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daily-utsu-p · 4 months
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Daily Utsu-P #179:
モンタージュ (Montage) / Montage feat. KAF | Remix of Kanzaki Iori's original song for the singer KAF, featured on her album 魔法γ (Magicγ)
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kafus · 8 months
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NOW KISS!!
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remtan · 3 months
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V.W.P 2nd One-Man Live Gensho II
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The conclusion of VWP's Sinka live series finally happened! I was so excited for this I was literally counting down the days. Piedpiper and VWP themselves had been hyping up excitement for it all during the last few months of 2023 and what made me look forward to it even more was all the versus battles they had teased.
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They started by performing songs from their 1st album and Resonance was first. They ended off with Resonance at the mini live they held a week before Yoyogi Wars, so I had a feeling they'd perform it first! Also, Resonance is just a good song to introduce VWP in general. The girls called out to the audience yelling "Yoyogiii!!!" and i think it was cute how their confidence in interacting with the audience grew the longer the live went on.
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Kaf and Rim having fun during Toy. Cute!!
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Fire started blowing during Secret and the effect it created was great! While VWP can't be physically on the stage themselves, the fire created a physical way of interacting with the audience.
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"We are....VWP!!!!" While introducing themselves they got a little surprised at how the audience cheered back at them and it was cute. The only other time they had an audience of this size was when Kaf held her 3rd one man live at Budokan, but covid restrictions were still being held then, so the audience couldn't cheer. It was cute seeing their reactions to the audience's calls and cheers (they deserve it!). They were giggly all throughout the first MC, I'm guessing they were both excited and nervous (even though Rim denied she was nervous). Right after this they performed Reunion and VWP's harmonies together were so gorgeous, Joucho's high note was godly as well. Then before performing Destiny the audience chanted the VWP! VWP! without being prompted to and you could hear someone in the audience going "sugoi!"
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VWP then transformed into red versions of their outfits and sung duets! (and for some reason, all of the duets included Rim) I have to say that out of all their outfits, I liked the red change in Koko's outfit the most. I really hope they release 素的 (Idyllic), the Rim and Koko duet, somewhere on streaming services soon, its so good! This section also included a new duet featuring Rim and Haru and it had a great guitar solo, I hope they release it soon as well.
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Around an hour into the live, the versus battles started! First was Koko and Ciel, with a new song!! I was originally expecting them to sing songs they already had but I guess Kamitsubaki wanted to liven the battles up. I've always felt like Koko and Ciel's voices would match up nicely. Unexpectedly, their new song felt very dark and powerful, and it even included a little rap section for Koko. After this was Rim and Guiano's battle, and they performed one of the songs from their collab album. It's always nice to see them sing together.
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Joucho's idol persona brought back with Valis! Joucho turned into a fully-fledged idol this time and danced along with them (Joucho didn't dance all the choreo with them, there were some moments of her just swaying and waving her arms but it was still cute lmao). Their new song they sang together was sassy and upbeat, perfectly matching their energies. It also looks like Valis got new colors in their hair? Myu having half-green half-red hair looked great.
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The sauna lovers! (Haru and Azusagawa!) They performed their new collab song Friction. I feel like these two are the "cool" members in their respective labels, their voices are both so handsome and they both know how to grate their voices and make them rough at the right moment, Azusagawa's voice was cracking so much yelling out "Yoyogi!!" but it was great! But then they both have moments where their voices whispery and soft too! And even if they both have cool images, they both have cute sides to them (a few weeks ago, Azusagawa was being called Azu-nyan by Haru during a collab livestream??????) They've been such a cool pairing to see since they sang together at Kamitsubaki Fes '23 and I hope they continue to collaborate with each other! And as for Azusagawa, he's definitely someone who deserves to perform in front of a big audience, he's so good at hyping up performances and is so full of confidence!
