Seeing the live action they do with the commercials.. they're fun, but they're commercials quality. I wouldn't mind some live action as bonus with a game or something.

^ David Lynch...hmmm...If he did a SMT series movie, I imagine either the part where the main character goes to the Velvet Room in Persona or the Master's library in Nocturne, would look pretty much like this...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMXjjHFz__A

Personally... I think Persona should become a TV drama.  It'd either be the most hilarious live action series ever, or really compelling. .... I also would vote to have it take place not in Japan, or if in Japan, maybe at an international school... as a compromise.

Yeah...I think I'm going to ahead and come upwith something. A Persona game's plot but with original characters, and I hate to say it, but i think it might be set in America (though this time with it being INTENTIONALLY set there, not one of those let's whitewash Japan and change people's races P1 jobs).  
 
If anything, the key to Persona is its artsy vibes and its character analysis, plus the varying degrees of psychological elements.
 
But a question first. Implement the Velvet room, right?

Well then fool around with them a bit. Make one have a lazy eye, make the detective brother a detective sister, give someone a drinking problem, something that makes them a bit different from the base.

I have been working on a book sort of like the Persona series that deals with multi-ethnic inner city kids. I'll probably have a few diversified characters, but race won't be the focus.

augh double nay ;;

The whole thing about high school students/demons makes me thinks about go-nagai kinda thing... of course ol go nagai was way to far from computers but gakuen shinigamis shure was his thing... So there is a japanese real action movie of devilman, which is a way of visualize how an actual movie about shin megami tensei could possibly look. the there are some other strange japanese movie, cashern, about a tatsunoko hero, much more arty than the devilman movie, which is another way of visualize how could be a japanes take on this kind of story. last, lets not forget about one of the early spin off of the shin megami tensei games, called SMT IF..., the first game that actualy takes place in a high school. It is said that this game is based or influenced but a british cult movie called IF..., from the sixties, starring Malcom Mc Dowel and directed by Lindsay Anderson. This movie is about a school where misterious things start to happen to students and then some kind of rebellion came up... And thats as far as I can go thinking about movies and SMT...