malymin

"punk uso no utahime" by あれく/bitto

on susumu hirasawa’s birth certificate, it says he was born on april 2nd. in his heart, he says he was born on april 1st, head first onto the earth’s surface. in my heart, it is because he wanted his birthday to be even closer to jun togawa’s, his longtime friend, on march 31st. nisu aniki, the touhou cookie delegate who first recirculated p-model’s “LAB=01” for MAD fodder, now covering the song with teto for her birthday, exists at some impossibly satisfying intersection of these things.

A blog post about Kasane Teto ruminating on Kasane Teto's modern identity as an "anti-idol" relative to Hatsune Miku and the many other voicebank idol-characters in Miku's shadow. The blogger compares her place in the voicebank-character scene to a real musician who satirized idol culture in the 80's and 90's. The blogger also ruminates on how her 2chan-assigned character settings that were originally meant as cheap shock gags, such as her ambigious gender/sex of "chimera" and age of "31", have given her a humanized, relatable quality with her current audience.