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Persona 5 Strikers
Persona 5 Strikers (Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers) is a 2021 Omega Force/P-Studio action RPG sequel to Persona 5 on PS4, Switch, and PC, replacing turn-based combat with musou-style action across Japanese jails.
Persona 5: The Animation
Persona 5: The Animation (PERSONA5 the Animation) is a 2018 A-1 Pictures TV anime adapting Atlus's JRPG Persona 5, directed by Masashi Ishihama, 26 episodes plus Dark Sun… and Stars and Ours specials, starring Jun Fukuyama as Ren Amamiya.
Persona 5: The Phantom X (女神异闻录：夜幕魅影)
Persona 5: The Phantom X (女神异闻录：夜幕魅影, P5X) is a free-to-play gacha RPG spin-off of Persona 5 by Perfect World's Black Wings studio, Atlus-supervised, published by Sega; released in Asia April 2024 and globally June 26, 2025 on iOS, Android, and Steam.
Persona 6
Persona 6 is an upcoming role-playing game by Atlus and the sixth entry in the Persona series, announced in 2026 with a release date yet to be determined.
Persona non grata
Persona non grata (Latin, "unwelcome person") is the diplomatic status under Article 9 of the 1961 Vienna Convention by which a host state expels a diplomat, usually for espionage, without giving reasons, typically triggering reciprocal expulsions.
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth (ペルソナQ シャドウ オブ ザ ラビリンス) is a 2014 Atlus 3DS dungeon-crawler RPG crossover of Persona 3 and 4 casts with Etrian Odyssey map-drawing gameplay; Metacritic 83, ~258,741 Japan sales.
Personal (novel)
Personal (2014) is the 19th Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child, published by Delacorte on September 2, 2014. Reacher hunts sniper John Kott, who tried to kill the French president, with analyst Casey Nice; a #1 NYT bestseller.
Personal advertisement
Personal advertisement (lonely-hearts ad): a classified notice seeking a romantic or marriage partner, first printed in a 1692 British newspaper, common in The Times by 1785-1800, later in matrimonial periodicals, and the direct ancestor of online dating profiles.
Personal assistant
A personal assistant, also called a personal aide or personal secretary, is a worker who supports one principal by handling their diary, correspondence, and travel.
Personal Autonomy
Personal autonomy is the capacity for self-governance, living by one's own authentic reasons and values. Also called self-determination; central to Kantian ethics, Millian liberalism, bioethics, and relational accounts, and measured by validated instruments in older adults.
Personal bankruptcy
Personal bankruptcy in the United States lets individuals discharge most debts through chapter 7 liquidation or repay them under a chapter 13 plan lasting three to five years.
Personal Best
Personal Best (1982) is Robert Towne's directorial debut, a sports drama starring Mariel Hemingway and real athlete Patrice Donnelly as lovers and Olympic pentathlon rivals; released Feb 5, 1982 by Warner Bros.
Personal boundaries
Personal boundaries are the limits and rules people set for themselves within relationships, covering physical, emotional, digital, and professional domains; the term also names therapeutic ethics rules and is widely debated as self-directed versus controlling.
Personal branding
Personal branding is the strategic process of creating and maintaining a positive impression of oneself, popularized by Tom Peters' 1997 article "The Brand Called You."
Personal computer
A personal computer (PC) is a computer designed for use by one individual at a time, covering desktops, laptops, and tablets but excluding smartphones; the IBM PC of 1981 set the standard most still follow.
Personal data
Personal data, also called personally identifiable information (PII), is any information relating to an identified or identifiable person, such as a name, address, or IP address.
Personal defense weapon
A personal defense weapon (PDW) is a compact firearm for troops not on the front lines, firing a small high-velocity cartridge that defeats body armor.
Personal development
Personal development: deliberate improvement of skills, habits, well-being, and career via self-help, coaching, books, and apps. Small-to-moderate evidence effects (d≈0.2–0.4), ~$45–51B global market, unregulated coaching credentials.
Personal digital assistant
A personal digital assistant, or PDA, is a handheld computer for email and personal organization, a category named by Apple's John Sculley in 1992 that later merged with telephony into the smartphone.
Personal Digital Cellular
Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), also called Japanese Digital Cellular, was a 2G mobile phone standard used exclusively in Japan from 1993, peaking at nearly 80 million subscribers.
Personal essay
A personal essay is a short, first-person work of autobiographical nonfiction that uses the writer's experience to reach meaning beyond the self, within creative nonfiction.
Personal finance
Personal finance, also called personal financing, is the management of an individual's or household's money across earning, spending, saving, investing, credit, and risk, aiming at financial well-being.
Personal foul (basketball)
A personal foul in basketball is illegal physical contact with an opponent, such as holding, pushing, or obstructing their movement, and is the sport's most frequently assessed infraction.
Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx)
Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx) was a Baltimore-based cancer genomics company founded by Johns Hopkins researchers in 2010, acquired by Labcorp in 2022 for $450 million.
Personal Handy-phone System
The Personal Handy-phone System (PHS) is a Japanese digital wireless standard, launched in 1995, whose handsets worked as cordless phones indoors and low-cost mobile phones outdoors.
Personal identification number
A personal identification number (PIN), also called a pincode, is a secret numeric code, typically four to six digits, entered at ATMs and point-of-sale terminals to verify identity.
Personal identity
Personal identity is the philosophical study of what makes a person persist over time. Main criteria are the soul view, Locke's psychological continuity, and animalism (biological continuity); key puzzles include fission, Parfit's claim that identity is not what matters, and the too-many-thinkers objection.
Personal income in the United States
Personal income in the United States is a Bureau of Economic Analysis national accounts measure summing all income received by persons from all sources, published monthly.
Personal Information Protection Act (South Korea)
The Personal Information Protection Act (개인정보 보호법, PIPA) is South Korea's comprehensive data protection law, enacted in 2011 to govern personal information processing by public institutions and private companies.
Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, known as PIPEDA, is Canada's federal private-sector privacy law, enacted in 2000 and administered by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.