#jun mochizuki stage play

[retracexcviii]

Noé + Vanitas + 2nd Noé

Hello there. Today I bring you a kick coloring from the last drawing Jun shared on Twitter about the stage-play (it has two actors for Noé since the 1st one got covid last year. He is okay now).

Do you remember last year when I told you that I should keep this place updated and post at the same time that in Twitter because I had some things unshared back then? Well, now the tables have been turned. And now you know all the things I made meanwhile I have in Twitter like 5 art to post... I'm a disaster.

Anyways, I hope you like this one since I really enjoyed doing it. I'm not used to coloring tbh, I prefer to take tiny things as chibis to color them, but with this one I felt charmed and I couldn't help but painting it. Don't get used, or yes...

[grelleswife]

Mochijun just released some incredible new Vanoe art! If I deciphered Google Translate correctly, it’ll be a perk for audience members who purchase premier seats for the upcoming revival of the VnC stage play. According to sensei, Vanitas’s blue anemone means “firm oath,” “I will believe in you,” and “long-awaited” in flower language, while Noé’s Hardenbergia signifies “miraculous reunion” and “happiness comes in.” Again, however, this is just me going off Google Translate, so please let me know if I’ve misinterpreted anything here!

[existingtm]

New interview with MochiJun regarding the VNC stage play (messily translated into English via Google Translate):

[briebysabs]

Mochijun is amazing and I feel like ppl don’t understand how much she’s worked. PH began in 2006, had long chapters a minimum of 40 pages. I wasn’t there for the run but to release 104 chapters in 9 years you can assume there were almost no breaks. If you’ve read Brocante which is a sketchbook that comes with special edition of vol 11 (I strongly recommend getting it if you can). You would know she’s been planning VnC from 2009-2015. So essentially for 6 out of those 9 years of PH’s run mochijun was working on two manga at the same time. That’s crazy.

And mind you, she didn’t take that long of a break after PH. It ended in March of 2015 I believe and then she had to compose the PH final artbook soon after. And vnc started in December. And went on with few breaks until a few years ago. Then you include supervising the 2009 ph anime and VnC’s anime when they came out. Then include the ph and vnc collab, the ph 15th anniversary cafe, the now mochijun 20th anniversary online lottery. Then you include interviews, signings, covers of GJ magazines. She worked on a shoujo rei MV. She makes all the additional items that come with volumes. I think she released 3 light novels for PH (though idk if she wrote them or overlooked its creation by another writer). There’s likely stuff I forgot depending on her role in stage plays. Or art she did in miscellaneous magazines or art she did for other creators. Or much more I just don’t know about. Jun Mochizuki is not a company or a small studio. She has assistants thank god but most of this will fall on one woman.

I know it’s sad we haven’t gotten vnc since April but firstly, we got a lot of shit in April. So the hiatus is sad but I’m not surprised. And honestly when I found out she worked on ph and vnc around the same time, I was so shocked she hadn’t broken down for that long. On a final note, both PH and VnC are not simple manga with straight-forward plots. They have so much planning and detail and foreshadowing placed into them. She gave us two complex manga basically back to back.

[alicenpai]

For the art asks - 2 and 14?

hi anon !!

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

characters facing left for sure (I'm right handed). but because of this I think I do try a lot harder at right-facing faces, and most of the time those may end up looking nicer! haha

14. Any favorite motifs

I wish I drew more of my favourite visual motifs more, actually. so if you're surprised by the below I wouldn't blame you LOL because I feel like. I wish I drew from my heart more! I sometimes think my art is really boring if I can be brutally honest. gotta take more risks!

I like a lot of genres of media so understandably my art is all over. people have said this is a great quality, others have trouble pinpointing certain traits about my art, or my interests? and I wish that the things I love were more clear. honestly I feel more like the latter part of a "jack of all trades, master of none" but more like. a little court jester with my jingle hat. in 2023 I'd like to be happier with my art, and draw things that are more interesting/emotional/personal to me! 🏃‍♀️💨

- I love gothic/victorian motifs a lot! overly ornate frames (like haunted portraits), mirrors, flowers, complex drapery, and yes, we can't talk about gothic without the macabre stuff that was present in victorian culture too. sorry for being an edgy 2000s kid but I love skeletons in art... and characters sitting in coffins? chef kiss. Just like. the precarious balance of life and death in art is so genuinely interesting. I once saw in a Waldemar Januszczak art history doc that artists are so unapologetically obsessed with this dark stuff hahaha... 🤧👍 media that come to mind are Ib, Pandora Hearts, Black Butler. non anime media like Dracula, Portrait of Dorian Gray, Sherlock Holmes.

