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Who's kamouichihime? Who's Chimata no kami? And are they related to Chimata Tenkyuu from Touhou 18 Unconnected Marketeers or she's based on them?
Kamuōichihime (神大市比売) appears exactly once in the Kojiki, in a purely genealogical passage explaining that she is a daughter of Ōyamatsumi (no mother is listed), spouse of Susanoo (well, one of them at least, the same paragraph still brings up Kushinada too), and mother of Uka no Mitama and Ōtoshi. She makes no subsequent appearances there and she is also absent from Nihon Shoki. In the most recent Kojiki translation Gustav Heldt goes with rendering her name as “Lady Sacred Great Market”; while I don’t think theonyms need to be translated this does seem to check out more or less - she is indeed associated with markets, commerce and the like.
Before this ask I had no clue anyone was trying to connect her with Chimata, admittedly. There are no references to her anywhere in Chimata’s design, spell cards or any supplementary material, so I’d hazard a guess there is no connection. According to my friend 9 it’s a theory floating around in the Japanese fandom because a shrine dedicated to her holds card purification ceremonies and distributes amulets on the new moon and the full moon (for more info see here). I’m skeptical if that’s what’s being referenced, tbh; anything hinting at the rainbow motif Chimata has going on is entirely missing, and given ZUN’s recent naming patterns he’d probably name Chimata differently if she was his take on Kamuōichihime.
Chimata no kami (巷神, 衢神, 岐神) is a generic designation for kami associated with crossroads (岐) - in other words, exactly what it says on the tin. It’s written with different kanji than Chimata’s name (千亦), but it’s safe to say it’s an intentional nod. Historically markets could be held at crossroads, though in scholarship the role of such locations in purification rites tends to be stressed more.
Bernard Faure in Rage and Ravage (p. 284) notes chimata no kami is essentially a synonym of dōsojin (道祖神), and by extension sae no kami (障の神)/sai no kami (塞の神). These categories are slightly nebulous, but generally all refer to figures of strictly local importance believed to shield villages or other locations from misfortune (for example by metaphorically blocking roads through which illness travels), protect travelers and all around bring fortune and ward off misfortune. I think assuming Chimata is, nomen omen, simply supposed to be a generic chimata no kami is more sensible - this would mean that conceptually she’s closer to the Akis than to Okina or Eika, I suppose. It makes sense that Gensokyo, a fictional location, would have a fictional figure fulfilling a role which is highly localized irl. Once again, I’m not sure where the rainbow connection comes from though.
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I’m lying down. _(´ཀ`」 ∠) _
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dōsojin
#the thread that loops through the story this time is rituals i think#ultimately im hoping to thread through both samurai imagery and sake rituals#like yeah I know how those samurai ended up thst’s the point
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Quartet for the End of Time, by Olivier Messiaen (Chamber Music; 1941)
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Savoy Shout, recorded by Luis Russell & His Burning Eight (Song; 1929)
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Weekly Holidays beginning January 15 (2nd Full Week of January)
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Feast Days
Abeluzius (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
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Black Christ of Esquipulas Day (Guatemala)
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Calybite (Christian; Saint)
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Ceolwulf (Christian; Saint)
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Fo-Hi (Positivist; Saint)
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Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (A Martyred Saint of China)
Isidore of Alexandria (Christian; Saint)
Ita (Christian; Saint)
John Calybites (Christian; Saint)
Macarius the Elder of Egypt (Western Christianity)
Maurus and Placidus (Order of Saint Benedict)
Muspellheim Day: Surt’s Blot (Pagan)
Niccolo Machiavelli Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival (a.k.a. Tondo Matsuri, Sai No Kami, Sagicho, Dondo Yaki, and Dōsojin Matsuri; Japan)
Our Lady of the Poor (Christian; Saint)
Paul the Hermit (a.k.a. Paul of Thebes; Christian; Saint)
Unicorn Hunting Day (Pastafarian)
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Captain Beefheart (Music)
Chuck Berry (Music)
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Eugène Brands (Art)
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Giovanni Segantini (Art)
Robert Silverberg (Literature)
Edward Teller (Science)
Ronnie Van Zandt (Music)
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Lucky & Unlucky Days
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [3 of 53]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [7 of 32]
Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [6 of 60]
Premieres
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Trade Organization; 1927)
Alice the Toreador (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)
Alice’s Balloon Race (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Alice’s Orphan (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Be Mice to Cats (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)
The Benny Hill Show (BBC TV Series; 1955)
The Book of Eli (Film; 2010)
Bullwinkle Bites Back or Nothing But the Tooth (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 90; 1961)
Bullwinkle Makes His Bid or Going! Going! Gun! (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 195; 1963)
Call the Midwife (BBC TV Series; 2012)
The Candy House (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)
Catch the Saint, by Christopher Short (Short Stories; 1975) [Saint #45]
The Dig (Film; 2021)
Donald’s Weekend (Disney Cartoon TV Special; 1958)
Education for Death (Disney Cartoon; 1943)
Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1987) [Discworld #3]
