Audience reviews
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TomasAlgerio
I’ve been familiar with the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona game franchise for a long time (back when we used to call it that, before it was simplified to just Persona), and I believe that, so far, its fifth installment has been the most well-received.
I watched the anime adaptation long before I ever played the game—fully aware that it’s nearly impossible for an anime to match the experience that a hundred hours of gameplay can offer—and I was left slightly disappointed.
I don’t think it has a particularly subtle script (neither the game nor the anime), but it’s easy to empathize with the characters’ goal: to change people, to subvert a twisted and corrupt system from its very core—both literally and metaphorically.
It feels a bit silly that in this iteration of Persona, they went with the…
Read at the sourceMxinMiiin
Trust me, this show is definitely worth spending time to watch. P5 is so underrated, i mean that it's so goodddd. I've through many anime and Persona series some of the greatest in my heart.
The story is pretty interesting and the animation was good, they are cool to me. The main character isnt as fire as other mc but his personality hits well, he isnt smart and powerful as I expected but give it a try, why not?
Gotta say, stay calm and patient watching the whole show, some scene was boring af and they continue on every single episode but if you put your imagination into P5, it may turns out kinda amazing.
PERSONA 5 is AMAZING, GIVE IT A TRY I PRETTY RECOMMENT IT( and sorry for some of my grammar, Engligh is hard for me;)
Read at the sourceAjax_Staria
A 6.4 rating for this anime is quite frankly ridiculous and such a spit on the face for what this is. I binged this anime in 3 days and it was incredibly enjoyable. What you're getting from most of these ratings are a bunch of stuck up gamers who expect perfection for an anime spinoff.
I truly enjoyed how each character was displayed and filled their own respective role in the group, each with their quirks but all required to get the job done. And Joker is just badass, straight up.
It starts strong, with a beginning reminiscent to how Steins;Gate started up, however it does become slightly boring after a little while. It picks up quickly and reaches an incredible peak at the end that will leave you wanting more, and good thing too since there's two 50 minute episodes waiting for you that…
Read at the sourceViolane
I gave this a 10, but only because I played the game before watching this. My bf and I watched this together and then came here to give it a score. That is when we noticed the low scoring but we also understood why. It took us 157 hours to finish Persona 5 Royal, of course it could be less if it wasn't Royal. Therefore, cramming all of that content in anime would be impossible unless it becomes one of the long anime. This anime kept us watching and we were not bored. It gave us a further look about some events in it and it was a pleasant thing to see the characters move around and are not just voices and writing. Truly watch it after playing the game, so you understand it better.
Read at the sourceBush-cat
Just watch Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica, it doesn't look like much on first sight but it can hit very hard, the story is really interesting and builds up well, while Persona is really boring and keeps repeating, the characters are so predictable. It wasn't possible to connect to the Characters because their Emotions were too weak. The Labyrinths designs weren't very creative. The Soundtrack was very good because the songs were the same to the Game. When I first saw the Anime I gave it a better rating because I didn't see something comparable yet, I was still bored from it but I lied to myself, telling myself that it was a good anime. Now I see how wrong I was after watching Madoka★Magica.
Read at the sourceSae_is_Bae
Persona 5 the Animation stole my heart!
Adaptions of video games to other mediums always present problems, and Persona 5 the Animation is no different. Taking inspiration from such an expansive game and condensing it makes the pacing of the show a little wonky, but overall it does a good job covering what transpires over the game.
The weakest point of this series is the art itself and frankly, it's just shite. Nothing looks good in motion, along with a lack of overall detail. The voice acting is the complete opposite, with the game VA's giving great performances that really add to the show.
Overall this is a relatively solid adaptation of Persona 5, minus the terrible art and weird creepy fan service. Major bonus points for including the best waifu/most beautiful girl Sae <3 and thankfu…
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This anime is just disappointing, the only redeeming features are its dub and the score. Aside from that do not waste your time with it. Anything good you could possibly take from this is probably on a p5a funny moments complimation on youtube.
The portrayal of the story is rushed in many ways and the ending is just disgusting, setting everything up of the for the true ending and it just ends with ketchup walking away.
Character writing is sometimes amazing but mostly just bad. The best being Ryuji saying yeet while throwing morgana.
The sound track is good but like, its persona how bad can it be?
Overall, this a 3. Save yourself some time and don't watch this.
