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Persona Stalker Club was a web talk show about the Persona series.

Overview

The show was co-hosted by gaming writer and personality Mafia Kajita and voice actress Tomomi Isomura. The show began airing in 2014 on the Japanese video platform Nico Nico Douga, shortly after the announcement about Persona 5 back in November of 2013. The show was usually pre-recorded, though some episodes were live streamed. It aired monthly until April of 2016 when it was announced that the show would be renamed Persona Stalker Club V leading up to the release of Persona 5. In addition to Nico Nico Douga, V also aired on the Abema Fresh! platform. The final episode of V aired in March of 2017.

During the show, Isomura and Kajita would discuss the latest in Persona news. There was a Q&A segment called, "Ah-ha, I S.E.E.S." (Japanese: なるほどなー S.E.E.S., Hepburn Naruhodo na S.E.E.S.) where selected user-submitted questions would get responses from Atlus. There was also a segment where the hosts read user-submitted misheard lyrics from Persona songs, called the "Pers-misheard Theater" (Japanese: ペル空耳劇場, Hepburn Perusoramimi gekijō), a portmanteau of "Persona" and "soramimi", or Persora for short. Sometimes the show would have guests, namely voice actors and Atlus personnel.

Episodes

Persona Stalker Club

Episode	Title	Airing Date	Special Topic	Guest(s)	Note
#1		February 28, 2014
#2		March 27, 2014
#3		April 25, 2014	Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	Yumi Kawamura
SP		May 23, 2014	Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth		Unedited Persona Q special
#4		May 30, 2014	Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth	Lotus Juice
#5	Commemorative Persona Q launch Nico Nico livestream ~The Catcher in the Cabbage Patch~	June 19, 2014	Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth	Mitsuaki Madono (Tohru Adachi)	First live stream
#6		July 25, 2014	Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	Mitsuaki Madono (Tohru Adachi), Shihoko Hirata
#7		August 29, 2014	Persona 4 Arena Ultimax	Tomokazu Sugita (Yusuke Kitagawa)
#8		September 30, 2014	Tokyo Game Show 2014
#9		October 31, 2014		Kappei Yamaguchi (Teddie)
#10		November 28, 2014		Akemi Kanda (Nanako Dojima)
#11		December 26, 2014		Ami Koshimizu (Yukiko Amagi)
#12		January 30, 2015
#13	Persona Stalker Club: Nippon Budokan Special	February 27, 2015	Persona Super Live 2015	Yumi Kawamura, Shihoko Hirata, Lotus Juice, Shoji Meguro	Nippon Budokan was the venue for Super Live 2015
#14		March 31, 2015
#15		April 30, 2015	Persona 4: Dancing All Night
#16		May 29, 2015	Persona 4: Dancing All Night	Lotus Juice
SP	Sega Live: Featuring Isocchi and Mafia Kajita from Persona Stalker Club?!	June 22, 2015	Persona 4: Dancing All Night		Toshihiro Nagoshi (Director of Like a Dragon) and Ayana Tsubaki (talent) hosted Sega Live with Kajita and Isomura appearing as guests
#17		June 30, 2015	Persona 4: Dancing All Night	Daisuke Asakura (Musician)
#18		July 31, 2015
#19		August 31, 2015
SP	Persona Stalker Club: TGS Edition	September 19, 2015	Persona 5
#20		October 30, 2015	Tokyo Game Show 2015
#21		November 30, 2015		Takahiro Mizuki (sugar sculptor)
#22		December 28, 2015	Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse	Megumi Toyoguchi (Yukari Takeba)
#23		January 29, 2016
#24		February 29, 2016		Megumi Ogata (Ken Amada)
#25		March 31, 2016		Nosoko (Felt doll artist)
#26		April 28, 2016	Persona 5	Lyn, Shoji Meguro
SP	Commemorative Persona 5 release date announcement Nico livestream	May 31, 2016	Persona 5

Persona Stalker Club V

Episode	Title	Airing Date	Guest(s)
#1		June 30, 2016
#2		July 29, 2016	Yumi Kawamura, Lotus Juice, Lyn, Shihoko Hirata
#3		August 31, 2016
#4		September 30, 2016
#5		October 31, 2016	Katsura Hashino, Shigenori Soejima
#6		December 4, 2016	Shoji Meguro
#7		December 28, 2016	Video Guests: DJ Waka, Takahiro Mizuki (sugar sculptor)
#8		January 31, 2017	Ikue Otani (Morgana)
#9		February 28, 2017
Final	Let's Make Like a Tree and Leaf with Ms. Post-Apocalyptic Raider	March 30, 2017	Live Guests: Rina Sato (Makoto Niijima), Tomokazu Sugita (Yusuke Kitagawa) Video Guests: Jun Fukuyama (Joker), Shoji Meguro, Shigenori Soejima, Katsura Hashino
SP	Back for One Night: Escape from the backstages of Yokohama Arena!	August 2, 2017	Yoshiaki Chigi (From Dengeki Playstation)

Persora Theater

Stalker Club's most popular segment was the Persora Theater, or the Per(sona) misheard lyrics theater, where viewers would submit what the English lyrics in Persona music sounded like to them in Japanese. These segments included artwork related to the misheard lyrics drawn by Etrian Odyssey's artist Yuji Himukai. For example, in one episode, the English line "Could turn out to be" from "Best Friends" was heard as "kutta nasubi" meaning "eaten eggplant", and the accompanying art showed a hungry Tohru Adachi eating an eggplant animal that Nanako Dojima set out to celebrate Obon Festival.

Albums

The songs that frequently came up during the Persora segments were collected into five albums called Persora: The Golden Best. These albums also included a new remix by a member of Atlus's sound team as a bonus track.

Persora Awards

The hosts of Stalker Club held three Persora Awards where they and various voice actor guests would review and select the best Persora submissions. Persora Awards 1 and 2 were released as standalone BD/DVDs and also as part of box collections that included the awards show, episodes of Stalker Club, and bonus content. Persora Awards 3 was only released as part of a box collection.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages
Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ペルソナストーカー倶楽部 Perusona sutōkā kurabu	Persona Stalker Club

Gallery

Logo for Stalker Club
Logo for Stalker Club V
A photo from the set of the program, featuring (left to right) Tomomi Isomura, Tomokazu Sugita (cosplaying Yukiko Amagi), and Mafia Kajita.

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