Where and When to Watch the Persona 5 May 5th Stream [UPDATE 3: Now Over. Japan Release Date: September 15, 2016 ]

UPDATE 3: It's over folks.

• Persona 5 is coming out in Japan on September 15, 2016. No Western release date confirmed yet.
• The new trailer was awesome. Included plenty of new footage and showed the rest of the cast.
• Persona 5: The Animation coming.
• There's a rad Special Edition for P5 coming out which includes music from all 5 core Persona games. There's also an art book and DLC costumes/Personas skins from P3 and P4.
• There were a few more Japan oriented announces. One looked like an orchestral concert featuring Persona music.

Hey Guys,

Just a reminder that the Persona 5 live stream is happening this Thursday, May 5th(!!). That's less than two days away(!!!)!

For those who want to watch it live, here are some details:

Where to Watch: The event will be live streamed on Nico Nico: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv259674739 / Also here's the May 5th website (http://persona5.jp/0505/) (Update: Somebody also found a Twitch stream that is also broadcasting the event: https://www.twitch.tv/wounlive)

When to Watch: The live stream will happen on Thursday, May 5th at 21:30 PM / 9:30 PM Tokyo Time (JST - UTC+9:00). There is some sort of pre-show at 19:00 / 8:00 PM, but 9:30 PM is when it will all go down.

Note: The countdown on the website looks like it is inaccurate. I think it is showing a countdown for when it will be 9:30 PM on May 5th for your time zone; not for Tokyo. (At the time of this posting, we are less than 48 hours away, but for me it says 55 hours)

Since this event is scheduled to happen in the evening in Japan, most people don't have to worry about confusion caused by the International Dateline. For most people, this event will happen on May 5th. Here are some random time zones for when this event will happen around the world.

• Tokyo / JST - Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 9:30:00 PM JST (UTC+9 hours)
• US West Coast / Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) - Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 5:30:00 AM
• US Central / Central Daylight Time (CDT) - Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 7:30:00 AM
• US East Coast / Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) - Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 8:30:00 AM
• Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) - Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 12:30:00 PM
• Perth, Australia / Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) - Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 8:30:00 PM
• Sydney, Australia / Australian Eastern Time Zone - Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 10:30:00 PM

If you don't see your time zone above or want to double check for yourself, here is a pretty good website for converting time zones (Select "Japan - Tokyo" and wherever you are located): http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

This has to be the announcement for the release date, right?

@grimluck343: Sure hope so, but you never know. Atlus tends to hype up events that barely have any actual announcements during them. Wouldn't be surprised if they announce a P5 anime or something with no new info about the game itself.

I've had the countdown page set to open whenever I open my browser for the past week and a half (even though, as was pointed out, it sticks to JST, so it's technically several hours behind), but I'm ready for some news.

There will probably be news. Hopefully? At the very least, I'm expecting a new trailer and a Japanese release date. Anything else would be a nice bonus.

"We're happy to announce that Persona 5 is delayed to Q4 2017".

@walkertr77: Fuck you...not cool

Uuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeerrrrrrrgggghhhhh........If Persona 5 doesn't come out in 2016, I swear, I will....well, I'll probably just patiently wait for it to come out in 2017.

"We are pleased to announce that Persona 5's new main character is Sonic the Hedgehog."

" It is now dancing game"

Aw, I'm gonna be out at the thing so I can't watch it live. Oh well, hopefully I'll just come home to a release date then and will keep my media/trailer blackout for it going.

common another persona 4 anime announcement........somehow.

The big news will be that Catherine is the new main character. And if you pre order now you get body pillow of her hugging a sheep.

10:30pm. I didn't need sleep anyway.

It can still happen.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night: The Animation. Persona 4: Arena: The Animation. I haven't played it, but I'm sure they could squeeze another out with Persona Q: The Animation.

Perth represent! I'm glad Google has started doing timezone shit for us so we don't need to go to a dedicated website now, we can just type in the time and timezone and it'll spit out what our local time is.

Stream started. Just some music and footage of the Tokyo Tower for now though...

Sweet jams which are supposedly from P5 are playing - sad thing is that there's only 3 jams on loop (10min loops a piece).

That said, all 3 are solid.

Don't expect anything substantive till the event in 2h.

You need to think more corporate.

They're going to have a Sonic arcana pre-order bonus. Sonic, Tails, Shadow, Eggman, and if you max out the arcana, you get a special Big the Cat outfit for Morgana.

My bitter cynical heart is beating with slight hype right now. See you all in 1.5 hours.

Good morning from the United States.

The stream is live. So far it is only posted on the May 5th site, but I assume it will be on the Nico Nico link shortly. http://persona5.jp/0505/ & http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv259674739

Edit: I guess it is on Nico Nico, but you need an account to watch it there? I don't know how Japan Internet works.

The sweet jams from the stream were ripped courtesy of GAF;

https://mega.nz/#!A9FVAYqT!B_EoX72RWx99wtD2yYTTOh09ss2l_Zt3mC6LG8tNS6E

Twitch version if you don't want to make a NicoNico account:

https://www.twitch.tv/wounlive

Thanks!

*high fives everyone else who is up*

It's almost 5 am here. Been playing the Overwatch beta and now I'm about to watch the Persona 5 livestream. Fuck sleep.

@sterling: I'm very into this.

I gotta say, the music they've been playing during this pre-show is really good.

Word, it's been quite pleasant!

It's goddamn early, but these jams are tight.

@spunkyhepanda: No kidding. I was going to record some of it, but they have the Windows 10 notification sound playing like every few seconds.

edit: That's probably the dude restreaming this, though.

Here we go!

Man these Atlus livestreams are always so weird.

This is totally just a documentary on the Tokyo Tower, isn't it?

WHAT IS THIS MONSTER HOLDING A NEWSPAPER

IM FREAKING OUT

Who is this Patrick Star looking mascot?

This is so weird. What's with the giant Pink Banana in the sunglasses?

Okay, I was worried this wouldn't be completely insane.

The giant dildo clad in denim doesn't know shit about the Velvet Room apparently

I am loving everything I'm seeing and understand NONE of it.

Newsflash!

If this is the game soundtrack then I'm into it already.

@l1ghtn1n said:

1h I believe - then that weird Persona talk show thing.

Note: this music is new and pretty cool.

Costume guy holding a newspaper, news reporter talking about...the event that is happening now...A bunch of Japanese I don't understand...more rad music...

We're off to a great start!!

These goddamn jams. Think I know what the next physical video game OST I purchase is.

SIRENS BLAZING TURN ON THE FOG MACHINE!!!

Shit it's the cops!

ITS THE FUZZ.

Several minutes of nothing! You don't see this in presentations very often for some reason.