Persona 5X Zone

A blog to collect news, theories, and fan stuff for Persona 5X! Sure, it's a gacha game, but it's fun to get a little excited, right? Please feel free to submit theories and any fanart/other fan stuff you make for P5X!

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Welcome to the blog!

P5X is live! The current regions are mainland China, Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan, Korea, Japan/US/Europe ("Global"), and SEA. Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan and Korea are one week behind mainland China, while Japan/US/Europe is about a year and two months behind (though some features have been added early), and SEA is one week behind that.

Currently, the mainland China region is on Version 5.1.2. The next version, Version 5.2.1, will be released simultaneously worldwide on June 25th!

Any mainline plot and collab plot information released after June 26th will be tagged as "global spoilers", to help new players avoid spoilers for later plot content if they so choose. Note that the information posts linked below, and generally posts from before this date, may have untagged spoilers.

Meanwhile, the Japan/US/Europe region is on Version 4.3! The next version, likely Version 4.4, be released simultaneously worldwide on June 25th. Check out the global news tag for more updates and information specific to this region.

Here are some links and info that’ll hopefully be useful:

Game info overview

Masterpost of explanations for features/mechanics that are changed from P5 or completely new

Summary of the game’s main plot + collab + event plots masterpost

List of game versions and their content

What we know so far about Wonder

What we know so far about Cattle

What we know so far about Closer

What we know so far about Soy

What we know so far about Wind

What we know so far about Luce

What we know so far about Anri

Explanation and info on “Phantom Idol” (gacha) teammates: the P5R and P3RE teams, Hatsune Miku, Fleuret, Yuki, Mont, Moko, Key, Okyann, Rin, Leon, Bui, Riddle, Sepia, Puppet, Marian, Vino, Phoebe, Chord, Messa, Cherish, Howler, Matoi, Turbo, Ange, Berry, Blitz, Pinky

Info on known future teammates

Info on the Palace rulers

Info on other notable NPCs

Info on side questlines

School questions (and their answers)

Tag masterpost for this blog

FAQ

And of course, sending in your theories/questions/comments/anything about P5X is totally welcome! Encouraged, even! This is a blog for everything P5X-related, basically. Now that the P5X tag has gotten a lot busier, I may sometimes miss people's fanworks- feel free to tag this blog, or send things in if I seem to have missed your post!

I, the mod of this blog, also 1) know some Japanese, so if there's something voiced that you're interested in a translation of, feel free to ask, though try to limit it to one character/scene at a time, and 2) have datamined all three betas and the official launch myself, so feel free to ask about anything in the files as well, as I may know/have it (though, again, please be reasonable about how much you ask for in a single ask!)! Check my FAQ (linked above) to see if I've already posted about what you're interested in.

Note that I play the Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macau region version, and thus may sometimes miss if a new official English translation for a character/item/etc. name is revealed. If you ever notice information on this blog seems out of date, please (politely) let me know! I appreciate any help I can get with keeping track of everything, especially since I don't have time to play the English release myself.

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I think this announcement's also a good reminder that while a leaker might be right about one thing (Miku), that doesn't necessarily mean they know everything, or that everything they say is correct! I'm really happy the person who leaked Miku was incorrect when they claimed we wouldn't be seeing the female P3 protagonist for a while, haha.

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@snowrinrin In the stream, they said that they only moved the announcement up- she's already been in the works for a while (as they already have the story for her finalized). But yes, this announcement was moved up last-minute as an apology for the people disappointed by Miku being Global's first anniversary unit.

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I think this announcement's also a good reminder that while a leaker might be right about one thing (Miku), that doesn't necessarily mean they know everything, or that everything they say is correct! I'm really happy the person who leaked Miku was incorrect when they claimed we wouldn't be seeing the female P3 protagonist for a while, haha.

