0 People's Waltz

[@Babu0w0chan]

Drawing is me でちゅ　babubabu DECHU ❤️

[@isotypic]

So good babuchan....

[@malokt3725]

Cuteeeee!!! 💖💖💖

[@shivaflwrs]

your drawings are so good babu!!

[@sweetproject6337]

i love your art

[@xl9992]

Leonardo Da Vinci was found crying in a gutter wigless

[@angela.luntian]

I like how it turns august 32 up to 36. Time never actually continued on for the kid.

[@angela.luntian]

*39

[@octosquid48]

@@angela.luntianwell it's still past August 31 so you still get the point across

[@mktwos]

I think after the bomb, the radiation caused the child to become delirious after their "living dead" phase. It would also explain why there are "people dancing around the room", and why it seems he can't even process time any more.

[@xl9992]

The use of children's drawings and hiragana really sold the childlike vibe of this mv But as like most of your music, *there's definitely something wrong here* It's so , innocently sinister I love it, my wig is gone and scalp raked clean でちゅ！

[@boboho5893]

In fact, this song is about a kid who found the time had stopped. He also felt someone was watching him. Though his mom was cooking, yet, she couldn't make any dish for the kid. Then the kid went crazy. I don't think this story is related to waltz.

[@VegasFlatline]

Wdym there's always gonna be something wrong if any media use child drawing 😂

[@tsubakishoujo]

I think it's a song about Hiroshima bomb explosion. The child is living a quiet and probably boring life with his mother and barely open door (nothing is said about it but maybe the father is in military), then in August 6 to 7th the bomb falls and the boy sees not the bomb itself but his surroundings affected. The neighbor at his roof was either smashed to it by the explosion or gone up to watch what happened to the city. The child received a lethal dose of radiation. "Because my body is invisible, the summer break will never end" - I suppose he already knows that the life of his city has been destroyed, and "my body is invisible" is maybe for he hasn't got access to the hospital and proper medical care. After August 7th, the picture is going black. He felt bad the first day and then got better, feeling almost healthy for the next two weeks. It's called "the living dead stage", when a person been exposed to a dose of radiation severe enough to disrupt the DNA and lose the ability to regenerate cells continues to live on the remaining cells, showing little symptoms. Except his skin, if broken, is never healing. By the end of August, the final stage of radiation sickness emerges, the child's health progressively worsens, he starts having hallucinations because of dying brain tissue and feels completely exhausted (I am helpless and unable to do anything). As the boy gets worse, he's unable to eat and digest food, then he loses the feeling of time, doesn't see surroundings and now it's a groundhog day that looks like a torture. A week later, he dies. His mother ends her life, not only to grief but to understanding that she is going to die the same painful death. Still, I did not fully get the meaning of lines about somebody watching through the door in room, maybe you got some ideas :)

[@angela.luntian]

I think the people on the other side of the door watching him would refer to the side that dropped the bomb. Maybe its the external news coverage.

[@pusheenaerlova5701]

I think they also turned into like black figures like the shadows of those who were in the blast (also I love your theory it adds so much for me!)

[@tsubakishoujo]

@@pusheenaerlova5701 thank you very much ❤

[@Nyax50Lopez]

@@pusheenaerlova5701 oh yeah that's true. But wasn't the bodies like melted as well for those who survived but also got burnt so bad from the bombing?...

[@altf41nt]

@@angela.luntian or maybe the study of the survivors from the bomb, because it was the first time something like that happened, so researchers were really interested on seeing the effects radiation had on humans. The ABCC (Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission) denied to give medical help to the victims in order to get better results, and they made experiments on them too, so is no crazy to think those eyes were researchers from america.

[@elliot_rat]

ohhh i looked at the lyrics on the wiki and this kid is in like a groundhog day situation

[@elliot_rat]

or a kid who got frozen in time?

[@earthensystem3524]

@@elliot_rat Indeed, the child is frozen in time. Specifically on the day of the Hiroshima bombing.

