Meet the Sonic Schoolhouse staff!
You can always find this post with #staff!
🔹Mr. Sonic is the School Principal, as well as the math and literature teacher! He does pretty much all the planning for the Schoolhouse.🔹
🔸Mr Tails is the science and biology teacher here! Who let the 8 year old become a teacher?🔸
🩷Ms. Rose is the History and Spanish teacher here! She’ll do her best to make learning fun!🩷
♦️Mr. Shadow is the School Counselor! He also teaches Mental Health! He has a lot of personal experience in his field!♦️
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QUBIT’s 9BIT Review - Better than expected
The first album to come from DAOKO’s new project, QUBIT. The album being appropriately named 9BIT (a play on words which sounds similar to the band’s name in Japanese), features 9 songs - 6 being brand new and one being an album mix.
As the first album from the band, I was pretty skeptical of the songs I’d be hearing, since the first couple of singles from them didn’t really resonate with me and felt a bit too out nowhere for me, however I’m glad to say that this album features a wide array of songs, from the energetic Mr. Sonic, to the dark distorted rumbles of Distant Dance.
This album has a lot of experimental tracks that can feature anywhere from little plucks in the bass to vocal effects being thrown everywhere throughout the song, hell, sometimes even the melodies don’t make sense - giving this album a very chaotic, erratic, and indie feel, but still working well as a commercial release.
For those who have kept up with DAOKO’s other works, this album feels a lot like a successor to the 2020 album Anima, although this album is much more cohesive and consistent with the quality and style it’s trying to portray (thankfully).
In the end I feel like this album definitely won’t be for everyone, or even people who like DAOKO’s 2014-2019 works, it’s its own thing derived from the same idea that DAOKO’s 2020 works were based on… ‘slap anything up there and see what sticks!’
Now, onto the actual song ratings…
Big Mouth 3.5/5 - it’s a nice intro song, but doesn’t do much on its own.
G.A.D - 3.5/5 - the debut song from QUBIT, it’s a bit too ‘weird’ and erratic for me. Still enjoyable but definitely gave me a very iffy first impression.
Mr. Sonic 5/5 - released as a promo single for the album and is probably the strongest song they’ve made so far. All of the chaos and sampling really work in their favor for this one, my only complaint is the outro is very abrupt.
Wonder World 3.5-4/5 - the harmonies and chord progression are very nice in this particular song, there’s not much more to say on it but it’s definitely worth a listen!
Distant Dance 4.5/5 - a very dark and grungy song with melodic moments that DAOKO really lends a hand to. Definitely one of the more standout songs from here.
Fast Life (album mix) 4/5 - this song feels less like a qubit song and more like a solo release from DAOKO. With a happy tone, heavy rapping and it being surprisingly safe with how it uses vocal sampling and unconventional methods. Not to say any of this is bad, I really enjoyed this song, and I’m glad that some of the songs here aren’t all over the place. The album mix doesn’t really add anything, more or less just rebalances some stuff - definitely more of a remaster if anything.
Room Tour Complex 4/5 - this track is either standout or bland depending on who you are. This song features glitchy vocals with the lyrics being a bit more standout than others and a very nice melody to follow. Along with some nice “oohs” during the chorus which makes this a very charming song.
Neon Diver 4/5 - a very melodic and mellow track, being a bit more minimalistic than the others. The synths have a very “poppy” feel to it with a pretty prominent and grooved bass. Her vocals feel really smooth in this song with a slightly longing melody paired with it. I feel like we could’ve gotten a bit more of a bridge for this song rather than the very short break in it but that’s my complaint.
Beautiful Days 4/5 - a very atmospheric, anthemic, and slightly psychedelic track that does a very good job leading out the album and summarizing what QUBIT actually is. A mix of different genres that lend themselves whenever and wherever. I love how upbeat this track is.
Overall album rating: 4/5 - absolute banger of an album and I love the new ideas that they’re experimenting with. Here’s hoping they keep trying new things!
Stream: https://qubit.lnk.to/9bit
Mr. Sonic official MV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQfRyJ2v5RY
Official website: https://columbia.jp/qubit/
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Okay I finally figured out Comet's origin story. Long version under the cut but short version is: knuckles finally got to reunite with the surviving echidnas but they didnt want to leave their homes to live on the floating island, so an alien felt bad for him and gave him a fankid <3
Okay so to recap stc canon: Knuckles has spent his entire time on the floating island believing he is protecting it until his people return. he doesnt remember, but he used to live in the ancient echidna city with Tikal and Pachacamac, but somehow was transported 8000 years into the future (present day). This happens after Tikal briefly brings Sonic back in time to help the echidnas fight off the Drakon empire--fish-shaped aliens that discovered chaos energy (the emeralds were made by the Drakons with the echidnas' sacred emeralds, then the echidnas "stole" them back and the drakons declared war). They succeed in beating them back for this battle, but my headcanon (which ended up being p close to what Kitching supposedly planned out) is that after this battle, the drakons come back and end up wiping the echidnas out--those that arent killed are taken off mobius as prisoners/slaves. At some point, some of them are able to escape and form a sanctuary away from the drakons.
Okay now we gotta talk about the Kaamdaarns. The Kaamdaarns are alternate dimension aliens that appear in 113, 119, and 120. They are peaceful aliens with "highly advanced science" indistinguishable from magic, which they use to disable any weapons on their planet and then also to free Shorty from his cybernik suit.
so the STORY WITH COMET GOES... Kintobor helps Knuckles to identify some kind of beacon signal that appears to be coming from other echidnas. Knuckles and Sonic hop into a spaceship (tekno and porker collab) and through a dimensional portal (tekno and kintobor collab) to find the source. they find a colony of echidnas long-established on a sanctuary planet under the protection of the kaamdaarns. the reunion is pretty bittersweet for knuckles bc like. these are people 8000 years removed from his culture. there are maybe some things still in common but otherwise their lives are completely distinct from how he grew up. and after 8000 years, very few if any of them consider the floating island home more than the place they are now. even those that might be interested in going back with knuckles are wary of the risk of leaving the safety of the kaamdaarn planet and being captured by drakons. and for a bunch of ruins... it's not really worth it
so knuckles has once again lost the whole Purpose of Everything He's Done and ummm well it goes about as well as the first time that happened
so he's hanging on by a Thread but the kaamdaarn that brought him and sonic to the village--her name's haven here she is--
says "you know what will fix that? a child." and see above: her making comet. GREAT idea, i agree. i mean the thought was more like "surely there is a way for you to both stay with your friends AND with other echidnas." but same difference. anyway sonic doesnt know what kind of egg that is.
thanks for listening. here's porker lewis as a reward :)
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Chaos council draws. What started as trying at older Don't and Babble looks.
Kid Babble (Wound up giving off Radical Edward vibes)
Adult Don't
Younger Done-it (He's in his Boom era or something)
Deep (He has a cat here.)
Mr. Dr. Venturaman
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