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- In the early 2010s, Persona 4 had taken the RPG world by storm. Even as western shooters and cinematic games took the mainstream market by storm, Persona 4 continued receiving new sequels and adaptations with every passing year. While anticipation had started to run high for Persona 5, most fans didn't notice that the game they were waiting so fervently for was already floating around online-5 years before its eventual release.
This video covers and explores the mystery surrounding the original Persona 5 that began circulating online in early 2012. Originally known simply as "Persona 5", it would later be known as the Persona 5: Imagining Project.
TWITTER: / axelayer
ENDSLATE ART BY: / borezet
10/01/2024 UPDATE:
ATLUSxP5, the original mastermind behind the Imagining Project, has stepped forward and confirmed a continuation of the Persona 5 Imagining Project, currently planned for 2025. While the original ATLUSxP5 Twitter account has been reactivated, they've clarified that the Twitter account wasn't originally made by them; it was made by users posting in the Atlus forum threads and had no direct involvement with the ATLUSxP5's work, hence Minato Hikari's involvement with the account. The original ATLUSxP5 has since reclaimed the Twitter account for their own use, posting new updates on the project's continuation there and on Tumblr.
ATLUSxP5's NEW Twitter: / sunsuton
ATLUSxP5's NEW YT channel: / @sunsuton
ATLUSxP5's original Twitter: / atlusxp5
ATLUSxP5's Tumblr: www.tumblr.com...
MUSIC USED:
New Days - Persona 4
Pursuing My True Self - Persona 4
An Uncertain Fate - Skullgirls
TIGHTROPE 「 Title Screen 」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Tight Rope (Floor Mix) - vividblaze)
MORNING WAKE - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Stay Gold - UTRECHT)
TAKE YOU HIGHER 「OPテーマ-3」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Take You Higher - Jabberloop and Satoru Kurihara)
ANOTHER STORY 「OPテーマ-4」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Bedtime Story (Another Story Remix) - Jazztronik feat. YUKI)
EPIPHANY - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Epiphany - Monday Michiru)
Pulling the Strings - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Mikumo - The Silver Case)
JIKA NET TANAKA 「 Super Bonus Round! 」- Persona 5: Imagining Project
(ガール ザ ジャップ / Girl The Jump - COPTER4016882)
WILD CARD - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Real Clothes [JTK New Remix] - Jazztronik)
SOUL CHECK - Persona 5: Imagining Project
(Kagerou Daze - Jin)
Crimson Wings - Ys IV: The Dawn of Ys
Self - Shin Megami Tensei IV
Brand New Days - Persona 3: FES
SOURCES REFERENCED:
www.gamesradar...
www.trueachiev...
www.digitalspy...
news.microsoft...
web.archive.or...
/ trifectamix
gamebanana.com...
(Persona 4 mod that includes P5:IP's songs)
• Phil Fish "Japanese Ga...
lemmasoft.rena...
(P5:IP fangame)
• PERSONA 5: IMAGINING P...
(Assinine Syndrome's continuation)
/ @personaperusona3784
(guy who has mirrors of the original AtlusxP5 uploads)
#Persona5 #Persona #ShinMegamiTensei
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Interesting that Jazztronic would eventually remix real Persona 5 songs for Dancing in the Starlight.
Nothing better than having vague memories of looking up Persona soundtracks on TH-cam then looking at a soundtrack for a game that doesn't even exist, then watching your video and figuring out what it was all about. I can't say I was one of the people who believed in the ruse, but then again, that's probably because I became aware of the franchise closer to that original P5 teaser (2014ish).
(Great video BTW)
Yooo HowardGAYman
Literally how it went for me.
"Fake game?" "Fan project?"
My homie, I just defeated Nyarlathotep in the Hall of Mirrors to get the true ending, what the f*ck have I been playing for the last two weeks
need for speed carbon
Send an interdimensional portal I want to play that.
oops, wrong universe
"Fake game?" "Fan project?"
Wow, you really are Solid Snake.
