That channel 8 switch up was so unexpected 😂

From the pages of Physis: "Battle theme: VS Kraft. Suzuki’s exhilarating hard rock chain. Kraft means “power”. A warfield… This is indeed Kraft’s “field”. “... Let’s begin, shall we?”" ...if you think about it long enough, Kraft is Zero's own Jetstream Sam: a scruffy-faced tanned warrior of great skill who gave up on his idealism a lifetime ago and becomes a foil for the fair-haired sword-swinging protagonist. Hell, they even have the same mechanical thighs!

Channel 2 on its own is heavenly

PEAK TRAIN INCOMING

YES, FINALLY

I always thought the piano played along with the guitar, kinda surprised me that it only did one long note and not two of them

From the pages of Physis: "The control area stage of the satellite cannon “Ragnarok”, built in outer space. The real Operation Ragnarok is carried out through the satellite cannon in satellite orbit and its indiscriminate attacks to the surface. But Kraft, who’s betrayed Vile, aims that flaming sword to where Vile is at: Neo Arcadia. Zero heads to space again so as to stop him." ...Kraft's one chance to save the world, tainted by his defeatism, led to more harm than it did good. Having seen Neige's determination to defy Weil's sadistic nihilism, he took all the wrong lessons, and decided to stop Weil the only way he knew how: *an act of violence taken in the name of the greater good.* "Are you saying I should play the loyal Reploid and follow you!? Not doing... Not thinking... Just waiting at your beck and call? And are you condoning the destruction of nature, struggling just to survive!? I... I will not let you take control! I've fought too long and too hard for humanity to let you! I will change the world!" ...and yet, this one act intended for the greater good led to more suffering: 2 million citizens were vaporized when Ragnarok fired upon the capital of Neo Arcadia. ...and it was *all for nothing.* Physis then has these notes on the included audio drama for this scene, *Ragnarok Record - At control room - Laevatein:* "Ragnarok has finally been fired… The discrepancy of how Zero and Kraft see “justice” as… “I don’t care about being called an Irregular… Someone… Someone must judge the humans, who’ve strayed off the road!”" The duel with Kraft reveals that he's fed up with everything that's happened so far: "Trust? And just who should I be trusting? The humans that do nothing while their world falls apart? The humans that fear us, their own creations? Or the humans that try to conquer the world? We fight each other for them!? This world screams out in pain under them... Why should I trust anyone? How can you trust them? How can you fight?" The final duel is yet another tragedy Zero must face, fighting someone who fought as hard as he did, but just like X nearly did, gave up halfway. It's no coincidence Kraft was specifically singled out as an old-generation Reploid in the same vein as Zero, and why their fight ends with Zero refuting Kraft's despair by telling him of a promise he made to X a long time ago. ...by the way, there's a lot of symbolism in the description of Ragnarok as a hanging sword in space: You may have already heard of the Sword of Damocles, the metaphor for the pressure of a looming threat that hangs heavy over those who are in a precarious situation, usually for those in power. The booklet Vile's Incident: Eden dome, its sin and rebirth outright alludes to this, while also dropping the scariest line in the history of Mega Man: "Ragnarok, a satellite turret at the time of the start of construction, was discovered in old war footage, which is among the rarest of classified data released to the public." _"It is said that more than 200 attack satellites of the same class alone are still hovering above our heads."_ However, there is a reason why Ragnarok's control system was named after yet another sword: Lævateinn. The sword itself is known as a sword belonging to the Norse trickster and bringer of Ragnarok, Loki. One interpretation that breaks the etymology down finds that the Læ in its name is negative: it means either treachery, deception, or harm. In fact, some interpretations claim Lævateinn was likely the mistletoe used to bring the death of Baldr, and in doing so, beckon Ragnarok itself. With that in mind, it's disturbingly fitting how Kraft's act of treachery kills Weil, but in doing so brings Ragnarok down upon the earth, destroying Neo Arcadia's precarious situation between relative peace and absolute chaos, using Lævateinn to do so.

This ROCKS!

Wild. I never knew that the crash melody was hidden in this song. Always just figured it was called crash cause of its delegation to mini boss song after zero 1.

