Persona 5 Anime Series Announced, Teaser Trailer Released

It’s official! If you have been waiting for A-1 Pictures to go in on a new Persona anime, then your dream is coming true. The studio recently announced it will be adapting Persona 5 for the small screen.

News broke about Persona 5‘s anime adaptation this weekend over on Twitter (via ANN). The official account for Atlus confirmed the fan-favorite game would be getting an anime in 2018. The developer even hosted an event in Tokyo on Sunday to hype the game’s release.

A teaser video for Persona 5 went up online shortly after Atlus announced the new A-1 Pictures project. You can check out the colorful reel above as it features Jun Fukuyama as its protagonist. The reel also shows off the anime’s current tagline which reads, “The world will be stolen by them.”

You can check out the anime’s full cast below:

• Jun Fukuyama as the protagonist
  Mamoru Miyano as Ryuji Sakamoto
  Ikue Otani as Morgana
  Nana Mizuki as Anne Takamaki
  Tomokazu Sugita as Yusuke Kitagawa
  Rina Satou as Makoto Niijima
  Aoi Yūki as Futaba Sakura
  Haruka Tomatsu as Haru Okumura
  Sōichiro Hoshi as Goro Akechi

This is not the first anime project Persona 5 has been given since it debuted last September. A-1 Pictures released an anime special titled Persona 5 the Animation – The Day Breakers – abroad last year. The episode covered a prologue tale to the game that detailed the history of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.

If you are not familiar with the Persona franchise, then you have a bit to catch up on. The series is a wildly popular RPG franchise from Japan. Its fifth game is set in Tokyo and follows gamers as their self-named protagonist transfers to a new school. Gamers then awaken their Persona powers and use them to become masked vigilantes who work to stop supernatural enemies from stealing the hearts of adults.