Persora: The Golden Best 2
| PERSORA -THE GOLDEN BEST 2- | |
| ペルソラ -ザ ゴールデンベスト 2- | |
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| Publisher(s) | Atlus Co., Ltd. |
| Tracks | 14 |
| Length | 41:17 |
| Release |  Japan February 18, 2015 |
| Catalog Number | LNCM-1085 |
Persora: The Golden Best 2, stylized as PERSORA -THE GOLDEN BEST 2-, is a compilation album featuring songs in the Persona series.
Production
Persora: The Golden Best 2 is the second of five concept albums that are based on the "Persora Theater" segment of Persona Stalker Club. Viewers would submit what the English lyrics in Persona music sounded like to them in Japanese, and the songs that frequently came up during the Persora segments were collected into the five albums. The two biggest limitations during production were that the album couldn’t include any of the songs from the previous release, and the selection of 13 songs needed to come from the episodes released up to a certain point.[1]
Release and reception
The album was announced on December 26, 2014, and the 14 song album was released on a single disc in February 2015, published by Atlus Co., Ltd. and distributed by Mastard Records. Additionally, buyers who preordered or purchased the album at HMV stores or on HMV ONLINE, received an A4-sized original clear file as a first-come, first-served bonus.[2]
All art for the album was illustrated by Yuji Himukai, the main artist for the Etrian Odyssey series. Alongside the disc, the album came with a 20 page booklet containing liner notes from Persona Stalker Club hosts Tomomi Isomura and Mafia Kajita, vocalists Yumi Kawamura, Lotus Juice, and Shihoko Hirata, artist Yuji Himukai, director Katsura Hashino, and composer Kenichi Tsuchiya. The booklet also contains lyrics for each song,[a] with the misheard lyrics colored in red, and artwork on each page depicting what the lyrics were misheard as.
The bonus track for this album, "PQ Terrible Cooking Theme," was the theme song for the "PQ Terrible Cooking" segment of Stalker Club, and was composed and arranged by Kenichi Tsuchiya. It is primarily a remix of "Never More," but also features other motifs from the Persona 4 Original Soundtrack; specifically, the second half of the intro is “I'll Face Myself -Battle-”, the A-melody is “Alone”, and the loop at the end of the B-melody is a phrase from “Aria of the Soul.”
On the Oricon charts, the album peaked at number 40 and held a placement on the top 300 album list for 3 weeks.[3]
Tracklist
| No. | Track title (Japanese) | Track title (Translation) | Composer | Arranger | Lyricist | Duration | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Burn My Dread | — | Shoji Meguro | — | Shigeo Komori, Yoshihiro Komori | 1:37 | Persona 3 |
| 02 | Light the Fire Up in the Night "KAGEJIKAN" | — | Atsushi Kitajoh | — | Lotus Juice | 2:42 | Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth |
| 03 | Mass Destruction | — | Shoji Meguro | — | Reiko Tanaka, Lotus Juice | 3:52 | Persona 3 |
| 04 | 巌戸台分寮 | Iwatodai Dorm | Shoji Meguro | — | — | 2:38 | Persona 3 |
| 05 | Backside Of The TV | — | Shoji Meguro | — | Reiko Tanaka | 2:55 | Persona 4 |
| 06 | Laser Beam | — | Atsushi Kitajoh | — | Lotus Juice | 3:16 | Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth |
| 07 | A Lone Prayer | — | Shoji Meguro | — | Reiko Tanaka | 1:56 | Persona |
| 08 | Changing Seasons | — | Shoji Meguro | — | — | 3:00 | Persona 3 |
| 09 | Light the Fire Up in the Night "MAYONAKA" | — | Atsushi Kitajoh | — | Lotus Juice | 2:42 | Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth |
| 10 | A Way of Life | — | Shoji Meguro | — | Reiko Tanaka | 2:22 | Persona 3 Portable |
| 11 | Heaven | — | Shoji Meguro | — | Reiko Tanaka | 3:01 | Persona 4 |
| 12 | Mass Destruction [Live] | — | Shoji Meguro | PERSONA MUSIC BAND | Reiko Tanaka, Lotus Juice | 3:58 | Persona Music Fes 2013 ~in Nippon Budokan |
| 13 | Pursuing My True Self (ATLUS Kozuka Remix from "P4D") |
— | Shoji Meguro | Ryota Kozuka | Yu Namba / RyoRca / Reiko Tanaka / Benjamin Franklin | 2:57 | Persona 4: Dancing All Night |
| 14 | PQ 散々クッキングのテーマ | PQ Terrible Cooking Theme | Kenichi Tsuchiya | — | — | 2:08 | Persona Stalker Club |
Samples and Remixes
- "Iwatodai Dorm" - Vocals sampled from "Rapper 1-2" on the Best Service: Hallelujah sample CD
- "Changing Seasons" - French vocals sampled from an unknown sample CD[4]
- "PQ Terrible Cooking Theme" - remix of "Never More" from the Persona 4 Original Soundtrack.
Personnel
| Position | Member |
|---|---|
| Persora Soramimist | Tomomi Isomura (Isocchi) |
| Illustrations | Yuji Himukai |
| Vocals | Yumi Kawamura Tracks: 1, 2, 3, 7Lotus Juice Tracks: 2, 3, 6, 9, 12Shihoko Hirata Tracks: 5, 9, 11, 13Mayumi Fujita Track: 10
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| Position | Member |
|---|---|
| A&R | Hidemi Muramoto Junya "JK" Kawabata (Mastard Records) |
| Mastering Engineer | Machiko Suzue (Sony Music Communications Inc.) |
| Mastering Studio | Sony Music Studio Tokyo |
| Package Design | Keisuke Matsuda (Playroom) |
| Special Thanks | Yoshikazu Tanaka Teruyasu Yamamoto Kazuhisa Wada Everyone who submitted Soramimi entries |
| Media Promotion | Toshihiro Takashima Shinchi "Legend" Kiritani (Mastard Records) |
| Sales Promotion | Junon "Holy" Horikoshi (Mastard Records) Yuko "My-Wife" Wagatsuma (Mastard Records) |
| Supervisors | Tsuneo "yampi" Yanagida (Mastard Records) Takafumi Kodoi (Mastard Records) Seiichi Ohno (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.) |
| Executive Producer | Ken Sakamoto (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.) |
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Gallery
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Clear file preorder bonus
See also
- Persora: The Golden Best
- Persora: The Golden Best 3
- Persora: The Golden Best 4
- Persora: The Golden Best 5
Notes
- ↑ Lyrics for vocals that originated from a Sample CD, such as Changing Seasons and Iwatodai Dorm, are not included.
References
- ↑ Album Booklet Liner Notes
- ↑ Atlus, 【1月26日追記 日向悠二さん描き下ろしイラストジャケット公開！】『PERSORA -THE GOLDEN BEST 2-』発売決定！. Published January 26, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2025. p-ch.jp.
- ↑ Oricon Listing
- ↑ Persona 3 Original Soundtrack Track Commentary