- Theatre/Shakespearean motifs as well. curtains, wooden props, stage sets. Opera, classical Greek theatre, ballet, pantomime, the circus. Shakespearean in the way that the characters are very passionate yet oh so tragic. Like. just in general playing on the idea that stories are plays, and the characters are mere puppets in someone's fabrication. thus things like puppets and clown-type characters in plays are fascinating too. things like, characters as the automatons in automaton clocks are so cool. I also LOVE the concept of dolls, however dolls are? quite frankly? terrifying irl. inspirations: Princess Tutu, lots of tragic stage play themes also present in Jun Mochizuki's work in Pandora Hearts and Vanitas no Carte, Rozen Maiden for the dolls thing.

- storybook themes. European fairy tale illustrations, anything whimsical and old fashioned. Witch Hat Atelier comes to mind, Princess Tutu again, also The Girl from the Other Side.

Dungeon Meshi by Ryoko Kui, Pandora Hearts by Jun Mochizuki

Pandora Hearts by Jun Mochizuki

Heinrich Lefler, Austrian artist. "Der Gevatter Tod", "Godfather Death"

A Russian version of the Swedish folk tale The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, if you know who the artist is please let me know! artist is found - Oleg Vassiliev!

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama

[thelocaldetective]

Mitsu “Makka” Yagami

VO (English): Constance Wu

Meanings:

<> Mitsu’s first name means “light” in Japanese but she was also named after her late (✝️) second adoptive grandfather Mitsugu

<> Mitsu’s middle name is Ryuko (which is close enough to “Ryuzo” her first adoptive grandfather, translates to “dragon child” in Japanese

<> Makka is a combination of “Sakura” and “Mini Tak”, which is what her “uncle” Kaito calls her affectionately (familial), due to have dominating majority of her father’s personality

Theme song:

Favourite Quote(s):

“It only takes is a spark.”

— Young Mitsu repeating Yagami’s words in awe

Basics:

Species: Human being

Helluva Boss: Sinner (kitsune)

Sex: Female

Nationality (determinant):

• Japanese 🇯🇵

<> Kyoko (full)

<> Nanami (full)

• English 🇬🇧

<> Emily (half)

<> Yoko (AU) (fluent)

<> Yagami (fluent, implied)

• American 🇺🇸

Ages:

7 years old (fanfiction)

15 years old (standard)

Sexuality: Bisexual

Residency:

Tokyo, Kamurocho

HB/HH:

Happy Hotel (resident)

Occupation:

• High school student

<> Foreign exchange student (Emily)

<> Seiryo High (Kyoko)

<> Uni + scholarship (Nanami)

• Hostess (part time)

Dislikes:

• Being chastised

• Japan’s culture

• Dad jokes

• Her father’s interrogative nature

• Losing (Kyuki)

• Wearing uniforms (especially for school)

• Criticism

• Being told what to do

• Sexual remarks about her father

• Feeling like a suspect

• Mother’s Day and Father’s Day

• The nickname “Makka” due to be associated with her father’s personality and mannerisms etc

• The sound of gunshots (despite being a criminal 😂)

• Amasawa (herself)

• Not being able to travel

• The idea of having siblings

Likes:

• Skateboarding

• Listening to music whilst fighting

• Gambling

• Starting and finishing fights

• Food

• Tattoo & piercings

• Karaoke 😏

• Criminal activity

• Pranking people

<> Specifically speaking in full Japanese 🤣

• Drone racing

• Escape rooms

• Showing off her fighting abilities

• Travelling overseas

• Foreigners

• Sitting under the cherry blossom tree

<> Either meditating or playing a pan flute

• Using her father’s former occupation (lawyer) as an excuse to get her out of trouble

• Defying her father

• Dancing with the Rabbits 🐰

• Model work (Kyoko)

<> Specifically with drone parts 🤭

• Mystery (as a child)

Status: Special interest

• Being an only child 🤣

Romantic interests:

• Axel/Akuseru (Helluva Boss)

<> T.J. Buckzo

<> Wally Wackford

• Peter (Your Boyfriend)

• ??? (OC)

Family:

(bio) Mother: ???

