Video Game News: Persona 3 Movie Adaption

From Ishaan on Siliconera.com

After much waiting and speculation, the news has come out that the Persona 3 film will be released this year in Fall and will be titled Spring of Birth. In addition, another Promotional Video has been released, this time with more content. Here are a few things to take away from this announcement:

1. Makoto Yuki- The Protagonist's name, which was previously revealed as Minato Arisato in the unfinished manga adaptation of Persona 3, has been changed to Makoto Yuki for the movie adaptation. This doesn't really have much to do with the actual content of the movie, but I thought that it was an interesting move to change the previously established name.

2. Fuuka Yamagishi- The fact that Fuuka was billed as one of the main characters means that this movie will at least stretch to the second Full Moon Operation where Fuuka was rescued and introduced to the team. This in itself is interesting because from this pace, it can assumed that there will be around four movies, which is definitely exciting for Persona fans who want to see a faithful and well made adaption. This is a video game with tons of content, just in the main story without even mentioning all of the Social Link Events, so I think that they are making the right choice by stretching it out into more movies, likely one for each season of the year.  I would much rather wait longer for better content than to have it all released at once in a messy adaptation.

3. The New PV- Not much to say here except the animation looks good and exactly what I would expect from a movie. The look of the Dark Hour is appropriately dark and creepy, and Orpheus' appearance looks to have translated well to the movie. All in all, the production values seem good and this is a franchise that certainly deserves better treatment when it comes to adaptations.

The future certainly seems bright for the Persona franchise, with its successful releases of Persona 4: Golden and Persona 4: Arena lately. I am personally a huge fan of Persona 3 and 4, and I am definitely looking forward to watching and reviewing Persona 3: Spring of Birth this Fall!