The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1990) [Wheel of Time #1]
The Fastest Guitar Alive (Film; 1967)
Feather Dusted (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
Ford F-Series Truck (Truck; 1958)
Get It On, recorded by Chase (Song; 1971)
Goggle Fishing Bear, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1949)
Happy Days (TV Series; 1974)
Hill Street Blues (TV Series; 1981)
I Can’t Explain, by The Who (Song; 1965)
It’s the Talk of the Town, by The Glen Gray Orchestra (Song; 1942)
The Last of Us (TV Series; 2023)
Low, by David Bowie (Album; 1977)
Man Bites Dog (Film; 1993)
The Man in the High Castle (TV Series; 2015)
Metal-Munching Mice, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 89; 1961)
Moonstruck (Film; 1987)
Moonwalkers (Film; 2016)
My Sweet Lord, by George Harrison (Song; 1971)
My World Is Empty Without You, by The Supremes (Song; 1966)
Norm of the North (Animated Film; 2016)
Pentagon (Gov’t Building; 1943)
The Philosophy Of The Revolution, by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Political Theory; 1956)
The Pied Piper of Basin Street (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1945)
The Pigman, by Paul Zindel (Novel; 1968)
Porky’s Poppa (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)
Quartet for the End of Time, by Olivier Messiaen (Chamber Music; 1941)
Reign of the Supermen (WB Animated Film; 2019)
Rock the Boat, by Aaliyah (Song; 2002)
Savoy Shout, recorded by Luis Russell & His Burning Eight (Song; 1929)
The Sea Beast (Film; 1926)
A Separate Reality, by Carlos Castaneda (Philosophy Book; 1971)
Sleeping Beauty, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Ballet; 1890)
Space Mountain (Disneyland Attraction; 1975)
Sunbeam Motor Company (Automobile Company; 1905)
University of Notre Dame (School; 1844)
Utopia (UK TV Series; 2013)
The Vanishing American or No Moose is Good Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 196; 1963)
Varsity Blues (Film; 1999)
WandaVision (TV Series; 2021)
Weathering With You (Anime Film; 2020)
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust, by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (Novel; 1963)
Today’s Name Days
Dietwald, Marcel, Tilman (Austria)
Marcel, Mislav, Oton (Croatia)
Ctirad (Czech Republic)
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Meda, Paulius, Skirgaila, Snieguolė (Lithuania)
Laura, Laurits (Norway)
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Pavel (Romania)
Dobroslav (Slovakia)
Mauro (Spain)
Laura, Lorentz (Sweden)
Deidre, Deirdre, Deja, Marten, Martin, Marty (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 15 of 2025; 350 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of Week 3 of 2025
Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 25 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 16 (Jia-Shen)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]
Coptic: 7 Tubah 1741
Hebrew: 15 Teveth 5785
Islamic: 15 Rajab 1446
J Cal: 15 White; Oneday [15 of 30]
Julian: 2 January 2025
Moon: 96%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 15 Moses (1st Month) [Fo-Hi]
Runic Half Month:Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 9 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 26 of 90)
Week: 2nd Full Week of January
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 25 of 30)
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Spirited Away Revealed: The Real Mythology & Folklore Explained!
Spirited Away is not only one of the best animated films, but of the best films of any category. In this video, I will do my best to uncover all the Mythology & Folklore referenced in this Anime Masterpiece. 00:00 Intro 01:18 Torii Gates, Hokora & Dōsojin 02:52 The Bathhouse & Haku 03:52 Shadow Kami & Pigs 05:03 Masked Kami 05:52 Eat food from this world 06:22 No Face & Other Guests 7:36 Kamaji,…
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Dosojin Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival | Nozawa Onsen Dōsojin Hi-Matsuri
January 15th The Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival (野沢温泉道祖神火祭り, Nozawa Onsen Dōsojin Hi-Matsuri) is held on January 15th every year and is one of Japan’s three major fire festivals. The festival is, in fact, a playful enactment: the 42-year-old and 25-year old males of the village defending a makeshift 7-meter high shrine against the onslaught of the rest of the villagers who rush towards the structure with flaming torches. Trees are cut down during October and over 100 villagers gather to build the structure the day before the festival, following which a ceremony is performed to enshrine a dosojin (道祖神): a deity of roads and borders that is known to protect travellers. The 42-year-olds defend the upper part of the structure while the 25-year-olds defend the lower part. These age groups are chosen because they are said to be “unlucky” (yakudōshi) ages in Japanese superstition. The “attack” begins at 8:30pm and can last for three hours before the shrine is burnt to the ground.
#Dosojin Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival#Japan#Nozawa Onsen Dōsojin Hi-Matsuri#野沢温泉道祖神火祭り#Winter#Nippon#Matsuri#Winter Events
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Zuijin from Japanese mythology.
They’re often depicted as holding bows and arrows altought some versions have them holding swords or spears, or wearing three silver rings.
Originally, there was but one Zuijin-Kami, called Toyo-kushi-iwa-mato-no-mikoto. But at a certain period both the god and his name were cut in two-perhaps for decorative purposes. And now he who sits upon the left is called Toyo-iwa- ma-to-no-mikoto; and his companion on the right, Kushi-iwa-ma- to-no-mikoto.
Statues of Zuijin are now often placed flanking shrine gates, similar to the Niō and Gozu and Mezu. The Zuijin are also associated with Dosojin, protector of crossroads and other boundary areas. Zuijin can also be described as guardians or protectors of people from evil spirits.
Dōsojin (road ancestor kami) is a generic name for a type of Shinto kami popularly worshipped in Kantō and neighboring areas in Japan where, as tutelary deities of borders and paths, they are believed to protect travellers, pilgrims, villages, and individuals in “transitional stages” from epidemics and evil spirits.
