Persona 5 Will Receive an Anime in 2018

There is no doubt that Persona 5 was a huge success for Atlus, and was even recently voted the best JRPG of all time by Japanese people. Now fans can get even more excited, because Atlus announced a TV anime made by A...

By Filipe Andrade on Aug 1, 2017, updated Aug 23, 2026 at 2:50 PM —

There is no doubt that Persona 5 was a huge success for Atlus, and was even recently voted the best JRPG of all time by Japanese people. Now fans can get even more excited, because Atlus announced a TV anime made by A-1 Pictures called Persona 5 the Animation. It will air in 2018.

The voice cast comes directly from the voices of the original game:

Protagonist (voiced by Jun Fukuyama)
Ann Takamaki (voiced by Nana Mizuki)
Ryuuji Sakamoto (voiced by Mamoru Miyano)
Morgana (voiced by Ikue Otani)
Yusuke Kitagawa (voiced by Tomokazu Sugita)
Makoto Niijima (voiced by Rina Sato)
Futaba Sakura (voiced by Aoi Yuki)
Haru Okumura (voiced by Haruka Tomatsu)
Goro Akechi (voiced by Soichiro Hoshi)

Atlus is removing YouTube videos containing the trailer, but you can watch the video below through DailyMotion:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5vbvqw

Via Gematsu

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