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Persona 4 Stage Play Returns With New Characters

posted on 2012-06-19 02:18 EDT by Egan Loo

Visualive Persona 4, the March stage play adaptation of the Atlus role-playing game Persona 4, is returning for a second run from October 3 to 9 in Tokyo's Tennōzu Ginga Gekijō theater. Shutaro Oku is again directing in Visualive Persona 4 the Evolution, and Persona 4 The Animation scriptwriter Jun Kumagai is penning the play. The second play will add new characters.

Source: Famitsu via Yaraon!

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