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Persona 5: The Animation

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Persona 5: The Animation	comment	Persona 5: The Animation is the Animated Adaptation of Persona 5, produced by CloverWorks, A-1 Pictures' former KÅ�enji Studio. It first premiered on April 7, 2018 with an initial 26-episode run, and a special named "Dark Sun..." aired on December 30, 2018. A second special named "Stars and Ours" aired on March 23, 2019. A third special focusing on Goro Akechi, named "Proof of Justice", included in the volume 11 DVD and Blu-Ray releasenote Alongside the disc release of "Dark Sun", was released on May 29, 2019. A fourth special, "A Magical Valentine's Day", was included in the volume 12 release alongside the disc release of "Stars and Ours", and was released on June 26, 2019. An English dub was released as part of the Complete Series Blu-Ray set on September 29, 2020.One night while walking home, Ordinary High-School Student Ren Amamiya spots a drunk man assaulting a woman and trying to force her into his car. Stepping in, Ren forcibly removes the drunkard off her, causing him to stumble, hit his head, and subsequently press charges. Ren is falsely convicted of assault and sentenced to a year-long probation in Tokyo, staying with Sojiro Sakura, a distant friend of his parents. On his first day attending Shujin Academy, Ren and fellow outcast Ryuji accidentally stumble into a mysterious Mental World known as the Metaverse: a place where cognition becomes reality, and real-world locations are twisted by the thoughts of humans. Within this world, the most corrupt humans have subconsciously created mental fortresses called "Palaces" where their innermost vices and desires are allowed to run rampant. If someone is able to steal the "Treasure" that forms the heart of the Palace, then the Ruler's vile desires will be erased.With the aid of a mysterious smartphone app and the inner-power of "Persona", Ren, along with new allies Ryuji, Morgana, and Ann decided to use the Metaverse to strike back against the rotten society that has unfairly stigmatised them, forming The Phantom Thieves of Hearts dedicated to stealing Treasure and forcibly reforming the corrupt.With the game's lead character designer, Shigenori Soejima, the original game's soundtrack as well as new tracks from series composer Shoji Meguro and vocalist Lyn, and almost all of the original Japanese voice cast on board, P5A creates an almost seamless transition from the in-game depictions of the characters to animated form. The dub, a produced by PCB Productions, similarly has almost every voice actor reprise their role in the anime adaptation.Please note that Persona 5: The Animation follows the plot of the game almost exactly, so beware of spoilers for the game on this page, and vice-versa.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_106381c4	comment	As the main character is no longer a Silent Protagonist with a name decided by the player, but a fully fledged character in Ren Amamiya, we finally get to see his perspective and how he feels about his probation, including a flashback of him being declared guilty in court.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Persona 5: The Animation / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: Hifumi Togo's segment on the A Magical Valentines Day OVA features her wet and in a bikini while on an in-door pool date at night with Ren, and as this part is from his first person perspective, it's a lot more sensual and fanservicey than the other dates. The post-credits scene with Sae and her revealing dress comes as a close second.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_10ac6e2a	type	Acceptable Breaks from Canon
Persona 5: The Animation / int_10ac6e2a	comment	Acceptable Breaks from Canon: On some occasions, Ren is shown doing things that would be impossible in the game, at least outside of a New Game Plus. During the first battle in Kaneshiro's Palace, Ren uses Mudo to instantly kill a Shadow without even ripping its mask off. During the fight with Shadow Kaneshiro himself, the Phantom Thieves do a party-wide series of Baton Passes. Since the Baton Pass requires each person to down a target before passing the baton, and neither Shadow Kaneshiro nor Piggytron can be downed, this is impossible in-game. During the fight with Shadow Shido, Joker summons Yoshitsune. For those who don't know, one of the Personas required to fuse Yoshitsune is Futsunushi, the Ultimate Persona for the Magician Arcana. Since the player can only maximize Morgana's Confidant just before going to bed on December 23, just before the Very Definitely Final Dungeon, it's impossible to obtain Yoshitsune at this point outside of a New Game Plus run. Joker also summons Alice and Beelzebub, the Ultimate Personas of the Death and Devil Arcanas, even though he doesn't seem to have completed Takemi and Ohya's Confidants.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
Persona 5: The Animation / int_11630eaa	comment	Episode 24 changes the way Sojiro's confidant works. Rather than having Ren and Futaba go over to Mementos, Ren contacts Akechi, who also relates to Futaba's situation with his own bastard child status, so he decides to help and reveals to Futaba's uncle that he wouldn't even win in a family court case given how deep in debt his gambling addiction has gotten him (in the game, Futaba digs it up herself, only for Sojiro to tell her that not only is what she did illegal, he always knew about her uncle's debts). In the end, the uncle takes back his claims of guardianship of Futaba without any trips to the Mementos by the protagonists, although Sojiro does get a visit from social services.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_1207d30	type	Villain's Dying Grace
Persona 5: The Animation / int_1207d30	comment	In the game, Shadow Kaneshiro's final warning about Black Mask sounds like he's taunting the Phantom Thieves; in the anime, it sounds more like a Villain's Dying Grace.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Persona 5: The Animation / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: After Sojiro finds the calling card that Futaba got, Futaba's upset enough that she's not able to concentrate while in Sae's Palace, preventing the group from dealing with the dice rolls until the issue is resolved.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_143e6c8d	type	Heroic Mime
Persona 5: The Animation / int_143e6c8d	comment	Heroic Mime: Unlike Persona 4: The Animation, this trope is not averted, but only zig-zagged. While Ren is silent for the most part, often only saying things that anyone in the group could have said, there are scenes in which he holds conversations with others.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Persona 5: The Animation / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Each episode title is a line spoken by one of the characters in the same episode. "Dark Sun," however, is named after the second opening theme, and "Stars and Ours" is named after the game's credits theme.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_1a8dc238	type	Underestimating Badassery
Persona 5: The Animation / int_1a8dc238	comment	Underestimating Badassery: When Joker summons Alice to fight Shido, the latter dismisses her as a weak Persona. The Creepy Child quickly shows him how wrong he is by teleporting behind him after dodging his attacks, giving one hell of a Slasher Smile and strike him with a Megidolaon.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_1c571556	type	The Tease
Persona 5: The Animation / int_1c571556	comment	Kawakami in game was very stern about her maid job, refusing to do anything potentially sexual until she was desperate enough that she considered working for her maid company's sister company late in her Confidant. When it came to Joker, she was treated things as a professionally as she could. The anime makes her The Tease to Joker at various points, which doesn't really line up with her character. This is likely because her backstory was not given focus in the anime.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_1cd602ef	type	Calling Card
Persona 5: The Animation / int_1cd602ef	comment	Episode 3: Ren, Ryuji, and Morgana secure the Palace route and find the treasure's location before Ann awakens Carmen and joins the team. Then their Calling Card goes up.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