I've been waiting for this one for so Long. Finally! Now All I want is Ragnarok and Falling Down

-...needs the YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH! NONONONO NO NO!!! of the Physis edition.-

From the liner notes of Telos: "Forest of Anatre (East). Speaking of forests, Kurihara likes them. This is also an arrange I wanted to do in Zero 2. It’s turned out into a rather thick feeling (laughs)." ...not much to say on the song itself, but it's worth noting that they romanized _anatolē_ (Greek for East) wrong. To that end, let's discuss two particular things: the boss and the weird recurring motif of red eyes hidden across the maze at the forest's heart. In Telos' creator's chat section, a curious bit of information clues us in on the use of the eyes in the Forests: *Honda:* The Zero 2 forest dungeons are DASH (Legends) style (laughs). They’re all loaded with the mood to make fan-service so if you look at it from another PoV it’s pretty mild stuff. The eyes inside these mazes scarily look like those of the Reaverbots. We're never exactly told *what* they are or where they came from, and considering Neo Arcadia was left abandoned for years after Zero, and presumably remained ruins all the way to ZX and Legends... what are the odds the systems in these forests became the source of the Reaverbot threat we see in Legends? It'd be similar to how Beepy from Nier became the forerunner of the Machine Lifeforms in Nier Automata. ...as for the boss, Hanumachine himself: Hanumachine is a weird mixture of Hanuman and Sun Wukong. It might seem spurious, but there's a possibility that this reflects how Hanuman was likely an inspiration for the myth of Wukong according to some scholars. If one assumes the historical Sanzang/Tripitaka's journey to India and return involved taking some texts back with him, it's not unlikely he or those who travelled with him also took back tales of an apelike deity, who in turn was syncretized with some preexisting Chinese myths about dangerously cunning monkeys, such as Wuzhiqi, a river demon that most accept is the earliest and likeliest prototype for Wukong. ...by the way, Hanumachine was actually part of Phantom's Cutting Shadow Squadron, and was, as per the notes from the OST for the first game, tasked with assassinating Zero while Leviathan led the operation to destroy the base. This wasn't easy to demonstrate in-story due to game limitations, but it would be quite compelling in a hypothetical anime. Also: localization *completely* butchered Hanumachine's character in the first game: he insults Zero as an out-of-date Reploid in the English text, but in the JP text, he drops a massive bombshell that would pay off big-time in Zero 3: "You are Zero-sama, the Ancient God of Destruction, aren't you?" ...was he aware of the connection between Zero and Omega? Was *that* why Weil brought him back in this game?

From the liner notes of Telos: ""This is the lifeline of Neo Arcadia, named Under Arcadia. What will the truth lying on ahead inflict to Zero? The door to Hell has been opened. There’s a hidden boss in this stage. It’s a character who’s very loved by the development staff and his revival was greatly desired (laughs)."" In Which Zero Goes Dante's Inferno and Delves Into the Deep. ...wait, does that make Phantom his Vergil? ...after playing the duel with Phantom, part of me wishes that other than the usual Reploid-on-Reploid duel, he'd have had a secret use of his Armed Phenomenon Mode, the massive batlike boss hidden away in the concept arts that he never got to use due to dying early on. It would've been an interesting twist on him testing Zero.

From the pages of Physis: "The track of the prison infiltration. A facility built as a frontline base from where to command “Operation Ragnarok”. Hel the Giant, the boss, was sentenced as an Irregular by Neo Arcadia and imprisoned, but it was brought there by Vile and turned into a watchman. Vile told that he'd set him free if he beat Zero, the intruder. But even if he achieved that, would’ve Vile set him free…?" ...the tragic part about this is that Hel was lied to, and lost his life at the hands of Zero, begging for light. His final lines in battle are _Hikari wo… hikari wo kure!_ (Light... give me light!) In short, he was condemned to eternal darkness in the depths of a prison, begging for a hope he'd never have. ...also, note that the materials explicitly call him a Reploid. *Not* a Mechaniloid, _a fully-sentient Reploid._ The implications are terrifying: we've faced similarly massive bosses before, but they were passed off as being merely Mechaniloids. Except Eregion the dragon, X4's intro boss. Imagine giving sentience to something that massive, so much that when you deprive it of freedom, the inability to move is amplified...

