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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. It" (Japanese: なるほどなー S.E.E.S., Hepburn Naruhodo nā 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.

Ah-ha, I S.E.E.S. It

This segment was named after a line of Aigis's from Persona 3. The hosts would read fan-submitted questions, chat about what they thought the answer might be, then read Atlus's response, then say, "Ah-ha, I S.E.E.S. it!" in response. This segment was not always structured as a Q&A and was sometimes just a way of showing new info. For example, during episode 6, they had Adachi's voice actor do combo challenges in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and for each one he completed, they would show cutscenes from story mode. If he failed a challenge, he could still make up for it by chewing on a re-creation of Chie's Meat Gum (beef jerky flakes sprinkled on a regular stick of gum).

Episode 01

Q: What happens if you unzip the zipper between Izanagi's legs?
A: Inside the zipper is a Shadow. A Persona wearing a zipped battle suit represents controlling your suppressed ego with strong willpower.

Q: Why does Shinjiro Aragaki wear his cap and coat even during summer?
A: His Persona suppressing drugs interfere with his body's temperature regulation.

Episode 05

Q: Why do Dojima and Adachi wear the same red tie? It's weird that the two of them wear a plain, bright red necktie that would stand out like a sore thumb even if they weren't detectives. Was it just a coincidence, or is there a reason for this?
A: Dojima couldn't stand seeing Adachi wear some old wrinkled worn-out tie, so Dojima gave Adachi one of his spares.

Q: Adachi's hobby is supposedly "revolver maintenance", but it doesn't seem like he can do things that require dexterity very well, and he's never shown actually maintaining a revolver in the story. Can he really do revolver maintenance?
A: He does maintenance on model guns he owns at home since he can't take his police-issued revolver home.

Q: In a particular scene, Adachi whips out a lighter from his pocket. Does he smoke?
A: Adachi doesn't smoke himself. He keeps a lighter on-hand in case Dojima asks for a light.

Q: Adachi always calls the main characters "naive", "dumb kids", and generally looks down on them, but he's quite relaxed when it comes to Dojima, and I don't think he's ever said a bad thing about him. I want to know why Adachi is like that with Dojima. What happened when they first met?
A: One of the reasons why is because when they first met, Dojima got him sushi so Adachi thought he was a good guy.

Q: In the story, Adachi buys a lot of cabbage. What did he make with all of that cabbage? (Actually, can Adachi even cook?)
A: Adachi would cut up a fresh ball of cabbage vertically into large pieces like it's a watermelon, and have it as a beer snack with some miso and mayo/kewpie.

Q: Adachi, one of the characters in Persona 4, is now a popular character. He's become Persona 4's ratings guy / crowd pleaser. That said, when you were making Persona 4, were you consciously trying to make Adachi a character that wouldn't be hated but rather adored by the players? What is the appeal of Adachi, who, despite being "egocentric", has acquired a loyal fanbase?
A: During production, we cared about all of the characters, not just Adachi. We're quite pleased to see when a character unexpectedly becomes popular. As for his appeal, that's up to you.

Episode 12

Q: During Episode Adachi, Adachi mentions the Moonlight Bridge. Did he used to live in Iwatodai?
A: He didn't necessarily live there, but he worked in the city center, and would take the scenic route back to HQ by driving over to Moonlight Bridge to imitate a character on a popular detective drama.

