(L) Persona - Trinity Soul

[Haruyasha]

Trailer looks disappointing and dull. A bunch of geezers in suits and guys talking.. :yawn: (Yeah, I'm so excited now. -.-)

The music is also a bit dull and doesn't conform to the standards of the game.


Seems to me like this is an amateur animation company. (Judging by the logo.) However I really do hope they do a better job in the actual anime. Persona is a great series.. and I wouldn't like to see it trashed.

[Jesus Christnekoff]

A bunch of geezers in suits and guys talking..

That's... pretty much what the Persona series has always been like.

[7Th]

Originally Posted by flou

Look on the bright side: at least it's good-looking CG and not GONZO-quality. -__-

impossible (ĭm-pŏs'ə-bəl)

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[rimaa]

cant wait for this one, persona 3 was a pretty great game

[Sciel]

Played P3 recently and it was really a breath of fresh air compared to recent RPG's . Its a shame then ending had to be like that though .

Anyways , i'm really excited about this series and can't wait till it airs . Let's hope it doesn't disappoint.

[ZeusIrae]

I saw the trailer.While it looked a little cliche, I liked what I saw.The two guys talking while watching the sky caught my interest.

[hachihachi]

this caught my attention and i think it could be intense, coming from the director and writer of blood+. will definitely watch it.

[Xcomp]

Spoilers from 2ch.

Spoiler for Episode 1:

• There's a girl who looks exactly like Mitsuru.
• When Ryou is talking on the phone, you can hear Akihiko's voice at the other end.
• Apathy syndrome is already happening.
• Igor is a fortune teller.

People are guessing Mitsuru might be married and the girl is her daughter. Maybe she got together with Akihiko?

Trying to find out if it's just Megumi, one of the new characters. If it's just her then, the surname's different so it can't be true then.

Site's also been updated with a desktop widget so that you can stream the latest TS news, make memos and have the Kanzato brothers sitting around in their SD form.

[Koroku]

Could someone give a decent plot description of the games?

Reading some of the posts (90 hours O_O) I'm afraid to say that I probably wouldn't have time to play them all, and am semi-kinda interested in picking this up when it airs next month.

Or could one probably get by without knowing anything about the games?

[TinyRedLeaf]

Originally Posted by Xcomp

Spoilers from 2ch.

Spoiler for Episode 1:

People are guessing Mitsuru might be married and the girl is her daughter. Maybe she got together with Akihiko?

Trying to find out if it's just Megumi, one of the new characters. If it's just her then, the surname's different so it can't be true then.

Spoiler:

Haha, so I'm not the only one who thinks that Mitsuru and Akihiko would make a great couple. Although, if the doujinshi is to be believed, Akihiko is a closet homosexual with a fetish for wearing female swimming costumes under his T-shirts.

[Xcomp]

It turns out...

Spoiler for More on episode 1:

This girl that looks "exactly like Mitsuru" is just the girl you see at the beginning of the trailer who is sinking in the water. I think there's only a very tiny resemblance really. This is an early scene in the first episode too. Afterwards, we see Ryou out at sea (investigating the disappearance of the submarine crew probably) and says, "So this is where she is...?"

Also Igor appears wearing a mask on a deserted street. He takes it off and says (to Shin?), "We meet again." There's no Velvet Room.

Originally Posted by Koroku

Could someone give a decent plot description of the games?

Reading some of the posts (90 hours O_O) I'm afraid to say that I probably wouldn't have time to play them all, and am semi-kinda interested in picking this up when it airs next month.

Or could one probably get by without knowing anything about the games?

Well, Wiki has a brief description. Persona 3 has a great story with a number of twists. Since they decided to set this 10 years after it, I doubt you'll really need to know the games to sub it. I'm sure they'll have some scenes where they'll run through things such as what Apathy Syndrome and Personas are so I doubt you'll have problems.

Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf

Spoiler:

Haha, so I'm not the only one who thinks that Mitsuru and Akihiko would make a great couple. Although, if the doujinshi is to be believed, Akihiko is a closet homosexual with a fetish for wearing female swimming costumes under his T-shirts.

Well, Doujishin is Doujishin. What are you doing reading ones about Akihiko anyway?

[meh]

Meh, I liked Persona 3, but I'm not sure if this looks promising. Has there actually been a successful video game-turned-anime before? And I'm not talking about visual novels or dating games that are story-centric. But rather just a regular video game.

