annual "listen to watashinokoko NOW" call to action. They're an experimental multi-genre producer who uses the younger sister preset on LalaVoice, a synth from 2001, using the weird engine noise to create incredibly eerie audioscapes
Their most accessible album is カラダは正直 (The Body is Honest) whic combines remasters of their best songs from their debut album with beautiful new tracks that mark their mastery over the soundcape they want to craft
Bandcamp
BOOTH
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okay so i'm a little bit sad that software automatic mouth and lalavoice almost certainly due to them not being modern anime mascot synths but midi narrator is still here so lets go
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safe keepings because LaLaVoice download link
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Watashinokoko song archival effort
It was only in early 2021 when I listened to Kazuhumi Yosu’s first musical project, kesson shoujo through Spotify. Childhood in Housing Complex remains one of Yosu’s more popular albums this is due to how available it is, being found in almost every streaming service on earth. This is the only one of Yosu’s works that has made its way to services like Spotify or Apple Music.
Many people who have listened to Childhood in Housing Complex aren’t aware of other kesson shoujo albums or have even heard of watashinokoko, many of these releases are pretty obscure. It has been my aim for the past 6 months or so, to track down these releases and archive them through Youtube so other fans can enjoy them.
The first album Yosu made under the kessonshoujo name is an-min, a dark ambient work which includes tracks that would later be reworked into hue drone. It was published through defunct netlabel CMBCMW (Call Me Bitch Cut My Wrist Records) which were so kind to upload them to archive.org, it was quite easy to find but it wasn’t uploaded into Youtube so I went ahead and did it.
https://archive.org/details/CMBCMW010
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4AhnFTdGsVmsSQ9nWwml5TNxItW2-rq-
The second album is Childhood in Housing Complex also published through CMBCMW. A Portuguese netlabel took it upon itself to upload it to every major (and not-so major) streaming service and various free music archives. No idea if Yosu is aware of this, but you can find it pretty much everywhere.
https://archive.org/details/childhood_in_housing_complex-15438
The first EP is LaLa Sings which marks the first time Yosu began to use LaLaVoice as the singer of his songs. It contains iconic songs which would later be included in many albums and compilations yet to come. It was uploaded into Archive.org and can be found in Youtube, but I went ahead and uploaded every song separately so people in Lastfm could scrobble them.
https://archive.org/details/CMBCMW016
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4AhnFTdGsVnmVDTbP6nx8LERfhlIpp01
The last kesson shoujo album before Yosu dropped the moniker was わたしのココ. It was trickier to find and many people aren’t aware of its existence since it would later be re-released. I found it through a lastfm comment before realizing that you could also find it through archive.org. It wasn’t on Youtube so I uploaded it there.
https://archive.org/details/watashinokoko
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4AhnFTdGsVkzRAr-7lfL239P4cTwWi8S
The transition era between Kesson Shoujo and Watashinokoko is much less documented. What I could gather, after the name change Yosu would began to release songs through MySpace, yet not many people archived those songs, so they could have been . It was through sheer luck that I found a fairly recent Youtube video about someone recommending Watashinokoko which had an earlier version of the music video from disgrace/わたしと歩いていると恥ずかしいの.
So I searched through EVERY Youtube video that was related to Watashinokoko and found that same music video, the uploader linked a MediaFire folder which contained old videos, the MySpace EPs, prototype songs and two unreleased songs. These had only been downloaded a couple of times since they were uploaded in 2011, so I reuploaded them into archive.org and Youtube
https://archive.org/details/WatashinokokoEPs (sadly the filenames got corrupted)
https://archive.org/details/watashinokokodrafts
https://archive.org/details/watashinokokovideos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4AhnFTdGsVkXvjNjH4iC9yUjjD0GHadr
From there Yosu began to release albums through the defunct UGUU netlabel, many of these are the same ones which would later be uploaded into Bandcamp without any changes after UGUU’s site went down.
I should note that according to mirror sites, Yosu had a Facebook account or page (no idea what he uploaded there) and found he currently has a Pixiv account.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/93380
It was through Pixiv that I found the answer to the question that every Watashinokoko fan must have asked themselves at least once.... What does the self-proclaimed sister does? She appears to be the protagonist of her own series of art and short stories on which she goes through surreal scenarios alongside her teddy bear which may or may not be actually alive and protects her from evil spirits. We still don’t know whose’s sister she is.
Please donate to Yosu’s Fanbox or buy his albums for his amazing work.
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AAAAAAAA you're such a cinnamon roll and I wanna hug you ilysm
"Cinnamon - roll ? ... --We eat those... ... ..."
"Why do you want to eat me?"
Tama: (Mun) "@lalavoice doesn't want to eat you silly, they are saying that they like you very much, it's like a compliment."
"Ohh,...It makes sense then...cinnamon rolls are sweet, so, they are saying...I'm sweet?"
*He gives you a BIG warm hug*
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❤️ if you don’t have too many to catch up to!!
> REALLY WHOLESOME! LIKE, YOUR LOVE FOR YOUR BOYS AND EVERYTHING JUST,,, SCREAMS WHOLESOME.
> YOU ALSO LIKE GOOD MEMES AND I THINK THAT’S REALLY COOL OF YOU.
> VERY SOFT. AN ABSOLUTE BEAN.
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Hey dude!! It’s me again! ( hope ya don’t mind) but as I told you a while ago, it’s gonna get better! You’re so strong!! You’re doing amazing!
yeah !! its already getting kinda better i guess.... and im gonna have work to distract me the rest of this week a bit !! so im really gonna give it my all there
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✉️ (only if you wanna!)
Send me ✉ and I’ll write you a love letter as one of your F/Os
“Now i’ve seen quite my share of unexpected things in my day, and believe me, I usually expect the unexpected. But falling in love at my age? I didn’t expect that! One of the many things I love about you, really, you’re full of surprises! Well, what isn’t there to love about you, really? I’d go through everything I adore about you but, that would be a very long list and I would get very tired. But in short! Let’s stay together like this always,” - Salim
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Hi Moe!! Love you!!!
Moe wasn’t sure how to react to this sudden display of affection, it just gave him fuzzy feelings deep within that he felt too anxious to share.
All he could do was hide his face out of shyness as he jumped into the nearest leaf pile to hide under.
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