A RAINBOW PASS-IT-ON ICON CHALLENGE

Aaaah I missed so many days in a row... A lot happened this weekend and I haven't been able to work at all these past two days, so I didn't even think about posting here. I would be almost done with the challenge by now if I hadn't skipped any days... I feel a bit disappointed about that, but eh, it's my personal blog, so it's not that deep. I'm trying to learn how to care less about things in general, honestly. I feel like I'm too serious about too many things.

Anyway! Today's word was achiever, and I chose the song...

Alkali Underachiever!


I think I first heard about this song in 2019, but I believe I didn't start listening to it regularly until a few years later. This song was created as the character song for Lyrica, a character from NND Compass, which is... I'm not sure what it is even after all these years, but I'm pretty sure it's a game! I know there are at least another two characters whose character songs were also made by Vocaloid producers, though I have no idea if it's exclusive to a few characters or an everyone kind of thing. I would look it up, but I don't wanna go down that rabbit hole on a school night, lol.

Either way, this is one of the many Kairiki Bear songs I have on my playlist. While I wouldn't say it's my number one favourite, I will say this one is REALLY catchy. I remember it didn't really strike me as anything special the first time I listened to it, so I forgot about it only to revisit it a few years later. I like it a lot more now!

Also, while unrelated to the challenge, I wanted to write about some good Vocaloid-related news as well... Recently, I've been wondering if anything had happened to Naoto Fuuga, the voice provider for Kaito. He's always been very active on his social media, where he posts a lot about his cats and Kaito (whom he calls "his son"), and one day this summer, I noticed I hadn't seen any of his posts in a while. I checked his account a few times over the summer, but still no news... I checked again this weekend and saw that he had posted again! Looks like he'd been bedridden for a long time, but he seems to be slowly recovering. I really hope that's the case!

Barely making it in time yet again, lol.

Today's word is boat, and the song I chose is...

Batsubyou!


The lyrics do mention a ship (...that's close enough to a boat, right? A boat is a kind of ship), and the title means "weigh anchor", which I just learnt is a nautical term and not simply a heavy anchor (I guess that's redundant? LOL). My favourite part about this song is the instrumental, though. The song's apparently from 2018, but I only discovered it last year through Leo/need's cover... and I immediately fell in love with it! I remember telling my partner how much I liked it on my first listen and they weren't surprised at all despite not having listened to it past the very beginning. I can't explain why, but I wasn't surprised to hear that. Something about this song is simply right up my alley!

PHEW I made it for today's entry!! Just barely because it's almost midnight, but I made it!! I was so busy yesterday that I didn't even have a moment to spare.

Today's word was laugh, which is great, since I get to recommend...


LOL - lots of laugh-!



I keep thinking of older songs, huh. To be fair, my taste in Vocaloid songs is mostly older songs, but we've had a few from 2008-2009 lately. This one is a song I would dare consider a fave with how much I've listened to it. It's just so fun and cute. I really like the Project Diva PV, too; I'm glad it's in Megamix, because that way I get to play it whenever I want. Obviously I can still watch the video online, but it's not the same!

I never remember who's the producer of this one, so I went to look it up and... I only see three songs by them? Which is entirely possible, obviously, but I thought they'd have some more songs. Maybe I'll give them a listen one day. I also took a look at the recommended module in Project Diva for this song, since I always play it with a different module and now I associate that module with this song (Ribbon Girl. There's a figure based off it that I've wanted for YEARS...), and I saw that there was a model for it only available in Project Diva X which is this one. It's SO cute and I'm so mad it was never featured in later games!! The shoes are particularly adorable...

Day 10 already! Yay!!

I had today's word planned first thing in the morning, but I didn't get to write an entry until now, lol. Today's word was grain, and there's really only one song that makes me think of this one...

Harvest!


The YouTube upload is unfortunately a reprint, but I can't really get Niconico embeds to work... Anyway, this is one of those songs that are in my playlist and I don't know how they ended up there. I think I just came across it one time a few years ago and the instrumental immediately lured me in, lol. The lyrics are obviously more metaphorical than just being about a literal harvest (I heard it was written in memory of his dead pet, but it's hard to know for sure without any firsthand sources), but what else was I supposed to do with the word "grain"?

My only issue with this song is how short it is... I feel like we all tend to say older Vocaloid songs (this one's from 2009) were longer, and while it's true that we didn't have the problem of songs getting shorter and shorter for social media (Tiktok, specifically), there's a surprising amount of songs that don't reach the 3 minute mark, like this one.

I seem to just have a bit of a runny nose, so thankfully I'm not sick sick. Yay!

Today's word was tax, and the song I chose is...

Delusion Tax!

(no embed for now, I'm on my phone and it's hard enough to just format entries. Sorry!)

Apparently, it was this song's 13 year anniversary just one week ago! I didn't realise it was that old. I don't listen to this song too often, even though I've listened to a fair share of old Deco stuff, but I have a lot of memories associated to this one because it was ALWAYS on my YouTube recommended when I was younger, lol. Around 2016-2017 it was almost always the first or second suggestion, which, to be fair, I did listen to a lot of Vocaloid (as I still do...), but this song in specific was there almost every day?? I really liked the illustration, so I eventually caved in and listened to it, but I remember not being the biggest fan. Nowadays I think it's a nice song, but it's true that there are many other Deco songs I listened to a lot more often. In fact, I'm pretty sure I hadn't listened to this one all year until today...