Persona 5

Release Date: Sep 15, 2016
Developer: Atlus, P Studio
Atlus's Persona 5 launched on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 on April 4, 2017 in North America and Europe, following a September 2016 Japan release. A turn-based JRPG set in modern Tokyo, the game follows a group of high school students who moonlight as the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, stealing corrupt desires from adults through supernatural Palaces. The English dub was produced by PCB Productions under voice director Valerie Arem, who assembled a cast built almost entirely from the JRPG and anime dubbing circuit rather than recognizable Hollywood names. The Persona 5 voice cast includes Matthew Mercer, Erika Harlacher, Cherami Leigh, Erica Lindbeck, and Robbie Daymond across the Phantom Thieves lineup.

Persona 5: The Phantom Thieves, the Palaces, and the Dub

Runs on tension between two registers: the mundane grind of high school life and the surreal violence of the Metaverse. Atlus built both halves with equal care, which means the voice cast had to be credible as teenagers doing homework and as masked thieves dismantling corrupt authority figures inside dream-logic dungeons. PCB Productions assembled the English dub with voice director Valerie Arem, whose background spans demanding JRPG localizations across the industry. The result is a cast that treats both registers seriously, never camping up the supernatural and never making the school sequences feel like filler.

Voice Cast: The Phantom Thieves Lineup

The Persona 5 voice actors earn their positions through casting that prioritizes character fit. Matthew Mercer voices Yusuke Kitagawa; his work as Captain Levi in Attack on Titan established a register of controlled formality and quiet feeling that carries directly into Yusuke. Cherami Leigh plays Makoto Niijima, the group’s strategist. Leigh built her reputation on roles including Asuna in Sword Art Online and A2 in NieR: Automata, and that experience with emotionally demanding characters gives Makoto’s precision a credible foundation. Erica Lindbeck voices Futaba Sakura, a shut-in hacker whose arc demands vulnerability first; her Kaori in Your Lie in April covered the same territory. Robbie Daymond plays Goro Akechi: best known as Spider-Man in Marvel’s Spider-Man, Daymond is strongest voicing characters whose public confidence conceals something darker.

77 Voice Actors on MTVA
41 Characters on MTVA

THE PERSONA 5 CAST

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