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Persona 3 the Movie #1 Spring of Birth

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Alternative title:
ペルソナ3 (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: In the spring, male student Makoto Yūki transfers to Gekkōkan High School. However, as he heads to his new dormitory, listening to the music on his headphones, he is stopped. More precisely, time has stopped, and the people who were around him turn into coffins. Makoto learns that this period of time hidden between the minute of midnight is called the Dark Hour, a time when monsters called Shadows appear. Suddenly made the leader of his fellow classmates Yukari and Junpei by his upperclassmen Mitsuru and Akihiko, Makoto must learn empathy, his connection to his comrades, and the meaning of death. With the power of his Evoker aimed at his head, Makoto fights against the Shadows threatening to attack his world from the mysterious tower of Tartarus.
User Ratings: 136 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 14 votes (sub:11, dub:1, raw:1, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Excellent: 17 votes (sub:15, ?:1, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 26 votes (sub:24, dub:1, others:1
1 German subtitled
)
 Good: 42 votes (sub:40, ?:1, others:1
1 Vietnamese subtitled subtitled
)
 Decent: 13 votes (sub:12, others:1
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 So-so: 11 votes (sub:11)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:3, raw:1)
 Weak: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Worst ever: 2 votes (sub:2)
Seen in part or in whole by 238 users, rank: #3448 (of 9508)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 7.052 (Good), std. dev.: 2.0663, rank: #3467 (of 9647)
Weighted mean: 7.007 (Good), rank: #3488 (of 9647) (seen all: 7.05 / won't finish: 3.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.051 (Good), rank: #3138 (of 7268)
Running time: 90 minutes
Vintage: 2013-11-23
Premiere date:
2013-11-23 (Japan)
2016-10-23 (UK, Scotland Loves Anime)
Opening Theme:
"Burn My Dread -Spring of Birth Ver.-" by Yumi Kawamura
Ending Theme:
"More Than One Heart" by Yumi Kawamura
Insert song:
"Mass Destruction" by Lotus Juice & Yumi Kawamura
Official website:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Persona 3 The Movie 1: Spring of Birth [Import] (Sub.Blu-ray) 2014-05-20
    Persona 3 The Movie 1: Spring of Birth [Import] [Collector's Edition] (Sub.Blu-ray) 2014-05-20
Blu-ray (Region B)
    Persona 3 The Movie #1: Spring of Birth [UK] [Collector's Edition] (Sub.Blu-ray + DVD) 2017-02-13
DVD (Region 2)
    Persona 3 The Movie #1: Spring of Birth [UK] (Sub.DVD) 2017-02-13

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Noriaki Akitaya
Script: Jun Kumagai
Music: Shoji Meguro
Original Character Design: Shigenori Soejima
Character Design: Keisuke Watabe
Art Director: Toshihiro Kohama
Chief Animation Director:
Akiko Asaki
Mizuka Takahashi
3D Director: Tetsuya Watanabe
Sound Director: Satoki Iida
Producer:
Akimichi Tsugawa
Kazuki Adachi (Aniplex)
Kozue Kananiwa (MOVIC)
Osamu Hosokawa (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Yoshikazu Tanaka

