Amane Kanata “Song of the beginning towards the end” Reaction + Analysis [CC] | Request
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- My late reply to a Random Stranger. It’s been a good while since I’ve heard such a beautiful song, especially one that’s just voice + piano… All hail sweet angel gorilla and their yakuza dragon wife. Thank you for pointing me to this.
0:00 - Context
6:18 - Reaction
10:49 - Piano analysis
Music: Amane Kanata, Song of the beginning towards the end • 終わりへ向かう始まりの歌 天音かなた(cover)
Thumbnail image: Ancy / hibarigm21
Sheet music uploaded here: drive.google.com/file/d/1k5zi...
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I know i'm late to this, but one important information i didn't see mentioned. Kanata has a condition where she is slowly losing her hearing and she actually had to take time off last year to re-adjust/re-learn to how to sing after she went completely deaf in 1 ear. She joined hololive to try being a singer/idol 1 last time before her time runs out.
Going through these comments again and caught this.. thank you for letting me know. It adds so much context and great respect to Kanata for her perseverance. Can't wait to dig more into her music!
I never knew this.. I really appreciate kanata more after seeing this
One of the reasons why she is called PPT.
*Perfect Pitched Tenshi*
It started because of the power point angel, then changed to a lot other things.
Perfect Pitch Tenshi
Powerful Primate Tenshi
Proud Parent Tenshi (Ark stream)
Peachy Percusión Tenshi (ASMR stream with Coco)
Perpetually Panicked Tenshi
Proficient Producer Tenshi
Pettanko Pettanko Tenshi
power point tenshi
The video for this song was premiered directly after Coco's last stream. Kanata not only made this cover song but also composed and wrote the lyrics for an original song for her group in the weeks leading up to this.
I'd say Kanata is one of the best singers in Hololive and definitely one with the biggest vocal range.
The nickname gorilla comes from her 50 kg grip strength - something that Coco regularly utilities by letting her open chars
She composes her own music too? Damn.
Okay so average grip strength for a girl early/mid 20s (?) is 20-25kg.. I'm starting to get the gorilla ref.
You could say she was a Proficient Producer Tenshi during that time
@@ravenclawreacts Hololive helps their talents make original music.
I recommend the song "Kiseki Knot" if you haven't listened to it yet.
It's a full original song specifically for Coco's graduation.
All the singers in the song are her "gen-mates", vtubers who started out together with her basically in the same week. All under hololive
@@ravenclawreacts Kanata is also partially deaf*
Found this channel because of this song
It's still hurt remembering the day that Coco announced that she's leaving
Really this community led me to know more wholesome people like you
Welcome to the channel, mate :) Glad you found us.
Coco will always be remembered. Kanata talks about her sometimes.
She seems to be doing fine.
Oh boy, I have a very big number of video to recover, but, to add some info:
* Yup, Kanata and Coco live together. They are friends from before joining hololive. There aren't an exception, other friends joined hololive together (Korone/Okayu and Fubuki/Mio are two well know).
* The "gorilla" for Kanata is a meme born from the fact that she IRL is very strong, with a very high grip power compared to the average japanese girl (for what is know, she grow up in a rural zone).
* The song as english CC, and the lyric hits hard knowing the context.
* Kanata was playing the piano, and has released it on the day of Coco's retiring/"graduation".
* Coco's retiring was after another big hurting moment for Kanata (but more a weeb one, her favorite idol/singer marriage).
* Kanata has basically taken care of Coco's fans for a good week after. She has basically worked double the normal the month of Coco's retire day, including writing a full song for Coco graduation/retiring stream in less than 1 month.
* In general, Kanata's life story is an interesting story itself. She is a very talented singer, but has an health condition that block her from being a full-time singer, in the start of her vtuber career she wasn't singing since two years, and restarted singing only after a good push from hololive management and Coco itself.
I checked out the lyrics, and can only imagine how much harder it hits knowing the whole backstory. Kanata sounds like an amazingly hardworking, musically talented and kind soul! Definitely keen to find out more about her. It's kinda fascinating that they mix their IRLs and online personas so much like this.
I don't think they were friends from before hololive. Coco lived alone, and only after both met in hololive did they move in together.
Ok, this was unexpected, careful with this particular rabbit hole, it's nigh impossible to crawl out of. Kaigai nikis assemble!
The whole 'gorilla' bit is referencing Kanata's 50kg IRL grip strength and is kind of a running joke at this point. The thing that I'm always impressed by Hololive's songs is that they're singing in-character. I can't sing to save my life with my own voice, so singing _while_ doing another voice seems pretty ridiculous.
