My opinion:
This show is simply awesome!!! I feel involved with the story so much, still it’s like we just scratched the surface. The are fights in every episode, but it’s not like tehre has to ba an obligatory fight every time, but it’s more like they are fighting an decisive battle from the very beginning.
I didn’t really get it so far how personas can be absorbed into each other and its connection to the reverse cases…?!
My opinion:
With episode two teh show gives us a glimpse of the deep going story that’s to come. I feel totally hooked because I want to know what “shadow pulling” is, wether it has to do with personas or wether it’s been coincidence they were activated through the pulling. Though we are just at the show’s beginning we get introduced to Jun’s everyday life and quite some characters from his school. I really liked that, everyone of them is interesting because of different matters and through tehm we get provided with a great cliffhanger. Keep rocking!
Short Summary:
We can see a woman sink into the sea. Some moments later a submarine is rescued by the police, but the crew is gone, although it is impossible to open the door, while the ship is under water. Kanzato Ryou – police chief in the city of Ayanagi – investigates cases like this or the so called “Reverse”, where high schoolers bodies get turned inside out. The day his two younger brothers Shin and Jun are coming to live in his house again after ten years another high school girl is attacked, but not by a human being but the “persona” that comes out of a man’s body and tries to absorb the soul/persona or whatever of the girl. Ryou brings out his own persona and fights the other one till the girl is rescued. The man with the attacker is injured and escapes.
Later that night Ryou welcomes his siblings in a rather cold way though there would be many things to talk about, for example Jun’s dead twin sister or Shin’s dreams about monsters coming out of him and his meeting with a fortune teller. When he leaves the house at night he finds the injured man from before and sees his persona coming out. Suddenly a sword appears from his body and a whole persona afterwards, which slices the other persona and the man seems to be healed.
My opinion:
Persona ~trinity soul~ is a game adaption, though I can’t tell you anything about it, as I never played the game. So I got confronted with something totally new and I very much like it, at least in parts. The depressing atmosphere and characters are simply great. In some way Shin and Jun let me think of Gilgamesh. On the other hand I can’t take pleasure in the persona fights. It simply looks stupid and is irritating. Another negative point is Jun’s seiyuu Miyuki Sawashiro who normally speaks very female roles, but Jun is supposed to be a boy. Still, these are matters of habit. I’ll be sure to watch another episode!