#virtual witch phenomenon

[faun-buns]

tell me god why do you have the same face as everyone else

[lachatalovematcha]

[aryshacore]

V.W.P - The Metamorphosis

[tomedonaki-hakujou]

Kamitsubaki City Under Construction: "Ensemble" and "Regenerate" (and "Regenerate Virtual Reality") are coming soon -- and will be in English!!! (AKA: my "PLEASE PLAY KAMICITY" shill post)

What is Kamitsubaki City and Virtual Witch Phenomenon?

A thread for newcomers to Kamitsubaki, in light of the 3 new games upcoming! This is the oversea's first look at Kamitsubaki's stories and creative worlds. (Slightly edited mirror of my thread on Twitter!!)

Kamitsubaki Studio is a Japanese creative music group. They're most known for their music group Virtual Witch Phenomenon -- comprising of their 5 main virtual singer talents: Kaf, Rim, Harusaruhi, Isekaijoucho, and Koko.

Kamitsubaki City Under Construction (henceforth referred to as simply KamiCity) is a series of games that tells the story of a mysterious city in the virtual world that constantly self-destructs and reforms. The members of VWP are characters in KamiCity, and have different names.

ALSO SUBSCRIBE TO VWP!!!! and the individual members too!! They all have such unique and stunning voices, and such beautiful songs too!!! They each have their own style that's drawn their own individual fanbases but they unite so beautifully and melodiously as VWP...

Kaf - Morisaki Kafu

Rim - Tanioki Rime

Harusaruhi - Asanushi Haru

Isekaijoucho - Yorukawa Sekai

Koko - Rinne Koko

The five girls were brought to KamiCity from the real world into the virtual world, as the mystical "witches" who could sing to save them from the apocalypse.

KamiCity as a game series started with KamiCity Emergence, a limited-run mobile game in 2021 in which players solved word puzzles known as "Q's." And then KamiCity Narrative released earlier this year (2023), a VN/TTRPG-style game. Both are Japanese exclusive, though.

KamiCity Ensemble, Regenerate, and Regenerate Virtual Reality are the three new games here.

KamiCity Ensemble is a rhythm game for mobile and Steam. The key visual focuses on the Isotope versions of VWP -- you may know the CeVIO Kafu as one of them.

The isotopes/CeVIOs (now SynthV and VOICEPEAK too) are Kafu, Sekai, Rime, Coko, and Haru. Before now, the Isotopes have had very few involvement or connection with KamiCity, with only Kafu appearing in the "Emergence" soundtrack (NOT the story.) What their connection is to the Witches and KamiCity in-lore is still unknown, which is super interesting!

KamiCity Regenerate is a visual novel for Steam and Switch, seeming to focus on the story of KamiCity in full detail.

In Emergence and Narrative, the story was only in bits and pieces. Regenerate (and Ensemble) is also a huge deal because they're in English too!

The VR version seems to be roughly the same, although having exclusive 3D visuals. It's also undetermined at this point what platform it will be on.

Kamitsubaki Studio has repeatedly blown me away by their music and intrigued me by their world of KamiCity (which is also featured in their music videos) so I'm so excited to see it in full!! PLAY KAMICITY PLEAAAASEEEE!!!!!!!!! and listen to their music/watch the music videos IT'S SO GOOD!!!!!

[synthvnews]

COKO has been announced for VOICEPEAK, talk engine by SynthV developers! 🎉

Prepare for her release in January 2024 - preorders start this November.

[zephyr-paladyn]

art of isekaijoucho i commissioned from notCy4N!

[higumii1]

花畑

[tomeiame]

【歌ってみた】死ぬのがいいわ / covered by ヰ世界情緒

[kafus]

alright that's it VWP is dead no more music everyone go home

[remtan]

to want for something or to strive for something with someone or with a group of people might be the most beautiful thing ever. its not just the idea of genuine human connection, but it’s also the idea of humans grasping for something in order to cope with their doomed and mortal lives

it’s part of why i like kamitsubaki so much 😭 in kamitsubaki’s virtual singer groups, these ideas show up in several songs but also kamitsubaki themselves are a group of people striving towards their own ideology. (mostly piedpiper’s ideology but i’m guessing the others have some understanding of it at least)

like, theres albemuth, who are exploring the new world they’ve created with the combination of the two of them, who both have such strikingly different personalities. or how vwp sing together to save people one song at a time, both in the irl sense and in the lore sense. there’s also valis, who have shaken off their frustrated past to be reborn anew and to innovate the virtual singer scene by performing in both virtual and origin forms. all 3 of these groups have such genuine relationships formed within them, and despite conflicts that might happen in their personal lives they’re striving to further their careers and achieve goals.

but also, i think it’s worth pointing out how the kamitsubaki illustrators and artists and producers all have different backgrounds and different genres to their art but they’ve come together to create the passion project that is kamitsubaki. i can’t talk enough about how special kamitsubaki are and everything they strive to create. and what they create is not just full of passion but it’s also innovative and never seen before!

i like kamitsubaki too much

[xielexalt]

phony - KOKO (Band Ver)

[lachatalovematcha]

( ╹◡╹)っー’･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･* ξ(╹-╹｡ζ｡ﾟ✶ฺ.ヽ(*´∀`*)ﾉ.✶ฺﾟ｡

[aryshacore]

V.W.P - Cyberbrains

[tomedonaki-hakujou]