Only two weeks? Either the game is really short or you've got a lot of time on your hands
Hello! I am the creator of the Trifectamix blog, and thank you for making this. This project is very dear to me and this video made me really happy, you fully represented this topic perfectly. The amount of views this video has makes me overjoyed to witness (hoping more people will become interested in it now). Hopefully the creator of this project sees this as well, I'm sure it would make them happy too. Thank you for mentioning my blog in the video and the special thanks, that was really kind of you.
Hey! Many thanks for keeping that blog alive for all these years; if it weren't for the presence of a central hub for all the archives that everyone worked so hard to save over the years, this video wouldn't be possible. I'm just the guy who put the pieces together, after all.
Can you link up the blog? I'd like to follow! :)
@@DeeFig66a link would be helpful 📝👀
@@DeeFig66 Check the description of this video.
OMG it’s you!
I really miss moments like this in the earlier internet days where you can just blindly stumble across something and become lost in the what ifs regarding it. I remember being on forums talking about Persona 5 imagine when the uploads were new and the speculations regarding them was insane. A lot of the songs imo also did line up with what Persona 5 actually did become too. I love persona 5 (royal specifically) and had a blast when i finally got my hands on it in 2020 but damn did I not have random fever dream thoughts of the imagination project while I was playing it.
no more what if's
I remember as soon as the chair thing came out for persona 5 they speculated persona 6’s color was going to be green. I don’t know color theory of anything but it seems like they mightve be right.
Damn I feel this hard. Different series, but I remember going through something similar with Street Fighter back in the day. When it seemed like SF4 was never going to happen, I used to theorize with my friends what the SF characters and storyline of the future would look like. I of course appreciate that I did get to see the return of an IP I love, especially since it continues to go strong now. But also you just can't help but hold on to those what ifs.
Dude you realize you've just helped categorize internet history. Can't believe this thing actually existed before Persona 5 was even released.
yo youre back😮
Oh shit you again
Any video with a JustinY comment has secured its place in internet history
The legend returns
Heyyy.. long time no see
God I recall this project seeing this video reminded me of it such amazing video thank you the amazing work put into this!
This is ATLUSxP5, now going by my original handle of sunsutōn | sunstone | サンストーン . Thank you Blue for creating this amazing time consuming video discussing this project and bringing back all the old fans as well as new ones interested again in this project! My apologies for being so elusive after over a decade. Since 2018, I've been working away on the continuation of this project in the background, the PERSONA / RE-IMAGINING PROJECT coming 2025
Thank you all for keeping the imagination alive after all these years. Sunsuton is now my new official TH-cam channel and contains a blog post link and official website link containing all the information I can offer regarding this project, among other things. Stay tuned!
After a bit of back 'n' forth, this is lookin' like the real deal, everyone: ATLUSxP5 is back with all-new stuff planned for the Persona 5 Imagining Project.
Personally, I never expected this video to reach a point to where it'd play a part in the original creator stepping forward - let alone resonating with so many people. The impetus for this video was a want to share this microcosm of old fan culture, which I thought was too interesting to be left scattered in old screencaps and Tumblr posts. Since then, this video has somehow inspired others to make their own videos - and even Persona 6 Imagining Projects of their own. It's pretty insane to see the ripple effect of this video in the year since its original upload.
So, thank you to Sunstone/ATLUSxP5 and everyone for keeping this project alive for so long! I dunno where exactly things will go from here, but it'll be interesting to see play out.
Farei das palavras do Blue as minhas, mais uma vez agradecer por nos inspirar.
I am glad you actually explained this phenomenon because I remember experiencing it vaguely way back in the day but every time I talked to anyone else I knew about it they insisted they had no idea what I was talking about. Thought I had Mandela Effect'd myself.
The current P5IP community is definitely my favorite little corner of the internet. This project influenced me alot in my younger years, so i have a ton of appreciation for it.
yooo its the guy!!!!!11!!!!11111!
😢
Sorry if this is bothering you. But can you tell me where can I see all the promotional art used for the project?
@@betuna9487 ATLUSxP5 has the link to everything on his channel
@@betuna9487 There are some sources and information in the description of this video.
Oh my... hahaha.... hi?
Yeah, just the Twitter account. It really was just for fun on all parts, can't really say much more, but... yeah.
