Details on the newly revealed characters in Persona 5

Atlus has updated the Persona 5 website to shed light on the newly-revealed characters gracing one of the year's most anticipated titles. We also get to see their full renders. Check out the details below. You can read more about the announcements during the May 5th stream here.

Makoto Niijima (voiced by Rina Sato)

A third-year high school student who attends the same Syujin High School as the protagonist. She is a student council president with a sharp mind and irreproachable conduct. She is level and calm with a strong sense of responsibility and ability to take action, but is a natural-born honors student who is overly serious and refuses to compromise. However, she has her own troubles as well, which will eventually trigger the awakening of her Persona, and thereby cause an incident.

Joanna

Makoto's starting Persona, Joanna. A unique Persona in the form of a large bike. The front of the bike looks similar to a woman’s head. It has the same name as “Pope Joan,” who legends say was the first female Pope during the Middle Ages.

Futaba Sakura (voiced by Aoi Yuuki)

A girl with superhuman computational abilities and ingenious programming capabilities, but in addition to being naturally extremely bad at communication, she became a shut-in after a certain incident. She is the age of a first-year high school student, but no longer attends school following her middle school graduation. Through what opportunity will this shut-in girl meet with the protagonist and friends?

Necronomicon

Futaba’s starting Persona, Necronomicon. A Persona that bears the name of the grimoire engraved with a multitude of information and techniques. It has an appearance that would be broadly defined as an unidentified flying object, and seems to be a symbol of Futaba’s unknown power.

Haru Okumura (voiced by Haruka Tomatsu)

A third-year high school student who attends Syujin High School. The daughter of the president of a major restaurant company. She grew up in a wealthy family, and is elegant and naive, but on the other hand often observes others. Although usually good at communication thanks to her gentle appearance and people handling skills, she finds no value in human relations, perhaps as a result of the environment in which she was raised, and avoids close relationships with others. What kind of incident would trigger the awakening of her Persona ability?

Milady

Haru’s starting Persona, Milady. A lady Persona who wears a beautiful dress embroidered with lilies. But beneath her elegant skirt hides a powerful weapon. She has the same name as the woman who appears in the Three Musketeers.

Persona 5 is set to be released in Japan on September 15th for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3. While we don't know of the company's plans for the West, Atlus does plan on showcasing the game at this year's E3 (quite a step up from their Anime Expo reveal for Persona 4) and we should see the game at least in North America later this year.

Thanks to Gematsu for the translations.