The Ballad of Miku: Verse 3

Yeah, it's been forever since I made a Miku post. I started with the intention of doing them fairly regularly, as long as I was finding new and good songs, but you can see how that turned out. Oh well, I guess I can just dump a huge list this time and go from there.

ファインダー (Finder) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Last Night, Good Night [Nico Nico / YouTube]
These two are available on the album Re:package, by livetune feat. Hatsune Miku. The other songs on it are also decent.

Liberate ~赤い海の夜明け~ (Liberate ~Akai Umi no Yoake~) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
シンデレラ・ロマンス (Cinderella Romance) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
The full versions of these two are available on the album Tatsh Music Collection -I-.

1>~イチダイナリ~ (1 > ~Ichidainari~) [Nico Nico]

あるお節介な言葉 (Aruo Sekkai na Kotoba) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Enjoy the iDOLM@ASTER performance in the YouTube version. I know I did. :p

Celestial Symphony [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Everwhite [Nico Nico / YouTube]
琥珀の風 (Kohaku no Kaze) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
MP3s are available here.

Chocolate☆Magic [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Cuteness overload. MP3 is available here.

永遠のメロディー (Eien no Melody) [Nico Nico / YouTube]

果てなき蒼穹、果てる世界 (Hate Naki Soukyuu, Hateru Sekai) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
MP3 is available here.

モノリス (Monorisu) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
MP3 is available here (password: miku).

Soar [Nico Nico / YouTube]

優しい空 (Yasashii Sora) [Nico Nico]

The Ballad of Miku: Verse 2

There's only a couple new finds today, but I have a bunch of older songs that deserve to be mentioned so I'll go through most of those.

Also, for all of the videos that I link here, I download them and extract the MP3 or AAC audio from them. If anyone's interested, I might start zipping up the songs from each post and tossing them on RapidShare or something for people to download.

アンインストール (Uninstall) [Nico Nico]
This is a cover of the anime Bokurano's OP theme and the song that first got me hooked on Hatsune Miku. Both the original song and this version are incredibly beautiful and it's since become one of my favorite Japanese songs, even though I've never actually seen Bokurano.

きっとこの場所で (Kitto Kono Basho de / Surely in this place) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
One of the first original Miku songs that I really fell in love with.

恋は戦争 (Koi wa Sensou / Love Is War) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Another simply amazing Miku original.

メルト (Melt) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
And yet another, though this one is a little more cheerful. Also, the YouTube version has a nice 3D video to go with it.

ブラック★ロックシューター (Black Rock Shooter) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Okay, just do yourself a favor and visit this site. It has links to these last three, plus World is Mine, with some extra stuff like wallpapers.

After The Rain [Nico Nico]
I really like the distortion (I think that's the correct term for it) on the guitars in this one.

books [Nico Nico / YouTube]
A beautiful piano piece that slowly builds momentum from a gentle start.

Rainbow Girl [Nico Nico / YouTube]
There's some nice art of Miku in the video for this one.

Caramelldansen (Speedycake Remix) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
You all knew it was coming. The combination of Miku plus Caramelldansen is too cute for words so I won't bother trying to describe the awesome of it. But, for those who don't know, the original version is by a Swedish band named Caramell, and Caramelldansen translates to, "The Caramell Dance."

Heaven Is a Place on Earth [Nico Nico / YouTube]
I'm a fan of Belinda Carlisle's music and this is a cover of her most popular song. Miku singing in English is always funny but they did a pretty decent job of it here.

Dear [Nico Nico / YouTube]

echoes [Nico Nico / YouTube]

Eternal Green [Nico Nico]

The Ballad of Miku: Verse 1

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Every now and then I go browsing around Nico Nico Douga and YouTube for new Hatsune Miku songs so I thought I'd start making periodic posts to share my favorites. Let's see if I can create some more Miku tards fans.

ワールドイズマイン (World is Mine) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
This is one of those omgamazing Miku songs that I listen to over and over again. Also, Miku+Kaito version ftw.

インカーネイション (Incarnation) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Trance plus Miku is a great combo. I always love it when I come across a good song in this style.

anger [Nico Nico / YouTube]
This one has a 3D video to go with it, though I think Miku's character model looks a bit weird.