Gotta say, this was a really good detective work, and those Atlus forums screenshots really throws me back... good times.
Hope you're doing well!
That "we'll probably never know for sure" line sure sounds kinda silly now, huh?
Yo. man I loved your fan OST. I’m just really glad to see another fan of DJ Deckstream.
Also, since you’re familiar with Utrecht (which honestly blows my mind), are you familiar of band copter4016882?
Muito obrigado. Pela imaginação, pela inspiração, pelo fruto de amor que o projeto foi... Obrigado
Do you realize WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!!
SOME DAMN GOOD WORK.
Me losing it over the fact that the P5IP project wasnt just some fever dream I had, your editing and research into this whole thing is phenomenal! Can't wait to see more of your stuff!
I still regularly listen to some of the false persona 5 soundtrack, still hits those vibes
same
Fr the ost really give vibes of Altus going back to persona 1&2 atmosphere while keep the features of persona 3&4.
@@someguywithabirdface2583hopefully P7 (in +2030) will have that
Bro, I can't get over how the art is literally from Mari from Prison School & Dojima from a yaoi doujinshi & nobody every decided to do light research on the images.🤣
One of the OSTs was literally Discoteque from Rosario Vampire! The music were bops tho
The thumbnail did look to me like dojima, can't believe they'd steal fucking yaoi shit
I was certain that was dojima haha, how did people not notice?
Stuff taken from Ergo Proxy also
I mean the guy on the cover looking eerily similar to Dojima was already a big giveaway.
And screencaps/scenes literally ripped from episode 23 of Ergo Proxy (2006)
@@starwarschic123actually a lot of the "animated" trailers are scenes from Ergo Proxy
Genuinely rare to see a video from someone I’ve never seen instantly pull me in from the thumbnail alone anymore, let alone keep me interested in every single detail despite me already being able to piece together where the conclusion was heading. Great work cataloguing such an amazing fan project in such a way that honors its legacy so people like me can now discover it.
Butt kissing
Thanks John for sending me here
Hi there.
So, are you new to the project or to this video?
P5 IP was 100% a labour of love of the series. It has that spark that warms your heart like that later iterations of Persona were known for and the project made me so happy during that really long limbo between P4 and P5. It was nothing short of Magical and it kinda brought the community together in a hopeful way. I know I've left messages on those vids asking around if anyone knew if this was a real leak but I always knew in my heart it couldn't be real. P5IP will always hold a very special place in my heart.
I always forget how long ago P5 was announced, and I had no clue this fan project was even a thing. Super interesting video, subbed
Love the video, liking and commenting for boost! I’m exciting to check out the music.
One correction for anyone who loves art: Black, white, and grey images are actually ‘Achromatic!’ Monochromatic refers to images with only one hue, such as all values of blue. If you desaturate a monochromatic image then it has no chroma (or color) just black and white + all the gray values between-achromatic!
Thanks for the correction! I legit didn't know achromatic was even a term before. I've somehow never stumbled across or heard of it in any way, so it's pretty cool to learn about.
The nerd in me is screaming to talk about Greco-Roman linguistics, as knowing your prefixes can really spice up your vocabulary. I doubt anyone wants to hear about the breakdown of the word heterochromatism, the concept of differing colored eyes, or the word chromatology, which has the suffix that denotes it's the science of color. Chromatology is how we discern the elemental makeup of some stars out there based on what elements burn what colors.
Yeah see I can't help it. Nerding out over language. Feel free to use prefix knowledge to make your own words, like trichromatism or calling a four-wheelers quadrocycles.
I knew I was not the only early SMT/persona fan that loved the "original persona 5 soundtrack". The wait of persona 4 to persona 5 was legendary so speculation was everywhere. The music from these will always be in my brain.
As an outsider looking in, I think it’s really obvious that it was fan made be it it was literally called an “Imagining Project.” The creator was imagining what Persona 5 would be like. That being said this aesthetic is amazing and I’d love to see P6 take on this style
There's actually another creator named Assinine Syndrome who took the torch and made their own version of the Imaging Project with its own story including one for a Persona 6 and maybe a Persona 7 as well.
My favorite is the themes for The King in Yellow as the endings.
