Persona 4 Is Now a Stage Show

[The Wooster]

Persona 4 Is Now a Stage Show

The delightfully weird Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 is being adapted yet again. This time, into a stage show.

So, let's count the various Persona 4 tie ins, shall we? We've got a manga, an anime [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDrlqEbEEnA], a remake for the upcoming PlayStation Vita [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.318770-Persona-Magazine-Hits-Japan-Next-Month] and an absolutely, drop-dead-gorgeous fighting game. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/113250-Persona-Fighter-Spawns-An-Offensive-Trailer] Now we can add "bizarre live action stage show" to the list, with the announcement of Persona 4: Visualive.

The show, which of course stars a glut of gorgeous Japanese talent [http://www.maql.co.jp/special/vlp4/], opens at the Sunshine Theater in Tokyo next March. As in Persona 4, the story follows a bunch of smugly fashionable teenagers in a rural highschool, as they deal with the pressures of school life and try to avoid being murdered by a magical television, it get's weirder, and more utterly compelling, from there.

Persona 4 won't be the first video game to make the jump to the stage. Capcom's popular Phoenix Wright series was adapted into an all-female musical <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/86424-Its-A-Phoenix-Wright-Musical> back in 2008, which went on to be incredibly well received. It never received an official English release though, hopefully Persona 4 Visualive makes it across the pond.

Source: Kotaku [http://kotaku.com/5859170/persona-4-is-being-turned-into-a]

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[hazabaza1]

Where's Kanji? And why does it look like Adachi and Yosuke are played by women?
Japan, you confuse me.

 

[varulfic]

Where's Kanji? And why does it look like Adachi and Yosuke are played by women?
Japan, you confuse me.

I wonder what gender they'll cast Naoto.

 

[l3o2828]

Atlus, i appreciate that you take all your opportunities to actually become a famous and succesful company, developer and game publisher, but aren't you pushing it just a little bit?

 

[TheScottishFella]

Not really surprised to be honest.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Atlus, i appreciate that you take all your opportunities to actually become a famous and succesful company, developer and game publisher, but aren't you pushing it just a little bit?

I'm pretty sure Atlus just sold the rights to the stage play to somebody else, and they're making it. It happens all the time.

 

[Palademon]

I hope it goes national, it'll be hilarious to see it showing. Even though I'm not a huge fan, seeing it on would be the kind of thing that'd make me wish I had a partner to take with me to enjoy the weird adaptation of a cult game series.

 

[VincentX3]

They really messed up on the actors.
They look nothing like the in-game characters (at the moment)

Just...jeez..

 

[l3o2828]

So now we have Persona 4, the Persona 4 fighter that is coming out, the Persona 4 anime, and now a Persona 4 stage play. Like the article says - it is just a matter of time before it becomes a movie. After that: laser light show; air show; underwater show; soft drink; interactive fireplace logs; rad shoes; a limited edition P4 Nissan; a comic book crossover with Dr. Strange; an adapted novel; a straight-to-dvd sequel starring Bruce Campbell; a condom company; a sports drink; a fuel source.

I lol'ed. A lot.

Atlus, i appreciate that you take all your opportunities to actually become a famous and succesful company, developer and game publisher, but aren't you pushing it just a little bit?

I'm pretty sure Atlus just sold the rights to the stage play to somebody else, and they're making it. It happens all the time.

Yeah i guess...they better be working on the next Persona / SMT while this dummkopfs make the Musical...

 

[Aiden Raine]

just give us P5 already, damnit.....

 

[albinoterrorist]

So now we have Persona 4, the Persona 4 fighter that is coming out, the Persona 4 anime, and now a Persona 4 stage play. Like the article says - it is just a matter of time before it becomes a movie. After that: laser light show; air show; underwater show; soft drink; interactive fireplace logs; rad shoes; a limited edition P4 Nissan; a comic book crossover with Dr. Strange; an adapted novel; a straight-to-dvd sequel starring Bruce Campbell; a condom company; a sports drink; a fuel source.

Psshaw.
You're just paranoid...

Now help me with these schematics for the Persona 4 space-program.