Status update; there's a bit more missing from the book than I initially thought. Noticeably absent is a multi page interview with Soejima which I would really like to read so if anybody has a translation please send it my way. Also gone are all the Battle UI things, and the occasional odd sketch is gone. If you care purely about having the art you might want to look into getting the Japanese version, but if you're more interested in Soejimas comments on the art probably get the english version.

"Characters with their hair up need a scene with her hair down." True words of wisdom.

"Futaba...huge weeb who loves aliens and lives off of junk food" Clearly the most grounded and realistic character out of the entire cast.

Haru - The child Atlus doesn't want talk about. It hurts me...

Yusuke's wearing the same shoes as the persona 3 protagonist.

"Devoid of all the protagonists grace" It that why Ryuji always fucking misses?

I'm disappointed, I thought this was going to be 45 minutes of seeing your small hands

I complettely guessed that Akechi was supposed to be a Nijima:the red eyes,the manners...at one point I thought it was gonna be a plot twist along with the true culprit thing

40:30 I think that's suppose to be an early sketch of Caroline and Justine. You have a more free style character with the white dress (plus she has Lavensa's butterfly hairpiece) and the more business type character giving it that duality. Also glad to see my donations went to more weeb stuff. Keep it up.

It's quite telling of Goro's true view of his "justice" that Robin Hood and his Prince attire more say "Look at me do good" rather than "I am a good person". If i'm not mistaken, the true reason he is a "Detective Prince" is to get admiration and love from others, a more "Look at me, i'm a good guy! Love me!" sort of image than someone like Naoto who is a Detective Prince due to her genuine desire to find the truth and be a good person. I like Akechi's true personality more myself due to how honest and raw it is; he's no longer "Prince of Justice" with a superhero-like Persona, he's more a "Dark Knight" with a Persona representing chaos and disorder, which is more fitting for him. I always loved that subtle detail about the contrast between Robin Hood and Loki: One represents not only what he pretends to be, but what he wants to be, while the other represents what he truly is. In the Thieves Den, he says that he doesn't like Loki being on display, which shows he's ashamed of it; A persona is a manifestation of someone's shadow turned into power, so the fact that Goro hates others seeing Loki shows that he is shameful of his true self. Sorry for going on so long, but i felt the need to share that.

My first time seeing yusuke in the intro I thought he was a pervy teacher and then I got, Kamoshida

Beta Iwai looks like Eraser Head from My Hero Academia

Also Kawakami officially being in her 30s is uh....interesting

Wait, Makoto has a hairband? it looks like her hair!

Also Haru originally being male was very interesting

Nah, fuck that. As soon as I saw Goro's nasty ass wet mop haircut I got Vietnam flashbacks to Adachi and instantly knew *evil was a foot!*

Fither, about the whole "Yusuke was initially going be from a previous game's highschool, look at his shoes": The Gekkoukan Highschool students have the same shoe type, at least the main cast, you can never really get a good look at the other students. I noticed while examining P3 Dancing's models and happened to recall what was said in this video. The main entrance in Gekkoukan even specializes in storing those types of dress shoes in an oriental fashion. Maybe the Bay Area isn't that far from Tokyo in-universe, or Kosei was really gonna be Gekkoukan at one point. However, I think everyone would've lost their shit if they saw a blue hair, bob-cut trimmed student in a Gekkoukan uniform approaching Ann, if you get what I'm saying.

I've really gotta wonder what a Persona game would be like of Soejima had free reign to do whatever he wanted with the art design. I feel like we'd have a pretty cracked out cast.

I really wanted a scene where Ann had her hair down too

Great video. i kinda like when you truly show an earnest love for the series but your ironic dising is also quite hilarious

The Japanese one isn't hard cover either

Fither: None of the Persona have skin Carmen: Am I a joke to you?

The cover of this artbook is my desktop wallpaper, which makes watching this video so hard without wondering "what is this huge thing on desktop?!". love this art to death, true comic book vibe while "steal" looking like persona (yeah, I should be ashamed of that pun).

$106 FOR A BOOK?! TOTALLY WORTH IT! *ryuji voice* FOR REAL!

10:15 carmen has exposed skin

This is great. I bought the Japanese version online a while back without knowing there was an English release, and looking at the art is good enough but hearing all this stuff is actually great, Thanks.

"Yusuke my boyfriend" NO HE'S MINE

6:57 no dude the mc was ment to be a trap

20:20 that top sketch of Futaba radiates the same energy as *{GASP} THE ENEMY!*

Personally I believe they avoid saying fictional female characters' weights because people with eating disorders obsess over weight numbers and such thin bodies, and seeing these already unrealistic females really messes with the mind of someone with an eating disorder i know its like "why specifically female?" and because its mostly females who are prone to developing one (sorry for bad english)

Joker with a scarf and top hat is the silliest and somehow coolest thing that I've ever seen, now I just feel cheated that we don't have gentleman thief Joker fight cowboy gunslinger Akechi.

Makoto looking like a Fist if the North Star character is now a thing in P5R which I find to be cool

Yeah...I think I've seen yusule's shoes in that one video where a guy walked up to the officer and pointed at his shoes (YUSUKE'S SHOES)and said "Officer? WHAT'RE THOOOOOOOSSSSE!"

scan harder

I wish we got some ult costumes using the concepts used in this book!

8:20 he looks like a looney tune imo 16:35 Don't fuck with me Fither, you know how much fanart I see with that drawn as her hair?! Unbelievable.