• Kyoko (determinant)

• Emily (determinant)

• Nanami (determinant)

(bio) Father: Takayuki Yagami

(surrogate, paternal 1#) Grandfather: Ryuzo Genda

(surrogate) Uncle: Issei Hoshino

(surrogate) Aunt: Saori Shirosaki

(surrogate, paternal 2#) Grandfather: Mitsugu Matsugane (✝️)

(surrogate) Uncle: Toru Higashi

(surrogate) Uncle: Masaharu Kaito Matsugane

(surrogate) Aunt: Mikiko Sadamoto

(surrogate) Cousin: Jun Sadamoto

(oath / surrogate) Uncle: Tesso

AU/RP:

Fiancé(e): Axel/Anderson (OC, Helluva Boss)

(surrogate) Sister: Kyoko Ansawa (🤭)

(adoptive) Mother: Ellie

(half) Sister: Kozakura

Family name:

• Yagami (standard)

• Matsuoka (determinant)

• Matsugane

• Fuji

• Hakase (determinant)

• Mochizuki (determinant)

Aliases:

• Inari Ōkami 🦊

• The Dragon (vilgilante name)

• The Sinful Siren (stage name)

• Tigress (by a child)

<> Because Mitsu is both stoic and can do kung fu

• Queen Himiko

• Eve

• Angel of Death

• Blackjack

<> Her nickname comes from her expertise in playing blackjack

• MIT-Sue (by tormentors)

• Mini Tak (by Kaito)

Short version: Makka

<> Due to how much Mitsu acts like her father 🤣

• Moriarty 😈

• Matriarch Matsugane

• The Mole (referred to herself)

Flaws:

• Abandonment issues

• Tormentor (formerly 😈)

<> Which soon stopped when Kuwana let her off with a warning if she continued bullying people

• Alcoholic

• Oppositional defiance

<> Literally will do the opposite of what her father says

• Autistic (via her father 😂)

• Bloodlust

<> Due to uncontrollable bar fights which just gives her dad more work to deal with

• Smoker

• Astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning)

<> Which is ironic because the thunderclaps she’s scared of a sound that like gunshots 🤣

• Daddy issues

<> Due to Mitsu and her father being on complete opposite sides of the law; her a criminal and him a detective

• Biker gang leader

<> Stage name: Anarchy

<> Faction: Switchback Drifters

• Victim of rape (secret)

• Selfish

Strengths:

• Transportation

<> Mitsu has some experience with travelling between Tokyo and Yokohama to get to Seiryro High School

• Robotics ~ programming

• Dancing

<> Breakdancing

Affiliations:

Yagami Detective Agency

<> Yokohama 99

Queen Rogue

Girl’s Bite (Emily)

Seiryo High School (Kyoko)

<> Robotics Club

<> Dancing Club

<> Boxing Gym

MIT university (overseas)

Abilities:

• Self defence (Kung Fu)

• Pathological liar

• Puns 🤭

• Evading evidence

• Fluent in foreign language (English)

• Lock-picking

• Skateboarding skills

Appearance & Personality:

Imaginary:

Mitsu has black hair that comes down to her shoulders and has brown eyes. She also has a nice little beauty spot, like her mother, at the corner of her eye

Attire:

Normally when Mitsu is not working; her attire is usually a little dark and screams out “moody teenager” (much to her father’s concern — for both his daughter and his hard-earned reputation)

As a hostess:

Mitsu wears a muse maxi dress with a split down both sides (so she can still defend herself if needed without being restricted by her outfit)

Standard outfit:

• Similar to her father, Mitsu, wears casual clothing if not a little more edgier and “punk rock” with a black shirt, plaid shirt with fishnet stockings, doc marten boots, and of course, a leather black jacket to go with it

• She wears a hair pin so she can use it to pick locks (🤭) , at her own convenience, when breaking into places she’s not supposed to be in — rather than use it for her appearance.

• She also wears leather black gloves to avoid getting caught by the police (or her father) when committing crimes and would often wear a mask to hide her ID

Distinguishing marks:

🟣 = Tattoos

🟢 = Significance

<> Koi Fishes (2) swimming both sides of her stomach

• Reference to Koi Bride ; her go-to gambling place

(She also has a leaves/reefs to cover her lower stomach area which looks like the fishes are in a pond of sorts)

<> Cherry Tree branch going up her arm/shoulder with open cherry blossoms 🌸

(Since her middle name was “Sakura” before she changed it to “Ryuko” due to her antihero alias)

<> Dragon going down her arm ~ hence her middle name being Ryuko which means “Dragon Child”)

(Henceforth her alternative name being ‘The Dragon’)

How would you describe Mitsu’s personality?