[@elliot_rat]

@@earthensystem3524 ooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@ryazia]

what wiki

[@polygawn]

In the begging of the song the boy talks about how “the people from the other side will be watching me.” He’s talking about the United States……

[@audreypratt4496]

The visceral, heart-breaking wave of dread and despair I felt when I saw "August 32nd" was truly something else. The song itself barely even gives you time to process it before it continues into August *33rd* and then goes right into that rapid, frantic chanting portion and everything goes to shit *again.* It went beyond the standard creepy Vocaloid song that features kids in peril: those are all usually pretty predictable - being assaulted by a predator, killing or being killed, mutilation, parental abuse, all depicted in clumsy metaphors and heavy-handed lyrics- and while it can definitely be done well, a lot of times it just feels like a cheap tug on the heartstrings, and they all seem to *affect* childishness rather than actually being sung from a child's POV - someone pretending to be a child, not an actual kid. This song is different. I have no idea what's happening. Neither does the singer, who, from the lyrics, feels so profoundly young to me that it hurts to think of them in this hellish ordeal. The song leaves us two possibilities: Something is so terribly wrong that it's creating things that shouldn't exist - like a month that goes on forever or the singer's perspective has been so horrifically warped that this is the only way that they can understand whatever horrific thing they're experiencing. Either interpretation works; I find them both chilling and sickening. All this to say? It's a fucking masterpiece. Well done.

[@Janlavtsogzol-q8t]

This is just September 1/2

[@gokuharagonta]

I like this interpretation, I’ve always felt like this song sought to convey the feeling of PTSD and episodes of psychosis, having to relive a traumatic moment. Maybe it was just me projecting my own feelings, but the lines “because I am looping this single day forever and ever, tomorrow will never come.” really resonated with me and my personal experiences.

[@octosquid48]

I too find the lyrics disturbing and hard to understand, so at least we can agree it's a significantly more psychological horror story

[@audreypratt4496]

​@@octosquid48 Even with the evidence (elaborated on in other comments) pointing to the song being about the aftermath of Hiroshima, this approach still works. As a casualty of the fall-out from the bomb, he would have been one of the first victims of an entirely new and completely unknown kind of suffering - and a truly horrific, drawn-out kind, no less. He can't comprehend what's happening to him because *no one* really understood what was happening. Not at that point, not really. He's just as powerless against it as he would have been against some of the more paranormal interpretations. The horror is tri-pronged - what's happening to the kid, his utter powerlessness in the face of it, and the fact that at the time, pretty much everyone else was just as powerless.

[@horuho245]

Oh lord, when 1:17 hits IT TRULY HITS--- I like how impactful it is.

[@FitzIsBetterThanYou]

_nice pfp_

[@horuho245]

​@@FitzIsBetterThanYou nice username

[@fwd2KamuiNet]

Nice pfp phosphos...

[@mehgemenymhge8566]

Nice pfp (ten thousand years)

[@mikinitsunoru8211]

awesome pfp

[@youwhenyouyouwhenuhhhhyea5794]

Literally one of the most incredible songs to ever exist. I can’t express how much I love this it’s so amazing.

[@nyanythenyany]

I think this song is about childhood trauma. There is a lot about some other people(/the neighbors?) watching the child, which I think correlates with the feelings of helplessness the child seems to express later in the song. I think some horrible event happened with/to the neighbors, during summer break, while their mother was cooking dinner. All I can make about is the event seemed to have overwhelmed the child, made them feel helpless, watched and disoriented (and prevented them from eating dinner/happened while the mother was cooking). The song is intentionally vague about what might have happened on that night that child seems to be living over and over again, which makes the fact it happened when they were a kid makes it feel more realistic, since the memory must have corroded over time/only remenbers what they felt.

[@justalilguy4729]

i know a lot of people are likening this to the hiroshima bombing, but this reminds me really heavily of the hito house. after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the entire upper floor of a house was found among the debris. one day, it was suddenly covered, from the outside walls to every scrap of wallpaper inside, in graffiti of the character "hito", which both means "person" and looks like a stick figure.

[@shafty8767]

WAIT THE REASON THE PAGE DOESNT FLIP COULD BE BECAUSE THE DAY LOOPS

[@HaruHarune]

I tried a hand at the translation: I forgot to close the cracks Who will look through them? There are surely people over there Watching me I forgot that I can never get it Mommy is cutting veggies The only thing mommy ever does is cook, and she can't even do it This evening Ta li la lu la lu la lu La li la lu ta li la li La li la lu la li la lu The neighbors are Spinning spinning spinning Turning around and spinning Turning around and spinning Turning around and spinning The roofs are turning Ah my Body is see-through and Summer vacation isn't ending I see the gap being pulled Looking from behind the fusuma door Looking through the tatami Looking through a hole in the shoji door This evening Ta li la lu la lu la lu La li la lu ta li la li La li la lu la li la lu These people are now These people are Spinning spinning spinning Turning around and spinning Turning around and spinning Turning around and spinning The room is dancing Many People are watching I am Not moving Ta li la lu la lu la lu La li la lu ta li la li La li la lu la li la lu I'm eating my food Spinning spinning spinning Turning around and spinning Turning around and spinning Turning around and spinning The room has stopped Ah I will Repeat this day forever And tomorrow isn't coming This world is over over This world is over over

[@3d3ntr3]

Thank you!

