#yousuke yasui

[7grandmel]

Rip of the week: 03/02/2025

Tribute to a MAD Agent

Season 3 Featured on: Inspector Gunner 2 With Critic

Ripped by Dirty Spaceman

One of the first ever rips I wanted to highlight when I first started this blog was Season 2's 【＝３】e-MUNO Disco (vs. 音MAD AGENT). I would argue even today that it's more or less an essential listen for those looking to learn what makes SiIvaGunner such a special channel, and was likewise was one of the first rips to truly make me fascinated by the art of high quality ripping way back in the day. That affection I felt - and still feel - for it was, quality aside, in large part due to its release timing; back on ULTRA S+G, I made an effort to detail how Season 2 in particular was such a hugely exciting time to be a SiIvaGunner fan. There was a real sense of community and investment in all that the channel was doing, following the excitement of its return past the planned ending, the insane amount of effort going into keeping the story and lore going with the Christmas Comeback Crisis, and how so many events like Smooth day covered on Haltmanna feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 were designed to be so intrinsically tied to the channel's lore. It was inevitable that that momentum couldn't be continued forever, and Season 3 became a more lower-key, transitional period in the channel's life as the team figured out just where to pull SiIvaGunner going forward - yet from that reflective period spawned one of the most memorable events in the channel's life, all distilled perfectly with Tribute to a MAD Agent; April Fools 2018, the Nostalgia Critic Takeover.

Barring just the first King for a Day Tournament that I've still only covered briefly back on FINAL DESTINATION, I feel like the Nostalgia Critic takeover is more or less THE event to remember from Season 3. Its core premise is one I've already covered in some detail on CG Man HD Remastered Edition; with Doug Walker in charge of the channel now over two years past its initial Season 1 run, the event sought to evoke nostalgia from those of who had been following since the channel's absolute earliest days. Setting aside all lore, all progress, all the sights toward the future, the Nostalgic Critic takeover became like a prelude for what something like Season 7 would later relish in with rips like Our Sweet Parsley, to pay tribute to what had come before. The takeover achieved this nostalgic effect through a multitude of means; this was the period where lots of the original GiIvaSunner rips of January-March 2016 were first reuploaded, where old amateurish rips were lovingly remastered along the lines of Fragile Snowman (Remastered) or what we'd see way later on Violet Snow Memories. This introspective feel had prior in the season only been felt through the expected increase in quality in rip output, but now for the first time in months it felt as if so many parts of the community were on the same page, reflecting on the same rips, remembering just how many stupid bits Season 1 had, and overall just taking a step back to recognize just how far everything had come in just two short years.

It's that sense of fleeting community - that conversation between you, your fellow viewers and the team maintaining kayfabe behind a YouTube account - that sat at the core of my engagement with the SiIvaGunner channel. The core that was beating so strongly throughout those first two seasons of the channel, the core I've tried writing about for rips like go home youre drunk man, and the core that I could feel once again here in Season 3 through Doug Walker's forceful interference. Yet...that is only half the story, only half of the takeover's nature. Once it all began on April 1st 2018, Critic was unknowingly joined in his attempt to rule the channel by Inspector Gadget; to some, but a cartoon character from a bygone age, but to SiIvaGunner fans who followed Season 2, a demon thought to have been vanquished long ago. His inexplicable rise to power in Season 2 was one of the absolute highlights of that run, a sense of panic and unease spreading through the community as for what this meant for the status quo of SiIvaGunner (one we're undergoing Right Now at the start of Season 9, funny enough), all of which I covered all too briefly back on my writing on Become as Gadget. And so, the takeover was twofold; We had the Critic giving us throwbacks to the budding months of Season 1, Inspector Gadget giving us that constant sense of unease felt during his Season 2 run, and the two combined served as a further extension of the "Minecraft with Gadget" bit that had originally provoked the latter's prominence as a channel meme to begin with; a critic and a figment of his imagination, butting heads in a way that felt oh so typical of the old age of YouTube.

