It seems as though the nicovideo post of this "special-edition" PV has been removed. Though ikka didn't really find it all that funny, it was kind of, um...interesting, in a somewhat odd way. And it had the lyrics, too. Pity.

Good thing for screencaps eh.

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Actually, this would be so much more suitable with the Trickster PV, and maybe funnier. Those who've seen that will know where I'm coming from.

Didn't really like DISCOTHEQUE at first, but was won over by the PV (that's what I'd like to think, anyway, rather than attribute it all to the song's denpa-ness). It's just...really cool. Very watchable.

Next post will be earliest next Tuesday night/Wednesday, due to end-year papers and such.

DAS FEEN REICH! DAS FEEN REICH! DAS FEEN REICH! *loop*


Okay, now that my proclamation as a shinmin (臣民) has been made...time to talk a bit about the PV. Unlike the Schwarzer Sarg post some time ago, this post will have no pictures beside the one up there as Youtube's picture quality is you-know-what and no DVD rips are floating around yet. (sorry Tachibana-san!)

Been trying since the single's release to find the audio tracks online, but to no avail. Schwarzer Sarg was leaked even before it hit the streets, too...oh the unfairness! Even if I could buy the CD off Yesasia or wherever, there's no means to play it with, too...due to the dead optical drive...>_<

Public holidays are good. Just saw the PV on nico (in HQ sound quality too, yay). Here is some random (no particular order):

1) ikka still doesn't know if the tattoo on YUI's left arm is real or cosmetic, despite having seen it so many times...if it's a real piercing, her irl alter ego would get busted quickly if people saw it on her, I reckon

2) There were some commenters on nico talking about YUI's age...never mind, I'll just go with her claim of being over 300 years old...who cares if she's 3-x- already.

3) The PV opened with a distorted version of some lines from the last Hades track, Hades: The rise that was on metanoia. Listening to it through the static, beeps and whatnot doesn't tell me what the exact lines are, though they might be the same as those that followed immediately after, that is to say -
"罪と罰の支配裁く革命
生に背く魅惑苦楽悪性
苛烈　破滅　破裂　ハデス覚醒
罪裁く刺客九の惑星"
- which were done in a different way from the The rise version but equally enjoyable.

4) I apply double standards. A couple days ago ikka was making noise about Mizuki Nana and one of her costumes in Live Fighter...but there's two guys in this PV wearing outfits suspiciously similar to the same kind of thing. This is because the images being portrayed by these different set of musicians are totally unalike, so I'm alright with those two guys...

off-topic: Arika-san of alipro donned a military getup for Boukoku Kakusei Catharsis' PV, too. Same thing about their image.

5) YUI should do something about her English...or rather Engrish...the first time I watched the PV, the comments were turned off, so I didn't see the accompanying lyrics and only caught the "Hades: The Bloody Rage!" at the end. No, actually that's not totally true. I only caught the words "bloody rage".

The cries of "HADES!" (um, hah-daze...same difference) at points in the PV should have alerted me, really. Maybe ikka's ears are just obtuse to the Yousei Teikoku brand of Eng(r)lish, there was a time when the "I am a martyr. I am a believer. And I just believe the fairy" bits in Patriot Anthem didn't form comprehensible words when they registered in my ears/head =_=|||

6) Tachibana-san's armband, which carried the symbol of the Reich (I think. The camera never stopped on it), kept reminding me of Suzumiya Haruhi's Danchou Armband (tm). Unintendedly funny wwwwwwww

7) More on clothes: YUI'S LEGS WAHAHAHAHAH *insane*...if ikka was a legs person, the keyboard would be swamped by drool.

8) Just about every time the word "mune" was used, YUI's hands, in her fit of passion, were trailing near her chest. Her rather flat chest...rofl
Doesn't change the fact that YUI is tha hawtness, flat chest or no. Dang that fairy and her ero skillz...

9) I think the i/c over at Lantis realized that Tachibana-san's guitar magic actually makes quite good footage. That would explain his increased airtime in the PV...or maybe it's just me and his airtime is the same?

Innocent-looking it starts out. Don't be fooled by the rose...or is it a carnation? Not really able to tell...




Haven't listened to Wisdom yet, and am still having difficulty grasping the chanting despite it being repeated so much. "Wisdom...holy..." something...ikka reckons. The sudden shift to engineered ("unnatural") vocals somewhere in the middle was a pleasant surprise however, probably because there was a scene shift at (almost?) the same instant.

This probably isn't going to go on my carry-around playlist, but is quite a nice song imo, the production was good methinks. They managed to make it so that YUI doesn't make the deep breathing in she seems prone to do so obvious...GJ, whoever it was. 

I'm sorry...but it really does look like a black imitation of the Schwertkreuz *rofl*

See?



(from StrikerS OP1 DVDrip)

Someday ikka may try translating Zankou no Gaia. It's a good song by the music itself, a great song with Mizuki Nana's vocals, and a GODLY song because of the amazing Engrish. "I swears" indeed. xDDD

And yes, this isn't exactly a new song (Starcamp EP! xD), ikka just came across the PV only now.