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Jin Livestream #1: My Little Brother, Songs and Guitars

Translation of the first livestream without Inpine from Jin’s official YouTube channel. This one is not from their radio segment, just a normal livestream. The radio has been on hiatus for a year now and all livestreams that have come after the fifth radio episode are also just normal ones. Still, they are equally as heavy on Jin lore as the Jinpine radio.

Original video here. Done on commission!

The stream starts out with Jin testing as usual and not knowing whether it has started or not. There’s an icon and the words “guest: tet.” on the bottom right of the screen. Jin says his little brother has come over as a guest and that the two of them might play the guitar and sing together, but he can’t confirm it just yet. He calls the guest “Jin Brother” in English.

So Jin has a little brother. Did anyone else not know about him until this livestream happened? We all knew he had a sister, but no mention of his brother was ever made till this point. And then suddenly the guy is live. Feels like the youngest of the Jonas Brothers all over again, lol.

When the brother greets the audience, Jin says it’s weird to hear his voice in one of his livestreams. The brother introduces himself as “Teto” (tet), which is not a nickname but his actual artist name. Jin explains that they’re far apart in age and that tet is the youngest child. He casually drops the bomb on the fact that he has lots of siblings, but can’t yet reveal how many.

The audience says their voices are alike and Jin laughs, not very happy about it. His brother is nervous, admitting that he’s too scared to read the comments. Jin decides to break the ice by talking about their childhood. They did not get along when they were kids, and it was only recently that they started becoming close. The brother says Jin was a “really disgusting fellow” in the past, to which Jin giggles and asks, “Why?!”, and suddenly the way Jin describes himself makes all sense.

The two talk about how lately they’ve started hanging out together and doing fun stuff. Jin thinks they didn’t do that before due to the difference in age. One more reason is that there were too many siblings, but Jin says once again that they can’t delve too deep on that one. However, the two agree that the more siblings, the merrier.

Due to the age difference, Jin and his brother used to not interact much, but tet was actually into music from a young age and had become an independent musician. Jin had been following his activities for a while in secret, but tet didn’t want to be in his brother’s shadow, so he never showed up in any of Jin’s projects and tried to distance himself as much as possible from Jin’s image. He wasn’t just hiding this from the public, but also lowkey trying to hide from Jin.

Jin reveals that he taught his brother lots of things about how to play the guitar, so perhaps the people who listen to his music will be able to tell that tet’s style is similar to his. He says he “trained” his brother like that, which tet doesn’t sound too happy about, but even he admits that Jin’s influence on him was huge.

They talk about things they’ve been doing lately, such as playing TCG together, and Jin once again brings the topic back to his brother, and how he’s not just playing the guitar but also composing his own songs and doing recordings lately. Jin reveals that tet was considering starting out as a professional either on that year or the next (2023-2024 at the time of the livestream), and Jin told him to just do it.

The icon on the screen, Jin explained, was tet’s icon in his socials and says it looks really cool. His brother says he commissioned an artist to make it for him and Jin asks the audience to support tet. The brother also asked for everyone’s support.

On the topic of commissions, Jin had received a request from a certain record company to write a song, but he was busy at the time and it’s not easy for artists or writers to do commissions with different companies in Japan, so he offered the company to commission his brother instead. The company accepted and his brother took on the request, and when Jin listened to the final product, he thought it sounded a lot like himself. The brother acknowledges that begrudgingly, and Jin laughs, “Serves you right! In your face”.

Someone in the comments says that talent for music seems to run in the family (if anyone still remembers the Jinpine radio, Jin’s uncle was a musician too) and asks if their parents’ jobs had anything to do with music. Jin answers that no, their father was a teacher and their mother was a caretaker. However, and this was a big surprise, their mother used to play the guitar and she was really damn good. The brother says she was able to do the three-finger roll technique.

So many things make so much sense now.

Jin says his brother was a drum player at first, then he took on the guitar. Then he got into songwriting, becoming more and more like Jin. Jin says he doesn’t want to “put on a big brother front” or anything, but they’re alike even in how bad they are with computers and didn’t know anything about VOCALOID. Jin says that’s just the expected since VOCALOID isn’t much of a thing in Tet’s generation, and that his brother is skilled at other things, like social media. He has also been doing live shows at concert houses and making a name for himself.