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And then...the performance I was the most excited for! Albemuth and Kaf! The crowd yelled out Asu and Aru's names right before they sang and it warmed up my Albemuth fan heart. The new song they performed sounded very heroic, almost like an anime OP. Albemuth and Kaf sang so theatrically, like heroines! I love how they traded off lines to each other, I'm so glad Albemuth and Kaf were able to sing with each other again. And god, Aru's deep voice throughout this performance was great (really bringing out the Aimer in her), the Zan live chat kept complimenting it too. This was our first glimpse of Albemuth's kuro outfits in a performance and they look great. So does Kaf's new outfit! Kaf had a red flower in her hair, maybe to match Albemuth? (I'm being delusional) I missed these two...even though they already held a cover live last month.... I can't wait to see them perform at their own live in April 🥺.
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After Discotheque, they surprised us with VIP and VWP singing together and Valis dancing! They used smoke this time!
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And then VWP and VIP performed the most jaw-dropping song of the live, a new song called The Voice of A.I. The title of it already sounds like its full of emotion, but the song itself was just so powerful. Each VWP girl and their respective Cevio AI counterpart traded lines off of each other and it really pulled at everyone's heartstrings. It's been well, a month after the live, but I still think about this song's verse every day. The chorus was great as well! and Kaf's high note! and how all 10 of them harmonized! and also everything about it. Valis were also dancing in the back, and I don't think I've ever seen them dance so dramatically, they showed off a cool side of themselves! And the song was long, probably like 7 minutes long! To me, it was the climax of the live. After the live happened, Kashii Moimi tweeted that she was the one who produced it, and knowing her, the lyrics are probably so devastating and complex, I can't wait to read them! (This song seems like sort of a collaboration project between several Kamitsubaki groups, you have VWP and VIP singing, Valis dancing, Kashii Moimi producing, and several of Kamitsubaki's graphic designers and illustrators working on the MV playing in the background). In a world where AI is growing rapidly and is becoming a looming concern we can't avoid, it's interesting how VWP are incorporating AI voices made from themselves into their careers despite the fact that it's possible the creation of their AI voices could replace them one day. The thought of AI having a voice, of how the root of what AI produces comes from humans themselves is something I didn't think of VWP exploring (at the moment it seems like a controversial subject). As the musical isotope IP expands and as their voicebanks develop and become more lifelike, VWP's relationship with them is rapidly changing. And in our lives as well, we're just going to have to wait until time passes to see how AI grows and becomes more incorporated in humanity's daily lives. (And also, if it overtakes us). Really, what other vtuber or virtual singer group is exploring subjects like this?
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Leading up to the transformation of VWP into a new era of their career, each girl sung one of the new songs performed at their own respective Sinka live. Behind them, each girl had a montage of their Sinka live playing in the background and it was nice to have a recap of how VWP have been leading up to this moment throughout 2023. And not only that, it's also a recap of how each girl has evolved and grown. Joucho's transition into an elegant multi-colored and multi-faceted form, Rim's reaffirmation with her ideals and identity after studying abroad, Koko's determination to be her compassionate self despite her vulnerabilities, Haru's rebirth into a more powerful and aggressive form, Kaf's growth into an independent and mature adult. Not only have they grown as people, their music and worldviews have changed with them. And so has the quality of their MVs and lives...Kamitsubaki and the artists themselves evolve more and more every day. Being a fan of anything has never been this fun. And it's emotional too! No matter how virtual they are or how much of themselves they can't share with us, it doesn't change that their art and music is fueled with so much soul and real feelings.
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And then...! VWP's new outfits were revealed! The name for it is Yatagarasu. It's the name for a three-legged bird in Chinese mythology apparently? I think they look great. It's nice to see the changes made to their hair and changes in aesthetics while keeping somewhat similar silhouettes. I wasn't expecting the new outfits to look so dark and edgy, but I do like that they look more mature (Koko's new outfit is mature in another aspect though lmao).
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Check out them incorporating more choreographed movements into their performances. It's been something each girl has started doing! (It's funny to think they were all really stiff performers in the beginning).
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VWP introducing their new outfits and talking about their new hair changes. They asked "kawaii?" and the audience screamed "kawaii!!!" back at them.