Well, like they said in the video, the "imagining project" subtitle wasn't originally there, it only appeared after a rebrand happened.
We need the Green.Persona 6 will be green
personally wouldn't like any new mainline persona games to follow this aesthetic tbh, it just feels pretty opposite to the social mechanics in the recent games, ontop of all of the new games from 3-5 has had a more upbeat and stylistic nature to it, this would just be odd.
It fits more into a mainline SMT game than a persona game imo
@skywoofyt5375 I would. While there's been flashes of it here and there I kinda want a full modern persona game with the themes of the original 2.
This is honestly one of the few topics I didn't think I would ever come across again. This is a great video explaining this passion project. This takes me back when I first heard the soundtrack and how much I loved it. I'm currently relistening to it now. Thanks for sharing this little snippet of the past.
What an awesome video! Hi 👋 I’m the creator of Persona 6 VERGS, Persona 7 Soul Rhythm, and even my own version of Persona 5 Imagining Projects straight from AtlusxP5 era. Thanks for the shoutout Blue!
I have to stress to you the impact AtlusxP5 project had on so many young people including me! To be honest back then I always knew it was to good to be true but it was the music that really pulled you in! And that’s the same feeling I wanted to give other people. I wanted people to hear some music from different places, and get into mixing as well. I’m so happy a video is being done on this.
My channel was made as a tribute to the same feelings P5 Imagining Project gave so many people, regardless of it being fan made.
Please guys go out and make your projects, maybe Altus could look at your material and add it to future games. And it’s actually kinda fun 😊. May the algorithm bless this video 🙏
I've been watching your videos since 2016 dude . Thanks for keeping the dream alive man And continuing Introducing me to some great artists and musicians.😁
You got me into Jazztronik, which is now my favourite band ever! Can't thank you enough for that!
I want to thank whoever made P5IP for helping me awaken my music preferences and introducing me to my favorite artists that I still listen to everyday.
If not for them, I would never discover Shiina Ringo, Soil & Pimp Sessions, school food punishment, etc.
I love school food punishment. Thanks for the other names😊
This is the project that made me discover DJ Kawasaki, Rahze, MEG and Soil & Pimp sessions
What a trip, this is so nostalgic!
Another amazing video.
I remember seeing a lot of images about this back in those days but I wasn't into SMT back then so never checked those discussions that much, pretty surprised to see how big the whole deal was for a fan project.
This kind of reminds about how MGSV also got a few fan projects that were trying to pose as a sequel/true ending DLC for the actual game, although they were clearly way more amateurish than this.
So the P5I project predicted Jazz as (one of) the style of P5, as with the themes of control (mostly with Akechi in P5, and Maruki in royal)
I loved the imagining project. There are those of us that make our own imagining projects as a tribute still. There is a community for this genre of Persona content. I personally made my own P6 imaging project admittedly. Thanks for shining light on this community!
Hoping and praying and begging on my knees for the algorithm to pick you up again man, you deserve to have a hundred times more subscribers than this!
8:13-8:20 Honestly, just by looking at some the facial work from (presumably) the protagonists shadow and the girl shown briefly on in the ‘promo’ artwork, it kinda gives me Ergo Proxy vibes. The protagonist’s shadow reminds me of Vincent and the girl reminds of Re-L. Maybe they took inspiration from it? Not too sure on that, just been watching this video again and thought of that. Well, that and and I love getting lost in the sudo-existent ‘lost-media’ vibe of this project.
Also, the Suda51 mention is AWESOME. Truly based work from the original creator, especially since he was (and still arguably is) relatively unknown in the West during that time.
Tightrope is genuinely my favorite song of all time because of this project. It has formed my current music taste from childhood. Thank you for shining a light on it.
thank you for covering this subject, the early persona 5 hype and this project was such a fun tribute. thanks to fan ost, i found out abt jabberloop, jazztronik, karen aoki, copter4016882. this ost helped me formed my tastes haha, but amazing video! keep up the good work
this video is REALLY well put together, and about something I'd never heard of as a more casual persona fan
thanks for posting it!
