Reviews

If I'm brutally honest, CloverWorks did a pretty fucking terrible job of producing P5A. Now by fucking terrible, I mean it was a mediocre anime at best. If you're thinking of watching this because you know that Persona 5(and soon in the West Persona 5 Royal, as of writing this review) is a really really long game, around 90+ hours on a standard first playthrough and possibly another 45+ hours if you do New Game+, I'm telling you just play the god damn game. Persona 5, being the first Persona game I played, left a huge impact on me due to its phenomenal gameplay and intense ass story. So much so that its become my favourite game(Though i will not lie didn't know who joker was until he was added to Smash Ultimate and i saw gameplay of him on Alpharads Youtube channel, But i did know the twin wardens for some reason. I know, im clearly the person to listen to). The anime did a horrible job with the pacing of the games story. Like the first boss was beaten in a matter of three episodes. This is approximately 10ish hours of the game. And this Boss, whose name is Kamoshida, left an impact in the game that only atlus was able to do. (ok there will be some spoilers from this point on so....... if you don't want any....... go play the fucking game) Like the scene where Ann's presumably best friend, Shiho, jumped off the rooftop of Shujin Academy. The game made it a presence that the abuse and sexual harassment(and technically pedophilia if you live in the west cuz shiho is only 17, same goes for basically all of shujin) done by Kamoshida to the sports team, which is glorified by the volleyball team, was fucking hard. This set the tone for the rest of the game that this game is going to deal with topics that most gamers will not deal with on a everyday basis. Examples of these cases could be of course Kamoshida's sexual harassment, Kaneshiro's pyramid scheme and the death of Futaba's Mom, Wakaba Isshiki, due to authorities(I'm gonna call them the Japanese FBI) exploiting the research teams for psience, who could assumably been hired by Masayoshi Shido. Nothing in the anime felt like it had a meaning. The characters were more flat than they usually are. Hell, some of the confidants weren't even there like Master of Gun About Shinya. Thus making my point that this anime to be honest, it was decent show but ,being a now huge Persona fan, was a huge disappointment. They honestly should have left this to AIC A.S.T.A cause they made P4A, which from the general view of Persona community was pretty solid. That is why my short ass review, cause i could have gone on for day but you weebs need more anime, of this anime gave it a good 5/10.