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【KagePro】 Additional Memory: 6th Anniversary ❤️🧣

Prelude

Happy 6th Anniversary to Additional Memory, my 2nd fave KagePro song and MV, and the song of my 2nd fave KagePro femme chara: Tateyama Ayano ❤️🧣

My rambles on the song aren't finished yet, but I did ramble about it before. I love this song and its visuals sm~

My thought rambles will be under the cut~

Notion Doc

I decided to copy over my rambles from my Notion doc over to Tumblr.

As always, I'll also include context rambles for the sake of my mutuals who don't know KagePro but would still like to tune into my rambles.

I also wrote a Notion Doc on my thoughts on Outer Science. I actually wrote it first, but the post is so long it has to be split into multiple parts. So I'll post Outer Science related rambles eventually.

Original MV by Jin (ft. Hatsune Miku)

The Original MV has EN subtitle captions using bluepenguin (EJ Translations)'s EN fan-TL.

UTAU Fan-Cover by Minoru (ft. Denatsu Sora)

My favourite fan-cover of Additional Memory~ ❤️

I’m going to show this fan-cover ft. Denatsu Sora, a UTAU made by creator Rhea/Ragey. The fan-cover is mixed and tuned by Minoru.

Sora is my fave UTAU from an EN-speaking fan creator. Her voice and tuning are SO powerful.

The OG by Miku is more fit to the melancholic an somber tone of the song, but I prefer this fan-cover for the voice and tuning quality. It’s SO good. Denatsu Sora has an amazing powerful voice and growls.

Ragey has one of the most powerful UTAUs I’ve ever heard. I’m blown away by how strong the tuning and voice are in Sora's voice???

Minoru did an excellent job mixing and tuning Sora for this song.

Intro

Outer Science is song no. 14 of KagePro that released in August 2013.

2 years later...

Additional Memory is song no. 16, Ayano's song, that released on September 14, 2018.

It's about Ayano's feelings of grief and regret.

It is one of my top fave KagePro songs and MVs, cuz despite the simpler compositions in it, the visuals and video editing are absolutely gorgeous.

Ty to EJ Translations (bluepenguin) for the translation of Additional Memory~

I think Additional Memory might just be my 2nd favourite KagePro MV. I love it sm…

I was originally planning to post my Outer Science doc first, but since it's so long it has to be split into multiple parts, I might as well post this one first.

For my other fandom mutuals, if you don't know much about KagePro and are tuning into my rambles, I recommend watching the MV so that my rambles on the visuals makes more sense.

Additional Memory MV: Thought Rambles ❤️

(Hopefully the GIFs load. There's a GIF limit too)

未来の走馬灯 (Mirai no soumatou) The flashing images of my future

Translation: EJ Translations (bluepenguin)

How the backgrounds in the beginning and in the chorus keeps flashing/transitioning between each other as a reference to the “revolving lantern” (走馬灯, Soumatou) → Referring to the phenomenon of “images flashing before your eyes (before death)”

Soumatou (走馬灯) → The lyric “Flashing images of my future”

The entire MV is very literally flashing images of Ayano’s “future” (death) by having the backgrounds of the school constantly flashing/transitioning between each other

Because, after Ayano’s death, her classmates set up flower vases on all the desks in remembrance of her and to honour her memory

I'm so sure this MV is using something powerful like Ad*be After Effects. Or at least something similar

It’s also possible Blender is being used for the effects with the 3D flowers and desks

In the beginning, Ayano unwillingly watches the memories of her and Shintaro in the red sunset in the Kagerou Daze (this exact scene being a parallel to Losstime Memory).

Ayano reaches out for Shintaro's hand for comfort and Shintaro rejects Ayano's affection (and regrets it after her death)

I love how the camera is panning through the field of flowers (chrysanthemums)

Sidu's MVs are so fucking brilliant

So good, holy fuck...

