PlayStation 2 RPG Persona 3 is getting its own TV anime spinoff. The show, called Persona -trinity soul-, takes place ten years after the game in a city where the dead have risen with their skins turned inside out. Yummy! The cartoon character designs are being created by the game's character designer, so expect the to hopefully have that same Persona 3 look. Show starts this January in Japan.

So do we get kids who look like the guy from My Chemical Romance shooting themselves in the head to summon the Persona?

If so I'm sold.

I can't play the game, so I'd jump on the opportunity to watch the anime of it. It'd probably spoil a bit of what happened in P3 since it's ten years later, but since I won't be able to play the game for another three years anyway, I don't much care. I'll be looking forward to this anime =)

Actually the game is only rated Mature 17+. You only have two years actually. ^_^

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I would love to see Mitsuru and Aegis in it. I just hope that this will get an American release.

Aniplex's A-1 Pictures is adapting the Persona 3 PlayStation 2 role-playing game as a television anime series under the name Persona -trinity soul- for a January 2008 premiere. The anime is set a decade after the game, and will center around three brothers in a future city where the dead have risen with their skins turned inside out. The Persona games themselves are spinoffs from the long-running Shin Megami Tensei series.

Jun Matsumoto, an episode director on Blood+ and an animator on Digimon, is set to direct. Shigenori Soejima, the Persona games' character designer for the game developer Atlus, is creating the original character designs for Yuriko Ishii (Ouran High School Host Club, The Prince of Tennis key animator) to adapt for anime. Yasuyuki Muto (Le Chevalier D'Eon) is leading a team of writers including Shinsuke Onishi (Darker than BLACK, The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye) and Shogo Yasukawa. Nobuhiko Genma (Trouble Chocolate's contributing designer) is designing the Persona, the franchise's signature supernatural entities within humans. Taku Iwasaki (Lunar Silver Star Story Lunatic Festa Vol. 3 game, Read or Die anime) is composing the music.

The Persona 3 game has already been adapted into three novel volumes (two of which were illustrated by Soejima) and a manga in MediaWorks' Dengeki Maoh magazine by Shuji Sogabe (Tow Ubukata's Eulenspiegel manga).

A few days ago we featured some basic news on Persona -trinity soul-, clumsily translated from the official site. We detailed some basic information on the Kanzato (also apparently translated as Shingou) brothers that star in the series, but thanks to some wonderful help from Cheebs, we also have a better translation of the remaining plot information.

It apparently opens up with a bizarre scandal that strikes Ayanagi City. The crew of a submarine suddenly disappears and for the first time in 10 years people found themselves again concerned over the Apathy Syndrome. Around this same time, dead students with their corpses cruelly turned inside-out began to appear. Ryou’s police force is secretly following these events. His two younger brothers also get involved, resulting in Shin’s summoning of a Persona. The description ends with the ever-mysterious “The gears controlling the fate of these brothers have now begun to turn…”.

Since then even more information has been added, including a listing of the voice actors for the main characters:

Shin Kanzato (the middle brother and Persona user) will be voiced by Nobuhiko Okamoto. He has previously been cast in anime such as Sola and Ghost Hunt.
Jun Kanzato (the youngest brother) will be voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro. She has done voice over work for both anime and games, including the roles of Elizabeth and Chidori in the Japanese version of Persona 3. Interestingly, she has also done English voice over work for anime released in the West, such as Di Gi Charat: The Movie.
Ryou Kanzato (the eldest brother and police officer) will be voiced by Takehito Koyasu. An extremely prolific Japanese seiyū (voice actor), Koyasu has lent his voice to anime including One Piece, Neon Genesis Evangelion and others far too numerous to list. Of particular interest to Megaten fans is the fact that he voiced Tatsuya in the Japanese Persona 2 titles.
Megumi Tino will be voiced by Kana Asumi, a female singer and seiyū who has appeared in anime such as Bokurano.
Kanou Marimoto will be voiced by Mai Nakahara, a female seiyū who has done work for both anime and games including .hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet.
At this point it is still unclear who the final two characters are in terms of the story. It’s likely the site will be updated with this information before the premiere of the series, however.

Again, big thanks to Cheebs for help translating a good deal of this properly.

I'm pretty dissappointed with the anime actually. I read online it's supposed to be 10 episodes long, and 9 have been released so far.

Yep, and there's rumors that Inui (spelling) the kid that has light brown hair and follows the group around is actually Ken-kun since he shows he's known Akihiko for some time and is knowledgable about Personas. He also owns a dog in the dorm even though they're not allowed, and it's been speculated that it's Koromaru. But who knows.

Just started watchng the series, on ep. 2 right now. I kind of find it funny that the songs from the game showed up in this episode.

There's a couple different P3 Easter Eggs in the anime.

I'm up to Episode 19 now which is the latest, and the anime definitely has me on a "wtf" factor. I have no idea what's going on, what's gonna happen, or what's even happening in the PRESENT moment of the series. There's so many questions and unknown things, it's a great anime to get hooked on because we know so little.

Kind of reminds me of Full Metal Alchemist how things didn't really expose themselves until the end of the series.