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#shinto#guardian#protectors#shrine#kami#japan#japanese mythology#mecthology#mythology#mitologia#gods#supernatural
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I found this book on Amazon and knew I had to get it for my collection. “Japan’s Sexual Gods: Shrines, Roles, and Rituals of Procreation” is an academic work devoted to understanding Japanese sexual beliefs through the study of the nature of Japanese sexual gods (Seishin), where they are worshipped, and the religious behaviors that associate them with protection and procreation (Turnbull, 2015). There are many Seishin (性神) in Japanese culture, such as the Dōsojin Hyaku Dayu-sama who was worshipped by the Heian asobi, and the depiction of genitalia and sexual imagery was not suppressed until the later Tokugawa and Meiji periods. The use and depiction of phalluses in Shintō is not new. Kanamara Matsuri, one of the well-known “Penis Festivals” as references by the West that occurs in the modern day, is a prime example of this. I am very eager to read and learn more! #kami #shintō #kamisama #book #bookstagram #shintoism #academia #phallus #spirituality #kaminomichi (at Honolulu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSyFKXsLqHX/?utm_medium=tumblr
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The way Hayao Miyazaki sent Harvey Weinstein a katana with a sticky note to inform him there would be ‘no cuts’ to Princess Mononoke...And the way his next film after that, Spirited Away, begins the journey with a dōsojin statue that’s reminiscent of the Greek god Janus (not the only Greek mythological reference in the film!), who is not only a god of gateways and choices but the name and logo of the American film company most notable for distributing non-English cinema to American audiences...and the way Spirited Away is actually obsessed with untranslateable (at least for subtitles and dubbing) Japanese word play and the definitive meaning of Japanese words and names...and the way that the film is also about the culture of greed inherent to the capitalist marketplaces intensely introduced to Japan by the west... and the way, despite the business world she’s sucked into, Chihiro seeks possibilities to somehow connect spiritually to the world and her sense of self so that she could still appreciate the meaningful people and places she loved despite the way their outward appearances changed as they were tempted (like her parents) or hidden away (like Haku) by the forces of commercialism...and the way that the whole film, even as it envisions hope, is still imbued with a sense of loss over the inevitable changes we all have to face no matter the cultural particulars as we do our best to find noble work, share our love, and live with dignity
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The Dragon Game, Book 1, Chapter 1 (Prologue)
Mono opened his eyes and saw nothing but black. It was a bright type of black, maybe better described as an extremely dark gray. The monotony of the color made it hard to perceive depth. He couldn’t tell if he was in a room or not, whether there was a wall near or far.
Where was he? Was this a dream? He looked around but only saw the same gray in all directions. He guessed it was a dream — though he’d never experienced one this lucid before. That was the last time he ate Smith’s cookies before bedtime, he vowed. This dream was trippy on an entirely different level.
Wasn’t something supposed to happen? It was so quiet that Mono could hear his own heartbeat. The quiet drum gradually grew louder and faster as he continued to search for something that could help him orientate himself. The lack of sensory input made the atmosphere feel cramped, quickly growing claustrophobic, and he hated the feeling of being trapped.
“Let there be light,” he joked out loud. It was both a joke and wishful thinking; anything to break the silence and lighten the mood. There was a slight echo but not enough to help him determine anything about his surroundings. What was this place? Mono was getting a bit panicked now. He really, really hated the feeling of being trapped.
Suddenly, a bright light flashed and a woman appeared wearing a white dress. She was floating, gradually descending with her eyes closed and arms outstretched as if in imitation of angels found in paintings. She spoke in a light yet serious tone.
“Hello Yamada, and welcome to Passing. Unfortunately, you died saving that girl from the automobile accident.”
As her descent brought her closer, Mono could make out more details about her. She looked to be about his age and wasn’t actually in a dress. It was a white, flowing garment with a golden sash of cloth tied around the waist – probably a gofuku or kimono, though he wasn’t too sure about oriental fashion and their semantics. She was beautiful, but in a way that made him uneasy. Her face was completely symmetrical down to the tiniest detail. It made her look pretty but alien. Like something trying to be human; a painted face on an image.
“We, the spirits and deities of Japan, noticed your courageous act and would like to reward you with a choice while also submitting a request. You see, Yamada Taro, we –”
“Excuse me, but I think you have the wrong guy. And I’m pretty sure I’m still alive.”
When she had first started talking, he hadn’t registered what she was saying. The sudden appearance and her appearance itself caught him off guard. But when Mono heard her call him “Yamada” again, he couldn’t help but speak up. She scowled at being interrupted and opened up her eyes before gawking at the sight of him.
“You’re not dead!”
“Yeah, that’s what being alive means – though I know a few classmates who’d argue otherwise.”
“Th-this is impossible,” she stammered, her tone no longer as formal as before. “No living person should be able to get here. How did you?”
“I don’t know,” he replied. “I was hoping that you could tell me. Who are you? Where are we?”
“This is Tsūka, a place where the dead go before moving on into the afterlife. My name is Sojourn, and I’m a greater Dōsojin who is in charge of this portion of the Passing in Japan. I don’t know how you’re still alive, Yamada, but you were brought here so that we, the spirits and deities of Japan, could both reward you with a choice while also submitting a request.”
This didn’t seem like a dream anymore; she was too real, too concise, and too loud. But this couldn’t be real either, the situation was exactly like a Japanese cartoon he had watched a while back. The main character, a boy who dies in a car accident trying to save a girl, meets a goddess in the afterlife and is sent off on an adventure to another world instead of remaining dead. He didn’t know what to think.
“I was getting to this before you had rudely interrupted, but we actually –”
“Look, I really think you have the wrong guy.” Mono spoke up again without waiting for her to finish. “My name isn’t Yamada Taro, it’s Mono Somnium. I’m not even from Japan.”