In the beginning, Ayano's scarf moves much slower.

The way the screen splits in half and the blood splatters... They match the colour of her scarf...

Also in the animation effects where the screen splits in half, I love the action speed lines...

With the blood splatters scene, too, her scarf gets blown in the wind slower.

But during the majority of the chorus, it gets blown around in the wind much faster.

Ayano stands in a field of chrysanthemum flowers, where classroom desks fill up the ceiling above her.

Sidu's sketchy style is so good. For each frame, she sketches different sketchy lines, and putting all these frames together evokes the feeling of movement. But Sidu does it so perfectly, it feels like moving action lines

The chrysanthemums moving up and in and out of view (some getting closer to the camera) really does give a 3D effect

The colour grading and chromatic abberation effects in this MV... Omg...

The classroom desks in the sky are also slowly falling out of place into disarray. The “sky” is breaking apart.

Because of the 3D classroom desks filling up the “ceiling” or “sky” and the 3D chrysanthemums.

...

Ayano wears a red scarf because she was always inspired by the heroes she saw in cartoons and aspires to be a good, protective older sister for her siblings (the original trio, Kido, Seto, and Kano).

In the song, Ayano's Theory of Happiness, there's this lyric:

”Red capes are for heroes”

...

I love the use of minimal colours in this MV, it's mainly in black, white and red cast with dark shadows and gradients.

(Aside from certain background shots like the red sunset with ShinAya, and the blue sky of the rooftop)

Sidu MUST be using something really powerful to make these MVs, like Ad*be After Effects.

Especially since the KagePro MVs are professional animation projects, they're storyboarded and everything.

And this explains Ayano's and the ShinAya ship's HEAVY paper crane symbolism...

The transition to the blue sky dropping down and casting Ayano in muted, somber blue tones is so perfect

Also thinking about how Ayano has her arms the same way a corpse would be during a funeral with the flowers around her…

Parallels

I first watched this MV as a kid at 12 years old.

So I want to put a few things here just for visual comparison.

So, one more thing I thought about was how, years later, Additional Memory decided to parallel the scene from Losstime Memory where Shintaro sees a vision of Ayano falling from the school rooftop upside down.

Losstime Memory

Translation: Sunny Subs

Source: (X)

Additional Memory

Translation: EJ Translations (bluepenguin)

Losstime Memory

"A rotten boy at 18 today too, prayed again while clinging on to your colored smile"

Translation: Sunny Subs

Shintaro's vision of Ayano falling from the school rooftops in his dreams (Ayano as the Snake of Retaining Eyes)

Additional Memory

"Ah, falling, reaching understanding The flashing images scattered Beyond the evening glow, my feelings were stained By a song of regret"

Translation: EJ Translations (bluepenguin)

Ayano re-living falling to her death, in her Kagerou Daze

KagePro Wiki

I'll link this for context so that the lyrics and song context can be referred to.

Lyrics

Song Context

Crane Symbolism

Ayano’s character, and the ShinAya ship, are heavy on paper crane symbolism.

Read more about it here:

1000 Paper Cranes Symbolism

"It symbolizes honor, good fortune, loyalty, and longevity. These formidable characteristics give the crane such special meaning and why the Japanese believed that anyone with the patience and commitment to fold 1,000 origami cranes would be given good fortune and granted a wish." (X)

Songs Lyrics: ShinAya Subtext

The ShinAya subtext in Losstime Memory, Toumei (Transparent) Answer, and Additional Memory…

The ShinAya (Ayano → Shintaro) subtext in this song’s lyrics hurts so bad In a good way

1st chorus:

“I made the mistake of holding you, of wishing; flashing images of luxury

Beyond the evening calm, I light a red light to make a note of our love”

“I didn’t want to ‘still be friends’

My feelings surely won’t reach you

I’m sorry, I love you”

Last chorus:

”I didn’t want to end up as just friends

My tears that you don’t see are swallowed up by the sky”

Translation: EJ Translations (bluepenguin)

Ayano's Feelings and ShinAya Subtext

“I always wanted to say ‘Goodbye, I love you’”

Burnt out gifted kid and cynical pessimist who didn't see any meaning in his life cuz he'd always ace everything and felt that even if he disappeared, then someone would replace him

So Ayano always tried to cheer him up. She’d take his ripped up test papers and tape them back to make paper cranes for him, and she would fold papers into paper cranes for him.

