History Trivia / Persona5

** ''Royal'' came out in Japan on Halloween 2019, which could be seen as tying in with the motifs of masks, costumes, and monster summoning. Its 2022 MultiPlatform launch on PC, Xbox, and Platform/NintendoSwitch also came out in October. The International release was on March 31st, or just before April [[TarotMotifs Fool's]] Day.

*** Yusuke is voiced by Creator/MatthewMercer, who voiced Kanji in the second half of ''Persona 4: The Animation'' and in ''Persona 4 Arena Ultimax''.
*** Morgana is voiced by Creator/CassandraLeeMorris, who also voiced Aika in ''Persona 4: The Animation''.
*** Kawakami is voiced by Creator/MichelleRuff, who voiced Yukari in ''Persona 3''. She also reprised the latter role in ''Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight''.

*** Wakaba is voiced by Creator/ErinFitzgerald, who voiced Chie in ''Persona 4 Golden''.

* NoPortForYou: The Steam and other console ports of ''Royal'', despite being advertised to feature all DownloadableContent as in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 version, are missing the ''Raidou'' costumes and music, as discovered by dataminers of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version that happened to be shipped early. Also a case of OlderThanYouThink, since said contents are already not listed in the official DLC list for the ports but it took until October 2022 for the mainstream to actually realize this. Presumably, this is done for sensitivity reasons towards [[BannedInChina China and Korea]], considering the Imperial Japan imagery in said games, but considering how according to fans China does not mind it and the fact that ''VideoGame/SoulHackers2'' earlier also has ''Raidou'' costumes, the real reason is unknown. Of course, it only took a few hours for [[GameMod a mod to add the content back in for PC]].

* SwanSong: Released over a decade after the console's launch and almost 6 months after the console was discontinued in North America, the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 version is considered this for western players, as it was the final big title to release for the system. Most players agree that it was an amazing way to go out.

* CastingGag:
** A retroactive one, given how ''Royal'' is an UpdatedRerelease. When the Phantom Thieves first meet Jose in ''Royal'', the boy initially mistakes Morgana for a tanuki before correcting it to "cat". Morgana angrily responds that he's not a tanuki, and then adds that [[RunningGag he isn't a cat]], either. Creator/IkueOtani has some experience with a very similar gag in [[Manga/OnePiece another series]].
** The fact that Creator/ShuichiIkeda, best known as AcePilot [[Franchise/{{Gundam}} Char Aznable]], was casted as the definitely CorruptPolitician Masayoshi Shido; it could be an inherent gag to cast another 70's voice actor to voice his {{Foil}} for politicians, the more genuinely decent (but not after a fall from grace) Toranosuke Yoshida, the voice actor being Creator/KeiichiNoda, who's best known as AcePilot [[Anime/GreatMazinger Tetsuya Tsurugi]]. Both of them (Char and Tetsuya) has either worked together or clashed against each other when [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars their series cross over (a lot of times).]] Their roles also reflect the genre of the shows that raised their names: Creator/ShuichiIkeda's roles reflect the darker, negative side of mankind more often found in the RealRobotGenre, while Creator/KeiichiNoda's roles reflect the lighter, positive side of mankind often found in the SuperRobotGenre.
** Creator/BrycePapenbrook voices human Morgana in the English dub of Royal, marking his second time voicing [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug a black-costumed hero with a cat-like appearance who is romantically interested in his red-costumed teammate.]]
** Tae Takemi's original voice actress Kirsten Potter [[VideoGame/TraumaCenter had previously voiced]] another [[HospitalHottie sexy doctor]] with a DarkAndTroubledPast who had death-themed motifs. Helps that both games were developed by Atlus.

* DarkhorseCasting: While the English dub features established voice actors like Creator/CassandraLeeMorris, Creator/MatthewMercer, Creator/CheramiLeigh and (in ''Royal'') Creator/LauraPost, the rest of the main cast was relatively new and/or unknown at the time.

** ''Royal'' came out in Japan on Halloween 2019, which could be seen as tying in with the motifs of masks, costumes, and monster summoning. Its 2022 MultiPlatform launch on PC, Xbox, and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch also came out in October. The International release was on March 31st, or just before April [[TarotMotifs Fool's]] Day.

** Just like [[VideoGame/Persona4 the previous game]] [[spoiler:the TrueFinalBoss is a godlike entity who granted the protagonist and his {{Foil}} their Persona abilities as a part of a test of humanity. That said, rather than being disguised as a forgettable NPC, said god disguises themself as series BigGood ''Igor''.]]

