こんにちは！
Hellos and welcome, dear readers!
あれこれやり過ぎて勝手に
てんやわんやなタカペンです♪
Yours truly have been all over the place that my head will not stop spinning! lol
とりあえずエアリス強化月間の〆をば
But I wanted to draw a close to my Aerith celebration month. Well, I call it "month" but it has been and will likely be an ongoing thing.
終了感謝 / Thank You Message
始まりのお話 / How it All Began
1月にYouTubeのお勧めでエアリスの
歌う動画が出てきて、これは！？！？！
となりました
Back in January, when YouTube started recommending me various videos of the No Promises to Keep song, and I was like OMG... Aeris is singing!?!?
語りだすとエアリス愛が止まらないタカペン、
絶対にこの歌カバーする！！と決めました
If my favoritest forever heroine of all times is, there was no way I was not covering that song!!
で、よくよく調べたらFF7のリメイク？
っぽいゲームの宣伝動画だった
So when I went to look up on it, I found that they were coming out with the second part of the FF7 remake.
リメイク出るのかーへー
I was like nice!
じゃあリリース日までお祭りだーーー！！
Let's do an Aeris celebration until the date of the game release!
と
And so, all below
ショートアカペラ / the a cappella shorts clip
和訳カバー / Japanese cover
英語カバー / English cover
ぶりんばんばん替え歌 / Bling-Bang-Bang-Born ver. Aeris
の動画の道筋が立ちました
came into being.
いえ、最後の一つは完全の予定外でしたが（笑）
Well, the last one was totally unplanned for initially. lol
動画たち / The Videos
動画感想 / A Brief Comment on the Videos
よくここまでやったな、自分
って感じがします（笑）
Didn't think I was going to go all out like this. lol
どんだけエアリス大好きなのか（笑）
Aeris will always have a special place in my heart! <3
記録更新 / Record Breaking Numbers
そしてこの度初めて、YouTubeで動画を
1000回以上再生していただきました！！！
皆様のおかげです！！！ ありがとうございます！！！
And guess what!! Thanks to you all, the Japanese cover video actually has hit over 1K views!! My first ever video to hit 1K!!!
ただ、未まだに再生数が増えててですね、若干申し訳なさが
Usually, views kind of completely die down after a week at max, but this video just keeps on growing in views, which kind of makes me feel a bit bad.
だってゲームリリースされて判明したのですが
タカペンの歌ったのって、ショートバージョンなんですね？
フルバージョンもっと長いし内容詰まってますね！！
どうりでさくっと短くてやりやすかった筈です！！
After FF7 Rebirth got released, I saw that the full song is actually much longer! So my version is very short...! No wonder it was so easy to learn the tune!
そしてですねYouTubeでも記録更新をし続けてるのですが
さりげにはてなブログでの記事も検索から
いらっしゃる方たちが多いようで、ここ一月で
閲覧数が1000回を超えました・・・！！ FF7凄い！！
多分1年分以上の閲覧数を行ってる気が（笑）
On top of one of my YouTube videos getting 1K views, this blog has over 1K hits as well. It looks like they google Japanese cover of the song, and they go to my page. Amazing. 1K hits are probably like what I get over the course of a year and several months, not in a month. lol
今書いてて思ったんですけど、もしかして
この閲覧数1000回越えが直接動画再生1000回と
連動してるってことなのかしらん
和訳カバーについての記事に皆さん
お越しいただいているようなので
Which just made me wonder, if the views on the YouTube video is related to the hits on the blog since theyr'e about the same number and everybody seems to be landing on the blog entry with the Japanse cover...
なるほど
interesting.
なにはともあれ、とてもびっくりです
そしてありがたいです…！
おかげさまで1000回越え視聴って…！！！
Anyhoo, thank you all so very much!!! I mean seriously, I never expected to be getting so many views in such a short period of time...!!
活動を始めた頃には…って言うかいまだに
信じられない数字です（笑）
When I first started my channel, I never imagined that one of my videos would ever get this many views. I'm actually still kind of in disbelief and even though I'm seeing the number, it's like it's happening to someone else. lol
ありがたや（ー人ー）
I can't be more thankful though!!!
No Promises to Keep
ゲームがリリースされてから
ゲーム内でフルの曲も流れ
YouTubeでも日々、何かしらの更新がありますね
Once the game got released end of last month, everyone got to hear the full version of the song, and there seem to be a new song related video every now and then.
First Take動画だったり、つい先日もVR360度動画？
とかがお勧めで出てきてました
They came out with that "FIRST TAKE" video, and then lately I saw they had a VR 360 degrees video whatever that means.
めちゃくちゃ推してるみたいで
So it looks like Squarenix is really pushing the song, or rather the FF7 Rebirth. (I'm seeing the ads pretty frequently when I'm reading Webt00ns lol)
それで一緒に和訳に興味を持たれるみたいで
カバー動画も観ていただけてるみたいです
So the general interest seems to keep on growing in the song rather than decreasing, which is drawing people daily to my cover(s) too, it seems like.
ありがたや（ー人ー）
What an awesome situation.
ショートバージョンなんだけどねっ！
Even if mine's only a short version...!
誰かフルバージョンのオケ出してくれないかな
（他力本願）
Now if only someone would kindly come out and make an karaoke instrumental track of the full version... :)
ぶりんばんばん / Bling-Bang-Bang-Born
後半の替え歌パート
ちょっとおふざけすぎたかな～と思ってたのですが
意外と「面白い」「ネタわかる」のような
反応をいただいてて安堵してます（笑）
I was a bit worried that people might actually find the parody lyrics offensive or something. But I've received positive feedback saying they found the lyrics funny and relatable, so that was a huge relief!
あと、タカペンの画力でキャラを描くのは
棒人間に文字通り毛を生やす程度が限度で
見る方によっては「ふざけるな！」って
感じするのかな～とちょっと心配してたのですが
「可愛い」と言ってもらったりしてて良かったです♪
I was also worried about my pics because they're just stick figures, and again, fans of the game and characters might find it offensive that I'm just drawing stick figures... but I've received comments that they're cute, so that was a relief as well! <3
お祭り〆 / End of Celebration Month
エアリス愛は一生消えないものですし
まだまだゲーム熱が凄いようで
びっくりするくらい動画の再生数も
伸び続けてるので、もしかしたら
また何かご報告したり
No Promises to Keepのフルバージョンの
和訳とか何かやるかもしれませんが
纏めショート動画をもってして、
My love for Aeris is something that will never fade away, and I think people are still hyped over the game and the views are not stopping yet, so I still might do something again related to these activities.
いったん
But for now.
エアリス強化月間、〆でございます
I am drawing a close to my Aeris Celebration Month.
お付き合いくださった皆様、本当にありがとうございました
Thank you all for joining me in the celebration!
また何かで暴走するかもしれませんが
今後もお付き合い続けていただけると幸いです
One of these days, I might go full throttle again on something, and when I do, I would love it if you could join me in the party. ;)
それではこの度も長い記事を
読んでくださりありがとうございます！
次の記事でお会いしましょう！
Anyhoo, thanks for reading, and hope to see you in my next blog entry!
ではではっ！
Taka, out!