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P5X x P3 Portable Collab teaser video

The collob is still in development

according to the stream the story for the event is done, the character portraits are not and models are not

The collab will be a global sync patch

They also say they we will be getting characters from portable meaning Theodore will likely also be a playable unit

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To be clear, they don't explicitly say that the "other P3P-related characters" will be playable, so all be know for certain is that other characters will appear in this upcoming event. But considering the Twins, a playable Theodore is possible!

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Miku P5X wallpapers

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Got it don’t know though.

Congrats!

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What if p5x's phantom thief logo was more like Janosik?

The top hat made sense for p5, because it was a reference to arsene, but for p5x it just looks stupid. So i looked up what typa hat Janosik wears and apparently it's literally called outlaw hat (zbojnícky klobúk). I slightly changed the shape to also resemble a tricorne cause pirates are cool too

And yea facing to the side because it just felt right

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if you know what happens next know that i will draw that too

again, check out the fic!

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As Kurotani's (Key) self proclaimed no.1 fan I must post his adorable chest opening animation for all to see!

+ Plus

Yes I made it a gif feel free to steal 😌✨

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I finally got forward in the story~! Freaking Katayama-Akashi took FOREVER! So I need to ramble about this to you~

👀👀👀 I need him to be a social link and playable character....

Same Lufel x)

...is the implication here what I think it is? That editor-in-chief is...compensated dating Ikenami? :p

Lufel stopped his character running gag to be serious! P5 cast would never, I also love Lufel snarking "yes, lets burn the palace we're sneaking into down" when suggesting burning the vines on the way 😂

They are idiots~ I love them, honestly like them more than P5 vanilla cast :'D

This is just cool art and are different forms of playable characters just gatcha or will they be in the story?

Also fuck yeah, time loop theory! 👏👏 And I did have an actual question, do you know what stopped showing Akashi directly smoking? :'D like was it a rating thing or..?

Congrats on progressing the story!! The Palace ruler fights really can be tough.

The intended implication is that Shimotsuna has a romantic, somewhat stalkerish/obsessive interest in Shoki. I don't think she was planning on paying him to date her, more like manipulating him into doing so.

Like with Tempest Wind, the alternate forms of Luce and Soy will appear in the story.

I think that was just how they framed the scene with Akashi...? I don't really remember, it's been a while since I've seen any of the Akashi scenes; it may have been that they couldn't make the cigarette going into his model's mouth look right, or maybe the animation for it. Later in the story, another character smokes as well, so I don't thiiiiink it's a censorship thing?

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about the FEMC elizabeth stuff apparently where i got it from was a collection of multiple leakers so it was probably wrong idk😭😭😭 but i still have hope

(Follow-up to this)

No worries, it happens! We can still have hope we'll get the female protagonist and Elizabeth someday, haha. Maybe they'll do Elizabeth for Global's 1.5th anniversary, since the Twins were for Global's half anniversary?