This is Ayano's Kagerou Daze (how the Kagerou Daze appears to her). It takes the form of the school in which she spent her happiest and saddest days, and where she died.

I love how all the classroom desks form the "Sky" of her Kagerou Daze

Misc Rambles

Something about the way Ayano will sacrifice herself for the sake of a loved one... In the hopes that it'd stop Saeru's plans so that her family and friends won't be targeted...

And Ayano's association with the colour RED.

Shintaro

Shintaro was a burnt out gifted kid that didn't see the point in living after his friends (especially Ayano) died and was just waiting to die

Ene tried to inspire hope in him by becoming his friend, acting more cheerful and optimistic on person (after remembering her friend Ayano's words that Shintaro needed someone cheerful and optimistic and outgoing to carry him along).

After Ayano's death, Shintaro fed into his cynical pessimism and shut himself off even more and was constantly dreaming of coming to meet Ayano

Shintaro spirals into depression and becomes a shut-in NEET after losing all 3 of his closest high school friends on the same day, August 15th - Ayano, Haruka, and Takane

All 3 of your friends just gone. All in one day. That's devastating

...

Kuroha/Saeru, in most routes, is almost always indirectly responsible for their deaths. He is indirectly responsible for/orchestrated their deaths in most routes (ie. Music Route, Manga Route 1, and Novel Route, Anime Route)

The only time Kuroha/Saeru isn’t indirectly responsible for the Yuukei Quartet's deaths in some way, is in Manga Route 2 Iirc

One thing you'll learn about KagePro is that this mf (Kuroha/Saeru) is responsible for almost everything bad that happens. He's literally the cause for the majority of KagePro's conflict/tension

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Jin-san will come to me with his ideas for the story, and I’ll usually comment with a word or two of feedback; sometimes, I might make a suggestion on how he could improve it, as well.

Sidu; Kagerou Project music videos animator; 2014 Interview

Interview(er): What’s working with Jin-san like?

Sidu: Jin-san will come to me with his ideas for the story, and I’ll usually comment with a word or two of feedback; sometimes,

I might make a suggestion on how he could improve it, as well.

For some reason, it’s always when we’re both half-asleep in the middle of the night when we talk about these things.

[yuseirra]

have u seen the new pv additional memory?? if u have, may I request an ayano?? if ure not into kagepro as much, then u dont need to!(also excited for ure new games!)

Thank you for saying you’re excited about my games! I’m not into kagepro now, (I haven’t been following it for at least three years now) but you’re too polite and kind I JUST can’t bring myself to say no// And ayano used to be my favorite girl in the series too.

I actually did watch the new pv though, on the day it was out too! My mutuals were talking about it and it was nice to see them being all excited! I wish I could say I loved it too, I really wanted to like it, but I felt really bad after watching it.

The whole thing was really depressing.. and it made me feel uneasy when I noticed the whole pv was depicting her committing suicide. I just couldn’t enjoy it after that despite how pretty the art looked and it’s really weird!! because I thought I should be used to seeing dead characters by now from all the fandoms I’ve been into (for one thing, I am in the dr fandom!! so why do I feel this way)

but this is a personal thing!!// I think I felt like this because I have some personal experience regarding.. stuff and I;; I don’t think I can bring myself to watch the full pv again. I couldn’t join in when everybody in my tl said it was good either; In fact, I don’t think I would have chosen to watch it if I knew what it was going to be like; It was really well drawn though! ;v; sidu/shidu’s illustrations were amazing as it’s always been