With all that preamble out of the way, it's hopefully made somewhat clear just how effective the Nostalgia Critic With Gadget (or whatever its proper name ought to be) takeover truly was in reminding us of how much love we still hold for SiIvaGunner; and, in turn, how much love SiIvaGunner's team holds for itself, holistically. Enter, then, Dirty Spaceman's Tribute to a MAD Agent, wrapping up everything I've thus far covered into one simple package. Without all the aforementioned context provided, the combination of its rip title and the rip's contents may make very little sense - why would a Pokémon Ruby rip of YO-KAI DISCO from Mamorukun Curse! be a "Tribute to a MAD Agent"? - but with the context available, a viewer can suddenly triangulate just what the rip is made in tribute TO; the aforementioned 【＝３】e-MUNO Disco (vs. 音MAD AGENT), the channel's at-that-time most prominent rip using YO-KAI DISCO. The connection was easy to make passively at the time both due to the song's lack of coverage on the channel otherwise, but also because both the rip and its tribute here employ the same slight speed-up to the source song, something that, as I would later find out, many famous YTPMVs/MADs of the song such as wazgul's SEN-TRY Disco. This would further be done on future YO-KAI DISCO rips like D-VA DISCO from Season 4 Episode 1, but back in Season 3 it was a connection that felt almost exclusive to these two rips; a tribute, then, hence its namesake.

And indeed, beyond being a tribute, Tribute to a MAD Agent is a damn good rip in its own right. Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald has an absolutely iconic soundscape, typically lead by loud brass, yet on Route 111 is led by an iconic bouncy synth with the big-band sound instead delegated to the song's backing and percussion. This lead synth is a lot chirpier than the one in the original YO-KAI DISCO yet still captures that same bouncy energy, aided tremendously by the little details surrounding it in this arrangement. No part of Route 111's original melody persists here; akin to rips like Float Islands (Kirby 64 Arrangement), this rip seeks to wholly arrange its song using only instruments from its source game and finds tons of wiggle room for small details throughout that process, such as the subtle call-and-responses in the melody as heard in parts like 0:34, the lead synth met with the sound of a distinctly different synth replying to its inquiry in kind.

Moreover, though, I can't shake the feeling that the choice of Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire as the game to do this tribute to was a deliberate one. Dirty Spaceman didn't begin ripping until early into Season 2's life, and doesn't have the *most* extensive list of contributions, yet is also a ripper who nevertheless strikes me as very aware of the channel's entire legacy. The one prior rip of his I've covered on here, Maskettaman - Dr. Pavel's Fly​-​So​-​Good, was yet another sort of tribute; a love letter to Baneposting, a meme previously quite prominent during the channel's first year, yet faded from use due to its unconventional nature as a source. He knows internet history, and he knows SiIvaGunner history; thus, the choice of game for Tribute to a MAD Agent, to use the game used for the very first SiIvaGunner rip ever made and released, feels like all too deliberate of a choice. Like mentioned back on Magolor's Shoppe Fusion Collab, few games have as close of a tie to the earliest of SiIvaGunner's days as Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, and few moments in the channel's life were as focused on remembering said early days as the very event Tribute to a MAD Agent was made for; in that way, the rip is able to at once reference Season 1 and Season 2 in a way that's surprisingly understated yet immediately understandable for those watching.