From the pages of Physis: "A Cyber Elf research facility shut down after the end of the Elf Wars. Defectives and failed models of Repliroids strengthened by Elves are sealed here using cold sleep devices, and it looks just like a haunted house. It supports the “suspicious SE-like rhythm” image. Melt the snow, the card key, the light bulbs, the steel pipes… It’s full of gimmicks. Fenrir was a military Repliroid of the Elf Wars, who’s been revived by Vile." ...y'know, it's fitting that this stage lets Zero pick up the Iron Pipe he once used against Sigma all those years ago for a duel to the death with Fenri Lunaedge. Especially when you consider that the Complete Official Works describes Fenri as: "Fenri went berserk due to a bug in the altered Cyber-elf he was trying out. To stop him from running wild, he was put to sleep in cryogenic stasis and the entire building was demolished. He was later revived by Dr. Weil for the purposes of Operation Ragnarok. As Popla Cocapetri and Noble Mandrago both have skills related to cryogenic stasis, Fenri has an inherent aversion to them." ...why does this sound suspiciously like Zero? A Reploid driven insane, sealed away in a lab, never to be found again? Only this time, what came out was loyal to a shady old -lava lamp- scientist, _just as Zero was _*_supposed_*_ to be?_ I wonder sometimes if Zero felt the parallels when he had to -Ol' Yeller- -Jason Todd- Fenri with the iron pipe. ...by the way, Fenri's role as a member of the Einherjar is a funny paradox: apparently when the original mythical Norse Einherjar arise, they're meant to fight the forces of the end, like Loki and *Fenrir.* And Fenrir himself is supposed to be a fearsome world-ending wolf who in turn will devour Odin. Instead, he ends up on the side of the Einherjar... but in practice, they're the forces of the end bringing about Ragnarok.

From the pages of Physis: "The huge electrical current that Magnaxe has changed into a magnetic field and generates abnormal gravity on the surroundings, sucking up the rubble of the previous civilizations buried in the ground while tearing up the lands. I tried arranging the track to give an electric image. “Magnetic and gravitational abnormalities make the body turn lighter or heavier”: this idea was led to the making of this stage. But it’d seem it was very hard to express that (in-game). Magnaxe was a Repliroid that worked as part of a mass driver facility that served to transport huge amounts of mass. He joined the Operation Ragnarok out of a very simple reason: if he obeyed Vile he’d get plenty of energy." ...Magnus, you absolute simpleton. A simpleminded glutton who can't even speed up his sentences. No wonder there's no respect afforded to you, even if being interrupted is your pet peeve. ...I wonder if the years of working with magnetism weakened the data processors in his brain. Being a machine built around magnetism, such that he can split himself up into multiple limbs and a core, doesn't seem like it would be good for long-term mechanical brain development. I kinda agree with the writer though, I feel the magnetic gimmick in this stage wasn't used fully. The ingame mechanics of just increasing your floaty jumps or crushing you downward with magnetism made it a bit of a weird slog to play through, (though, to be honest I did like the floaty jump segments a whole lot. The weightlessness is so fun to play with). If you instead had mechanics that used the polarity of the magnets to pinball around the stage in a physics puzzler sort of way, it might be a little more exciting. ...by the way, a Mass Driver is an electromagnetic launching system designed for hi-speed transportation of goods, usually in the context of launching goods skyward into outer space. Neo Arcadia would find these systems very important, since many of its key infrastructures that the Resistance can't reach are higher than the clouds, such as Copy X's tower, which was once an orbital elevator. (There's unconfirmed speculation it could've been X8's Jakob Orbital Elevator, just repurposed.) With that in mind, Magnus had a very key role... but then he got greedier for more. ...that or he's just a hungry boi.