• Interrogative (subconsciously)

• Vulgar

• Cunning

• Realistic (determinant)

• Feisty

• Family oriented (?)

• Dry humour

<> Like father like daughter 🤣

• Seductive

• Defiant

• Authoritative

• Smug

• Manipulative

• Clumsy

• Maternal (selectively)

• Jealous

• Hostile

Relationships:

Yagami:

Standard:

Due to Mitsu's enjoyment of (ironic) criminal activity, she and her father tend to butt heads a LOT which would often leave them at an impasse, frequently.

Because of the strained relationship Yagami often would wonder where he had gone wrong with his parenting and how Mitsu could have preferred delinquency over being a law-abider (especially when one’s father is a detective 😂)

Occupation:

What deteriorates Mitsu and Yagami’s relationship even further is choice of career and had, unintentionally, tried to coax her doing something else as a hostess (of all things) and implied she could put away criminals instead of becoming one.

She would often feel inferior to her father especially when it comes to occupation and always hates when he woyld “coax” her into becoming a criminal lawyer when announced she had no interest of being any kind of law enforcer because she enjoys being a lawbreaker

Hobbies:

Whilst Yagami passionately disapproves of Mitsu’s decision to play a part in criminal activities — he is still somewhat more pleased that she’s doing normal things a kid should be doing; like skateboarding or participating with robotics club

However his disapproval escalates dramatically after finding out that Mitsu had become the leader of biker gang and started a faction called “Swiftback Drifters” — technically undoing his hard work of disbanding death races

Fighting:

Unlike Yagami Mitsu tends to deliberately get into fights for the sake of fighting and would often be the one to start it on purpose and would always let her emotions get the best of her (even so far as to kill someone) to prove to people how “strong” she is

She’d even go as far as to doing cage fights to earn extra cash and would often fight dirty to make it happen which often lead a argument between both father and daughter about what was ethical etc

Kaito:

Mitsu considers Kaito as her "uncle"; and would always look up to him — more than her actual father, if she had something to say about it (but then again that’s because they were opposites sides of the law and not in a prosecutor way 😂)

Despite the tension between father and daughter; Kaito also points out the positive traits of Mitsu and how she's more like Yagami than she actually thinks (both in choice of attire and mannerisms)

And that, of course, her father, as a detective, would be against anything lawless and that it would make sense why they would be at impasse a lot, which would often make her pissed off — before giving Kaito the silent treatment (for like a day or two)

AU:

Jun:

Jun is the closest thing to a "cousin", to Mitsu despite there being 15 years between them — putting him at 30 y/o —. He can both protect her and give her very good advice and never fails to support her specifically when she trashes her father behind his back (so pretty similar to Kaito or at least tries to be 😂)

Amasawa:

Mitsu deeply resents Amasawa — as any sister would — and would often make snarky comments like how she was technically the daughter Yagami would have had because of their common interest in mystery and detective work

However Mitsu would either be ignored or is acknowledged — bluntly — by Ansawa and that the former would have been the “ideal daughter” if she wasn’t into criminal activity and that she should have known better — what with being a daughter of a detective and a law-abider (etc)

Kozakura (OC):

Despite Mitsu’s hostile relationship with Kozakura (most of the time and if there’s an audience) outside of that; she does seem to have a soft spot for her younger sister and isn’t afraid to “teach” her tormentors a lesson and offers to teach her some self defence skills.

[tiniestdormouse]

All the World's a Stage - Contribution for Until Forever: A Vanoé zine

Huzzah! Now that the sales for Until Forever have wrapped, I'm happy to share my story contribution to this wonderful zine!! Thanks to @vanoezine for inviting me to participate & enjoy! Rating: General Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandoms: ヴァ二タスの手記 - 望月淳 | Vanitas no Carte | The Case Study of Vanitas - Mochizuki Jun (Manga)ヴァニタスの手記 | Vanitas no Carte | The Case Study of Vanitas (Anime) Relationship: Noé Archiviste/Vanitas Additional Tags: Fluff, Humor, Theatre Summary: When Vanitas crosses paths with a theater troupe from his childhood days, he's roped into playing the most unexpected role in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. (And of course, Noé gets up in his feelings about it!)

