Premium Masterline series and it absolutely shows in the level of quality. As you can see from both the gallery and
Primaniacs announced it will launch new perfumes for multiple Persona characters. Persona 3 Portable‘s Female Protagonist. Nanako and her father Ryotaro from Persona 4. And Kasumi Yoshizawa / Violet from Persona 5 Royal. Each perfume is priced at 5959 Yen (Tax included) and will be sold starting July 17. 【新商品案内】キャラクターフレグランス専門店primaniacsより『ペルソナ3 ポータブル』『ペルソナ4』『ペルソナ5 ザ・ロイヤル』のキャラクターのフレグランスが発売決定！発売日は9/4。オンラインショップでご予約受付中。6/18より銀座本店にてテスター配布予定。https://t.co/O5fsMFbxVI #ペルソナ pic.twitter.com/4DUjnGm6Oq —
Atlus and Koei Tecmo published the second full-length trailer for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers. As always with these kinds of Japanese games trailers, it’s full of out-of-context one-liners, but here’s a summary of the trailer with everything we learned anyway. Note that this article contains spoilers, as Persona 5 Scramble is a sequel
With the first Persona 5 The Stage closing out its initial run, a new teaser trailer reveals that the popular stage play will be making its return starting in October 2020 in both in Yokohama and Osaka: Actor Yoshihide Sasaki (playing the role of Goro Akechi) previously discussed performing in the smaller scope of his
Persona 5 Royal will be crossing over with Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space in a brand new collaboration event. Another Eden is a mobile game about a boy named Aldo and his sister Feinne. One day the Beast King appears and seeks to use Feinne’s dormant abilities to erase humans from the
Atlus and Sega announced via the official Japanese Twitter account of the Persona series that Persona 5 now sold over 3.2 copies worldwide. The article on Persona Channel written for the occasion also reveals that Persona 5 Royal sold over 400,000 copies in Japan, and that the Persona series as a whole is now at
So Atlus USA is teasing a news update for the western release of Persona 5 Royal. The teaser was shared via Twitter. And a countdown started on the game’s western official site. The countdown ends on December 3 and we’ll probably get a new English trailer and a release date. And this date might be
Atlus published today a 30-minutes long making-of video showing Persona series character designer Shigenori Soejima drawing artwork for Persona 5 Royal. The artwork shows Joker and the new character, Kasumi Yoshizawa, together in their Phantom Thieves outfits. Atlus published this artwork to celebrate the release of the game in Japan. A short version of this
Atlus launched another new gameplay video for Persona 5 Royal, showcasing new character Kasumi Yoshizawa. We get to see multiple parts of the school-life events featuring Kasumi, her all-out attack finisher and some more cute scenes with her. The first scene is Kasumi saying she’ll definitely payback Joker for all the times he’s helped her.