It’s so beautiful

nice that he said thicc when he was at Ann's pages

I always knew the Protag was really similar to the Phantom

Yusuke shirt symbol is actually a fleur de lie

from what i can tell 15:04 yusuke's shoes being a reference to a previous persona game is probably a reference to persona 1

I still think Kaneshiro is based on Cartman from South Park hahaha

In P5 Yusuke seems to be hated by the shadows of the Game and disliked because of his eccentricity by other people

it's been a year and i still can't belive that i got spoiled persona 4's true culprit plot twist because of this innocent video dammit youtube, why must you reccomend this

Awesome scans, thank you for sharing !

Thanks so much for this! Because of you I was finally able to decide which to get between the Japanese and English versions, and unsurprisingly I chose the former

the nazca lines are in perú!

33:50 her design reminds me of that nocturne character.

I think Soejima identifies with Yusuke

I need to buy this.

Catch these Fither hands

Just wanted to add in that Nazca lines are in Peru, in the Nazca desert, which is located in the Peruvian department of Ica (zones here are diveded in departments, something similar to states I guess)

But does the protagonist actually need glasses or what that's what I really want to know

I'd personally fund a persona 5 spinoff where the phantom thieves Rob banks in the real world

It looks like they were planning a female protagonist route in Persona 5, which similarly, Persona 3 had the same idea when the orignal game was in development, but unlike P3 where they were able to incorporated the idea for a future rerelease, the idea for P5 however never ended up seeing the light of day due to the final story and game being finalized with only the male protagonist in mind. So, when it came to the expanded rereleased, Persona 5 Royal, what was included instead is a brand new female character who is a new party member whom her appearance is taken a lot from Joker, mostly, her Phantom Thief form, and that is Kasumi Yoshizawa.

Fun fact: Shido in the English version of P5 is the English voice of Char.

I was lucky enough to get it for Christmas one year and was surprised to discover that the first 15 pages of the book were printed twice(!!) So it’s like I have an extra rare version of an already uncommon art book

wow... the pictures are amazing!! Thanks for sharing!!

I feel like that beta art of the garage could've been the concept for P5's Velvet Room cuz the figure behind the car kinda looks like a scribble of Igor.

I heard the Japanese version has a extra 100 pages so what did this version take out?

Omg Makoto’s braid in her hair is a headband !? Finally my question has bin answered on how she does it, because if it where real hair it would be impossible to get a braid like that

Hopefully in persona 6 he’ll actually make a scary mascot that I’ll like.

New persona fan thank you for the great content boy Caroline

yusuke's shoes,,, they're from persona 1,,, damn soejima...

This guy's voice is so good at talking about flaws and problems in things, seriously, hearing his voice talking about the failing attempts of showing us the book, so seriously, he should be a diplomat!

I think it's better that it's soft cover because it's easier for people who want to use it as references, then it will allow it to do it easier and stuff.

It would've been cool for them to release costumes based on the concept art as dlc

Dude, your commentary is gold.

I always suspected Yusuke to be the traitor.

29:32 DUDE! AKECHI LITERALLY HAS A PINOCCHIO NOSE! I JUST REALIZED!

The futaba concept with skull is what i like to the type of person I even know a person that is sort of like that

33:54 ngl the expression mainly reminds me of ms. ideal from P2:IS (mainly from her insane portrait) they're both adults who get in the main plot, sae being the prosecutor who helps joker and ms. ideal being one of the candidates for the ln lak'ech (which states that if a woman who's named maya, she'll be the factor of the world's end) and insists maya to be the candidate for the book

To me akechi's innitial costume looks like a theif in disguies as a guard to me

i literally thought adachi was not to be trusted specifically because he was an idiot.... they dont make idiots detectives so i always thought he was hiding something. i remember thinking to myself "this guys silly smile is going to turn into an evil smirk i bet" and when it did i was so hype that i called it, i still accidentally got the bad ending though..... but i literally did not see akechi being a traitor ... i knew adachi was not to be trusted but for some reason couldn't tell akechi was the black mask lol. I also based my judment of adachi on duffy from scary movie 1 lmaoo, its always the guys that want you to THINK their dumb, at least thats how i saw it....

I fuckin knew the Crow mask was suppose to be a plague Doctor

I always wanted that

BTW, who's totally stoked for the Persona 5 digital Ultimate Edition ... for $115!!!!!!??????

14:02 all I can hear is yusuke saying you sicken me

Very cool video. I was playing Persona 3 while it was going on.

40:50 the right one looks like the p5s cover

25:47 Bold and Brash Makoto!

When you said that akechi mask was inspired by plague doctors I was spazzing the fuck out because if i was a phantom thief I would also want a Black Plague doctor mask and I also love akechi as a character

god i fucking love that background image!!! it reminds of me of GTA

Anybody else notice that Robin Hood shares the toy color scheme that the mascot characters have

Perhaps the sketch with the garage and map are something made for the original draft of the script, witch i believe was the MC traveling the world, or so i read in An article.

this was fun to watch haha

the patch on yuskes shirt just made me think quebec

15:03 so he wanted to implement that he's creepy by designing a specific pair of shoes, I honestly don't know what Soejima was drinking while designing these characters.. But I want it!

I'm so mad that there was never any offical art or even concept art for Satanael in the book seriously Altus come on!

I actually prefer Morgana's original design. Idk why but it just looks a lot nicer

13:37, These black clothes are from the Shadow Ops dlc i think.

Goro Akechi nearly killed you in game twice "goro is best buddy"

thanks for making me look up teddie concept art now I’m horrified

The nazca lines are drawings of the gods of nascar.

The idea of persona’s not showing skin is very much a consistent patern (not including the wildcards) throughout the series… until we get to Ann

my class got cancelled so I'm here to get educated

Shitty Soejima drawings is my new favorite thing

Ah there's the voice I love. You Da man FITH

This was fun just to listen.

Who designed makoto yuki if soejima hadn’t had much experience drawing sexy male characters