People who played the games and expected to see many cameos or lots of intense persona battles will find this anime to be disappointing, because the anime took a different direction. It is more like one of those "slice of life" anime series rather than the expected action-packed persona battles. Most of the episodes can be considered as drama rather than action genre action, because there is little to no battle scenes in it at all. On top of that, there were quite a number of twists and irony throughout the anime, as well as confusing points that people who don't pay attention would nothave any idea what's going on.

If people watch this anime as an anime and not as a Persona-related anime would find this to be a masterpiece in terms of story elements, character developments, great animation and also an awesome soundtrack along with many vocal tracks by Lotus Juice and Kawamura Yumi, both of which did the Persona 3 FES OST.