Persona Stalker Club
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: The Golden Best
- Persora: The Golden Best 2
- Persora: The Golden Best 3
- Persora: The Golden Best 4
- Persora: The Golden Best 5
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.
- Persora Awards: Full Stalking Box
- Persora Awards 2: 20th Ambassador Box
- Persora Awards 3: Memento Mori☆Mori Box
Nomenclature
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
 Japanese
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ペルソナストーカー倶楽部 Perusona sutōkā kurabu | Persona Stalker Club |
Gallery
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Logo for Stalker Club V
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A photo from the set of the program, featuring (left to right) Tomomi Isomura, Tomokazu Sugita (cosplaying Yukiko Amagi), and Mafia Kajita.
