List of Persona -trinity soul- episodes

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Official artwork used in the Volume 1 DVD release in Japan showing the Kanzato siblings. From left to right: Ryo, Jun and Shin Kanzato.

The following are episodes of Persona -trinity soul-, a sequel to Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3. It began airing on various Japanese television stations on January 5, 2008.^[1]

It had been announced that Persona -trinity soul- would be aired as a television show since January 2008^[2]^[3]. A promo video had been on the the show's official website, created by A-1 Pictures^[4].

A DVD of the show had already been released in Japan recently^[5] on April 23, 2008 with the first two episodes before subsequent releases of Volumes 2 and 3 had 3 episodes each^[6].

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#	Title	Original airdate
01	"Special A Latency" "Toku A Senzai" (特A潜在)	January 5, 2008
Ryō Kanzato, an officer in the Ayanagi Police with the rank of Superintendent, had been dispatched to a Japanese Coast Guard PLH ship after Japanese Coast Guard crewmembers discovered that their Deep Submergence Vehicle had its entire crew missing, baffling some of them. Meanwhile, mysterious deaths had been reported throughout the city once more. Ryō had rescued Yumi Tasaka, who had been under police custody, from being killed by an unknown assailant with his Persona. Ryō's siblings, Shin and Jun, arrive back in Ayanagi City in the course of his investigation and battle against the assailant with his own Persona. After Shin's arrival, his Persona had awakened and killed the same assailant's Persona after it had threatened him earlier during a walk around the city.
02	"Shadow Extraction" "Kagenuki" (影抜き)	January 12, 2008
Shin, with his Persona awakened, nearly escapes his death when a mysterious person pursued him with her own Persona. Ryō's previous actions in saving Yumi Tasaka, as well as the emergence of Shin's own new Persona, had forced the men seemingly responsible for the Shadow killings to make plans to kill Ryō and Shin before they are able to use their Personas against them. Shin and Jun head to their respective schools, with the former meeting friends such as Takurō and Megumi. During a Shadow Pull, Takurō's Persona had emerged with Shin's for a second time. Shin gets invited for karaoke night with Megumi, Takurō and Kanaru, but the girls get attacked by thugs after they left the restroom for a break.
03	"Rare Personality" "Marebito" (マレビト)	January 19, 2008
Shin, Takurō and Kanaru get summoned by Ayanagi Police regarding a mutilation that occurred at the same karaoke bar that they went to. While Jun gets a visit from Eiko Nikaido, a Kanzato family friend, Shin is warned by Ryō that he should leave Ayanagi City alongside Jun as his situation to contain the mysterious killings were on the verge of becoming public through pressuring of his mysterious benefactors. The individuals supposedly known for the Persona killings attempted to assassinate both Ryō and Shin for good, but their attempts backfired as Ryō's Persona made short work of his assailant's Persona, killing him while Shin's Persona fought back until one of his attackers became incapacitated when his Persona had been combined with another.
04	"Whale's Feather" "Kujira no Hane" (くじらのはね)	January 26, 2008
Detective Itō starts to tail Ryō in order to locate evidence behind the string of Reverse murder incidents in Ayanagi City as he was getting frustrated with making the details on the incident top secret. A rift starts to form between Shin and Ryō due to the latter's part in being cold towards his younger siblings. In the midst of this rift, Jun disappears and heads to Ayanagi Lake. Shin and Ryō were able to get Jun back safely when a Persona was summoned near the area, though Jun's had the form of his late twin sister, Yuki.
05	"Forced Unison" "Shiirareta Ketsugō" (強いられた結合)	February 2, 2008
While Detective Itō decides to continue surveillance on Shin and his friends after their karaoke night, Shin goes with Jun after the latter insists on hearing voices from an unusued concert hall. Shin's Persona fights with Sōtarō's during their encounter. Jun, after seeing Shin fighting with Sōtarō, had his Persona awakened as a result. The two retreated after Sōtarō's injuries forced him to retreat. Shin continues to grow more distant from Ryō when he tells his young sibling to leave Ayanagi City for their own good. Takurō's Persona emerges in Naginomori High when Sōtarō makes another appearance, taunting him about Okazaki's, a friend of Takurō's, death.
06	"The Day the Chief Went Missing" "Shochō ga Kieta Hi" (署長が消えた日)	February 9, 2008
The Ayanagi Police is preparing for the annual "Chief for a Day" in which a famous idol is police chief for a day to lecture about the dangers of drunk driving. However, the idol scheduled to show up is unable to make it, but by an odd stroke of luck, Itō and Narasaki are able to convince Megumi and Kanaru to be the chiefs for the event. Meanwhile, Ryō, after responding to a fake Reverse incident, ends up in a bear suit and passing out balloons to children. Two of the boys he meets are targeted for ransom, but Ryō is able to beat up the kidnappers while still in the bear suit. Later, after Shin, Jun, and Takurō meet up with Megumi and Kanaru and are heading home, they pass the bear-suited Ryō, and then Shin, not knowing that it is his older brother in the bear suit, asks him for a light blue balloon.
