
Aniplex of America licensed the special in North America in October 2016. It premiered on Septem with a runtime of 24 minutes on Tokyo MX, later airing on GTV, GYT and BS11.

In July 2016, the title of the special was revealed as Persona 5: The Animation – The Day Breakers with Takaharu Ozaki as the director, Shinichi Inotsume as writer, Toshiyuki Yahagi and Keita Matsumoto as the character designers and A-1 Pictures as the studio. The anime television special The Day Breakers was announced in September 2015 during Atlus' stage event at the Tokyo Game Show. In the English dub, Shinya Oda is voiced by Eden Riegel (who also voices Hifumi Togo), rather than Barbara Goodson. In the Japanese dub, Miyu Matsuki and Kazunari Tanaka, the voice actors of Chihaya Mifune and Junya Kaneshiro respectively, died in 20, so they were recast by Haruka Terui and Takahiro Fujimoto. While most of the voice cast from the original game reprise their roles, several voice actors from the original game were replaced. In the anime, it takes place at the amusement park's dinner.Main article: List of Persona 5 characters In the video game, it happens right after the gang clears the dungeon and when they get outside. The explanation behind the meaning of the treasure occur in different locations.Sugimura's battle includes two worker bots in the video game version.The anime added new scenes of Haru's childhood memories of her grandfather's cafe.
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The following points show notable alterations from the source material. The following quotes are from the Crunchyroll subtitle script, timestamps are approximate.Ībilities include types of magic and combat. Haru is the only Phantom Thief whose code name occurs in the same location and the same order of events for both anime and video game version.