Read at the sourceGleamMaikeru2005
Now to start this off, Persona 5 is a video game and everyone should know this. A 100+ hour video game. Persona 5 is actually my third favorite video game of all time and I have over 200+ hours in it. Anyway, a game like this CAN'T be condensed into anime that is a total of 8.6 hours. It's impossible to even try to do that. This will probably be one of the first and only reviews I ever do but I think it just needs to be said that this anime isn't good, but the game is amazing so definitely go play that. Ok time to start the actual review now haha...
STORY:
Now Persona 5's story is pretty good on its own. I think you can see a bunch of things leading up to the big twists but that's beside the point. Now that was the game now let's talk about the anime. The anime misses a bunch of stuff, li…
Read at the sourceSenhorJooJ
(First of all, I'm brazillian then sorry about any grammar mistakes)Persona 5 the animation is a anime series based on a game with the same name, first released in 2018 and finishing airing in 2019. I've got to say with all my sincerity that Persona 5 is one of the worst and most disappointing anime shows that I ever witnessed with my bare eyes. I had some friends who enjoyed this... thing and I couldn't understand why. On this review I'll be mostly talking about why this series is so disappointing in my eyes.
Story(7/10):The story is the major quality of the animation. Not gonna lie, the whole concept of breaking into pallaces and steal souls is very unique and interesting, but this is not a compliment. Try to compact about 100+ hours of gameplay in 26 episodes is a very bad idea, becaus…
Read at the sourceShinogahara
I can describe my feelings about this anime in one word: why?
This anime is an anime adaptation of the award winning game Persona 5 (which is also one of my favourite games of all time). While Persona 5 is an amazing game, it’s also a very long game and the fact that this show is only 25 episodes long is the first thing that made me feel skeptical about this show before I watched it. After I watched it, it was a hell of a lot worse than I could’ve imagined. This anime is so damn ugly like Jesus Christ! Why do the characters look so damn stupid?! Why is the all out attack screen so empty and hideous! Jesus Christ this is bad. The one positive of this show is the music because it uses music from persona 5 along with some decent songs made just for this show, the best of which is the first e…
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Persona 5 is probably my favourite game of all time. Over 100 hours it tells a story about rebellion, corruption, suicide and a talking cat magically turning into a bus. It truly is a one of a kind experience. And that’s the entire problem with this anime. It truly has no purpose for existence. Besides people who are too lazy to spend 100 hours on a game.
The story follows main character Ren Amamiya, a teenager forced to move to Tokyo after he was wrongfully convicted of assault. Who discovers the cognitive world, where distorted desires materialise. And must team up with fellow outcasts to become the Phantom Thieves. A group dedicated to stealing those desires, causing a change of heart in even the most callous of criminals.
The original managed to steal my heart within the first few…
Read at the sourceGrimmusReaperino
Persona 5 was one of the best games that I have ever played, and was a hit both in Japan and in the West upon its release, and continues to gather attention with spin offs and possible sequels based upon the loveable characters the game presents you with, along with the fantastic music crafted by Shoji Meguro (which luckily makes its way into this animated adaption).
It was a hard job to handle, cramming a 90-100 hour game into only 26 episodes, but as we have seen with Persona 4 the Animation (also handled by A1 Pictures), it can be done well.
But wherever the previous animated series succeeded, this series failed. Miserably.
The pacing of the entire anime is laughable, with exposition being either crammed into a few short sentences or not even brought up at all until it is only just…
Read at the sourceSebastianM20
Writing a long review for this show is pointless, we all knew it was gonna be another excuse for milking the franchise until the eventual Persona 6.
Plot - 3/10
Same plot as the game but more rushed, while the game it's fun by it's own the plot was always flawed, having posser characters and teenagers outmarsting light novel villains is not a good point. The traitor twist is even more evident because the show decided to put Akechi in almost every episode doing worthless things, Adachi never suffered from this (although he was a weak character too).
Art 3/10
Many characters change sizes, do stupid faces in serious situations and the animation as whole is slow and boring.
Characters - 3/10
Same as the game again, your allies just exist to suck your dick after you solve their problems. In t…
Read at the sourceSakuraStardust
If you have only seen the Anime, then you are definitely missing out in what was, originally, an excellent narrative in the original game. In order to properly adapt the massive game that is Persona 5, they would need a minimum of 50 episodes, as this series skipped over quite a bit of content. A longer run, along with taking an approach that mixed slice of life with the stylistic action of the main story of the game would probably have made this a more faithful experience, as my main issue is the fact that you dont really see the charm Persona 5 hold outside of the main Palaces and the Metaverse.