So I finally got around to typing 'kanata gorilla' into search and lmao I love her. Her speaking voice is cute too, but mostly she just seems like a really fun, positive person.
I'm also super impressed with anyone who can sing in character. Thought it might've been a crazy unique talent of Yui/Toyosaki from K-On! but apparently not..
An acquaintance brought up the fact that you'd probably like Kanata's singing from her most recent 3D live concert, especially her rendition of "Unravel". Gonna cross fingers and hope lol
Hololive Productions was on uncharted waters back then when dealing with recruiting, training, and debuting their talents: the earlier generations were, in effect, individually trained and then let out to the world and had little personal connections. Things changed for Gen 3 (AKA Fantasy) where the talents were given time to interact with each other to develop a family bond, and this bond was at its strongest in Gen 4, consisting of Kanata, Coco, Watame, Towa, and Luna: when Coco announced her retirement the most heartbroken ones were her gen-mates. Watame also did a emotional song thanking her gen-mates and as a tribute to Coco, called "Melody For You", which is worth a listen: like Kanata's own tribute "Knots of Miracles" the names of the gen-mates were incorporated in the lyrics, both Japanese and English versions. Kanata, however, wrote the song and lyrics for "Knots" and is also quite a capable producer, even hampered by a degenerative disease which took her hearing in one ear.
I saw the title and thought "Well, I don't know this song" and anyway wanted to give it a try, and the second she started singing I thought "I DO know this song!". Such a surprise! For those that are interested, the original song is by the band Supercell, first track of the album "Today Is A Beautiful Day" (The band and the album are really named in english, but the song is 終わりへ向かう始まりの歌) The band is one of those projects where really one person is doing all the composing and carries the essence, the man is called Ryo. For those who are familiar with Vocaloid world, Supercell is one of the first bands that used Hatsune Miku as main singer in classic songs as "The World Is Mine", "Love Is War", "BlackRock Shooter", "Melt". Outside the Vocaloid world their biggest hit must be "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" used as the first ending of the anime Bakemonogatari. The piano is very present in almost all their songs and many have this dramatic and powerful feel to it. Loved the emotional lens of the analysis and the mirrored piano (lol)
Thanks for the extra notes! I checked out the original by supercell and wow the two versions are pretty distinct. Love both - interestingly, the original goes at a faster tempo, has less pronounced pauses (more on the beat) and breathiness, so comes off less emotionally intense. Also if forced to choose the cleaner singer.. gotta say Kanata comes out on top.
I'm a total stranger to the Vocaloid world - wiki tells me it's voice synth tech with characters??
Also I feel I should give you a medal for noticing the mirrored piano 😂 Left the reverse on in OBS and watching it back now.. yeah it's trippy haha
@@ravenclawreacts Ah yes, Vocaloid is a human voice sampled that can be operated to sing any syllables (if are in the voicebank). At the begining they sold the voices with fantasy names attached to it, but the japanese voicebanks also give them a "mascot character" to each voice and then the popularity of those charaters exploded, illustrations, animated videos, music, coreography, mostly created by consumers. They even do "live" concerts with holograms (and a real live band that must follow the prerecorded voice track). Like the band Gorillaz but the voices are also virtual. Google Chrome did a good summary: ruclips.net/video/MGt25mv4-2Q/видео.html
oh boy. as much as I LOVE that you're reacting to and analyzing stuff from vtubers and Hololive, that's a big torrential firehose you're about to drink from if you're not careful.
That said, beautiful analysis. There are actually translated captions for that video, so I wonder how your analysis/perception might have been different with the meaning given form in words, especially given how much meaning you were able to derive just from musicality, tone, breath, direction, etc.
Okay, going straight to the CC...
Annd I'm back. I feel there's so much more additional context I won't get because I wasn't present for the entire backstory, but.. wow. The lyrics compound the pain by a significant factor. It reads like she's singing to Coco about some incredibly hard times they had to go through together - or that she had to support Coco through. (Where the music gets most intense is when Kanata's singing about a 'sad burden' someone - I guess Coco - can't bear anymore.) And that Coco's graduation was super unexpected? But then there's that vague hint of putting on a brave face and reiterating that they'll never face things alone and will always have each other.
All that said. I realised this was released on the day of her graduation, which would've been... ugh.
Also it's interesting all the warnings about how deep this rabbithole goes lol
@@ravenclawreacts Kanata is a part of the 4th Generation of Hololive. 4th Generation had a rocky start to say the very least. Towa a gen mate of hers had a controversy when fans heard she was talking with some members of Holostars the male branch and she lost a lot of subscribers and her future was uncertain at the time. Kanata as Coco’s channel grew she watched as her own channel wasn’t growing as fast, but Coco was always there for her when she needed a pick me up.
