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Persona 3: the Weird Masquerade -Ao no Kakusei- (ペルソナ3 the Weird Masquerade 〜青の覚醒〜, lit. Blue Awakening) is a stage play based on Persona 3.

Release

  • Japan: January 8-12, 2014 (Performance)
  • Japan: May 14, 2014 (DVD Release)

Profile

The Weird Masquerade is a stageplay that saw a limited release from January 8-12, 2014 in the Theater G Rosso and was first announced during the August 2013 Persona Music FES. Music was composed by Shoji Meguro. Casting was performed by Oku Shutaro. The script was written by Jun Kumagai, who was responsible for scripts for Persona 4 The Animation and Persona 3 The Movie.

It was based on the original game and double-casts the male and female versions of the protagonist. They do not appear in the play together, but instead the performances are divided in between male and female performances. Both male and female performances were released in a live broadcast on NicoNico. In the DVD release, the male and female performances each received a separate disk in the two DVD set.

Plot

Male Route

In the past, where the news report a mysterious catastrophe during the Moonlight Bridge, where they spotted a sole survivor , in which it was a child.

Ten years later, a young man named Sakuya Shiomi arrive at Tatsumi Island as transfer student. Meanwhile Yukari, Akihiko, and Mitsuru fighting Shadows during the Dark Hour. During the fight, Yukari attempt to summon her Persona, but she hesitated as the Shadow taunted her, but Mitsuru managed to defeat it. After Yukari return to dorm, Akihiko, Mitsuru, and Ikutsuki unexpected meet Junpei, who was panicking and don't know what was doing on, so Akihiko punched him back to his sense. Although he was settle down, Junpei still hyper slightly in which Akihiko was annoyed, he knocked him unconscious.

As Sakuya arrive at the dorm, he encounter a mysterious boy, who asked him to signed a contract, in which he did. Before the mysterious boy disappear, he give him advice. Back to reality, she meets Yukari and suddenly unknown Shadow attacking the dorm. As Yukari lead Sakuya on top of the dorm, the Arcana Magician appear. As she tried attempt to Persona again, he was knocked out by the Shadow and accidently dropped her Evoker, he grab a Evoker and begun to hesitated, but she heard a mysterious boy's voice, telling him to go on, Sakuya summoned his Persona, Orpheus for the first time, but something went wrong as he clutched his head and he screamed in pain as his Persona changed to Thanatos and defeats the Arcana Magician. After that with his Persona revert back to Orpheus, Sakuya lose conscious.

Female Route

In the past, where the news report a mysterious catastrophe during the Moonlight Bridge, where they spotted a sole survivor , in which it was a child.

Ten years later, a young women named Kotone Shiomi arrive at Tatsumi Island as transfer student. Meanwhile Yukari, Akihiko, and Mitsuru fighting Shadows during the Dark Hour. During the fight, Yukari attempt to summon her Persona, but she hesitated as the Shadow taunted her, but Mitsuru managed to defeat it. After Yukari return to dorm, Akihiko, Mitsuru, and Ikutsuki unexpected meet Junpei, who was panicking and don't know what was doing on, so Akihiko knocked him to his sense. Although he was settle down, Junpei still hyper slightly in which Akihiko was annoyed, he knocked him unconscious.

As Kotone arrive at the dorm, she encounter a mysterious boy, who asked her to signed a contract, in which she did. Before the mysterious boy disappear, he give her advice. Back to reality, she meets Yukari and suddenly unknown Shadow attacking the dorm. As Yukari lead Kotone on top of the dorm, the Arcana Magician appear. As she tried attempt to Persona again, she was knocked out by the Shadow and accidently dropped her Evoker, she grab a Evoker and begun to hesitated, but she heard a mysterious boy's voice, telling her to go on, Kotone summoned her Persona, Orpheus for the first time, but something went wrong as she clutched her head and she screamed in pain as her Persona changed to Thanatos and defeats the Arcana Magician. After that Persona revert back to Orpheus, Kotone lose conscious.

The following day, she regain conscious, she encounter the mysterious boy, and he explains to her that she awakened her Persona and ordeal she will be facing in the near future. Later, with Kotone joins SEES, she started to attend Gakkoukan High School. Before starting class, Kotone meets Junpei, who in which revealed he can summon his Persona and be new member of SEES, much of Yukari's displeased. She meets another student named Fuuka Yamagishi, and befriend her quiet nicely. Junpei decided to everyone movie tickets so that they would get to know each other better.

