#atlusxp5

This is a follow-up to yesterday's post.

I have continued speaking with the person, and I believe I can now fully confirm their identity as AtlusxP5.

This person will no longer remain nameless. As they have decided to come forward, I'll share their identity.

Sunsutōn has been working hard on continuing Persona 5: Imagining Project as PERSONA / RE-IMAGINING PROJECT.

Please, follow them and show support.

This blog will continue to document Sunsutōn and Persona / Re-Imagining Project.

Sorry it took a bit to respond (was away on vacay). Funny you should say that, I recently looked at their channel to see if they've updated since their last teaser from 4 years ago TT0TT (spoiler: they have not)

What I know about it (from memory). Prior to P5 ever having a speck of actual confirmation on the internet, someone decided to make a fan P5 project called "Persona 5 Imagining Project/P5IP" and it was "by" AtlusxP5 (link to channel). They posted some cool songs (that aren't original, they are copyrighted, but still awesome), some character sheets (possibly on twitter? I don't know much about that side, sadly it's defunct ;w;), and trailers, and people analyzed it on the now defunct Atlus Forums/Threads

I think Atlus struck them down (or they had to priv their videos at least for a good while, and their twitter's gone so....who knows what happened tbh) and.....well.....we don't know what's up anymore. TT0TT

Thankfully, a lot was saved/salvaged by the lovely trifectamix, who has all the songs iirc as well as pics of the char sheets and threads. I highly recommend them! They did a great job preserving an amazing period piece of Persona fandom!

If you wish you had more of a fix....well good news, another fan creator (Assinine Syndrome) wanted to continue the saga. Or at least, write a fanfic-type posts about what they think would've happened. Most of the writing are in the video descriptions iirc. But they follow a similar format of existing songs (and remixing/mashing them up), and I recommend them! They finished their version of P5IP and have gone onto their own fan music list of P6 VERGS (and seem to have a P7 concept in the works).

Here's Assinine Syndrome's channel (where the meat of it all is), and here's their fanfic page, they only did like a prologue chapter to P5IP/P6V but it might still be notable to read if you're interested.

「 development talk 」 The Persona 5 Imagining Project was never a sequel following Persona 4 It was actually a direct sequel to Persona 2: Eternal Punishment

「 development talk 」 The blue butterfly was always the puppet master It was all a false illusion from the beginning, just like this image

「 development talk 」 Lady Nyarlathotep was actually Yidhra, the Dream Witch / Mother Goddess of Earth, directly above Nyarlathotep & Philemon in power After winning a bet against Philemon, she now controls the current timeline universe of the 5th iteration - The real Persona 5

「 development talk 」 The 'Joker' was a creation by Yidhra, to mock Nyarlathotep's version of the Joker from Persona 2: Innocent Sin He was always a villain from the beginning After the events of Persona 5: Imagining Project, he was given a new identity . . .

「 development talk 」 PERSONA / RE-IMAGINING PROJECT is to highlight this specific quote from Katsura Hashino Persona 5 Imagining Project only exists by humanities imagination This project is dedicated to the fans who helped created it A meta view into both Persona and SMT

「 development talk 」 The 'Hello' video published on ATLUSxP5 was to confirm to fans the roots of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment and mainline SMT The original 2013 script for P5:IP references forgotten past titles such as Last Bible and Digital Devil Story

This is not a “goodbye I’m leaving post”, I’m just feeling sentimental. Before I go all mushy, a brief update on this blog and AtlusxP5.

With this year coming crawling to an end, there has been no sign of AtlusxP5, despite that in their “goodbye” video, in the end you could a faint text reading 2018. Unless they drop something in the last minute, it seems as if their plans for this year has fallen through.

I haven’t updated in a year as well, and I apologize for that. I have a few messages in my inbox, all of them are asking if anyone knows the title of certain songs. I wish I could help but I just don’t have any energy, I feel as if I have exhausted my ways of finding the original songs and publishing asks with just a “does anyone know?” makes me feel guilty. Maybe one day I’ll regain my energy to continue searching but right now I just can’t.

Out of curiousity—and to distract myself up from my own failures—I checked my followers and believe it or not, this blog has 345 followers. I don’t know how many of them are active or if half of them are just spam bots, but seeing that number made me so incredibly happy. I created this blog for myself because I was (and still am) really into this project. Other people had an interest in this as well, but when the Atlus forums went down there was no place for discussion. Without the thread and the people contributing to it it felt as if I was the only one who cared about P5IP anymore.

But then I started gaining followers, people messaged me and helped contribute to finding the real titles of songs and such. Even now that Persona 5 has been out for more than two years I still get followers every now and then. P5IP is very dear to me, and knowing other people still think about it warms my heart.

Thank you all so much!

Because of the inconsistencies with the art and quality I believe most (if not all) of the art used in early P5:IP are taken from other series. The pictures are then edited to look more like the characters of P5:IP.

If anyone is able to figure out the source for the art, please message me. I’m not talking about just these specific pictures, I’m just showin them as examples.

If you are able to submit the original pictures, it would be much appreciated.