How unexpected that I'd be hearing about Coco's graduation and the aftermath from this channel of all places. I'm glad you took the time to respond to that person. The world of Vtubers can be a fun place that I for one would be excited to see you dive into more. Though with Coco gone, it feels somewhat like the end of an era....Regardless, I'll be excited for your inevitable coverage of K-ON's music once you finish the show.
It's a bit sad I only found out about this amazing Vtuber couple after one of them had graduated, but I assume there's a huge archive for me to go through.. I'm really curious, as I was unaware of how huge their global following is (but I guess it's following a similar trend as things like anime - Japan first, then the world catches on).
I'm equally excited to get to K-On! And a bit intimidated, as there's so much music to get through.
End of an era.. What a simp thing to say. She's still around and doing pretty much the same.
To me she really never fit with HL, she jumped in, took an audience and went out. Well played.
Gawd this made me cry again...always the first 30 seconds...
12:30 Yes, she wanted to say goodbye without any regrets but a lot of hololive members broke down in the end and before they were at the graduation event for Coco.
The scene where Coco meets her fellow generation 4 idols, was highly memorable for the emotions being exchanged.
Kanata lived with Coco but was the one who held on the strongest, and seeing her break down suddenly and unexpectedly when she held it in for a long time, was pretty powerful.
The video of the graduation and clips of it are still online. Sometimes fans like to watch it. Once more.
If you're getting into the hololive rabbit hole, you should also check out / react to the song that Kanata wrote herself for Coco's graduation. Its called "Kiseki Knot" / "キセキ結び - ホロライブ4期生" and the video has english CCs. Cocos graduation stream, 卒業。 #桐生ココ卒業LIVE #GoodbyeCoco, is also fully translated in CCs.
I expected this to be a rather well thought out reaction and analysis, just going off of how well you handle your anime reactions. I was not disappointed ^^ Was a treat to watch, as usual.
Cheers mate, it was a treat for me to get to play and analyse the song :)
Ugh came from the king video and now I'm just sitting here crying full of all the feels lol. I'm simply amazed how much you pull from just the music and im glad you liked it even though it tears me apart to remember those times I'm glad Coco left lasting mark on hololive and wasn't just stricken from its history
same here
wow didn't expect you to get into the rabbit hole lol
enjoy your journey ~
hololive is like real life slice of anime I discovered it early 2020 so I know pretty much every girl. They are all _super_ talented and hardworking.
I never thought I will watch vtubers before 2020. When I first watched them, I didn't think I'd continue watching them I thought it'd be one time thing but then I got addicted. What made me stay is how close they are to each other and their friendship, their pranks towards each other, how much they care about each other.
In those days 4th gen (which Kanata is member of) were pretty new and I didn't know much about them so I used to watch Aqua (second gen), Matsuri (first gen) and other girls.
You should check them out they all are really awesome.
If you don't mind please consider reacting to - "Story of Hoshimachi Suisei" (0th gen hololive) : story about a girl who wanted to become vtuber and started solo but she had to face so many challenges in her journey and how she became a successful holo member now.
"lunar memories - Moona birthday project" (hololive id branch) - it's an appreciation video made by her fans on her birthday and it's so wholesome, this will give you an idea how far holo fandom goes to show their love for the talents. (Moona also made a song that makes me tear up to show how much she loves her fan and released on same day isn't it amazing?)
I really love watching your k-on reactions and I enjoy them. If you have time please check them out I guarantee you will _love_ them. At least check them out on your free time if you can't react to them, they're really well made vids you won't regret watching them.
@@kunal1957 Real life slice of life anime (real life K-On!??) is the feeling I'm getting from the all the backstory I'm picking up from this comment section. And they're all like one big family? Which is pretty awesome.
hololive goes waay deeper than I thought it did in terms of how their real lives mix in with their characters. I'm keen to check out more of Kanata's music, and looks like most of them sing and have covers/originals out. Anything that goes into their backstories would be great too, thanks for the tips ~
@@ravenclawreacts you finally saw the comment! Yes
Yeah hololive is very deep it starts with one of the members (in your case Kanata, my case Aqua) and you start to love all of them as time goes on XD
Found the channel by recommendation of the Stellar Stellar video. Idk why youtube took a year to recommend this wonderful place. This song perfectly puts into music how the community at large felt that day. Literally everyone that knew about vtubers watched Coco's last upload, watched live by nearly 500k viewers (to this day the biggest vtuber stream ever). It was the end of an era and Kanata was a big part of it because of her story with Coco and also the music she produced at the time.
what a nice reaction. This song was made by supercell's personel named Ryo in their album (today is the beatiful day) back in 2011, the song that covered by this little angle Kanata is the prolog used for the album, the only difference is their tempo, the original tempo just slightly a bit faster than Kanata's, because this is the prolog for the next fast tempo song in the album (kimi no shiranai monogatari). but Kanata's cover tempo really lovely and really suit how the song being told to her listeners.