COMPARISON OF SYNTHV VS CEVIO KAFU

(FROM THE VERY LITTLE SCRAPS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW LOL)

turn up your volume!

from this trailer -- the difference is EXTREMELY subtle but i'm pretty sure it's there!!

and for good measure, here's one with a high-pass filter:

my analysis on this under the cut!

both synthV AI and cevio AI are, at their core, AI singing software, that means they'll have similarities in how they process voices -- we just don't have a fair means of comparing them until now with kafu!

because the tuners of SV kafu were close to the originals, it makes it even harder to tell the difference, but when i heard marshall maximizer i was absolutely certain this was SV kafu we're hearing. there's a certain clarity to SV kafu's voice that cevio kafu doesn't have -- instead, she has a bit more of the "engine noise" -- or to put it simply, roughness. i always felt like part of marshall maximizer's charm or sound signature was taking advantage of kafu's engine noise and being a bit "hard to hear" the lyrics -- which became almost totally absent in the clarity of the SV version.

another tell-tale sign of this is listening for the breaths; in "phony" SV kafu doesn't breathe as much on "nazo nazo" while cevio kafu does! this is because of cevio's auto-breaths versus SV's manual breaths. cevio breaths are more sharp, while SV breaths are more subtle/light/shallow. her releases on the "nazo nazo" are quite different.

i'm also pretty sure on "jealousies" the tuning is just straight up different? there's a vibrato/waver on "jera jera" on the original that isn't present in the SV version. cause why would they tune an entirely different cevio version for the synthV trailer if this wasn't the synthV voicebank.

for "cute girlfriend" i can't hear as much differences. it's definitely up to how well you can hear a synthV versus a cevio voice. or maybe this highlights how despite the differences in the engines, AI processing is still AI processing -- it's just how kaf's voice interacts with an AI. kaf's voice, in general, has a certain trait that i think is a bit more amplified with the cevio processing, but that trait is still audibly present in the synthV processing since it's an innate part of her voice.

i've always felt a bit vindicated? or alone? in being able to tell vocalsynth voices apart, but it IS one of my specialties to be able to pick out what makes certain voices distinct from others, and to be able to pick up on those subtleties -- once you're aware of those subtleties, it sounds all the more obvious what the differences is. it's easier to tell the difference between two entirely different vocalists, like kafu and rime, or sasara and futaba minato (despite the horde of people who say they sound "exactly" alike) -- but it's a bit more of a challenge to tell the difference between the same vocalist, just on different softwares; and especially if they're making such an effort to preserve the same or similar charms of the original cevio kafu onto SV. this also proves to me that the main charm of kafu isn't quite the engine noise, it's the formant-shifted vocal and the AI processing of kaf's voice. even in synthV, as realistic as it is, it's still AI processing, it's not perfectly 1:1 with real voices.

of course we're inevitably gonna get (especially overseas users) kafu SV works that take advantage of the "gender" parameter and tuning to make her sound more like kaf, but the fact the official kamitsubaki team is placing an emphasis on keeping her close to cevio kafu is a huge win in my book.

then again maybe i'm just stupid again and all of this writing was for naught... who knows, that's probably the case since i'm almost the only one who can hear these kinds of things, so it makes me doubt myself if i live in reality ;;

[startwinklemashup]

34. Star Twinkle Precure ED 3 x Kurayami (Virtual Witch Phenomenon)

[noir-wanderer]

Rinne —Reincarnation— (acoustic ver.)

― V.W.P. | Virtual Witch Phenomenon

神様のつもりか？ 天罰のつもりか？ 言いなりになんてなるか

変わりゆく未来と 変わらない仲間と どうにもうまくいかない交差する思考

フラッシュバックする絶望 繰り返すままじゃいられない

一度捨てたもの 全て取り戻すためにここに来�� 守りたいものばかりだ 全て失ってたまるか この熱が霞(かすみ)に消える前に 希望論は輪廻する

目を覚ませばそこは 同じような世界 膝が震えている

退場は許されない 目の前に広がる ボロボロに朽ちた世界

フラッシュバックする意向 人類は立ち止まる 絶望が腹を鳴らす

一度捨てたもの 全て取り戻すためにここに来た 二度と失ってたまるか 怒りで身を焦がしてきた 哀れだって思わないでくれ 希望論を繰り返せ

さよならはいい飽きた 繰り返すなら何度でも 立ち向かうさ

あの日こぼれ落ちたものを 取り戻すためにここに来た 魂は着飾らないもう どこにも逃げやしない わからずやだと馬鹿にしてくれ それでも希望を信じている

輪廻するなら何度でも 未来を　掴み取れ

(translation by isora)

You think you’re a god? Is this a divine punishment? I’m not at your mercy

A future that will change And friends that won’t Intersecting thoughts that never go well

Flashbacks of despair I can’t keep reliving this

Everything I once threw away I came here to get it back I want to protect it all And lose nothing Before this fever fades into the haze Theories of hope are reborn

When I open my eyes To find myself in a similar world My knees are shaking

Escape is not an option A crumbling world lies before me

Flashbacks of intention Humanity comes to a standstill Despair rumbles from within

Everything I once threw away I came here to get it back I can’t lose it all again I’ve been burning with rage Don’t feel pity for me Theories of hope on repeat

I’m tired of saying goodbye If I have face it again, I will

Things I’ve lost that day I came here to get them back The soul is undressed There’s nowhere left to run Call me a fool for my ignorance But I still believe in hope

If I’m reborn again and again I’ll seize the future

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