#daitokai

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Daitokai ni Hoero Artist: Kusunoki Kei Publication: ‘Crime City’ All Color Comics (08/1995) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[confused-little-cat]

SUPER SUPER EXPRESS EXPLOSION SUPER SUPER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

ゴー・トゥ・大都会 [Go To Daitokai]* • 砂糖じかけの電影街 [Satou Zikake no Den'eigai] • ゴー・トゥ・大都会 -Instrumental- [Go To Daitokai -Instrumental-] • 砂糖じかけの電影街 -Instrumental- [Satou Zikake no Den'eigai -Instrumental-]

*Submitter's Note: Go to Daitokai contains very explicit and sexual lyrics. The lyrics are based off a real life person, but I don't want to give away the username or real name because…it's kind of a disgusting story, both in terms of how the guy acted online and how the Japanese internet made fun of him. I'm talking Kiwifarm levels of sad and nauseating here.

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[merakiui]

AAAAAAAA 'GO TO DAITOKAI' IS SUCH A BANGER SONG!!! By any chance, have you seen this Floyd/Prefect video with the same song 👀👀👀

👀 hehehe I have indeed seen that video!!!! It's so good and 'go to daitokai' is very banger!!!! >w<

Alongside that, here are a few Floyd utau covers and videos that I especially enjoy!!!

✧ cute na kanojo

✧ tensai rock

✧ king (featuring jade hehe)

✧ mafia

✧ 16 shots

✧ yandere-chan no dokusen'yoku ga tsuyosugiru mitai

✧ otome kaibou

✧ god-ish

[canonicallyanxious]

Favorite 2024 Song Finds

As per tradition these are not all released in 2024; basically though this list is for jams i listened to for the first time this year and became obsessed with

Every year i make what i call a "365 playlist" (366 for 2024, since it was a leap year) which started as a playlist i added a song a day to but nowadays functions more as a yearly snapshot in playlist form of the music i listened to and vibed with in a year. i've made one every year since 2019 and it's one of my favorite personal traditions. the one i made for 2024 can be found here (note that the year is not yet over so i'm still fine tuning, i will eventually have this pruned down to 366 songs)

Full list and notes/ramblings under the cut:

10. Walk Through Fire - Yannis & The Yaw (2024)

9. All the time / Tout le temps - The Knocks, Yelle (2024)

8. Even When The Water's Cold - !!! (2013)

7. Garden of Eden - Rachel Chinouriri (2024)

6. synthesizer - DE'WAYNE (2024) / deeply treasured rec from @parkshuppy, who introduced this song to me as "the trans anthem i heard on the radio" (also the video serves absolute cunt, i just need it to be said)

5. Steady Waves - Cross Record (2016)

4. CHIHIRO - Billie Eilish (2024) / some might be surprised this made it onto the list rather than the absolutely iconic gen z queer anthem of the ages LUNCH but this is hands down my favorite song off of an album i absolutely adore, finneas went off with that production and i can't get enough of it even now

3. Get High - Herizen (2018) / that drop in the chorus changed my whole life

2. On My Mama - Victoria Monet (2023) / at the beginning of the year when i was struggling the most with Mysterious Chronic Illness That Still Has No Name my therapist suggested i make a playlist as a low pressure way to express my feelings about it. i liked this idea so much i made 3, one of which was a playlist meant to hype myself up when i needed the confidence/energy boost, and i put this song at the very top of that list. so that probably explains why this is my most played song of the year. you can listen to the full playlist here if you want

1. Kororon - Eve (2022) / actually though i'm really genuinely surprised this song did not take the top spot on my spotify wrapped considering every time it came on this year i did put it on repeat at least 4 or 5 times but it is number one on the only list that matters so there. The music video is really wonderful, highly recommend checking it out if you like quality animation and sapphic undertones

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Featuring: a selection of catchy and upbeat vocaloid songs with unhinged lyrics (presented in order of more or less increasing unhingedery; i feel it would only be responsible to include a warning for go to daitokai for, shall we say, incredibly sexually explicit lyrics), and Kesha