I did also listen to the original afterwards - you're right, the switch up in tempo really changes the mood and lends itself more to Kanata's message. As a result, the piano accompaniment is also slightly different in tone. Really amazing how the cover can set itself apart like that from the original.
As a fellow fan of the deeper parts of music theory, as well as a huge Hololive fan, I love this type of analysis. I really hope you do follow up with more Hololive music! There's so much there, with dozens of original songs from the multitude of members, including Kanata, as well as hundreds of covers too. Your analysis was very insightful and I can tell you really know your stuff!
Thank you for those kind words! I really enjoyed digging into this song - amazing how much a voice and the arrangement of music can convey. Lookin forward to checking out more Hololive music, as I hear they've got a roster of very talented singers.
With your skills, eloquent speech and charming smile you got me to sub to you :)
I will be waiting for your next videos.
Analysis blew my mind holy shit
I am so glad I found this channel, sometimes the content you want to see is the hardest to find. I came from the King video though I have yet to watch it, when you mentioned you mentioned you did a video on this song it brought so many memories that I had to watch this video first. I feel sad that I have not listened to it in a long time due to me mostly using Spotify (I plan on adding it manually now). I am absolutely going to give K-on a go now, thank you for the video
Ayee enjoy the K-On! Thanks for stopping by
I am glad that this was recommended
you're awesome, this is awesome! instasubbed!
Of course Vtubers can't be escaped anywhere lmao, really didn't expect to see them in this channel at all.
I don't really follow Hololive too much but if you ever plan on getting into them I'd recommend Crossick (two girls from a company called Nijisanji), they are just a nice couple that have a good amount of subbed clips and are cute and domestic af when together and individually are hilarious and smart as well as having some great singing voices!
Heey thanks for the tip. I also did not expect to react to Vtubers here.. And is it just me, or is the vtubing world very gay friendly? Or are old married couples a character thing that's all part of the lore? Lol there's just so much to get to the bottom of.
@@ravenclawreacts
I may be completely wrong but from what I have seen there are two parts to it.
The first one is the fact that some companies (like Hololive) are kind of mimicking idol culture, having only female Vtubers, only some of them sporadically collaborating with guys and most avoiding talking about guys regularly. This together with girls just having some good skinship makes fans ship them and in return the vtubers exaggerating a bit because that's what the fans want. Not to say the Hololive girls aren't close to each other and some of them are not bisexual or lesbian (I do believe a couple of them have said they are) but they act it up a bit and the fans sometimes see more into it that there actually is.
Nonetheless the other big company (Nijisanji) is not doing the idol thing and they have a more relaxed stance when it comes to what their talents can do and say, and there we still have a lot of both guys and girls that have said they are part of the gay community. I have a theory that this is due to the anonymity being a Vtuber gives. An example is Tomoe (one of the girls that form Crossick), she has said in the past that becoming a Vtuber was a blessing for her because it gave her a place for her to be herself, she was unable to talk with her family or real life friends about her sexuality and fetishes but with Vtubing she found an audience that actually likes and relates to that part of her.
Btw, for another "old married couple" besides Crossick I will also recommend "Gunkan" (Gundou Mirei and Kanda Shoichi), they are a girl and a guy so it is not all just gay people... although Gundou is in fact bisexual x)
Dammit, I'm crying again... 🐉07
i just woke up and thought i was dreaming when i saw the notification about kanata. I love hololive so much. This is an amazing video! Hololive original songs are amazing. I’d love to see more in the future! Also, Kanata is called a gorilla because shes insanely strong lol
their covers of other songs are also amazing
AMAZING PIANO SKILLS!!! I’m commenting as I watch lol. I’m too excited it’s 1am.
Heey thank you for listening! Now that I know Vtubers are also incredible singers, I'm keen to get to more of their covers and original songs in particular :) And I haven't done it yet, but I will make it a point to research this rumoured superhuman strength of an angel.
@@ravenclawreacts She’s got Mugi’s strength😳😂 theyre both angels and strong. Also, what other instruments can you play? It would be cool to see some instrumental covers from you if that’s something you’d do.