さくら並木 (Sakura Namiki) [Nico Nico / YouTube]
I love the piano in this one.

天国は壊れてる (Tengoku wa Kowareteru) [Nico Nico]
This song and its video remind me of Aria, which is kind of an automatic win.

優しい空 (Yasashii Sora) [Nico Nico / YouTube]

Shooting Star -Blue Style- [Nico Nico / YouTube]
There's also a Red Style version with Meiko singing instead of Miku.

SET FREE [Nico Nico / YouTube]

Silence [Nico Nico / YouTube]
Moar trance!

Radical Dreamers ~Unstealable Jewel~ [Nico Nico / YouTube]
This is a song from the game Chrono Cross which I really like. I think Miku's voice is well suited to it.

Bits of Des

Contrary to my low posting frequency, I actually think of subjects I could write about somewhat often. I'm just too lazy to bother most of the time. So here's an assortment of the recent ones all at once:

Aria Love +1

Aria the Origination, which aired last season, finally finished getting subbed and with that the Aria series ended. It's a beautiful and wonderful series and, like Dagger, its ending had me alternating between grinning like an idiot and crying tears of joy.

Aria the Animation (the first season) got licensed and is being released in a sub-only set with all thirteen episodes for about $40. This is totally for the freaking win because, like, I can actually afford it since they aren't price gouging with single DVD releases and making me pay for a dub I don't care about. It's being released in September and more of the series is supposed to follow after that. The only reason I haven't pre-ordered it yet is because I'm trying to decide if I should pick up some of the manga at the same time to save on shipping.

Zetsubou Fight!

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei also finished getting subbed recently. Anon releases had been trickling out for a while but I hadn't bothered watching any since I was still holding out hope that a.f.k. would continue subbing it. My patience finally dissolved when the last episode was released so I got them and picked up at ep5. Amazingly, the anon subs were actually pretty good.

I really missed the insanity of Zetsubou Sensei—it was my second favorite show from last season, after Aria. I'm still hoping a.f.k. will continue their subs at some point but going ahead and watching the others was totally worth it. Here's to hoping for a third season.

Oh, and the Hatsune Miku cameo was amusing.

Miku Miku

Speaking of Hatsune Miku, I've been hunting down a few more songs. This one titled echoes (Nico Nico, YouTube) is my favorite out of the latest ones I've downloaded. Though a torrent popped up on one of the sites I watch for new anime releases with a Miku song titled マケナイワタシノコイノウタ (Makenai Watashi no Koi no Uta) which is also pretty good.

Also, zomg, Miku playing a harp.

【初音ミク】「泉の女神」~月夜の森にて~【3DPV】

Nico Nico version: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3264508

IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER

I've been watching Magic Knight Rayearth in between new releases and catching up on shows from last season and I came across this:

Last time I had to add both the lazer and the caption. This time, only the caption. The prospect of this pattern continuing excites me.

MP: 0/90

I haven't played FFIV any more since my previous post about the Dark Elf. I've been distracted by a free, month-long reactivation of my PlanetSide account and I've also been playing Guild Wars more often again. Apparently PlanetSide is undergoing a server merge later this month, which will result in there being only a single US server instead of two, for east and west. (And I think there used to be three US servers in the past, before I started playing.) The game's community always had plenty of doomsday prophets predicting its demise ever since I started playing but now I'm starting to think they might be right.

The Tower of Zot is up next in FFIV which, in my experience, tends to be one of the harder dungeons in the game. It's just barely scraping half way through the game but a sudden jump in monster strength combined with not having a dedicated healer in your party really does a number on you. You've got Tellah who, while he knows pretty much every white magic spell, is capped at 90 MP and thus can only cast thirty Cures or ten Curas before he's out; and you've got Cecil, whose Cure spells are really weak. If I'm really on top of things I can make it between save points without resorting to using Ethers (yay for Tents) but it's very difficult.

Hatsune Mix

Holy crap, there's a Hatsune Miku manga. Excuse me while I geek out for a moment.

More of this needs to be scanlated nao.