Joyride - Kesha / song of the summer, i'm lowkey devastated it never became the giant hit it deserved to be

All I Need Are Things I Like - PinnochioP / i am a hatsune miku stan now what can i say

Dappou Rock - Neru / i have only one word to describe the music video for this song, and that is "bonkers"

ゴー・トゥ・大都会 [Go To Daitokai] - ニャン・トンロン [Niang Donglong] / and yet this is such a fucking bop i have it on all my playlists and i'm not even a little bit sorry

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June 2024 Vocaloid Song Tournament

Round 1, Set 1, Match 1: Go to Daitokai by Niang Donglong vs. Circles by KIRA

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

[apollotronica]

one of my favorite vocaloid songs that Perfectly encapsules the experience of "Happy fun beat and melody, most SHOCKING lyrics u would never expect" is go to daitokai

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Daitokai ni Hoero Artist: Kusunoki Kei Publication: ‘Crime City’ All Color Comics (08/1995) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[salami-dono]

Sonic occupies my mind, so when I hear the trumpet in the theme song of Daitokai Part III, it makes me think of Marble Zone... (:20)

I've found some amazing tunes on my quest for the ultimate Dr. Jester playlist. I wish he was in a 70s action star. 😞

Here's another song that sounds like it came from an old TV show, Persistent Robot.

[cdbrainrecords]

クリスタルキング* - 大都会 (7", Single)

Vinyl(VG+) Picture Cover(VG+) / コンディション　盤 : Very Good Plus (VG+) コンディション　ジャケット : Very Good Plus (VG+) コンディションの表記について　  [ M > M- > VG+ > VG > G+ > G > F > P ] レーベル : Aard-Vark – V-51 フォーマット : Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single, Stereo 生産国 : Japan 発売年 : 21 Nov 1979 Debut single. A: Daitokai B: Jiryū ジャンル : Rock, Pop スタイル :    収録曲 :  A. 大都会 4:53B. 時流 4:52   Photography By – 小森修Producer – Yamaha Music…

[milfspiggy]

this specific teto cover of go to daitokai

ok but what are your actual thoughts on Mesmerizer by 32ki featuring hatsune miku and kasane teto

It's good! The music video is absolutely choice and the song by itself is tight but just not my fave personally -- I can see it being somebody's fave for sure, and can see why people love it. 👍

My favorite is another Kasane Teto joint, Fukkireta. (WARNING: LOUD LMAO)

I also really love this one.

But overall I don't know a whole lot of Vocaloid stuff, especially recently, so if y'all have any recommendations that have the energy of one of those above, I'd love to hear them.

BE MY PANDORA.

[doyoulikethis-vocaloid-song]

What song did you personally like the best out of this round? Did a song make an impact right away or did it require the full version? Did the artist reveal change your opinion of the song itself for better or for worse?

(note: this is not a popularity contest or to vote for a favourite artist out of loyalty 💖 it’s still about the song.)

[merakiui]

WAAA MERA I LOVE MONOPS'S REFLECTION SO MUCHHHH

im obsessed with the way you portrayed jade in the story. like its not everyday that i get to see him written in a way that totally doesnt hide his insanity at all. reading monops's reflection was just so <33 aaa tysm for writing smth so amazing!!!

you mentioned before that monops!jade is very "rotten girl grotesque romance", and i totally agree, but i was actually reminded of another old yandere vocaloid song when i read the fic! idk if you know it, but its called "pure love restraint". its a really good song hehe, you should totally check it out if you dont already know it!

oh also speaking of songs, i recently started listening to loveit? by biz since you mentioned it a while ago, and i love the song so much >< do you happen to have any other song recommendations because clearly you have great taste in music~

also as a final note, i cant wait for tmdg hehe 👉👈

-kanata <3

AAAAA THANK YOU!!!!! >w< I'm so happy you enjoyed Monops's Reflection!!!! Jade is so wildly deranged in that fic. He truly is the embodiment of the harsh, brutal depths he hails from. ;;;; seeing Reader in the storage closet with Floyd pushed him over the edge he'd been teetering on for so long now. T^T he's far surpassed the point of no return. I had so much fun finishing this fic and portraying Jade in such a terrifying manner. And poor Reader had no idea what hid behind that seemingly pleasant smile of his until it was too late...

