FINDING: VOCALOID SONG WAS ORIGINALLY A PARAPPA 2 SONG?! (NON-NOODLE DOMINATION AU, ALWAYS LOVE REWRITE RELATED)
Hello, my name is Aisha and I come from the good timeline where there was a PTR 5th anniversary edition of PTR2 that was released and there was no bad ending recall or whatever.
So I was listening to this song called “8月の花嫁 (August Bride)” by OSTER project featuring Hatsune Miku the other day, and I noticed something… peculiar about the track.
After further research, I had discovered that this was a redone/recreated version of a song that was included with a PTR2 drama CD that was released in Japan in December 2002 called “August Miracle”.
Now, the song itself is lost media, but from what I’ve been able to find, this song was originally sung in English by the VA’s of the characters and had a different instrumental, slightly different lyrics, the Japanese translated title “8月の奇跡” and singable Japanese-translated lyrics done by Ryu Watabe, the main lyricist for the series.
Almost 6 years later in August 2008, a Vocaloid producer by the name of OSTER project (she/her) released a recreation/rewrite of the song that you can still listen to today.
If anyone can send me a playlist or whatever containing the song (via old uploads or whatever) on YT, Niconico or whatever video sharing site you can come across, please let me know.
USEFUL LINKS
OSTER project’s recreation (8月の花嫁)
Instrumental/karaoke version of OSTER project’s recreation
Japanese lyrics of OSTER project’s recreation
@ramblesistaken