Some article talking about Jin's popularity among zoomers.
It's mostly useful for confirming CD sales (700k in 2016) and the fact that Mekakucity Reload fell short of its predecessors' success.
The light novels' numbers also remain unchanged (9M in 2017). But I haven't seen any news about changes in circulation since Comic Gene reprinted the manga a few months ago (4.5M in 2019, total: 15M in 2021)
Translation of Jin's livestreams from his official YouTube channel. Original video here. Done on commission!
Blindfold Day livestream to celebrate the 13th anniversary of “Kagerou Days”. The sound testing this time is accompanied by guitar testing. Jin wastes the first 5 minutes not knowing very well what to talk about and just greeting the listeners, until he finally mentions the new illustration that Sidu had made back then for “Kagerou Days”. Jin was very happy that so many people had reacted to it even hours after it was released and that people still remember “Kagerou Days” even though so many new songs come out around August.
He apologizes for his constant coughing and throat clearing. In his own words, his throat was shit on this day. He also apologizes in advance if he makes any mistakes with lyrics or chords. He’s also still praising his new guitar nonstop, lol.
Jin starts playing the guitar without announcing what he was going to sing. Once he starts actually singing, it turns out to be “Shinigami Record”. He’s clearly having a lot of difficulty and the end of every verse seems to be cut short because of that, but he plays until the end. When he finishes, he complaints that his throat hurts. It really does sound like it, but then he immediately starts playing “Mary no Kakuu Sekai”. This one sounds marginally less painful. Once he’s done playing it, he contemplates playing something more lively next, since he just played two slow-paced songs.
This has to be the first livestream where Jin is actively trying to destroy his vocal cords.
He decides to go with “Kagerou Days”. When he finishes, he says that this song is a perfect fit for August 15th, because the lyrics mention August 15th. I think the heat is melting his brain.
Next, he plays a short version of “Additional Memory”. What he likes the most about this song is the lyrics. He especially likes the part where it says “I wish we hadn’t become friends”. It makes him tear up. Someone comments that there’s a bit of “Ayano no Koufuku Riron” in it, and he agrees, playing a little bit of it with the guitar.
He wonders what else he can play, but he wants to play only KagePro songs in this one, which make it difficult to choose. KagePro is full of songs that are very hard to play and sing, so he’s got a small repertoire to choose from.
He plays a slightly slow version of “Loss Time Record”. The part he likes the most about it is “I’m sorry that I died”. In his own words, this part kills him. I feel like this was half intended as a pun. Someone comments that the “don’t leave me” part is their favorite. Jin decides to cut the topic off right there, because people had started discussing about KagePro along the way.
He plays “Yobanashi Deceive”, and as soon as he’s done, he’s talking about how difficult it is to play the guitar while singing it. He even demonstrates the difference by playing a little bit of it without singing.
He decides he wants to play a more cheerful song, since the ones he’d been playing until this point are quite dark. So the one he picks this time is “Yuukei Yesterday”. He coughs after playing it and says he isn’t a good fit for singing this song. It’s just not like him, lol.
Next one is “Lost Day Hour”. As always, when he finishes playing this one, he praises it for being such a great song. Lately, he’s been thinking that maybe, after over a decade of KagePro, there are people out there who feel the same way as portrayed in this song. The part where it says “Even though I’m already an adult” is something that he wrote while thinking to himself, “I’m already an adult, and yet I keep having so many stupid thoughts”. This was a huge moment of discovery to him. That even when people grow up, they still have a lot going on internally. There’s a lot of Haruka in this song, but there’s also a lot of Jin himself.
Someone requests “Remind Blue”. He decides to do it despite it being kind of a depressing song. By the end of it, he simply says, “Emo”, lol.
Here, Jin starts talking about the newest song he was planning to release. He says it’s a “summery song”, so this is definitely about “Summering”. Up until the previous day, he’d been having meetings about this new piece and was planning to release it soon.
Someone asks if he wants to continue KagePro. He says he does; he had always wanted to continue it. He’s very happy that people still talk about KagePro every year on August 15th. He started it when he was 18-19, and then he met Sidu, and KagePro got bigger and bigger with the help of so many people. And yet, when a franchise gets too big, the creators become unable to do as they please with it.
Unfortunately, Jin can’t tell the fans everything about what’s going on, even though he’d love to. But he loves the KagePro characters and there are KagePro songs that remain unreleased. So even though things just don’t go the way he wishes, a lot of people still enjoy KagePro, so he wants to be able to correspond to their expectations.
Basically, he wants to do the best he can. He hopes he can achieve his objective, just doesn’t (can’t) say what that objective is. All he asks of us is to “wait patiently”.
He proceeds to play the last song of the livestream, “Summertime Record”. Did anyone not see this coming? Lmao.
When the song ends, he says his goodbyes to the listeners and thanks them for tuning in as usual, but then throws in a “hope to see you guys soon”. I can’t tell if he means this “see you” as in meeting the fans in person at a live concert or some other event, or if he means “seeing” them in another livestream.
This has been by far the livestream where Jin spoke the least out of the ones he’s done up until this point. Lots of playing and singing, not a lot of talking or interacting with the audience. This might be just me, but Jin sounded less enthusiastic than usual as well, and way more straight to the point. You can feel that he’s still very hurt and unsatisfied with this whole situation even so many years later.
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