Persona 5: The Animation / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: While Ren is a little more vocal than he was in the game, he still doesn't talk that much.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Persona 5: The Animation / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: In the third episode when Ann awakens her Persona, the shot used when she tears the mask off of her face is different from the one in the game. The game shows the moment from a low angle so that Ann's face is not seen when the mask is removed; in the anime version the camera is placed above Ann so we are looking directly into her bloody face when she throws her head back. Similarly, all the other characters are framed having the blood on their face after they first remove their masks.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Persona 5: The Animation / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Astoundingly, the Dirty Cop from the opening sequence. Already an asshole for kicking the crap out of Ren, this time he goes so far as to outright threaten Ren's friends if he doesn't confess. And then, Sae Niijima reveals that only Ren had been captured, meaning the dirty cop was bluffing. Shadow Madarame makes it clearer that he's not content to just plagiarize and abuse Yusuke, but work him to death. He offers to let Yusuke come back to him if he stays silent about his transgressions, calling Yusuke his "cash cow," and backhands him when Yusuke defies him. The Camp Gay NPC duo everyone just loved in the original game still log their appearances to harass Ryuji when he and Ren go to Shinjuku, but this time take it one step further by outright jumping onto him together while Ren goes to meet Ohya. Downplayed with Tsukasa. He's an antagonist during Makoto's Confidant, but not a Mementos target. He becomes one here. Subverted with Kawanabe. Akechi mentions various unsavory rumors surrounding him exploiting the artists he makes deals with, and investigates him for criminal activity, which were never even mentioned in the game, but it turns out that Kawanabe's assistant was the real culprit.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Persona 5: The Animation / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Like in the game, Ann doesn't notice her outfit change after awakening her Persona.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Persona 5: The Animation / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: As the main character is no longer a Silent Protagonist with a name decided by the player, but a fully fledged character in Ren Amamiya, we finally get to see his perspective and how he feels about his probation, including a flashback of him being declared guilty in court. Shiho is shown getting physically abused by Kamoshida, which was otherwise just alluded to in the game through the cognitions in Kamoshida's Palace and the bruises on both Mishima and Shiho. Ann visiting Shiho in the hospital is also shown in the adaptation. A brief flashback of Yusuke as a young child is shown, having him reading art books and being taught to paint by Madarame. Makoto's flashbacks are shown, including one to her childhood days with her father and one at his funeral. In particular, it was her father who bought her her mascot pencil case. Episode 13 has an original subplot including Akechi tracking down a fund embezzlement case in Kawanabe's foundation in Yusuke's Confidant. With the help of Ren, he's able to arrest the culprit: Kawanabe's assistant. Episode 14 is a recap episode, but it also adds a new Mementos target for Makoto's Confidant: Tsukasa. He was never a Mementos target in the game. Episode 16 adds a few short scenes, from Sojiro trying to talk to Futaba in her room, Sae questioning Sojiro about cognitive psience outside Leblanc, and Sojiro asking Ren if he's putting his nose where it doesn't belong. Episode 21 inserts Haru's childhood flashbacks with her grandfather. There are also some new shots of the group having fun at Destinyland including a rollercoaster ride. Instead of recycling the footage of Joker's capture from the beginning, as the game does, Episode 26 shows Makoto and Akechi watching it from afar during their escape. The episode also has Akechi talking with the remaining thieves about Ren's capture, before offering to save Ren himself. Proof of Justice expands on Akechi's back story, and reveals that when he was younger, he owned a toy ray gun and used to play as an ally of justice, which was one of the only things that made his late mother smile.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_23a1e2a9	type	Adaptation Deviation
Persona 5: The Animation / int_23a1e2a9	comment	Adaptation Deviation: Haru's set to move in with her fiancÃ© on October 11 in the game, but the date is changed to September 30 in the anime, possibly to give more time for subplots before midterms. From what we hear about Gun About in the game, it's implied to have a PvP mode, since Shinya faces off against Takakura in it. In the anime, only the cooperative mode is shown. In the original version of the 2/15 scene, Ryuji's text message comes before Sojiro's comment on the situation. In "A Magical Valentine's Day", it comes after.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
Persona 5: The Animation / int_243cbd0d	comment	When visiting the haunted house hallway during the school festival, Ren attempts to rip the mask off a student posing as a monster for the activity, scaring her. Ryuji of all people has to Dope Slap Ren, telling him to get it together, with Ren sheepishly admitting it's a habit.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Persona 5: The Animation / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In episode 2, Ren goes to buy a pastry at the school shop and sees that there's only one left. If he had got there two seconds later, they would have been out... as they are for most of the week in the game. In episode 3, Neo Featherman can be seen on a screen in town. In episode 5, Mishima gets too close to Ren while talking to him about the Phan-Site, similar to Junpei with Makoto in Persona 3: The Movie with Ren even telling Mishima that he is too close to him.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Persona 5: The Animation / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: As the group is discussing Ryuji's apparent death after saving them from the destruction of Shido's Palace, Ryuji himself can be seen sticking out of a bush in the background.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Persona 5: The Animation / int_2854b56d	comment	In "Dark Sun," Ren punches the wall that cut him off from Akechi, after Akechi's Uncertain Doom.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Persona 5: The Animation / int_2978c012	comment	While Hifumi's mother is still an overbearing Stage Mom, since the confrontation with her Shadow isn't shown, she may not have actually taken extreme and illegal measures to build up her daughter's career.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
Persona 5: The Animation / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: In episodes 2 and 6, Ren and Ryuji drink grape-flavored "Monta" (Fanta). In the game, it's called "Manta." There's Dower Records (Tower Records) in the Shibuya scenes. The shogi promotional posters show "Ringo Store" (Apple Store) and "Goo Play" (Google Play). In episode 14 is a store called Burger Queen (Burger King). Averted with everyone's phones, which are all branded "Sony".
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Persona 5: The Animation / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: In the anime, Milady primarily attacks with her Gatling guns and occasionally a missile.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Persona 5: The Animation / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: There's a piece of Engrish when Ren and Makoto's session at the arcade light gun game ends with a "GAMR OVER" screen (this however might be just a typo). In Episode 14, the Phantom Thieves' codenames and Personas are listed in English. Ryuji's codename is "Scull," another typo. In the Casino, the console for the Bridge of Judgment says, "YOU ARE MANY COINS SHORT," when Futaba tries to pay the 100,000 coins needed while the group only has 100 on their card.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_2fdfbdaf	type	Close-Call Haircut
Persona 5: The Animation / int_2fdfbdaf	comment	Close-Call Haircut: Played for Laughs in Episode 23 when Ren dodges a piece of chalk thrown by Mr. Ushimaru in class.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_311500f5	type	Breaking Old Trends
Persona 5: The Animation / int_311500f5	comment	Breaking Old Trends: This is the first anime adaptation where the quickly-outclassed starting Persona of the protagonist isn't made into an Adaptational Badass and used as the protagonist's trump card. Arsene gets fused away early on just like the game and Ren uses a variety of gradually-improving personas as the anime goes on. He only brings Arsene back for the fight against Black Mask very late in the series. This is also the first anime adaptation where the protagonist is still mostly silent (not counting the first part of Persona 3: The Movie) and the first one to focus more on the main plot and the development of other characters. This is the first anime adaptation where the heroes don't get their Ultimate Personas, other than Joker.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_3297cfbb	type	Evolving Credits
Persona 5: The Animation / int_3297cfbb	comment	Evolving Credits: After Futaba gains her Persona in episode 17, she's added to the closing credits at the end of the episode, and then the opening credits in the following episode. Haru is added to the closing credits in Episode 20 (but not the opening credits until episode 22), and Akechi is added to the closing credits in episode 24 having been in the opening credits from the start. Said closing credits, for the first 25 episodes, depict the Phantom Thieves walking in slow-motion in front of a red background. The end credits for Episode 26 feature Akechi walking in slow-motion through the corridor outside the special interrogation room, having just seemingly shot Ren dead. Afterwards, the first part of the OVA finale, Dark Sun..., removes Akechi from the closing credits. Although he gets added back in for the ending credits of Proof of Justice, which canonically happens between the events of Dark Sun... and Stars and Ours.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Persona 5: The Animation / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: None of the Phantom Thieves' Ultimate Personas appear, other than Satanael.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_37499c8	type	OnceAnEpisode
