Kenshi Yonezu 5-Song Deep Study — 'Lemon,' 'Plazma,' 'DUNE (Sand Planet)', 'Shinigami,' 'Campanella'

He has so many incredible songs it's hard to know which to recommend, but I reckon you'd adore Spirits of the Sea. Flamingo is great too, really playful mix of traditional Japanese music and singing styles. And if you want something from earlier in his career, Go Go Ghostship and MAD HEAD LOVE are kooky as hell

While I have other favorite singers, there is no doubt that Kenshi Yonezu is the best singer, composer, and lyricist in modern Japan.I am always deeply moved by his choice of themes when drawing inspiration from literary works, his selection of words in lyrics, and the perfect harmony between them and the music.

Dune has a lot of really interesting interpretations. However, yes in the 2015-2018-ish the scene was kinda in a slump a lot of the big famous Vocaloid Producers of the early 2000's retired, died, or moved on and out of the Vocaloid scene entirely with Kenshi Yonezu or his Vocaloid Producer name before then Hatchi being one of these artists. EvE and Yosabi being other artist you have listened too who actually did similar to Hatchi and others in leaving the Vocaloid scene for their own music at the time. The scene at the crossroads I feel is a representation of that, artists who kept following Miku who stayed on the scene and producing vocaloid songs like Kairiki Bear, Deco*27 ect, and those who took the other path outside of the vocaloid community. Like Kenshi, Ryo(Supercell), EvE ect leaving the scene for the most part to enter into doing their own albums, as well as video game, anime, film music ect outside of vocaloid. Another thing was the producers themselves getting more recognition, like the fans who run up and initially seem to hug miku just to swing onto and bear hug the musician instead. I feel this represents the producers themselves getting more fans. Of course there are tons of references as well all over the place. There are tons of deep dives on that song for those curious. Actually I think it would be really fascinating to hear you listen to and react to one of these artists first vocaloid songs vs their new releases. Like Hatchis Matryoshka vs Kenshis new releases like Kick back ect.

Shinigami is a really fun song. I would actually recommend reading up on a version of the rakugo story, if you haven't already and then re-listen to the song. He naturally incorporated a bunch of things from the story into the song, which makes it even more fun. For example, the two claps after chanting the incantation are taken from the story. Also, as far as I know, the story has multiple endings (considering it's been retold multiple times), which tend to twist the story's overall vibe. Overall, a really great reaction! Looking forward to learning more!

There is a full version of Shinigami - it's just the music video is only 2 minutes

Crypton future media is the company who made the hatsune miku voicebank. They own multiple voicebanks and provides them to be used for various software. The main ones they own now is miku, meiko, megurine luka, kaito, kagimine rin and kagimine len

So if you want to put in songs for the anime livestream here is the form: https://forms.gle/PX2L6yXaasqbFK2t6 spreadsheet to check songs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14ahNHr7Kdxcvz5k2UtQ9v2S54fTiOy-Ajik7HGZJAls/edit?usp=sharing A spinning wheel will select the songs for the stream!