After announcing their acquisition of the title for Australia and New Zealand audiences last year, Madman Entertainment made it clear that it was their intention to do an online streaming release first in Japanese then wait for the English dubbed version from Sentai Filmworks to be released then to a DVD and/or Blu-ray release of the series. While we had occasionally been hearing bits and pieces in relation to their plans of beginning streaming “soon”, Slykura who is Product Manager at Madman Entertainment today announced they would begin streaming the series with Episode 1 this Saturday (28th January) with new episodes going up every Saturday. This now has Madman Entertainment releasing a new episode through their Screening Room six days a week.
When Yu Narukami’s family moves to the rural country town of Inaba, he’s expecting a lot more peace and quiet than he’s been used to in the big city. Instead, the peace has been shattered as a rash of mysterious murders and kidnappings sweep the countryside. With the police stymied, Yu finds himself joining with a group of eight other teenagers in a desperate bid to solve the mystery. A mystery that is somehow connected to both the local weather patterns and a strange video game world which Yu, his friends and the enigmatic killer can all enter. Journey beyond the Velvet Room as the hit PlayStation 2™ game becomes a spectacular anime in PERSONA 4 the Animation!
