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- Dal Segno | Pleasure Garden | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzdISCkhu8o
+ NieR | Kaine / Salvation | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOc_AD79cM

Sorry, I lied, I'm actually risk-averse and not someone who lives dangerously at all.

Actually, whatever, I'll just do this now.

+ The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III | Spiral of Erebos | https://youtu.be/wHvnwxAg5ww

Oh yeah, I should probably do this now. If anyone wants me to bring back any of these, let me know.

- Alan Wake | Children of the Elder God | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-l_kbZbXRQ
- If My Heart Had Wings | Precious Wing | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aPC339gkPM
- pop'n music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume | white night story | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx77Syta1cU
- SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN | Four Leaves | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBcnpnOgzt4
- Taiko no Tatsujin: Nijiiro Ver. | Isso Kono Mama De | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ee5euttlc
- Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru | Kore Kurai de | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugtBW1od6NQ

+ Atelier Sophie: Alchemist of the Mysterious Book | Spring Wind Skylark | https://youtu.be/3_vHQ6X-S2Q
+ Drakengard 3 | Blissade/Egregori | https://youtu.be/pIG4qIonBy4
+ DEEMO II | Unravelling | https://youtu.be/EGKwpO_v9UY
+ Persona 3 Reload | Its Going Down Now | https://youtu.be/Yfw7Sr940hY
+ 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim | Seaside Vacation | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKdIhT3Feks

Will continue watching and might push some 5s up or if they become 6s then to lock closer to the top of the hour. Apparently, I like to live dangerously.

Hmm...let's be selfish for a moment and use all my doubles on my own nominations that have supports on them right now. Curious to see if anything comes of it. If nothing happens, I will 100% be changing them back to single supports in the next hour and 15 minutes to make room for doubles on songs I want locked that are close to locking, as needed, starting with the 2/2s (now 3/2s).

+ Heaven Burns Red | Before I Rise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3mo_tF9Hk
+ Sakura no Uta | Dear My Friend | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H04c1f48t4I
+ beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA | Verflucht | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4rfnYgNIQ
+ Senren * Banka | Koi Kou Enishi | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtiAJc_F2y0
+ The Eden of Grisaia | Eden's Song | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFPrDWexOT4

I was hoping to get through the full playlist before dropping supports, but I'm definitely not on schedule to do that unless I go crazy tomorrow, which is probably not going to happen. So with the steady increase in activity going on, I think now's a good time to drop initial supports. I'm thinking of focusing on songs at 1/1 or 2/1 (and a 0/0) at the top of my list for this batch to see if that helps spark some more movement on them. Tomorrow, I'll drop some of my 1/1s that haven't gotten any public attention from anyone (I have 7 by my count, 9 if I include songs that were on someone's playlist but later removed) and likely use those free slots for pushing songs that have gotten other supports already higher up and potentially to the lock threshold. With that said, here are my initial supports!

+ Chunithm Air Plus | Nekomatsuri | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofs6L8xNs5k
+ Xenoblade Chronicles | You Will Know Our Names | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7yNyhLOIa4
+ Beatmania IIDX 16 Empress | Turii ~ Panta Rhei | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQtgifnqxhM
+ Zaku-zaku Actors | Oriental Piano Attack | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMqpjjiLkTI
+ Heaven Burns Red | Sailing Ship (Broken ver.) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDQc-pOQTiA

Currently a little past day 2 into day 3 of the nominations. Just finished ordering my supports playlist by rough likelihood of support, for those of you who were keeping tabs on it.

Last five nominations from me. This time it's all Japanese vocals instead of only mostly Japanese vocals. Aren't you lucky!

+ Dal Segno | Pleasure Garden | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzdISCkhu8o
+ If My Heart Had Wings | Precious Wing | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aPC339gkPM
+ Yume to Iro de Dekiteiru | Kore Kurai de | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugtBW1od6NQ
+ The Eden of Grisaia | Eden's Song | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFPrDWexOT4
+ SOUND VOLTEX IV HEAVENLY HAVEN | Four Leaves | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBcnpnOgzt4

Supports to come later. Probably closer to the end of the lock deadline. Like last year, I'll just drop the nominations of mine that have no interest to make more room for supports. I'm approaching the end of day 1 (currently at 298 in the playlist). I think I'm on pace to be finished with the playlist by the 27th.

+ Arcaea | Alice's Suitcase | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg5EK3koalc
+ pop'n music: Usagi to Neko to Shounen no Yume | white night story | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx77Syta1cU
+ Taiko no Tatsujin: Nijiiro Ver. | Isso Kono Mama De | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ee5euttlc
+ beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA | Verflucht | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4rfnYgNIQ
+ Alan Wake | Children of the Elder God | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-l_kbZbXRQ

dowolf posted...

@loweffortmemes Your link for Before I Rise is, for whatever reason, missing a verse. (Which does play in game.) Would you be opposed to swapping to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3mo_tF9Hk ?

