Why Persona 5 Keeps Using Star Imagery (Explained)

Persona 5 keeps returning to one powerful image — the Star. After Katsura Hashino revealed at G-Star 2025 that his games naturally developed around tarot structure, it raises an interesting question: how deeply is Persona 5 built around the Star Arcana and the idea of hope? In this video, we explore the mythological roots behind key figures like Lucifer and Satanael, the meaning of the Star card in tarot, and how Greek mythology connects to themes found in Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Strikers, and Persona 5: The Phantom X. Without major story spoilers, this breakdown looks at fallen angel symbolism, Pandora and Elpis, constellation myths, and how Atlus weaves these ideas into the game’s design. If you’re interested in Persona 5 lore explained, tarot symbolism, mythology analysis, and deeper thematic connections in Atlus games, this video brings those pieces together. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🎁Become a Member** ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Tier 1: Early access ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🔗Watch Next (Recommended)** ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Awakening Nobody Explained Properly — Until Now https://youtu.be/_ufjax077Oc?si=Muv7g0KgaXll6alT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🎞️Playlist From the Channel ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Featured Deep Dives (Persona/SMT) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbuTj1A66rqRlqwy1DLasGppxIIAItNii&si=ize7NxZDZKIppfVF Reflection From Exploring the Games I love https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbuTj1A66rqTRJ4bEbMbgn1ojFbLbMjzt Everything Explained (List Style) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbuTj1A66rqQh5u3pD16E7wdpI-bu6h3R Persona 3: Characters & Lore https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbuTj1A66rqTULuA9k98TLF3zN7x1NYzY Persona 5 : Character & Lore https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbuTj1A66rqSux7UdYFttZy518FlI3w2f ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🎁Support via Affiliate** ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Pick up Persona or SMT merch through my Amazon affiliate list (helps support the channel): https://www.amazon.com/shop/skysgamingacademy Figgys (Affordable Persona and other game collectibles): https://get.figgyz.com?sca_ref=8590977.KBNCjmkdov&utm_source=upp-8590977-starter&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=affiliate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **💡Find Me Here** ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Extra Content: [https://www.youtube.com/@SkyLive6666](https://www.youtube.com/@SkyLive6666) Twitch: [https://www.twitch.tv/skys\_channel](https://www.twitch.tv/skys_channel) Twitter: [https://twitter.com/skyslam5491](https://twitter.com/skyslam5491) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🔖Timestamps** ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 // Intro 00:47 // Persona 5 and The Star 04:11 // The Devil, The Tower, 06:55 // Persona 5: Royal and Striker 09:45 // Persona 5 X and ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ **🎨 Special Credit** ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Vtube Model: Norah\_s\_Pot