“Are you sure?” Her question was so forceful it took him aback. How could he not be sure? Maybe this really was a dream and Mono was supposed to follow along. No, dream or not, following the script meant that he would be sent to some other world or dimension. On the off chance that this was real, Mono refused to leave his current life behind; he had just gotten it figured out after years of struggling.
“Yeah, can’t you tell?” Mono asked. “We aren’t even speaking Japanese.”
“I’m a Dōsojin,” she reminded him. “I can communicate with people of all languages.”
Oh, that explained a lot. As they had been speaking, the uneasy feeling inside of Mono kept growing. Now he knew why. She had been speaking in Japanese to him and he had understood the meaning of her words without actually knowing a speck of the language. When she had said Dōsojin, Mono immediately understood that she was a Japanese god of travelers – specifically, she was a goddess of foreign travelers. This also explained why he kept hearing the name Tsūka and the word Passing interchangeably. A chill ran down Mono’s spine. The reality of his situation was starting to sink in.
“That’s awesome, and this has been a really interesting experience,” Mono began. “But since I’m clearly not who you think I am and this wasn’t meant for me, I’d like to go back now or wake up. Whatever is convenient for y–”
“That’s not possible,” Sojourn cut in.
Mono’s palms started sweating and his heartbeat, which had slowed down after she had shown up and saved him from that swallowing emptiness, started racing. He felt trapped.
“What do you mean?”
“Tsūka is a place of passing,” she explained. “If you enter here, you have to leave a different way you came. Normally, I’d offer the choices of either entering the afterlife or going to a different world. But since you’re alive, you don’t get a choice. You have to go.”
“Can’t I just pass over to the new world for a brief second and then come back?” Mono agitatedly asked.
She shook her head. “Passing between worlds is extremely difficult and can only happen once every twelve full moons. Once you go through, you’d be stuck until this time next year.”
That was not what he wanted to hear. Mono could feel his chest start tightening, he almost couldn’t breathe. This was really bad. What was he going to do now? He was going to lose everything and there was nothing he could do about it.
“Don’t worry!” Sojourn had noticed his anxiety and tried reassuring him. “In a year's time I can call you back here and you can go back. That’s not too bad right? Spending a year away from boring, normal life in a world with magic?”
The tightening eased up a little. “Magic?” He repeated.
She smiled. “Yeah, magic! It’s not like the magic you find in most books on Earth either. It’s unique for everyone and changes based on their perceptions, beliefs, and values. The world you’re going to is one of infinite possibility – especially for someone from Earth where encountering creative writing on a daily basis is normal. You won’t be able to do anything at first but you will once you get the hang of it.”
Mono loved stories. When he was younger and before life had taken a hard twist, he used to read as many fantasy stories as possible. His mother had once scolded him for trying to sell his clothes on the internet so that he could buy more books. He couldn’t help himself, the worlds he read were amazing and kept him up late at night thinking about the “what if”s that they created. What could he do there? Would he be able to fly? Fling spells from wands like his favorite characters? Mono stood there for a moment imagining the possibilities.
“Well, that doesn’t sound so bad.” He said at last.
“Great!” Her smile grew wider. “I’ll just finish the process and you’ll be on your –”
“Wait.” She frowned as Mono interrupted her yet again. “How will I speak with people I meet? Doesn’t this world have different languages?”
She scrunched her face in annoyance. “I almost forgot about that. You’re right, and I normally give people who decide to go my blessing so that they can talk to people like I do. I’ll do it right now by putting my symbol on the side of your forehead.”
Sojourn raised her arm, her index finger pointed at Mono, and began to walk towards him. Instinctively, Mono took several steps backwards.
“What’s wrong now?” She huffed.
“Can you put it on an item or something?” Mono asked. “And make some way so that I can toggle it off to be more immersed in the languages of people I meet.”
The truth was, Mono hated being touched. It didn’t matter if they were average or attractive, no one touched him and especially not his face. He knew he couldn’t say that to her though, because he was certain that would have offended her somehow. So instead, he said the first thing that popped into his head to get out of that awkward situation.
Sojourn gave him a hard look and stared at him for a few moments. At last she raised her hand and light began to coalesce in her palm. It grew so bright that Mono had to look away until it dimmed. When he looked back, a white stone sat in the palm of her hand. Sojourn extended the stone to Mono and he took it.
“I’m a goddess of Japan, so my presence in the other world is limited,” she warned him. “If you lose that stone, I won’t be able to locate you to send you back.”
“Got it.” The stone was pure white which contrasted with the dark gray surroundings and was slightly warm to the touch. Mono pocketed it and looked back at Sojourn.
“Anything else?” She asked. “No more last-second interruptions or unexpected reveals?”
Mono shook his head.
“Well then, good luck on your journey and see you in a month’s time.” She snapped her fingers and a glowing circle formed around Mono’s feet.
A month’s time? How would she see him in a month when it was supposed to be a year? Actually, what about his clothes? He was still only wearing the clothes he slept in before all of this happened.
“Wait! I did forget somethi–” Mono was quickly cut off as the world turned from dark gray to pitch black. He lost consciousness.
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[ID: photomanip of a landscape with a huge white cloud meeting the horizon of a grassy, hilly stretch of land. there’s a dirt track leading from the bottom left corner of the image past a squat stone statue resembling the dōsojin in Spirited Away to a black outline doorway at the center of the horizon. plain text at the bottom of the image reads: this is the ending where you finally find your way home and the ancient terror inside of you is stomped out for good /end ID]
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Dondoyaki
By shirleytwofeathers
In Tabayama Village of Kitatsuru District, Yamanashi Prefecture, a (a Fire Festival dedicated to the Dōsojin or the deity of pathways and roads practiced throughout Eastern Japan. The festivity called Dondoyaki, and is celebrated between 14th and 15th January.