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Fog!! Them performing a medley of the songs Kanzaki wrote for them was so emotional. We're really saying goodbye to the Kanzaki era, aren't we?
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Koko's new center song, Alliance! To open this song, they chanted "Virtual Witch...Phenomenon!! Virtual Witch...Phenomenon Time!!" and you can already tell this song is great at hyping up concerts. They also did some hand movements during the chorus and the audience picked it up pretty quick and copied their hand movements. Every time I watch this song I get excited. I think it's funny they chose Koko to center this song when she was having such a hard time pronouncing the word "phenomenon" some time ago.
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Rim's new center song, Confidence! The verse starts off just as eerie and edgy as her own songs, but then the heroic VWP-like chorus hits and it turns into a compelling and song that combines Rim's and VWP's worldviews. For me, Joucho was the 2nd center of this song, her gentle whisper-like lines were great. Koko's bridge was great at well, her vibrato is always so heart-wrenching.... The song ended off with a big burst of fire too!
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Haru's new center song, Emotion! The audience cheered immediately when they recognized it. It was great seeing the girls jam out while rapping, but then immediately switching to their emotional singing afterwards. Joucho's high note rap was great, definitely one of my favorite parts of the song.
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Joucho's new center song, Trump Card! This song was used as the OP for the anime Cardfight Vanguard Divinez which premiered a few hours before the concert. It's a song that truly feels like suits a heroic battle. VWP introduced the band members during this song, and it's always nice to see them rock out on their instruments and show off how talented they are in their own solos. (They're an integral part of Kamitsubaki's lives!) VWP also posed dramatically to end off the song.
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Joucho gave the audience a heart!
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During the MC afterwards, they posed to introduce their new songs. Cute! Koko kept stumbling on her words during the MC and of course she did. (She tried playing it off and everyone laughed at her, oh Koko.) They then spoke in long speeches about their feelings surrounding this live, and everyone grew quiet and listened immediately. Talking about their feelings provoked them to get teary eyed, and the audience started screaming "ganbatte!"
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After Joucho started crying they gathered around each other and it was so heartwarming.... They weren't only thanking the audience they were also expressing their gratitude for each other and it was cute how Rim and Koko bowed to Joucho when she said she loved the members.
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They were all crying a lot, well, except for Kaf, who apparently cries the least out of the VWP members. Koko stumbling on her words while crying was cute. Rim also coughed quite a lot, I remember worrying about how she would sing afterwards.
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The last song they performed was The Witches (true), and this was the song they allowed the audience to film on their phones. They also had the Zan-live chat projected onto the screens, and I remember the chat was full of people spamming "V.W.P! V.W.P!" throughout the whole song. I was even compelled to spam the chat as well. During the last chorus, they shot confetti into the air! After the live, apparently the audience were collecting the confetti and I even saw a few people selling them on Mecari.
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They ended the live by saying their parting words, thank yous and goodbyes. Some fans yelled out "daisuki!!!" and rim yelled it back. Koko even cried again 😭. I'm really surprised with how much they said "thank you" and "i love you" during this live.
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The keys have all been gathered! They came together to create a tree/portal that VWP walked into? Who knows what it means.
After the credits rolled, they unveiled that VWP's Sinka live series was just the beginning. Sinka lives 7 through 9 are planned for 2024. And included in this is...VWP's anime!!!!! And the crowd goes wild. I remember thinking an anime was so out of Kamitsubaki's scope and that VWP shouldn't be forced to do voice-acting work if they didn't want to anyway. But I'm so glad! I hope it goes well, there's a chance it could extend VWP's IP far, even internationally, with how anime has become so popular across the globe. I can't help but wonder which studio is behind it.... (Flat studio? maybe?) Also announced...VWP's 2nd album..collaboration music with Project Cold..our first look at Kamitsubaki City Ensemble (the musical isotope rhythm game)..Shamanism 3 (Haru's 3rd one-man live)..Piedpiper's mysterious new Kamitsubaki Verse project..and auditions for Sinsekai.
