Notable Links

This is the place for useful links in researching for a possible persona, shadow, or whatnot, as well as information on Japanese life, cuisine, or anything else of not. Feel free to add your own links!

Folklore, Mythology, and Urban Legend Research

• Buddhist & Shinto Deities in Japan - While this focuses more on artwork depicting various deities, it's an excellent source for Japanese Buddhism and Shintoism, and the various ways deities are depicted.
• Encyclopedia Mythica - A site devoted to all sorts of myths and folklore from around the world. Some of the more obscure figures are little more than blurbs, but it's a good place to check.
• Godchecker.com - An irreverent take on mythology. Some entries are short, and the site has a tendency of getting overworked, but it's a fun place to look.
• Monstropedia - An encyclopedia devoted to monsters in mythology, folklore, urban legend, and popular fiction.
• The Obakemono Project - A stylish site dedicated to supernatural creatures in Japanese mythology and folklore.
• Wikipedia: List of legendary creatures by type - A sorted list of all sorts of legendary creatures.

Japan Research

• Facts and Details: Juvenile Crime in Japan - Law in Japan comes up a lot, so this is a good place to get an overview of some of the famous juvenile crime cases, plus how the laws have changed over the years. It also has a list of additional resources.
• Facts and Details: Social Life in Japan - Some of the basics, plus more resources.
• Japan Subculture Research Center - A good introduction to some of the darker/grittier sides of Japanese life.
• Japanese Culture Introduction - An introduction to cultural concepts of Japan.
• Japanese Holidays - Information on a bunch of holidays in Japan.
• JET Forum thread - A somewhat long thread that basically tells you anything you'd need to know about how female teachers are expected to dress in Japan. There's probably other good stuff on the forum as well.
• Wikipedia: Education in Japan - Also useful, for the many school-aged characters! Includes information on college years.
• Wikipedia: Public Holidays in Japan - Forget what days are public holidays in Japan? You're not alone! This is a good reference.

Language

• How to Type Japanese on Your Computer - What it says on the tin. It also tells you how to get the encoding for Japanese to work on your browser.
• Jeffrey's Japanese - English Dictionary - Just plain awesome. Has a lot of flexibility for looking up Japanese words and names.
• Kanji Radical Lookup - Useful if you know Japanese; not that useful otherwise.

Tarot and Jungian Psychology Resources

• A Glossary of Jungian Terminology - Ever wondered about what some of the Jungian terminology flung around in the games means?
• Aeclectic.net - A good overview of the tarot and their symbolism. Also includes symbolism for reversed cards.
• An Introduction to Jung's Shadow - Like it says, an introduction to the Shadow as Jung uses it. Useful for thinking about your character's Shadow, among other things.
• CG Jung Page - More Jungian Psychology than you can shake a stick at.
• The Fool's Journey - Another good overview of the tarot. This link's specifically to the Fool's Journey and the Major Arcana, but the site also has information on the Minor Arcana.

Shin Megami Tensei Resources

• Baroco - This French website has a lot of rare items, including a full gallery of mostly all the personae from Persona 1 and Persona 3. It also has an adorable Jack Frost that can sit on your desktop, though it gets confused with Vista. T-T
• Megami Tensei Wiki - All the information you could want on the games and characters. It also includes a host of demons, Personas and other things suitable for adoption on the MUSH.
• Popanime Megaten Wiki - The other notable SMT wiki out there.
• The Heretic Mansion - A browsable list of all the demons from Shin Megami Tensei 3: Nocturne. Since the latter Persona games use many of the same models, it's very useful.

Let's Play Persona! .... And various other takes on the games

• Let's Play Persona 2: Eternal Punishment! - A screenshot LP of Persona 2: Eternal Punishment. This is the direct sequel to Persona 2: Innocent Sin, which was never ported over to the US due to various factors such as the terrorists winning, Nazis, your mother, and crying puppies.
• My Life is a Goddamn Mess (Persona 3) - A screenshot LP of Persona 3, done up as if it was the entries of an online journal by a certain main character...
• I Am A Shadow, The True Self (Persona 4) - An ongoing screenshot LP of Persona 4. Just about to finish (OR WILL IT?!?!).

• Hiimdaisy's Persona Comics! - 80% of the injokes come from these.

Commissions

A listing of artists who have done commissions for players; as a note, they may or may not be available at a given time. When in doubt, ask the artist!

• Aditya777
• Arsenal Gear XX
• CR Frejzch
• Clap-San
• EHCS
• F-AYN-T
• Kasai
• Matildarose
• Megan-Uosiu
• Shinjyu
• Sir Krozz
• Zombiesmile

Other

• Moon Phases - Dates for full moons. If you've played Persona 3, you know exactly why this is useful.
• Seventh Sanctum - Lots and lots of generators for almost anything. Need a random manga title? It's covered. Need a random description for an NPC? They've got that, too.
• Time Zone Converter - Great for scheduling across timezones!
• WolframAlpha - You can feed this thing any date, or logical phrase, and it will look up information including moon phase and similar things. Try it out and play with it!