From the pages of Physis: "Totally Controlled City and the tower at its center, “Dominion”" "The stage is a city from a previous civilization that’s been discovered, and which is practically intact. It was becoming the hideout for some folk who hid in the surface, but Vile took over the city. The rebels were either petrified by Cocapetri, and a virus program made the city itself gain a “will” of its own to then attack humans and Repliroids. It’s a very bull’s-eye track in my opinion. Cocapetri is a Repliroid specialized in electronic warfare, such as jamming or cracking. Once Hacker Cyber Elves were implemented, he hated that was being phased out so he volunteered to join the Einherjar. Has an image of an old guy made fun of by lovebirds." Cocapetri, the pettiest old rooster this side of the Einherjar. A Reploid solely defined by pettiness, from his grudge with Zero over being insulted, to the very reason he joined Weil's wicked warriors. For the record, the wiki makes this claim about his powerset: "Cocapetri is a Mutos Reploid who specialized in electronic warfare, including software hacking and communications interference. He is equipped with weaponry that allows him to backdoor computer systems and interact directly with main coding; one favorite method of his matching his cockatrice motif is that he is able to exploit a failsafe protocol through laser etching inscriptions onto a Reploid's optical units, that subconsciously activates a manufacturer built in self-containment sequence and override virus that takes over the CPU of the victim, deactivating them as if they were petrified. As such, he loves fighting by making foes helpless and using attacks that forces his foes to stay in place." ...curiously, this seems like a hell of a sci-fi shoutout: they specifically highlight that Cocapetri does not actually turn people to stone, but instead uses -epilepsy beams- lasers to trigger failsafe containment sequences and enact viruses inside a hapless Reploid's optics, with potentially-fatal effects. This sounds suspiciously like the eponymous cognitohazard from the short story BLIT (Berryman Logical Image Technique), which features the use of graffiti used as weapons that take advantage of certain patterns that the brain cannot safely process, killing whoever looks at them. These patterns gained a reputation as "basilisks", as catching a glance of them would be fatal. Now, while Cocapetri is more based on a cockatrice, cockatrices tend to be semi-synonymous with basilisks. The distinctions between them depend on who's writing (as they're both creatures that are half-chicken and half-reptile/amphibian, but this depends on which interpretation you read), but it's safe to assume Cocapetri's creators shrugged and mixed them up when naming him. Yet another thing that likely will rile that ol' rooster up when rung up. ...by the way, it's eerie how the City he took over looks suspiciously similar to Abel City, or some of the older cities from the X series. Scary if it used to be the city where X began his journey, ruined further by a petty ol' peahen. What's worse is that we don't know what became of the humans and Reploids supposedly suppressed by Weil's armies, and the game never shows any trace of their bodies, only a city full of crushing blocks and fatal spikes...

I wonder what is the guy behind this channel trying to acheive Yet i love it

Oh my god, Channel 4 sounds so spooky and terrifying, I love it!! 💕

Ah yes Zero the express UG...engine

From the pages of Physis: "The miniature artificial sun which is being experimentally operated stage. By greatly increasing the output, it’s being repurposed into an environment destruction weapon that desertifies the surroundings. I did think of making the track have a “sizzling” image to it. Titanian was the manager Repliroid of the facility, but since her partner and same type (Repliroid), Oberon (rational circuit prioritized, in charge of calibrating the heat), was accidentally destroyed during the takeover of the facility by the Vile Army, she, the survivor, went berserk and turned the takeover troops into charcoal. Rather than “joining” the Einherjar, she’s just following Vile because it matches her own destructive impulses. She’s the younger (in mental age terms) and very selfish. She doesn’t get along with Mandaroga. The original motif was the butterfly-shaped Fairy King “Oberon” but the design was changed to be a girl and so she became the Fairy Queen “Titanian”." The bits of the gyaru butterfly's backstory we get are quite tragic. Not only does she lose someone close to her, her "Oberon", but she ends up spitting on them by joining the people who took their life, being so broken she'd rather break everything than be the better 'bot, or even avenging them. ...Weil, you sick old lava lamp past its shelf life. Everything you touch, you corrupt.

Channel 1 and 6 are awesome! But then again, so is this track! 💕

Hell the Giant!!🔥

Este es mi soundtrack favorito de megaman zero 4

From the pages of Physis: "The track of the human settlement stage. An arrangement of the Area Zero theme. The settlement is set on the outer perimeter of the Area Zero crater, on the shores of the lake that formed there. Trailers and tents are placed there and they quietly live along with nature in detail. The advancing Vile Army appears there as well as Kraft, who’s searching for Neige. The quiet settlement is dragged into the spiral of strife." Interestingly enough, the entry point into Area Zero is different just for this version of the stage, as instead of the teleporting approach taken in the usual selectable stage, or by leaving the Resistance mobile base to head there on foot, Zero needs to take a longer route that takes him past the ruins of Eurasia's environmental control module, a lake full of debris and frog-robots, and a cave filled with relatively-new scaffolding (likely built as observation towers by the human refugees) before leaping out from the cave and towards the burning camp. One might think that there's something off with the geography, but I personally subscribe to the idea that when you take the road ahead of the truck to enter the Area Zero camp, a lot of the hard parts of getting there that Zero has to deal with in the stage are just "dealt with offscreen", as ingame Zero goes there without any issues, other than being lambasted by the human refugees at the beginning. Another theory of mine explaining why you needed to take a different entry route into the camp is because Neo Arcadia activated emergency jammers preventing anyone from using any possible Transservers to escape the camp or enter and provide support. We know as far back as Zero 1 you needed specific frequencies to use specific Transservers to get into places as secure as Copy X's sanctum, so who's to say they can't "reverse polarities" and instead jam frequencies that would normally allow you to escape?