Originally I had thought that the purpose of the Sinka live series was Kamitsubaki taking a step further to make Kamitsubaki City feel more real (or a step towards making Piedpiper's metaverse dreams feel more real lmao) After watching the Sinka live series progress throughout 2023, it's not just about getting a first look at Kamitsubaki City's various avenues in 3D. At the root of the Sinka lives is VWP themselves, who they were before they became virtual singers, how they have progressed throughout their careers, and how they have changed into who they are now. It's nice to know that as Kamitsubaki are working at a rapid pace trying to expand VWP's lore and IP, VWP and their music are still at the heart of it all. Each of them individually releasing some of their most heartfelt songs during the Sinka live series confirms it even more. After reading some of Piedpiper's tweets, I feel as though the Sinka live series affirms VWP's relationships with their virtual singer selves. (I'm sure they each have their own feelings about their virtual identities, however Piedpiper has been highlighting the constrictions and benefits of being virtual artists recently.) And it seems as though their relationships with being virtual artists are going to continue to evolve as they constantly innovate what virtual artists can do. As we saw throughout the various Sinka lives, VWP and their alter 3 selves (Piedpiper's term for their fictional selves created for the VWP lore) became one. It's obvious with all the new projects they've announced that VWP are going to take on more narrative-based projects, which means VWP are going to be voice-acting and challenging themselves more and more. Which is great for those that have been waiting for VWP's lore to be developed! I'm glad it feels like VWP and Kamitsubaki are diving headfirst into developing the VWP lore. With Gensho II starting off 2024, the future is going to contain so much for Kamitsubaki!
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dual-hearted · 1 year
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moving into the future - happy birthday KAF!!
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ega8523 · 2 years
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Hello, I am Ega.
I used to be called “TheRainySun” for a brand name, but now I am only Ega.
This is fanart for the Vsinger “KAF”
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agentkuga · 2 years
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if you like VWP vsingers KAF, RIM, Harusaruhi, Isekaijoucho and Koko please join
if you like CeVIOs KAFU, RIME, SEKAI, COKO and HARU please join
If you like any other artist in kamitsubaki or sinsekai studio please join
please join the Kamitsubaki discord server for EN fans please join im begging you all on my hands and knees
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kafus · 8 months
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rusty kaf/kafu doodles of the morning. fighting art burnout one lesbian at a time
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remtan · 4 months
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Emotion
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listening to VWP's new song "emotion" and reading a machine translation of the lyrics...its a very emotional song 😭
i know the machine translation should be taken with a grain of salt but it really highlights how VWP, as human as anyone else, have inner frustrations but yet they're standing here as witches singing their inner feelings with all they have
i really love how the lyrics constantly callback to how them being a witch is a choice, how them singing their feelings out is a choice, its a retrospective on their careers
it really makes me think back to how they became vsingers in the first place, they're all rather awkward and quiet girls (or at least they started out that way) and i'm sure many of them have gone through a lot of unspoken conflicts in their personal lives, some of which they have spoken to their fans about (haru's feelings of giving up, koko's struggles with interpersonal relationships)
they've festered a lot of hurt and pain in their lives and yet they've come this far in their careers, singing their deepest feelings
if i remember correctly VWP talked in an interview about how the Sinka live series required them to come to terms with the inner feelings in their music and face their music head on, and it's showing with how each girl has feel like they have evolved as a person alongside their music/worldviews evolving as well
VWP are so brave and strong as people, and they make me want to create art/music with my own feelings and worldview too, i never have enough praises for them 😭😭
another thing i really liked about the lyrics, theres a lyric about putting hands together and praying, also the ending english phrase being "praise song"
i love how VWP constantly relate music to religious practices (well, they are witches, but haru's lives are named shamanism and i'm sure they make a lot of religious allegories in their own original songs) music is so much more to VWP than just music, they see music in a bigger picture, they realize the power of music as people who's lives were changed by music themselves
as for the song itself, all of VWP rapping is so refreshing! the bridge where koko and joucho rap. soooo good. i love how each of their raps contain characteristics unique to their voices, i soooo loved how joucho hit those high pitch notes, she never fails to amaze me with her voice
the mv was great too! the visuals looked so colorful and amazing, reminiscent of haru's past mvs, which fits because well, it is a haru center song
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kafus · 1 year
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再会 by V.W.P
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kafus · 8 months
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i was just talking about this with a friend on discord but i feel like mentioning on tumblr now that btw. when piedpiper scouted out kaf (that's a whole other wild story) he initially had no idea that kaf was as young as she was (13 at the time of initial contact) and he was actually seeking out someone to be a "real" artist, like a normal singer, none of the virtual singer shenanigans. when he found out how young she was he actually decided to go down the vsinger route to protect kaf's identity and let her have a relatively normal growing up experience.