Persona 5: The Animation / int_37499c8	comment	Goro Akechi gets a decent few. He appears Once an Episode for the first few episodes, though this drops off a bit in the second quarter. In the game, his first appearance was on the day of the subway accident, but he didn't start regularly showing up until after the trip to the TV station.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: The group's first visit to Futaba's Palace begins with everyone except Morgana burning their feet on the desert sands.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Persona 5: The Animation / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the anime, the Shibuya Creatures come for Ryuji about a minute after Chihaya predicts misfortune for him, as opposed to showing up after Ren's done with his meeting with Ohya. In "Dark Sun," rushing water can be heard seconds before it's revealed that Shido's Palace is a giant cruise ship.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Persona 5: The Animation / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: While most of the fight sequences are fairly short, some are especially one-sided. The Phantom Thieves vs. Shadow Okumura. None of the robots appear to get a hit in on the protagonists, and the Executive Director is dealt with in about a minute. Akechi vs. Ose. Robin Hood shoots Ose dead with a single arrow. Ren vs. Thor. Oukuninushi blocks Thor's hammer, then cleaves his head in half. Ren vs. Akechi. While Akechi had put up some resistance during the first half of the fight, all he can do in the second phase is feebly swing at Ren while Ren's Persona overpowers Akechi's. The Phantom Thieves vs. Shadow Shido. The Phantom Thieves easily took out Shadow Shido's Beast of Human Sacrifice while Ren pulverized Shadow Shido like no-one's business.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Persona 5: The Animation / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: In Episode 5, Ann asks Ren to call her by her first name, and Ren agrees. Ren also starts calling Ryuji by his first name, despite having refused to do so earlier. In the dub, Mishima occasionally calls Ren by his first name in early episodes, despite exclusively being on a Last-Name Basis with him in the game. Makoto alternates between referring to Sae as "Sis" and calling her by name.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Persona 5: The Animation / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The cover for the Volume 11 DVD and Blu-Ray release has a reversible cover featuring Joker and Black Mask on one side, and Ren and Akechi on the other. Both cover variants are shown off in product listings.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_40e2ac3f	type	Flunky Boss
Persona 5: The Animation / int_40e2ac3f	comment	Ryuji's awakening battle has him, Ren, and Morgana fight a Pixie, Bicorn, and Agathion, all generic enemies of Kamoshida's Castle in the game, rather than Eligor and his Bicorn minions.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_44e64e96	type	Female Gaze
Persona 5: The Animation / int_44e64e96	comment	Female Gaze: The only example in "Proof of Justice" OVA, during the snooker scene, the screen suddenly is filled with Akechi's butt.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Persona 5: The Animation / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: Each episode except for 15 and 16 has a scene after the credits. The group's run-ins with Futaba are kept as Cliffhangers because those episodes don't have stingers.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
Persona 5: The Animation / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: Ann sheds these after Shiho emerges from her coma. Haru suggests that her father once shed these after seeing his father's former patrons come to thank him.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Persona 5: The Animation / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Episode 9 begins with the Phantom Thieves obtaining dirty laundry in Mementos and washing it in the laundromat near Leblanc. At the end, Ren asks Kawakami to do his laundry. Episode 13 begins with Akechi coming to Leblanc as a news report plays about him playing a role in the arrest of a politician and his son, before playing chess with Ren. The Stinger shows the two playing chess as the story about Kawanabe's assistant being arrested (again, because of Akechi) plays on the TV in the background. Near the start of Episode 14, the group fights Shadow Mogami. Near the end, they fight Shadow Tsukasa. Episode 20 begins with Ren waking up and briefly imagining that Morgana, who'd ran away in the previous episode, is there. It ends with him going to bed, now that Morgana's back with him.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Persona 5: The Animation / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Ren imagines himself with a gun in each hand after seeing Shinya play Gun About with a controller in each hand. He then puts the idea into practice while fighting Akechi in Shido's Palace.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_58db779e	type	Letting the Air out of the Band
Persona 5: The Animation / int_58db779e	comment	Letting the Air out of the Band: This happens as Yusuke notices that Ann's wearing several extra layers of clothing during her appointment to pose nude for him.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Persona 5: The Animation / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Naturally happens when a 26-episode anime is trying to adapt a 100-hour RPG. Some scenes were cut or rearranged for better pacing: Most dungeon crawling events have been cut, leaving more time to adapt the most prominent parts of each Palace — the party members awakening to their Personas, the final confrontations with the rulers, and a few other scenes. Episode 2 has Ren and Ryuji escape from Kamoshida's castle the first time off-screen without Morgana's help. Morgana joins them the next day instead and summons Zorro for the first time shortly after Ryuji summons Captain Kidd instead of having a separate summoning scene. Ryuji's awakening battle has him, Ren, and Morgana fight a Pixie, Bicorn, and Agathion, all generic enemies of Kamoshida's Castle in the game, rather than Eligor and his Bicorn minions. Episode 3: Ren, Ryuji, and Morgana secure the Palace route and find the treasure's location before Ann awakens Carmen and joins the team. Then their Calling Card goes up. Joker doesn't demonstrate his Wild Card ability until Episode 4, where they need to find an eye-key (only one this time, as opposed to two in the game). Instead of the usual tough enemy, they fight another Pixie, but instead she talks until she joins Joker's mask. In the game, he first recruits Pixie on the third trip to Kamoshida's Palace, shortly before Ann joins. Shadow Madarame doesn't mention the appearance of a black masked intruder in the palace after his defeat. After defeating Madarame, the cast organizes the hot pot party immediately after, rather than let a couple weeks of content take place before it. This neatly closes Madarame's arc within the episode. Episode 9 blends the start of Kawakami's Confidant with Ryuji's key Confidant scene by having Kawakami let Ren in on what's happening to the track team's management. Episode 10's trip to the TV station takes place over the course of one day, rather than two. Akechi's famous "pancakes" conversation with the group in the hall is after the recording of his interview, rather than the day before it. Also from Episode 10, Makoto immediately tells the Phantom Thieves about the target whose heart she would like them to change, rather than leaving them in suspense until their next meeting. When the party arrives in the desert outside Futaba's Palace, instead of calmly observing the pyramid from a distance and letting Morgana transform into a car on his own, the group burns their feet on the sands and Ann orders Morgana to transform. The Morganamobile ride itself is also cut. The adaptation leaves out the subplot of the Phantom Thieves tracking down a thief in a desert town to gain the map to Futaba's Palace. Ryuji's 'Operation Babe Hunt' is moved from the beach trip to Hawaii, although the process wasn't shown on-screen (the Camp Gay couple also does not make an appearance in either part). Hawaii also becomes the formal introduction place of Hifumi, where Ren saves her from being harassed by foreigners. The latter half of episode 22 focuses on the middle parts of Mishima's Confidant, when he is at the height of his Acquired Situational Narcissicism as the owner of the Phan-Site. Further, his actions are presented as an attempt to regain public favor for the Thieves after they're framed for killing Kunikazu Okumura and the Principal, rather than seeking revenge on someone who used to make fun of him. Episode 24 changes the way Sojiro's confidant works. Rather than having Ren and Futaba go over to Mementos, Ren contacts Akechi, who also relates to Futaba's situation with his own bastard child status, so he decides to help and reveals to Futaba's uncle that he wouldn't even win in a family court case given how deep in debt his gambling addiction has gotten him (in the game, Futaba digs it up herself, only for Sojiro to tell her that not only is what she did illegal, he always knew about her uncle's debts). In the end, the uncle takes back his claims of guardianship of Futaba without any trips to the Mementos by the protagonists, although Sojiro does get a visit from social services. The fight with Leviathan removes the part where the Phantom Thieves have to play a game of roulette against her and expose her cheating, going straight into her transforming into her monstrous Shadow form when the battle begins. Similarly, a moment was cut from Futaba's palace, replaced and shuffled with another in the casino palace. In the original game, Ren saves Makoto from a falling block in Futaba's Palace during an attack from Cognitive Futaba. In the anime, the diving save is when Makoto enters a brief Heroic BSoD upon seeing her sister transform into her Shadow self before her fight. On a similar note, in the original game, Akechi was the one to prepare Makoto for the fight against her