In this festivity, the villagers gather their Mayudama Dumplings, decorative rice dumplings made for the Japanese New Year and suspended from lines or tree tweeds. These are cooked over a bonfire and then eaten. Eating those dumplings is believed to prevent cavities, while the heat from the bonfire makes the person healthy for the rest of the year. Ashes from the fire can be used as snake and disease repellent as well as fire hazard preventative.
Source: Japanese Folklore Research Center
https://shirleytwofeathers.com/The_Blog/pagancalendar/category/january-holidays/
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Alpha Kappa Alpha Day
Arbor Day (Egypt, Florida, Jordan, Lousiana)
Armed Forces Remembrance Day (Nigeria)
Army Day (India)
Basketball Rules Day
British Museum Day (UK)
Commemoration Day of the Genocide Against Albanians (Kosovo)
Composer Day (Mexico)
Democratic Donkey Day
Esquipulas (Guatemala)
4-H Day
George Price Day (Belize)
Guster Day (Boston, Massachusetts)
Halfway Point of Meteorological Winter
Happy Days Day
International Free Agent Signing Day (Baseball)
International Vote from Abroad Day
John Chilembwe Day (Malawi)
Korean Alphabet Day (a.k.a. Chosen-gul)
Massage Parlor Day
Miracle on the Hudson Day
Moliere Day (France)
Museum Day (UK)
National Eskimo Dog Day
National Go and Do Good Day
National Hat Day
National Humanitarian Day
National Kayla Day
National Twitter Day
National Zombies Day
Ocean Duty Day (Indonesia)
Procrastinator’s New Year
Sagichō at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (Kamakura, Japan)
South Wind’s Prayer (Elder Scrolls)
Space Mountain Day
Super Bowl Anniversary Day
Teacher’s Day (Venezuela)
Thank Your Mentor Day
Tin Day (French Republic)
Tree Planting Day (Egypt)
Tulpanens Dag (a.k.a. Tulip Day; Sweden)
Wikipedia Day
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Craft-Brew Day (Berkeley, California)
National Bagel Day (a.k.a. Bagels and Lox Day)
National Booth Day
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
Strawberry Ice Cream Day
Wassailing the Apple Trees
3rd Monday in January
Auld Hansel Monday (Scotland) [Monday after 12th]
Brew Monday (UK) [3rd Monday]
Earl Grey Day [3rd Monday]
Elementary School Teacher Day [3rd Monday]
Humanitarian Day [3rd Monday]
Human Relations Day [3rd Monday]
Human Rights Day (Idaho) [3rd Monday]
John Chilembwe Day observed (Malawi) [Monday closest to 1.15]
Junk-Food News Stories Day [3rd Monday]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (a.k.a. MLK Day, King Day) [3rd Monday]
National Crowd Feed Day [3rd Monday]
National Day of Service [3rd Monday]
National Pothole Day (UK) [Closest Weekday to 15th]
Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi) [3rd Monday]
Independence & Related Days
Commonwealth of Abrus (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
International Recognition Day (Croatia)
Festivals Beginning January 15, 2024
Camel Festival (Birkaner, India) [thru 1.16]
Primetime Emmy Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Restaurant Week (San Antonio, Texas) [thru 1.27]
Southern California Slack Key Festival (Redondo Beach, California)
Feast Days
Abeluzius (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
Arnold Janssen (Christian; Saint)
Ask the Minotaur Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Black Christ of Esquipulas Day (Guatemala)
Bonitus (Christian; Saint)
Calybite (Christian; Saint)
Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to Porrima and Postverta)
Feast of the Abbot of Unreason
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Artology; Saint)
Fo-Hi (Positivist; Saint)
The Fragglettes (Muppetism)
Frances Benjamin Johnston (Artology)
Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (A Martyred Saint of China)
Isidore (Christian; Saint)
Ita (Christian; Saint)
Macarius of Egypt (Western Christianity)
Maurus and Placidus (Order of Saint Benedict)
Muspellheim Day: Surt’s Blot (Pagan)
Niccolo Machiavelli Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival (a.k.a. Tondo Matsuri, Sai No Kami, Sagicho, Dondo Yaki, and Dōsojin Matsuri; Japan)
Our Lady of the Poor (Christian; Saint)
Paul the Hermit (a.k.a. Paul of Thebes; Christian; Saint)
Thiruvalluvar Day (India)
Unicorn Hunting Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [3 of 53]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [7 of 32]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [6 of 60]
Premieres
Alice the Toreador (Disney Cartoon; 1925)
Alice’s Balloon Race & Alice’s Orphan (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Be Mice to Cats (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)
The Benny Hill Show (BBC TV Series; 1955)
The Book of Eli (Film; 2010)
Bullwinkle Bites Back or Nothing But the Tooth (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 90; 1961)
Bullwinkle Makes His Bid or Going! Going! Gun! (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 195; 1963)
Call the Midwife (BBC TV Series; 2012)
The Candy House (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)
Catch the Saint, by Christopher Short (Short Stories; 1975) [Saint #45]
The Dig (Film; 2021)
Donald’s Weekend (Disney Cartoon TV Special; 1958)
Education for Death (Disney Cartoon; 1943)
Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1987) [Discworld #3]
