#popurika

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The beautiful Luka Module of today is :

「Afterglow」

By Popurika and Ohajiki

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That's Why I Gave Up on Music (2019) [4 min] by Popurika | Japan

[amasov]

Yorushika - Deep Indigo (MUSIC VIDEO) 

The scenery doesn’t change; on a faded afternoon I’m lying in the deep indigo beneath the overpass I hear a single clap for my blank-page life I was singing about my own emptiness today, as usual

So things wouldn’t change, I wrote a story starring you in my notebook My gas and water being cut off, society, and the news are all someone else’s problem Look, my life is like ink

The dream I had when I was young gets closer to its expiration date as I get older

Though I just, I just look up at the clouds As usual, they flow through my field of vision In the distant night sky I looked up at, flowers swam So many that it could be mistaken for spring As if I’d just lost sight of you

I looked down so I wouldn’t trip Life is made of nothing but compromises I don’t believe in hearts or fate or love songs or life After all, if you can’t sell something it has no value

I intentionally discarded the present I dreamed of, and now I’m lying here waiting for its expiration date

Behind my eyelids, I just, I just saw An imagined, distant vision of you In my notebook, flowers swim in the corner of a faded night One more is in my eye

Life is just one compromise after another I learned that pretty fast Elma, it’s you You alone are my music

There are only eighty more characters in this song Because maybe the only value of a life is in they way it ends

I just, I just picture you As even the indigo filling my vision is blurred In the distant sky I looked up at, flowers swam Deep indigo covers my eyes

It’s just, it’s just… In the distant sky I looked up at, you are cooling off As if you were just swimming in the night

[amasov]

Yorushika - That's Why I Gave Up on Music (MUSIC VIDEO)

I’ve thought about it, but I still don’t understand Under the blue sky, I waited for you On that breezy afternoon, my imagination escaped the confines of the day Hey, where do I go from here? No one has told me how to proceed I looked into your eyes and without a word I walked away

I’ve thought about it, but I still don’t understand Youth is so boring I tried to give up piano, but I can’t break the habit of playing on my desk[*] Hey, what will I do in the future? It shouldn’t be music, right? Don’t worry

Even if I plucked a single string in my heart No matter what I did, it wouldn’t disappear, even now, so Hey, I still remember

I’m mistaken I don’t understand, I don’t care About all you humans or the truth or love or the world or pain or life Wanting to know what’s right or wrong is just a self-preservation instinct It’s your fault that I thought that

I’ve thought about it, but I still don’t understand why I truly don’t want to get older Just thinking “Someday I’m going to die” makes my chest feel hollow “What will I do in the future?” When I grew up I understood That I’m not going to do anything at all

How do I explain why I hate people who put on happy faces? It’s an inferiority complex haunting my unsatisfied mind like a ghost

I’m not mistaken Hey, with all your differences, you all are human When you don’t have love or salvation or kindness or a foundation, it feels bad Feeling pain at something like a love song is a self-preservation instinct Do I really not care? It’s your fault

I’ve thought about it, but I still don’t understand Why just living is painful Why you can’t make a living from something like music I don’t care if the lyrics or whatever are lazily done I don’t care about anything

I’m probably not mistaken I’m sure I’m not mistaken

I’m mistaken, I understand I don’t care About all you humans or the truth or love or salvation or kindness or life Not being able to give the right answer is a self-preservation instinct I don’t care, it’s your fault

Even I had faith in something once Now the feeling is nothing but garbage I wrote to you so many times I didn’t care about whether I’d be rich and famous It’s true, it’s really true, that’s how it was back then

That’s why I gave up on music

Notes:

[*] i.e. tapping his fingers on his desk as if playing piano.

[vocaloiddailysongs]

Charlatan Rock: Groove x GUMI and IA

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Megurine Luka - No Logic

Producer: JimmyThumb-P

Illustration (fan PV): Popurika and Ohajiki

Translation: vgperson and motokokusanagi2009

Typesetting: Turrent

Vocaloid Wikia Article

Sometimes it's nice to be reminded that people aren't perfect and you're just fine being yourself. Lately I'm finding Luka songs with that message (and another one that's from JImmyThumb, for that matter). You can see a reprint of the original (also with English subtitles) here.

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Megurine Luka - Track

Producers: Hayashikei aka KEI (music and lyrics) and Popurika (video)

Illustration: Kagame

Translation: OccasionalSubs

Vocaloid Wikia Article

This is a fan PV, you can see KEI's Youtube upload of the original PV here. The song and the video combine to make something that's really uplifting and wonderful. I love how fluid the animation is, and the references to other Vocaloids as well as other Luka songs is a really cute addition.

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Megurine Luka - Afterglow

Producer: Jimmy-ThumbP

Illustration: Popurika and Ohajiki

Vocaloid Wikia Article

A song I think a lot of people can relate to. My favorite line is the last one- "It'd be nice if the future I tripped over myself to find were just a continuation of being alive."