I'll be honest and say that I spent a lot of the lead-up to writing this post simply looking for parts of Season 3 that I'd remember enough to write about - mind, with Tribute to a MAD Agent this is now the fourth-or-so time that I cover this very event. Yet I mean not to suggest that it was the one good part of an underwhelming year; rather, that the Critic and Gunner were able to more clearly amplify the essence that the season as a whole was sort of going for, amplifying an understated pursuit to continue reminding us all of why we all got so invested in this stupid channel in the first place. Season 3 was a period of things bubbling, with rips and rippers continuing to grow, yet never truly exploding in ways that felt out of step with what the channel ought to be. Starting off small, hitting a sudden, hastily-planned, channel-changing event partway through the year, with sprinkles conveying the meaning of the greater whole dished out in the midst of a sea of self-expression...in that way, Season 3 is like a microcosm of SiIvaGunner's entire existence, a summary of its life only two years after it began. Tribute to a MAD Agent is not the most glamorous, standout work of the year, not the most impressive effort that had been made at that point; yet it, like so many rips of its prior Seasons I've covered before, serves as a small sample, a taste test, of one of the many flavors that make this channel so worth having followed in the long term; for the jokes, for the bangers, and for the memories.

[fz-freakyed]

ギンガフォース(Ginga Force) - Aeronaut (STAGE 1) 【XV-5080arrange】

Uploaded Apr 28, 2013 by universe

[shadoninja]

Naruto: Clash of Ninja - Credits (For Ocarina) [12 Hole C Ocarina] Composed by Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Sasou, & Yousuke Yasui Arranged by Shadoninja Eighting, Tomy © 2003 Aka Legally Distinct™ Wind from Naruto Get the sheet music for this song and more: http://shadoninja.tumblr.com/sheetmusic

[thedyf]

STELLAR LIGHT ~ Arranged - ESCHATOS OST | Yousuke Yasui

[noah-infinity]

i've been listening to the same 5 or so chiptune songs for the last few weeks now (because they're all good and youtube has a habit of putting the same 4 or 5 videos in your recommended) and i've been wondering why they all sound so good and so alike

it only just hit me that they're all from the exact same composer, Yousuke Yasui

holy fuck this guy can produce some quality bangers:

AND I ONLY FOUND OUT ABOUT MOST OF THESE FROM YTPMVs AND DR ROBOTNIK'S RING RACERS

[sylvysprit]

Unrequieted Eternity, my new OST album is now released!

Unrequieted Eternity A visual novel OST by Princess Sylvysprit Bandcamp: https://sylvysprit.bandcamp.com/album/unrequieted-eternity-ost

In 2020-2021, i composed an OST for a visual novel dating sim game, but unfortunately, it was never released, thus becoming lost media Thankfully, i have received permission to share all the songs with you! The game's title and song titles have been changed from the original, which was one of the agreements for releasing the OST (Though, i admit, i really like the multiple layers of puns and double meanings behind this new title)

I've always wanted to compose an OST for a visual novel, i was very happy when i was given the oppurtunity to do so in 2020 together with one of my favourite artists, the story and characters really made me want to give it my all I've appreciated visual novel composers for years, i felt very inspired by PC-98 visual novels, like Ryu Umemoto's works on YU-NO for example, obscure stuff like Revo's work on Riddle in Riddle, but also modern indie visual novels such as VA-11 Hall-A (and even a little bit of Yousuke Yasui…?) for the music, but of course, i mainly relied on my own intuition and touches (so, basically, a lot of piano and subtle anime/Touhou/jazz influences)

I am very happy that i'm allowed to share these songs with you now, as they are some of my favourite songs i have ever composed, especially because this was the first visual novel i've ever had the honour of composing for This OST holds a very special place in my heart, and i hope that you will feel something special when you listen to the music as well, i put a lot of heart into it, so please let me know how you feel!

[johntayjinf]

Life Will Go On (YM2151 + YMZ280B)

For Sonic & Knuckles Alternate, this is the credits theme. This makes it the second time I've broken the hardware limitations of the Mega Drive for a stylistic choice.

This time I tackle the instrumentation/ musical style of the X68000 baseball game, Namachuukei 68 (生中継68).

Composed and arranged by Yuji Takenouchi, this OST is just, *chef's kiss* immaculate. I sing high praises of FM chiptune instrumentation and Namachuukei 68 is not an exception. Heavy use of detuning and instrument stacking proved to give very close sounds to actual FM synth keyboards.