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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 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 {{link|game|p5}} 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 {{link|game|p5}}. 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." ({{JP|なるほどなー S.E.E.S.|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" ({{JP|ペル空耳劇場|Perusoramimi gekijō}}), a portmanteau of "Persona" and "soramimi",<!--feel free to makeup some other translation for this. soramimi is more specifically like erm when a person attempts to translate a song based on the melody (with comedic effect) so hmm "misheard" probs not the best word on reflection?--> or Persora for short. Sometimes the show would have guests, namely voice actors and Atlus personnel.
+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. It" ({{JP|なるほどなー S.E.E.S.|Naruhodo nā 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" ({{JP|ペル空耳劇場|Perusoramimi gekijō}}), a portmanteau of "Persona" and "soramimi",<!--feel free to makeup some other translation for this. soramimi is more specifically like erm when a person attempts to translate a song based on the melody (with comedic effect) so hmm "misheard" probs not the best word on reflection?--> or Persora for short. Sometimes the show would have guests, namely voice actors and Atlus personnel.
 ==Episodes==
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 * [[Persora Awards 2: 20th Ambassador Box]]
 * [[Persora Awards 3: Memento Mori☆Mori Box]]
+==Ah-ha, I S.E.E.S. It==
+This segment was named after a line of Aigis's from {{link|game|p3}}. The hosts would read fan-submitted questions, chat about what they thought the answer might be, then read Atlus's response, then say, "Ah-ha, I S.E.E.S. it!" in response. This segment was not always structured as a Q&A and was sometimes just a way of showing new info. For example, during episode 6, they had Adachi's voice actor do combo challenges in {{link|game|p4au}} and for each one he completed, they would show cutscenes from story mode. If he failed a challenge, he could still make up for it by chewing on a re-creation of Chie's [[Meat Gum]] (beef jerky flakes sprinkled on a regular stick of gum).
+'''Episode 01'''
+'''Q''': What happens if you unzip the zipper between [[Izanagi (Persona)|Izanagi]]'s legs?
+<br/>'''A''': Inside the zipper is a Shadow. A Persona wearing a zipped battle suit represents controlling your suppressed ego with strong willpower.
+'''Q''': Why does [[Shinjiro Aragaki]] wear his cap and coat even during summer?
+<br/>'''A''': His Persona suppressing drugs interfere with his body's temperature regulation.
+'''Episode 05'''
+'''Q''': Why do Dojima and Adachi wear the same red tie? It's weird that the two of them wear a plain, bright red necktie that would stand out like a sore thumb even if they weren't detectives. Was it just a coincidence, or is there a reason for this?
+<br/>'''A''': Dojima couldn't stand seeing Adachi wear some old wrinkled worn-out tie, so Dojima gave Adachi one of his spares.
+'''Q''': Adachi's hobby is supposedly "revolver maintenance", but it doesn't seem like he can do things that require dexterity very well, and he's never shown actually maintaining a revolver in the story. Can he really do revolver maintenance?
+<br/>'''A''': He does maintenance on model guns he owns at home since he can't take his police-issued revolver home.
+'''Q''': In a particular scene, Adachi whips out a lighter from his pocket. Does he smoke?
+<br/>'''A''': Adachi doesn't smoke himself. He keeps a lighter on-hand in case Dojima asks for a light.
+'''Q''': Adachi always calls the main characters "naive", "dumb kids", and generally looks down on them, but he's quite relaxed when it comes to Dojima, and I don't think he's ever said a bad thing about him. I want to know why Adachi is like that with Dojima. What happened when they first met?
+<br/>'''A''': One of the reasons why is because when they first met, Dojima got him sushi so Adachi thought he was a good guy.
+'''Q''': In the story, Adachi buys a lot of cabbage. What did he make with all of that cabbage? (Actually, can Adachi even cook?)
+<br/>'''A''': Adachi would cut up a fresh ball of cabbage vertically into large pieces like it's a watermelon, and have it as a beer snack with some miso and mayo/kewpie.
+'''Q''': Adachi, one of the characters in Persona 4, is now a popular character. He's become Persona 4's ratings guy / crowd pleaser. That said, when you were making Persona 4, were you consciously trying to make Adachi a character that wouldn't be hated but rather adored by the players? What is the appeal of Adachi, who, despite being "egocentric", has acquired a loyal fanbase?
+<br/>'''A''': During production, we cared about all of the characters, not just Adachi. We're quite pleased to see when a character unexpectedly becomes popular. As for his appeal, that's up to you.
+'''Episode 12'''
+'''Q''': During Episode Adachi, Adachi mentions the Moonlight Bridge. Did he used to live in Iwatodai?
+<br/> '''A''': He didn't necessarily live there, but he worked in the city center, and would take the scenic route back to HQ by driving over to Moonlight Bridge to imitate a character on a popular detective drama.
 ==Nomenclature==