2D Modeling Director: Shinpei Ōhata
2D Modeling Support:
Mieko Sakurai
Shiori Itō (art setting)
Yasushi Mito
Yumiko Narita
3D Layout: Mitsutaka Iguchi
Action Director: Ryō Tanaka
Animation producer: Takashi Sakurai
Art Setting: Kaoru Aoki
Assistant Art Director: Yukiko Ono
Assistant producer:
Kozue Okazaki
Moe Sakai
Associate producer:
Hirotsugu Ogisu
Junichi Mori
Background Music Production Assistance:
Shōi Tokunaga
Tetsuya Kobayashi
Color Correction: Ichiro Chaen
Color design: Saori Goda
Color Management: Toshiki Yura
Composite Director: Hideki Imaizumi
Digital Cinema Mastering:
Kei Asai
Miho Murayama
Distribution Manager: Yuu Takahashi
Editing: Takashi Sakurai
Finish Animation:
Arisa Komatsu (FINE COLORs)
Chieko Hibi (AIC)
Chihiro Irie (FINE COLORs)
Hitoki Takeda (FINE COLORs)
Koji Hamaoka
Mariko Shinohara (AIC)
Michino Fujiwara (FINE COLORs)
Miyu Yamamoto (AIC)
Naoki Kumaie (AIC)
Nozomi Andô (FINE COLORs)
Sachiko Urushido (AIC)
Sakie Suzuki (FINE COLORs)
Saori Goda
Saori Murakoshi (FINE COLORs)
Shiho Tanaami (FINE COLORs)
Tomoko Koyama (FINE COLORs)
Yūji Yoshikawa (AIC)
Yuriko Yamashita (FINE COLORs)
In-Between Animation:
Chie Kimura (AIC)
Chika Ohashi (AIC)
Hiroaki Satō (AIC)
Hitomi Satō (AIC)
Kei Nakajima (AIC)
Minami Aoki (AIC)
Namie Akiba (AIC)
Naoki Suda (AIC)
Ryō Saitō (AIC)
Tetsuya Watanabe (AIC)
Insert Song Performance:
Lotus Juice
Yumi Kawamura
Lab Coordinator: Yuriko Satō
Lab Manager: Teru Ogawa
Logo Design: Yasunori Takeda (tdyn)
Mastering Engineer: Machiko Suzue
Monitor Design: Fumi Nanba
Music Assistant: Hidemi Muramoto (Atlas)
Official Site Production:
Keina Mukai
Satsuki Maruyama
Takeo Tsuda
Online Editor: Shun Tokuda
Original Work Assistance:
Mika Matsuoka
Takahito Eto
Persona Design: Kyōma Aki
Persona Design Concept: Kazuma Kaneko
Planning:
Kōichirō Natsume (Aniplex)
Naohiro Tafu (MOVIC)
Naoto Hiraoka (Atlus)
Tetsushi Mutsunobu ( Yomiko Advertising, Inc.)
Yoshikuni Murata
Poster Design: Yasunori Takeda (tdyn)
Production Cooperation:
Atsuhiro Iwakami (Aniplex)
Hiroo Maruyama (MBS)
Hiroyuki Shimizu (Aniplex)
Kaoru Iwasaki (Aniplex)
Keiko Ishikawa (Aniplex)
Keiko Nobuoka (Aniplex)
Kōsuke Sakai (Aniplex)
Kumiko Suzuki (Yomiko Advertising)
Madoka Motoki (Aniplex)
Makoto Yajima (Yomiko Advertising)
Mamoru Ooi (Aniplex)
Michio Yamamoto (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Nobuo Suzuki (Aniplex)
Ryōko Satō (Hakuhodo DY Media Partners)
Takeshi Ochi (Aniplex)
Tomoyuki Nakayama (Aniplex)
Toshihiro Maeda (MBS)
Yoshinori Hasegawa (MOVIC)
Yuki Tagami (Yomiko Advertising)
Yukiko Matsunaga (Aniplex)
Production Desk:
Shun Hatano
Shunichi Tsuji
Prop Design: Shinobu Tsuneki
Publicity: Yuki Kataoka
Publicity Producer: Kumiko Honma
Recording: Tomonari Tokuhisa
Recording Assistant:
Hiromi Yoshihara
Keiko Hori
Recording engineer: Atsushi Yamaguchi (MIT GATHERING)
Sales Planning: Naoki Minabe
Series Unit Director: Tomohisa Taguchi
Setting Production: Satoshi Hirose
Sound Effects: Ijo Okuda
Sound Production Manager: Takuma Takai
Sub-Character Design: Takuya Tani
Supervision: Seiji Kishi
Technical Engineer: Yuta Matsuda
Theater Coordination:
Masami Ebihara
Shintarō Komatsu
Theme Song Composition: Shoji Meguro
Theme Song Lyrics: Benjamin Franklin (ED)
Theme Song Performance: Yumi Kawamura
Trailer Production:
Eita Higashikubo
Takashi Konishi
Visual Designer: Junpei Takatsu
Akira Ishida as Makoto Yūki
Hikaru Midorikawa as Akihiko Sanada
Kōsuke Toriumi as Junpei Iori
Mamiko Noto as Fūka Yamagishi
Megumi Toyoguchi as Yukari Takeba
Rie Tanaka as Mitsuru Kirijō

Akira Ishida as Fallos
Atsumi Tanezaki as Natsuki Moriyama
Hideyuki Hori as Shūji Ikutsuki
Isamu Tanonaka as Igor (special performance)
Kazuya Nakai as Shinjirō Aragaki
Miyuki Sawashiro as Elizabeth

Eiichirō Tokumoto as Gangster C
Haruki Ishiya as Gangster E
Hiroaki Miura as Hidetoshi Odagiri
Hiroshi Watanabe as Gangster F
Kenji Nojima as Kenji Tomochika
Kotori Koiwai as Female Student B
Lynn as Gangster D
M.A.O as Female Student A
Marie Miyake as Girl B
Megu Sakuragawa as Girl D
Naoto Kobayashi as Gangster B
Rumi Okubo as Girl A
Shinya Takahashi as Broadcaster
Yuka Komatsu as Isako Toriumi
Japanese companies
Animation Production: AIC A.S.T.A.
Background Music Production Assistance: G-angle
Backgrounds: Bihou, Inc.
Digital Lab: Imagica
Distributor: Aniplex
Mastering Studio: Sony Music Studios Tokyo
Music Production: Aniplex
Original Creator: Atlus
Sound Production: Dax Production
English staff
English companies
(none)
Distributor: Aniplex of America
Licensed by: Anime Limited (UK & Ireland)
English cast
(none)
German cast
German staff
(none)
Christiane Werk as Fuuka Yamagishi
Marco Sven Reinbold as Junpei Iori
Milena Karas as Mitsuru Kirijou
Peter Lehn as Akihiko Sanada
Rieke Werner as Yukari Takeba
Tom Raczko as Makoto Yuuki

Aart Veder as Igor
Dirk Hardegen as Shinjirou Aragaki
Erik Borner as Shuuji Ikutsuk
Gisa Bergmann as Elizabeth
Luca Kron as Pharos
Tanja Esche as Natsuki Moriyama
German companies
Distributor: Peppermint Anime
Internet Streaming: Wakanim (German speaking countries)

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