There are so many layers to Monops!Jade. How he gets so disgusted at the sight and thought of you with anyone else. How it's not really sexual gratification he's after; he's just chasing some thrill he's yet to figure out in its entirety, which is why he doesn't touch you at all during the non-con scene. Because it's not your pleasure he cares about; he could care less whether you feel good or not. How his sanity is so thin and threadbare that it's hardly there at all. How he fails to recognize that, despite the similarities he shares with Floyd, he's still his own person, still different, but not different enough for you to look his way, apparently. And then there's the meaning of Monops, which is a "one-eyed creature." >:D aaaaa he's truly the worst.

OOOOO "true love restraint"!!!!!!! I love that song!!! That song definitely has the vibes that Monops!Jade exudes!! And I'm happy you enjoyed listening to "loveit." :D it's a very good song, but then all of biz's songs are amazing!!!

>:) I always have song recommendations to share!! I'll list a few of my favorite (lesser known) Vocaloid songs with dark undertones/stories below, but if there's any specific genre you'd like recs for please let me know!!!

✧ insanity blue (all of kashii moimi's songs are fantastic!!! i recommend them, but this one is my all-time favorite hehe)

✧ wolfism (there's also a jade utau cover of this song. <3 both are very good.)

✧ go to daitokai (the lyrics for this one are very nsfw, but this song is very catchy.)

✧ biohazard (the original is very good, but i love the sonika cover so much!!)

✧ distortion love (this piko cover is everything. <3)

✧ ◇◇ (i love this song and the songs that are similar to [redacted]'s style. i'm not sure if you know of these style of utau songs (the "no title" songs), but in 2020 they became especially popular and a lot of people online began to call it a secret cult of sorts, where you couldn't search these videos normally because they didn't have a title to search for, so instead the videos would find you.)

✧ lamprey hole (i love this song forever!!!!!)

✧ meiro (it's so so good!!!)

✧ no title (this song is a banger!!!!!!!!! it got me through quarantine as did all the other no title songs and tributes. :D)

I will stop here or else the list will go on endlessly, but if you ever wish to hear new music I will be happy to share some recommendations!!! Also, thank you for looking forward to tmdg!!!!! <3 it grows closer to completion with every passing day!!!!

[okayto]

Mini-Review: The Great Passage

Araki, a veteran editor for the dictionary department at the Genbu Shobō publishing company, is looking for a successor now that he's approaching retirement age. When a chance meeting between one of Araki's employees with an odd salesman reveals that the newcomer, despite his poor social skills and inability to read the mood, excels at considering words and vocabulary, they recruit him. As the man accepts his new position, he finds himself unsure of his abilities and questioning whether he will fit in with his new co-workers. Yet amid the vast sea of words, the burgeoning dictionary will become a ship that keeps them afloat.

I'm not saying that the perfect audience for this is people who follow the Merriam-Webster Dictionary's clever humor on social media, and whose currently-reading list includes dictionary editor Kory Stamper's humorous Word by Word, but I AM saying that 1) that's me, and 2) this was fun.

To start, this is an adult workplace story. "Adult" in the sense of "literally everyone here has been in the workforce for at least a few years," and its content is all safe for work (/safe for parents/etc.). It is deliberately-paced, much like the process of the characters creating their new dictionary, named Daitokai.

(As an aside: I was intrigued that they frequently reference dictionaries who generally have what seem to be names, and I went down a brief Wikipedia hole reading about some of the ones mentioned, like the highly-respected Kojien ["Wide Garden of Words"], currently on its 7th edition. Some Japanese dictionaries seem to get nice names, as compared to the "name of person /people/group involved with making it" that seems to be more common in English dictionaries, like Merriam-Webster, Macmillan Dictionary, and the Oxford Dictionary of English.)

(Anyway, I don't have the cultural background to understand what affects different titling practices, but the Wikipedia page for "Japanese Dictionary" is pretty interesting.)

