YMMV / Persona -trinity soul-

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • The scenes between Shin and Takurou become extremely ambiguous when the latter offers him "to extraction shadows". Once he even turns his back on him...
  • And we have a scene with Megumi and Kanaru in the fifth episode, where out of context their conversation can be taken for discussion of homosexual relations.
• Awesome Music:
  • -trinity soul-'s rendition of Memories of You; even the anime's biggest detractors will admit that it's worth listening to.
  • There's A Binding Prayer, which is used for the next episode previews.
  • Reverse the Destiny for when action and trouble's about to go down.
• Broken Base: Whoa, nelly. This series tends to get a very split fanbase going right down the middle. The general opinion from those who like it is that it's much better if you don't approach it expecting a gorgeous continuation of the Persona 3 storyline. Those who do, however, consider many aspects of the show, between its portrayal of Akihiko and the claim that adults can no longer use their Personas, to be absolute Canon Defilement of the source material^note Games from before the anime's release, such as Persona 2, and ones would come after, most notably Persona 4, make it clear that this is simply not true in canon.
• Complete Monster: Keisuke Komatsubara, studying the Persona phenomenon, used his own daughter, Ayane, for painful experiments until she committed suicide. Apathetic to her death, Keisuke intends to revive her to study the links between the Sea of Souls and the human world. After Ayane's spirit caused a disaster in Ayanagi City, Keisuke poses as an altruistic doctor, convinces Ryo Kanzato to sacrifice his injured little sister to save his brother Jun, and uses the operation to experiment on Jun, intending to use him later and to get revenge on the already-deceased Kanzato for leaving his investigation. Fusing with his own Persona and changing his name to Kujou Mareya, he creates the Marebito by inserting artificial Persona inside orphans, making them dependent on drugs to survive and limiting their lives, with the intention to sacrifice them in the future. Convincing them to steal the Persona of other teenagers, in a brutal method known as the Reverse Cases for outsiders, Keisuke also creates an android to spread the Shadow Extraction Ritual in order to keep a suitable reserve of potential Persona users to attack. Lacking empathy, Keisuke saw everyone—even his own children—as tools to be used in his quest for knowledge.
• Epileptic Trees:
• Fanon: Strain42 gives his thoughts on which Arcana the heroes and bad guys have in the anime.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Daisuke Namikawa voices Tōma Shikura, one of the Marebito members. Come Persona 4, he instead voices our 100%-heroic protagonist Yu Narukami.
  • Shin has a noticeable resemblance towards Goro Akechi.
• Ho Yay: It seems that there is much more between the guys in the chemistry show than with any of the girls, and even Shin and Jun are not immune to this, even though they are brothers, although the latter is also caused for another reason. And let's just say that all this talk about shadows is just overflowing with Homoerotic Subtext.
• Memetic Mutation: In 2022, memes have been made about how awful, nonsensical, and hilarious the lyrics to Burning Men's Soul are, with such great lines like "I'm in the house like carpet", "This shit's gonna feel like velvet, turtle", and "Like Chef Boyardee, my rhymes are truly cooking".
• Older Than They Think:
  • The nonsensical lyrics to "Burning Men's Soul" nonsense can be attributed to their being from a sample library, similar to Iwatodai Dormitory's vocals. These originate from Masterbits Climax 6 - Rhapsody.
  • Later animated adaptations of the franchise would maintain some of the adjustments made to Persona summoning in -trinity soul-, such as not requiring the Persona to be summoned after every attack.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Akihiko Sanada, the sole character from Persona 3 to actually appear in the series. Even if you go along with the series' rule that adults can't summon a Persona, there is absolutely nothing gained from having Akihiko appear in this series, as he never mentions any of his history as a member of SEES, or his backstory in general - despite having several commonalities with Shin's situation.