i really really deeply appreciate piedpiper for this and his/kamitsubaki's continued dedication to protecting kaf's identity. so many similar companies are messy at best with keeping their talents anonymous but STILL no one knows who kaf is. and earlier on in her career when she was a lot younger the adults handled 100% of her social media presence. even now she talks only every once in a while herself but she was slowly given more permission to do more things as she got older. idk it's literally the best case scenario amidst all of the idol culture crap that tends to follow vtubers and vtuber-adjacents too tbh
it would have been so easy to market kaf in an idol way i think but i'm happy that they didn't. she's just a singer like anyone else. she's allowed to collaborate with men (something idols and some vtubers aren't allowed to do) and they also didn't sexualize her pretty much at all when she was younger and they still really don't. it's just such a breath of fresh air. not that all idol stuff is bad but my god after being in multiple idol and idol-adjacent fandoms for years it's SOOO fucking relieving to support someone who is being actually protected and cared for by her damn workplace holy shit
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kafus · 11 months
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in the grand scheme of things being 23 is not that old and using the internet for socializing and fandom since i was ~10, so 13 years, is also not that long, but i really cherish a lot of the spaces i've been in and the people i've met over that time, even though they were transient. there will be a time too where i fall out of love with kaf's music, or she quits being a vsinger/being kaf, whatever happens first, and i will only be able to look back at this time with nostalgia for the thing that carried me through my early adulthood years. there will be people who i've met who have touched my life in minuscule or massive ways that will become a relic of the past and their names will blur and they'll move on to new handles and i will never be able to contact them again. and i think that's beautiful even though it makes me sad too
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kafus · 1 year
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yeah I KAF is the blue one to me, the pink girl is unknown to me
I like her voice
ohhh okay so
Kaf (without the U at the end) is actually the one with pink hair, she is a real human person and singer who just represents herself online with a 3d anime-styled avatar. as such she is considered a "vsinger" (virtual singer). she's managed by Kamitsubaki Studio alongside some other talents with a similar premise. other than the 3d animated music videos and persona she is just a normal musician though
Kafu (WITH the U at the end) is a CeVIO voicebank. CeVIO is like vocaloid but a different software, assuming you know what vocaloid is/who hatsune miku is. Kaf provided the voice samples for Kafu's software, and obviously her name and appearance is based on Kaf, the joke is literally KAF + U cause you use her voice. get it. LMAO. anyone can buy the Kafu voicebank and CeVIO software and make songs with Kafu. therefore Kafu is not a real person.
sometimes when a Kafu song gets popular, Kaf will duet the original song, adding in her vocals. it's like a human person dueting with a robot version of herself. Pretty Cool
i hope this clears things up!! sorry if i over-explained anything you already know, i don't have context for how much you know so lol
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kafus · 8 months
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i wonder if there will ever be a multimedia vsinger project on the scale of kamitsubaki ever again. they are the gold standard of vsingers and there’s nothing else quite like them. they wouldn’t exist without kaf who was such a lightning in a bottle, i don’t think “kaf” can ever happen the same way twice.
to make the next kamitsubaki i think you’d have to really innovate the virtual art scene in general. but it feels like anyone who wants to do that is being hired by kamitsubaki instead of splitting off and doing their own thing. like kamitsubaki has grown massively and has multiple subdivisions handling different aspects of the art they produce. there is a Lot more staff and people signed to them than most people realize i think.