I wish they could make ayano smile in canon again, my impression of her’s been changing over the years and it’s getting very hard to draw her with a sincere smile now??? It’s difficult. her impression in the new pv was just so; she seemed so cold and dead(?) ahh she deserves better; Every time when I see something new about this fandom there seems to be more suffering for her and I just.. thank goodness I didn’t have to witness all that live.. I bet people who are in the fandom would feel just as bad ._.; 

[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 -from the darkness- 🖤💛🐍

Doodles

Outer Science is the 14th song of the Kagerou Project series, and Kuroha's main appearance. You can check out the Outer Science MV here!

Intro rambles

Kuroha/Saeru (Me ga Saeru Hebi, "Snake of Clearing Eyes") is my fave KagePro chara. Murderous mad man!

Inspired by the Outer Science MV, and my fave Kagerou Daze (LN) cover: Vol. 7 -from the darkness-

I'll clean this up later 🙏

Outer Science: Intro rambles

This rearrange cover ft. Kagamine Len is my fave Outer Science fan-cover~ I honestly prefer it over the OG cuz the tuning is better and the adlibs and robotic tones/voice effects really add sm. Has so much more oomph than the OG.

Ty vgperson for carrying the Vocaloid, KagePro, and RPG Maker games communities. Their TLs are so good.

KagePro: Intro rambles

KagePro is a multimedia project/franchise that originally started as Vocaloid songs. It also has a light novel, manga, and (shitty) anime adaptation. These music videos would tell the story of a group called the Mekakushi Dan (Blindfold Gang), teens who died on August 15th and entered the never-ending world called the Kagerou Daze (Heat Haze Daze) and came out with an eye ability.

Kuroha (Dark Konoha) or The Snake of Clearing Eyes (Me ga Saeru Hebi), is the series' big bad antagonist. He is one of Azami's snakes who possesses humans' vessels. He usually possesses Konoha's body, and kills everyone in the Mekakushi Dan to force Marry, the current holder of the Queen Snake (and granddaughter of the original Medusa, Azami), to reset the timeline, thus, forever repeating the "never ending tragedy."

I'm still amazed by Sidu's MVs. Outer Science is still my fave KagePro song and MV. Sidu's art style is so nice and their MVs are gorgeous. Sidu really appealed to my aesthetic tastes when I first saw this MV in 2013 as a 12 year old, I was immediately enamoured with it. They have such great aesthetic sense.

The colours and chosen visuals… How every single scene has so much attention to detail and connects to the story…

My origins with KagePro

I first got into KagePro when I was 12, so Kuroha was my 12 year old self's big fave~ KagePro was my kid self's first fandom interest.

12 ~ 16 y/o me was OBSESSED with this mf and the KuroEne ship 😭 Ene my wife… 🥺💙 Cuz I shipped them when Kuroha was originally thought to be a dark alter ego of Konoha/Haruka. That got debunked but the ship brings such great angst fuel

The Kuroha liker in me coming out with the unhinged anime man / meow meow mf core taste, HAHA.

I love smug evil bitches with black/white design aesthetics 🐈‍⬛ I love his expressions ✌️ And Kuroha has a great song and MV too~

The Kuroha (2013), Saeran (2016), Judar (2022) pipeline!

Art Inspiration

I did a quick Kuroha doodle. God the lowkey buff-ification is happening just like with Unknown/Saeran, but oh well LOL

Oh I think I also want the KagePro LNs 🙏 Sidu's gorgeous Kagerou Daze VII (7) cover with Kuroha on the cover 🖤💛 This will always be my favourite cover. Sidu's art style is IMPECCABLE I love their aesthetics sm… The pose and blood splatters and Kuroha and Azami's expressions… AHHH IT SLAPS SO HARD

I thought of a composition where all the "Keep out" tapes bind around his hands and arms just like in the LN cover.

