/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

some stuff i picked up from today:

>new things made for sui's concert:
1. church stage with stained glass effects
2. ruined church effect at the end of kakusei

>the calls during konya wa karasawagi was astel and izuru

about midnight grand orchestra:
>basically midnight grand orchestra is her unit with inotac and they're debuting under toys factory
>so sui is going to debut under a major label as a duo, but her own music activities as hoshimachi suisei is separate so technically she herself is still not signed with a major label

about template's MV:
>"i will never explain the story in the MV!"
>"this is the kind of thing you enjoy more when you keep on speculating about what it means"
>"when they showed me the prototype for this MV, i thought it was very interesting so i told them to keep going in that direction"
>"the girl in the MV doesn't look like a-chan at all, she doesn't even have a ribbon!"
>hint about the MV's meaning: "there's stars in my eyes, anyone who looks like me but doesn't have stars in their eyes isn't me"
>she loved the part where the sui crossdresser gets exposed

about the concert title
>"i made it to match the meaning of Template"
>the meaning of "selfish" is as it is
>the "rough stone" has two meanings: 原石 from her usual stream greeting, and the current sui who has been active for 5 years wants to live on her own pace (the japs express this by saying they want to be "rock"), so she combined "rock" with "stone" from 原石's 石
>"it's a very literal translation, so english speakers might think "what the heck is this title", but i think it's totally fine so i went with this title"

>>2534522
Lyrics-wise, Tenkyuu is more about her leaving, not staying because she doesn't want to give up. Meta-wise, Suisei intended to release it as her farewell song but it exploded more than she thought.
>星はまた弧を描いて飛んだ
>いつかまた会えるなんていえなかった
>星が降った後の街、僕はもうずっと君の行方を探してた

From my own interpretation, Ghost is a homage to her past self and her past songs. The melody of the intro itself is quite upfront on that part, since it sounds similar to Pieces and Tenkyuu's intro. The first two sentences say that things just started from spontaneous feelings that she got, which is how exactly she started her career: she just wanted to become an idol just like the idols she adores. Then the next line after that says she just kept going by "lining up excuses", which is how her career continued. If you can recall her documentary clip or have watched that actual stream where she talks about her career, she said that she has always thought about quitting, but she kept on "making excuses" like "oh, my song got recognized in V-Kouhaku and my subs count grew a bit, I guess I have to keep going then," and "oh, my friends keep on asking me to play this and that and wants to collab with me, I guess I'll continue then". Take note also that during this part, you can see a doodle of a livestream window, and in general, Suisei was pretty much a ghost back then since she barely had any presence at all. Then in the PV you can see a city, with an angle that is very much similar to Tenkyuu's. The chorus has the line can be connected to comet. Ghost asks if you can hear her voice, and comet says she's trying to make her voice heard by everyone even if its just very feeble right now. Plus, in comet, she says "私のこと見ていてね" , but in Ghost, she says "見つけてよ僕を". I think the 声を枯らして part could also be linked to Pieces' "願いをこめた声が枯れるまで”, but maybe Suisei just really likes that phrasing.

Another detail I can add is the "こんな僕の心まで馬鹿にしないで" is probably related to the fact that when she was an indie no one really took her seriously on the wanting to be an idol part. Typing "アイドル...?" used to be a stream joke whenever she says she's actually an idol, so maybe she was actually pretty hurt by that since it's her dream and all.