Tet mainly does vocals, and when he comments that his voice is lower than Jin’s, Jin asks the people in the comments to confirm it. The comments say that his voice is indeed lower, which Jin agrees with. Someone says Jin’s voice used to be a bit lower but got more high-pitched with time. Jin at first wonders if that’s really true and concludes it might be, maybe because he has gotten weaker. His brother says it’s probably because he has lost a lot of weight with the years. Other people say there isn’t much of a difference.

Tet wonders if they have a similar way of talking, to which Jin replies in a cute Hokkaido accent that of course they do, since they’re from the same place. Apparently, their speech mannerisms are taken after their mother. Jin starts imitating his mother’s way of talking when scolding them, which reminds the brothers of how she would let these two dangerous brats run rampant and do whatever they wanted.

One comment claims to have found Tet’s socials and is following him on Twitter. The brother is like, “Didn’t it change to X?” and Jin laughs at how weird it feels to call it “X”. The two of them don’t think it’s possible for someone to have found his socials media just from his artist name, and while Jin tells him to be careful of his private accounts, Tet says it’s definitely not him that the commenter is following. Someone comments that they sure get along well, which Jin is audibly embarrassed about as they try to figure out a way to get Tet’s socials on the map for everyone. Jin decides to retweet one of his brother’s tweets and asks everyone to follow him.

They go back to talking about Tet’s professional activities and Jin says he heard his brother playing recently. He thought it was really cool, which Tet thanks him for. Jin didn’t know his brother could play such emotional songs, because the image he has of him is from when he was “still being breastfed” and that time froze right there for him.

Some people comment that they are following Tet and Jin thanks them. The two then decide to sing something. Jin says that if the reactions are good, they will continue. If the reactions are bad, they’ll end the livestream right there and he will never call his brother again. He’ll also block his brother, whom he just followed, on Twitter. Of course, all of this is a joke.

Disaster Brothers have no idea what to play. While discussing, Jin realizes that his brother was always more into his generation’s music than what everyone else his age was listening to. Tet agrees and comments that when he’s at CD stores or music equipment shops, they’re often playing music that “Nii-chan used to listen to” in the background. Jin replies with a long “aaah, is that so” and they immediately start laughing at how he sounds like he’s suddenly lost interest in everything that exists. Tet says he sucks at conversations.

Jin says he’ll put up the music sheet on the screen but that they’ll play while looking at the comments. His brother responds with an “okay” and Jin starts laughing, saying he’s not talking to him but to the audience. His brother says he’s not used to this and asks what they should do about the balance of their sounds. Jin decides to test out stuff and someone comments that “it’s so new to see this side of Jin-san”. For the nth time, Jin is embarrassed as hell and says, “Well, I am indeed the older brother here!”

Jin remembers that, despite everything, he was always seen by everyone as the least big brother-like of his siblings. He recalls that his grandmother used to look out for his younger siblings to save them from him, and to tell everyone around them to help the younger siblings because “onii-chan is just impossible”.

The brothers decide to sing “Uroko”. Jin tests out his voice and it’s loud as heck. Tet sang the main parts and Jin did back vocals. They have pretty good chemistry when singing and playing together and by the time they finish, everyone is showering them with compliments. People are talking about Tet’s voice and Jin says he wishes he had been born with a husky voice like his. Tet says that he likes high-pitched voices that can do falsetto, so he wishes he had a voice like Jin’s. Tet then laughs at how the conversation is lagging, and Jin thinks he means the comments, but he meant that it’s lagging between the two of them. Unlike when they’re singing, they get out of sync when talking.

Jin was a little bit hesitant about whether or not to leave this livestream available on his channel, but ultimately decides do leave it, saying that they should make good memories out of it. The two decide to play “Algernon” by Yorushika. Jin fails a couple times testing out and they both laugh. This time they alternate and sing some parts together. Again, they do so well that they themselves are surprised. Some people in the comments say that the difference in their voices makes it all the better.

While discussing which song they should play next, Tet says that if they’re going to play something they don’t have to think too much about, then he’d go for “Headphone Actor”. Jin asks why and he says he just likes it. Jin asks what else Tet likes out of his songs, and he says “Summertime Record” and “Remind Blue”. Jin calls him an “emo-lover” because he likes the emotional types of songs. Tet replies that he also likes the happy ones, like “Ayano no Koufuku Riron” and “Kuusou Forest”.

