The "cut-in" that takes place when the protagonist of Persona 3 summons a Persona.
Cut-in (カットイン, Katto In)?, also known as close-up or Persona eyes, is an effect in the Persona series.
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- Persona 2: Innocent Sin
- Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
- Persona Stalker Club
- Persona 3 / FES / Portable
- Persona 4 / Golden
- Persona 4 Arena / Ultimax
- Persona 4: Dancing All Night
- Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
- Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
- Persona 5 / Royal
- Persona 5 Strikers
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Cut-in is a stylish animation technique used to depict a character's portrait in Japanese anime and video games. It is usually presented with a sudden overlapping of the thin stripe of close-up of character's eyes over the screen to create a tense or climatic effect, used when summoning the Persona the first time or to deal Critical or elemental weakness-exploiting damage. Another type of cut-in is by arranging the characters' bust portraits stylishly all over the screen to depict the preparation of All-Out Attack (Persona 3 onwards) or Fusion Spells (Persona 2 duology remakes).
In the Japanese version, the cut-in for critical damage has the onomatopoeia, "(カッ, Ka-!)?" in P3 and P4 and "(ブチッ, Buchi-!)?" in P5, to express the sound effect of the cut-in sequence. It is replaced by a double exclamation mark (!!) in the oversea releases.
In Persona 5 Royal, all of the cut-in illustrations available can be viewed in the Thieves Den. Also, the Persona 3 and Persona 4 protagonists have a slightly modified version of their cut-ins from the original games, in which the sound effect expression is styled after Persona 5. The protagonist also has a special cut-in with a unique expression in both the darts and batting cage mini-games, in which the dart hits the Triple 20 mark with the 3rd dart in Darts, and hitting a Home Run in Batting Cage.
In Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth, the cut-in style is styled after Persona 5, but the sound effect expression style is the same for all 3 respective games.
Although it was not Atlus who invented the cut-in effect, it successfully defines the style of the Persona spin-off series and derives some fair amount of fan-made tribute works or parodies of the cut-in artworks, of either media related to the Megami Tensei series or not.
Cut-ins are also used in various games that have been collaborated with the Persona series. For example, in Phantasy Star Online 2, the sound effect expressions for all 3 games are used in Persona summoning emotes (Lobby Actions in the Japanese version), in which only shows the Japanese expression upon summoning, in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Joker's cut-in when summoning Arsène has a slightly modified version of his cut-in in all languages, except Japanese, where the double exclamation mark is styled after the original Japanese sound effect expression, in Granblue Fantasy, Ren's cut-in picture is styled after that said game's art design, in Kyoutou Kotaba RPG: Kotadaman, all cut-ins for the characters in all 3 games use their character animations in the cut-ins instead of their cut-in pictures and in Dragalia Lost, there is a stamp that can be used in co-op mode; which has the protagonist's cut in without the sound effect expression and the word "PERSONA!" is shown on the top of the cut in.
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- Persona 2: Innocent Sin
- Persona 3 / FES / Portable
- Persona 4
- Persona 4 The Animation
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- Persona 4 Arena / Ultimax
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- Persona 4: Dancing All Night
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- Persona 5 / Royal
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- Persona 5 Strikers
- Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
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- Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
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- Persona Stalker Club
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| Characters | |
| Playable | Rise Kujikawa - Yu Narukami - Kanami Mashita - Yosuke Hanamura - Chie Satonaka - Kanji Tatsumi - Teddie - Yukiko Amagi - Naoto Shirogane - Nanako Dojima - Margaret - Marie - Tohru Adachi - Hatsune Miku |
| Non-playable | Protagonist - Ryotaro Dojima - Minoru Inoue - Sumomo Ujima - Tomoe Sayama - Tamami Uesugi - Nozomi Nakahara - Kyoka Ochimizu - Dance Instructor - Yuko Osada - Mikuratana-no-Kami - President Tanaka |
| Locations | |
| Other | Velvet Room - Yomotsu Hirasaka - Takura Productions - Inaba - Midnight Channel |
| Midnight Stage | Kujikawa Rise (Stage) - Circus Tent - Sultry Lounge - Doll House - Romantic Castle - Mechanical Castle - Event Space - Mikuratana-no-Kami's Realm |
| Music | |
| Albums | Persona 4: Dancing All Night Original Soundtrack |
| Songs | Dance! - Calystegia |
| Archive | |
| Terminology | Persona - Persona User - Shadow - Kanamin Kitchen - LMB Festival - Shadow Self - Investigation Team - Apathy Syndrome |
| Lists | Trophies |