[amuletowa]

“we made it...! Vanitas!” “yeah. now, stop crying!”

[yesterdays-shadowtag]

vnc volume 10 cover analysis!!

i havent done theories in a bit so apologies if this is chaotic 🚶‍♀️

AHAKHSKSD THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THE COVER i think its honestly really perfect for this particular volume!!

OK so starting off with the colour scheme, its the classic blue/purple of vanoé (if you look at volume 1 and volume 2's cover arts, it clearly shows what their colour schemes are!) and in volume 10, they blend so beautifully. You can see on Noé's white sweater how clearly both blue and purple are visible, similarly on Vanitas! It shows not just for aesthetic purposes but also literally how both of them have progressed a little further, understand each other a little better, and are slowly, slowly on the route to mutual understanding. (This isn't present in previous Vanoé volume covers, such as this)

Second, the bubbles. They can mean two things; alone, the bubbles can symbolize hopes and dreams that will eventually burst when the bubbles reach the surface, or perhaps even Vanitas's 'wrong perception' of Noé as 'that vampire' which led to their fight in the first place; it was short-lived and wrong. Bubbles are pockets of air; but depending on whether you are the giver or the receiver, its life or death.

Alternatively, it could symbolize water. Light refracts in water, showing a distorted view of reality - you can't hear, breathe or feel anything underwater, much like Vanitas throughout the fight, where he was oblivious to Noé's screams and also of himself. It can tie back to Noé seeing his 'true' reflection in the mirror (as water never shows a clear reflection of yourself) and understanding that he had been equally blind and breaking the surface of the water to understand what Vanitas looked like as well. HWHSDHDS :"""

Lastly, the hourglass in the background. It shows that a sizeable amount of time has passed, maybe an inclination to how much the manga is completed, how many mémoires remain, and also of the time that vanitas and noé have left together. In many ways, volume 10 was a false bait; it shows how they both clearly tried to kill one another as alluded in the beginning, but the events didn't actually come to pass. Maybe its a hint that time-altering/time-travel is a part of vnc, who knows 👀

i hope you enjoyed this analysis! please feel free to send in any further questions as asks, i enjoyed writing this <3

lol i have a math exam tomorrow wish me luck *cries*

[pandoraheartsposter]

Bruh 🤣

[vanoesupremacy]

Funny how ANTIS keep saying about the vanoè hug official art..

"That's from the stage play though.."

Dude so what? Vanitas and Noè's actors hugged and Mochijun drew them. That's Vanitas and Noè's actors so basically, that's still Vanitas and Noè. Even Mochijun is so happy to see them hug.

Some also says, "That will never happen in the manga",

Well maybe it's not similar to the art above, but there's still hug that happened between them.

It is officially stated in the manga by Vanitas himself that Noè hugs him when they are sleeping and uses him as a pillow.

You remember that? When he's talking to Amelia?

And also, remember when Noè hugged Vanitas to protect him from the falling ferris wheel? That's from the latest chapters.

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Also LISTEN, this is very important guys‼️

No matter how mad you are, please, JUST PLEASE, DO NOT TALK BAD/ATTACK OR WORSE CURSE AT JUN MOCHIZUKI or any author of a story. JUST DON'T. That is so embarrassing, so stupid and really immature!

This happened 3 days ago? When Mochizuki drew the hug scene of Vanitas and Noè's actors. They retweeted the art and said this. Again, I will not cover the name and username so they can atleast feel embarrassment if they had any. I don't know if you already saw this issue on twitter but I decided to post this here for awareness.

Just don't ever do this alright? None of authors deserve this kind of treatment. Have shame.

[recentanimenews]

The Case Study of Vanitas Gets Stage Play Adaptation in January of 2022

  If you need more steampunk vampire action in your life, then you're in luck, because The Case Study of Vanitas (known in Japan as Vanitas no Karute), a supernatural manga by Jun Mochizuki, is being adapted into a stage play that will be performed in Tokyo in January of 2022. The main staff of the production includes:

  Original work: The Case Study of Vanitas by Jun Mochizuki

Director, script: Akira Yamazaki

Fine arts: Toshie Tanaka

Lighting: Naoko Kato

Sound: Sadahito Tanii

Choreography: Tomohiko Tsujimoto

Costumes: Junco Iwao Makino

Hair and make-up: Naoko Shibasaki

Music: Gen Sakamoto

Video: Tsubasa Yokoyama (Oberon)

Action: Hideaki Okuzumi

Props: Kenichi Hatori

Scenery: C-COM

Director's assistant: Megumi Fujishima

Stage director: Teruhiko Nakanishi / Zhong Liliang

Promotional art: Eri Ikue

Promotional photography: Fuhito Kanayama

Production: NAPPOS UNITED

Sponsors: Aniplex / Sony Music Entertainment / NAPPOS UNITED

  The main cast of The Case Study of Vanitas stage play includes:

  Keisuke Ueda as Vanitas.

