Persona 5 Has A Japanese Release Date, This Is Not A Drill

While us here in the US were still sleeping or just getting our days started, Atlus was in Japan to announce a whole slew of Persona 5 related goodness.

First up, a Japanese release date that’s more than the vagueness of a year. Atlus has committed to September 15, 2016, as the new franchise entry’s release, putting it mere weeks ahead of the September 30th release of arguably its biggest JRPG rival of the year, Final Fantasy XV. It will be available at launch for PS3 and PS4, in both standard and limited editions. The limited edition includes DLC to put the playable cast into outfits from Persona 3 and Persona 4, an art book, a 5-disc set of music from across the Persona franchise, and more.

Also announced formally is the OVA Persona 5 The Animation: The Day Breakers, to be aired in September. August brings a Persona orchestral concert, and December will see a Persona 20th Anniversary festival in Japan.

A new trailer was also shown, featuring more characters in the game.

Atlus states the next Persona 5 event will be at E3, at which a Western release date is expected, along with details of the English voice cast, a limited edition (Atlus is very good to its Western fans in this regard), and more.


What are your thoughts about the impending release? Personally, I hope dual audio is available, as well as a release date AFTER Final Fantasy XV (if only because so many Western JRPG fans have already preordered FFXV, and probably need to recoup from that). I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a Winter 2016 release for the West. I’m excited regardless; it’s nice to see the release of a new Persona that isn’t a Persona 4 spinoff.


-Janette G (anarchymarie)