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PERSONA 4 the Animation

2011–2012 · 1 season

A cozy small-town school life wrapped around a creepy murder mystery, mixing breezy hangout warmth with eerie TV-world dread.

Created by: Mitsuhiro Karato, Koji Yoshikawa
Genres: Animation, Sci-fi & fantasy, Action & adventure
Starring: Daisuke Namikawa, Showtaro Morikubo, Yui Horie

Tagline: The truth lies on the other side of the screen!
Overview: When Yu Narukami moves to the rural country town of Inaba to live with his uncle while his parents are away on business, he's expecting a lot more peace and quiet than he's been used to in the big city. Instead, the peace has been shattered as a rash of mysterious murders and kidnappings sweep the countryside. With the police stymied, Yu finds himself joining with a group of seven other teenagers in a desperate bid to solve the mystery. A mystery that is somehow connected to both the local weather patterns and a strange TV world which Yu, his friends and the enigmatic killer can all enter.

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Created by: Mitsuhiro Karato, Koji Yoshikawa
Genres: Animation, Sci-fi & fantasy, Action & adventure
Starring: Daisuke Namikawa, Showtaro Morikubo, Yui Horie

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: friendship
mystery
identity
isolation
coming-of-age
Places: small town
school
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	4
Humour	5
Realism	4
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: animation, sci-fi & fantasy, action & adventure, mystery, crime
Created by: Mitsuhiro Karato, Koji Yoshikawa, Takehiko Matsumoto
Written by: Jun Kumagai, Mitsutaka Hirota, Yuko Kakihara
Starring: Daisuke Namikawa, Showtaro Morikubo, Yui Horie, Ami Koshimizu, Tomokazu Seki, Rie Kugimiya, Kappei Yamaguchi, Romi Park
Music: Shoji Meguro
Length: 1 seasons, 25 episodes, 25 min each
Network: MBS
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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