It's been 6 months since my last "full-effort" cover. Super sorry for making you guys wait so long, I've gotten super busy :(
It's been a while since I last looked at my statistics, and like, OMG???
I mean, 4.5K subscribers, and Lagtrain reached 1 million views a few days back. That's like, HUGE.

I guess this would probably serve as my milestone video, I am totally FLOORED with how much positive feedback I've made from my silly singing robot covers.
This was a whole lot of work, but it's pretty worth it to say thank you to all the people who decided to subscribe! The idea of getting 1 million views, heck, even having more than a thousand subscribers was something I never even thought of, and yet here we are!!!

I began working on this cover a month ago, a week after YOASOBI's original MV for it came out. The first time I gave it a listen, it got me hooked immediately!
Super convenient timing too, I've had a surplus of extra time since the super intense heat from where I live basically forced my school to switch to long-distance learning again. The heat totally sucks, but now I get to stay at home more, so I just knew I had to make a cover of it because of all the ideas that were just swimming in my head just thinking about it.

I made the decision to pitch down by -3 to better fit Paul's voice. I needed a way to make my cover stand out and be unique from all the other bajillion covers, so this is what came to mind!
Making the UST from scratch was way more trouble than it's worth, I mean, the song changes tempo 3 times, there's rap in it, and triplets??? Feels bad man.

I haven't even seen Oshi No Ko yet, and I probably won't be watching it anytime soon, but the song's catchy enough for me to dedicate this much effort lol.

I didn't go into this totally blind tho, I did read this short story that was the inspiration for the song. It's an interesting read, and it's how I got inspiration for some of the design choices and motifs for the video!
It's "45510: A short story by Aka Akasaka".
Go check out some translations online, it's in Japanese and Google Translate doesn't make it any easier to read.

Making the cover was hard enough, but the video? ABSOLUTE PAIN
Not gonna get into it, but just know I spent 2 weeks on the video, half of those days were spent trying to figure out how to fix render issues and technical difficulties that just keep popping up. After Effects is pretty clunky, but I guess that's what happens when you're working on a laptop with only 14 GB of RAM :(

Experimenting with new effects and stock photos was fun though, definitely something I learned a lot from.

To anyone wondering why I take so long to upload anything, here's a few things that I've been up to:
-I’m applying for university, hoping to take up and study BSEMC (Multimedia!). If I manage to pass, I'll be learning stuff like Game Development and Animation (Whoo!). Fingers crossed that I make it in!
-Toiling away for a research paper that'll make up the grades for 3 of my subjects.
-About to graduate from High School! I can finally escape K-12, and get into college yays unenthusiastically
-Working on a few commissions and collaborations for MVs and Covers

Hope you guys understand! I don't wanna go through burnout, so I'm taking time to unwind and make stuff at my own pace, I gotta deal with my IRL obligations and put myself first!

Big thanks to @RioichiKarihazi on Twitter for helping me get Paul's proportions right, their thumbnail sketch really helped a ton in getting me motivated to actually draw again!

Unrelated, but did you guys know Kasane Teto came out for Synth V? I went into a screaming fit and began frothing at the mouth like that one guy from ATLA.
Super excited at the prospect of using her soon! Can't even afford Synth V Pro tho, so I guess I'll stick to her using her UTAU and Lite banks in Basic :(

That's enough walls of text, thank you all for 4.5K subscribers!! Hope you guys like watching the video!!!

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Credits:
Music and Lyrics: YOASOBI
Voicebank: UtaUtaUtau
Video and Cover: Arbitraire Turvy
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