Persona 3 10 Things You Didnt Know About The Movies

Persona 3: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Movies

The famed JRPRG created by Atlus, Persona 3, has been adapted into a trilogy of movies. Here are 10 things you may not have known about them.

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Persona 3 is perhaps the first really popular game in the Persona video game series. At the least, it is the one that has fostered numerous adaptations, including its own manga and, even more impressively, a series of films.

The trilogy, with the films titled Spring of Birth, Midsummer Knight’s Dream, and Falling Down, each stand alone as their own stories, but as a group, they tell the complete story of the Persona 3 game, making them a complete narrative when watched all together. But there are plenty of things that fans may not know about the films and their products and how they relate to the game.

10 The Director Was Concerned About The Difficulty Of Adapting The Game

Persona 3 is a roleplaying game, so it is incredibly interactive at its core. The game can go in different narrative directions, with the characters having different relationships, depending on their choices. Director Nariaki Akitaya was worried about making sure that the first film still felt engaging for fans of the game since they go from a more interactive role in the narrative to just a watching role in the film.

9 The Biggest Challenge To The Film Was Creating The Protagonist

As any fan of the Persona games knows, the main characters are just named the Protagonist until the game player names them and helps shape their personalities by making choices for them and choosing their dialogue throughout the game. Creating a main character for the film was challenging, as the character needed to be someone engaging to fans despite not being able to create the character themselves. Akitaya tried to create a character named Makoto Yuki, who captured the most general traits that players give the Protagonist.

8 The Game’s Composer Scored The Music For The First Film

Shoji Meguro, who composed the music for the Persona 3 game, came onboard to also do the music for Spring of Birth, aiming to recreate some of the game’s musical motifs that fans like. However, he didn’t score the subsequent films. Tetsuya Kobayashi took over a role.

He did, however, make individual musical tracks for the soundtracks of both Midsummer Knight’s Dream and Falling to help keep the feel of the game.

7 The Film’s Titles Help To Show The Passage Of Time

Most Persona games take place over the course of a year, often a school year, and the passage of time helps determine what events will happen in each portion of the game. The titles of the films help reflect just when they’re taking place, with sometimes punny or tongue-in-cheek titles to show what season, in particular, the events are happening: Spring of Birth taking place in spring, Midsummer Knight’s Dream taking place in summer, and Falling taking place in autumn.

6 The Supporting Characters Don’t All Appear In Every Film To The Same Degree

Because of the limited scope of films that are interpreting a video game story that can take more than 60 hours to play in its entirety, the supporting cast’s roles have to be adjusted somewhat. Some characters, like Koromaru, Ken, and Aigis, don’t appear in the first film, debuting instead in Midsummer Knight’s Dream, while others, like Junpei, Mitsuru, and Fuka, who did appear in Spring of Birth, don’t have as much fo a role in the sequel film to spotlight the new characters.

5 The Film Uses Visual Motifs To Hint At Plot Developments

In Spring of Birth, any time that Makoto participates in a full-moon operation and manages to use their Personas to defeat a Shadow. A small blue butterfly is seen flying across the screen. This is not explained during the film and, in fact, isn’t explained until the final film, Falling. This is revealed to be a visual shorthand; it symbolizes that Makoto has obtained an Arcanas and that Pharos has regained a piece of his memories.

4 Falling Down Features Two Characters Not From The Original Game

As with many popular games, Persona 3 has had a few ports, which allow the game to be played on other consoles besides the one it was originally designed for. One of these is Persona 3 Portable. This is the first Persona game to feature the option to follow a Female Protagonist instead of a Male Protagonist.

On the Female Protagonist’s game route, two characters, Rio and Saori, are introduced, who otherwise don’t appear in Persona 3. Despite this, they are both featured in Falling Down.

3 There Is An Easter Egg In Midsummer Knight’s Dream

Anyone familiar with the Persona games knows about Phoenix Ranger Featherman R, a super sentai show along the same lines as Power Rangers, which exists in the Persona universe. While the films don’t directly reference this series’s existence, there is an easter egg at the Summer Festival that gives a little wink toward fans. At a display, the five masks of the characters can be seen hanging in a scene’s background.

2 A Statue Appears In Kyoto During Falling Down

The characters spend time in Kyoto in Falling, and there’s actually another easter egg here, though it is also a bit of a hint of what’s to come. When moving around and exploring the city on the second and third days, a statue appears that isn’t present on the first day. The statue is of Suzaku, a demon that appears in the series. Suzaku is also a Chinese folklore figure, which also plays a role in the game and films.

1 The Characters Appearances Are Modified Slightly

Persona 3’s characters are designed to be animated on 3D models, which is different from animating them for a 2D film. This means that some of their character details are changed to look more natural onscreen. Some things are different that didn’t necessarily have to change but make the characters look more unique to the film. For example, some of them have different hair colors or eye colors.

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