Had this been any other megaton game, I would've skipped it. Persona 3 was the only megaton game that didn't have a random encounter every 5 seconds to bore the crap out of me.

[Xcomp]

More spoilers

Spoiler for Scenes from episode 1 with P3 touch:

• On the phone "Akihiko" says to Ryo, "Don't waste this important Specimen A."
• Shin and Jun are on the way to a family restaurant. Jun spots a fortune teller store and drags Shin to go with him. Igor appears before them on the desolated streets and takes off his mask saying, "We meet again." Shin doesn't know what he means but suddenly everything goes dark. He wakes up in front of his house and wonders if it was just a dream.
• While clearing up the things he's moved to their new house, he finds a statue of Igor. He decides to try finding Igor again but can't.
• The brothers mention their younger sister who died in an accident. Shin and Jun are twins.

Ah, that's the details I wanted to hear!

Spoiler:

Now I wonder if the mystery girl could be their sister. "Akihiko doesn't sound like Akihiko now that I've found out what they talk about.

Originally Posted by meh

Meh, I liked Persona 3, but I'm not sure if this looks promising. Has there actually been a successful video game-turned-anime before? And I'm not talking about visual novels or dating games that are story-centric. But rather just a regular video game.

Had this been any other megaton game, I would've skipped it. Persona 3 was the only megaton game that didn't have a random encounter every 5 seconds to bore the crap out of me.

Well, lets see... I think the "Tales of" series did well, heard Disgaea was disappointing, Star Ocean and FFVII Last Order was pretty good. Pokemon and Digimon continues through the years but, I guess they don't count

And yes, the avoidable encounters is certainly one of the aspects I like about P3.

[ZODDGUTS]

Well the .hack anime was pretty good. Heard the Wildarms and Arc the Lad anime were pretty decent as well.

Anyways for the first episode of Persona how was the animation same goes for the CG if it had any.

[Xcomp]

Originally Posted by ZODDGUTS

Well the .hack anime was pretty good. Heard the Wildarms and Arc the Lad anime were pretty decent as well.

Anyways for the first episode of Persona how was the animation same goes for the CG if it had any.

Ah yes, how can I forget .hack. It was a great show with great music. I lost interest after the Twilight Bracelet series, though.

According to one person who went to the première the animation was smooth, battle scenes were cool and the artwork in the ending was extremely surreal. As a Persona fan however, he thought the Persona that appeared was not very good design wise. P3 fans should get a smile out of the soundtrack even though it's by GetBackers' Iwasaki and not Shoji Meguro.

So just like you mentioned a few posts back, A-1 Pictures seem to have done a good job here too.

There weren't many comments about the animation quality. That was the only poster in fact... Everyone's been talking more about the story itself ^^;

[meh]

Originally Posted by Xcomp

Well, lets see... I think the "Tales of" series did well, heard Disgaea was disappointing, Star Ocean and FFVII Last Order was pretty good. Pokemon and Digimon continues through the years but, I guess they don't count

Originally Posted by ZODDGUTS

Well the .hack anime was pretty good. Heard the Wildarms and Arc the Lad anime were pretty decent as well.

Anyways for the first episode of Persona how was the animation same goes for the CG if it had any.

So those did pretty well? I've actually never even heard of the FFVII Last Order, Arc the Lad, and Wild Arms animes until now. While the few episodes of 'Tales of' and Star Ocean didn't seem interesting.

I did forget about .Hack though.

[cyth]

I've also written a short impression on my blog (new anime series are inbound, so kind of lazy to retype).

[IchiKyo]

I have seen the Op and the Ed
The Ending is KINDA STRANGE O_O
But the opening is pretty good...

[Deathkillz]

ep 1

Spoiler:

Pretty interesting. Not mind blowing but it holds my attention for the moment I guess this is the background setting ep that introduces the characters to the viewers. We see some commotion in the middle with a guy trying to drain someone's spirit? soul? using his own. A detective guy uses his own powers to stop the madman which was pretty cool ^^ Some mystery concerning what the hell these things are and one of the brothers use his to protect himself.

[ThoHell]

I was quite impressed with he first episode. Well done, well done indeed. Looking forward to this series, hope the characters don't become emo (I just felt some of the characters gave off that vibe).