There's such a big talk surrounding certain flowers of sorts, so I'll have to muster my clickbaiting skills to suffice the need...
Goodbye Sengen
グッバイ宣言／Chinozo feat. flower
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| AC Nijiiro (Y2) NS2 (MP) Plus STH |
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★3 (174) |
★5 (308) |
★6 (544) |
★8 (686) |
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vfgbs (v flower - Goodbye Sengen)Yes indeed, with today's Year 4 Ranking Dojo's latter-end Main Course update, the Camelia Japonica is truly in every Donder's lips! At the same time, however, I don't want to shoot myself in the foot if such a song ends up winning our year-ending internal popularity poll, as I tend to talk about such poll winners on SotW shortly after. Our records suggest how most of the warmly-welcomed newcoming picks from the past two years (see here and here) come from they yearly Ranking Dojo's upper echelons, so have for today something else to avoid spilling the "palpable" winner in advance! Today's pick is still nothing to snore around either, as you're about to read trivia on... to put it bluntly, quite the big f*cking deal across the Vocaloid-powered universe, too...
Originally published on April 13th, 2020, this "Goodbye Declaration" was put up by the nicknamed Chinozo, a Miku/IA/v flower-producing main since 2019. With the author-penned command on shut-ins to "bloom out-of-season" with his 14th musical release, this song managed to get an unprecedented traction among Vocaloid tunes, also with the aid of becoming one of the many viral-spread sensations via social network services like TikTok. Becoming Chinozo's first Hall of Legend (>10 Million views for the song) on April 2021, a whopping 50M more views beyond that were registered for it just two months after thanks to the afrementioned social media boost, ultimately surpassing on August of the same year the viewcount of Hachi's Suna no Wakusei/DUNE, the former most viewed Vocaloid song. As of today and counting more than 100 million combined views across all platforms, Goodbye Sengen stands tall as the most viewed Vocaloid song of all time, with many a cameo on Billboard Japan and TikTok charts across 2021 and 2022.
Such a tremendous support for the song has bloomed in many a side project, spacing way beyond all the fan-made covers and foreign music game cameos we're used to chronicle along these lines! After the song's single release and album-featuring on Chinozo's first album The Deluge from 2020, the first major project involving the song was turning the producer's most popular works as novels, starting out with the same Goodbye Sengen on November 2021 and sharing writer Sangatsu Midori (三月みどり) and illustrator Arusechika from the songs' official MVs on each of them. The GS novelization project currently counts four releases, with the latter three being about Chinozo's later-released tunes Shamer (シェーマ), Elite (エリート) and TAMAYA. Goodbye Sengen one-ups all three on side projects by also having a 10-parter "Listening Anime Audio drama" from studio Koemee, which can be found on the studio's aforementioned YT channel (link).
Now we come to the song's foreign otoge representation, for which we'll have to crack up the bulleted-list format that only the most recurring BMS/Variety songs are used to hold around here! Most of these orts also come with their own cover version and jacket art to match, mimicking the hand gestures of the hyper-energetic Rena Nanase from the original song's jacket art:
- beatmania IIDX, remixed by Liqo and IOSYS talents uno (composer) and Chiyoko (vocals);
- SOUND VOLTEX;
- GITADORA, as a cover of Rio (璃音) from the Himawari∗Punch unit who acted as the series' newscasters for a number of years;
- maimai;
- CHUNITHM;
- Ongeki;
- Groove Coaster, with one of the later-adopted official abum jackets;
- Project Sekai, available both in original form and in two separate cover versions from members of the fictional Wonderlands×Showtime ingame unit;
- BanG Dream!, as an Afterglow cover;
- Tetote Connect;
- MUSIC DIVER.
Much like other cases in the past, having a memorable song doesn't necessarily segue into either extremes of easy or hard charting, with Goodbye Sengen's 8-star Oni sitting in the boundary between such fronts. M;ustle memory and repeating stanzas will certainly aid you to a swift performance, but make sure you've already had a hang on stamina-based skills for those consecutive 3 and 5-hit clusters strings!