The art and music quality is just insane. Always thought it was weird how it sorta appeared
The editing is so clean
Got the message from the mastermind a couple of hours ago on Tumblr. Thank you Blue, thank you archivers, thank you fans we all helped bring back a piece of fan base history.
this project is how I found some of my favorite artists, like MEG and Rahze/Deckstream
P5IP was such a mysterious and profound thing, really living up to its name and sending your imagining soaring about was P5 could have been.
Although I still love how it turned out, I wish the P5 we got went the direction of P5IP … an adult-themed Persona we haven’t seen since P2EP, the return of Nyarlathotep as an ally, and a grand finale that concluded the saga of P1-4.
The fanmade Persona 5 ost was dope, I still listen to it up to this day.
Deeply interesting. These passion-driven and high quality fan projects seemed to be a fairly common phenomena when I first started using the internet, about 15 years ago. Seems like in the last 5 years, as you stated, it's become difficult to engage with the internet in the same way. Still really cool to hear about, though.
I know it’s never going to happen, but it would be awesome if the p5 imagining project was revamped into p6. The ideas, the theme, the story, it’s all there, and it’s awesome!
Thank you for making this! I've been a HUGE fan of this project since 2018, and it's good that someone is covering it so that more people can know about it.
The imagining project was scrap, period
Stumbled upon this in my recommended and well done! I actually never knew about this so thank you for sharing! Also nice to see an Elira cameo in there!
I remember lurking through the forum thread back in 2012-2013, being so immersed in the story presented by AxP5. Reading through all of the theories, and looking forward to what happens next. It made the wait for the actual Persona 5 bearable lmao.
The fan soundtrack has a special place in my heart. Through it I discovered Yasutaka Nakata, known for his works on Perfume, KPP, MEG, and of course, CAPSULE.
Along with P5IP's bangin songs, it completely changed my music tastes. I still listen to the soundtrack to this day, and it's always such a vibe to play during commutes.
To the creator of the project, if you're reading this, thank you for changing my life.
And thank you for covering the topic, Blue. As mentioned in the top comments, P5IP does deserve a place in internet history.
What a solid video. I think the scripting definitely elevated it. It’s unfortunate there wasn’t some super obscure leaked P5 but hey that’s just how things are sometimes.
That channel actually introduced me to DJ Deckstream which ive been grateful for ever since
I remember finding out about this almost a decade ago and it introduced me to some banging tunes. Great video!
imagine if someone took this concept and turned it into a stand alone game instead of something persona related, I would play the hell out of it
This concept is Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 5.
The release version of Persona 5 completely dropped the SMT moniker because at some point in development they made the deliberate choice to separate the two into their own distinct franchises.
@@mariokarter13 Yes, I'm aware- I watched the video. I'm saying someone could turn it into an original concept unrelated to SMT or Persona.
@@mariokarter13Persona never had the SMT moniker originally, that was something added in localisation.
It wasn't until the P4G Steam release that i started my "SMT phase", playing lots of games of the franchise, making SMT my favorite franchise period even if i still have tons of the games left, and i gotta say, now that i'm on the last dungeon of Digital Devil Saga 1, the story that Persona 5 Imagining Project presents is something i could 100% see as an SMT Spin-off, maybe from the PS2 era, to the point i think it's a shame it hasn't been made a fan game with such an interesting concept such as Manipulation, which could be very neatly tied to Demons, Angels and even Gods.
I remembered discovering the Persona 5 Imagining project way back in 2012. The music was actually really good and memorable, I still go back and listen to it from time to time. Nice to see someone finally put in the work to break down this highly imaginative fan project. I love the real P5 OST but there's something special about the P5 Imagining soundtrack.
The person(s) behind this project definitely sound like the kind who I'd love to be friends with and bounce ideas off of for whatever piece of media is inspiring us at that moment. Their concepts for this are so fun. I like to come up with more or less entire AUs for some stories - not even necessarily to create - and they seem very much in the same lane.
I'm glad the project is getting the exposure deserves today. I 100% brought into this back in the day. I was a huge persona four fan and the very happy persona 5 became the hit that it has. However I have a attachment to the imagine project which I realise as you say is maybe in part that such a project like this can never exist in the internet today.
