Persona 5 Dubbed

Siliconera has learned today that Persona 5 won’t include both English and Japanese voiceover options, but Atlus will instead stick to English in-game text and voices for their localization.

According to Atlus, a stable of talented voice actors have provided the English voiceovers while Atlus’s own localization team offers an English script that “provides a faithful and engaging play experience.”

Comic_Sans said:
Although there's still a chance that we Europeans (I don't know where you live so I'm mostly referring to myself) might get a dual audio/Japanese only option since the majority of Europeans aren't native English speakers and therefore might not necessarily be too hooked on having to listen to the English dub

Romores said:
Nah, Deep Silver confirmed that the EU edition will be just like the American one, just with a different region code/rating.

Comic_Sans said:
Well that sucks

I guess I'm just gonna have to improve my Japanese skills or get the illegal undub version once it comes out then

Niella said:


They have talked about fixing japanese audio DLC though so who knows, personally I ordered the japanese version but I'm gonna get the English version aswell when it comes out.

Comic_Sans said:
Oh really? That's awesome

ariacelesta said:

It's been almost a year but I'm surprised that they actually did. Although for some reason my japanese audio is returning errors so I'm probably gonna stick with the english dub. What a bummer.

Comic_Sans said:
I feel you fam, the Japanese version really has an all star cast.

What do you mean by "it's returning errors"? Can't you download it?

Tlahuizcapante said:
Majority of people still would play in dubbed english version. If you play with jp voices, you are weeaboo and pretentious freak, 'cuz japanese voices are squeaky and unpleasant for ears.
I'm played with japanesy dub, because their voices are more familiar for me, than their english counterpart. As for english dub, i think, that their voice actors did quite a solid job. I don't have a plan on second (or even more, who knows?) playthrough play with english voices. Maybe, i'm later reconsider my opinion, but not now.
If to compare, i think, that from Phantom Thieves cast, Yuuki Aoi, Fukuyama Jun, Rina Satou voices are better, than their english voices. Rest of cast is pretty much on a same level.
P.S. If someone got different opinion about japanese and english voices, i'm positive to read it, if someone decide to post their thoughts.

ariacelesta said:
I got it working but they sound muffled for some reason. I realised that the english voice also sounded muffled, but the japanese one sound more apparent. Maybe because I'm using my headset through the audio jack on the dualshock, such LQ.

ariacelesta said:


I'm usually a sucker for japanese dub. I watch every and any anime with japanese dub, I believe that jap dub is superior in anime, I follow the belief that a material should be watched in its original language. That being said, I actually enjoy, and have been enjoying persona 5 in english dub compared to the japanese dub, it's hard to say really, I don't know why.

To me the english dub in persona carries more emotion, and feels more persona like. It might have been because of the bias I carry, having finished persona 3 and 4 in english. It's such a shame considering the all star cast persona 5 has for its jap dub. You're forgetting Tomatsu Haruka and Tomokazu Sugita. I'm pretty sad about this actually, and to be honest, I got stressed out over it. I truly want to enjoy persona 5 in japanese, but I find myself enjoying the english dub more.

And one last thing, the localisation. I like reading texts, and I usually read the text along with the dialogue. However, I find that, often, the japanese dialogue is often different from the english text, sometimes it's minor, but another time they mean totally different things. And to be honest that put a strain in my brain, basically it's like processing two different informations at the same time.

DatRandomDude said:
Usually id try my best to get subs but the dub is actually fine.
(well i didnt get the subs because i thought i had to pay for the japanese cast. gg me .-.)

The only english dub that annoy me so far is Haru's VA, urgh.

Tlahuizcapante said:
@ariacelesta What personaliy you dislike in eng dub? I heard some lines of every voice actors in english version, and think, that english Futaba are actually one of the best voices. Of course, japanese version is better, 'cause Yuuki Aoi did fantastic job, and i think that she are capture Futaba's personality greatly. If compare both version, i think, that in english, Futaba sound more mature and have less quirky personality. Also, i think, that most characters are been writen with particular seiyuu in mind. I mean, look at smirk of MC, during of his awakening. It's just felt that this character is created to be voiced by Fukuyama Jun or Miyano Mamoru.

ariacelesta said:
@Tlahuizcapante @Comic_Sans
I changed my mind after Futaba appeared. To be honest I love the english cast, well, I loved it. My fav voice in the engish dub is Makoto's voice, she's just much better in the english dub than the jap dub. However, the rest pales in comparison, especially Futaba and Haru.....

After Futaba I realised that I need to change the dub so I've been playing in jp ever since. And Haru's voice in jp (Tomatsu Haruka) sounds so lovely.