The serie is actually enjoyable, with the high and low typical of a 25(+1) episode serie, given that at this point it is considered a "long" anime. Being a P5's fan, I knew what I could expect, but the story was really intriguing aniway.
It's like a detective story, there are some crimes and the cast of main characters has to discover the truth about it. I actually understood who the culprit was, but it isn't something really prevedible, so I'll give points to that. Even the system of how the crime works is really interesting, though I would have liked some more details, it felt a little rushed as an explanation. Maybe in the game is explained better? I have no idea, but I'm on the "every media is only for itself" so I should be satisfied with only the anime, without having to play the game. The real problem, for me at least, are the one-shot episode, there are few of them and they feel like really out of place. I perfectly understand that they're needed to introduce some of the Confidants that aren't in the team, but at the same time they cut the flow the investigations have, feeling like unnecessary fillers.
Something I really really loved are the break time, when there are few slides between the first and the second part of the episode, since there are the first drawing for the series and they look pretty cute. And also the "change time/locations" since they are completely inspired from the game, with the day that change everytime the time passes and the skills' star that takes points everytime Yu improve himself in something.
Talking about the world building, the little town is one of my favorite place to set a videogame, specially a detective one, so I think it's perfect as a location. There are some locations of interest, like Yu's house, the restaurant, the school, it actually gave the same vibes of when you have to play the game and you have to decide what to do with the "free time". I was a bit disappointed about the TV World though, since they literally showed nothing of it as world building, there are few screenshots of the "general" and few of each dungeons, so it wasn't that much of a scene. Disappointing mostly because the world building is the best part of Persona in general as a series, since it's also always different from game to game. I would have liked to see more about it, but here are just locations, without anything more. It's a real pity.
The characters for me are the real flaw of the anime. I didn't love any of them, I wasn't interested in either of them, finding most of them a little irritating too. The Protagonist (Yu) was confused in how to act, something he was cocky, sometimes too serious, and I know that it's because technically you as a player should choose what to say, but since here he is a character, it should've been better to give him a personality and let him act like that all the time, because everytime he seemed really OOC. Yosuke was disappointing too, he seemed really bland to me, there was something missing in his personality. Chie was okay, but I rolled my eyes at her every now and then, the only one that I liked (but nothing more) was Yukiko because her storylike was enjoyable and she surprised me when we know her better. The mascot, as usual, is only annoying, and I hated the plot twist about his appearance. The ones I liked the most were Naoto, Kanji and Rise, I already knew Naoto's storyline and I think of him as the best character in the game, he has a deepness that the others don't have. The chara design is really cool for all of them though, though, being the anime a little old now, the quality of the animation is swinging.
The opening was pretty meh, but the music (that I think are from the game itself) were really cool and fitting for the atmosphere of the various situations.
In general, the anime is good, but not perfect or great, something or for fans of the game, or for those who can't play it. If you have the possibility to play it, just do it, this would feel like a loss of time.