@@slytherclaw2061 Yess kind of excited there's a real life Mugi equivalent. Re: instruments, I can only play piano and violin to a decent level (went through the rigmarole of performance diploma exams and taught both as well), but it's been awhile since I've played either seriously. Others I've picked up leisurely are guitar and drums. Really keen to try out bass (ahem clearly K-On! hasn't influenced that at all)!
Your King reaction had been recommended so many times that I finally have time to see it today. I am impressed with how you figured out the girls and I had to see your channel and saw K-ON! Lol I have been a fan of them for so long. I also watch this and didn't expect a full break down of the song. You really are good with music. Well of course. Lol I've fallen the rabbit hole of Vtubing only last year and get ready for it too. Ah also every one is right about Jihen Saga which Suisei sang. Her version is really good. It came from Zombieland Saga, if you want to watch. It's funny and has songs too like K-On!. Er, about idol zombies.
If we're talking music, here is a video I find to be fun and entertaining.
(No reaction or analysis requested, just a link for those who may want to watch)
"Beautiful World" by Utada Hikaru. This song is used in the films Evangelion 1 & 2 (written and directed by Hideaki Anno) and the video features clips from the films. ruclips.net/video/bDYDZJvVHPY/видео.html
Thanks
17:00 the sustain makes it feel like the happy notes are fading and then the broken, sad, chords come in
wow you seem to have a lot of content which I would seem to enjoy, imma sub and watch more after sleeping(midnight lol)
#KiryuKaiFOREVER
Please do Risu's and Moona's songs next please they are amazing singers definetely up there with suisei and kanata of course, love ur video!
you need to see kanata-narrow way...its insane.thats all i say
Song of pain. indeed.
I don't know if you have listened to it or not but on Coco's 2-year anniversary Kanata released a cover of "Watashi e'" by supercell which is the epilogue of the album this song is from. I think it serves as a reply to this song. From what I know Kanata is a big fan of yanaginagi, who was the vocalist for supercell. It probably means a lot for her to cover these two songs. Kanata has had a tough life, being a music lover and someone who loves singing but is deaf in one ear. She would have gave up on music and singing if she has not gotten into hololive and have so many people supporting her now. Can't imagine how devastated she was during this incident losing one of her beloved partners. Please give it a listen if you feel like it.
And they made a song together, Kanata and yanaginagi!!
I hope she can release the sheet music of this. I really wanna play it myself! Great video btw :)
Thank you, I've uploaded it to Dropbox: shorturl.at/uxET2
Enjoy!
@@ravenclawreacts umm... i dont know why but when i clicked the link it says "the site cant be reached" or "the server cannot be found", is there any other way to access this...?😅
@@Rukii_02 Ah dropbox has failed me. Hopefully this works: drive.google.com/file/d/1k5ziy8zcHNvsXeWPoxVBPBsLGUOUnIYW/view?usp=sharing
@@ravenclawreacts it works!! Thank you very much!!
@@ravenclawreacts thank you so much, it’s beautiful and not hard to play!
You can try listen and react to Kanata "Uma to Shika" cover where She use high note and "The Narrow Way" cover where She use two different voice 👀👀 Anyway, very good reaction and Work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
A bit late but about the Gorilla part, Kanata has been shown to have above average grip strength. Like, above average even for adult men. It's just a funny meme and she likes to play along with it too by saying "this world is too weak" or by accidentally crushing potatoes.
Wooo i dont expect you will react hololive
Me neither!
PPT = Perfect Pitch Tenshi
PPT
angelic looking until she really wants a blue axolato at least, then its all forced breeding and black market trades :)
Forced breeding and black market trades? Ehhh?
@@ravenclawreacts but her crimes are nothing compared to certain yakuza rabbit. She's literally called war criminal that's how she became one of the richest in holo minecraft server. Kanata is also part of Usada constructions (basically she works for the rabbit) so what they're saying isn't too surprising xP
@@ravenclawreacts The recent patch for Minecraft added this cute little aquatic creature called an axolotol. They spawned in different colors but blue was by far the rarest with only like a .002% chance. So a lot of Minecraft streamers were building elaborate farms to breed them to get blue ones. Kanata was a bit… obsessed… trying to get one and had really bad luck so she resorted to some desperate measures. Luckily she finally got one. Hololive is an extremely funny rabbit hole of comedians who claim to be idols
@@kunal1957 Don't listen to kunal. The Rabbit is a sweet idol, full of innocence and love.
Shit-
she started brainwashing people now?
いや彼女は握力強いだけだから・・・・
ちょっと普通の女性の２倍の握力があるだけだよ・・・・