In my opinion, only Red Swamp Bottom could be possibly connected, as it's the only one that shares a motif with DWC. I'm not even sure if Test Tube Princess, Blue Ice Castle, and Guard and Scythe were "canonically" connected either, or if it was just us English-speaking fans looking for connections when there were none. This is why you always check the primary source, kids.) I'm an Evillious Chronicles fan so I know this personally. (Side note: A LOT of misconceptions about Vocaloid songs were reinforced by reprinted fan PVs. I don't think that's even an accurate translation of the title. Wide Knowledge wasn't actually connected to DWC and was only a misconception enforced by a reprinted fan PV. This was the general order of songs I've seen floating around the Youtube comments at the time. I noticed that you didn't go into this in your current list (EDIT: I just realized that you linked the Vocaloid wiki page, but I checked the page and it backs up what I'm gonna say next), but at the time when I was getting into Vocaloid (around 2011-2012), there was a consensus/theory in the English-speaking Youtube fandom that Dark Woods Circus was part of a series. I'm not sure if this song was very popular in the overseas fandom (then again, it was popular enough to get a mention on TvTropes, which was how I found it myself), but goddammit, it deserved to be. If you can't access the Flash version, here's a recording of the song including all the Easter Eggs on Youtube. (Again, try to watch on the Flash version of the site since it doesn't work on the current HTML5 version. This is their biggest hit, Itai Atashi Ashita Aitai, (I linked a translation by vgperson) whose entire gimmick seems to be centered around palindromes. Then pause at any point.)īut yeah, this means that ChikuwaP could (and did!) insert Easter Eggs into most of their PVs for even more terrifying effect. (Side note: This has actually been used in a popular PV, actually! Look up the original PV for Double Lariat on NicoNico and try to use the Flash version of the website if you still can. swfs is that you can insert objects within the file that continue to move (or start moving) when the user pauses the file. Okay, so you know how NicoNico used to be a Flash website, right? This means it could also host Flash (.swf) files. So there's this Vocaloid horror producer called ChikuwaP who has a really INTERESTING habit with their PVs. I've seen a lot of plain Vocaloid covers of the OP itself, but KAITO Ga Uninstall is unique due to it being a "parody" with altered lyrics and its own PV, haha.Įverything I'm about to talk about next is in the TV Tropes page but I couldn't go without infodumping about these because they're just so cool. I'm sorry if this didn't make much sense but I hoped it helped a little bit!Ĭlick to expand.Seconding frankensalad, it's actually a "parody" of the Bokurano OP. I can remember seeing so many MMD videos with Creepypasta characters as well as Vocaloid horror stories born out of these songs. The storylines were easy to follow but satisfactorily creepy and the stimulating visuals found in these songs made them very interesting to members of the Creepypasta community. Given the endless desire for a good thrill in a new way, this genre of Vocaloid music would probably have been quite helpful given its strangeness and (usually) bright and colorful packaging. It might have been due to the "shocking" and "new" aspect of the horror content in these songs that appealed to the horror community I feel. If you were a fan of one, you were at least familiar with the works of the other. There was a point in time at which the two were really entwined in my opinion. If there is one thing I can remember from that period of time though, given the overall mystery of Vocaloid and what it was (even today, there are people that are unaware of what Vocaloid is although, If I recall correctly, it was worse back then), it's creepy factor with anime aesthetics really allowed it to spread into the Creepypasta/internet horror community quite easily. One of the first Vocaloid songs I ever listened to was Dream Meltic Halloween by Machigerita which, of course, led me to find other such songs of which are already mentioned (although this song is softcore compared to the others haha).
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