Persona 4: The Animation

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Persona 4 The Animation
Original title ペ ル ソ ナ 4 The Animation
transcription Perusona 4 The Animation
Persona 4 The Animation logo.svg
genre Action, drama, mystery
Anime television series
title Persona 4: The Animation
Original title ペ ル ソ ナ 4 The Animation
transcription Perusona 4 The Animation
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) 2011–2012
Studio AIC
length 25 minutes
Episodes 25 in 1 season
Director Seiji Kishi
music Shoji Meguro
First broadcast October 6, 2011 - March 30, 2012 on MBS

First publication in German		 February 26, 2017 on Anime on Demand
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Anime television series
title Persona 4: The Golden Animation
Original title ペ ル ソ ナ ４ ザ ・ ゴ ー ル デ ン
transcription Perusona 4 The Golden
Country of production JapanJapan Japan
original language Japanese
year 2014
Studio A-1 Pictures
length 25 minutes
Episodes 12 in 1 season
Director Seiji Kishi
music Tetsuya Kobayashi , Shoji Meguro
First broadcast July 10 - September 25, 2014 on MBS

First publication in German		 July 10 - September 25, 2014 on Crunchyroll
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Persona 4: The Animation ( Jap . ペルソナ4 ) is an anime television series based on the game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is based. It can be assigned to the genres Action, Drama and Mystery and consists of 25 episodes of around 25 minutes each. The anime was released in Japan and the USA in 2011. Further adaptations and offshoots of the series as anime followed, such as Persona 4: The Golden Animation , which is based on the new edition Persona 4: The Golden , or Persona 4: The Animation: The Factor of Hope .

content

The story is about Yū Narukami, a quiet teenager who stays with his uncle in the small town of Inaba for a year because his parents work abroad for a long time. Although staying in Inaba promises to be very quiet at first, the small town's peace is soon disrupted by mysterious disappearances and inexplicable murders. Of course, these events do not go past Yū and his new friends, just like the rumor that at night on a rainy day you can see your "soul mate" on the television when it is switched off. When they investigate the matter, they discover a mysterious world on TV and find out that it has something to do with the murders. Together they try to solve and stop the series of murders.

Production and publication

In the summer of 2011, Aniplex announced an anime adaptation of Persona 4 , whose rights had been secured from the manufacturer Atlus. The series was created at Studio AIC under the direction of Seiji Kishi . The main writer was Yūko Kakihara , who also wrote the scripts together with Jun Kumagai and Mitsutaka Hirota. Kazuaki Morita did the character design and Ayumi Miyakoshi and Shinji Nagaoka were the artistic directors.

The series aired from October 6, 2011 to March 30, 2012 by MBS in Japan. At Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting and TBS it was broadcast shortly afterwards. A German version was published on the Anime on Demand platform . The anime was also released in English, Tagalog, and Chinese.

A second series was produced by A-1 Pictures in 2014 . It was written by Tomohisa Taguchi and again directed by Seiji Kishi. The character design was created by Yū Shindō . The 12 episodes were broadcast from July 11th to September 25th 2014 by MBS in Japan. The platforms Aniplex Channel and Crunchyroll showed the series with English subtitles.

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role Japanese voice
Yū Nurakami Daisuke Namikawa
Yukiko Amagi Ami Koshimizu
Marie Kana Hanazawa
Yōsuke Hanamura Showtaro Morikubo
Chie Satonaka Yui Horie

music

The music for the series was composed by Shoji Meguro , who mainly took up and rearranged the game's soundtrack. The following songs were used for the opening credits:

  • Pursuing My True Self by Shihoko Hirata
  • sky's the limit by Shihoko Hirata
  • True Story by Rie Kugimiya (Rise Kujikawa)
  • key plus words by Shihoko Hirata ft. Yumi Kawamura
  • Burn My Dread by Yumi Kawamura

The end credits are:

  • sky's the limit by Shihoko Hirata
  • Beauty of Destiny by Shihoko Hirata feat. Lotus Juice
  • Koi Suru Meitantei ( 恋 す る 名 探 偵 ) by Yui Horie
  • The Way of Memories - Kizuna no Chikara (The Way of Memories - キ ズ ナ ノ チ カ ラ - ) by Shihoko Hirata
  • Honto no Kimochi ( ほ ん と の き も ち ) by Shihoko Hirata
  • Never More by Shouko Hirata (ep 25)

In addition, the song Koi Suru Meitantei ( 恋 す る 名 探 偵 ) by Yui Horie is used within the 13th episode .

The opening credits of The Golden Animation are:

  • Shadow World by Shihoko Hirata
  • Next Chance to Move On by Shihoko Hirata
  • key plus words by Shihoko Hirata feat. Yumi Kawamura

The closing titles are:

  • Dazzling Smile by Shihoko Hirata
  • Subete no Tamashii no Uta ( 全 て の 人 の 魂 の 詩 ) by Shoji Meguro
  • Never More by Shihoko Hirata

reception

The German magazine Animania calls the series a successful implementation of the game template, precisely because the plot has been significantly shortened. Some lengths of the original have disappeared, but unfortunately also some depth of the characters. Nevertheless, the six protagonists would be given enough space for their personalities to make an impression. Their problems are “not entirely new, but psychologically credible, intelligently nested and captivating”. The choreography of the action scenes, the graphic implementation with “beautifully lit, realistically colored images” and the “carefully” newly arranged music are also praised.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Animania 06-07 / 2011, p. 56.
  2. ↑ a b You are (not) me . In: Animania . No. 02-03 / 2012 , p. 60-63 .