VTUBER STUDY: Michi Mochievee Ashite/Kill v. Maim/Never Fade Away
I love the idea of sprinkling in deeper studies of VTubers like this so I can get to know them better. What an interesting artist! These were some great covers. What are some originals of hers?
Who should we check out next?
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I love your take on her Aishite! It does seem to adapt to her range but her delivery is really dynamic along with the story
2:20 She is Indonesian so it's no surprise she's friends with HoloID but best friends with Ollie (they have the key to each other's place). There have been times where one is streaming and the other just walks in.
The "Gritty" or "Screaming" in this one is mostly Camila (I think), a great cover, they both are very skilled.
Please do more on our lovable dork Michi Mochievee :)
Michi Mochievee of Indopendent is amazing, 4SKINS RISE UP! Michi is the only Vtuber that I actually call my Oshi, even if I am a fan of plenty of other Vtubers.
So cool! I didn't know too much about Michi to be honest, except that she is best friends with Kureiji Ollie, so it was cool to look into some of her covers! I love that transformative Never Fade Away cover. I like this format of getting a taste of a bunch of releases from a specific vtuber! Hopefully this wouldn't completely replace the song deep dives, I liked that you did this as well as the Gigi Murin reaction.
Just a heads up for Vtubers. It's sort of tongue in cheek about previous aliases or "Past Lives" as they are called. We all know about them, but generally it's impolite to talk about or mention them in the presence of that person. They changed names and models for a reason and unless that reason is because they did something bad and are trying to escape it we tend to not directly talk about it. SPECIALLY like Michi here who used to be with a corporation (Nijisanji) as corporations being involved usually means NDAs and you don't want your favorite talents being sued because of something you said right? You are new to all this and it's an easy thing to forgive, just making mention of it for you. also of note the Vshojo thing is a bit different since the girls did not lose their identity from it.
Michi isn’t the most confident in her singing, even though she is good. She has been chewed out from ironmouse several times for saying she isn’t good. Shes slowly getting a little more confident. I read before that in her past like, nijisanji told her she was a bad singer and that stuck with her.
I’m pretty certain she based her being a zombie character heavily off of Ollie from Hololive ID. She’s a zombie and is Michi’s oshi and friend.
Really glad you had a good time, you got a pretty good cross section of her music between this and the Matryoshka and Medicine covers on the live stream. One of her more beloved covers is Oblivion (which wasn't intended to be a serious project, but is a real vibe) and she has an original song with her good friend K9Kuro called Deja Vu, and if you wanted another emotional song Everything I Wanted is also beautiful. She's going to be dropping something like a dozen songs in the near future as well, hopefully a few of them on the 20th for her 2nd anniversary (as Michi). Fun fact: Never Fade Away is from Cyberpunk 2077, which is her favorite game. And she took advantage of all the strain on her voice doing a 30 day x 15 hour a day subathon to get the grit for it. She says she has trouble getting that kind of sound when her voice is doing well. To answer some questions that came up: 1. Her medical condition is something similar to, but not nearly as severe as, Ironmouses. To my knowledge she hasn't disclosed what it is, though she's been open about other struggles she's dealt with in the past; whatever it is, it's something that she has to manage proactively and (I think) requires specialists to monitor. She is able to live on her own and travel, but when she gets sick she's much more likely to require a hospital stay while recovering than a healthy person would. She travels to Japan somewhat regularly for work and to visit friends, and was able to travel to the US to visit friends based out of LA recently. 2. Michi's official fan name is scambers because her lore is that she's a scam artist that has one of those mysterious shops that will sell you anything - for a price. Her fans call themselves the 4skins because she's stitched together from the skins of multiple people, she both hates and loves it. We're both, depending on the company.
Breaking out a couple of somewhat related things so the message isn't such a wall of text. 1. I remember you mentioning in the Densetsu.exe analysis that you were trying to use colours to keep track of vtubers and that's a good instinct. Most vtubers have one or two specific colours and character features at the core of their brand. Ironmouse is pink and purple with horns and loads of hearts; Camila is hot pink with black and white eyeliner and that distinctive tail; Michi is purple hair with white streaks, the cross face stitch, and ringed eyes (pulled from the Bahrong in Indonesian culture) - lots of eyes in general. Camila's is the very high voice that does the screams in this track, she did the 'Evil' cover with Evil Neuro during the livestream as well. 2. SixteeninMono works with Michi on most of her music, similar to how Shirobeats and HallaCG work so closely with Ironmouse on most of the stuff she puts out. He's an indie musician who does mixing and instrumentals for a lot of other vtubers as well. He's really found a home in the community. Since you're nerding out about some of the musical choices in these songs it's worth checking him out via some of the projects he's worked on and some of the music he's done vocals for.
3:53 Not really? You have to compare it to the original, not the Ado cover. Ado's version is the one that deviates the most from the original. The vocal line is very calm, there is zero grit.
The next vtuber to do this kinda thing will be Amalee, She has a lot of original english covers for anime music aswell as fansongs for her favourite series spanning more than a decade. Also another one is Akuma Nihmune(numi) but for her deep dives I will prefer you check out her originals mostly. For Numi i recommend Darkest Hour( original no mv unfortunately), Pizza in the cosmos( original with mv), and her scatterbrain( cover). Also some analysis of obkatiekat's metal technique will be cool
For kill v. maim Camilla is doing the growls at the end of the chorus. Camilla's voice is quite nasally and very unique. Never fade away that michi sang is a cover of a cover of Samurai's never fade away. That cover is part of Cyberpunk 2077 video game.