NANASHI MUMEI: 6 Song Tribute Study -'Mumei' 'It's Not a Phase' 'Satisfied' 'A New Start' 'Fukurou' 'Low' |

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Hearing Mumei gets me to tears everytime, right from the intro. Mumei has such a beautiful voice. She's a precious memory we'll never forget.

Thank you, Tim 🪶

Talking about "graduations" the first really significant one that occurred at Hololive, and it may have been the first ever there, was when Kiryu Coco left in 2021. Her graduation literally shocked the world because she had an enormous audience. Technically, Coco is American (grew up in Atlanta, GA), but she's fluent in Japanese since that's her ethnicity. So, she may have been the first V-Tuber to gain a large English-speaking audience. She debuted in December of 2019 as Gen 4, along with Tsunomaki Watame, Tokoyami Towa, Himemori Luna, and Amane Kanata. By all accounts, they all got along very well, especially Watame, who Coco helped out technically in her shaky beginning, and Kanata. Coco isn't a vocalist by any means, while her talents involved creating funny dailies, called "Asacoco Live," a "News" program, and "Reddit Shit-post Reveiw," featuring funny Hololive memes and Hololive members guesting. There's way too much to say about Coco, regarding her rather unique (and risqué) sense of humor, and the international furor behind the situation and circumstances behind her seemingly sudden decision to "graduate." I'll just end by saying her send-off was enormous. She still "tubes" as "Kson Online", but I still miss Kiryu Coco.

The Mumei song's art is so much in her style, and she's a very nice artist. I'd imagine that she provided sketches to fit with the concept of the song which helped the animators in creating "Mumin" visuals.

We're definitely mooming now! Regarding the song "Mumei" there was one more layer to the lyrics I think you may have missed having to do with acceptance. The word "mumei" appears in the song 3 times. The first time it's translated as "without a name" in the context of the lyrics (Just a description) The second time it's translated as "nameless" (an adjective) The third and final time it's not translated at all, because "Mumei" is now no longer a description of her, it has become a noun, it is her name. The word meaning "Nameless" is simply her name now. (It's even capitalized in the CCs) And yes, while I've never seen a confirmation, I've always felt the music in mumei was quite strongly inspired by Porter Robinson.

I like how you instantly clocked Mumei as silly in the Hamilton Karaoke song, one of the last things she told us was essentially even though we are sad stay silly. She is our Silly IdOwl through and through!

The lore behind Mumei is that she is the chronicler of civilization.. she wakes up at the birth of each civilization, chronicles their rise and fall, and goes away with it.. and she forgets who she was, who she met etc.. only retaining the knowledge from the past. Thats why she named her pet Friend.. because no matter what, he will always be a friend. The order to watch these 2 originals should’ve been A new start first and then Mumei.. but as she keeps resetting and setting out anew every cycle.. you could also argue those 2 songs are meant to listen to on loop back to back.. it becomes the chicken and the egg question :)

Apologies in advance for the essay. I tend to get wordy with these things. I always had a soft spot for "mumei", but ever since Mumei graduated, I can't get through it without getting misty eyed. I remember exactly where I was when the announcement of her departure came. I was in Fukuoka Airport, waiting for a flight back to Tokyo. A heavy rain storm had delayed my flight. As I waited in the terminal, a friend back in America linked Mumei's announcement stream. Part of me wasn't surprised. She'd been dealing with health issues for a long time. Anyone who watched her for long enough remembers the "kyun" arcs, the frustrations, the long breaks. But still, even knowing it was coming, it still hurt. What always drew me to Mumei was her singing. She had such an incredible voice and hearing it deteriorate was hard. I listened to that announcement stream and it took everything in me not to burst into tears in that terminal. Mumei and her genmates debuted only about a month and a half before I became a fan of Hololive, so I always had a special attachment to her generation. They lost one member, Sana, back in 2022, and another, Fauna, retired in January of 2025, only a few months prior. The members of Council were my gateway into Hololive, and Mumei was my first oshi. Even as my horizons expanded beyond Council, even as I adopted the label of a hako-oshi, a fan and active supporter of everyone in Hololive Production, whom I cheer on and love with equal fervor, Mumei always held a special place among them for me. Not quite a kamioshi, but something safe, familiar and inviting, like a warm fireplace after a day out in the cold of winter. She was part of the reason I wanted to take up content creation and when she left, it felt like a piece of my creativity left with her. I know it's an unfair thing to impress upon a stranger, someone I've never met, and likely never will meet, but I've struggled for the last year and change to find a spark to keep the light going. A few years ago, I wrote a travelogue of my trip to New York to see Mumei and the members of Hololive English when they performed at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. There were a few notable graduations and retirements the community was reeling from at the time and I wrote some passages that still stick with me. "Graduations, retirements, terminations, however we classify them, are always going to sting. To watch someone put years of their life, thousands of hours of effort and love and blood and sweat and tears into making the best thing possible, only to decide that it’s time to move on, or even have that choice taken away from them. It hurts. I said it at the end of my Aqua video, but being emotional over something like this isn’t something to be ashamed of. Emotions, strong emotions; anger, sadness, confusion, regret, these are not signs of defect. They’re the signs of caring. Loss is inevitable, and to lose something you love invites a deep grief that can be difficult to describe." "To love something so deeply and so fully that losing it brings you genuine sadness is, I think, one of the most rewarding experiences we can have. Across all of time and space, the infinite vastness of the universe, you happen to be here at the same time as something that brings true joy to your life." "There will come a day when the one you support the most decides it’s time to move on. For some, that pain has already come to pass, for others, it’s a constant dread in the back of their minds. For as many tears as I’ve shed for talents leaving Hololive, and I’ll freely admit there’ve been many, I’ve found myself with an odd peace about their departures. Ultimately, as much as I’d love to [hold onto the things I enjoy most about those who've left], those days are now past. I mourn for them, and what might have been, but I know they’ll never be forgotten. The contributions they’ve made to Hololive, and to me personally, are simply too big to forget." It helps to know that she's doing well, even after all this time. I can only wish the best for her. She deserves that, and so much more. Thank you for everything, Mumei. We're Moomin', now and forever.

