Midnight Shadow Radio

Midnight Shadow Radio was a web radio talk show that promoted Persona 4 The Animation and later Persona 4 The Golden Animation.

Overview

The radio show was created to promote Persona 4 The Animation. It was broadcast every Thursday from October 6, 2011 to April 5, 2012 on Onsen Radio and Hibiki Radio. The show was co-hosted by Showtaro Morikubo (Yosuke Hanamura) and Tomokazu Seki (Kanji Tatsumi). A compilation was later released as a set of three CDs that included bonus episodes with different guests.

The show returned during the airing of Persona 4 The Golden Animation under the name Midnight Shadow Radio The Golden. It was broadcast every Thursday from July 3 to October 16, 2014 on Onsen Radio and Hibiki Radio. The show had two pairs of hosts which took turns hosting. One pair was the returning hosts from the original, Morikubo and Seki. The other pair was Daisuke Namikawa (Yu Narukami) and Kappei Yamaguchi (Teddie). A compilation was later released as a set of two CDs that included bonus episodes with different guests.

Content

Each episode had various segments:

Listener's Corner: Standard letters and other submissions from listeners
Investigation Team: Listeners submitted things they found strange or puzzling and the host would try to investigate
Max That Social Link: Listeners submitted weird experiences they had and the hosts would rank them as Rank 0, Rank 5, or Rank Max
Everyone's Everyday Junes: Listeners submitted their own versions of the Junes jingle with the lyrics being things they like and enjoy
Next Time on Persona Forecast: Preview for the next episode of Persona 4 The Animation in the form of a weather forecast, such as forecasting that "There is a 60% chance that Yu Narukami will talk more than he does in the game"

Since there were no listener submissions for the very first episode, the two voice actors introduced themselves and talked about things from their lives to give examples for what kind of content would be in each segment in the future.

The guests who appeared were:

Kappei Yamaguchi (Teddie): P4A radio episodes #10 and #11
Akemi Kanda (Nanako Dojima): P4A radio episode #17, P4GA radio episode #8
Ami Koshimizu (Yukiko Amagi): P4A radio episode #23

Home Release

Each volume contained 2 CDs: One with a recording of episodes of the radio show, and another with a special bonus episode.

For the Golden radio show, two special CDs featuring the female cast members were available exclusively through rental from the bookstore Tsutaya.

Show	Volume	Contents	Bonus Episode Guest	Release Date
Midnight Shadow Radio	Vol. 1	Radio episodes 1-10	Daisuke Namikawa (Yu Narukami)	June 27, 2012
Midnight Shadow Radio	Vol. 2	Radio episodes 11-18	Ami Koshimizu (Yukiko Amagi)	June 27, 2012
Midnight Shadow Radio	Vol. 3	Radio episodes 19-26	Kappei Yamaguchi (Teddie)	August 22, 2012
Midnight Shadow Radio The Golden	Vol. 1	Radio episodes 1-7	Akemi Kanda (Nanako Dojima)	September 30, 2014
Midnight Shadow Radio The Golden	Vol. 2	Radio episodes 8-16	Mitsuaki Madono (Tohru Adachi)	December 3, 2014
Midnight Shadow Radio The Golden - Tsutaya SP	Vol. 1	?	Ami Koshimizu (Yukiko Amagi), Romi Park (Naoto Shirogane)	?
Midnight Shadow Radio The Golden - Tsutaya SP	Vol. 2	?	Yui Horie (Chie Satonaka), Akemi Kanda (Nanako Dojima)	?

Nomenclature

Names in Other Languages
Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	マヨナカ影ラジオ Mayonaka kage rajio マヨナカ影ラジオザ・ゴールデン Mayonaka kage rajio za gōruden	Midnight Shadow Radio Midnight Shadow Radio The Golden