Maybe I'm rambling at this point (I really said 'a little context' huh?) All I'm trying to get at - even if it's just a small thing, even if it goes nowhere, I'm glad I got to revisit this song that helped start it all for me.

Otsukarejak~

I ended up connecting with multiple great communities. Started writing again after *years* stuck in a slump. Studied a language so maybe one day I could write or translate songs for *real*.

Which is to say, without this song and without that cover and without Reza I wouldn't be here.

Yet I forged on, published it for the world to see, because of how much the song and the streamer behind it meant to me. His music, his lore, his writing - all of it was a massive inspiration for why I started as a youtaite to begin with.

The first time I covered this piece was also the first time I attempted any sort of musical arrangement on my own (with a software I didn't know) or any sort of translyrics (from Bahasa Indonesia, a language I didn't speak)

It was, as you might expect, kinda pretty terrible.

Always looking for more writing projects tbh

Could *just* barely fit things to under a minute with this one but I needed to get that last note please understand

Dear reader that is NOT the case and I regret ever opening the bastard

If you haven’t already seen it, the whole team did a fantastic job on the entry:

🔗 youtu.be/uX2HzST56Vs?...

And if you’re interested in our groups lore, the chapters I wrote can be found here:

📜 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📜 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

There are dozens of us

Please don't take this as anything serious it's unmixed one take and decidedly not sober - just wanted to showcase a rare example of just cutting loose with vocals rather than obsessively redoing lines over and over

Each member on vox gets a new number each round so you gotta change who your vocalists are to try to get to 21 and force *gasp* interaction