ANN: What were the challenges of adapting a game with as strict a chronology as Persona 5? How do you adapt this story?
Adachi: Since this is a really popular game worldwide, the main thing is that we need to satisfy everyone.
Therefore, we need to work as a team, and so we end up playing the game together, as a team. Yes, the whole hundred hours. From this, we have to create a protagonist, since unlike the game, an anime needs a main character to do things for us. So we choose a name, his characteristics, his personality – and even then, the storyline still has to fall into place. That part is the challenge, but again, we overcome it – it just requires that everyone work together.