Song: It's Over, Isn't It?
Instrumental: The Panda Tooth https://youtube.com/user/ThePandaTooth
Composition: Rebecca Sugar
Vocals and mixing: Kumoshi
The original song was performed by Deedee Magno-Hall as Pearl, from the show Steven Universe.

It's over, isn't it...summer break...the Olympics...

I feel like that meme of Mr. Krabs looking blurry and afraid.

In any case, I really enjoyed all the Steven Universe episodes this summer, and I love this song because of Pearl's tux and the Broadway vibes I get from Deedee's singing, so here's a quick cover c: Thank you Rebecca Sugar for having plenty of alto-comfortable songs in the series.

【Kumoshi】It's Over, Isn't It? - Steven Universe【Cover】

YouTube upload here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWTOX93ixi0

Song: Daring!! / Darling!! (turns out it was an official error from the record company?? it was supposed to be Darling!!)
Lyrics: Hata Aki
Music and composition: Kondou Keiichi
Vocals, mixing: Kumoshi
The original song was sung by Pile, the seiyuu for Nishikino Maki from the Love Live series.

I like all the songs from the MakiUmiEri CD, but Soldier Game and Daring!! are my favs, so I decided to try covering one. I am ashamed to say I started working on this cover a year ago but somehow didn't finish. I later thought that I had recorded harmonies for it, but turns out I hadn't...so I just decided to tune some of my main vocals to use as harmonies. At least I guess it's sorta fitting with the electronic sound of the original song?

I'm mortified every time I hear myself saying "Darling baby" or anything along those lines.

Daring!! - Kumoshi

Song: Butter-Fly
Lyrics: Chiwata Hidenori
Arrangement: Watanabe Cher
Vocals and mixing: Kumoshi
The original song was sung by Wada Kouji as the opening for Digimon Adventure.

Phew I'm still barely in time in our time zone-- Tofu, if you're reading this: yep, surprise, I sang in more than one song for your birthday :))

I apologize for the shitty mix and harmonies and my really brief birthday message; due to poor planning I didn't set aside the amount of time to work on this that it deserved ;; Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy this cover and that you've had a wonderful birthday! And rest in peace again to Wada Kouji ): (Also, on a side note, you should prod me to get into Smule karaoke since I've been meaning to for so long--)

Butter-Fly - Kumoshi

Song: History Maker
Composition: Dean Fujioka, Umebayashi Taro, Matsushiba Taku
Lyrics: Dean Fujioka
Instrumental: farpras https://www.youtube.com/user/FarPras/
Vocals and mixing: Kumoshi 
This song was the opening for the anime Yuri!!! on ICE.

Yikes, I realized I haven't been keeping up with Vocaloid songs or covers in the past few months, nor have I actually mixed the older recordings for solo covers that I'd meant to long ago....whOOPS

The only anime I've kept up with recently is Yuri on Ice too, which I've really enjoyed since ice skating is one of my favorite sports to watch (though sadly I don't seem to see it on TV much) and I enjoyed the characters' interactions. I am certainly pleased with how Viktor and Yuuri's relationship played out and Phichit is just too precious ;; Figured I might as well cover the opening, since it's in a pretty comfortable range for me, I think. I apologize for my pitchiness and other errors in my singing but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

Here's to a new year!

History Maker short ver. - Kumoshi

Song: Rising Hope
Composition: Tabuchi Tomoya
Lyrics: LiSA, Tabuchi Tomoya
Arrangement: Horie Shouta
Instrumental: gigitbantalcrew (GBC) https://www.youtube.com/user/gigitbantalcrew https://soundcloud.com/gigitbantalcrew
Vocals and mixing: Kumoshi
This song was the first opening for the anime Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei.

Talk about awful procrastination, I looked at the original Audacity project files for my recordings for this and they're from May 2015.... I thought I had already tuned these vocals in Melodyne but it turned out I hadn't. (Since I don't have Melodyne currently, I started trying to manually fix some of the notes that were off in Audaciy with Change Pitch, but gave up after a while. I'm not maso enough for this) 
But better late than never I hope?? Though now listening to my old vocals is exceedingly painful. Especially since I don't remember where I recorded for this cover but wherever it was didn't seem to have acoustics that I like.

Unrelated note but I really wish I were able to go to Anime Festival Asia or Animelo Summer Live, look at those guests...Not a high chance of that many coming to the USA, except maybe Anime Expo's concert series but I'm not very likely to go to AX due to distance and cost. Speaking of which, if any of you have been to Anisong World Matsuri at AX, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know what you thought of it!