I think channel 5 might just be a chiptune noise

This one has a very Nightwish vibe to it, sorta feels like ghost river

From the pages of Physis: "A mobile fortress moving across the skies while spitting thunder clouds that spread thunder and acid rain, it’s the celestial gardens stage. The intro guitar and the rimshot are emblematic parts of the song. This slightly oriental melody matches the image of the oriental shrine design, Pegasolta’s (taste?). Pegasolta was a weather control huge mid-air unit’s controller. He’d always wanted to be transferred to a battle unit and it looks like Vile helped that wish come true. When the Ragnarok Operation began, seeing how Kraft was subtly being inconsistent, he was thinking of replacing him as the commander." ...more reasons to despise that arrogant pegasus prick, I see. Pegasolta loves playing high and mighty, and his pre-battle lines reflect a keen narcissism that would have gotten him labelled a Maverick back in the day. "I will smite the worthless vermin down below... Lord Weil came up with a plan as beautiful as myself. All ugly things must bow down before me. Pegasolta Eclair will send you to the depths below!" ...I've seen comparisons between him and X5's -Spiral Pegasus- The Skiver, but in reality, both 'bots are as different as they come. The Skiver's loyalty to Repliforce and Colonel is comparable to Kraken's loyalty to his long-lost unit and master, while Pegasolta is a Starscream in the works towards Kraft.

From the pages of Physis: "A heavy and death metal track. It originally was a multi-floor base for a rebel group apart from the Resistance but the colony of nanomachines that devour machines, released by Mandrago, took root across the whole of the base as if they were vegetables’ roots. Mandrago was originally used solar-powered nanomachines to preserve and regenerate the environment, but Vile’s alterations made her conclude that “nature must be put under total control to regenerate it, and if needed, momentarily destroy it” thus becoming one of his underlings. The Zero Knuckle can be usefully used in both the stage and the boss. " ...that's seriously hardcore and horrifying. If ever you're wondering why the entrance to the tree's roots requires you to open a mechanical door, and why there's a bunch of mechanical doors inside this stage, it's because some resistance group used to live here before Mandrago wiped them out. We're never told how, but considering the nanomachines supposedly devour machines, and there's barely any humanoid Reploids save for her mechanical plant minions (plus one fire-breathing ant with explosives)... ...Ciel's commentary after the mission concludes is a bitter thought to consider. Neo Arcadia was one of the last places on earth capable of sustaining a functioning environment (until Area Zero came to light), with their domains having semi-artificial forests such as Notos, Dysis, and Anatre, and their inner sanctums having lush greenery. Mandrago's job as an environmental control system for plants means in a post-apocalyptic world like Zero's, she's a vital part of keeping the world and its people alive. "Artificial plants... How ironic that the very technology meant to protect nature is destroying it. Humans are capable of the most wonderful and the most terrifying things with the power of science. As a scientist, it makes me shiver just thinking about it." ...it's a bitter thing to swallow, knowing that Weil manipulated her such that what she was supposed to uphold became something she decided to dominate and possibly destroy. That old lava lamp's probably been feeding every Reploid he controls his nasty orange Kool-Aid. He might as well be a human Maverick Virus with how he distorts their own personalities and drives to suit his twisted ends...