Shuji Kikuchi as Noé.

Ami Nōjō as Jeanne.

Miki Sawada as Dominque.

Haruki Kiyama as Roland.

and Others.

    The original The Case Study of Vanitas manga is serialized in Square Enix's Monthly Gangan Joker manga magazine, and an English language version is also available from Yen Press. The series has also been adapted into a TV anime with direction by Tomoyuki Itamura and animation production by BONES, which is streamed in the United States by Funimation. Funimation describes the story of The Case Study of Vanitas as follows:

  It’s 19th-century Paris, and young vampire Noé hunts for the Book of Vanitas. Attacked by a vampire driven insane, a human intercedes, rescues Noé, and heals the sick creature. Commanding the book and calling himself Vanitas, this doctor tempts Noé with a mad crusade to “cure” the entire vampire race. Allying with one who wields arcane power so easily may be dangerous, but does he have a choice?

  The Case Study of Vanitas stage play will run from January 21 - 30, 2022, at the THEATRE1010 venue in Adachi City, Senju, Tokyo, Japan.

  Source: Comic Natalie

  Copyright notice:

© Jun Mochizuki/SQUARE ENIX・"The Case Study of Vanitas" Production Committee

© Stage "The Case Study of Vanitas" Production Committee

    ---

Paul Chapman is the host of The Greatest Movie EVER! Podcast and GME! Anime Fun Time.

By: Paul Chapman

[ffamranxii]

Finally updated my playables and arcana!

All relevant info under the cut! (There be spoilers)

UPDATED ARCANA

All confidants/social links from P3, P4, and P5. Also included the arcana for P1 and the P2 duology because I can never remember who’s what. Arcana did not exist in this framework for Shin Megami Tensei If...

FOOL

P3: - (technically this is SEES, but I did not include groups) (also the protagonists for P3-5, Elizabeth, and Aigis)

P4: Tohru Adachi. (Adachi technically holds two arcana, though he starts as one and becomes the other: the Hunger Arcana, which does not exist in a standard tarot deck, but comes from the Thoth deck. I did not include it because he switches from one arcana to the other)

P5: Igor

MAGICIAN

P1: Yuka Ayase

P3: Kenji Tomochika (male protagonist)/Junpei Iori (female protagonist)

P4: Yosuke Hanamura

P5: Morgana

COUNCILLOR

P5: Takuto Maruki (does not exist in standard tarot, from El Gran Tarot Esoterico) (Royal only)

HIGH PRIESTESS

P1: Maki Sonomura

P2: Maki Sonomura

P3: Fuuka Yamagishi

P4: Yukiko Amagi

P5: Makoto Niijima

EMPRESS

P1: Yukino Mayuzumi

P2: Yukino Mayuzumi

P3: Mitsuru Kirijo

P4: Margaret

P5: Haru Okumura

EMPEROR

P1: Naoya Toudou (P1 protagonist)

P3: Hidetoshi Odagiri

P4: Kanji Tatsumi

P5: Yusuke Kitagawa

PRIEST

P5: Zenkichi Hasegawa (does not exist in standard tarot deck, from Thoth deck) (Scramble only, no art available for card at time of posting)

HIEROPHANT

P1: Kei Nanjo

P2: Kei Nanjo

P3: Bunkichi and Mitsuko

P4: Ryotaro Dojima

P5: Sojiro Sakura

LOVERS

P2: Lisa Silverman/Ginji Sasaki

P3: Yukari Takeba

P4: Rise Kujikawa

P5: Ann Takamaki

CHARIOT

P1: Masao Inaba

P3: Kazushi Miyamoto (male protag)/Rio Iwasaki (female protag)

P4: Chie Satonaka

P5: Ryuji Sakamoto

JUSTICE

P1: Hidehiko Uesugi

P2: Katsuya Suou/Hidehiko Uesugi

P3: Chihiro Fushimi (male protag)/Ken Amada (female protag)

