Uploaded July 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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"It'll be a quick cover," I thought, "just a simple English tuning test. It'll be fun..." And then I was promptly smited by God over and over for the next 12 months without respite.

Is this an actual new VB called KYO English? No. Is the title misleading? Yes. Am I keeping it because it sounds snappy and this was eventually intended to be an April Fool's upload to begin with?? You bet. Do I feel any regret? Maybe a little bwease don't be mad skdjfhlgkjdf

FJKLHSFKJSFH That aside this cover is!! Now officially one year in the making!! I started this whole mess on July 24, 2018, and now here we are―one year later, and good god was it a disaster the entire way w

While the main vocal track went through several passes, eventually honing in that English pronunciation as best I could through the help of low OPE notes, plenty of [ - ] connectors, and lots and lots of consonant fudging, managing all four sets of harmonies quickly got out of control ; ; ;

One of the biggest problems I ran into was just that at some point during the initial beta mix stage, I had a ton of renders I'd made on the fly and a million tracks with minute adjustments, and before I knew it dealing with the GB file was near impossible without having to re-render and re-mix near every track every time I wanted to make a change, so it ended up being that while the main vocals got more and more polished over time, the harmonies basically stayed the same as when I first tuned them w

As a result there's still a ton of muddy sections where the pronunciation isn't great (most notably there I originally used [ sh ] in place of [ th ] and later replaced it with [ f ] but only on the main vocals sdfjkghl) but honestly ! ! ! It's good enough to get the job done, so it's time to get this monster out of my hair ! ! ! !

To be honest, even //beginning// to approach KIRA's tuning was a challenge in and of itself, and dealing with the mixing on top of it changed this cover from a struggle to a nightmare, but all in all I'm glad it's finally done. It's hard to try to match up to a dark magic user like KIRA, but hopefully this cover at least has a little charm of its own!!

I had a lot of fun working on the module design for this PV!! It was a challenge to figure out how to make an outfit that fit the overall look I wanted KYO to have while still paying homage to GUMI's simple yet striking design. Does he look like a punk clown?? Absolutely. But who's going to be the one to say it to his face? w

PV blatantly modeled after the original―forgive me KIRA―but when the original's as iconic and kick ass as it is, it's hard not to tbh sdfkjhglskdfjglsdf

So that's about it ! ! ! Looks like I actually managed to sneak in something else before I disappeared for the winter!! Hope y'all enjoy and I'll probably see you again sometime next year unless I get another personal deadline to kick myself into gear!!

MP3: dropbox.com/s/wlqf5ayoxvw9zg5/%E3%80%90KYO%20English%E3%80%91MONSTER%20%28by%20KIRA%29%E3%80%90VOCALOID%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%80%91.mp3?dl=0
AIFF: dropbox.com/s/f0wovuy7iybln04/%E3%80%90KYO%20English%E3%80%91MONSTER%20%28by%20KIRA%29%E3%80%90VOCALOID%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%80%91.aiff?dl=0
WAV: dropbox.com/s/vqgon2zmwng42ao/%E3%80%90KYO%20English%E3%80%91MONSTER%20%28by%20KIRA%29%E3%80%90VOCALOID%E3%82%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%80%91.wav?dl=0

also guess who forgot to put the credits in the PV but a special thanks to まきがね for their buckingham club chair models that i ended up heavily using as a ref for the chair in the PV a a a a a a a

(also also as always please don't reuse/reupload my PVs especially not for other covers i put a lot of work into these and they're real personal to me so sdfjkgldfgh)