In the eventing when the Dark Hour struck, everyone except Mitsuru and Akihiko where shocked to see their school transformed into Tartarus. Their reason for being them so that will help them to get stronger.

Music

Here are the list of songs/tracks that were used during the stageplay:

  1. Soul Phase (-P3 the Weird Masquerade ver- (Male version)) sung by Shouta Aoi (Sakuya Shiomi)
  2. Wiping All Out (-P3 the WM ver.) sung by Asami Taro and Yuuki Fujiwara (Mitsuru Kirijo and Akihiko Sanada)
  3. I am no HERO sung by Genki Ookawa (Junpei Iori)
  4. Brand New Days (-P3 the WM ver-) sung by Maho Tomita and Shouta Aoi (Yukari Takaba and Sakuya Shiomi)
  5. Watashi no ibasho sung by Marina Tanoue (Fuuka Yamagishi)
  6. Kimi no Kioku (-P3 the WM ver-) by Shouta Aoi (Sakuya Shiomi) and the rest of the cast
  7. Soul Phase (-P3 the Weird Masquerade ver- (Female version)) sung by Kana Asumi
  8. Brand New Days (-P3 the WM ver-) (Female version) sung by Maho Tomita and Kana Asumi (Yukari Takaba and Kotone Shiomi)
  9. Kimi no Kioku (-P3 the WM ver-) (Female version) sung by Kana Asumi ( Kotone Shiomi) and the rest of the cast
  10. Interstice of Time (-P3 the WM ver-)

Cast

Adaption Differences

There are difference between the game and stage play:

  • The 2009 calendar was not feature, which makes it unknown when the days or month went by.
  • In both version, Sakuya/Kotone arrive at dorm during the Fullmoon operation in April 9 instead of April 6.
    • Around the same day, Junpei for the first time experience the Dark Hour and meets Akihiko, Mitsuru, and Ikutsuki.
  • Fuuka befriends with Kotone, Yukari, and Junpei before being trapped in Tartarus.
  • Akihiko does not get wounded by the Shadow during April Full moon Operation.
  • Natsuki doesn't appear although it's possible she appear as one of the girls who were bullying Fuuka, but she not go after her as she was guilty what and her friends did to her.

Gallery

 
P3WM Blue Awakening DVD
 
P3 the WM male
Male Route DVD
 
P3 the WM female
Female Route DVD

Trivia

  • Shinjiro Aragaki does not appear in the stageplay even though he has important role like in the beginning of the game and Persona 3 The Movie first film. He only made his official appearance in the sequel of Persona 3: the Weird Masquerade -Gunjou no Meikyuu-. (It possible that couldn't find the role to play him.)
  • It seems in the male route appear to be extended longer than female route stage play version.
    • It's presumably because a special guest, Kana Asami, who played Kotone Shiomi appear after the stageplay.

