Vocaloid Track of the Whenever I Feel Like It {S2} 2

[This time, we have heated rivals Megurine Luka and Hatsune Miku battling it out!]

Welcome back, Vocaloid lovers! Did you know that the amount of Vocaloid songs is pretty much unmeasurable?! Vocaloid is both the name of the group of loveable characters that go along with the voices AND the name of the program used to make Vocaloid songs. Anyone, yes even you, can make a Vocaloid song if they have the program! And since it's so popular in Japan, there's no doubt that the amount of songs is always changing. Also many songs don't get as popular as the ones I've shared with you (although I've been trying to avoid the most well-known ones).

Anyway! There's your Vocaloid fact for the day. Now, today's PV Showdown not only contains two of the best songs ever created, but also two of the saddest. The theme is "parting ways"... some of you can already guess which song fits perfectly.

Luka's song of parting is called "Wanderlast." If you were given one wish right before the world... no, galaxy... no, existence itself were to disappear, what would it be? Sitting in a pool of loneliness and despair over the news... how would you react? And if you were to send a bastion of hope out to the furthest reaches of space... what would it be?

"I will forever sing this unending song
before my end comes along..."



Megurine Luka - Wanderlast 3DPV [Piano Remix]





The world of Vocaloid was revolutionized by Hatsune Miku, right? That is what everyone wants us to think... what if no one ever used Vocaloid? What if everyone had thought Vocaloid was useless and sounded too synthetic during its beta stages and uninstalled it? Where would our adorable Miku be right now?

This song of parting is very famous for it's super-fast singing at many parts. It builds tension amazingly and is probably the saddest PVs I've seen other than Kokoro.




Hatsune Miku - The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku PV ver. 2







[There are some really amazing Choruses of this song on YouTube, and as you can imagine, they sing the really fast parts perfectly! Follow this link to see one of the best!!]

How sad this post is! But how awesome are the videos? And, which one did you like best? Feel free to post your thoughts in the comments! Here ends this installment of the {S2} segment, see you guys at the next time!



I did not subtitle or create this video or the music. I don't own it. Don't kill me, copyright people.

-chansu

Training to beat that bad guy... Or for the beach body

It's almost summer! Do you know what that means?
That means it's almost time to hit the beach. When you go to the beach you want to be in your top shape to get the most stares from those cute boys or girls. In order to do that you have to TRAIN!

Training also comes in handy when you're up against an enemy. I'm not saying that it's wise to start fist fights in this day and age but it does help to be agile enough to run fast and hit hard so you can then run fast. Because everyone is trigger happy these days.

What does Goku do to get ready for the beach... the beaches of Namek.


Just remember that even if you train like Goku, you can't throw a Kamehameha.


Or you could fight for hours and hours against your "zanpatou" and learn bankai... This is the result of hours upon hours of training...


Or you can just be like Baki and train all the time...


Well I don't know where I'm going with this...
Just train hard and eat right...
You'll have a beach bod in no time
Beach bod = Bankai/Super Saiyan/Grappler Baki

On second thought I was just kidding.

But really...

In apology for this sorry excuse of a post...

Fast Metabolism? Or Genki?

It's sort of like a trademark in some shounen anime where the main character has a superhuman appetite. They'll eat way more than the average person would eat in a week or a month. Why do you think a story writer would put that into their story and why would it catch on to other anime?

I don't know the exact reasons why the creators of those animes would put that element into their story but I can come up with an educated guess.

In Asian schools of thought such as Taoism food is regarded as a source of chi, it's not as vital as air however. Different food has different types of chi. For example meat is considered a yang food, so it would be consumed when one needs a fiery, male type of energy and  watermelon is a yang food so it would be consumed when one needs supple, female energy. Food even gives off different chi depending on how it tastes because taste is a indicator of the composition of the food. Bottom line, food gives us energy. Ok nobody would disagree with that.

Note that the food of choice is usually meat.

Why would someone consume large amounts of food. Well they say that the normal man in todays world does not need much food to survive since people are sedentary these days. Your average shounen hero is many things, but NOT sedentary. Luffy spars with whales, Goku beats up Frieza... Many similar things happen in Fairy Tail.



Bottom line is that the appetite matches the activity level.

Put the two together and now we understand that they eat tons of food because that food is converted to the extreme amounts of power they use to fight!

Keep in mind that this only works for the shounen hero who's genki and brimming with power. If you were to eat that much you'd become fat. Not to say you're not genki, you just need less food to tackle that homework and take out the trash. However, if you're on a sports team then that (small) binge after practice is just what the doctor ordered.

If you'd like to read about tao here's the books I used in my educated guesswork.
References:
Ekiken, Kaibara. "Yojokun: Life Lessons from a Samurai" (translated by William Scott Wilson), 2009.

Reid, Daniel P. "The Tao of Health, Sex, & Longevity", 1989.