Two final special episodes were announced to be included as extras with the 11th and 12th Blu-Ray/DVD volumes of the series.
A second TV special, titled Stars and Ours and listed as the second half of the epilogue, was aired on March 23, 2019. The first half of the epilogue to the series, titled Dark Sun., aired on December 30, 2018.
The series aired on Tokyo MX and other networks from April 7 to September 30, 2018. Lyn performs the series' opening and ending themes the opening themes are "Break In to Break Out" (episode 1–13) and "Dark Sun" (episode 14–26), while the ending themes are "Infinity" (episodes 2–16), "Found a Light" (episode 8), and "Autonomy" (episode 17–26). The soundtrack was written by the game's original lead composer Shoji Meguro, who wrote both new material and arranged music from the game. The anime series is directed by Masashi Ishihama and written by Inotsume, and features adapted character and demon designs from the game by Tomomi Ishikawa and Kazuma Kaneko, respectively. The 26-episode anime television series adaptation was announced in July 2017 for a 2018 premiere, with CloverWorks animating the series. Aniplex of America licensed the special in North America in October 2016. It premiered on Septem with a runtime of 24 minutes on Tokyo MX, later airing on GTV, GYT and BS11. In July 2016, the title of the special was revealed as Persona 5: The Animation – The Day Breakers with Takaharu Ozaki as the director, Shinichi Inotsume as writer, Toshiyuki Yahagi and Keita Matsumoto as the character designers and A-1 Pictures as the studio. The anime television special The Day Breakers was announced in September 2015 during Atlus' stage event at the Tokyo Game Show. In the English dub, Shinya Oda is voiced by Eden Riegel (who also voices Hifumi Togo), rather than Barbara Goodson. In the Japanese dub, Miyu Matsuki and Kazunari Tanaka, the voice actors of Chihaya Mifune and Junya Kaneshiro respectively, died in 20, so they were recasted by Haruka Terui and Takahiro Fujimoto. While most of the voice cast from the original game reprise their roles, several voice actors from the original game were replaced. Main article: List of Persona 5 characters