it’s just so hard to imagine honestly lmao they have like 0 competition for what they’re doing right now but i want to see what that looks like one day if at all possible
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kafus · 11 months
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this sounds really silly but i think about this screencap from kaf's graduation live a lot (as in high school graduation, not graduating from her activities as a vsinger)
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i don't have a better picture right now sorry lol but this is my (shitty) japanese handwriting. kamitsubaki opened a form to submit messages to kaf congratulating her on her graduation and they would display them on a "virtual blackboard" during the concert... for some reason i assumed at first they would somehow cram every submission in there but they ended up only putting a few and out of all of the people they chose, i was the only one from my english speaking friend/fandom group who submitted one and also got on the blackboard. (later on they did post an image to twitter with more messages fitted in)
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the messages appear in the concert at the end of a song and kaf bows and says thank you to all the messages and then walks out of the classroom, transforming into her older self (tsubame) in the process. she essentially says goodbye to her high school self in that moment
of course it was surreal and cool to be so lucky as to be included in this, and to have something i wrote even if in a minuscule way be etched into kaf's history during a time that cannot be repeated, but it's also sentimental for me because of all the effort it took just to write this one message. figuring out what i wanted to say, contacting a couple friends much better at japanese than me for help critiquing how well i conveyed my message and correcting my grammar, handwriting it over and over and over in pen at like 6 in the morning in the living room until i decided it was legible enough, using my mom's scanner to get a clean image and turn it in...
arguably a lot more effort was put into the letter i wrote for kaf that got hand-delivered in japan by my friend flying out from france for kamifes, but this tiny graduation note is particularly unique due to the time period and like... seeing my message next to everyone else's. obviously it was about kaf but it was also about the community and i felt so connected with people who i can't even directly talk to due to language barrier. over the same thing we all love. indirectly experiencing something together that can quite literally never happen again.
idk man i'm autistic and overly sappy and sentimental over stuff with my special interests but i cannot return to kaf the same way i can return to everything else. only an after-image and i think as much as i grieve that sometimes i also celebrate it. i'm really happy i was able to make those memories. there's a lot of other things like that lost, in part, to the sands of time but i think i'll hold them close for a long time
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kafus · 1 year
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hello! i don't know if you've answered this but what is your favourite kaf/kafu song? or the first kafu song you listened to that got you interested in them lol mine was marshall maximiser & phony
OKAY second attempt at answering this after tumblr unceremoniously closed out of the post while i tabbed out to get a link to a song LOL
yayy an excuse to talk about this :) marshall maximizer/phony are iconic and i'm glad so many people have been dragged into kafu hell because of them SDJKSDF
as for me i got into kafu really early during her first handful of demo songs, my first kafu song was Furachi na Kassai/Unscrupulous Cheers by police picadilly (the original from february 2021, not the duet cover between kaf and kafu that came later) cause i saw it in my subscriptions box from being subscribed to the producer. i wasn't keeping up with vocalsynth news well at the time and didn't know kafu existed yet, so this was my first time hearing her voice. i was also really unadjusted to cevio at the time and i thought that she was just a real person with autotune... so i looked up kafu out of curiosity as to who the singer was and was shocked to see she was a vocalsynth LOL and then my curiosity was probed further when i saw on her wiki page that she was voiced by a vsinger with nearly the same name (KAF) and i looked kaf up, fell in love with kamitsubaki's work pretty much instantly, and the rest is history... been in this hell for over 2 years now
as for my favorite kaf/kafu song... idk if u mean duet or individual songs but i will just answer for each possible case because i can JASKDFFSDA my favorite kaf/u duet is their duet of Kafuka by Sasakure.uk, my favorite kaf song is Kyoukankaku (this hasn't been publicly posted to youtube yet, it's on her most recent album, so here's my private upload of it shh don't tell anyone /j), and my favorite kafu song changes a lot but right now it's prooobably Ended Up Dead by Sheeno Mirin just on account of how often i come back to it?? but i have a kafu playlist with over 1.5k songs in it so suffice to say it is difficult to narrow it down JSAKDDF
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