With the shroud of the music revealed in part thanks to things like Spotify, I now have quite a few of these songs on my liked to rotation. Tightrope and Hanabi being my favourites: and when I listen to them I very much have the idea of this project a black and white persona in my mind. Actually a big fan of MEG and her Collab works now.
Thank you for making this video I don't know why but the whole thing around this just tickles a very special feeling.
srsly fantastic editing bro. honestly i find the imagining project really endearing, you can tell the person behind it has a lot of passion for the series and just wanted to show it off in their own way
Immaculate editing. This was extremely enjoyable. Super nostalgic time it was to be alive. P5xATLUS was more high effort than I'd ever realized.
As someone who reuploaded these tracks on a whim back in the day, I'm glad somebody did a deep dive on these.
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this whole fan project actually inspired if only in part what the actual Persona 5 would become later on, and I do hope it also influences future games as well.
Really through, a Persona game where you actually work alongside NYARLATHOTEP of all beings would be WILD!
GOOD LUCK!
Wow I was very young when the p5 imagining project dropped but I definitely remember seeing Assinine Syndrome P6 project back in 2017. Still have some of his stuff in a playlist I made back in 7th grade. This video has brought back a lot of memories. Cool shit man
It has been a year now, since this video introduced me to this fan project. One of my favorite little corners on the internet.
Amazing work with this video. I think I was the first to reupload all of the songs the first time the ATLUSxP5 channel had removed the songs. I had contacted the ATLUSxP5 channel back after they started uploading again and got their blessing on reuploading their songs while letting them know I'd be happy to remove them should they wish me to or if they wanted to reupload themselves. Those messages seem to be lost to the old TH-cam inbox. I guess as one note to it, our discussion was in English so them being a person from the Atlus Faitful forums could be correct.
I stopped following the project with life getting busy and then stopped using this account too, hard to believe this was nearly 12 years ago. This was a great walk down memory lane, thank you for this dive into the story.
I remember finding that channel in late 2012, and being absolutely fuckin' convinced it was leaked audio from an upcoming P5. I promptly forgot about it since then.
Cool video. Nice bit of niche internet history.
I remember jamming to P5 Imagined OST for a while long before Persona 5 actually became something, it's crazy that someone is finally talking about this! Thank you for archiving this part of history!
P6 is apparently gonna have a black and white motif also, what a coincidence
Also the act iv description is taken straight out of the digital devil story novel, which is a sequel of the original megami tensei novel
I thought it was gonna be green?
@@KetchupRocket that was speculation, i'm talking about the recent leaks
Greeeeeen
Green
I couldn’t be more impressed with how you put this video together. Amazing editing and voice over work my man. Keep it up.
Hell yeah. I ran a whole campaign inspired by P5 IP, which saw completion. The ideas and inspiration it had definitely has left a lasting impact on many.
i remember when i was first getting into persona i caught a few IP videos completely blind to anything around em, I think it all washed over me at the time (in a good way) but it’s really really crystallized in my head over time. I love this type piecemeal web spinning online story telling that dominated the internet at the time, it’s the perfect way to use the format of the internet to its advantage.
Beautiful video my nigga. Shit gave me chills remembering about this time period in life. Subbed
sick video, I remember there was a time for a year or two where when I couldn't go a day without seeing these on my youtube recommends when I was first getting into SMT/Persona
Im so happy you covered this. I remember listening to the “soundtrack” on youtube with the chained chair. ive been wondering about this forever, thank you
"goodbye"
The way that was presented felt sad.
Imo, it implies when the change in direction sharply happened.
During that time, I've observed people who like SMT & Persona. I saw how fan's crippled when the release for P5 was delayed or teased.
Tbh, I thought you were going to talk about something different. Such as, Haru eating Chuppa Chups (which shows her eating in the opening visual). She never eats that candy in the games!
I'm quite certain she was meant to be a rich-brat type.
Aside.
What you've pit together here, is all new information and I'm amused. P5 is my first introduction to actually playing.
Though I have lots of knowledge about SMT and Persona.
Atlus gives the impression they center games around a music direction.
Meaning the songs are composed first.