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For some reason, my mind keeps thinking of this post predicting the P4 cast, specifically, the Marie prediction, as she notably does not have a Light ability in the few instances we see of her in combat, not trying any insta-kill moves at all, unlike Adachi who can very reasonably be Curse having used Dark in his kit and it fitting his ability set on top of it being in his Persona’s kit for every single DLC appearance, instead I would suggest giving her the Nuclear element, as she uses all 4 Elemental Heavy Spread attacks and her Almighty attack is already related to energy. I might as well go for a full prediction however as I love obsessing over game mechanics. Specifically because I want to talk about what their gimmick would/could be. The P3 Cast don’t have a Gun (or Melee in Yukari’s case) so their Thief’s Tactics were replaced with the Assist system, I believe for the P4 cast a great thing they could lean into is the Follow Up system that was introduced with their game, either by passively having an upgraded One More, or by giving them something that allows them to use their signature moves, of course this is for the sole purpose of referencing the glorious GALACTIC PUNT, with the other Follow Ups likely being slightly modified for the purposes of their roles, with the exception of course of Chie’s Yu Narukami - Electric Assassin (Simple Follow Up focused on damage) Yosuke Hanamura - Wind Strategist (Follow Up probably also lowers defense as it’s support utility) Chie Satonaka - Physical Assassin (I think she should be sweeper but Assasin fits for the sole purpose of having the Galactic Punt, prioritizing the smaller enemies/a boss’s summon) has at least one Ice ability :) Yukiko Amagi - Fire Medic (Follow Up Fan now also bounces to heal an ally) Teddie - Ice Saboteur (Follow Up can dizzy opponent, as a saboteur trait and to reference the spin aspect) Kanji Tatsumi - Physical Guardian (Follow Up is AOE that lowers attack) Rise Kujikawa is obviously a navigator so gets nothing (though if the Follow Ups count as resonances she could be resonance focused) Naoto Shirogane - Allmighty Sweeper (Follow Up is a spread move and she has many AOE moves so it’s fitting) Marie - Nuclear Sweeper (Follow Up applies random elemental ailments) As a Velvet Room resident, breaking the rules and using an element not in her origin game feels very appropiate both for what her kit has and what the Velvet Room could grant in power. Adachi (wildly unlikely, but for fun) - Curse Saboteur (Follow Up decreases Ailment Resistance)

Well that was fun, love me some concept making though with this one being more hoopeful than anything I wished to share it directly with ya, may we get an interesting P4 collab while also enjoying some nice main story and other events :)

I think the reason that they suggested Bless for Marie is that Kaguya, originally the ultimate Persona of Marie’s Arcana in P4G, later used as her Persona in Arena Ultimax, also appears as a DLC Persona in P5, wherein her only attack skill is a Bless attack that deals multiple hits to each enemy. I agree it’s up to a bit of interpretation, though. Either way, I like the idea of her skillset revolving around elemental ailments in some way, because I do think that would reflect her weather powers better!

I really like your idea for the Investigation Team’s equivalent of Assists to replace the gun mechanic, as well, haha. 

It’s kind of funny that we all pretty much agree on the protagonist being an Electric Assassin; really, I could see a slight argument for Sweeper, but what else would he be? I’m definitely leaning Wind Strategist, Physical Assassin, and Ice Saboteur for Yosuke, Chie, and Teddie (respectively) as well, and Fire Medic for Yukiko seems like a given.

Kanji being a Physical Guardian seems most appropriate to me as well, although I could imagine them making him an Electric Guardian instead if they want him to mesh specifically with some of the other electric characters in the game already. We don’t have a lot of Guardians yet, in general, so there’s some wiggle room there, I think.

Rise being an Eludcidator’s another given, although I am curious what her personal Navigator gimmick’s going to be. Like Fuuka buffing Theurgies, I’m guessing she’ll be most tailored towards working with the other members of the Investigation team, but we have, like, a lot of music-themed navigators now, haha (Okyann, Ange, and now Miku). So I’m not seeing an obvious niche for her to fill?

Naoto being Almighty feels like another given, although I’m less sure on combat role; I could see them going a lot of ways here. The only other Almighty characters we have right now are Crow and the Twins, so it’d be kind of nice if Naoto at least covered a role besides Sweeper, for variety?

And again, I’m not expecting to see Adachi, but Curse, and probably Saboteur, do seem the most fitting for him to me, haha.

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Any chance you can post the album art for the Miku songs used in her skills? I'd really like the art for Heaven (ATOLS Remix)!

Oh, sure! The other songs just use their official album art, I think, but here's the Heaven remix cover!

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Sorry if this is a silly question but I don’t really understand the difference between Okyaan and Phoebe in terms of navigator abilities, do they both just do stat buffs? Most of the navigators seem to have gimmicks; Puppet has shields, Oracle can change a foes weakness and Wind can knock them down etc so I was wondering how Okyaan and Phoebe differ ability wise?