Not at all!

- Heaven Burns Red | Before I Rise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJsfzGeIXE
+ Heaven Burns Red | Before I Rise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O3mo_tF9Hk

+ Summer Pockets REFLECTION BLUE | It's Blue Here | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNYEkVaBlXg
+ Sakura no Uta | Dear My Friend | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H04c1f48t4I
+ beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS | EMERALDAS | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV6BIKHj9fQ
+ Heaven Burns Red | Before I Rise | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJsfzGeIXE
+ Senren * Banka | Koi Kou Enishi | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtiAJc_F2y0

rwlh posted...

33/988
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Sakura no Uta - Tenkyuu no Shita no Kiseki
hana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_QDenecJi4

I have this down in my notes as a true LEM special. This is the realization of the promise made all the way back at #290, Dear My Friend, which I described as the parts of shoegaze I dislike. With this song, all those negative qualities go away. Its the perfect intersection of airy, wistful vocals and j-rock. There are these wonderfully crunchy drums that sparkle through the song. Though I have to askwhats with the part at 2:45 where the song incorporates a layer of noise? lol

I'm glad that this song ended up being a hit with you! I had a few reasons for choosing this, one of which was actually the little beeps and boops interspersed throughout the song, but a big reason was actually that noise part at 2:45. I didn't know you specifically liked glitchy stuff in songs, though it makes perfect sense in hindsight. I just thought that part was in the vein of generally "weird" stuff that you might like. So when I first saw you talk about how you liked glitchiness around the upper 7.5 mark and seeing how this song was still in at that point, I was pretty happy with my pick. As for why that noise part got thrown into the song, I couldn't tell you haha.

I'm glad you liked the vocals too! I really enjoy Hana's vocal work. I can't really describe why in words. There's just a certain energy or emotion to her voice that I really like.

Before I Rise was largely me seeing two other Heaven Burns Red songs being songs you really liked and testing if another song from that game that I really like would do as well. It was also a way I could test out a possible VGMC nomination of mine on someone lol. Speaking of which

rwlh posted...

Maybe Ill relisten for VGMC and get really into it; for now, 6.5 is a good fit.

Stay tuned :)

When I saw ticking clocks on your nomination thread, Chrono Diver -PENDULUMs- was the first song that came to mind. It also ticked the piano that leads to big chords box, and I believe there were several Nekomata Master songs in your list of 9+/10 songs, so I figured from that, it was a good choice. I actually nominated it last year for VGMC, but I think I did so on day 3 so it mightve gotten buried in the nominations playlist, and in any case, it wasnt on your list of songs youve already heard. Glad you liked it!

I had went into this expecting the Nukitashi song to be my first drop, but it turned out to be the second, so I wasnt far off! This was my one wildcard pick for your rankings in that its a song that I dont think is something that would typically be up your alley but also something I wanted to try to see if it could get a decent score anyway. Everything else was more closely based on what I know about various songs you like, but I did think of this song based on the chippy beepy shit and child vocals elements that you listed in the nomination thread. Though, I wasnt really sure how youd treat adult vocals that sound childlike as opposed to an actual child singing something haha. I wasnt really expecting it to do very well, but I figured it could go in any direction, good, bad, or somewhere in between, and I think it makes sense that it was somewhere in between. For a song like this, Im happy to get a 6.5 out of it!

One day, but not today.

rwlh posted...

3.5/10

290/5493
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Sakura no Uta - Dear My Friend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H04c1f48t4I

Shoegaze is a tough genre for me. I get overwhelmed a lot of the time with the wall of sound that covers me. I know I said I liked music that overwhelmed me, but shoegaze is more often than not overwhelming in an unpleasant way. I think its the guitars. At least thats the case in Dear My Friend, which would probably be a good hundred spots higher if not for that guitar. Ah, guitars. When will you learn?

Oh wow, that's a bummer. I was actually expecting this to be your favorite of my nominations, though I based this largely on how much you enjoyed The Final Smile from SubaHibi, and to a lesser extent Sakura to Kotori from HimaNatsu, which both share the same composer and singer as the ones on Dear My Friend and are songs I like for similar reasons as why I like Dear My Friend. Though, looking at your writeup, I guess it makes sense because Dear My Friend is a little harsher of a song than the other two. My thought process for nominating this were the similarities I mentioned above plus some "weird" or "interesting" elements of the song that I thought you might like, such as the somewhat unconventional (at least to me) guitar solo, but it seems that was a miscalculation on my part haha. Hopefully, the other Sakura no Uta song I picked fares better! It's definitely a different style of music from Dear My Friend, so that might help it.

As for the bottom songs from yesterday, while I wouldn't give have given them that low of a score (except maybe for the Ballz 3D song), I also didn't feel that strongly about most of them. I did like Silent Howling, though. That one was my favorite of your bottom ranked songs by a decent margin.