{"id":135493,"date":"2026-01-02T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-195803"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:00:00","slug":"fitness-boxing-appears-to-be-teasing-a-collab-with-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/02\/fitness-boxing-appears-to-be-teasing-a-collab-with-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Boxing Appears To Be Teasing A Collab With Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/845bc23651b1b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/845bc23651b1b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"845bc23651b1b\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Persona 5\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/845bc23651b1b\/persona-5.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/845bc23651b1b\/persona-5.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" alt=\"Persona 5\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Atlus<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Imagineer, the developer behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fitness_boxing\">Fitness Boxing<\/a>, appears to be teasing a new collab with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/persona-3-reload\">Persona<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>An official post on the Fitness Boxing social media account has shared some dialogue, and it&#8217;s displayed with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/persona_5_royal\">Persona 5<\/a>-style user interface. Here&#8217;s what it says, according to a translation (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2025\/12\/fitness-boxing-persona-5-announcement-teased\">via Gematsu<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>???:<\/strong> What are you getting ready for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>???:<\/strong> Heh heh heh\u2026 This time, I\u2019m preparing a training plan that\u2019s a bit different from usual. After all, stamina is essential for a Phantom Thief!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/gematsu\/status\/2006577469264908797 @ 2026-01-01T07:54:39+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fitness Boxing Persona 5 announcement teased <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TqO1tQdmYB\">https:\/\/t.co\/TqO1tQdmYB<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oENcgvf4h2\">pic.twitter.com\/oENcgvf4h2<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Gematsu (@gematsu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gematsu\/status\/2006577469264908797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Fitness Boxing has previously done crossovers with series like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fitness_boxing_feat_hatsune_miku\">Hatsune Miku<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fitness_boxing_fist_of_the_north_star\">Fist of the North Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When we get an update about this, or something more official is announced, we&#8217;ll be sure to let you know. Atlus is also celebrating Persona&#8217;s 30th anniversary this year and has already <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/p-ch.jp\/p30th\/\">opened a new website<\/a> for the big event.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/related-articles:195668,195732,195542 @ 1767341126 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Would you be interested in a collab like this? Have you played a Fitness Boxing game before? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Atlus Imagineer, the developer behind Fitness Boxing, appears to be teasing a new collab with the Persona series. An official post on the Fitness Boxing social media account has shared some dialogue, and it&#8217;s displayed with a Persona 5-style user interface. Here&#8217;s what it says, according to a translation (via Gematsu): ???: What are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}