sister before the boss fight, asking "you'll save her, right?" In the anime, after the aforementioned moment where Ren saves Makoto from being attacked by Shadow Sae, he reassures her by asking "you'll save her, right?" instead. "Dark Sun" removes the part in which the Phantom Thieves have to guess what Shido views the Diet Building as. On his way from the Sakura residence to Leblanc, Ren overhears Shido speaking and recognizes him as the man responsible for his criminal record. Two out of the five main targets inside Shido's palace — the former noble and the cleaner — are removed entirely. Of course, it's possible that they encountered the latter off-screen, since they're below deck when Akechi reveals himself. At the end of "Dark Sun," the Phantom Thieves realize almost immediately that changing Shido's heart did not have the desired effect, and "Stars and Ours" picks up on December 23, thereby removing a week-long Hope Spot. In "Stars and Ours", Caroline and Justine outright attacking Joker is cut. Plus, this OVA rearranges the scene where Joker frees his teammates from the Velvet Room, with their jail bars disappearing upon his approaches before they have a group conversation. Also removed were the Phantom Thieves' battles against the angel mini-bosses as well as the Holy Grail before his reveal. In the ending, Sojiro is the one who talks with Ren about the Phantom Thieves' efforts to get him released, removing the conversation with Sae and the montage of Ren's Confidants pitching in. Ren's goodbyes to his Confidants are shown in a montage.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_5b607875	comment	Inconsistent Dub: The dub mostly uses honorifics, but drops them from time to time. Mishima mostly refers to Ren by his last name, as in the game, but occasionally switches to his first name instead.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_5b9cf82b	type	Education Mama
Persona 5: The Animation / int_5b9cf82b	comment	A few of Sae's scenes establishing that she does care for Makoto are cut out, such as the first dinner together in which Sae expresses that as strict as she is, she does want Makoto to succeed. Immediately after Okumura's death, Sae seems unusually gleeful at the prospect of "using" the man's grief-stricken daughter for information, causing Akechi to sigh and walk away. "Dark Sun" also omits Sae's apology to Futaba for putting pressure on Sojiro.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_6379edc1	type	Valentine's Day Episode
Persona 5: The Animation / int_6379edc1	comment	Valentine's Day Episode: The plot of A Magical Valentines Day has Ren on a date with all the romanceable female Confidants from the game (and Ryuji), as well as a date with Sae Niijima at an opera house. It also includes "A Tragic Valentines Day" OVA, which shows the consequences of Ren cheating on all of his female Confidants with each other.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_647fab91	type	Title: The Adaptation
Persona 5: The Animation / int_647fab91	comment	Title: The Adaptation: The series is titled Persona 5: The Animation, as it's the animated adaptation of Persona 5.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_6a9475c1	type	Dub-Induced Plot Hole
Persona 5: The Animation / int_6a9475c1	comment	Dub Induced Plothole: In the English dub of Stars and Ours, after the real Igor is released, he welcomes Ren to his Velvet Room. Igor would NEVER refer to such a place as his own. In the game, it was an early hint that the Igor you first met was an imposter. A very tiny one. Rather than pictures of themselves, the thieves' IM icons are pictures based on their code names. Futaba's is a radar (or navigator) referencing her Japanese code name being Navi, while not fitting her English name, Oracle.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Persona 5: The Animation / int_6d332aea	comment	After meeting Nakanohara in the Shibuya subway, with both around the corner from each other and unable to see the other's face, Ren leaves just after Nakanohara bows and begs Ren to steal Madarame's heart to prevent Yusuke from being Driven to Suicide.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
Persona 5: The Animation / int_6de71c57	comment	Shido is the Disc-One Final Boss in the main game and each of his forms are some of the hardest bosses in the game. In Dark Sun, his first form is easily defeated by the Phantom Thieves. His second form's only offense is punching Skull, but when he faces Joker in one-on-one combat, he loses to a barrage of attacks from Yoshitsune, Alice, and Beelzebub.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_6eeba1cb	type	Shut Up, Kirk!
Persona 5: The Animation / int_6eeba1cb	comment	Shut Up, Kirk!: After Makoto tries to appeal to Shadow Sae, the individual in question angrily asks, "What would my little sister know?"
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Persona 5: The Animation / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: Kamoshida is somewhat more overtly hostile to Ren and Ryuji than in the game, where he's Faux Affably Evil. Haru's somewhat more suspicious of the other Phantom Thieves after her father's death. When the Phantom Thieves deny sending a calling card to the principal, Haru demands to know who did. By comparison, in the game, she quickly accepts that they didn't send the calling card, and later apologizes for doubting the Phantom Thieves. Unlike in the game, in which Makoto joined the other girls in their Anger Born of Worry moment following Ryuji turning out to have survived the destruction of Shido's Palace, she simply stands with Ren, Yusuke and Morgana as the girls yell at Ryuji. Kawakami in game was very stern about her maid job, refusing to do anything potentially sexual until she was desperate enough that she considered working for her maid company's sister company late in her Confidant. When it came to Joker, she was treated things as a professionally as she could. The anime makes her The Tease to Joker at various points, which doesn't really line up with her character. This is likely because her backstory was not given focus in the anime.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Persona 5: The Animation / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: Ren is fond of this. After meeting Nakanohara in the Shibuya subway, with both around the corner from each other and unable to see the other's face, Ren leaves just after Nakanohara bows and begs Ren to steal Madarame's heart to prevent Yusuke from being Driven to Suicide. When Chihaya gets out the Holy Stone she was trying to sell, she notices that Ren has already left.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
Persona 5: The Animation / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: The protagonist is given the Canon Name "Ren Amamiya", which carries over into Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Persona 5: The Animation / int_722b3319	comment	Chihaya appears in Episode 10, warning Ren and Ryuji about the arrival of the Camp Gay couple. She later makes another cameo in Episode 14, attempting to sell her product to Eiko and Tsukasa.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
Persona 5: The Animation / int_736d791f	comment	This is the first anime adaptation where the quickly-outclassed starting Persona of the protagonist isn't made into an Adaptational Badass and used as the protagonist's trump card. Arsene gets fused away early on just like the game and Ren uses a variety of gradually-improving personas as the anime goes on. He only brings Arsene back for the fight against Black Mask very late in the series.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Persona 5: The Animation / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: In the game, the dice game in Sae's Palace is rigged so you'll always lose, and you have to counter-rig it so you'll always win. In the anime, Futaba is apparently able to beat the rigging just by analysing the pattern of the dice rolls.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
Persona 5: The Animation / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: During Episode 14, Yusuke mentions this trope while reminiscing on the Madarame arc. He says that even after everything Madarame did, it's not easy for Yusuke to cut his foster father out of his life.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Persona 5: The Animation / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the anime, Yusuke appears to leave the real Sayuri painting with Sojiro on a whim. In the game, he says that no one will accept it as real, thanks to Madarame altering it, and that his mother would want it in a place where it could brighten someone's day. Why would Kawakami moonlight as a maid, thereby running herself ragged and risking getting in trouble with the school, when she doesn't even like the job? Anime viewers will never know, since her backstory is never revealed in the anime. In Episode 14, Eiko's Freudian Excuse- that since her parents favor her talented younger brother over her, she's drawn to someone like Tsukasa- is removed, only mentioned in passing when Eiko tearfully says Tsukasa is all she has. Several other details about how Eiko is fine with her subpar grades but seemingly has a plan for her future, thereby establishing her as a Foil to Makoto, are removed. It's also not mentioned that Tsukasa has repeatedly tried to message Makoto, presumably in an attempt to rope her in as another mark, which Makoto uses to turn the tables on him. Downplayed in Episode 16. Sojiro's remarks about Futaba's need for a safe place are implied to be the reason why he had Ren stay in the attic above Leblanc rather than in the Sakura residence, but he doesn't say this outright. At the beach, when Ryuji questions why Futaba believed the Phantom Thieves could save her by changing her heart, Futaba's explanation of why she needed to reach out to the Phantom Thieves, and why she wasn't sure she could fully trust them is cut out. In Episode 22, while Mishima's decision to target an actor just because he's famous is proof that he's getting carried away, even if he claims it's for the good of the Phantom Thieves, the anime omits the actual reason behind the choice. In the game, he'd heard rumors that the actor was involved with an idol, and believed that the public would want the actor's heart to be changed, until the actor decided to marry the idol, winning over many of his critics. In "Dark Sun," a significant part of the explanation of the plan to fool Akechi into thinking that he'd killed the real Ren is cut, particularly one optional conversation in which Futaba talks about the group making sure that Akechi didn't encounter his Cognitive self. Also from Dark Sun, it's never mentioned why the cognitive versions of Shido's co-conspirators can turn into Shadows — they're hybrids of cognitive existences and Shadows, and proof that Shido has extensively made use of Wakaba's research. The OVA also doesn't mention that the principal was part of the conspiracy, or that the subway accident was caused by Ooe's request.