07	"The Other Person Known as 'Me'" "Watashi to Iu Tasha" (私という他者)	February 16, 2008
Shin, Jun, Megumi, Kanaru and Takurō alongside Yumi go to an inn in the outskirts of Ayanagi City for a break. During this time, Takurō tries to train himself to use his Persona. Megumi had reawakened her Persona after seeing Yumi grab a white feather from the top of the lighthouse, who almost died if Megumi's Persona didn't help her in saving Yumi. Meanwhile, Shin meets up with the mysterious woman after his Persona had attacked her in the beach.
08	"Under the Camphor Tree" "Kusunoki no Shita de" (クスノキの下で)	February 23, 2008
A long time friend of Morimoto transfers into the school, and along with her, mysterious and bizarre "pranks" start happening almost every night in the grounds. The group decides to investigate these incidents by going to the school at night. They divide into two teams: Shin, Jun and Kanaru, and Takurō and Megumi on the other. With the two older boys overly scared, the girls lead on to find Morimoto's friend collapsed on the floor of the science room. Meanwhile, Jun senses a troubled persona nearby and disappears to the camphor tree on the school's yard, and uses his own to comfort it.
09	"The Voice Calling from the Sea" "Umi kara no Yobigoe" (海からの呼び声)	March 1, 2008
Eiko invites Shin to go out with her as she investigate the abandoned Japanese Coast Guard Deep Submergence Vehicle. Eiko reveals to Shin how Ryo had been potentially guilty when he agreed to consent to a brain transfer for Jun, which explained the appearance of Yuki a few days by Shin and Ryo. Eiko also tells Shin of an attack that she experienced in college as a nautical diver. In the midst of the investigation in the waters near the Ayanagi City coastline, the same feathers began to cover almost the entire sea. Shin once again encounters the mysterious woman in a dream, trying to reach out to him.
10	"Shadow Laughing in the Dusk" "Kage wa Hakubo ni Warau" (影は薄暮に微笑う)	March 8, 2008
While Shin goes on a trip with Eiko, Takuro goes to train his Persona with Megumi. Meanwhile, Ryo and Jun get together with Mayuri to see a movie. Mayuri later confronts Ryo in an overpass, but were confronted by Tōma, who was seen to be alive. Ryo and Toma's Persona engage each other in combat, with the latter forced to get away before seeing the mysterious red-haired girl and some whale feathers. Ryo heads down to the coroner's office to see Eiko and despite his earlier battle with Tōma, confirmed his dead corpse.
11	"Definition of Dependence" "Izon no Teigi" (依存の定義)	March 15, 2008
Shin, Takurō, and Megumi bust up a shadow extraction group only to find out that Kanaru is the leader of the group. After a talk, it becomes obvious that she's addicted to shadow extractions and they try convincing her to quit, including Shin beating up the people she was going to meet before she gets there. They then do a sleep over to try to keep her from going out. Toru reveals some information that he knew several other persona users. After she agrees to another shadow extraction, Shin breaks it up by scaring the other boys of with his persona. Depressed because Kanaru gave up, Mayuri offers to do it to her. Kanaru refuses and goes and hides in the park. Shin runs into Mayuri and she leads him to her. He goes into the place she's hiding in and then after he says he will wait outside for her till she calms down. Kanaru freaks out and Shin rushes in to help her. Shin holds onto Kanaru and as the others arrive, they are lifted into the sky by a large bubble of purple persona like energy.
12	"Savior" "Kyūsaisha" (救済者)	March 22, 2008
Ryo visits Yumi in the Ayanagi City Hospital with Shin speaking to him about his reasons why he was there. Eiko speaks up with Ito regarding her concerns of Ryo that he may be hiding some details on the Apathy Syndrome cases. Later on, Ryo meets up with Keisuke Komatsubara aka Mariya Kudou in the Ayanagi bridge, warning him that he would like to take Ryo's Persona away from him. Meanwhile, Kudou informs the Outsiders to conduct more surveillance of Shin and Jun back at Naginomori Gakuen High School.
13	"Snowfield Painted in Scarlet" "Shu ni Somaru Setsugen" (朱に染まる雪原)	March 29, 2008
Mariya kills off the rogue Yuji in the midst of a parent-teacher conference in Nagimori Gakuen. Ito and Eiko team up to find out what Ryō is up to by planting a GPS device in his vehicle. Ryō later faces off against Mariya in the mountains outside of Ayanagi City. Despite being wounded by Mariya's persona, Ryō was able to severely defeat his Pesona. Before Eiko could aid Ryō, his Persona sensed Eiko in the area and fired a beam shot on her chest, killing her. In the Kanzato residence, Jun had been able to sense Ryō and Eiko's plight.
14	"Interval of Fluctuation" "Hazama no Hōkō" (狭間の彷徨)	April 5, 2008