It's based on the "Welcome to my womb" (Youkoso waga tainai he) line in the Outer Science MV and my fave Kagerou Daze (LN) cover -from the darkness- 🤭✨

I remember drawing fanart of it when this LN first got announced and came out in 2016, but my old art looks like frigging doodoo so I did a quick doodle redraw of it. I wanna draw JuAli, Saeran/MC, and KuroEne, soon, but grrr school!

Sen's KuroEne AU 🖤💙

The first ship I was obsessed with as a 12 year old was KuroEne cuz it was based off the popular fan-theory that Kuroha was a dark alter ego/corrupted form of Konoha, and so, that would've given the ship a connection (due to HaruTaka and KonoEne)

It got debunked by MCA (Mekakucity Actors), the KagePro anime, in 2014, since Kuroha was revealed to be Saeru, the Snake of Clearing Eyes, so ever since, I preferred dealing with KuroEne in lighthearted AUs instead.

But I also like thinking of KuroEne in canon-verse angst AUs where Kuroha messes around in the routes (timelines) and pretends to be Konoha. He decides to befriend the Mekakushi Dan members before k*lling them this time, and Ene projects her feelings for Haruka and Konoha, onto Kuroha (who she thinks is Konoha…)

2 years ago, before Ene lost her human body and became a cyber girl, she was Takane, a special needs student who had a chronic illness that would cause her to constantly faint and feel tired no matter how much she slept.

She was put in the same special needs class as Haruka, her friend and classmate who she eventually fell in love with. She never got the chance to tell him her feelings before she died. When she entered the Kagerou Daze and gained an eye ability, she gained a body that never needed sleep in response to her wish back when she was alive.

Haruka was an artist, and designed game avatars for them back then - Ene and Konoha. In the present day, 2 years later, when she meets Kuroha, she recognizes his appearance, and thinks he's Konoha. After seeing Kuroha, who she thinks is Konoha, she's surprised to see "Konoha" in the flesh...

In my KuroEne AU, Ene thinks that Kuroha is Konoha with Haruka's memories, because Kuroha/Saeru remembers previous routes (timelines) and thus knows her true name (Takane) and context.

I'm insane LMAO. I love angst!

I'm just thinking about how much I mellowed out over the years, cuz my ship AUs for LimGuda (Douman/Ritsuka), IdaTatsu (Idate/Tatsumiya), XanLena (Xanxus/Selena), JuAli (Judar/Alibaba), etc., are super fluffy and focused on the characters' relationship development and moments of emotional intimacy, building rapport and connection... These AUs are overall happy/have a happy ending! I want my faves to be happy <3

But the ship AUs I made when I was a kid, like for KuroEne (Kuroha/Ene), were angsty as hell. I think it's just cuz Kuroha's setup and role in KagePro's plot, as the big bad murderer that kills the entire Mekakushi Dan, just makes it so that any KuroEne AUs (and Kuroha ships in general tbh), that take place in canon-verse, will always end tragically. Good thing I still got it in me to be able to write angst/tragedy... hehe.

Ofc, I will delve into light-hearted AUs with them too that take place outside of canon~ I want to write/draw KuroEne in a much more fluffy and lighthearted setting too.

My fave screenshots from the Outer Science MV!

[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 Sen's WIP List

I'll be out of town for the next few days, and I have a few assignments to finish up.

Plans:

I can scan the rest of Sidu's .dsd/V artbook soon. I'll be scanning it slowly and at my own pace, since I want to look into removing/editing the grain line texture from my scans first. Editing the colours is simpler to do.

I plan to translate a recent short MaryEne fan doujinshi from 2021.

I've archived most (~90%) of KuroEne's fanarts, comics, and doujinshi (since I saved them from back when I was a kid), so I've also been translating KuroEne's old fanarts and doujinshi (SFW and NSFW) in my free time. These mostly come from 2013 - 2016.

