Persona 3 (Manga)

This article is about the manga adaptation. For the original game, see Persona 3.

Persona 3
Author(s)	Shuji Sogabe
Illustrator(s)	Shuji Sogabe
Publisher(s)	Kadokawa (JP) Udon Entertaiment (NA)
Genre	Urban Fantasy
Published	2007-2017

Persona 3 is a manga written and illustrated by Shuji Sogabe. The manga was published in Kadokawa's Dengeki Maō magazine and the Persona magazine, and licensed by Udon Entertaiment.

Overview

Due to the high sales of Persona 3, Atlus ordered a manga adaptation to be made the year following the game's release, in 2007, and was given to Shūji Sogabe, who also handled the Persona 4 manga starting in 2009. Because of this, production of the Persona 3 manga would be significantally slowed down and only be periodically updated. Nevertheless, the series ended on January 21st 2017 with 11 volumes. The manga was published by Udon Entertainment in the United States. The manga jumps between multiple points in the chronology, in order to offer a new narration.

Each volume is referred to as a "Chapitre", which is French for Chapter. Each individual chapter is referred to as a "Piece" and given a French name. The protagonist is named Minato Arisato (有里湊), a name that would only appear here. The manga adapts only the story of Persona 3, and doesn't have any element from either The Answer or Persona 3 Portable.

Synopsis

Udon Entertainement's description of the manga:

Persona 3 follows a diverse group of high school students as they stumble upon a strange phenomenon known as the “Dark Hour,” a mysterious time that occurs at the stroke of midnight, between one day and the next. Now, Minato Arisato and the rest of his friends in the Special Extracurricular Execution Squad must balance their busy high school lives with their continuing investigation into the Dark Hour – and you thought your high school life was tough! These unlikely heroes will have to face the demons within and find the strength to call upon their inner selves – their “Personas” – if they are to survive the horrors of the Dark Hour…

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Volumes

Volume	Publisher(s)	Release	ISBN(s)
File:P3 Manga Volume 1 Cover.png Volume 1	KADOKAWA	Japan October 2007	978-4048662857
File:P3 Manga Volume 2 Cover.png Volume 2	KADOKAWA	Japan February 2008	978-4048662864
File:P3 Manga Volume 3 Cover.png Volume 3	KADOKAWA	Japan June 2008	978-4048671491
File:P3 Manga Volume 4 Cover.png Volume 4	KADOKAWA	Japan October 2008	978-4048673846
File:P3 Manga Volume 5 Cover.png Volume 5	KADOKAWA	Japan September 2009	978-4048681131
File:P3 Manga Volume 6 Cover.png Volume 6	KADOKAWA	Japan March 2012	978-4048861960
File:P3 Manga Volume 7 Cover.png Volume 7	KADOKAWA	Japan October 26, 2013	978-4048660549
File:P3 Manga Volume 8 Cover.png Volume 8	KADOKAWA	Japan March 27, 2015	978-4048692304
File:P3 Manga Volume 9 Cover.png Volume 9	KADOKAWA	Japan January 27, 2016	978-4048656399
File:P3 Manga Volume 10 Cover.png Volume 10	KADOKAWA	Japan November 26, 2016	978-4048923460
File:P3 Manga Volume 11 Cover.png Volume 11	KADOKAWA	Japan February 27, 2017	978-4048926850

Chapters

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No.	Title (Japanese)	Title (Translation)
1		"Prologue: The Beginning of the End"
2		"Transfer Student"
3		"The Dividing Line"
4		"Trigger of Instinct"
5		"S.E.E.S"
6		"squared3"
7		"Tight High Tide"
7.5		"Days Full of Nothing and Everything / The Beat of Your Own Drummer"
8		"Flash Train"
9		"Joined Hands"
10		"A Full Moon"
11		"Bonds"
12		"Edge of the Soul"
13		"Tracing Fate"
14		"Fragments Part 1"
15		"Fragments Part 2"
16		"Fragments Part 3: So Near, So Far"
17		"Fragments Part 4: Primal Love"
18		"Farewell to One and All"
19		"Vengeful Strike"
20		"Conflict"
21		"Pragmatic Transfer"
22		"Crossroads"
23		"Period"
24		"Recursion"
25		"Conflict 2"
26		"Rebirth"
27		"Negative Train"
28		"Starry-Eyed"
29		"Another Echo"
30		"Last Number"
31		"Raison D'être"
32		"Primal"
33		"XIII Death"
34		"Its Name is Nyx"
35		"Momento Mori"
36		"I Will"
37		"Time to Choose"
38		"Cherished"
39		"Final Battle"
40		"Thinking Machine"
41		"Live"
42		"Flower"
43		"Racing Heart"
44		"Resolution"
45		"Those Who Live"
46		"Conclusion"
47		"The Answer to Life (Part 1)"
47.5		"Last Perspective"
48		"Final"

Listings

Characters

• Minato Arisato - Protagonist
• Yukari Takeba
• Junpei Iori
• Akihiko Sanada
• Mitsuru Kirijo
• Fuuka Yamagishi
• Aigis
• Koromaru
• Ken Amada
• Shinjiro Aragaki
• Pharos
• Ryoji Mochizuki
• Shuji Ikutsuki
• Takaya Sakaki
• Jin Shirato
• Chidori Yoshino
• Takeharu Kirijo
• Eiichiro Takeba
• Kurosawa
• Akinari Kamiki
• Isako Toriumi
• Natsuki Moriyama
• Kenji Tomochika
• Hidetoshi Odagiri
• Bunkichi Kitamura
• Mitsuko Kitamura
• Kazushi Miyamoto
• Chihiro Fushimi
• Maya
• Keisuke Hiraga
• Yuko Nishiwaki
• Maiko Oohashi
• Bebe
• Tanaka
• Mutatsu
• Mamoru Hayase
• Nozomi Suemitsu

Trivia

• The manga was published in France from Mars 21st 2019 to December 3rd 2020 by the French publishing company Mana Books.
• The series was originally planned to be 9 volumes long, but was then extended to 10 volumes, and ended up needing 11 volumes to be finished.
• It was first published in the Dengeki Mao magazine from 2007 to 2012, where the publication then moved to Atlus' official Persona magazine.