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Persona 5: The Animation / int_79a0e313	comment	There's also Cognitive Akechi. In the anime, the real Akechi dispatches his cognitive self with a single gunshot, then faces off against the horde of Shadows. In the game, the gunshot only wounds Cognitive Akechi, and it's strongly implied that he ended up killing the real Akechi. Ironically, this could also imply the other way around, and that the real Akechi finished him off, but was still outnumbered by the Shadows.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_79c8657c	comment	Finger Framing: Yusuke does this after he and Ryuji bring a television set to Ren's room, trying to figure a good placement for it. He also does this at Futaba's Palace while looking at the pyramid and at Makoto, and then later during the Beach Episode when Futaba appears in her swimsuit.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Persona 5: The Animation / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Haru asks two of Ryuji when he offers to help her with her father.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
Persona 5: The Animation / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: In the opening of Episode 13, Akechi challenges Ren to a game of chess. Ren initially refuses, but Akechi tells him that he'll pick it up quickly since it's a lot like shogi. The two are seen playing chess in several subsequent episodes, with Akechi always winning. Akechi later gives Ren the black king piece as a trinket to remember him by before his Heroic Sacrifice.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
Persona 5: The Animation / int_7df2b942	comment	While Shadow Sae still pulls her Moving the Goalposts trick at the Bridge of Judgement and forces Ren to fight three Rangdas in the first round of the Battle Arenanote the first phase, with two Ganeshas, is apparently omitted, the rest of her Palace isn't as blatantly rigged as it is in the game. Her boss battle is even fought fair and square, skipping the opening phase with the rigged roulette wheel. However, this does cause some of her speeches about how everything is rigged in her favor to ring somewhat hollow.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_8163e2bb	comment	Shiho drops her volleyball when Mishima asks her to see Kamoshida, presumably knowing that it isn't going to be anything pleasant.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Persona 5: The Animation / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Ryuji is already a good person, but unlike in the game, he doesn't threaten Ren out of fear of being ratted out to Kamoshida. Before going to Kamoshida's Palace for the third time, he doesn't yell at Ann to stay out, even if his intention was to make sure she didn't put herself in danger. Also, when Morgana left as a result of his insecurities, Ryuji is the most concerned and tries to genuinely apologize for calling him useless, whereas in the game, he was forced to do it, and the backhanded nature of his apology ended up protracting the conflict. Sojiro is a lot less harsh with Ren in his first appearance and reprimands him far less harshly after his first day at school. He also doesn't need to be convinced to let Ren keep Morgana like he did in the game, despite the fact that as the owner of a cafÃ©, he has a legitimate reason to not want a pet. Later, when he finds Futaba's calling card, he waits until they've both calmed down from the initial shock before discussing it with her and Ren in a very polite, civil manner, unlike the game where his Anger Born of Worry causes Futaba to break down in tears. That said, he does apparently drive her into a days-long Heroic BSoD by harshly confronting her about the calling card (unlike the game, in which the issue is mostly resolved by the end of the night). During the food buffet scene in Episode 5, Ann does not briefly lash out at Ren and Ryuji like in the game, since she's more hurt than angry as over the incident. Instead, the three reasonably talk things out concerning the adults' mistreatment of them. Ann is not as resentful towards Makoto as in the game, and more readily admits that she couldn't do anything for Shiho, either. Yusuke doesn't blackmail the Phantom Thieves with trespassing charges in order to get Ann to pose nude for him. When Ann shows up to pose nude, Yusuke apologizes for losing his temper and telling them to Get Out! during their previous meeting. Eiko in Makoto's Confidant. In the game, she gets angry with Makoto after Makoto tries to convince her to break up with Tsukasa, mistakenly believing that Makoto wants to steal Tsukasa from her, and is cold toward Makoto the next time they meet. In the anime, she simply asks Makoto for money and repeats her request when Makoto finds her in Shinjuku. While in the game, Eiko's last heard from when Makoto mentions that they made up at the start of the Rank 10 event, in the anime, she proceeds to post Tsukasa's misdeeds to the Phan-Site, turning Tsukasa into a Mementos target. Afterwards, she texts an apology to Makoto and invites her to come to her house and share her Buchimaru collection. While Hifumi's mother is still an overbearing Stage Mom, since the confrontation with her Shadow isn't shown, she may not have actually taken extreme and illegal measures to build up her daughter's career. Several of the Shadows end up being downplayed examples: In the game, Shadow Kaneshiro's final warning about Black Mask sounds like he's taunting the Phantom Thieves; in the anime, it sounds more like a Villain's Dying Grace. Shadow Kunikazu in particular is a much more sympathetic character. In the game, he merely mourns his utopia with his dying words, but in the anime, he dies with tears in his eyes, lamenting that he'll never get to rekindle his relationship with Haru. Additionally, in flashbacks, Kunikazu was shown to be at least happy during his father's time as a kind cafÃ© owner, and when the happy customers came to offer flowers for the shop's closing, he was crying Tears of Joy from the compliments of the customer before he started going down a dark path. Most of these weren't heavily implied within the game. Finally, during the encounter, thanks to Morgana's arc being simplified, Shadow Kunikazu doesn't resort to the Crocodile Tears and an I Surrender, Suckers strategy, so when he's apologizing, he's not faking at all. It also helps that the game omits most of the scenes with the Phantom Thieves observing the cognitive versions of Okumura's workers as robots, along with Haru confirming that she knows about the abuses of the workers happening in real life. While Shadow Sae still pulls her Moving the Goalposts trick at the Bridge of Judgement and forces Ren to fight three Rangdas in the first round of the Battle Arenanote the first phase, with two Ganeshas, is apparently omitted, the rest of her Palace isn't as blatantly rigged as it is in the game. Her boss battle is even fought fair and square, skipping the opening phase with the rigged roulette wheel. However, this does cause some of her speeches about how everything is rigged in her favor to ring somewhat hollow.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: A minor case with Ann. When she hears the name "Futaba Sakura" in the anime, she doesn't realize that she and Sojiro "Boss" Sakura are related until Yusuke points it out in a conversation after their discussion with Alibaba ends. In the game, however, she picks up on it almost immediately.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Persona 5: The Animation / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Ryuji's segment in A Magical Valentine's Day begins with him in first-person POV just like the rest of the dates...but as soon as he's done speaking, the camera turns around to show Amamiya, and even allows him to speak, confirming that their segment isn't going to follow the same structure. Once Akechi gets into the interrogation room in which Ren is imprisoned at, he quickly disarms the guard who accompanied him and points the gun at said guard while telling Ren that he's there to rescue him, before replying in a noticeably colder tone than what Ren was hoping Akechi would say.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Persona 5: The Animation / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: In episode 3, Ren and Ryuji are really hesitant about doing a change of heart, due to the chance the target could die(albeit less so in the game, in which they immediately reconsider after hearing about the possibility). However, after Kamoshida rapes Shiho they are... less concerned about his well being, and decide the risk is in acceptable margins.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Near the start of Episode 14, the group fights Shadow Mogami. Near the end, they fight Shadow Tsukasa.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_8ca20b69	comment	Out-of-Character Moment: In Episode 4, Takemi, who, in the game, had kept her secret medicine a very closely guarded secret, and only reluctantly took the protagonist on as a test subject, nonchalantly offers to let him use her medicine as long as he tells her about its effects.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Persona 5: The Animation / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Episode 24 shows Futaba's abusive uncle being beaten up by some loan sharks, who apparently are trying to collect on their debts. One would feel sorry for him, but not only is Youji a terrible person, but he's in the situation because he wasted all of the money Sojiro gave him. To a lesser extent, Ren walking off and leaving Youji to the tender mercies of the loan sharks could count.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Persona 5: The Animation / int_95b7c400	comment	Kamoshida is somewhat more overtly hostile to Ren and Ryuji than in the game, where he's Faux Affably Evil.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_96b89043	type	Not So Above It All
