By Cian Maher, Sunday, July 5, 2020 3:54 PM GMT
The anime series Persona 5 is officially receiving an English dub, and all the major voice actors are making a comeback, including Joker, who will actually be saying full sentences now.
The series will be released as a blu-ray set on September 29, 2020. Perhaps the most notable fact about the English dub of the Persona 5 anime is that Xander Mobus will play Joker, canonically known by the name Ren.
You can watch the trailer for the series below.
“The original Phantom Thieves are coming back to take your heart in the new PERSONA5 the Animation Complete Blu-ray Set on September 29, 2020,” says the YouTube video description.
The entire Blu-ray set features an never-before-heard English dub of PERSONA5 the Animation starring the voices from the original ATLUS video game Persona 5. Also included are special episodes, a set of twelve picture cards, and additional bonus content. “
For those unfamiliar with the series, Ren, or Joker, is a high school student who recently transferred to the Shujin Academy in Tokyo. After a sequence of bizarre events, he and his companions (the Ghost Heart Thieves) manage to move into a mysterious world that exists as part of society’s collective unconscious, within which they have access to curious powers. His goal is to expose the betrayal of ill-intentioned adults and to deal with a bizarre series of psychotic crises that have been occurring sporadically across Japan.
In related news, a group of fans are bringing a 1997 Persona / Shin Megami Tensei trading card game to the internet. Meanwhile, Persona 4 Golden has quickly established itself as the most-played non-MMO JRPG in Steam history since its release. last month. Modders are already hard at work implementing a Yosuke romance mod.
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