I've archived a bit of KonoEne and HaruTaka's fan works too.

If you need them, you can ask me privately 🙏

I can put it into a private Google Drive folder or something.

I will translate anything related to Takane/Ene's multiships as long as I'm interested in it (9/6 ships - KuroEne, KonoEne, HaruTaka, AyaTaka/AyaEne, MaryEne, ShinEne)

Considering most are fanarts and comics that have been deleted from the internet, and the moral gray area of translating old deleted fanarts, comics, and doujinshi, I think my solution will be to host my TLs on my personal Notion site, cuz I feel like Notion works better than Google Docs for that.

It'll host all the KagePro fan ship comic TLs I do.

Because I also feel that it's sad for these fan works to lose all digital traces on the internet... And I would like to share them so other people can enjoy them. Tumblr is niche enough that I think this should be ok.

Just don't repost these artists' works, or my TLs.

[fuckyeahkagepro]

There was a time when all of Pixiv’s rankings were often about “Kagerou Days”. Moreover, everyone was good at drawing. It was a phenomenon full of people that drew the art motifs that I had created better than myself. While I thought, “Amazing~!” I also pondered over things like, “Wouldn’t it be better if I weren’t here? Aren’t I just dragging it down?”.

Sidu (interview; 2017) [official artist contributor to Kagerou Project]

in response to the question:

“──From this point on, I think the repercussion regarding “KagePro” began to broaden all at once due to the release of “Kagerou Days” four months later, so how did you take it back then?”

and:

“──It felt like the phenomenon was overtaking you.”

Sidu: Right. Everyone had all sorts of interpretations, and there were people who drew accessories and cool Hibiyas. I thought people who thought that far and made that much stuff were amazing.

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Lately, I have often heard people commenting with disdain, “that thing is aimed at children”. But I believe that everyone makes stories influenced by things they liked as children or animes they watched and mangas they read. That’s why I think childhood is important. It’s okay for it to be a work that adults can also enjoy, but what meaning would it bear if children couldn’t stand it? Is what I feel.

Sidu (interview; 2017) [official artist contributor for Kagerou Project] in response to the interviewer’s question:

Hahaha. By the way, Jin-san said that “KagePro” was “meant to seriously deceive children”. And that “it wasn’t made to please adults”.

Sidu: That’s right. (continued in quote above)

I have often heard people commenting with disdain, “that thing is aimed at children”.

But I believe that everyone makes stories influenced by things they liked as children

It’s okay for it to be a work that adults can also enjoy, but what meaning would it bear if children couldn’t stand it? Is what I feel.

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Regarding Konoha, Jin-san and I might be in different vectors. Jin-san’s Konoha is a coward. If I had to compare, Haruka is the active one. The Konoha as I see him is completely detatched from Haruka and doesn’t have any of Haruka’s courage or fears. Konoha’s actions aren’t a result of him thinking; rather, he seems like a character that reciprocates what is given to him.

Sidu (interview; 2017)

Interviewer: ──I see. Indeed, after listening to this, it does feel like the movie is filled to the brim with Sidu-san’s interpretations.

Sidu: That’s why it might feel different from the light novel to the viewers. ──Jin-san said in his interview that it was something like an “official anthology”. Sidu: I think that definition hits close to home.

“The Konoha as I see him is completely detached from Haruka”

“and doesn’t have any of Haruka’s courage or fears”

[fuckyeahkagepro]

At first, we didn’t talk about songs or art at all, only about games. Then Jin-san saw my Pixiv account’s URL in my profile page and went, “So you were an artist,” then asked, “Could you draw something for my next song?”. From that, we made “Mekakushi Chord” together.

