#08 - We've lost something important again
#09 - No one sees the real me
#10 - Real Me Doesn't Exist
The next episodic installments of this 10 piece set. This the BluRay release for P4 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 and visceral impacts it has on us and those around us.
Contains the P4 Animation Blu-Ray #4 and a bonus audio CD: Rise Kujikawa's Special Theme [True Story] performed by: Rie Kugimiya. Both together in a paper digipacked case including raised art embossing, an info sleeve obi, plus inserts.
From the Persona 4 Animation website (translated by N:N):
Yu Narukami has moved from Metropolitan Tokyo to Inaba City where his uncle lives, due to family circumstances. Open streets, lonely shopping areas and large shopping malls where young people gather. .... Yasogami High School season starts anew in a rural town where time passes slowly.
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. The packaging marks the product as released by Aniplex Inc in 2011. This release does not appear to contain subtitles in any language. Null:Non-Grata is working on English Subtitles for this series, TBA ~ WIP.
Specs:
Running Time: 73 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.
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Synopsii (?) Warning: Possible spoilers follow:
Synopisis from Wikipedia for Episode #08,9,& 10
#8 -- We've lost something important again - Written by: Yūko Kakihara
- Original Airdate: 25-11-2011
"When the four enter back into the television world, Kanji is nowhere to be found. It is learned that Kanji made a bunny-shaped phone strap charm for a little boy, after the latter had previously lost one before. Yu borrows the charm to give to Teddie, who is able to track down the scent. Finding Kanji at the bathhouse seen on the Midnight Channel, who is struggling with his other self in a compromising position. Kanji rejects the fact of being gay, which then transforms his other self into an overly muscular Shadow, flanked by two equally muscular and flamboyant lesser Shadows. As it seems that the group is no match against Kanji's Shadow, Yu fuses two Personas into Yamata-no-Orochi, also accepting the bunny-shaped phonestrap charm that Kanji made as "cute". This encourages Kanji to punch his own Shadow, taking it out of the battle. Kanji retorts to his other self that he is not gay but rather afraid of being rejected by either sex, turning his other self into his Persona named Take-Mikazuchi. Several weeks later, Kanji joins up with the group to find out who pushed him in the television world in the first place. That night, Dojima asks Yu if he has been getting involved in anything, aware that Yu was at Tatsumi Textiles and worried that he is getting in over his head."
#9 -- No one sees the real me - Written by: Mitsutaka Hirota- Original Airdate: 2-12-2011
"Deciding to take a break from her career due to exhaustion, popular singer and idol Rise Kujikawa, decides to go to Inaba to help out at Marukyu Tofu, her grandmother's tofu shop. While she is shopping at Junes, she meets Yu, who found her cellphone after dropping it. The following night, Rise appears on the Midnight Channel wearing a swimsuit, and the group decides that they have to go to Marukyu Tofu to warn her of a potential kidnapping. They later manage to catch a stalker after Rise who claims to be just a fanboy, and Adachi arrests him to question him for the kidnappings. The next day, Yu learns that Rise has started classes at Yasogami High School, and he helps her evade paparazzi waiting for her outside the school. Her old agent goes to find her, revealing she has lost a movie role to her rival, which upsets her. When Yu attempts to console her, she believes Yu is no better than anyone else and runs off. That night, the Midnight Channel shows Rise as the host of a strip joint show, which a shocked Yu records. "
#10 -- Real Me Doesn't Exist - Written by: Mitsutaka Hirota
- Original Airdate: 9-12-2011
"Yu, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko and Kanji go into the television world in order to save Rise, finding her at the strip joint. As Rise is harassed by multiple other selves, she rejects them, turning her main other self into a large Shadow. The gang summons their Personas to battle the Shadow, but she uses her special scanning ability to detect the strengths and weaknesses of their Personas, dodging their attacks and severely harming them. As she prepares a final attack, a fired up Teddie rushes at the Shadow, who cannot detect what Teddie really is and thus, cannot effectively counterattack. Teddie defeats the Shadow, albeit flattening himself in the process, and Rise realizes that she does not have a "real identity", transforming her other self into her Persona named Himiko. However, this causes Teddie to have an existential crisis, bringing forth his other self which also turns into a Shadow, sucking Teddie's deflated body up and threatening to kill the others. As Teddie proclaims to his other self that he does not want the easy answers as to who he really is, Rise uses Himiko to detect the Shadow's weak spot, allowing Izanagi to defeat it, freeing Teddie who accepts his other self and receives his own Persona named Kintoki-Douji."