P4: Nanako Dojima

P5: Goro Akechi

HERMIT

P3: Isako Toriumi (male protag)/Saori Hasegawa (female protag)

P4: Fox

P5: Futaba Sakura

WHEEL OF FORTUNE

P2: Jun Kurosu

P3: Keisuke Hiraga (male protag)/Ryoji Mochizuki (female protag)

P4: Naoto Shirogane

P5: Chihaya Mifune

STRENGTH

P3: Yuko Nishiwaki (male protag)/Koromaru (female protag)

P4: Kou Ichijo (protag joins basketball)/Daisuke Nagase (protag joins soccer)

P5: Caroline and Justine

HANGED MAN

P2: Baofu/Yasuo Inoe

P3: Maiko Oohashi

P4: Naoki Konishi

P5: Munehisa Iwai

DEATH

P1: Reiji Kido*

P2: Eikichi Mishina/Hiroki Sugimoto

P3: Pharos

P4: Hisano Kuroda

P5: Tae Takemi

TEMPERANCE

P3: Andre Laurent Jean Gerraux

P4: Eri Minami

P5: Sadayo Kawakami

DEVIL

P1: Reiji Kido* (Reiji is the only canonical non-protagonist to hold more than one arcana at the same time. He is both Death and the Devil in P1, and makes a minor appearance in P2, where he is still Death and the Devil. However I didn’t have enough space to squish him into the Death slot for P2)

P3: President Tanaka

P4: Sayako Uehara

P5: Ichiko Ohya

TOWER

P1: Takahisa Kandori

P2: Anna Yoshizaka

P3: Mutatsu

P4: Shu Nakajima

P5: Shinya Oda

STAR

P2: Ulala Serizawa

P3: Mamoru Hayase (male protag)/Akihiko Sanada (female protag)

P4: Teddie

P5: Hifumi Togo

MOON

P2: Maya Amano

P3: Nozomi Suemitsu (male protag)/Shijiro Aragaki (female protag)

P4: Ai Ebihara

P5: Yuuki Mishima

SUN

P2: Tatsuya Suou/Tatsuya Sudou

P3: Akinari Kamiki

P4: Yumi Ozawa (protag joins drama)/Ayane Matsunaga (protag joins band)

P5: Toranosuke Yoshida

JUDGEMENT

P1: Eriko Kirishima

P2: Eriko Kirishima

P5: Sae Niijima 

AEON

P3: Aigis (does not exist in standard tarot, from Thoth deck)

P4: Marie (does not exist in standard tarot, from Thoth deck) (Golden only)

FAITH

P5: Kasumi/Sumire Yoshizawa (does not exist in standard tarot, from Visconti-Sforza deck) (Royal only)

HOPE

P5: Sophia (does not exist in standard tarot, from Visconti-Sforza deck) (Scramble only, no art available at time of posting)

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ALL PLAYABLE AND IMPORTANT CHARACTERS

PERSONA 5 SCRAMBLE: THE PHANTOM STRIKERS

Sophia, Zenkichi Hasegawa

NOTE: P5S was released in Japan in February 2020.

PERSONA 5 THE ROYAL

Kasumi Yoshizawa 

TRIVIA: Kasumi’s real name is Sumire. She assumed the identity of her twin sister Kasumi after Kasumi’s tragic death.

PERSONA Q2

Hikari

PERSONA 5

Ren Amamiya / Akira Kurusu, Ryuji Sakamoto, Ann Takamaki, Morgana, Yusuke Kitagwa, Makoto Niijima, Futaba Sakura, Haru Okumura, Goro Akechi

TRIVIA: The protagonist is named Ren Amamiya in the anime and Akira Kurusu in the manga. Futaba’s codename is Navi in Japanese and Oracle in English.

PERSONA 4 ARENA ULTIMAX

Labrys, Sho Minazuki

PERSONA 4 / PERSONA 4 THE GOLDEN

Yu Narukami / Souji Seta, Yosuke Hanamura, Chie Satonaka, Yukiko Amagi, Kanji Tatsumi, Rise Kujikawa, Teddie, Naoto Shirogane

TRIVIA: The protagonist is named Yu Narukami in the anime and Souji Seta in the manga. Teddie is named Kuma in Japan.

PERSONA Q

Zen, Rei

PERSONA 3 FES

Metis

PERSONA 3 PORTABLE

Minako Arisato / Hamuko Yuki / Kotone Shiomi

TRIVIA: The female protagonist has no canon name, but has been called Minako Arisato and Hamuko Yuki by fans, and Kotone Shiomi in the stage play.