Sidu (interview; 2017)

[fuckyeahkagepro]

When drawing a PV, Sidu will listen to the song first and get the general image. After having Jin explain the song to them, Sidu will draw the continuity and show it to Jin. If Jin approved of the continuity, Sidu will begin to add other details to make the full video.

old Kagepro trivias re: “Sidu has free reign on the pvs” fandom MISCONCEPTION:

After having Jin explain the song to them, Sidu will draw the continuity and show it to Jin. If Jin approved of the continuity, Sidu will begin to add other details to make the full video. or: Jin must approve of the continuity to integrate the materials into the (canon) / (main) series.

* this was likely also the case with earlier music videos artist, Wannyanpuu, who also collaborated with Sidu on “Konoha’s State of the World” (2012).

[fuckyeahkagepro]

[from 2011 to 2012], all of the characters had been made. I had suddenly been told by Jin-san, “These characters will come out next, so please make as many prototypes as possible for them” and from then, we made “Konoha no Sekai Jijou”.

Sidu (interview; 2017) [official artist contributor to Kagerou Project]

“please make as many prototypes” “as possible for them”

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Sidu: Jin-san’s Hiyori is truly a rigid character, huh. Ah, but I don’t know if that’s his taste. (Laugh) The Hiyori as I see her is also the same as her impression from “Kagerou Days”. Though it feels like she’s always pushing others away, it’s not like she’s a character that thinks too ill of anyone.

Sidu [interview; 2017]

“The Hiyori as I see her is also the same as her impression from “Kagerou Days”.”

“Though it feels like she’s always pushing others away, it’s not like she’s a character that thinks too ill of anyone.”

[fuckyeahkagepro]

When listening to “Kagerou Days”, the image that I felt of how Hibiya is aloof but doesn’t hesitate to protect the girl he likes was strong in me. But I think the Hibiya that Jin-san writes about is probably Jin-san himself. He’s an [*primary schooler/6th grader] that lives in the countryside and is a little gross. (Laugh) Currently, the Hibiya as I see him is the result of this incompatible combination.

Sidu [interview; 2017]

“the image that I felt of how Hibiya is aloof but doesn’t hesitate to protect the girl he likes was strong in me”

“But I think the Hibiya that Jin-san writes about is probably Jin-san himself.”

Currently, the Hibiya as I see him is the result of this incompatible combination.

[fuckyeahkagepro]

That stuff which is piling up [in Outer Science] is the ruins of what once was hundreds and thousands of iterations of the Mekakushi Dan.

Sidu (Mekakucity V’s Interview re: Outer Science Q&A) [August 2014]

(bolding / italics / line breaks for spacing mine for emphasis):

In the last cut for “I’ll sneer”***

*** 「嘲笑しよう」'choushou shiyou’

the scenery, which looks like a pile of rubble Kuro Konoha is standing on top of was manufactured and thoroughly smashed.

That stuff which is piling up is the ruins of what once was

hundreds and thousands of iterations

of the Mekakushi Dan.

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Jin also mentioned that he took a lot of Sidu’s ideas into KagePro.

Trivia from Jin & Sidu (Spoon 2d1 magazine Vol. 44) [2013]

Sidu and Jin really [get] along well with each other and haven’t really had any kind of conflicts before.

Jin also mentioned

that he took

A LOT OF SIDU’S IDEAS

into KagePro.

[fuckyeahkagepro]

Kagepro's Jin + his team / coworkers / friends

Interviewer: Say one thing to Sidu-san*! [*Sidu = current animator of Kagepro pvs/music videos]

Jin: Please try your best!

Interviewer: Say one thing to Wannyanpuu-san*! [*Wannyanpuu = a former animator of Kagepro pvs along with Sidu, though she follows them on Twitter as well]

Jin: Please give me a call……!

Interviewer: Say one thing to (Satou) Mahiro-san*! [*Kagepro manga's artist (NOT writer, that is Jin)]

Jin: I’ll send you this and that soon……

- 50 Questions with Jin / Shizen no Teki-P Interview from mid-2013 [Kagerou Project's creator]