I think the simplest way to explain it is that Okyann's gimmick is elemental ailments, while Phoebe's gimmick is same-element teams!

You've probably read through their skills before sending this, but all the same, I recommend checking out lufel.net's character pages for Okyann and Phoebe (and in general) for more info. They tend to have good advice for how to utilize characters effectively, which includes how their individual mechanics can support other characters/teams! It's very helpful if you're not as big into the technical aspects of teambuilding in this game, or if you're having trouble figuring out how a character "works", so to speak.

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In response to the previous persons ask. If Wonder does loop again during chapter 6 (I don't think he will, but it's an interesting theory) and you're right and we don't replace any party members we just get new ones. My personal theory is we get the ones from the flashbacks of previous timelines: So Key, Rin, Moko and Mont. (But to make it an even number) maybe this time around Wind is a combat persona and Ange is our navigator? She feels like she'd fit the plot more than the other navi's?

(Referring to this ask.)

That seems like a reasonable theory, assuming (like you said) that a loop were to actually happen, and assuming we only added new members to the team for it! I agree that Ange feels the most tied into the plot out of the existing navigators, considering her appearance at the start of the plot, and also just her story and character development in general.

If we were to loop again (which like I said in the other ask, I don't expect to happen either, but it's fun to think about how they might do it), I could imagine something happening where Cattle/Closer/Soy/Wind/Luce/Anri and Wonder retain their memories from the timeline we've been playing in so far, to keep things from feeling like a complete rehash of the Chapters 1-4 we've already played through. That'd lend itself to the team gaining new members without losing the existing ones, and obviously would allow them to change things in the timeline, to keep it interesting for the player.

Plus, since we seem to be building some sympathy for the previous Palace rulers now that the Thieves are aware they were basically just Magatsukami's pawns, it could be fun to see how the Thieves potentially approach Kiuchi, Miyazawa, Akashi, and Shimotsuna a bit differently, haha. Obviously it wouldn't undo the bad stuff they've each done, and I wouldn't expect the Thieves to outright forgive them or anything, but they have a lot more perspective on the situation now than they did back then.

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It was sad to see anri’s absence from the anniversary sync patch story (or lack thereof heh) if we were to hypothetically get sync patches for Persona’s 30th anniversary or P5X’s 1.5 anniversary would they release before or after global gets chapter 5?

I wasn't surprised they left Aran out, since she hasn't joined the team yet in Global (similar to how they left Shoki out of the Twins Arc before), but it does seem like a bit of a shame she didn't get to meet Miku. Er, that is, recognize Miku on a screen, I guess.

I think it's reasonably likely (though not a guarantee) that we'll get another synchronous update for Global's 1.5th anniversary, since the first synchronous update was for Global's half anniversary. Timing those special updates for Global's milestones, in general, seems like it makes sense.

As for whether that would be for Persona's 30th anniversary, and whether Global is likely to have Chapter 5 by then... well, Global's half anniversary was celebrated in late December, just before Christmas, so I'd assume Global's 1.5th anniversary would be celebrated around then as well. Persona's 30th anniversary is this year, and festivities are likely to continue throughout the entire year, even after the series' actual anniversary on September 20th. So at the very least, the possibility that Global's 1.5th anniversary could celebrate the series' 30th anniversary exists.

However, the P5Fes/Wonder World event going in the other regions is already celebrating the series' 30th anniversary, so I'd be a little surprised if they did a synchronous update for it, too (especially since Miku already fits into that event better than anything going on in Global, considering she has her appearance from P4D). They've surprised me before! But I wouldn't personally count on it.

Also, realistically, even with them condensing the updates a little, Global is extremely unlikely to get Chapter 5 before its 1.5th anniversary, considering the other regions got Chapter 5 for their 2nd anniversaries. So if we got any synchronous update for Global's 1.5th anniversary, regardless of theme, I would not expect to see Aran there, either, unfortunately.

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Happy Anniversary!