Rising Hope short ver. - Kumoshi

Check out the YT upload here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZjLG_nwRY

Song: Eine Kleine / アイネクライネ
Music and video: Kenshi Yonezu / Hachi
Instrumental: C*Yuki http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm25942524
Acoustic: ビッ栗 http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23287905
Vocals and mixing: Kumoshi
This song was written for Tokyo Metro and was on Kenshi Yonezu's album "Yankee."

This started out as a birthday present for Eri https://www.youtube.com/user/Yozora101 https://soundcloud.com/y-o-z-o-r-a but I also wanted to say that it really resonated with me when you (Eri) talked about how it'd be nice to have some reminder that it's okay to take things a little at a time and to have hope for the future. I decided to sing this because I like your cover of this song, and the lyrics, though I realize now they're much more bittersweet than uplifting aha...

Anyways, my sincere apologies for not doing a better job of keeping in touch, but I'm really happy that we are friends, and I continue to admire your dedication and improvement in visual arts and in music. Best wishes to you for 2017!

Eine Kleine (アイネクライネ) - Kumoshi

Song: Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no Youna / それは小さな光のような / It Was Like a Small Light
Composition: Yuki Kajiura
Lyrics: Yuki Kajiura
Arrangement/instrumental: Hereson https://youtube.com/user/Hereson0 https://soundcloud.com/hereson
Vocals and mixing: Kumoshi
This song was the ending of Boku Dake ga Inai Machi (aka ERASED) and was originally sung by Sayuri.
I pitched down the instrumental by -5 to be more comfortable for my vocal range, so I apologize for any distortion to the sound that resulted ;;
You can listen to Hereson's orchestral arrange with KanaChi's vocals here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6UJC0AAF28

Dang, I hardly even realized that these last few months flew by. I haven't really properly recorded anything since winter break, so I'll be posting some somewhat old covers that I didn't get around to finishing up until now. Kinda makes me wince to listen to the parts I didn't sing so well and my lack of mixing skill (which has probably deterioriated even more considering it's been so long since I practiced doing anything lmao). Anyhow, I remember back in spring 2016 I really enjoyed watching ERASED, it helped me get through a period of depression since I really got hooked on that anime after a pretty long time of not watching anything I could really get into.

I still have been singing, but mostly with an a capella group at my university, Nikkei Choral Ensemble (or NiCE for short). We just had our spring showcase recently, so stay tuned for the videos to be uploaded! https://www.youtube.com/user/NikkeiCE I'll make a playlist at some point containing songs that I participated in. Heads up, I can't dance for shit :')

Sore wa Chiisana Hikari no Youna (Orchestral ver.) - Kumoshi

Song: ninelie
Music and lyrics: Sawano Hiroyuki
Vocals and mixing: Kumoshi
ninelie was the ending of the anime Koutetsujou no Kabaneri, originally performed by Aimer and chelly (EGOIST).
I pitched the instrumental down by -1 for this cover.

wow dang it's kinda hard to get back into the habit of recording when I've been out of it o)-< Same thing with watching anime, I've hardly watched anything lately. Spent the summer working and checking out things that I don't typically have time to during the school year. It's my final semester of college now, and I had thought it was going to be a relaxing one but I overcommitted myself to various things (part-time jobs, continuing research assistant stuff, and an internship program I had applied for in spring which has...not been what I expected, to put it nicely; I'm still doing a capella on top of that). The financial aid office at my university is also terrible at communicating with people too, which didn't help, since I was trying to figure out whether I could take less than a full course load and still maintain a scholarship. Things are finally settling down a bit, but learn from my mistakes, don't plan on doing a lot of things within the same time frame because you will regretti

Anyways, I really like aimer's voice and I loved this song the moment I heard it in Koutetsujou no Kabaneri (which is a pretty decent series imo, I'd recommend it) so I wanted to give it a try. Apologies for pitchiness and for issues in sound quality with my recording, I know I ought to learn how to improve the acoustics of my recording environment, and I might need to fix some other things with my equipment too at some point...

Also, I finally got around to making a playlist with videos from the a capella group I'm in, Nikkei Choral Ensemble (NiCE). I really procrastinated on that oops...you can view videos that I sung in here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLil8M-BuMu3NaG4auQo1v0Z_4uq0bjhAV

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