I had no idea what to expect when I picked this episode up. I’d only played maybe thirty seconds of any of the Persona games… (I had ROMS and they were fubar…)
So we start off with a redheaded girl in some water… who then points at the sun… Okay whatever then theopera starts playing and I’m really thinking this show’s either going to suck or be really really strange. We then see some boats and a wierd mecha lifting thing that picked up a sub… that’s empty. It’s not supposed to be and recently someone was in it but they’re gone now. No idea what the significance of the sub is though. Maybe just to introduce us to Ryou, the chief of some form of police station. They talk about a ‘Reversal’ that happened a while back and s apparently, people getting turned inside out. Always high school students apparently, and always people off a specific list. Somewhere in there we meet two other people. Jun and Shin, they’re Ryou’s siblings though we don’t know that until a little while later. So they have this mostly meaningless little escapade around town because they were moving in with their brother. But the door’s locked and there’s a security thing they’d need to disarm… Ryou, in the meantime, visits a morgue, sees an inside out person, pops some pills and goes to a crime scene where there was another inside out person. Which leaves only one person on the list… so he runs over there while Jun and Shin have some dinner and Shin doodles on the suggestion card…
Then we see some thuggish looking guy straddling some chick and mentioning how he’ll be gentle… You expect him to whip something out, and he does… except that it’s a giant robot looking thing… Which tries to eat some female looking ghost thing it pulls out of the girl… Ryou show’s up and points at him for a while… and shoots laser beams… Or his ghosty robot thing does. Struggle ensues and they jump off the side of the building and he gets thug guys ghost mech thing in the shoulder. Which makes the other guy freak out and start holding his head. Putting two and two together with what happens we figure out he’s been eating peoples ghost mechs and somehow that makes them turn inside out. I have no idea what the hells going on okay… So all well and good Ryou goes home and wakes Jun and Shin up and, oh did I mention Jun had a twin sister who’s name I forget she’s not around any more but well it screwed Jun up enough that he hold conversations with her… except he does all the talking… He also has one of her dresses but it’s too small for him, fromt he look of it, so there’s not going to be any Black Lagoon type things going on… Although Jun and his sister do bear a bit of resemblance to those two…
Anyway Shun decides to go outside to track down something he saw in a dream and he runs across thug guy freaking out in a building, with a container full of the same pills Ryou was seen taking earlier. So the thug guys ghost thing is freaking out and tries to do whatever it was doing to that girl earlier… to Shun. Who is saved by a sword that pops out of his stomach… apparently he has one of these ghosty things, which my research now tells me are actually called Persona… his is actually pretty cool looking. Still very mecha like but this one has a sword, I like swords. So it cuts the other guys in half and he stops freaking out and sounds very annoyed that the things gone. I really have no idea…. the episode ended there. The OP was okay… and the ED had some weird artwork but I don’t recall if the tune was any good. Through the show there was some background music I liked, particularly the song as Ryou goes driving off to rescue the chick on the list just before the eyecatch… It was nice kind of heavy metal but it kind of didn’t fit the fact that all that was happening was driving… Now if that had been the fight tune when the sword Persona took out the thug dudes then heck yeah. Still a good song though.
I’ve read some things over on MAL and someone compared this to Ergo Proxy… only diff being the fact that in Ergo Proxy Vincent (the main male character) actually transformed into Ergo Proxy… In Persona they don’t really transform. It’s a decent show so far, dark, violent… giant robot like things… There’s another episode out but I don’t have it yet.
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