Persona 5: The Animation / int_96b89043	comment	Not So Above It All: Up until episode 9, Ren keeps a rather reserved attitude in public. When discussing Operation Maidwatch, his facade cracks to show some enthusiasm for the suggestion. When visiting the haunted house hallway during the school festival, Ren attempts to rip the mask off a student posing as a monster for the activity, scaring her. Ryuji of all people has to Dope Slap Ren, telling him to get it together, with Ren sheepishly admitting it's a habit.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Shortly after showing Ren his attic room, Sojiro recaps why Ren is staying with him- after his conviction, he got expelled from his previous school and ordered to attend school in Tokyo while he's on probation.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9a032f08	type	Giver of Lame Names
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9a032f08	comment	Giver of Lame Names: Ren tends to do this when thinking of code names for his fellow Phantom Thieves, usually choosing the more ridiculous options, even in situations in which it's actually possible for the player to choose the code name that ends up being used.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: Subverted. The later episodes indicate that there are episodes numbered 27, 28, and 29, but the anime abruptly ends at episode 26, after Goro shoots Ren, with the rest of the main plot wrapped up in two non-numbered specials.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9cede50e	type	Toplessness from the Back
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9cede50e	comment	Toplessness from the Back: The "Dark Sun" opening has a Freeze-Frame Bonus of Ann standing in a body of water like this.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Kawakami drops a flyer for a maid housekeeping service, hinting at her job on the side that is the main focus of her Confidant. Kawakami almost falls asleep on the last day of midterm exams in May, hinting that she's running herself ragged at her side job. Before earning her Persona, Makoto sees a TV series on an outdoor screen about riding motorbikes off to freedom and wishes that reality were that simple. Since the Meta-Nav app is new to all of the Phantom Thieves, it appears towards the bottom-right corner of their phone screens. When Futaba grabs Akechi's phone prior to the casino heist, sharp-eyed viewers might notice that he's apparently had it for a much longer time than any of them... Adding on to that, and crossing over with Product Placement of all things, Futaba is geeking out over it being the latest model, but every Phantom Thief has the Xperia XZ1. A hint that she's only faking it so she can put an app on Akechi's phone and that she knows that he is the traitor. While eating at Leblanc, Akechi notes that detectives are in need of cases only they can solve, as well as a good rival, which foreshadows his later relationship with Ren. At the beginning of Episode 13, Akechi's investigations lead to the arrests of a politician and his son. It's later revealed that the politician was one of Shido's enemies, and this is an early case of Akechi using his powers to cause incidents and then solve them.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In a news report about Akechi in episode 1, Persona 4's Naoto Shirogane is name-dropped when referring to Akechi as "the Second Coming of the Detective Prince," which was Naoto's title in her debut game.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?: After Episode 26 has Akechi apparently killing Ren, with the credits showing him walking away from the interrogation room, The Stinger has Ryuji cracking a smile and hinting they still have something up their sleeve. The ending of the A Magical Valentine's Day OVA is similar, with the credits showing the protagonist's dates walking away from Le Blanc as the final dungeon/bad ending theme plays, and The Stinger has Ren going on a date with Sae Niijima at an opera house.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Persona 5: The Animation / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: When Yusuke gets angry about the Phantom Thieves accusing Madarame of abuse and plagiarism, he orders them to leave the atelier, but doesn't threaten to report them to the police.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
Persona 5: The Animation / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: Ann's surprised that the seemingly male armored knight guard that has the eye key turns out to be a female Pixie, and says she wouldn't have resorted to sex appeal if she'd known that.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_a20b2263	type	Purple Is Powerful
Persona 5: The Animation / int_a20b2263	comment	Purple Is Powerful: Downplayed, but in this series, Sae is noticeably wearing purple eyeshadow, which subtly but effectively adds on to her already intimidating appearance and demeanor.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_a42f56b0	type	Royal "We"
Persona 5: The Animation / int_a42f56b0	comment	Royal "We": The Holy Grail/Yaldabaoth frequently uses "we" as a personal pronoun.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Persona 5: The Animation / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: In "Dark Sun," Ren punches the wall that cut him off from Akechi, after Akechi's Uncertain Doom. In "Stars and Ours," Ren is visibly shocked when he sees Morgana on the doorstep to Leblanc.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
Persona 5: The Animation / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: A few of Sae's scenes establishing that she does care for Makoto are cut out, such as the first dinner together in which Sae expresses that as strict as she is, she does want Makoto to succeed. Immediately after Okumura's death, Sae seems unusually gleeful at the prospect of "using" the man's grief-stricken daughter for information, causing Akechi to sigh and walk away. "Dark Sun" also omits Sae's apology to Futaba for putting pressure on Sojiro. Chihaya comes off as an unrepentant Snake Oil Salesman in the anime, in which she's shown trying to sell Holy Stones to Eiko and Tsukasa, and later to Ren, since her backstory and Character Development are not included. By comparison, in the game, she did honestly believe that people couldn't change their fates without help, it turned out the ADP's leader (who's done far worse things) was pressuring her sell the stones, and after the protagonist helps change her beliefs, she pays him and her other customers back.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Persona 5: The Animation / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: After being defeated by the Phantom Thieves, Shadow Okumura apologizes and offers to turn over a new leaf, only for Black Mask to shoot him. As he lays dying, Shadow Okumura says that all he wants is to be able to go back to the time when he and his family were happy together.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Persona 5: The Animation / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Shiho drops her volleyball when Mishima asks her to see Kamoshida, presumably knowing that it isn't going to be anything pleasant. After Ren asks Kawanabe about the three companies that received money from him, Kawanabe's assistant panics and tries to destroy the evidence, but Akechi and the police catch him in the act. Ann, Ryuji and Haru have this reaction when hearing that the Bridge of Judgment requires 100,000 coins to activate, twice as many as they needed to purchase access to the High Rate floor.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
Persona 5: The Animation / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: This exchange happens after Youji suggests taking Futaba back if Sojiro can't pay child support.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_b26477dc	type	Reactive Continuous Scream
Persona 5: The Animation / int_b26477dc	comment	Reactive Continuous Scream: Done in one episode when Makoto encounters Futaba. She was so terrified that she emits a blood-curdling scream. That scream from Makoto causes Futaba to scream along with her. And it causes the other Phantom Thieves to join in the mass chorus. However, their screams are ear bleeding for some headphone users who have sensitive hearing, so we have to warn you to cover your ears for this!
