Episode 1: The First Episode

Here it is, the first episode of Personacast, which is a podcast about Persona. Featured in this episode are Justin Hutchison (a.k.a jhitcher42), Stella Wong, Chris Healy (a.k.a Bleach Boy) and myself, Tom Zhao (a.k.a Tray Ben). Our friend Dan (a.k.a Aurain), who will be on most if not all of our future episodes, unfortunately couldn't make it to this episode. This particular episode doesn't have a lot of centralized discussion and is free of spoilers in case any of our listeners haven't played any Persona games but would like to get into the series. We hope this will encourage at least someone to get into it. We do get pretty into discussions about game mechanics, but we couldn't help ourselves.

The podcast is currently being hosted on Hotfile, which as I am perfectly aware of, is a terrible way to host a podcast. Once we hit 5 episodes, everything will be moved to Libsyn. This blog will still remain.

More after the jump.



0:00 Opening (Song: Changing Seasons from the Persona 3 OST)
0:25 Introduction
0:48 What we've been doing this week
12:06 This anime discussion was originally 8 minutes I almost ragequit the podcast
14:50 The break (Song: Iwato Dormitory from the Persona 3 OST)
15:03 Bears?
17:05 Aaaand we're back!
17:47 Persona 1
18:20 Persona 2 (yeah, I know)
19:58 Persona 3 (YEAH, I KNOW)
28:25 Persona 3 FES
30:20 Somewhere around here, the topic changes to Persona 3 Portable, sort of
35:33 Persona 4
42:56 Listener questions
1:06:40 Closing Time
1:07:37 The dorkiest ending to a podcast ever (Song: Mass Destruction from the Persona 3 OST)
1:08:36 ???

This episode was excruciating to edit because as you will be able to tell after listening, I came out SUPER quiet. Every time I talk, I'm actually amplified by 8 dB every time I talk. That's how quiet I was. I had to raise the volume manually every time I talked. It sucked. This will hopefully be fixed by the next episode. Future episodes will contain more centralized discussion and will appeal more and more to fans of the series. So if you didn't like this episode, stick with us. We'll get better, we promise!

Be sure to follow @Personacast on Twitter for updates on the podcast, as well as @jhitcher42, @chrishealy, @kawaiiaya, @TrayBen, and @Aurain_ if you'd like to see what our cast is up to.