"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

@hayasher

2 ай бұрын

need for speed carbon

@Hyde_FollowerOfMercury

Ай бұрын

Send an interdimensional portal I want to play that.

@Sonicnodiadeabrilde

Ай бұрын

oops, wrong universe

@MondoJaeKusai

17 күн бұрын

"Fake game?" "Fan project?" Wow, you really are Solid Snake.

Nothing better than having vague memories of looking up Persona soundtracks on KZread 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).

@HowardHeyman

8 ай бұрын

(Great video BTW)

@x24b3

7 ай бұрын

Yooo HowardGAYman

@NixonAxi

4 ай бұрын

Literally how it went for me.

Dude you realize you've just helped categorize internet history. Can't believe this thing actually existed before Persona 5 was even released.

@furowowo

8 ай бұрын

yo youre back😮

@viper0111

8 ай бұрын

Oh shit you again

@tkjordan1376

8 ай бұрын

Any video with a JustinY comment has secured its place in internet history

@MrKarateHandlesYou

7 ай бұрын

The legend returns

@reezwave

7 ай бұрын

Heyyy.. long time no see

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.

@TheRealFolkBlues

8 ай бұрын

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.

@DeeFig66

7 ай бұрын

Can you link up the blog? I'd like to follow! :)

@ch000mp

7 ай бұрын

​@@DeeFig66a link would be helpful 📝👀

@mesmorrow

4 ай бұрын

@@DeeFig66 Check the description of this video.

@Anona-Goose

2 ай бұрын

OMG it’s you!

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.

@recctangle180

8 ай бұрын

yooo its the guy!!!!!11!!!!11111!

@betuna9487

7 ай бұрын

😢

@betuna9487

7 ай бұрын

Sorry if this is bothering you. But can you tell me where can I see all the promotional art used for the project?

@kyleeliniguez6345

6 ай бұрын

@@betuna9487 ATLUSxP5 has the link to everything on his channel

@mesmorrow

4 ай бұрын

@@betuna9487 There are some sources and information in the description of this video.

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.

@quacksonic

7 ай бұрын

no more what if's

@maxslatton5237

4 ай бұрын

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.

@dyrr836

3 ай бұрын

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.

I'm the one who archived the Atlus forums thread! I was so passionate about this project at the time and a bit distraught over the way that small community would go away, lol. I'm happy to have contributed to the preservation of this project. I still listen from time to time and kill time imagining what kind of story AxP5 was trying to tell through this music. I also have grown quite fond of several artists included in the project and listen to them today!

@TheRealFolkBlues

8 ай бұрын

Hey, thank you for going through that effort of archiving the thread! A whole chunk of this video straight-up wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for the added context of those forum archives, so you're one of the real ones for preserving an obscure part of internet history.

@aritrasarkar4435

6 ай бұрын

Respect ya man

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!

@TheRealFolkBlues

8 ай бұрын

That "we'll probably never know for sure" line sure sounds kinda silly now, huh?

@bethos9215

8 ай бұрын

Yo. man I loved your fan OST. I’m just really glad to see another fan of DJ Deckstream.

@bethos9215

8 ай бұрын

Also, since you’re familiar with Utrecht (which honestly blows my mind), are you familiar of band copter4016882?

@betuna9487

Ай бұрын

Muito obrigado. Pela imaginação, pela inspiração, pelo fruto de amor que o projeto foi... Obrigado

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.

I still regularly listen to some of the false persona 5 soundtrack, still hits those vibes

@RhythmStraw

8 ай бұрын

same

@someguywithabirdface2583

8 ай бұрын

Fr the ost really give vibes of Altus going back to persona 1&2 atmosphere while keep the features of persona 3&4.

God I recall this project seeing this video reminded me of it such amazing video thank you the amazing work put into this!

Interesting that Jazztronic would eventually remix real Persona 5 songs for Dancing in the Starlight.

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

@Lobsterwithinternet

6 ай бұрын

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.

@ambientNexus

5 ай бұрын

Well, like they said in the video, the "imagining project" subtitle wasn't originally there, it only appeared after a rebrand happened.

@Tieigo0

3 ай бұрын

We need the Green.Persona 6 will be green

@skywoofyt5375

3 ай бұрын

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

@danielbarnes1241

3 ай бұрын

​@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.

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.

@real1mem3s

4 ай бұрын

Butt kissing

I mean the guy on the cover looking eerily similar to Dojima was already a big giveaway.

@starwarschic123

7 ай бұрын

And screencaps/scenes literally ripped from episode 23 of Ergo Proxy (2006)

@betuna9487

Ай бұрын

​@@starwarschic123actually a lot of the "animated" trailers are scenes from Ergo Proxy

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

@thatitalianlameguy2235

8 ай бұрын

The thumbnail did look to me like dojima, can't believe they'd steal fucking yaoi shit

@purplestar9999

8 ай бұрын

I was certain that was dojima haha, how did people not notice?

@starwarschic123

7 ай бұрын

Stuff taken from Ergo Proxy also

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!

Thanks John for sending me here

@betuna9487

Ай бұрын

Hi there.

@betuna9487

Ай бұрын

So, are you new to the project or to this video?

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 always forget how long ago P5 was announced, and I had no clue this fan project was even a thing. Super interesting video, subbed

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.

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!

@TheRealFolkBlues

8 ай бұрын

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.

@MorfsPrower

8 ай бұрын

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.

