#22 - We Can Change the World
#23 - The True Ending episode
The last episodic installments of this 10 piece set, the BluRay release for Persona 4 the Animation. We get introduced to the cast & characters, the story world and mystery of both sides of the paranormal. The cognitive world + visceral impacts it has on us and those around us.
Contains the P4 Animation Blu-Ray #10 and a bonus BluRay: Persona4 the Factor of Hope (Theatrical cut of P4A)'. Both discs together in a paper digipacked case including raised art embossing, informative cover Obi slip plus inserts.
Initially shown in 2012 on Japanese TV at midnite and hosted by the voice actors, these episodes were subsequently released on both DVD and BluRay. Null:Non-Grata is working on English Subtitles for this series, TBA.
Specs:
Running Time: Disc One: 57 Minutes - Disc Two: 86 Minutes, Colour,
Video - MPEG-4 AVC, 1080p, 16:9 resolution,
Audio - PCM Stereo 48khz/24bit
Cast and Staff follow:
Cast: Yu Narukami - Daisuke Namikawa, Yosuke Hanamura - Shotaro Morikuba, Chie Satonaka - Yui Horie, Yukiko Amagi - Ami Koshimizu, Kuma - Kappei Yamaguchi, Ryotaro Dojima - Unsho Ishizuka, Nanako Dojima - Akemi Kanda, Toru Adachi - Mitsuaki, Maragaret - Nakayu
Staff: Persona Design Concept - Kazuma Kaneko, Character Draft - Shigenori Soejima, A.D. - Takehiko Matsumoto, Series Composition - Yūko Kakihara, Writer - Mitsutaka Hirota, Writer - Jun Kumagai, Character Design - Kazuhi Morita, Creature Design - Akiyasu Ma, Prop Design - Shinobu Tsuneki, Animation Director - Kiyotaka Nakahara, Animation Director - Yoichi Ueda, Art Director - Shinji Nagaoka & Ayumu Miyakoshi, Colour Design - Sa Goda, 3D Director - Tetsuya Watanabe, Composite Director - Hideki Imaizumi & Takai Yasuko, Editing - Kiii*. Music - Masahi Meguro, Acousitic Director Satoki, Director Makoto Kishi.
Synopsii (?) Warning: Possible spoilers follow:
Synopisis from Wikipedia for Episode #22,23 & 24
#25 -- We Can Change the World - Written by: Yūko Kakihara
- Original Airdate: 30-03-2012
"As he effortlessly attacks the team, Adachi says that the television and real worlds will soon combine, as seen by a dark matter gradually descending to the ground. Once all of humanity becomes Shadows, they will have no emotions and will act only on raw instinct. The group takes out the Reapers one by one, while also expressing their distaste in Adachi's plans. As Adachi makes his last stand against Yu, he takes him out, destroying his Persona. Realizing his defeat, Adachi decides to shoot himself, but the dark matter in the sky picks him up and says that it will rule over the new world. The dark matter calls himself Ameno-sagiri, a being that controls the fog that covers both worlds and has been awoken by human desires as it attacks them. Ameno-sagiri is merging the worlds so that the humans will no longer differentiate between reality and fantasy. In fact, the team's ability to face their Shadows in order to obtain Personas has only been a means for its plan to proceed, as the television world only shows what people want to see and hear. Ameno-sagiri raises Yu up to test whether or not his bonds are strong and genuine, and extract them from his body. As all of his friends call out to him, each of their Personas miraculously evolve into more powerful Personas. With the powers of Yosuke's Susano-o, Chie's Suzuka Gongen, Yukiko's Amaterasu, Kanji's Take-Jizaiten, Teddie's Kamui, Rise's Kanzeon, and Naoto's Yamato-Takeru combined, Yu summons the Persona named Lucifer to finish off Ameno-sagiri, who before disappearing, realizes that the group has proven beyond the capabilities of human desires. The group finds Adachi and takes him with them to have him pay for his crimes. In the real world, Nanako wakes up, telling Dojima that she had a dream that Yu and his friends saved everyone. On Christmas Day, everyone celebrates Nanako's full recovery at Dojima's house. Three months later, Yu is later seen off by everyone else on his trip back to Tokyo, and after a heartfelt goodbye, Yu boards the train and heads home."
#23 -- True Ending _ No One is Alone - Written by: Jun Kumagai- Original Airdate: 22-08-2012
" On March 20, 2012, Yu and his friends celebrate before his return to Tokyo. However, he strangely seems to be reliving the same day over again on the next day. He receives a letter from Adachi in prison, who ponders about the source of the rumors about the Midnight Channel. Yu attempts to trace his memories back to his first arrival in Inaba, only to relive the same day yet again. He figures out, thanks to Nanako, that he shook hands with a gas station attendant before heading to Dojima's house. Going to the gas station, the attendant, revealed to be the goddess Izanami, reveals that she gave Yu the power to enter the television world by shaking hands, also being the case with Adachi and Namatame. Izanami explains that the Midnight Channel is a "window" meant to accommodate people's desires to both reveal their true selves and uncover the secret lives of others. The real truth that Yu has been suppressing is that the team is confronting her right now, but all his friends have been swallowed up. Yu denies what he sees, choosing to repeat the same day over again, until Margaret appears to literally slap him out of his trance, bringing him into a fight against her where she summons the Persona named Helel to attack him. Before he is hit, however, he is protected by the bonds of all of his friends and acquaintances, and the Personas they represent defend him against Margaret's attacks, as their voices thank him and urge him forward. As the battle climaxes, his Shadow appears as a mountain of television sets, showing his suppressed fear of moving away and losing his friends. Yu admits to his feelings and accepts his Shadow, which returns to being Izanagi, who deals the final blow against Helel. In the aftermath, Margaret tells Yu that regardless of winning or losing, he will never be alone again, and returns the Orb of Sight to him. Yu is returned to the battlefield, where the Orb of Sight has revealed the goddess's grotesque true form, Izanami-no-Okami. Yu resists her onslaught of attacks, proclaiming that he is far from alone in this world. He then unveils the World Arcana, the embodiment of all of the bonds he has made, and summons the newly ascended Izanagi-no-Okami, who obliterates the goddess. Izanami begins to disintegrate while commending Yu's efforts, saying that the path of the future now rests on mankind's shoulders. Yu then wakes up to find his friends safe and the television world restored to the paradise it originally was, while the voice of Igor congratulates their obtainment of a "new world". The next day, Yu prepares to leave Inaba as everyone else sees him off. After he boards the train, everyone begins to jog after him, shouting their goodbyes and pleas for his return someday. Yu, choking back tears, swears that he will never ever forget them. After the credits, Teddie explains his belief that the bonds they have all formed will never disappear, while on the train Yu looks at a photo of himself, his family, and friends all together."