Persora: The Golden Best 3, stylized as PERSORA -THE GOLDEN BEST 3-, is a compilation album featuring songs from the Persona series.
Production
Persora: The Golden Best 3 is the third 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 album was announced on July 29, 2016 alongside Persora: The Golden Best 4 and Persora Awards 2 as the first of three consecutive Persora releases releasing in the last three months of 2016.[1]
Release
The 16 song album was released on a single disc in October 2016, published by Atlus Co., Ltd. and distributed by Mastard Records.[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 22 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 Ryota Kozuka. The booklet also contains lyrics for each song when possible; the misheard lyrics are highlighted and artwork from the show is used on each page to depict what the lyrics were misheard as.
Two bonus tracks were included as tracks 15 and 16 of the album. "1, 2, 3, Stalkers Theme" was the theme song for the "Persona Board of Education Recommended Program 1, 2, 3, Stalkers" segment of Stalker Club; it is a music box remix of "Aria of the Soul" and was composed by Shoji Meguro and Kenichi Tsuchiya. The second bonus track, "Like a dream come true (Chagall Ver.)," is a new arrangement exclusive to the album.
Tracklist
| No. |
Track title (Japanese) |
Track title (Translation) |
Composer |
Arranger |
Lyricist |
Duration |
Source
|
| 01 |
SNOWFLAKES -powder snow mix- |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
Atsushi Kitajoh |
Benjamin Franklin |
4:25 |
Persona 4 Golden
|
| 02 |
Brand New Days |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
— |
Yuichiro Tanaka |
5:51 |
Persona 3 FES
|
| 03 |
unbreakable tie |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
— |
Lotus Juice |
4:03 |
Persona 2: Innocent Sin (PSP)
|
| 04 |
Reach Out To The Truth -First Battle- |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
— |
Reiko Tanaka, Teppei Kobayashi, Lotus Juice |
2:58 |
Persona 4
|
| 05 |
changing me |
— |
Atsushi Kitajoh |
— |
Azusa Kido |
6:01 |
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
|
| 06 |
Master of Tartarus |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
— |
— |
3:31 |
Persona 3
|
| 07 |
Dance! -Long Mix- |
— |
Ryota Kozuka, Shoji Meguro |
Ryota Kozuka |
Benjamin Franklin, Lotus Juice, Yu Namba, RyoRca |
3:43 |
Persona 4: Dancing All Night Soundtrack Advanced CD
|
| 08 |
True Story |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
— |
Yuichiro Tanaka |
3:20 |
Persona 4 Golden
|
| 09 |
Shadow World (ATLUS Kozuka Remix) |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
Ryota Kozuka |
Benjamin Franklin |
3:22 |
Persona 4: Dancing All Night
|
| 10 |
NOW I KNOW |
— |
Atsushi Kitajoh |
— |
Benjamin Franklin |
5:49 |
Persona 4 Arena
|
| 11 |
Your Affection (Daisuke Asakura Remix) |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
Daisuke Asakura |
Reiko Tanaka |
3:36 |
Persona 4: Dancing All Night
|
| 12 |
Burn My Dread (Novoiski REMIX) |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
Novoiski |
Reiko Tanaka |
3:43 |
AT1st ~Persona3 & Persona4~ Club Arrange
|
| 13 |
Dream Of Butterfly |
— |
Shoji Meguro |
— |
Shigeo Komori |
2:06 |
Persona
|
| 14 |
時価ネットたなか |
Tanaka's Amazing Commodities |
Shoji Meguro |
— |
Katsura Hashino |
1:17 |
Persona 3
|
| 15 |
いちにのさんすとーかーずのテーマ |
1, 2, 3, Stalkers Theme |
Shoji Meguro, Kenichi Tsuchiya |
Kenichi Tsuchiya |
— |
0:37 |
Persona Stalker Club
|
| 16 |
Like a dream come true (シャガールVer.) |
Like a dream come true (Chagall Ver.) |
Shoji Meguro |
Atsushi Kitajoh |
— |
2:41 |
—
|
Samples and Remixes
Personnel
Staff
| Position
|
Member
|
Persora Soramimist
|
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Illustrations
|
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Vocals
|
Shihoko Hirata Tracks: 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11Yumi KawamuraTracks: 2, 5, 12, 13Asami IzawaTrack: 3Lotus JuiceTracks: 3, 7Rie KugimiyaTrack: 8[a]Kappei YamaguchiTrack: 8[b]Masahide TayakaTrack: 14
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Album Production
| Position
|
Member
|
A&R
|
Hidemi Muramoto
Masaki Takami
|
Mastering Engineer
|
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Mastering Studio
|
Sony Music Studio Tokyo
|
Package Design
|
Yumemi (imagejack)
|
Special Thanks
|
Daisuke Asakura Minoru Inoue (Maxmix) Tomohisa Ono (MIT Gathering) Megumi Suzuki (imagejack) Yoshikazu Tanaka Hisahiro Takashima Akiyasu Yamamoto Makoto Sadagata Atlus Sound TeamEveryone who submitted Soramimi entries |
Media Promotion
|
Shinchi Kiritani (Mastard Records)
|
Sales Promotion
|
Junya Kawabata (Mastard Records)
|
Supervisors
|
Takafumi Odoi (Mastard Records)
Kenji Fukui (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.)
Seiichi Ohno (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.)
Ken Sakamoto (Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc.)
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See also
Notes
References
External Links