[@isotypic]

I know the last part “the world is over” is correct bc it’s from world end’s song

[@elliot_rat]

i think the "im eating my food" is actually "i want to eat dinner"

[@HaruHarune]

elliot rat ご飯 (gohan) just means “meal” or “food” it isn’t specifically a certain meal in the day like “ban gohan” (dinner) or “asa gohan” (breakfast)

[@jmjz2000]

8/4 weather : none 8/6 weather : sunny 8/6 weather : sunny 8/6 weather : sunny 8/7 weather : sunny 8/15 weather : sunny 8/30 weather : rain 8/31 weather : rain 8/32 weather : rain 8/33 weather : rain 8/34 weather : rain 8/35 weather : rain 8/36 weather : NONE 8/37 weather : NONE 8/38 weather : no weather 8/39 weather : none ... Date and weather... (I just... Just.. Bored.. So... Just write it.. )

[@LilyCelebiFlipnote]

I want to live through 8/32 too.

[@PapaEmeritusIII]

I was talking about how I miss old horror vocaloid songs and I got recommended to listen to you! This is amazing and really brings me back while also being something new and refreshing! I never heard of music like this before! This is fantastic and I can’t wait to listen to more

[@_Chacha.]

サビで溢れ出す狂気が最高でクセになる

[@黒うさぎ-i9d]

それな

[@crp1160]

this is by far one of, if not the most, powerful song ive ever listened to. babuchan really knows how to invoke all kinds of emotions into people. one of the only songs that can make me sob.

[@Candy_Cashmoney]

gosh darnit, this is one of those songs that I can’t understand at all but I understand subconsciously enough to cry for an hour.

[@vifurawa2715]

The childlike drawings and hiragana... They really give that creepy-cute vibe. I just love your music.

[@ghostclout]

my personal interpretation is obv that its about the Hiroshima bombings considering the date august 6th is when everything occurs. i think its such an interesting view of death having the day be looped forever, and i think the line where it says something about "my body is invisible" is why the day is looping. because the kids body, ASSUMINGLY, was caught in the explosion then it was unable to be buried / laid to rest, meaning the kids spirit cant rest peacefully. And also when it talks about people watching and people twirling and dancing and what not, i kinda link that to when you're dreaming and you're starting to realise you're dreaming things uncontrollably become kinda wacky. like there was this one persons comment i saw where they said when they realised they were in a dream, the people they were with all just suddenly started staring at them. so i imagine the child is in like a dream like state after death idk how to phrase properly and i think the scariest thing about the song isnt just that its happening to a child, but also because its looping forever. and forever / eternity is such a scary concept, let alone for a child. anyways wow what a great song (starts sobbing)

[@heavygamingupwardenjoyer1834]

I think this song might be linked to a japanese novel game with the same style. But in the game by the end of august the "child" is being burned by what i assume the neighbours. The diary is written through the perspective of a child. The entries are about playing with friends which are scared of the child, eating "everyone's watermelons (sometimes refers to heads)" on the beach, making chocolate with tapeworms and so forth. At the end it reveals that the diary is actually written by a drug addict whose mother was on the run who is also an addict but she has been placed into rehab. Cant really say my info is credible because i resorted to using KZbin's auto translate to research this.

[@heavygamingupwardenjoyer1834]

The name is "僕のエニッキ" if you want to have a look yourself

[@ghostclout]

@@heavygamingupwardenjoyer1834 ooo, this is reallly intertsting!! thank you!!

[@kouhai2456]

@@heavygamingupwardenjoyer1834 have you ever found an english version, or at least an english video of it?

[@heavygamingupwardenjoyer1834]

@@kouhai2456 No? The game is very japanese in its style and references. Half of the game would lose meaning just by being translated...