The whale in the video for Mumei is relevant.

As soon as I saw this on the schedule, I was ecstatic. Mumei was my oshi, the one who got me to stay, watching Hololive and vtubers in general. I was lucky enough to catch a lot of her karaokes live (because they were almost always unarchived, so missing it meant relying on someone to clip them.) Mumei's voice is incredible, and underrated among several other incredible voices in Hololive. As much as I love her covers and original songs, they don't showcase the true power of her voice; you only *really* got that in her karaokes, in the rare moments where she felt comfortable enough to really let go and go off, so I'm very glad to see you listen to one of her many Satisfied karaoke covers. That was always one of my favorites to hear in her karaokes, and it kinda became one of her staples. She loved to sing musicals and musical theater songs. She did a bunch of Hamilton, a bunch of Les Mis, even a bit of Epic: The Musical before she graduated. In fact, there's one video where (I think this is the case) someone edited together a couple different times she sang "Would You Fall In Love With Me Again" to get one solid serious take, and it's one of my favorite showcases of her deeper-voiced singing she's ever done. I miss our silly singing birb.

Forgot to mention: if you wanted to check out more Mumei karaoke (she did a lot), check out the HoloTofu Karaoke channel: https://www.youtube.com/@holotofukaraoke/videos It's basically a complete archive of all her karaoke streams. Generally they can't leave karaoke streams with western music up on Youtube due to copyright strikes, so it's up to clippers and archivers to keep these streams from becoming lost media.

She recently had her first karaoke stream since leaving, under a different name of course. No one, including her, knew if she ever would do one again partly due her throat issues. But she did great and, more importantly, had fun singing some of her faves, including some silly songs.

If you want to see more of Mumei leaning into her voice, check out her 3D Showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgzc9_uAaY

One aspect of the lyrics in mumei I haven't seen covered is the progression of her name throughout the song. Nanashi Mumei is a Japanese play on words where effectively both Nanashi and Mumei translate to "nameless" or "forgotten". My Japanese is pretty rough, but in the beginning she basically refers to herself "Mumei" as nobody, but as the song progresses, even though she still uses the word "Mumei" to identify herself, the context slowly shifts. In the end, she uses "atashi... Mumei", which is closer to "I _am_ Mumei". It sort of shifts from "I am nobody" to "I am Mumei" which given how one of her major struggles in her vtuber career was her (lack of) self-confidence, mirrors her personal growth.

8:49 sekai 世界 / せかい means world (and can often be used as a stand in for society or existence like in English). The English "within this world" only covers "sekai no doko ka ni". Fun fact, this sekai is also in the word/genre isekai 異世界 lit. "Different World". The repeat is interesting to me since it's repeating a sound and not a mora (sound value, smaller than a syllable) which means it's actually smaller than a "letter" in Japanese. In other Japanese songs that repeat part of a word you'll often see the entire kana or kanji get repeated instead.

There's a fanmade game based on "Mumei" called Nameless, by SK Jynx. It's amazing and emotional, you'd love it

WE'RE MOOMIN IN BIG 2026 STILL! STAY SILLY EVERYONE.

