Mafumafu 5 SONG DEEP STUDY: 'Life Hates Us Now,' 'I Wanna Be a Girl,' 'Swaying from Season to Season,' 'Terminus,' & 'There Was No Point in Being Born' (Live)

I came here from YouTube, and I absolutely loved your reactions and the way you explained Mafu's songs/his vocals! Thank you so much for reacting! I'm really glad you pointed out that he uses his art to explore and talk about heavy topics through his music—that's exactly what Mafu intends to do. The fact that his message reached you means he truly accomplished what he set out to achieve. He's such a unique and incredible artist. The way he writes his lyrics is beautiful too, especially with all the wordplay, double meanings, and puns. There's so much depth to every song, which is one of the reasons I admire him so much. And he's even more amazing live. He'll sing two or three incredibly difficult, high-intensity songs back-to-back, and his vocals are still so powerful and stable. It's honestly insane! I hope you'll react to more of his newer songs too! I'd love to hear your thoughts on them.

Would love a deeper dive into "Life hates us now". Whenever I felt down I listen to this song to pick me back up. I know Japanese and I find the lyrics absolutely brilliant, one sentence that touch me extremely deeply is "年老いていつか 枯れ葉のように誰にも知られず朽ちていく" which translate to "Growing old, one day we rot away like fallen leaves with not a soul in the world knowing of our existence." This sentence is stuck in my head and I find it so beautiful.

I had to join the Patreon because if I love one thing is Mafumafu! And it's one of my favorites "There was no point in being born" 😁 I would totally support more MafuMafu reactions and btw, you watched a performance for his Tokyo dome concert in Japan during COVID, it's still up on YouTube and I would love just a whole reaction to that!

I knew the lyrics that the Voca Community would get Tim. So happy it's especially true for Hated by Life Itself.

Mafumafu is one of my top artists of all time and if someone forced me to pick favorites I think it would have to be him. There are songs and covers of his I must have listened to hundreds of times now (over maybe.. 10 years?) that still leave the same kind of lasting impression on me as before. I have so much respect for him—fun fact in that vein, he mentioned once in an interview that he actively studies Japanese vocabulary (which is super extensive, reaching into phrasing that people never see in everyday use) in order to get the lyrics as close to what he wants to convey. I always found it a shame that he hasn't been discovered as much on the English reaction side of things, especially since (I believe other commenters have mentioned this) he was THE major utaite in Japan before Ado, so I was beyond excited to see this video go up! I'm glad that you enjoyed it and—yeah, his vocals are insane. I remember watching the concert that "There Was No Point In Being Born" was performed in live (it was an online concert during lockdown, held in place of an in-person concert that was meant to be held at the same venue, Tokyo Dome, basically the pinnacle of concert venues in Japan) and just being beyond floored. He's probably my biggest singing influence stylistically! Trying not to get too rambly here, but super happy to see Soraru/After The Rain get featured here too! They've been friends for a long time, even when they were both only doing covers as utaite/not yet producing original songs, and they're such a great pair musically. Often in their collaborations, Mafumafu writes the music and Soraru does the mixing! Once again so happy you enjoyed, and so much appreciation to you for creating this space and giving us your thoughts!

Also the last live clip is from his entire Tokyo Dome concert that is still on youtube. Would be great to check out the entire thing!

Mafumafu is one of my favourites not only for his crazy vocal range but for his lyrical writing, music production, an all in one package who writes songs that resound on such a deep level. Hope you check out more of his songs!

Love your appreciation on Kanzaki Iori, if you have time please check out That Summer Saturates, one of my favourite song from him.

He's Ado's teacher, to some extent. MafuMafu was on Ado's radio show, and they reminisced about sitting in a cafe, and MafuMafu giving Ado vocal advice.

Thank you for the amazing video! 😭 Even though I've literally listened to these mafumafu songs thousands of times, they still move me deeply. Or rather, I might have just become wired to naturally shiver whenever I hear them... lol I was just a boy when I first encountered these songs. But just as it goes, we who were but youths at some point start to change into young adults. Growing old, I suppose one day we rot away like fallen leaves with not a soul in the world knowing of our existence. I have absolutely no idea how much suffering awaits before reaching that end. Even so, as long as the songs that have supported me throughout my life remain inside me, I live on frantically—shouldering our lives, frantically, We live. I want to express my utmost respect and gratitude to you for conveying the power of music to people through your videos like this. As someone who loves music, I sincerely hope this wonderful video reaches as many people as possible.

I knew the "I Wanna Be a Girl" song was going to resonate very strongly with me because I fall under that umbrella. I wasn't crying until you were talking about how proud you are of the younger generation and breaking out of society norms and it's okay to be that way. I love your videos and to see you music nerd out on so many good songs. Thanks for just being great!

Tim's adhd strikes again lol. The 'after the rain' song lyric video that you pulled up had the lyrics changing colour depending on who sang when, but regardless it was a great reaction , loved to see tim completely floored after the final vocal performances, mafumafu is insane live.

This is easily one of my favorite reactions ever. I had so much fun watching it. Mafumafu needs to be more known in the English speaking space and we really need more deep dives on him in the future. He has a gigantic discography with over 200 songs and some of his covers are easily the best of all time for vocaloid songs. Edit: 08/03 - We have a request page now, so if you want to see more Mafumafu reactions: https://requests.timwelchmusic.com/r/c2b0cd47-c501-4632-a30e-db65aab0353c What an Artist, musican, singer, songwriter and this reaction is just so worthy of him.