Persona Reportedly Continues Its 30th Anniversary Celebrations With New TV Series

It's been a big month for Persona fans. As the series celebrates its 30th anniversary, Sega and Atlus revealed the release date for Persona 4 Revival and gave us our first glimpse at Persona 6. And it doesn't stop there.

According to a new report, Atlus has greenlit a Persona TV series, which will be helmed by Star Trek: Picard writer Christopher Monfette and supported by Sega's own Toru Nakahara.

A New Persona TV Series Is Coming To Netflix (???)

According to Variety, Atlus and Netflix will be collaborating on a live-action Persona TV series. Monfette is set to write the adaptation and serve as executive producer and showrunner, while Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, and Robert Atwood of 21 Laps (Stranger Things) will executive produce.

On Sega's side, Toru Nakahara will be providing support. Nakahara is credited as a producer on Sega's other recent adaptation push, with Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic Prime, Knuckles, and Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

It's clear that Sega is looking to push more of its IP onto the screen. In 2024, it released Like a Dragon: Yakuza, an Amazon Prime show based on its Japanese crime series, and it's also been confirmed that there will be an adult-animated comedy based on Golden Axe.

Persona itself is no stranger to adaptations. While this will be the first time the series steps foot in the world of live-action, it's had multiple anime spin-offs. Persona 3 had a series of four movies released after the game's launch, including Spring of Birth, Midsummer Knight's Dream, Falling Down, and Winter of Rebirth.

Persona 4 then received two anime series. The first had a 25-episode run, focusing on protagonist Yu Narukami. The second ran for 12 episodes and adapted the Persona 4 Golden storyline, featuring characters introduced in this version of the game.

Prior to Persona 5's release, it received a single-episode prologue anime, and two years later, it received a 26-episode series covering the main campaign. It's unclear which game, if any, this new series will cover but given its popularity, you have to imagine it's Persona 5.

As a big Persona fan, I'm highly skeptical of what's being cooked up here. The reasons the games are so well received are the decisions players have to make, be it which social links to explore or how to spend their limited free time. Without this, I fear the real hook of Persona will be lost.

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