BRAVER STAR

It's a good week of uploads!!! I published my solo cover last week and today, the best friend [goddess] Chiisana uploaded her solo cover! We worked hard on our videos so it's nice that we got them done QUQ Fun fact: we both sang, mixed, and animated our own videos!✨

【歌ってみた】Shokugeki no Soma OP - BRAVER 【小さな】

I'm slain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are not deserving of Chiisana's vocal cord vibrations. Her talents transcend human capabilities. Chiisana is a literal goddess and angel. I can't even begin to fathom how she does what she does. This animation is badass. And just..just listen to her belting. Are you still alive? Yeah, me neither. I want Chiisana to sing at my funeral. I love her so, so much.

t h i s  i s  t h e  c o v e r  o f  t h e  c e n t u r y

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【Cover】 JUNNA / Shooting Star (eng.) 【Eva】

And then there's my cover which I wrote about here LOL.

This was my first time mixing, animating, AND drawing for a video! Albeit they're very low quality, childish doodles because that's all I can do. ;o; (The main illustration is by soemei 💞)

Tbh you wouldn't think that a mix for this type of cover would be difficult at all, but this was a struggle through and through. All of these years of using a Blue Snowball—which has the reputation of being a difficult mic—I'd NEVER had nearly this amount of trouble T_______T Matching my mic quality through all of my takes was an absolute nightmare that I probably spent at least 10 hours on over the span of the year. I wish I were joking when I say that I probably did some sort of EQ adjustment to literally every single syllable in this song. Recording this cover was the reason I decided to finally upgrade and take up Fome's offer to long-term borrow his extra mic passed down from his uncle lol;; Considering what I had to work with, it now sounds somewhat consistent enough so I think my long hours of EQ bore fruit, yay!

I don't even know what to say about the animation haha. It's pretty simple. I wish I had good aesthetic sense and had better creative ideas adlkfjslf but luckily I had pretty soemei art to make up for it!

Fun fact: I just discovered today that my cover might just be the only... existing version of this song on youtube....... I-I can't believe.... Gotta make a shout out to Victor Entertainment—I'm so fortunate that they actually approved my copyright dispute ;u;

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"Shooting Star" Cover ~Sneak Preview~

Hello hello!! So I finished working on a solo cover on Saturday and uploaded it to youtube but encountered something for the first time—the video didn't become unblocked as soon as I submitted a copyright dispute and it says, "Viewing restrictions caused by this claim are still in place for the time being," which was new to me and some friends. ^^;; When I uploaded a snippet as a copyright test in March of last year, they approved my dispute so fingers crossed that their policy hasn't changed!

In the meantime since I don't know when (or if, heh--) I'll be able to publish the cover, I thought I'd post a sneak preview here for the couple of people that regularly visit my blog. ♥ Kind of like a secret patreon reward lolol except you've paid me with your interest and support and that truly means a lot! It's really an honor that you come and read what I have to say, especially in an era wherein blogging has died and following social media feeds is much easier, yet you go out of your way to let me feel like I have a voice and a space to share things. ;^; Usually I don't very much address my "readers" since I don't like setting up expectations that I'll have readers, but I know a few of you have been out here lately and I immensely appreciate you~~ <3

The song that I covered is a b-side track from JUNNA's first mini-album called "Shooting Star" ! It's mostly in English with a bit of Japanese sprinkled in, which I found interesting along with the fact that there was such an easygoing acoustic song amongst JUNNA's intense discography ;u; If you don't know who JUNNA is, she's a brilliant little rising star with an amazing and surprisingly deep voice. At the age of 14, she was the singing voice of Mikumo (whom I cosplayed) in Walkure / Macross Delta. I had the privilege of seeing her perform live at AX two years ago and she just..blew me away.... and hilariously could not come out for the final bow at the end of the show because it was past her curfew LOL.

For the art, I commissioned soemei whose work I really love! It's tender and flows beautifully, and her coloring style is lovely as hell. It's so nice, what the fuck--

I also did a simple animation for the video so please check that out when and however the video gets published later on, hopefully soon. ;v;

Click above if you'd like to listen to my Shooting Star cover, or this link:

https://app.box.com/s/cju6txffn3kplk3tmd65aakmpgfyu8s2

Thank you!!! runs away

Now listening to: AKB48 - #SukiNanda

Hi! I hope anyone reading this has been doing well and taking care of themselves 💕

TAT I feel like I've been doing really, really well myself ever since the holidays and it's rather awesome! It's great that my New Year's resolutions are fresh in my mind, as I've been consciously trying to keep at them/move towards them and I feel like I'm in a good place where my irrational thoughts are in check, I'm in tune with myself, I spend time doing things I enjoy, I'm driven to work at goals without being overloaded, and I'm always reminded that people support me. QUQ

Physically, I've recovered a good amount too! This week, I went to my first kpop dance practice since my lung surgery, planning to take breaks whenever I felt that I was pushing it—but I must've been in amazing condition that day because I kept up the entire time, didn't need more breaks than the others, and had no pain or trouble breathing! Unfortunately Chungha's "Gotta Go" dance has lots of chest movements so I had to go lightly on those, but I was shocked that I danced for hours without issue!!! Once in a while though, like today, I do still get scares of sudden pain, but at this point I've been through enough of them that never have serious consequences that I can calmly wait them out like, "yeah ok I'll just go back to the hospital if I need to lol" 👌

YAY STUFF

YAY I LIKE WHEN THINGS ARE FINISHED AND UPLOADED!