As to the question of how Bae's model is moving around like that, I would assume she is just dragging it around in OBS. Like with a mouse. On a different note, I've always interpreted It's Not a Phase as both ironic and sincere. Like... liking emo is not a phase, but the teenage angst were teenage drama is always the end of the world really kind of is a phase. Hopefully. It works on both levels.

Mumei's music always hits me hard emotionally. Mumei, the song itself, is always a tear jerker.

Mumei's karaoke streams were always special because you never knew what you'd get. Sure, she has a beautiful voice that she can bring out, but she loved to play around and be silly as well. Karaoke streams are meant to be fun and playful as if you're singing with friends rather than just your best vocal performances and Mumei understood that so very well.

Fukurou is from the jukebox musical - the broken promise. Mumei is a massive theatre kid and one of her goals was to write a musical with her genmates. This musical is full of amazing songs that Promise sings. It is one of maybe three or four jukebox musicals that holo has put out. Nerissa and Aki also put out jukebox musicals for anniversaries or celebrations.

It is now kind of a tradition with Hololive English Vtubers. They get their chibi or as we call them Smol models. It started with the First generation Myth. Mainly Amelia Watson. Each group has their own unique design. They use them for variety and to be extra silly.

We really wanted to give you a good mix of original songs, 3D live stream and karaoke songs to get a good lay of the land for her and how playful she was and how good she was at singing.

I'm so glad you got to see her karaoke songs to see how silly and fun she is while still being an amazing singer. For the models used in the "Low" cover, those are designs originally drawn by Bae and Mumei's gen mate Tsukumo Sana, who graduated in 2022. They were originally vrchat models, which all of EN used for 3d collabs at the beginning of their time since they debuted during the heart of the global pandemic. Vrchat has continued to be a regularly used space for them because of the freedom it allows in terms of model and world customization as well as the special place it offered them during those rough first couple years for the branch. (Vrchat has even been involved in some of their major world builds helping them with architecture and model work)

Towa's cover of Mumei breaks me every time. They were good friends despite the language barrier and Mumei's graduation hit the normally stoic Towa pretty hard. "Thank you for Mumei..." 🥲

Can never get enough Mumei content

oh no.... we're mooming now boyos also each of her generation are considered the Guardian (gods) of something. Mumei is the Guardian of Civilization, hence the focus in her originals on that - in a new start - she travels through different time periods - in mumei - at the end of the song she finds who "mumei" is when civilization sprouts

I am unsure which exact comment mentioned which song you'd want to stay to the end, but I have a feeling it might be referring to Tokoyami Towa's cover of the song "Mumei", which she released soon after Mumei's graduation, if you are interested in checking that out one day be sure to look out for the little Easter egg at the end! Just want to thank you again for being very open minded and actually put in a lot of time and effort to learn about the Vtubers' lore and background to have better understanding of their songs, it is very infectious seeing you are as excited as we are listening to all these amazing songs and performances ❤️

Ok I'm not even finished watching but I have so much to say. With mumei (the song) you nailed the message and the meaning and why it's so important to the community. It's a song about accepting that you will be forgotten, sung by a vtuber whose time has already passed, but who is so vividly remembered and celebrated still, a year after she has graduated, and hopefully far into the future too. It's also such a unique genre for a vtuber song, and such beautiful song-writing too. I'm so happy that you appreciated getting to hear her in a karaoke setting, this is exactly why we wanted to include a karaoke song in this playlist, because Mumei is SO silly and fun but she can tap into that amazing vocal tone when she wants to. She judges herself a LOT and you can hear that in her karaoke streams. She's always adjusting and commenting on her own performance. The interesting thing is that it's when she goes full silly mode and stops judging herself that she can really access the full potential of her voice, even when she thinks she's just being silly. Thank you for giving some time to listen to Mumei, she's a really special vtuber, and so many other vtubers openly talk about how much they love her, even now! Towa had a really special bond with Mumei, even across their language barrier, hopefully you will be able to hear that if you listen to Towa's cover of her song. Bae and Mumei are best friends, so I'm happy that we could share some of that silly friendship in the playlist too! Anyway I need to finish the video but I love Mumei and her voice and her humour and fun fact she's an amazing visual artist too! Such a multi-talented individual, my oshi forever. edit: Fun fact, Mori Calliope wrote the lyrics to A New Start, as a welcome gift for Mumei's debut into Hololive! I just have to shout out one of the best lyrics from A New Start, which at this point feels so apt for Mumei: "Nothing strange about straying if you're true to who you are When one story has ended 'round the bend's a whole new start"

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