Atlus keeps the Persona 5 Royal short gameplay videos coming on its official Twitter. Today we’ve got a new video showing Joker, Morgana, and Ryuji going to the Kichijoji Downtown Area for the first time. 【 #P5R 10/31発売！】P5Rでは新しく行ける場所も増えてるぜ！特に吉祥寺では怪盗団のみんなとダーツやビリヤードなんかも楽しめるみたいだ！わくわくするな！ #ペルソナ５https://t.co/x3vyNLnFwS pic.twitter.com/XUhgjPuL6w — モルガナ_ペルソナ広報 (@p_kouhou) May 27, 2019 Here’s a quick translation: Morgana: Wow, so this is what
Persona 5 Royal got another short gameplay video through the Persona official PR Twitter. This time it focuses one of the new Confidant characters, the consultant Takuto Maruki. It seems Atlus will keep pushing out these on Twitter until the next Morgana Report or the second trailer releases. 【 #P5R 10/31発売！】スクールカウンセラーとして秀尽学園に赴任してきた新たな協力者、丸喜拓人(CV.日野聡)。 聞き上手で的確なアドバイスがもらえると生徒からの評判もいいらしいぜ。でも何だか気の抜けてる感じもするけど大丈夫か？ #ペルソナ５https://t.co/x3vyNLnFwS pic.twitter.com/G5w1mV6n5l —
Atlus published a new short gameplay sequence for Persona 5 Royal on the official PR twitter. This time we see new Phantom Thieves member Kasumi Yoshizawa during one of the new school events. 【 #P5R 10/31発売！】ジョーカーの転入と同じ年の春に秀尽学園へ入学した新入生、芳澤かすみ(CV.雨宮天)。新体操で優秀な成績を収めていて、学園からも期待されているらしい。あの体裁き…ただものじゃなさそうだぜ！ #ペルソナ５ https://t.co/x3vyNLnFwS pic.twitter.com/dXH5KXtrxb — モルガナ_ペルソナ広報 (@p_kouhou) May 22, 2019 Kasumi introduces herself to Joker as a first-year student. She
Atlus published on Twitter a new gameplay video for Persona 5 Royal. It’s an excerpt of the scene where the Phantom Thieves are doing the traditional Japanese first shrine visit of the year on January 1. The same scene is shown in the first trailer and previous screenshots, but it’s the first time we see
Persona 5‘s official artbook has finally gotten an English release as an e-book for the first time. The Persona 5 Official Design Works e-book is 512 pages total, a far cry from the 432 page physical English version that released back in November 2017. One of the major additions to the English digital version is the
Atlus and Sega revealed new information on Persona 5 Royal in this week’s Famitsu. The information is contained in an interview with the game’s main staff, who was also revealed for the first time with this interview. Here are the main tidbits: The subtitle “Royal” was coined by Atlus to show their desire to deliver a
Just a few weeks back, we learned that Persona 5 had sold 2.4 million copies as of the January 2019 according to Atlus. These figures were impressive in their own right for a JRPG only available on a single platform, but it seems that this total has since climbed a bit more in the past few
Fan-favorite back alley doctor and Death Confidant Tae Takemi from Persona 5 comes to life in a wonderful series of cosplay photographs, courtesy of Twitter user K. While Takemi’s costume design is definitely simpler in nature, the immaculate attention to detail and how much the cosplayer immerses herself in the role is what makes her
Last month KSC Corporation revealed on their official blog that they would be doing an interesting collaboration with Sega and Atlus’s Persona 5 — an airsoft gun modeled after the one protagonist Joker uses in the game. The company finally released the special edition gun model for preorder and it’s even more lovely than I
Today marks the two year anniversary of the release of Persona 5, our 2017 Game of the Year here at DualShockers, and to coincide with this date, we happen to have now learned more about the game’s lifetime sales. In a translation by way of Persona Central, a new interview with Atlus’ console games director Naoto
Atlus revealed today that besides the Persona 5 The Royal announcement on April 24, “1 More” announcement is coming on April 25, about a certain Persona 5 S. A Persona 5 S teaser site was opened, showing the visual above, inspired from the original game’s GUI. Moreover, when checking the source code of the teaser
Reddit user AquaGleebis created some Persona 5 themed poker chip designs, which look straight out of a limited edition set in terms of detail and adherence to the thematic designs of Persona 5. AquaGleebis made two separate chips, the first which is a more simplistic one decorated with the P5 letter logo and distinctive Phantom
Earlier today, Atlus revealed a new teaser trailer for Persona 5 The Royal, which was revealed at the end of the live broadcasting of Persona 5 The Animation‘s last episode “Stars and Ours.” Persona 5 The Royal‘s trailer itself is very short, spanning only about 45 seconds, but we get a glimpse of a new
Following a confirmation that more news will be coming today on March 23, Atlus and Sega revealed the first trailer for Persona 5 R on PS4 during the Persona 5 The Animation Stars and Ours special, and as such finally revealed what Persona 5 R actually is. As everyone guessed, it’s an enhanced port of