** In a way, one of the endings to the Third Semester plays into this; [[spoiler: should Joker accept Maruki's deal to maintain the false reality, the ending has Sojiro ask Joker if he'd like to continuing living with him for to finish his third year with his friends, and maybe take over Leblanc in the future. This has been popular FanficFuel for the fandom since the original game's release, and Atlus decided to invoke it here with the Stay Ending. Though in context, it's clearly meant to not be a good thing ultimately.]]

** While it is presumed Igor is voiced by Masane Tsukayama due to Isamu Tanonaka's fatal heart attack in 2010, [[spoiler: this is actually due to a ''plot point'', foreshadowing the Igor we see for most of the game is an imposter. The few lines the real Igor has after being freed from his own imprisonment near the endgame are archived recordings of Tanonaka.]]

** Creator/SoichiroHoshi as Goro Akechi. Looking at his track record of voicing either a youthful young boy, either pacifistic ([[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Kira Yamato]] or [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Kilik]]) or overly HotBlooded, but for the most part ''good-hearted guys''... Goro might look like it's just another work in a day for him... [[spoiler: until he's revealed as a ''big'' traitor and not a good person. ''At all''. Jesus Yamato is now Satan Yamato...]]
*** Same applies to Akechi's English voice, Creator/RobbieDaymond as well. He's known for voicing eccentric, but good-hearted protagonists such as [[VideoGame/TalesOfZestiria Sorey]], [[Manga/SailorMoon Tuxedo Mask]], [[VideoGame/LordOfMagnaMaidenHeaven Luchs Eduard]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXV Prompto]]. [[spoiler: Akechi really turns that on its head...]]

** [[RewatchBonus When given a closer look]], it's not that hard to believe that the passing of Isamu Tanonaka in 2010 may have played a hand with [[spoiler: TheReveal that Igor had spent the majority of the game replaced by an impostor instead of simply given a new actor.]]

* RecycledScript: Just like [[VideoGame/Persona4 the previous game]] [[spoiler:the TrueFinalBoss is a godlike entity who granted the protagonist and his {{Foil}} their Persona abilities as a part of a test of humanity. That said, rather than being disguised as a forgettable NPC, said god disguises themself as series BigGood ''Igor''.]]
** On a related note, the final dungeon's plot takes some cues from ''VideoGame/Persona2'' as well. [[spoiler:A benevolent and malevolent god have a "game" going between them as to whether humanity is worth saving, and the malevolent one is rigging it in his favor. This sums up Philemon and Nyarlanthotep in ''2'', and Igor and Yaldabaoth is this game.]]

** On the 25th of March 2020 Australian games retailer EB Games released ''Royal'' about six days ahead of the intended release date. While it is not currently known why this happened, common believe is that with the Australian Governments attempts to crack down on the COVID-19 pandemic forcing non-essential buisnesses and stores to close the next day, it's possible that they were trying to get the copies they had out before serious actions had to be taken.

** While it is presumed Igor is voiced by Masane Tsukayama due to Isamu Tanonaka's fatal heart attack in 2010, [[spoiler: this is actually due to a ''plot point'', foreshadowing the Igor we see for most of the game is an imposter, while Tanonaka actually reprised his role as ''the real Igor'', for the few lines the character had after being freed from his own imprisonment near the endgame.]]