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Persona 5: The Animation / int_b5b4b077	comment	In the game, Akechi is stated to be the strongest of the persona users, with Makoto admitting that the Phantom Thieves were only able to beat him by working together. In the Dark Sun special, Ren ends up taking on and defeating Akechi one-on-one, with Arsene shown to be explicitly superior to Loki, who is Akechi's trump card against the Phantom Thieves in the original game.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Persona 5: The Animation / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Ryuji and Ren meet Ohya when she's staking out Madarame's shack. When Ohya notices that they know more about Madarame than they're letting on, she notes that they seem "fishy," at which point Ryuji remarks that she's hardly one to talk.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Persona 5: The Animation / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Most Confidants who aren't Phantom Thieves or important to the plot (Sojiro, Sae, Mishima, Igor, the twins) only have a handful of appearances outside of where they cross paths with the Phantom Thieves in the plot, and most of their storylines are cut out. The Blu-ray releases come with some drama CDs that adapt the conflict portion of some Confidant storylines, but only for Iwai, Takemi, and Kawakami. For a protagonist, Ren himself gets it too. While past Persona protagonists got characterization and focus added to them to make up for the fact that there's no player to represent in the anime, Ren is still silent like in the game, very few scenes focus on him individually and his dialogue options are simply adapted out.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Persona 5: The Animation / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike In the dub, Yusuke, a character who hardly ever swears, tells the defeated Shadow Madarame to "Put an end to all this, and use your own damn artwork." Morgana refers to Futaba's abusive uncle as "a miserable son of a bitch" in Crunchyroll's subtitles. Ren asks "What the hell is going on?" when after Shido's change of heart, the crowd watching the news broadcast refuses to believe it, also in Crunchyroll's subtitles.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Persona 5: The Animation / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Alice gives out one during the battle against Shadow Shido.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Persona 5: The Animation / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: When Makoto tries to confront Kaneshiro, he has his men hold her down and orders them to strip her in order to take photos to sell. Fortunately, the rest of the gang show up seconds later and interrupt proceedings.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_c369b783	comment	Drama CD: See Demoted to Extra above. Along with the three Confidant stories, there's also one that takes place after Futaba joins the thieves in which the thieves partake in some summer fun.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Akechi's murder of Ren is initially portrayed as a rescue attempt, accompanied by the rest of the Phantom Thieves waiting in nervous anticipation. After taking the pistol, Akechi doesn't shoot the guard immediately, but holds him at gunpoint, then says the following line to Ren.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Episode 26 ends with Akechi apparently shooting Ren in the head in the interrogation room, leading into the "Dark Sun" OVA.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The second opening (episodes 4-13) starts with a parody of a classic MTV logo. Morgana's transformation into a car during the group's first trip to Mementos has him performing Takeshi Hongo's pre-henshin movements. The dub of episode 22 has Shadow Mishima bitterly say "Nice speech" in reaction to an attempt to set him straight. ADR scriptwriter Martin Billany revealed on Twitter that this was a reference to a similar response from John Cena.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: In Episode 8, after Ren hears about the proposal for a welcoming party for Yusuke.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_c868a42a	comment	In Episode 14, Eiko's Freudian Excuse- that since her parents favor her talented younger brother over her, she's drawn to someone like Tsukasa- is removed, only mentioned in passing when Eiko tearfully says Tsukasa is all she has. Several other details about how Eiko is fine with her subpar grades but seemingly has a plan for her future, thereby establishing her as a Foil to Makoto, are removed. It's also not mentioned that Tsukasa has repeatedly tried to message Makoto, presumably in an attempt to rope her in as another mark, which Makoto uses to turn the tables on him.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_ca69cb4d	comment	Adaptational Karma: Tsukasa's only comeuppance in the game was having his plans exposed to one of his victims, but ends up becoming a Mementos target in Episode 14.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_cd83fa5b	comment	Spoiler Opening: The second version of the opening from episodes 4-13 foreshadows Goro Akechi's true nature as well as Caroline and Justine being the split forms of Lavenza, as well as revealing all future members of the Phantom Thieves. The fourth opening, introduced in episode 26, even more strongly foreshadows Akechi's betrayal and subsequent fate, as well as Mementos leaking into the real world.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_cdb45c07	comment	In episode 5, Mishima gets too close to Ren while talking to him about the Phan-Site, similar to Junpei with Makoto in Persona 3: The Movie with Ren even telling Mishima that he is too close to him.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_cf496044	comment	Smoke Out: After Morgana, offended by Ryuji accidentally saying "useless," runs away from the other Phantom Thieves, Haru drops a smoke bomb and follows him out.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_d500b978	comment	Adaptational Wimp: Shadow Okumura's Executive Director robot. In the game, you'll probably spend most of the battle fighting it, and it has some dangerous attacks. In the anime, the Executive Director is dealt with very quickly, with Mona and Queen attacking it in rapid succession, Joker using Hecatoncheires to throw the Executive Director onto Shadow Okumura and Noir finishing it off with Milady's guns. Shadow Okumura himself. While he is a Flunky Boss in the game, and you can probably defeat him in one hit after defeating the Executive Director, he assists in combat by casting buffs and debuffs, and it's implied that he's not completely helpless, since he threatens Haru and Morgana with what looks like a raygun. In the anime, he lets his workers do all the fighting, and doesn't even try to assist them. In the game, Akechi is stated to be the strongest of the persona users, with Makoto admitting that the Phantom Thieves were only able to beat him by working together. In the Dark Sun special, Ren ends up taking on and defeating Akechi one-on-one, with Arsene shown to be explicitly superior to Loki, who is Akechi's trump card against the Phantom Thieves in the original game. There's also Cognitive Akechi. In the anime, the real Akechi dispatches his cognitive self with a single gunshot, then faces off against the horde of Shadows. In the game, the gunshot only wounds Cognitive Akechi, and it's strongly implied that he ended up killing the real Akechi. Ironically, this could also imply the other way around, and that the real Akechi finished him off, but was still outnumbered by the Shadows. Shido is the Disc-One Final Boss in the main game and each of his forms are some of the hardest bosses in the game. In Dark Sun, his first form is easily defeated by the Phantom Thieves. His second form's only offense is punching Skull, but when he faces Joker in one-on-one combat, he loses to a barrage of attacks from Yoshitsune, Alice, and Beelzebub. None of the other Phantom Thieves receive their Ultimate Personas in the Persona 5 anime, unlike past anime adaptations. This goes double for Morgana, who always receives his Ultimate Persona on 12/23 since his Confidant ranks up as part of the story.