The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1990) [Wheel of Time #1]
The Fastest Guitar Alive (Film; 1967)
Feather Dusted (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
Get It On, recorded by Chase (Song; 1971)
Goggle Fishing Bear, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1949)
Happy Days (TV Series; 1974)
Hill Street Blues (TV Series; 1981)
I Can’t Explain, by The Who (Song; 1965)
It’s the Talk of the Town, by The Glen Gray Orchestra (Song; 1942)
The Last of Us (TV Series; 2023)
Man Bites Dog (Film; 1993)
The Man in the High Castle (TV Series; 2015)
Metal-Munching Mice, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 89; 1961)
Moonstruck (Film; 1987)
Moonwalkers (Film; 2016)
My Sweet Lord, by George Harrison (Song; 1971)
Norm of the North (Animated Film; 2016)
The Philosophy Of The Revolution, by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Political Theory; 1956)
The Pied Piper of Basin Street (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1945)
The Pigman, by Paul Zindel (Novel; 1968)
Porky’s Poppa (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)
Reign of the Supermen (WB Animated Film; 2019)
Rock the Boat, by Aaliyah (Song; 2002)
The Sea Beast (Film; 1926)
A Separate Reality, by Carlos Castaneda (Philosophy Book; 1971)
Space Mountain (Disneyland Attraction; 1975)
Utopia (UK TV Series; 2013)
The Vanishing American or No Moose is Good Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 196; 1963)
Varsity Blues (Film; 1999)
WandaVision (TV Series; 2021)
Weathering With You (Anime Film; 2020)
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust, by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (Novel; 1963)
Today’s Name Days
Dietwald, Marcel, Tilman (Austria)
Marcel, Mislav, Oton (Croatia)
Ctirad (Czech Republic)
Marcellus (Denmark)
Illimar, Ilmar, Ilmo (Estonia)
Solja(Finland)
Rachel, Rémi (France)
Arno, Arnold, Mauro, Romedius (Germany)
Loránd, Lóránt (Hungary)
Ida, Mauro (Italy)
Felicita, Fēlikss (Latvia)
Meda, Paulius, Skirgaila, Snieguolė (Lithuania)
Laura, Laurits (Norway)
Aleksander, Dąbrówka, Dobrawa, Domasław, Domosław, Izydor, Makary, Maur, Paweł (Poland)
Pavel (Romania)
Dobroslav (Slovakia)
Mauro (Spain)
Laura, Lorentz (Sweden)
Deidre, Deirdre, Deja, Marten, Martin, Marty (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 15 of 2024; 351 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 3 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 21 of 28]
Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 5 (Wu-Yin)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 5 Shevat 5784
Islamic: 4 Rajab 1445
J Cal: 15 White; Oneday [15 of 30]
Julian: 2 January 2024
Moon: 25%: Waxing Crescent
Positivist: 15 Moses (1st Month) [Fo-Hi]
Runic Half Month: Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Winter (Day 26 of 89)
Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 25 of 31)
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Holidays
Alpha Kappa Alpha Day
Arbor Day (Egypt, Florida, Jordan, Lousiana)
Armed Forces Remembrance Day (Nigeria)
Army Day (India)
Basketball Rules Day
British Museum Day (UK)
Commemoration Day of the Genocide Against Albanians (Kosovo)
Composer Day (Mexico)
Democratic Donkey Day
Esquipulas (Guatemala)
4-H Day
George Price Day (Belize)
Guster Day (Boston, Massachusetts)
Halfway Point of Meteorological Winter
Happy Days Day
International Free Agent Signing Day (Baseball)
International Vote from Abroad Day
John Chilembwe Day (Malawi)
Korean Alphabet Day (a.k.a. Chosen-gul)
Massage Parlor Day
Miracle on the Hudson Day
Moliere Day (France)
Museum Day (UK)
National Eskimo Dog Day
National Go and Do Good Day
National Hat Day
National Humanitarian Day
National Kayla Day
National Twitter Day
National Zombies Day
Ocean Duty Day (Indonesia)
Procrastinator’s New Year
Sagichō at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū (Kamakura, Japan)
South Wind’s Prayer (Elder Scrolls)
Space Mountain Day
Super Bowl Anniversary Day
Teacher’s Day (Venezuela)
Thank Your Mentor Day
Tin Day (French Republic)
Tree Planting Day (Egypt)
Tulpanens Dag (a.k.a. Tulip Day; Sweden)
Wikipedia Day
Willie Hoppe Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Craft-Brew Day (Berkeley, California)
National Bagel Day (a.k.a. Bagels and Lox Day)
National Booth Day
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
Strawberry Ice Cream Day
Wassailing the Apple Trees
3rd Monday in January
Auld Hansel Monday (Scotland) [Monday after 12th]
Brew Monday (UK) [3rd Monday]
Earl Grey Day [3rd Monday]
Elementary School Teacher Day [3rd Monday]
Humanitarian Day [3rd Monday]
Human Relations Day [3rd Monday]
Human Rights Day (Idaho) [3rd Monday]
John Chilembwe Day observed (Malawi) [Monday closest to 1.15]
Junk-Food News Stories Day [3rd Monday]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (a.k.a. MLK Day, King Day) [3rd Monday]
National Crowd Feed Day [3rd Monday]
National Day of Service [3rd Monday]
National Pothole Day (UK) [Closest Weekday to 15th]
Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi) [3rd Monday]
Independence & Related Days
Commonwealth of Abrus (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
International Recognition Day (Croatia)
Festivals Beginning January 15, 2024
Camel Festival (Birkaner, India) [thru 1.16]
Primetime Emmy Awards (Los Angeles, California)
