Persona3 THE MOVIE #1 Spring of Birth

"Persona3 THE MOVIE #1 Spring of Birth" (2013) is an anime film you can watch online on iFILM — the first of four theatrical features adapting Atlus's RPG Persona 3.

Transfer student Makoto Yuki arrives at Gekkoukan High School as the new term starts. At midnight, time stops. The people around him turn into coffins. Shadows crawl out of the Tartarus tower. Makoto is pulled into SEES — a secret club of students who fight back during the hidden Dark Hour — alongside Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori, Mitsuru Kirijo and Akihiko Sanada. None of them are fully open about what they know or why they are here.

Atlus released the original Persona 3 RPG in 2006 and it built a devoted following across platforms and years. Directors Noriaki Abe, Tomohisa Taguchi and Yoshifumi Sasahara restructure the story around Makoto's emotional emptiness — a thread the game gestured at but the films put front and center. If the RPG was where you spent eighty hours with these characters, this tetralogy is where you finally hear what they were thinking. Watch "Persona 3 The Movie #1" online on iFILM.