Nestled in the Sega Sammy FY 2021 Winter Business Report are messages from the Persona 5 composer Shoji Meguro and art director/character designer Shigenori Soejima. The two creatives commented on the game’s global success and what they feel are the keys to that success in the report. Shoji Meguro stated the following: We were thrilled
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Sega and Atlus announced the sales of Persona 5 The Royal (PS4, PS5) and Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers (PS4, PS5, Switch) each reached over 500,000 copies in Japan and Asia. The announcement was made following the PlayStation Partner Awards 2020 Japan Asia event, held on December 2. There, Persona 5 Royal won a
Atlus and Koei Tecmo published the second full-length trailer for Persona 5 Scramble The Phantom Strikers. As always with these kinds of Japanese games trailers, it’s full of out-of-context one-liners, but here’s a summary of the trailer with everything we learned anyway. Note that this article contains spoilers, as Persona 5 Scramble is a sequel
With the first Persona 5 The Stage closing out its initial run, a new teaser trailer reveals that the popular stage play will be making its return starting in October 2020 in both in Yokohama and Osaka: Actor Yoshihide Sasaki (playing the role of Goro Akechi) previously discussed performing in the smaller scope of his
Atlus and Sega announced via the official Japanese Twitter account of the Persona series that Persona 5 now sold over 3.2 copies worldwide. The article on Persona Channel written for the occasion also reveals that Persona 5 Royal sold over 400,000 copies in Japan, and that the Persona series as a whole is now at
So Atlus USA is teasing a news update for the western release of Persona 5 Royal. The teaser was shared via Twitter. And a countdown started on the game’s western official site. The countdown ends on December 3 and we’ll probably get a new English trailer and a release date. And this date might be
Atlus published today a 30-minutes long making-of video showing Persona series character designer Shigenori Soejima drawing artwork for Persona 5 Royal. The artwork shows Joker and the new character, Kasumi Yoshizawa, together in their Phantom Thieves outfits. Atlus published this artwork to celebrate the release of the game in Japan. A short version of this
Atlus and Sega revealed new information on Persona 5 Royal in this week’s Famitsu. The information is contained in an interview with the game’s main staff, who was also revealed for the first time with this interview. Here are the main tidbits: The subtitle “Royal” was coined by Atlus to show their desire to deliver a
Today the good folks at the YouTube channel Archipel released a mini-documentary on Atlus’ popular character designer and Artwork Team leader Shigenori Soejima. The video focuses mostly on the upcoming Catherine: Full Body, but it also delves deeper into Soejima-sensei’s inspiration and work. Interestingly, we learn about the genesis of Catherine, and how the initial idea did
Today, during a livestream on Nico Nico, Persona 5 Character Designer Shigenori Soejime, who is also the brilliant mind behind the designs of Catherine, drew the three heroines of the upcoming Catherine: Full Body live for the audience. We get to see Catherine, Katherine, and the brand new heroine Rin drawn from the first lines to basic coloring.