Persona 5: Where Video Games Meet Anime
/What do you get when you cross a gamer with a weeb???
Answer:
A worthless life form
As an anime fanatic I took it upon my self to suffer through all 28 episodes of Persona 5: The Animation to give an adequate review and comparison to the video game.
Persona 5 is the latest installment in a series of video games featuring different groups of heroic teenagers fighting crime. They do so with their powers which they refer to as personas. Each game has received an animated adaptation, all of which are not highly rated.
I interviewed Dylan, a citizen who played through the game and he said: “It was good but Persona 4 is better, haha.”
Most die-hard fans of the series hate the animations. They claim that it is simply impossible to fit over 100 hours of gameplay into an 8-hour show.
If you think I only watched this show because the main character is cute and has curly hair… you’d be absolutely right
From the perspective of an avid anime watcher who doesn’t play a lot of video games, I agree that Persona 5: The Animation sucks. It has some good moments. There are fights and settings that are pretty cool. In general, though, it had some extremely flat characters. In the video game, you are able to take side quests that dig deep into the personalities of this gang. All of this is simply not shown in the show.
Bethany Walker
Bethany is a 20-year old girl born and raised in the Ottawa area. She attends school at Algonquin College with high hopes for a career in editing. She has had an interest in the world of Youtube since she was 14 years old. This bloomed into a fascination with anime and videogame culture. She believes that all three of these worlds have overlapping points and makes it her goal to explore them. While her interests are not commonly embraced, she finds comfort in writing on the internet.