From the pages of Physis: "The stage of the crust destroy ship with a giant drill which is diving deep into the ocean’s abyss. It will eventually self-destroy within the crust and seeks to create a huge earthquake and calamity. It’s an aggressive track, yet it makes you feel the abyss of the sea depths, although I remember that it was hard to make it… Kraken is a survivor of the Cutting Shadow Army but now that all of the 4 Heavenly Kings are gone, their armies and their ranks are gone too. He joined the Einherjar hoping to avenge Phantom, whom Zero defeated." From the Official Complete Works: "Previously the leader of a special group within the Cutting Shadow Squadron that took their orders directly from Phantom. Due to the fact that his main duty involved the investigation and elimination of traitors within their own ranks, his presence was always shrouded in mystery. After Phantom's defeat, he completely disappeared, only to emerge before Zero, seeking vengeance." "Tech Kraken, who uses ice-based attacks, is covered in ice from head to toe and constantly emits cold air." If there was ever any Reploid who reflected his faction's leader's ethos the most, it would have to be Tech Kraken. Just as Phantom was a shinobi willing to throw his very life on the line for the sole purpose of fulfilling his objective, Kraken here is undertaking a mission he *damn well knows* will result in his death. If you let him defeat you, his post-battle speech has him proclaim: "Tech Kraken: Now I only need to run this sub into the ground and cause a great earthquake! Are you prepared to sink with me to the bottom of the ocean? Phantom... I will be joining you soon!" ...sadly, this devotion to his master ultimately blinded Kraken to _why_ Phantom did what he did: he died in the belief he was stopping a threat that would harm his Master, Lord X, and thus harm humanity in the process. Phantom then had the fortune to meet the real X in Cyberspace upon his passing, and is implied to be why in Zero 3 he takes a role as a threshold guardian, challenging Zero to a duel in Cyberspace to give him a potentially game-breaking upgrade to serve him well against Omega, and testing his mettle as a warrior. Kraken never had that chance to reassess his beliefs. That said, Kraken was still aware to some extent that what he did would damn him, as his defeat line proves: "Hragh! I have lent my strength to Weil, and now I must pay. There's no way for me to save Phantom's soul... But... I did what I had to do! Phantom! Forgive me!" Perhaps this moment of mournful reflection is why instead of being confrontational with Zero during the rematches on Ragnarok, he instead encourages him to go and defeat him, the way he defeated Phantom. Channel 4 has some of my favorite parts in the song. It's got a very playful tune for a stage where you're confronting a cyber-ninja kraken mournfully avenging his master. Hearing Channel 5 solo actually subtly sells the ninja theme Kraken has, when I think about it: the pipes sound like they'd fit in a Japanese-themed stage from the older Mega Man Classic games.

Pease do area zero next man love you bro

日本語表記、リベレートミッションが正解です…

The bass line is pure heaven Really ties the song together

wait this is actually fire asht

This is my favorite song in Z4 mainly because it's one of the few songs that doesn't have the Z4 guitar in it

Omg not the Shark! XD RUUUN!

Very cool

I don't know why, but I love the remastered version of this music.

love the snare drum in the drum loop, very numetal

I had no idea channel 6 and 3 were so integral to the overall feeling of the theme. They really never made something this amazing to listen to since.

jsyk, i will watch every single track deconstruction. from z1-z4. if you make it, i will watch it

This theme fittingly feels holy

And here it is, THE SONG for me about this game and honestly i dislike how much the internet remixes this theme and forgets the sounds channel 1, 3 and 6 suppose to give So many people overloads it with guitar that they forget the hope and calmness this theme is supposed to give So thanks for uploading this to show the whole process of this theme

From the pages of Physis: "The track of the giant particle cannon, which uses a heat generation plant that gets its energy from solar light, and Genblem’s own generator’s power. It’s also been used in promotions so you might already be familiar with it. Suzuki’s “go-go-beat” is used at full power here! The diagonal terrain at the beginning of the stage is the solar system and if the weather is sunny they will send energy as they shine. Genblem is an honest soldier who’d been working with Kraft before. He joined Operation Ragnarok while understanding Kraft’s feelings." Further elaboration on Genblem's character from the pages of Mega Man Zero Official Complete Works: "A large Reploid with a very hard body, high firepower, and surprising agility uncharacteristic of such a large frame. Under his reinforced multi-composite armor, he carries a power reactor for his energy cannons. The excess energy produced by his reactor can be expelled to allow temporary flight. Being a rather serious and straightforward warrior, he follows his orders dutifully, though his loyalties do not lie with Weil." Fascinatingly, we see this aspect of Genblem as a loyal, no-nonsense soldier all throughout his voice lines... but alas, he has committed one breach of Japanese military protocol, sadly endemic to fiction. When he declares the start of his battle with Zero during his first encounter, he bellows "状況開始！ (Jōkyō kaishi!)" In practice, this declaration isn't meant for declaring the start of *actual* military operation, _it's meant as a cry indicating the start of a practice exercise._ One could argue this means he sees fighting Zero as mere training, but still, it sticks like a sore thumb when you consider he's already put himself into an actual mission involving the use of the particle beam cannons.

This song is straight fire, because it literally is. Figuratively as well, i will be appeased by electric guitars, they always sound good. I never noticed that channel 6 sounds incredibly dissonant compared with the rest of the track

The first noise on channel 7 is a slow pick scrape on electric guitar, while the second is a double handed one

I didn't know I needed this, but thank you!!

Extremely heavy, like a ton of bricks weighing down on you. Its so good, the guitars carry this song up to being one of my favorites. What can i say except guitars go hard?

Give the channel 7 drummer a raise!!!