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: In episode 9, the start of Kawakami's Confidant is tied in to Ren's progress on Ryuji's Confidant. In Episode 18, one of the events of Ann's Confidant route is used to further the sub-plot of Morgana's increasing self-doubt, by having Ann politely refuse his help and refer to him as the team's "mascot". To a lesser extent, Ren and Ryuji go straight from fishing with Kawakami (an optional summer event) to meet up with Futaba in Akihabara. Episode 24 takes this to dizzying heights. The events of Sojiro's Confidant route handily interrupt his discovery of Futaba's calling card, giving them time to calm down and discuss it properly in stark contrast to the game; the aforementioned events temporarily leave Futaba unable to analyse the dice rolls in Sae's Palace, but she eventually succeeds and beats the house; and Akechi resolves the central dilemma of Sojiro's route (Futaba's abusive uncle trying to take custody of her) because, as an unwanted bastard child who was passed around between foster homes, he can sympathise with her plight.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: In Episode 13, Akechi's initially convinced that Kawanabe's in charge of illegally moving money around, as well as being responsible for other shady dealings, but it turns out that the culprit's his assistant.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_ddc4f035	comment	Heroic Second Wind: Shadow Kamoshida manages to bring down the entire party and nearly kills them all. Igor's timely intervention unlocks Ren's fusion abilities and gives him the strength to rally and defeat Kamoshida. In episode 25, Ren initially struggles in the Battle Arena in Sae's Palace, but recalling his interactions with his Confidants — and an energy drink Takemi gave him — gives him the strength to turn the tables with consummate ease.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_de70f5a4	comment	Continuity Cameo: Rise Kujikawa from the Persona 4 is shown in an ad during a panning shot of the city in the first episode. In episode 2, Kanami Mashita of Kanamin Kitchen is shown in a video ad following Ren and Ryuji's second visit to Kamoshida's palace.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_dfb71617	comment	Ann is subject to Male Gaze a lot, with lots of framed shots of her butt and breasts. Also, originally, in the game, Ann goes home after Yusuke's welcoming party and the boys take a bath together at the bathhouse. In the anime, however, she joins them at the bathhouse and there's a shot of Ann scrubbing and rinsing her body in the showers while the boys are soaking in the tub.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_e28f88b8	comment	In the dub, Mishima occasionally calls Ren by his first name in early episodes, despite exclusively being on a Last-Name Basis with him in the game.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_e38b0f45	comment	When Chihaya gets out the Holy Stone she was trying to sell, she notices that Ren has already left.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_e50b5873	comment	Criss-Cross Attack: In Dark Sun, during the fight against Shadow Shido, this is how Yoshitsune's signature move, Hassou Tobi, is depicted. In the game, while it's suggested that Yoshitsune makes the cuts, he moves too quickly to see.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Near the end of Episode 18, Morgana says he's not hungry when Ren offers him fish at the Wilton buffet, indicating his growing depression.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_eb251937	comment	Astoundingly, the Dirty Cop from the opening sequence. Already an asshole for kicking the crap out of Ren, this time he goes so far as to outright threaten Ren's friends if he doesn't confess. And then, Sae Niijima reveals that only Ren had been captured, meaning the dirty cop was bluffing.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_edce12ef	comment	Two-Teacher School: The anime follows this trope more than the game does. Apart from Kamoshida, Kawakami is the only teacher who regularly appears, and often appears where another teacher would have (for example, Shiho attempts suicide while Ren and Ann are in Kawakami's class instead of Ushimaru's).
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_edf68f1a	comment	Flash Forward: Episode 4 ends with one to Akechi talking to all the other Phantom Thieves at the cafe, where the Sayuri painting is shown.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Goro Akechi gets a decent few. He appears Once an Episode for the first few episodes, though this drops off a bit in the second quarter. In the game, his first appearance was on the day of the subway accident, but he didn't start regularly showing up until after the trip to the TV station. Takemi, the Death Confidant, makes a slightly earlier appearance during a brief montage of Ren trying to find Sojiro in Episode 1. Makoto and Haru made cameos in Episode 2. Toranosuke Yoshida, the Sun Confidant, also makes a cameo after the second visit to Kamoshida's Palace. That said, Makoto did originally appear during the Kamoshida arc, just as a seemingly generic NPC. Haru continues to make extremely sporadic appearances in the background or the odd focus shot from there on, which makes sense given that she does attend the same school. Mika makes a cameo in Episode 3 when Ann's at a modeling job around the time Kamoshida calls Ann. A chibi version of Hifumi shows up in Episode 6 as a mascot on a shogi app. Hifumi is also at the TV station in Episode 10, and briefly appears in Episode 13 when Yusuke is asking Joker to pose for his painting, peering into the church and leaving before either person sees her. Chihaya appears in Episode 10, warning Ren and Ryuji about the arrival of the Camp Gay couple. She later makes another cameo in Episode 14, attempting to sell her product to Eiko and Tsukasa. "Black Mask" shows up briefly in The Stinger of Episode 10, watching Shadow Kaneshiro. He was mentioned sooner in the game proper, but the first time the audience saw him in person was after defeating Okumura. Though only in-name, Shinya's handle of "KING" appears at the top of the leaderboard in the arcade in episode 12. He finally appears on-screen in episode 18, walking past in the distance while Ryuji suggests gathering the Phantom Thieves and introducing Futaba to Mementos.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_f1967a2	comment	Zig-zagged for Arsene, the Starter Mon of the game. Unlike Orpheus and Izanagi, who remained a consistent Persona used by Makoto Yuki and Yu Narukami in their anime adaptations, Arsene isn't used throughout the show as much, and Joker fuses it with a Pixie during his first Persona Fusion. However, the trope comes to full effect in Dark Sun, where Arsene is capable of defeating Loki, Akechi's strongest Persona, with relative ease.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_f4b1129f	comment	Sojiro is a lot less harsh with Ren in his first appearance and reprimands him far less harshly after his first day at school. He also doesn't need to be convinced to let Ren keep Morgana like he did in the game, despite the fact that as the owner of a cafÃ©, he has a legitimate reason to not want a pet. Later, when he finds Futaba's calling card, he waits until they've both calmed down from the initial shock before discussing it with her and Ren in a very polite, civil manner, unlike the game where his Anger Born of Worry causes Futaba to break down in tears. That said, he does apparently drive her into a days-long Heroic BSoD by harshly confronting her about the calling card (unlike the game, in which the issue is mostly resolved by the end of the night).
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Episodes 1 and 12 gleefully show off SONY cell phones, with Ren's in particular being a Sony Xperia XZ1. His phone's ringtone can also be heard in episode 12. Episode 19 shows that the karaoke booth is Pasela Resorts. Pasela Resorts is a real-life karaoke chain and it was also where Persona 5 had its first collaboration cafe. Episode 20 shows this again during Sugimura and Haru's confrontation. Jagariko appears in episode 20.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: After Ren asks Makoto where he can find the hangure who are preying on students, a shot of Shibuya is shown before Makoto answers.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In the first episode, Sojiro's introduced trying to find a crossword clue. Later on in the episode, Ren, having settled into his attic room, gets the clue.
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Persona 5: The Animation / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: At the start of Episode 10, when Makoto is still antagonistic toward the Phantom Thieves, she abandons her tailing Ren to help an old woman who fell.
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