Cut-in (カットイン, Katto In)?, also known as close-up or Persona eyes, is an effect in the Persona series.
Appearances
- Persona 2: Innocent Sin
- Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
- 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
Profile
Cut in is a stylish animation technique used to depict character's portrait in Japanese animes 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 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-ins can be viewed in My Palace.
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 Megami Tensei series or not.
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Persona 3 |
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Persona 4 |
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Persona 4 The Animation |
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Yu Narukami
Chie Satonaka
Yosuke Hanamura
Yukiko Amagi
Teddie
Teddie (Alternate)
Kanji Tatsumi
Naoto Shirogane
Tohru Adachi
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Persona 4 Arena |
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Mitsuru w/Sunglasses
Akihiko Sanada w/Ski Goggles
Ultimax Yukari Takeba
Ultimax Junpei Iori
Ultimax Ken Amada
Yu Narukami
Yosuke Hanamura
Chie Satonaka
Yukiko Amagi
Masked Teddie
Kanji Tatsumi
Naoto Shiorgane
Ultimax Rise Kujikawa
Ultimax Marie
Ultimax Labrys w/Visor (1)
Ultimax Labrys w/Visor (2)
Ultimax Shadow Labrys w/Visor
Ultimax Tohru Adachi
Ultimax Sho Minazuki
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Persona 4: Dancing All Night |
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Persona 5 |
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Goro Akechi (Alternate)
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Persona Stalker Club |
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