Persona 4 is one of the most critically acclaimed Japanese role-playing games of all time! The game has inspired anime, manga, drama CDs, and more, with a live-action movie in production now, a PlayStation Vita remake titled Persona 4: Golden scheduled for this November, and the recently-released spin-off brawler Persona 4: Arena already taking the fighting game world by storm! Now, with UDON Entertainment’s release this week of Persona 4: Official Design Works, fans will be able to go behind the scenes of the game that started it all, with hundreds of beautiful illustrations by character designer Shigenori Soejima!
Persona 4: Official Design Works is packed with hundreds of illustrations, sketches, character designs, landscape paintings, and even more from fan-favorite designer and artist Shigenori Soejima, the game’s art director and character designer. Soejima goes in-depth on nearly every illustration, with extensive comments on every major character and revealing insight into background and secondary characters, the creation process, and the game’s setting. The beautiful illustrations and in-depth creator commentary are capped off with a massive, 9,000-word interview with Soejima, detailing the entire game’s creation from start to finish!
Persona 4: Official Design Works describes itself as “the full Soejima experience,” and any fan will be delighted with the wealth of material in this collection! Persona 4: Official Design Works follows UDON’s two previous successful art book releases featuring the work of Soejima, Shigenori Soejima Artworks in December 2011, and Persona 3: Official Design Works in June 2012, both of which were met with rave reviews from fans in North America and around the world!
With Persona 4 and its related media reaching new heights of popularity every day, the timing of Persona 4: Official Design Works’ release could not be better! The Persona 4: Arena video game is already available, the Persona 4 anime is coming to Blu-ray and DVD in September, and the remake of the original game that’s already a bestseller in Japan,Persona 4: Golden, is being released in the U.S. this November! There are thousands of fans eager to snap up this gorgeous new book that details the game that started it all… don’t miss out!
Persona 4: Official Design Works Key Features:
- A wealth of amazing illustrations by the acclaimed Shigenori Soejima, including commentary throughout!
- A 9,000-word interview with Soejima, covering the entire design process for the game! Fascinating for game designers, inspiring for budding artists.
- A gorgeous, oversized English edition of the Japanese art book, fully translated and printed in a larger format than the original, to match UDON’s standard art book size!
- Persona 4 is often cited as one of the greatest Japanese RPGs of all time!
- Part of a multimedia wave of Persona 4 releases, including video games, anime, statues, and toys!
Persona 4: Official Design Works
In stores August 29th, 2012
Price (U.S.): $39.99