Restaurant Week (San Antonio, Texas) [thru 1.27]
Southern California Slack Key Festival (Redondo Beach, California)
Feast Days
Abeluzius (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
Arnold Janssen (Christian; Saint)
Ask the Minotaur Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Black Christ of Esquipulas Day (Guatemala)
Bonitus (Christian; Saint)
Calybite (Christian; Saint)
Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to Porrima and Postverta)
Feast of the Abbot of Unreason
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (Artology; Saint)
Fo-Hi (Positivist; Saint)
The Fragglettes (Muppetism)
Frances Benjamin Johnston (Artology)
Francis Ferdinand de Capillas (A Martyred Saint of China)
Isidore (Christian; Saint)
Ita (Christian; Saint)
Macarius of Egypt (Western Christianity)
Maurus and Placidus (Order of Saint Benedict)
Muspellheim Day: Surt’s Blot (Pagan)
Niccolo Machiavelli Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Nozawa Onsen Fire Festival (a.k.a. Tondo Matsuri, Sai No Kami, Sagicho, Dondo Yaki, and Dōsojin Matsuri; Japan)
Our Lady of the Poor (Christian; Saint)
Paul the Hermit (a.k.a. Paul of Thebes; Christian; Saint)
Thiruvalluvar Day (India)
Unicorn Hunting Day (Pastafarian)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]
Fortunate Day (Pagan) [3 of 53]
Perilous Day (13th Century England) [7 of 32]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [6 of 60]
Premieres
Alice the Toreador (Disney Cartoon; 1925)
Alice’s Balloon Race & Alice’s Orphan (Disney Cartoon; 1926)
Be Mice to Cats (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1960)
The Benny Hill Show (BBC TV Series; 1955)
The Book of Eli (Film; 2010)
Bullwinkle Bites Back or Nothing But the Tooth (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 90; 1961)
Bullwinkle Makes His Bid or Going! Going! Gun! (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 195; 1963)
Call the Midwife (BBC TV Series; 2012)
The Candy House (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1934)
Catch the Saint, by Christopher Short (Short Stories; 1975) [Saint #45]
The Dig (Film; 2021)
Donald’s Weekend (Disney Cartoon TV Special; 1958)
Education for Death (Disney Cartoon; 1943)
Equal Rites, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1987) [Discworld #3]
The Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan (Novel; 1990) [Wheel of Time #1]
The Fastest Guitar Alive (Film; 1967)
Feather Dusted (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)
Get It On, recorded by Chase (Song; 1971)
Goggle Fishing Bear, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1949)
Happy Days (TV Series; 1974)
Hill Street Blues (TV Series; 1981)
I Can’t Explain, by The Who (Song; 1965)
It’s the Talk of the Town, by The Glen Gray Orchestra (Song; 1942)
The Last of Us (TV Series; 2023)
Man Bites Dog (Film; 1993)
The Man in the High Castle (TV Series; 2015)
Metal-Munching Mice, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 89; 1961)
Moonstruck (Film; 1987)
Moonwalkers (Film; 2016)
My Sweet Lord, by George Harrison (Song; 1971)
Norm of the North (Animated Film; 2016)
The Philosophy Of The Revolution, by Gamal Abdel Nasser (Political Theory; 1956)
The Pied Piper of Basin Street (Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1945)
The Pigman, by Paul Zindel (Novel; 1968)
Porky’s Poppa (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)
Reign of the Supermen (WB Animated Film; 2019)
Rock the Boat, by Aaliyah (Song; 2002)
The Sea Beast (Film; 1926)
A Separate Reality, by Carlos Castaneda (Philosophy Book; 1971)
Space Mountain (Disneyland Attraction; 1975)
Utopia (UK TV Series; 2013)
The Vanishing American or No Moose is Good Moose (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 196; 1963)
Varsity Blues (Film; 1999)
WandaVision (TV Series; 2021)
Weathering With You (Anime Film; 2020)
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust, by Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar (Novel; 1963)
Today’s Name Days
Dietwald, Marcel, Tilman (Austria)
Marcel, Mislav, Oton (Croatia)
Ctirad (Czech Republic)
Marcellus (Denmark)
Illimar, Ilmar, Ilmo (Estonia)
Solja(Finland)
Rachel, Rémi (France)
Arno, Arnold, Mauro, Romedius (Germany)
Loránd, Lóránt (Hungary)
Ida, Mauro (Italy)
Felicita, Fēlikss (Latvia)
Meda, Paulius, Skirgaila, Snieguolė (Lithuania)
Laura, Laurits (Norway)
Aleksander, Dąbrówka, Dobrawa, Domasław, Domosław, Izydor, Makary, Maur, Paweł (Poland)
Pavel (Romania)
Dobroslav (Slovakia)
Mauro (Spain)
Laura, Lorentz (Sweden)
Deidre, Deirdre, Deja, Marten, Martin, Marty (USA)
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Vocaloid is lame - english translation
☆Music by PinocchioP @ Twitter | Channel | Mylist | Website ☆Illustrations by Imamura @ Twitter | Mylist ☆Video by Yuma Saito @ Twitter +Translation by Forgetfulsubs
“Vocaloid is lame, but you know… it’s kind of fun. -- Is what I said, facing the stain on my wall.”
Subbed via the CC!!! (and just managed to get the eng lyrics and notes in the description, the first part of the description keeps reverting to the machine translation though...) Input and corrections are welcome. Remember to give PinocchioP your support!!!! This song will be featured on Pinocchio’s upcoming album 増殖する今村 (Proliferation of Imamura) in which he uses Imamura’s illustrations as a theme!