Shin visits the Ayanagi City Police Station to find out more about what happened to Ryō and Eiko after the media said the former was missing and the latter was said to be dead, leaving Shin heartbroken. Akihiko arrives in Ayanagi City and works to conceal information from both police and public about the Reverse Incidents. Sōtarō meets with Shin without fighting. An unknown Persona user goes berserk after he ran out of suppressant pills, forcing his Persona to go wild by draining the lifeforce out of bystanders before a beam shot kills him. Shin sees Ryō in the sky with his Persona and white feathers, but he mysteriously disappears when the lights were restored during the rogue Persona's ramapage in downtown Ayanagi.
15	"The Person who Shuts Out Tomorrow" "Ashita o Tozasu Mono" (明日を閉ざすもの)	April 12, 2008
Shin, still depressed over the disappearance of Ryō and Eiko, goes back to the old Kanzato residence to see Akihiko Sanada in the house. He, with Inui, informs Shin and the others Nagamori Gakuen students/Persona users on the truth behind the string of incidents dubbed by both police and the media as the "Reverse" Incidents with the reason on why the incidents were still taking place in Ayanagi City as of now.
16	"Child's Release and Healing of the Sacred Spirit" "Kaihō no Ko to Chiyu no Seirei" (解放の子と治癒の聖霊)	April 19, 2008
Shin and Takuro, with Ito, get involved in a planned operation by Akihiko to take down the Marebitos. However, Shin and Takuro got their Personas pinned down by Sotaro and Udo's. Things became worse when Sotaro's persona wounds Jun by the shoulder by a beam shot in the shoulder. After Akihiko tends to Jun's wounds, Megumi assists them by taking refuge in her family home.
17	"Winds of Home" "Kaze no Sato nite" (風の里にて)	April 26, 2008
While Jun recuperates from his shoulder wound, Megumi's memories of her abhorrence towards personas were revealed. Her brother Tomoya died when her persona was activated, leading to hatred from her mother. Megumi and her mom had a hard time mending their family ties until an accident with a trailer truck had Megumi activate her persona to save her mother from drowning, resulting in their reconnection of their family bonds and ending her mom's hatred over Megumi.
18	"Sinking Dream" "Shizumu Yume" (沈む夢)	May 3, 2008
Jun starts to go out with Ayane, who is the mysterious girl in red who keeps appearing before Ryo and Shin. Shin decides to secretly follow the two to a local park, despite Kanaru participating in an all-English speech contest. Shin was then subjected to several visions by Ayane, including being forced to watch Eiko being brutally killed by Ryo's own Persona before Shin encounters a vision of Ryo's Persona and later fights with his own while seeing the white feathers again. Though Shin was alive later on when he wakes up in grassy field, he encounters Jun with Yuki's voice.
19	"Returnee" "Kikansha" (帰還者)	May 10, 2008
While taking a break from watching Megumi do a hip hop dance rountine, Takuro spotted someone who appears to be his father from the beach. Inui tells Shin and the others that the people who reemerge from their disappearance due to the Apathy Crisis had returned with either different souls or bodies. During this time, Takuro and his father try to reconcile their differences after the latter had disappeared, forcing a burden on his son and the rest of his family.
20	"Memories" "Omoide" (おもいで)	May 17, 2008
Shin meets up with Jun, only for him to notice that Yuki is the one currently inhabiting his body when she tells her brother that Ryo and Jun are still alive in another world. An investigation to the Kanzato residence led by Akihiko reveals to Shin about the nature of his parent's true work. Meanwhile, Yuki gets kidnapped by Saki and activates Kanaru's persona, which delays Tomohiro's pursuit to rescue Jun.
21	"Cruelty" "Zankoku" (残刻)	May 24, 2008
Narasaki gets affected by the Apathy Syndrome, forcing everyone including Akihiko to start making preparations to locate the Marebito hideout with Jun's abduction under their watch. Keisuke gets resurrected after Jun got unconscious to control their Persona. Most of the surviving Marebito's Persona were starting to get berserk due to the lack of suppression medication required. Meanwhile, Shin encounters Hiiragi, who was involved in Keisuke's research on Personas and reveals to him the true reason for the nature of their work and why his parents left them in the first place.
22	"Depending Generation" "Yorishiro" (依り代)	May 31, 2008
While Ito and Akihiko were ordered not to get involved with the Marebito, Shin, Takuro and Kayano trek to the Marebito's hideout in the mountains and do battle with the Personas belonging to Keisuke and Ayane. Jun/Yuki's reawakend Persona, with Morimoto's in addition, was able to even the odds to Shin's and defeat Ayane's for good, but almost everyone lost consciousness. In a vision, Jun tells Shin goodbye. In a distance, he sees Ryo in a harbor.
23	"Embracing Bonds" "Kizuna wo idai te" (絆を抱いて)	June 7, 2008

24	"Wedge of Atonement" "Shokuzai no kusabi" (贖罪の楔)	June 14, 2008

25	"Meaningless Loss" "Iware naki soushitsu" (謂れなき喪失)	June 21, 2008