Okay being serious now, I'm trying to wrap my head around whether there's any hope for a live action persona 5 because it's Netflix and the producer is the godawful Stranger Things guy, so it feels like this thing is dead in the water to begin with.
Because when you think about what makes P5 work, a lot of it IS the gameplay. The calendar system, choosing which characters you invest time in, exploring every nook and cranny in the many locations... these are all integral to how you get attached to characters and places. P5 is literally stereotyped for having the best 'gameplay' in the trilogy, but now they're gonna take that away? And then there's the style of the game, which I'd argue is the game's strongest suit apart from its music, and that is 100% going to be lost in the live action. Can you even imagine what CGI metaverse Mona is going to look like? He's cute as an anime cat model, but that thing is going to look hideous in live action.
So what are you left with? The PLOT? You want to adapt the persona 5 PLOT written by Atlus Co Ltd? The most common criticisms of P5 are that the social commentary is flimsy (true), the story is straightforward and often thin (true), character development is limited to the arc they're introduced in and beyond that they stay exactly the same (mostly true), the antagonists are one-dimensional (mostly true with 2 exceptions). P5 is not exactly known for having the narrative substance that you can make 1-hour episodes about. Is the live action adaptation going to include 3 back-to-back flashbacks of Sae telling Makoto "you're useless to me" in the span of 10 minutes because the writers don't know how else to convey her insecurities before she runs off and gets caught by the world's most inept mafia boss? That's the Persona 5 plot for you.
And yet, despite all these problems, P5 still works as a video game because it's a video game. It has all the aforementioned elements that made it work (gameplay, music, style, time invested, etc.). It's not going to work as a TV show. I'd wager there's a reason the P5 anime is so widely dislikedβit's not just because the animation is bad, but because the story just doesn't hold up on its own, at least not in a traditional episodic format.
P5 needs to be a game, it needs to be Japanese, and it needs to have the anime style.
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