Seeing the drawings available was amazing.
Looks in-depth and dark.
Maybe P6 will be that?
Then again...the way "goodbye" was shown with wreckage submerged...its a very sad visual.
Giving an impression that something truly ended.
Awe, noticed how you included your Fumo plushie.
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This is a superbly made video, wow. The editing and the actual content had me hooked. Unfortunately, I was not part of the fanbase back then so this is a great time capsule of a time past.
Ngl, the timeline where the P5 Imagining Project was the real P5 is one I'd like to experience. Everything about it went so hard. I remember downloading alot of the songs back when it was catching alot of attention.
Was super into this fanwork way back, until it eventually faded away. Its nice to learn of that one final upload. Thanks for sharing.
It's kinda hard to believe how people fell for this project back in the day given how dedicated fans are when it comes to researching, analysing and sourcing stuff like this, and in the case of the imagining project it wouldn't have been even that hard to "debunk" it, but I guess when it comes to stuff like this it's often times our own suspension of disbelieve that makes us buy into these "fan leaks". After all we all wished for the announcement for Persona 5, and when we see such high quality output like with that of the atlusxP5 yt channel, we of course want it to be real.
THIS VIDEO IS BEAUTIFUL I am 2 minutes in and am absolutely blown away by the video presentation and the GENIUS IN MAKING IT LIKE P4s UI? Seriously respect, I am in love.
Ah man, this soundtrack was really something for me. I found it in my Junior year right before the actual Persona 5 was announced, at a time where I was really getting into the series. I watched both P4 animes, I watched the first movie of P3, and even started playing the game on my own time, Those amazing Hiimdaisy comics, and I even watched Persona Trinity Souls. I kinda knew finding this fan-made soundtrack was fake, but I couldn't help but be captivated by how good the soundtrack was, and how cool the concepts being presented was. Would still very much like a Persona game that follows the direction being presented here. I believe it was my first genuine introduction to a lot of music made from Japanese bands and artists, as well as making me fall in love with the sounds of Jazz and Funk (which I'm glad the actual Persona 5 lingered on). I remember playing this soundtrack quite a few times, and I associate this fan-album with the city of San Francisco as this is what I would listen to when I was on a week long school trip there looking at different colleges. Some of the songs like Movin' and Beauty Flows are songs I still love and listen to today, and I never would have found them without this soundtrack. I of course still love the actual P5 that we got, and it was an extremely influential part of my teenage years, but I have to admit, this imagining project also left quite a profound impact on me as well.
The editing in this video is so underrated. You got yourself another subscriber!
It surprises me how similar the actual P5 was to the IP. There's a lot of monochromatic themeing in the actual P5 (even if the theme is 'red'), the idea about being 'a puppet' (*cough cough* igor), going into a 'mirror world' (palaces/mementos), and so on so forth. Still listen to the soundtrack even today lol, and also appreciate assinine syndrome's other fan project albums they worked on :D
i guess but neither a ‘mirror world’ nor the protagonists being a puppet of some kind isn’t unique to persona 5
This might be a bit of a reach 😅
I'm impressed by the "Act IV the judgement" summary containing a weirdly on-point story beat as well lmao.
"Howard Carter is tricked by the false Philemon to thwart the Protagonist and Nyarlathotep from their plans - or else see all his friends die."
We definitely got a false Velvet Room person there, who also tricked Joker into doing Metaverse tampering - until we really saw all our friends disappear from reality when the public forgot about the PT...
And yeah, the ideas of Howard Carter & Nyarlathotep are definitely drawing on P2's usage of Lovecraft mythology - but still it's hilarious P5 Royal would ALSO dip from Lovecraft in a similar manner to P2 xD
@@manon8237yes but I feel like having main theme as a puppet goes on with persona 5 in depth
Maruki bad ending game over is very similar to the IP as in the ending where joker’s phone is dead battery and the butterfly theme would p5ip vibes
Edit: Also just realized that the persona 5 we got now is a dumbed down version of the original imaging project
1:56 Can we just take a moment to appreciate this little animation.
Dude how do you only have 9k subs? This is some insanely high quality work. Looking forward to seeing more from you!