Tracklist : 1.増殖する今村 (Proliferation of Imamura) 2.ボカロ は ダサい (Vocaloid is Lame) 3.Honjara-ke 4.じゅごん (Dugong) 5.なんにもない (Nothing) 6.アップルドットコム (Apple.com) 7.死ぬのはいつも他人ばかり (Seems like those who die are always strangers) 8.モチベーションが死んでる (Motivation is dying)
Official site. Buy on amazon.jp or on toranoana (or in person at comiket if you’re that lucky…)
ダサ ダサ ボカロ ダサ ダサ ハァ ダサ ダサ ヤメタゲテ 正攻法では 犬も食わんから ケーキで釣っちゃって
So lame, so lame, Vocaloid is so lame, so lame Hah… so lame, so lame…. Just stop that, would you! Even dogs won’t {listen} to it if you use a straightforward approach, So I’m fishing them in with cake...
性善説に びっしり草が生えてる 隠した純情 伝わらないまま 怒りを買っちゃって 仏のような御仁から袋叩き
To the belief that humans are born good, a thick patch of grass grows (wwwww) Without conveying my hidden pure heart I’m stirring up all kinds of hatred, Taking a beating from even the most Buddha-like personages.
(grass grows = Japanese slang for laughing is “wwwww”, the term “grass grows” is a slang of a slang because these “wwwwwww”s look like grass.)
勘違いから 孫の代まで祟るエレジー 耳ふさいでも 患部に届く そう ボカロはダサい ほら ダサい そう 誰かが言ってた
From a misunderstanding, the elegy curses even my grandchildren’s generation, Even if I cover my ears it reaches right down to where it hurts... Yes, vocaloids are really lame. Look, just how lame they are. -- that’s what someone said...
殴られたら痛い ほら 痛いとか わざわざ言うみたい なんで
最近どう？ 内心もう 美味しいカレーが食べたい ボカロはダサいけど楽しい 壁の染みに向かって言ってた
If you get hit, it hurts. Look, it’s like you just end up actually saying “it hurts” or something, why?
How have you been recently? In my innermost thoughts, I think... I just want to eat some tasty curry. Vocaloid is lame, but you know… it’s kind of fun. -- Is what I said, facing the stain on my wall.
アレが悪いとか コレが悪いとか すぐ決め付けちゃって 天狗の面をつけたまま死体蹴り いつもの手癖じゃ儲からないから どこかへ行っちゃって やがて あたたかな家庭 築くらしい 季節は巡り 子供産まれ 名付けた「慈恵羅志(ジ���ラシー)」 センスないけど 寿命は延びる
This is bad, or that is bad-- I fix my mind on things like that real fast, With my tengu mask, still equipped I’m beating a dead horse here. I won’t turn a profit with my usual sticky fingers, So off I’ll go somewhere, And in the end, make a cosy family, apparently. The seasons turn and a child’ll be born, I’ll name them 慈恵羅志 “jealousy” I know it’s not a very pretty name, but it promotes a long life. *
(beating a dead horse = actually a video game term for kicking the enemy even after they’ve been defeated. I thought the English proverb fit?)
(I know it’s not a very pretty name, but it promotes a long life. = Japan has a kind of fortune telling determined by the kanjis in your name. I don’t know how it is determined but I assume this is what the reference is about)
そう 命はダサい ほら ダサい サイボーグが言ってた
Yeah! Life is lame. Just look how lame it is! -- That’s what a cyborg said.
傷ついたら辛い ほら 辛いとか わかりゃしないのに なんで 最近どう？ 内心もう ずっとベッドで寝ていたい 命はダサいけど 不思議 道祖神に向かって言ってた
If you get hurt, it’s really tough even though I don’t understand what that is, why? So, how have you been recently? In my innermost thoughts, I think... I want to stay in bed forever. Life is really lame but, you know, it’s rather mysterious. -- I said, facing a Dōsojin
ダサ ダサ ボカロ ダサ ダサ ハァ ダサ ダサ イェー マイクチェックワンツー 博愛主義者のマウンティング 自己内省のファインディング プライドのディスカウンティング 17歳はセブンティーン やめられない やめられない やめられない とまらない ああ 全国ショップで好評発売中
So lame, so lame. Vocaloid is so lame, so lame! Hah, it’s so lame, just so lame... Yeah! Mic check -- one two! Philanthropic PUTTING OTHERS DOWN. Self reflectional FINDING. Pride DISCOUNTING. 17 years, is SEVENTEEN. I just can’t stop! Just can’t stop! Can’t stop here. It just doesn’t stop, AAH. At the nationwide shop, popularity itself is on sale.
そう ボカロはダサい ほら ダサい そう 誰かが言ってた そう ボカロは楽しい ほら 楽しいとか わざわざ言うみたい
Yeah, Vocaloid is so lame. Just look at how lame they are? -- That’s what someone said. Yeah, Vocaloid is so much fun. Look it’s so much fun! ...looks like people are going out of their way to say so.
そう ボカロはダサい ほら うざい ほら 死ねよ ほら 消えろって言っていた人は その情熱が糧となり 憧れの宇宙飛行士になった 夢が叶って 宇宙飛行士になった
ダサ ダサ ボカロ ダサ ダサ ハァ ダサ ダサ ヤメタゲテ
Yeah, Vocaloid is so lame. So annoying. Come on, just go die! Just go disappear! -- the person who said that ended up with their passion becoming fuel, and they became an astronaut, just as they had longed to be. Their dreams were granted, and they became an astronaut…
So lame, so lame. Vocaloid is so lame, so lame. Hah… so lame, so lame…. Just stop that, would you!
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