I was invited to sing in a chorus of Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari (the final song from the Love Live! movie qq) for a NorCal friend, Alice ^___^ It just came out a few hours ago! Most of the folks in this I'd never worked with before so that was pretty cool. Big props to the organizer, mixers, artists, and animator for finishing this on time (!!) for Alice's birthday today and making a really sweet chorus. ;v; I'm happy I got to be in this and ALL THE ART IS SO CUTE AAAA

【7人合唱】僕たちはひとつの光【HBD ALICE!!】

‣Organizer: コロリ
https://www.youtube.com/kororiuta
https://twitter.com/korori_uta
‣Mixers: Teefy - Tune
https://youtube.com/Teefy
https://twitter.com/imateefy
azuma - Mix
http://youtube.com/azumatou
http://twitter.com/azuma_tou
‣Artists: Tokiria - Sketch
https://tokiria.deviantart.com
https://twitter.com/Tokkiria
utsu - Lineart
https://twitter.com/utsutori
kats - Color
https://twitter.com/katsu_artsu
Tana - Chibis
https://twitter.com/kmrkb
‣Animator: Sammi
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1hb...
https://twitter.com/nanawatobi
‣Vocalists (in order of appearance):
Teefy
Kuroノ:http://youtube.com/c/KuronoCovers
https://twitter.com/KuronoStuff
Sammi
Eva: http://www.youtube.com/waterpixieva
Mari❀: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW3F...
https://twitter.com/koguma_no_mari
MiiTang: http://youtube.com/miitangwu
http://twitter.com/miitangwu
コロリ

AX YOUTAITE REACT to being Youtaite 【ep. 5】

The heartwarming second part of our Anime Expo Youtaite React special, in which we asked the participants about their favorite memories of being in the community! It's really nice to hear people talk about these kinds of things ;u;

Tbh after putting out the first part, I thought it would be ages and ages before I would get to editing the rest of this but it sort of jumped ahead in my project queue LOL;;; because I wanted to film the "Ask a Youtaite" episode while all the NorCal kiddos had winter break and this release was a good way for us to collect questions from viewers... The next episode will be fun! This time I really don't know when it'll get edited LOLOL

Another video I edited recently (which features a lot of footage I shot) was BAR Con's season 3 promo!

We're branching out for the first time—it was just announced yesterday that there's going to be a BAR Con Los Angeles !!!!!!! I'm not gonna explain what BAR Con is since the video does precisely that in only 30 seconds LOL.

It takes place every first Friday of the month and I've been volunteering as Fome's audio engineer assistant over the past two years. The staff is actually entirely made of volunteers (profits from every show go to performers, charity, and venue cost!) so it's pretty cool how much we've grown and how sort of a community has developed around this monthly event. This year we started using titles and they branded me their Director of Media Production 😱 which sounds way more legitimate than I actually am LMAO. Aside from making videos, I like working with sound and music and I keep learning a ton from the experience under Fome's wing (which actually benefits my job work when I do on-location sound!) but man the pressure can be high for sure... I respect sound engineers—Fome recently pointed out that it's "one of those jobs where even the best get blamed all the time" which makes me feel better but also realize that I would never be able to handle doing live sound for a living. Whenever things go wrong—often times not in my control—I feel so humiliated and guilty. Some of my goals for this year include being less burdened by irrational guilt and and worrying less, so that's the energy I hope to carry forward. ^^ I may not do it for a living, but it's a very cool opportunity to do once a month!

Haircut Selfie Dump 2k19

   

!! I had my hair cut to the shortest it's been since elementary school!

Miyawaki Sakura from IZ*ONE/HKT48 was 100% my inspiration for trying this style LOL. I remember seeing her in ep 1 of Produce48 and marveling at how glowing and celebrity-like she looked with her shoulder length cut. Someone pointed out that we had the same hair colors—at the time we both had brown with red tips—and that kind of planted a seed in my head. 👀 I'd been in real need for a haircut for several months (what is this mess hanging off my scalp) so I thought... if I was gonna go out of my way and pay for a haircut, maybe I should just try something new while I've been in the mood for change...

wow pile of hair

I still have no clue how to style hair but I surprisingly like it more than I thought I would???

2019 New Year's Resolutions

!!! It's now been 10 years since I first started doing 100 resolutions per year in 2009! I was 15 and now I'm 25... Wild. Here's how I did on last year's resolutions if you're curious~

In 2018, my goals largely focused on self care and developing better habits for both my physical health and mental health, and I'd definitely like to keep going in that direction.

This year, I want to work on being more independent and being in control of my emotions, rather than vice versa. ;v; I want to be my own motivator, to be able to pull myself out of a ditch, to be my own precious treasure, to never feel empty when my life is so vibrantly flourishing. In 2019, I thrive on self care and self love!!