** As noted in ShipperOnSet above, Creator/ErikaHarlacher, Ann's English voice actor, supports shipping Ann with Ryuji.

** Creator/ErikaHarlacher, Ann's English voice actor, supports shipping Ann with Ryuji.

* IKnewIt:
** There was speculation that Ann would be Caucasian, as "Takamaki" is both a Japanese and Finnish surname and thanks to the complicated Kanji in her name, no one really knew if her name was [[SpellMyNameWithAnS "Anne" or "Anzu"]]. Add to this her [[PhenotypeStereotype blue eyes and blonde hair]], which, in a series where blue, red, purple and silver are both natural hair and eye colors, have been reserved for foreigners, such as [[VideoGame/Persona2 Lisa]] (American) and [[VideoGame/Persona3 Bebe]] (French). A profile released shortly after the third trailer revealed one of her grandparent was American, making her [[ButNotTooWhite ¼ Caucasian]]. While it's not clear if she has any Finnish ancestry (although the game reveals she did live in Finland for a time), she ''is'' partly Caucasian as speculated.
** After the fourth trailer revealed her character, many guessed that Futaba was a {{Hikikomori}}, based on her computer expertise and her name being a ShoutOut to [[{{Imageboards}} 2Channel]]. This was confirmed by Famitsu a week later.
** Many fans guessed that the boy seen on a plane in the fourth PV with the Protagonist and Ryuji would be a Confidant. This was confirmed in the July stream as Yuki Mishima, the Moon Arcana.
** Virtually every fan correctly picked The High Priestess as Makoto's Arcana. Ditto for Akechi being Justice.
** Many, many fans correctly called Sae being Makoto's older sister. Granted everyone knew they were related thanks to sharing a last name and the only other possible relation was Sae being her mother.
** Practically ''everyone'' predicted that [[spoiler:Akechi sold the protagonist out during the Niijima's Palace heist]].
** Several predicted that [[spoiler:the molester the protagonist stops in the prologue]] would be the BigBad.
** As soon as the theme for this game's Personas were revealed to be famous literary characters who reflected the thief motif of the Main Characters, everyone immediately predicted one character would have Myth/RobinHood as a Persona. It took a while to be confirmed, but it was eventually revealed to be Akechi's Persona. [[spoiler:Funny enough, the guy who owns the most recognizable Persona (or rather, his namesake) is the SixthRangerTraitor.]]
** A common theory regarding ''Royal'' was that [[spoiler:the events of the third term would involve a LotusEaterMachine scenario]]. And as it turned out, people were right.
** Many people predicted that Goro Akechi would have an expanded role in ''Persona 5 Royal'' due to his popularity [[spoiler:and his apparent HeroicSacrifice in the vanilla game being regarded as poorly written, with many having expecting him to receive a [[RedemptionQuest redemption arc]] instead.]] This theory would be partially confirmed by the [=E3=] trailer for the game [[spoiler:which shows a scene of Haru in the Mona bus with the knee of Akechi's Black Mask form partially visible behind her]] and was later fully confirmed during an August livestream for the game.
** People had long predicted that the game would be coming for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch before the official announcement was made.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[RewatchBonus When given a closer look]], it's not that hard to believe that the passing of Isamu Tanonaka in 2010 may have played a hand with [[spoiler: TheReveal that Igor had spent the majority of the game replaced by an impostor instead of simply given a new actor.]]

[[WhatCouldHaveBeen/Persona5 What Could Have Been]]

** The sixth Palace boss' roulette phase has the Phys and Gun variants of the "Punishment" skills, but they are never called by the boss' AI despite the two skills being functional.

** For unknown reasons, the game will not recognise if you've already obtained Bugs upon [[spoiler:encountering one in Maruki's palace]], even if you have one in your party, and will display its 'unknown enemy' name.

* MilestoneCelebration: Semi-unintentionally, but thanks to the delays, the game was first released in 2016, the 20th anniversary of the Persona series. A title card featuring the logos of all 5 schools the protagonists go to shows when booting the game up. The Japanese release also nearly matches up with the 25th anniversary of the ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' series as a whole, with the Western release being a more even match.

** Played with. While it is presumed Igor is voiced by Masane Tsukayama due to Isamu Tanonaka's fatal heart attack in 2010, [[spoiler: this is actually due to a ''plot point'', foreshadowing the Igor we see for most of the game is an imposter, while Tanonaka actually reprised his role as ''the real Igor'', for the few lines the character had after being freed from his own imprisonment near the endgame.]]

** Another was that [[spoiler:Goro Akechi's BolivianArmyEnding only occurred if you didn't max out his Confidant, and maxing it out and saving him was required for the "true ending".]] This one was quickly jossed after it was confirmed that [[spoiler:Akechi's Confidant ranks up automatically]], and the game doesn't have a "good vs true ending" split like ''VideoGame/Persona4'' did.
** Tying into the above was an abundance of rumours involving ways of accessing [[spoiler:Akechi's Palace, with two of the more prominent involving having to max out the Justice Confidant or maxing out all your Confidants and handing in your diary to Sojiro.]]

** A cafeteria lunchtime scene that takes place during the day of the exam results is cut. It would allow the player to invite either Ryuji, Ann, Makoto, Mishima, or Kawakami, and whoever is picked will reward his/her Confidant points. Though the event code is already in the game, it is still unfinished, as it only checks if Joker got into top ten and not if he got the top of the class, and it lacks voice lines and non-neutral portrait expressions, among other things.

* DummiedOut: There are a variety of scenes in ''Royal'''s files that are not in the final game. Some are original and some are altered versions of what appears in game. Possibly most notably, there were originally going to be special scenes tied to the Will Seeds that would flash back to the Palace Ruler's past, showing us how their desires became corrupted over time, turning them into who they were at the present. These scenes are in the game's files, but not implemented.

* When Morgana [[spoiler:gets turned into a human in the third semester, he gets an older sounding voice actor in the English dub, but if you talk to him outside of Leblanc, he still has his normal voice]].