Bandai Namco and Atlus held via Dengeki Online alive streamon February 4, sharing new information on thePersona 5 Royal x Sword Art Onlinecrossover collab. This collab event concerns the Japanese versions ofSAOmobile gamesMemory DefragandIntegral Factor,and it adds a lot of coolPersona 5 Royalcharacters and stuff to both games.A pretty cool trailer featuring Kirito and Joker was also published. It includes a short but pretty intense moment with Kirito, voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, and Joker, voiced by Jun Fukuyama, calling each other’s names, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Kirito x Joker becomes a new popular BL pairing in the next few months. Anyway, all the details are below.

First off,Sword Art Online Integral Factorwill feature a story event where the Phantom Thieves end up in Aincrad. Skill Orders of the Phantom Thieves characters will be added. Shadows fromPersonawill appear in the game, and some of theSAOenemies will getPersona-like designs.

Avatar skins to dress like the Phantom Thieves will be added.

Skill Orders featuringSAOcharacters dressed as the Phantom Thieves can also be obtained. Only Kirito dressed as Joker was revealed for now.

SAO Integral Factoralso has Line stamp-like things in its chat system. These super cutePersona 5 RoyalSD characters stamps will be added to the game.

Next isSword Art Online Memory Defrag. ThePersona 5 Royalcollab will add Joker, Panther, and Skull as playable characters. They’re all voiced by their respective seiyuu, Jun Fukuyama, Nana Mizuki, and Mamoru Miyano.

Clearing thePersona 5 Royalstory event will unlock Yuuki Navi version as a playable character. Both Yuuki inSAOand Futaba/Navi inPersona 5are voiced by Aoi Yuki. The producers said on stream Aoi Yuki specifically recorded new lines for this collab. Since I’m not playing the game, I’ll be keeping an eye on YouTube as fans will definitely upload said lines in a compilation video, and I advise you to do the same if you’re a fellow seiyuu fan.

Kasumi Yoshizawa/Violet, voiced by Sora Amamiya, can also be obtained as a playable character via daily login bonus.

The collab story will be about Joker and Kirito teaming up.

A design contest asking fans to combineSAOcharacters andP5Rcharacter designs is also being held on Twitter. The best ones will be published later on. The contest lasts until February 13 at 23:59 JST. To enter the contest, just tweet your illustrated design with the hashtag #SAOP5Rコラボ.

None of this was announced in the global versions ofSAO Integral FactorandSAO Memory Defragyet, but these collabs will probably come to the global versions someday.

Persona 5 Royalis available in Japan and launches onMarch 31 in the west,exclusively on PlayStation 4. Meanwhile,Persona 5 Scramblelaunches on PlayStation 4 and Switch on February 20 in Japan.Futaba recently explainedP5Sin a new video. A Japanese demo willalso launch on February 6and we’ll share our impressions about it as soon as possible.

The trailer forSAO x P5Rand the full Dengeki Online stream is included below. Here are some useful timestamps where they showed some currently voiceless, in-development gameplay: