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If adapting the story of "The Journey" will be rushed, I wonder how they plan to include "The Answer" as well. Without it, the ending will have no meaning at all.

Also, I can't wait to watch dat ending fully animated. Hell, I better start stocking my tissues now.

It really depends on who's directing and the film's runtime. There was a lot of padding throughout the game, and outside of events concerning the nights of the full moon, not much of note happened at all, say for the hot springs sidequest, the run-in's with Strega, etc. As for "The Answer" chances are that it won't be included in the film. Maybe a sequel may arise sometime down the road, but my feeling is that it'd be overkill: too much material for one movie. But again it depends on who's directing and the runtime.

Which brings Clannad the movie (which came out prior to the tv show ) to mind, which essentially condensed both tv seasons of the anime into a single film. And after seeing it following my completion of the first season, I noticed some alterations, like a few of the main cast being left out and certain events playing out in a similar yet different fashion, but in the end it didn't matter since they weren't essential to the story that was told. So if some of the characters or events from the game are left out, then I'm completely fine with it. Because if they are then it proves that their importance wasn't that grand to begin with. Pandering can only go so far.

I don't think The Answer is all that necessary to adaptate. The ending is complete by itself, The Answer only clarifies some questions. Some very important ones like what really happened to the MC, I know, but P3's ending can still stand on it's own even without The Answer. They can release it later as an OVA or something, they are going to do that with P4's true ending anyway, so why not?

I'm also excited to watch the ending, since the final battle + the events that happen after it are my favourite parts of the whole game.

Certainly they don't need to adapt it whole, I was thinking of showing only the resolve of the friends searching for what happened with the MC and they finding the answers (that and the ending are my favorite parts).

Mind you, I'm not thinking as someone who played the game but as someone who watches anime so I still don't think that the ending will be able to stand alone. Take the last scene at the rooftop for an example:

They could take The flashback approach starting with them on that night Episode Aegis takes place and the past year being shown in important bits that show their interactions and struggles and ending with the "Answer" to the final fight. But of course, that requires good planning and a good deal of playing around with scenes to turn it into a cohesive experience. I still think it's a better shot than just blindly adding whatever they can into a 1 and a half or 2 hour movie.

Iread that maybe it will be more then one moive ! =D

Where in the world did you read that? Post the source of this information my friend. ;)

Teaser clip:

Yeah, apparently there's confirmation of multiple movies (in moonspeak) on the official Twitter thingy.

If they were to take two movies for The Journey and one for The Answer that would be just super.

My guess on what the movies will cover (spoiler tags for those who haven't played the game) or what I want it to :)

That would be awesome but there's a problem. Generally, movies are supposed to have higher production values and I don't think they're going to waste this much money in something that is basically "milking material".

On the other hand, thanks to a helluva budget, KnK was made by studio Ufotable and each movie made by a different director.

But let's keep our hopes up, who knows. Seven movies... *drool*

Female main character cameo... and I'll be happy.

Im so pumped to see mitsuru shes super hot and i bet shes gonna be amazing in the anime (hope the MC gets with her) But doesnt really matter since he dies in the end but he still gets the hot chick.

Is it too much to ask for all three Velvet Room siblings to show up in one movie? Nevermind, it probably is.

I think that they will cover all the big events like the trip to Fukushima and Kyoto and stuff like that. I'm kind of hoping that they won't put all the social links in the move. That would be too much. I hope that they make it into more than one movie, for example: Movie 1- late april to Fukushima trip
Movie 2- End of Fukushima trip to Kyoto trip
Movie 3- End of Kyoto trip to January 31st Nyx battle
I also think that they won't include the Answer, because it is basically just grinding with a little bit of story.

^So...the Epilogue had no story....except for ALL THE BACKSTORY FOR EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER AND THE EXPLANATION TO THE ORIGINAL ENDING !!!

Is Strega really that important that they can't be cut? Couldn't their role just shift entirely to Ikutski? (They might need to fudge some things/facts a little but I can imagine them doing that...)

I barely even remember if they appeared in the female route... (though I guess it's been a while since I touched any of the P3 games...)

I kind of think this will focus mainly on Minato & Aigis actually.... as much as it seems like Yukari & Minato were a thing the main plot really focuses on Minato & Aigis [& Ryouji], especially if you factor in 'The Answer'

The Answer actually sets up the Minato + Aigis + Yukari triangular relationship even more. The only reason Aigis gets a more Main character-ish role is entirely because she and Death are fated to battle. That said, Atlus does seem to have a crush on Aigis, what with her prominent role in Arena.

Hmmm...I probably never got that far enough then to notice the triangle...
But considering that Aigis 'awakened' as a Persona user mainly cuz of Minato (ok-- fine, that was Death's fault) and that whole wildcard ability she attains in Answer (along with Minato's starting Persona if I recall correctly? =o )

Yeaaahh....I definitely feel like they favor her + Minato a lot more....

well after playing P4A i can safely say that the movie won't have a different ending.

either it'll be a continuation from the events of arena and will deal with trying to save Minato, or there will be multiple parts since stuffing all of P3 into one movie isn't possible even when skipping all of the full moon stuff (which wouldn't make sense).

i mean, knowing how awesome Atlus is to their fans and how faithful an adaptation the P4 anime was, i'm sure we won't be disappointed.