PERSONA 3 

Minato Arisato / Makoto Yuki / Sakuya Shiomi, Yukari Takeba, Junpei Iori, Mitsuru Kirijo, Akihiko Sanada, Fuuka Yamagishi, Aigis / Aegis, Koromaru, Ken Amada, Shinjiro Aragaki

TRIVIA: The protagonist is named Minato Arisato in the manga, Makoto Yuki in the anime, and Sakuya Shiomi in the stage play. Aigis’s name is spelled Aegis in Japan.

PERSONA 2 ETERNAL PUNISHMENT

Maya Amano, Ulala Serizawa, Katsuya Suou, Baofu, Tatsuya Suou, Eriko Kirishima, Kei Nanjo

TRIVIA: Maya was a playable character in the first Persona 2 installment, as was Tatsuya. Eriko Kirishima and Kei Nanjo return from Persona 1.

PERSONA 2 INNOCENT SIN

Tatsuya Suou, Maya Amano, Lisa Silverman, Eikichi Mishina, Yukino Mayuzumi, Jun Kurosu

TRIVIA: Yukino Mayuzumi returns from Persona 1.

MEGUMI IBUNROKU PERSONA

Naoya Todo / Yuya Narumi / Jihei Suzakurin, Maki Sonomura, Masao Inaba, Kei Nanjo, Hidehiko Uesugi, Eriko Kirishima, Yuka Ayase, Reiji Kido, Yukino Mayuzumi

TRIVIA: The protagonist is only referred to as “the pierced boy” (Japanese)/”boy with earring” (English) within the games themselves; in the manga he is Naoya Todo, in the drama CD he is Yuya Narumi, and in the novel he is Jihei Suzakurin. Along with Maki, the protagonist makes a minor appearance in Persona 2, while Eriko, Kei, and Yukino return in P2 as playable characters once again.

SHIN MEGAMI TENSEI IF…

Tamaki Uchida, Nobu Akiyama / Jin Aoki, Reiko Akanezawa, Yumi Shirakawa, Shinji Kuroi, Ideo Hazama, Akira Miyamoto

TRIVIA: SMT If… was released only in Japan and is considered the originator of the Persona series. The series features a protagonist whose gender is decided by the player, something not seen again until P3P, though the female protagonist is canon in the games and the male protagonist is canon in the manga. Tamaki makes a cameo appearance in P1 and P2. The male protagonist is called Nobu Akiyama in both the manga and its sequel and Jin Aoki in the novel.

[amuletowa]

the story of how I would kill him with my own hand

[amuletowa]

Gaku-san (Noé) was so relieved that everything went so well on the stage and everyone accepted him (since Kikuchi-san couldn't play) so he hugged Ueda-san (Vanitas) ❤️

https://mobile.twitter.com/jun_mdesu/status/1488123162608816128

[recentanimenews]

The Case Study of Vanitas Stage Play Reveals Stunning Main Cast Visuals in Costume

    The official website for the forthcoming stage play adaptation of Jun Mochizuki's dark fantasy manga The Case Study of Vanitas has posted its key visual introducing all main cast members, as well as 11 individual cast member visuals, including 32-year-old Keisuke Ueda (Zenitsu Agatsuma in the Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba stage plays) as the protagonist Vanitas.

  The stage play, written/directed by Akira Yamazaki (SHOW BY ROCK!! stage plays), is set to be performed at Theater 1010 in Tokyo from January 21 to 30, 2022. Ticket pre-sales will be held from December 22, 2021 to January 6, 2022, then general sale will begin on January 8.

    Key visual:

    Vanitas: Keisuke Ueda

    Noé Archiviste: Shuji Kukuchi / Jeanne: Ami Nojo

    Lucius "Luca" Oriflamme: Souta Tamura & Musahi Maeda

    Dominique "Domi" de Sade: Miki Sawada / Louis de Sade: Takuya Yashiro

    Parks Orlok: Tetsuto Nakamura / Dr.Moreau: Rigaku Suzuki

    August Ruthven: Noboru Washio / Roland Fortis: Haruki Kiyama

    Source: Aniplex press release

  ©Jun Mochizuki/SQUARE ENIX, "The Case Study of Vanitas" Project

©Stage Play "The Case Study of Vanitas" Production Committee

  By: Mikikazu Komatsu