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Characters
Playable Male protagonist - Female protagonist - Yukari Takeba - Junpei Iori - Akihiko Sanada - Mitsuru Kirijo - Fuuka Yamagishi - Aigis - Koromaru - Ken Amada - Shinjiro Aragaki - Metis
Social Link Kenji Tomochika - Hidetoshi Odagiri - Bunkichi and Mitsuko - Kazushi Miyamoto - Chihiro Fushimi - Isako Toriumi - Keisuke Hiraga - Yuko Nishiwaki - Maiko Oohashi - Pharos - Bebe - President Tanaka - Mutatsu - Mamoru Hayase - Nozomi Suemitsu - Akinari Kamiki - Rio Iwasaki - Saori Hasegawa - Ryoji Mochizuki
Major Igor - Elizabeth - Theodore - Shuji Ikutsuki - Officer Kurosawa - Takaya Sakaki - Jin Shirato - Chidori Yoshino - Takeharu Kirijo - Kouetsu Kirijo - Eiichiro Takeba - Natsuki Moriyama - Nyx - Erebus - Margaret
Minor Maki - Kiyoshi Sakuma - Mr. Edogawa - Mr. Ekoda - Ms. Miyahara - Ms. Ounishi - Mrs. Terauchi - Kikuno Saikawa - Yuu Kimijima - Souta Aizawa - Kyouka Sayama
Cameo Yukiko Amagi - Noriko Kashiwagi - Man Drinking Alone
Location
Port Island Gekkoukan High School - Paulownia Mall - Iwatodai Station - Port Island Station - Naganaki Shrine - Dorm - Moonlight Bridge - Velvet Room
Tartarus Blocks: Thebel - Arqa - Yabbashah - Tziah - Harabah - Adamah - Monad Depths
Abyss of Time Malebolge - Cocytus - Caina - Antenora - Ptolomea - Judecca - Empyrean
Other Kyoto - Great Seal
Music
Albums Original Soundtrack (JP / US / FES / Portable) - Bonus CD - Burn My Dread -Reincarnation- - Spring of Birth OST - Midsummer Knight's Dream OST - Falling Down OST - Winter Of Rebirth OST - Persona 20th Anniversary All Time Best Album
Songs "Burn My Dread" - "Aria of the Soul" - "Want To Be Close" - "When the Moon Reaches for the Stars" - "Iwatodai Dorm" - "Mass Destruction" - "Color Your Night" - "Deep Breath Deep Breath" - "The Meaning of Armbands" - "Deep Mentality" - "It's Going Down Now" - "Changing Seasons" - "Current Net Price Tanaka" - "Battle Hymn of the Soul" - "Kimi no Kioku" - "P3 FES" - "Mass Destruction -P3fes version-" - "Heartful Cry" - "Brand New Days" - "Soul Phrase" - "A Way of Life" - "Time" - "Wiping All Out" - "More Than One Heart" - "Fate is In Our Hands" - "One Single Word" - "One Hand, One Heartbeat" - "One Determination" - "Sound of the Beast" - "Storm for a Butterfly" - "Light in Starless Sky" - "My Testimony" - "Self Redemption"
Archives
Terminology Persona (Initial / Prime / Ultimate) - Persona user - Shadow - Wild Card - Evoker - Attack Properties - Tactics - All-out Attack - Shuffle Time - Dark Hour - Moon Phase System - Full Moon Operations - SEES - Kirijo Group - Nanjo Group - Strega - Artificial Persona user - Suppressants - Apathy Syndrome - The Fall - Death - Who's Who - Phoenix Ranger Featherman R - Plume of Dusk
P3RE: Shift - Theurgy - Combat Characteristics
Lists Arcana - Personas (P3 - FES - P - R) - Shadows - Bosses (P3 - FES) - Skills - Items (Heart Items / Vending Machines) - Status Effects - Elizabeth's Requests - Activities - Calendar - Trophies (Portable / Reload) - Steam Profile Items - Patches and Updates
School Life Daily Life - Seasons - Social Link - Social Stats - Yen - Class - Studying - Movie Theater - Bed - Part-time Jobs - Shrine - Tanaka's Amazing Commodities - Crane Machine - Chagall Café - School Club - Linked Episode - Computer - Refrigerator - Gardening / Books / DVDs / Cooking - Studying - Fortune Telling
Other Media
Games FES - Portable - Reload - Dancing in Moonlight
Productions The Movie - The Movie: Escape from the Dark Hour - the Weird Masquerade: -Ao no Kakusei- / -Gunjou no Meikyuu- / -Souen no Kesshou- / -Ai no Seiyaku- / -Hekikuu no Kanata e- - Persona Stalker Club - 「PERSORA AWARDS」 - PERSORA AWARDS 2 - PERSORA AWARDS 3 - Persora -The Golden Best-
Drama CDs A Certain Day of Summer - Daylight / Moonlight - Character Drama CD Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 / Vol. 3 / Vol. 4 / Vol. 5 - New Moon / Full Moon - Portable Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
Publications Manga - Shadow Cry - Memento Mori - Owari no Kakera - Alternative Heart - Velvet Blue - Persona Magazine - Dear Girls Comic Anthology - Dengeki Comic Anthology - Tartarus Theater - Persona VS
Mobile Games The Night Before - Persona Ain Soph - Social - Escape - Illust Puzzle - Broken Shadow - Aegis: The First Mission - Qix - Chaining Soul - Em
Events Music Live 2008 - Music Live 2009 - Music Tour 2010 - Music Live 2012 - Music Fes 2013 - Music Box 2014 - Super Live 2015 - Livehouse Tour 2015 - Super Live 2017 - Super Live 2019- 25th Anniversary Symphonic Concert
20th Anniversary Festival - 25th Anniversary - 25th FES
Miscellaneous Merchandise
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