Im really glad someone finally covered this fan made project. I remember back in summer of 2014 when I was a young lad watching mekaku city actors (funny coincidence you talked about kagerous project too) and I discovered this soundtrack that seemed very cryptic (and awesome too) at the time. Made wondered how persona 5 will be and kinda unfortunate it didn’t turned the what this project presented it. Thanks for this explained video man
I have run into these as someone who got into the franchise in 2019, I have ran into these and love them because it feels like a view into an alternate timeline and I love it.
The battle theme Tralala goes off so hard to the point where I just view it as a true Persona Battle theme.
That Imagining project is pretty cool ngl, that person is very creative and had abgreat choice in music and art.
The editing and narration of the video is a whole nother level. I feel like I just watched a full-blown documentary on some cryptic phenomenon or urban legend - which I actually did. Please keep it up!
I came across this back in late 2013 and fell in love with the imagination of the channel. It was cool to listen to the music and think about "what ifs?" of the Persona series.
Gaming Magazines: Turn-based JRPG's are dead
JRPG Fans: huh? since when?
1:54 this transition was so smooth I thought my laptop was falling off the arm of my couch and I nearly lunged to grab it...
Hold on, I’ve heard from grape vine (leaks) that Persona 6’s colors is Black and White (Monochrome). AltusxP5 is an Atlus employee confirmed?! jk but that would be funny if true
Concept-wise the creator actually made a lot of thematically fitting choices. The “puppeteer” motif is a great because you can tie in elements like “Rebelling against the Creator” or “Cutting ties with what’s controlling you”. I’ve only played P4 and P5 but a mirror world seems like another intuitive option as the “reflection” cognitive world that ties into the collective unconscious. This fan project had a really cool premise… maybe a theater/stage as the Velvet Room would’ve been cool!
i remember these videos. i still go back to the soundtrack from time to time, my favorite song from the ost is Summer - that song seriously fucking slaps. i never bothered to download any of the videos at the time since i remember at the time i read on the channel that it was just a fan project but the amount of effort and quality these "fans" put into it was insane, im surprised that these videos are even being talked about since i figured it was common knowledge it was a fan project
This is awesome, I never knew this fan project was around. And damn this original persona 5 looks incredible. A cero z rating too.... I'd love to see an adult persona game again like that other persona 2 game.
Btw this video editing and imagery is sublime, it flows so well with the imagery of this persona project.
Interesting to see a video made on this subject. The only reason I know of this is because I was once looking for songs from this one Japanese group and the only place I could find them online was the ATLUSxP5 soundtrack, where they had credited not the performer, not the song name, just the _songwriter._ That's how truly deep cuts some of these songs on the soundtrack are.
Man this is a blast from the past!
The saddest part of this was the last video they made
was a animation with silhouettes of persona and a "we will return"
And I still wait for their return, hopefully with a persona like copy cat series: "Facade" or "Charade"
One can dream.
Really cool seeing this get covered. I remember being obsessed with the Imagining Project back in highschool. I was actually disappointed the illusion of it being real was broken due to me recognizing one of the songs 😅
This is such a high quality video! Good work!! You have my sub
The editing is insane, thanks a lot!
I knew I wasn't crazy. At that time I was struggling to get a PS3 to be able to play this "on time" when they finally release it. They ended up launching the PS4 version we all know, and I did not felt familiar with what I have previously watched, made me felt like I created a mandela effect or something like that! xD
I was invested in the video already so at 1:55 I jumped up to stop my tv falling over with that animation you put in only to realise it was the animation
SAME WORH MY PHONE PROPPED UP LOL
I remember looking for remixes of a new world fool and found a video with the imagining cover on it. I never noticed any differences but it ended up being my preferred way to listen to it on TH-cam.
I got into a rabbit hole of looking for more info on this project. So eerie that they were able to predict a lot of the themes for P5 before it came out and even still to this day with Royal now out. The one thing I have not seen people mention after watching this video was how ATLUSxP5 stole a lot of material from other sources and pieced it together as their own to form the illusion it was something else entirely new, and still to this day nobody knows who was the creator/creators of this project. Sort of like.....Phantom Thieves in a way?