This is a low-key tale of someone discovering a work passion, and also of what it's like being the department in a company that isn't exciting, sexy, or super-profitable, and whose output requires a good amount of time that's hard to speed up (fellow library workers might feel some kinship here in the "not seen as a money-maker or important" aspect). The small but close-knit group of workers feel strongly that the dictionary is important and will have a use, standing out from other dictionaries on the market, but until it exists in a form that can be sold or at least pre-ordered, the business suits just see them as a time- and money-suck.

The main character is Majime, an awkward and often-socially-oblivious man who is absolutely not cut out for the sales job he found himself in. But his earnest, serious demeanor and careful consideration is perfect for detailed dictionary work.

He finds his work counterpart in Nishioka, an outgoing, charming man who's good with people. The two start off awkwardly, but they complement each other's abilities well, forming a work partnership that lasts over a decade.

Overall, this is different from my normal fare of fast-paced, comedy- and/or action-filled anime, but this story draws you in so gently you barely realize when you begin enjoying yourself, until it's time to stop watching for the night...at which point I was surprised by how much I needed to keep following their ongoing dictionary work, or find out whether X business decision ever came to pass, or what happened to the character who wanted to retire.

Verdict

English dub? No

Visuals: Nice, yet understated. It's a story based in reality, in the sense that it's not fantasy or over-the-top, and that's reflected in character designs. Backgrounds are detailed, and close-ups of character flipping through pages are lush.

Worth watching? Yes. There is a simple, pleasant story here: following Majime from a job he is ill-suited for to a new opportunity where he eventually feels like he's found what he is meant to do; at the same time, seeing how that growth and maturity also occurs in his personal life, and how his coworkers also settle and/or change in the decade that this series spans.

Where to watch (USA, as of September 2023): Prime Video

Click my “reviews” tag below or search “mini review” on my blog to find more!

[mikonoe]

hihii i was tagged by @rainbowghostcat !

my 13 songs except im too lazy to link them:

1. Solar System Disco by NayutalieN

2. A Little Servant by Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra

3. Witch’s Invitation by Mili

4. Jiangshi by LadyMonsters.

5. Baka ni natte by surii

6. Go to Daitokai by Tsukiri and Niang Donglong

7. Trancy by BizxZERA ft. suisoh

8. Triage by MILGRAM Shidou

9. Black Sorrow by Park Byeong Hoon for Alien Stage

10. Filament fever by Yuri Kamiyama

11. GIRI-GIRI borderless world by LizNoir

12. aiju by ayim

13. Ready As I’ll Ever Be from Tangled the Series

just gonna tag @sebastuyork cuz im too afraid to tag anyone else,,,

Was tagged by @humanaaa to make a list of 13 songs I've been listening to lately!!

Haven't listened to many different songs lately (currently my main playlist is a Disorganized Hell), but these are the ones that I've been listening to the most:

Deep Cover - Milgram

Chimera - Deco27 (MegaTeraZero Cover)

Bug - KairikiBear (Chogakusei Cover)

Zombies - Deco*27 (Giga Remix, Chogakusei Cover)

This Is How To Be In Love With You - Milgram

Overdose - natori

Turing Love - NanawoAkari & Sou

Dramaturgy - Eve

PLATONIC GIRL - MikitoP (Amatsuki & luz Cover)

Double - Milgram

Say It - Yorushika

Aesthetic Sense - wanuka

Conveying Love Or Something Like That - aimyon

(Of course Deep Cover would get first place JKSKDBKSDF!! Been hearing it non-stop since it released. Like, go seigi girl!! Banger!!)

Besides that I've been hearing mostly songs from Milgram, Deco*27 (he can't stop releasing banger after banger❗❗), and some other vocaloid producer songs. Tho I usually prefer to listen to human covers (sorry Hatsune Miku i hope you can forgive me 🙏)

I'll tag @tokyogruel @good-beans @cubelogic @nilovalentine @mukuberry and @rainbowghostcat!! As always, no pressure tags, and anyone else can join :3