If you played the game, you may enjoy seeing the characters and specific scenes animated and elaborated on, though this Anime can't hold a candle to the masterpiece that is the game.
Read at the sourceTakaCode
I'm not going to waste my time with the introduction piece of the review so I'm just going to start with the review.
The story follows Ren Amamiya who is sent to Tokyo to stay with family associate Sojiro Sakura and attend Shujin Academy during his year-long probation. After his arrival, he is drawn into the Velvet Room, where Igor warns him that he must "rehabilitate" to avoid forthcoming ruin, and grants him access to a supernatural mobile app that leads the protagonist into the Metaverse and from there him along with his group of friends that he recruits must now steal corruption from the hearts of adults in an attempt to reform the city under a group called the Phantom Thieves.
Persona 5 the Animation is a 26 episode anime and yep alarm bells should be ringing. We haven't got a great…
Read at the sourceCyxnnn
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I had higher hopes. I played the game so I know the storyline already, but when I watched the anime it was boring and messy. If you want a better story, you should just watch the gameplay.
{Story 8/10}
I gave story 8/10 not because of the anime but because of the idea. Sadly the anime didn't portray it well and had many scenes were I just got bored and stopped.
{Art 4/10}
Horrible art, messy and bad, and in each episode there are probably 20 pictures were the characters look stupid and deformed. I hoped they would use the anime scenes from the game and use them for the same events in the anime but they decided to redraw them instead and make it look 20x worse. (I know there are probably copyright issues)
{Sound 8/10}
The voice actors are fine, they sound similar enough to th…
Read at the sourceShadowStealer7
TL;DR: Works better as a companion to the game, anime original scenes or changes from the game are generally pretty good but the rest can be seen as average in terms of writing. Art is mediocre overall but gets better too late. Enjoyable if a Persona fan, just don't expect P4A 2.0
Persona 5 the Animation has been the subject of ridicule with the quality of the art and animation along with the rushing of a 100+ hour game into 26 episodes plus an unspecified amount of OVAs later on, and from this you would think that CloverWorks has somehow managed to make the worst anime of the year. As someone who loved the game and somewhat enjoyed the anime, I disagree.
Let me explain.
Story
The same as the game that's being adapted, a few changes to some major events that, in my mind, fix some areas…
Read at the sourceGianis
Persona 5 was one of the best RPGS I've ever played in my life, sensational gameplay the story is very good, have very few holes and plot twists sensational.
The characters are great super well developed, as long as the player has an interest in socializing with a certain character.
Already in the adaptation made by CloverWorks was different, first of all in the adaptation they decided to adapt 26 episodes until near the end of the game, which would be about 80 hours of history inside the game, of course it was very rushado, the problem is that Person 5 is a slow game that has the essence of making your own lifestyle within Tokyo with your own choices in the course of the game, taking that essence and accelerating the pace ends up leaving the feeling of everything being very superficial, w…
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For a game that's about "stealing your heart", Persona 5: The Animation on the other hand was nowhere close to capture LA's heart...
LA only recently gotten into Persona 4: The Animation LA was hyped about Persona 5 as LA didn't play the game, so the anime was a good look into Persona 5, however...
Persona 5: The Animation on the basis tries to relive the events of the game, truncating any of the minor events, and with that LA will at least say that trying to cram in a 90 to 120 hour game into a 26 episode anime IS gonna have these kind of limitations, but for what it's worth, Persona 5 did ok if a bit rushed in some of it's arcs. Persona 5: The Animation is inflicted with the video game curse in some sense but not in the way you'd think.
Persona 5's plot revolves around the "Phantom Th…
Read at the sourceKarhu
Persona 5 is the newest addition to the Shin Megami Tensei franchise. Its source material had around 5 hours worth of actual content like is implied in its name, yet playing the whole thing takes around 140 hours because it's a classic J-RPG game that relies on repeating the same thing 18500 times.
Unfortunate for the fans of the game, the anime end up being 26 episodes long when it should have been 500, and unfortunate for anime fans, the anime end up being 26 episodes long when it should have been 13.
As far as fillers go, filler is canon content I mean, Persona 5 is full of slice of life nonsense that has nothing to do with anything. People fighting over pieces of bread and talking about their dreams just to make sure the pacing will become harder to comprehend than the popularity of…
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