The idea came to me months ago when I was working on the OST, thinking I could close out the entire game (and consecutively the S3K Alternate OSTs) in a fancily-tied knot. I intend for this to be a "true ending" theme; your typical Classic Sonic medley would be for a normal playthrough, though I'm not up for making that.

The intro was directly inspired by an incomplete project my friend shown off to me when they invited me to their band's Discord server, and I originally thought I could continue that composition for them. I eventually put this to the back of my mind but I was inspired, still.

Even then, I wasn't entirely sure in what style to tackle this in up until recently after finding out about Namachuukei 68. It was what I was comfortable with; writing slow cheesy themes like they're from the 80s-90s. The e-piano in particular did I take interest in.

The chorus melody in particular do I want to talk about, because I bet people who didn't check my Tumblr blog (that I admittedly don't usually promote or visit) wouldn't know this, but the melody was based off the title theme, which was also directly inspired by Garret Williamson's Break Out, the recent Scott the Woz outro theme, along with some Yousuke Yasui into the mix as well.

As a bonus (don't tell your mommy), I added Masato Nakamura/ Dreams Come True's Sweet Sweet Sweet for the sendoff. I thought it'd be a great reward to listen to at the end of the game.

[konqd]

oh yeah i should do a pinned here thinking about it

as per usual uhhhh i'm robin, yet another random ethereal internet person but ethereal-er probably. alleged 3d artist/animator, internet hermit, and whatever. idk i just stay too-in-my-lane to actually have a presence anywhere and very infrequently post inane little sentences such as "kiss a girl on her doll joints" and "white people when there's yousuke yasui-styled music at the function"

check out my web-o-zone with a moderate amount of stuff here

rando crap i'm into: ▸ old stuff that was hip in that ancient phantasmagoric era known as "the 2000s" ▸ idk like. computery stuff. stuff that didn't emerge from the depths of hell or whatever preferably. also old tech stuff in general ▸ adachi rei, adachi rei, adachi rei, and probably some other utaus ▸ silly ole deathmatch games and boomshoots ▸ capitalism took my fucking magic lego robots ▸ anime-style dolls beyond my wallet's comprehension ▸ symphogear, rozen maiden, kino no tabi, houseki no kuni, haruhi suzumiya, boachy of the rock, yurucamp, lucky star, elfen lied, that sort of thing

[sharkbattery64]

A piece of technictix fanart I did a while back

[vaporloox]

it's so unfortunate i can't run ps3 or xbox 360 emulators because i so badly want to play mamorukun curse after hearing it's soundtrack. seriously listen to this

[7grandmel]

Fan animation made for the rip D-VA DISCO by SodaMindReader. The Twitter release of this animation was retweeted by the official SiIvaGunner account!

[satoshi-mochida]

Mamorukun Curse! coming to PS5, Xbox, Switch, and PC in 2025

From Gematsu

City Connection and G.rev will release Mamorukun Curse! for PlayStation 5, Xbox, Switch, and PC via Steam in 2025, the companies announced.

The game is based on the Mamorukun Curse! originally released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

New features include:

Costume downloadable content included.

Fururu’s Challenges / Nowa’s Challenges additional stage downloadable content included.

New music (Boosted)—handled by Yousuke Yasui.

Major improvements to Story Mode—widened to a 16:9 aspect ratio, just like Meikai Katsugeki Mode.

Further details were not announced.

[fryshrimp]

the only version of starfall village people care about is yousuke yasui's arrange... YOU DON'T DESERVE HER

[sylvyspritii]

Nothing makes a composer feel more powerful than having unlimited access to the lead instrument from Silver Lining from Eschatos by Yousuke Yasui

[posthumanwanderings]

Everblue 2 (PS2) - Espada

[puyopuyo]

SUPER-REFLEX Artist: Yousuke Yasui Album: Megalomachia2