Jin then begins to wonder which of his songs is his favorite, but believes he can’t pick one. He says it’s like a parent having a favorite child, which we know is bullshit since Haruka is admittedly his favorite character. The comments section starts to fill up with suggestions, and while reading them, Tet says that “Mermaid” is a lot like Jin, but the one he likes most is “Freaks”. Since they seemed to be getting nowhere, Jin asks everyone what song they would like to hear as a cover. This doesn’t help much, as they still take forever reading all the comments and deciding on which one to go with. While they are at it, someone from work contacts Jin, and while he is replying, he leaves Tet in charge.

Fujii Kaze is suggested in the comments and Jin reveals that “Fujii-san” had once covered one of his songs, but he couldn’t say which song it was. He had listened to the cover and says Fujii had turned it into “something utterly indescribable”. Tet says Fujii must’ve been really inspired by Jin, and Jin retorts, “No way; he must’ve forgotten about me at this point. To begin with, he’s in a completely different league.”

Finally, they decide to go for “Kaijuu no Hanauta”. Jin’s voice is hilariously thin when he’s tuning, and he comments that he always has to use such a wildly different tone when speaking normally, or else people don’t understand what he is saying. Tet reminds him that this is kind of a thing for both of them, and that they have always been misheard quite often when speaking. Jin recalls that whenever they went to eat out as a family, the servers would frequently mess up only his order. He admits that this is still going on even now. Although he seldom goes to drinking parties, in the rare times he does, the servers always bring the wrong drinks and appetizers.

This leads them to discussing the best ways of speaking so that other people will hear them clearly, and at some point, Jin says there is not much point in him being so clear, since he’s such an introvert. He then suddenly starts talking about how popular Tet has always been and how jealous he was of it. Tet keeps denying being that popular, but Jin ignores him and says there was a weird air about him, as in he was popular yet wasn’t a bad guy, which made Jin feel incredibly frustrated. Tet laughs at the comments calling Jin “petty”.

Jin sees a comment saying that people who sing are popular, and replies that this was one of the reasons why he learned how to sing and play guitar. He reveals that, at the time, he had heard that being able to play “Snow Smile” by Bump of Chicken was a definite way to become really popular. Without even questioning this information, he practiced the song so hard his fingers bled, but didn’t become popular in the end.

This poor, poor little dude.

Finally, at long damn last, the two brothers play the song. This is getting old but they kick it off the edge. Jin is still salty about how well their sounds match one another.

After some small talk about instruments and microphones, Jin announces that they’ll be playing Minecraft next time. They go back to the small talk and Tet casually comments that there is no Family Mart where they’re from. They decide that the next song they’ll be playing will be a song by Official Hige Dandism, which Jin refers to by the abbreviation “Ohidan”. Tet makes fun of his pronunciation, as it sounds like “oh-fee-dun”, as if he bit is tongue or something.

The last song they play is “Shukumei”, which Jin had decided on without discussing first and without asking the audience. He simply plays out a little bit of the melody and tells the people in the comments to guess what song it is. Someone guesses it right and they start playing. This one was just a part of the song, not the whole thing, but was equally as good. After talking some more, Jin plays a little bit more of the song by himself and is thoroughly unsatisfied at how it turns out in his voice alone, despite the comments saying it sounds cool.

The livestream starts coming to a close when Tet thanks Jin for having him over and announces to everyone that he’ll be uploading more songs and song covers, and hopes that people would listen. He revers to covers with the very nostalgic term “utattemita”, at which Jin laughs at and says, “Not a hint of youth in you. Don’t you mean you’ll be uploading ‘cover videos’?”

Someone in the comments asks about Inpine, and Jin says that, since Inpine has been his friend since grade school, he obviously knows Tet. In fact, Tet had recently met with Inpine and Jin recalls how surprised Inpine was at how much Tet had grown, as well as his enthusiasm at seeing Tet again. Jin says he wants to have Inpine over for livestreams again, but he’s apparently very busy. He wonders if they should make him sing and Tet says he really wants to hear that.

Jin decides to end the livestream there as they have been doing it for almost an hour and a half. They comment on how nice this way of finishing it was, say their goodbyes to the audience and the screen goes black.

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