Firstly I'll assume that everyone reading this has seen the rest of Persona 4 The Animation, so there will be some spoilers. Episode 26, titled "No One is Alone", is the true ending of the Persona 4 video game and takes place the day before the farewell scene in episode 25, with the group holding a goodbye party for Yuu Narukami after catching the culprit for the TV murder cases. However, he notices strange things occurring such as how the day seems to keep repeating itself, and tries to search for the truth by himself. This episode is mainly centred around our protagonist, exploring Yuu's innerself and hidden fears, and his personal battle with the true enemy and another side character in the Mayonaka TV. "No One is Alone" is just an extension of the main series rather than a proper OVA, but as it's a blu-ray only episode released months later one may have hoped that it was longer than 30 minutes and would have better animation. Unfortunately, this is not the case so in a similar fashion to parts of the main series, this episode also feels incredibly rushed.

The animation and its various flaws is nothing new after sitting through the main series. Stiff character faces and chaotically-animated battles are present, which is disappointing considering that the animation quality arguably peaked in episode 25, and at times episode 26 doesn't even match up to those standards. Building interiors/exteriors, especially some of the scenery towards the end, look great though.

The music, while a plus point in the previous 25 episodes, is a bit hit-and-miss here. As someone who's played the game, I think some of the track selections are questionable and others have been overused; the background and battle music are decent but more could have been done to make the true ending a stand-out episode. The OP theme is the same energetic one used in the series and I could never get tired of listening to the fantastic ED song "Never More".

As previously mentioned Yuu gets most of the spotlight, with the others such as Kanji and Naoto relegated to the sidelines for much of the episode. Margaret from the Velvet Room shows up to teach Yuu a lesson or two, while important revelations are made regarding another character. Apart from that, character development doesn't really exist; the majority of that has been dealt with in the main series.

I think that if you've enjoyed Persona 4 The Animation so far despite its obvious flaws, then there's no reason why this episode won't be equally good, as long as expectations aren't too high. As before, viewers who have played the game will get so much more out of this because they can fill in any gaps that the anime adaptation creates. The pacing and animation problems return and the length could have been twice as long to explore the true ending in more detail, but the episode manages to get its point across. There's a proper resolution to the world inside Mayonaka TV, and the slightly-altered final farewell scene is better than episode 25's in my opinion; the other characters each get their own bit of dialogue to show their feelings towards Yuu, and there's a greater sense of satisfaction knowing that the mystery is fully solved.