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 hope Persona 6 is at university, I'm tired of being a high school student.

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 🙏

@kyleeliniguez6345

7 ай бұрын

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.😁

@trickmaster5632

4 ай бұрын

You got me into Jazztronik, which is now my favourite band ever! Can't thank you enough for that!

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!

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.

@jalene150

7 ай бұрын

I love school food punishment. Thanks for the other names😊

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

@mariokarter13

6 ай бұрын

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.

@skytiburon3955

6 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Multienderguy37

Ай бұрын

@@mariokarter13Persona never had the SMT moniker originally, that was something added in localisation.

The art and music quality is just insane. Always thought it was weird how it sorta appeared

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

@softwaremediaguru

8 ай бұрын

The imagining project was scrap, period

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

I couldn’t be more impressed with how you put this video together. Amazing editing and voice over work my man. Keep it up.

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!

I remember finding out about this almost a decade ago and it introduced me to some banging tunes. Great video!

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.

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!

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.

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)

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.

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

Wow! This was an amzingly well done Video Essay on the project! I had originally stumbled into the project when trying to find some small bits of music from the recently revealed Official Persona 5 but never knew that there was more to the story via the Atlus Forums or via the channel's Twiiter! Thanks for shedding some much deserved light on this fantastic fan project!

Thank you for making this. Must have been fun during that time, speculating and anticipating about something. Honestly it feels like those ARG videos.

As someone who reuploaded these tracks on a whim back in the day, I'm glad somebody did a deep dive on these.

Dude how do you only have 9k subs? This is some insanely high quality work. Looking forward to seeing more from you!

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!

Immaculate editing. This was extremely enjoyable. Super nostalgic time it was to be alive. P5xATLUS was more high effort than I'd ever realized.

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.

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.

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

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

@KetchupRocket

8 ай бұрын

I thought it was gonna be green?

@unnamedx2

8 ай бұрын

@@KetchupRocket that was speculation, i'm talking about the recent leaks

@t.t6294

Ай бұрын

Greeeeeen

Thanks for putting me onto this. The music has to be my favorite part of this franchise so i always look forward to hearing more

That channel actually introduced me to DJ Deckstream which ive been grateful for ever since

The editing is insane, thanks a lot!

The editing is so clean

Thank you for this video. I found our about this project a few years ago and have always wondered what it was all about. Some of my favourite overseas artists I had found from browsing the channel playlist.

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.

I'm incredibly pleased to see that somebody covered the topic on the Imagining Project! I came across the project earlier this summer and was instantly taken aback from the fan-made soundtrack, so much so that I really got interested and curious about the project. After doing some searching and browsing, I found tidbits of info and history behind the project like the protagonist's name being Kai and the various bits of the hypothetical story. I would one day love to see this concept fully built into a fan game honestly!

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.

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.

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.

Was super into this fanwork way back, until it eventually faded away. Its nice to learn of that one final upload. Thanks for sharing.

finally a video about one of my favorite things in the persona community. so many songs on that playlist have inspired my music taste to this very day. THANK YOU BLUE!!

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.

I’m honestly shocked this doesn’t have more views and you don’t have more subscribers. But no doubt you’ll have more of both if you continue to pump out videos that are this impressively high quality. Keep up the great work

The editing in this video is so underrated. You got yourself another subscriber!

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

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

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.

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 😅

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.

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 KZread 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.

This video was great, I especially liked how well written the script is and how well structured the video in general feels. Keep up the great work!

This has been a high quality and very insightful video for something I never knew. This whole thing feels like a glimpse into an alternate reality of what a different Persona 5 could’ve been

What a blast from the past, i never really expected a video to pop up on this, but it was a nice reminder of how much i got into it, and was even planning to make a ttrpg based around it at one point, until the real game came out and i started to have less time.

Fantastic video. Although i was never around for this event. I am sure with that concept and plot it wouldve definitely been invested the hell into it.

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

@manon8237

8 ай бұрын

i guess but neither a ‘mirror world’ nor the protagonists being a puppet of some kind isn’t unique to persona 5

@milkflavored

8 ай бұрын

This might be a bit of a reach 😅

@CelestiaLily

7 ай бұрын

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

@sophiagonzales8974

7 ай бұрын

⁠@@manon8237yes but I feel like having main theme as a puppet goes on with persona 5 in depth

@sophiagonzales8974

7 ай бұрын

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.

what a FREAKING AWESOME video man, i look forward to all the videos you make, this was amazing.

AFTER ALL THESE YEARS I JUST REALISED a lot of the characters are all from my favorite show, Ergo Proxy lmao

This is a great video. I had vaguely heard about this but getting to hear about it in-depth was incredibly interesting. From the story itself to the way it was presented, this is really great stuff. Definitely earned a subscribe from me! Keep up the great work!

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...

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!

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!

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.

Amazing video, incredible editing and delivery - thank you for making this! ❤

AMAZING VIDEO MAN! I loved every second of it

Man this video is one of the best youtube videos i've seen in terms of editing. It was cool when the years counting up turned into the words persona 5, really clever.

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.

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.

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 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

I remember finding out about this fan concept of P5 thanks to the fan osts. This was how I found out about different artists like DJ Deckstream(RIP), makes me feel real nostalgic

You had my attention with the thumb and my subscription with your content… man, what a jewel of a video! Congrats! 🤩

this project is how I found some of my favorite artists, like MEG and Rahze/Deckstream