Is Catherine canon in the Persona universe?

[BeanTheWaif]

Considering Vincent (and I think Catherine herself) made an appearance in Persona 3 Portable, as well as Teddy having a cameo in the Stray Sheep, could Catherine be set in the Persona universe?

[mimizukari]

Is Phantasy Star Online 2 canon in the Persona universe? Ann, Elizabeth, Makoto, Ren, Makoto and Futaba all make canon appearances in PSO2 in order to hype up the ARKS for combat with their concerts and even bestow their ability to call Personas to the ARKS, all 6 methods shown in Persona 3, 4 and 5.

Depends how far you wanna take the Canon argument bruh. Persona Q is considered canon by Word of God, no other spin-offs are. However in PSO2 it is absolutely a fact that the Persona characters are canon, but Vice Versa? I doubt it.

I don't think this is a strawman at all so look at it logically and come to your own conclusion. Usually Word of God will say whether something is canon or not.

[1337Walrus]

Originally posted by Kurumi Tokisaki:

Is Phantasy Star Online 2 canon in the Persona universe? Ann, Elizabeth, Makoto, Ren, Makoto and Futaba all make canon appearances in PSO2 in order to hype up the ARKS for combat with their concerts and even bestow their ability to call Personas to the ARKS, all 6 methods shown in Persona 3, 4 and 5.

Depends how far you wanna take the Canon argument bruh. Persona Q is considered canon by Word of God, no other spin-offs are. However in PSO2 it is absolutely a fact that the Persona characters are canon, but Vice Versa? I doubt it.

I don't think this is a strawman at all so look at it logically and come to your own conclusion. Usually Word of God will say whether something is canon or not.

Persona Q and all of the dancing games (Yes, even Persona 3 Dancing) are canon. Shin Megami Tensei takes place in a multiverse where every ending and every choice is canon in at least one of them, and as Persona is a sub-series, it's safe to assume the same, especially since Persona 4 specifically references SMT multiple times.

That being said, Catherine itself is probably not canon, as it's confirmed to take place far, far into the future, long after 2009/2010 when the protagonists could talk to Vincent in P3P.

[qazimod]

I think it's just a cute reference for fans rather than anything to be taken too seriously. Kind of like P3 having "Innocent Sin Online" during that one S.Link. :)