Persona: Trinity Soul
Persona: Trinity Soul is a Japanese anime television series. It is a spin-off of the Persona video game series, taking place ten years after Persona 3's events.
Produced by Aniplex and animated by its subsidiary A-1 Pictures, the series aired in Japan on Tokyo MX from January 5 to June 28, 2008. It also features music by Taku Iwasaki. In February 2010, NIS America announced it would broadcast the series in North America with the original Japanese dub.
According to the official Persona 3 Portable fanbook, Trinity Soul is considered to be an alternative entry in the series.
Story
Persona: Trinity Soul takes place in 2020, approximately ten years after the end of Persona 3. It is set in Ayanagi City, a city located near the Sea of Japan, where the police force is investigating several "Reverse" cases, wherein the victims are turned inside-out. Ten years ago, Ayanagi City had been subjected to a sudden outbreak of Apathy Syndrome, which the city has since recovered from.In the midst of the crisis, two brothers named Shin and Jun Kanzato move back to Ayanagi to see their elder brother Ryō, who is now the Superintendent of the Ayanagi City Police. It has been ten years since the three siblings last met with each other.
It was said that the mysterious incidents in Ayanagi City were linked to covert testing conducted under Keisuke Komatsubura's watch, which tried to locate all known Persona users and find the strongest by weeding them out via Persona experiments before it was disbanded.
Characters
Kanzato family
;Shin Kanzato;Ryō Kanzato
;Jun Kanzato
;Yuki Kanzato
;Haruka Kanzato
;Shigeru Kanzato
Naginomori Gakuen
;Takurō Sakakiba;Megumi Kayano
;Kanaru Morimoto
;Yumi Tasaka
;Tōru Inui
;Mayuri Yamasaki
Ayanagi Police
;Eiko Nikaido;Kunio Itō
;Tomohiro Narasaki
;Kubo
Outsiders
A group of Persona-users who seem to use their special abilities to steal other people's Personas. The group is called "Marebito" in Japanese and carries the meaning of a "foreign stranger" and "outsider.";Tōma Shikura
;Yūji Kimoto
;Sōtarō Senō
;Saki Tachibana
;Taiichi Udo
;Wakasa Kusu
;Shiiba Kusu
;Mariya Kujou
Returning characters
;Akihiko Sanada;Igor
Unknown characters
;'''Ayane Komatsubara'''Production
A promo video had been on the show's official website, created by A-1 Pictures.Atsushi Matsumoto, known for his involvement in Blood+, was pitched to be director. Shigenori Soejima designed the original characters for Yuriko Ishii. Yasayuki Mutō was responsible for doing the script with Shinsuke Ōnishi, Shōgo Yasukawa and Saya Matsuda. The script was done by Yasayuki Mutō.
According to a statement released by Yutaka Omatsu, he said the show is different from the Persona 3 game as the "divergence are the many different aspects that the characters and story share."
The first opening theme song to the series is "Breakin' Through", performed by Shūhei Kita, as winner of the Animax Anison Grand Prix, while the first ending theme song was "Suicides Love Story", performed by Nana Kitade. The second opening theme and ending theme songs, from episode 14 onwards, were "Word of the Voice", performed by Flow, and "Found Me", by Yumi Kawamura, respectively.
Trinity Soul's soundtrack was composed by Taku Iwasaki.
The anime was made available in Japan via streaming services including Amazon Prime Video, Bandai Channel, Hulu, ABEMA, FOD, U-NEXT and d Anime Store.