[@黒うさぎ-i9d]

この子供の描いた絵みたいな感じめっちゃ好き

[@devolaane]

I have never heard something more abstract, concerning and intriguing at the same time. For me your music is like an embodiment of contemporary art, and witnessing it is truly unbelievable! I really enjoy your art style, your art is a whole new step in my music tastes. Thus I'm really grateful for that! It's such a pity you are underestimated.... But nonetheless, I wish you good luck and never give up on what you're doing! ^^

[@Ilovemahmochi]

Babuchan be like: sounds despair inducing *drop it*

[@ドバーランド]

サビで母ちゃんの包丁が曲も刻んでるのがすきです

[@AMIWsement]

7日、15日でワープするのと悲鳴ｴﾓ… サビの勢いヤバい

[@Babu0w0chan]

Instfile is here! Lets Sing :D goo.gl/EzzUj1

[@whatisthis1958]

I'd sell my soul for instrumentals of babu chans work

[@Ratzfourtyfour]

These last 10 seconds get my mind close to its tipping point.

[@henrybattrell4784]

For a while I was just listening to this song. And then I realized that it said “August 33rd” and I just froze for the rest of the song

[@nicolasfuentes2878]

omg babu!! love the drawings dechu!

[@Kori_Shimo]

I love the addition of sounds for the story. Babuchan is now one of my favorite vocaloid producers!

[@NiniWeenie06]

This song has some type of delicacy I can't describe and I love it

[@ガスマスク-q3r]

成る程な……色々と分かったわ…… 最高の歌をありがとうでちゅ

[@feralhog6350]

Wow!!! the PV is so childlike, but at the same time so unnerving! Amazing song, as always!

[@Somerled_Pox]

There's something in your songs that just pull something out of this world It does not feel good but it's certainly very interesting and I like it somehow You're amazing

[@canaanthedoll2846]

I think I’m like everyone else who listened & needs to find their wig...you’re the best Babuchan!!

[@kyouken444]

世界が繋がったでちゅ！とっても感動でちゅ～ばぶばぶ

[@nomihabo9752]

Babu's old style is coming back! :D

[@jessawall3510]

Awe yass. Oof I think my wig is in space now oh welp. Also what art supplies was this kid using? They’re so pigmented.

[@kusoatama4981]

Jessa Wall i’m guessing any kind of wax based crayons, scanning the art also saturates the colors so that might be partly the reason why they’re so bright!

[@tawasi_cleaner]

なぜか｢ぼくのなつやすみ｣のバグを思い出してしまった自分がいる

[@Anotherofhell606]

honpo 34 それな

[@ug1bug1.]

Why is this unpopular?!?!

[@baroskat]

ikrrrr!!

[@moistfloorsock]

babuchan deserves so much more recognition

[@yakisobaJPN]

ぼくの夏休みの行き過ぎた主人公

[@北欧神話-s6j]

ご飯が食べたいよ、て歌詞が切ないですね。

[@rinan198]

Man, this is already amazing even without being able to understand the words, but I’d kill for translations for the Full Experience.

[@3d3ntr3]

Haru Harune made a translation in the comments

[@BloomBlanche]

3:07 World's end song? Maybe the two are connected? It would make sense, since this one is about a child while the other one is about a mother who presumably lost hers. And at the end, instead of a baby crying, it's a woman...

[@Dambi0225]

泣いてしまうほど表現力すごいです😭😭 超面だけど惚れちゃいました😍😍😂

[@shivaflwrs]

Wig? Flew. (Thank u for this blessing Babuchan ily 💗💗💗)

[@Apotheosister]

If you have good headphones, listen to the song again, it made me realize how fantastic this is. Hearing the the constant chopping percussion and the children's singing turns this song into perfection. You can hear the chopping slightly at 0:00, it goes very clearly at 1:00. And then it turns visceral at 1:17 to 1:41, it leaves temporarily and then returns at 2:18 all the way to the end, especially chaotic at 3:13. The first singing begins at 1:17, the second time begins at 2:18, the third begins at 2:41. The singing is very similar to the child's in the ending, and they harmonize together at 3:13. I love this song, very much.

[@ghastlygavin]

I can't believe I'm getting scared by fucking kid scribbles.

[@samuelbartlett5772]

I hate how 2024 makes this song feel especially relevant again...

[@adylenchuchan2402]

Amo tu música, realmente necesitas más reconocimiento, tienes muchísimo talento y está música me inspira a dibujar, gracias por los subtítulos en español, saludos desde México

[@nolosabia8431]

otra causa que habla español :)

[@Lagz0401]

La neta rolota

[@Sxlemm]

Simón, está perrona pero el rollo es que la letra si está medio turbina@@Lagz0401

[@BroodP]

oh my gosh.. this is beautiful (as expected)

[@a3th3rzzz]

this song is so much more of a bop than i was expecting. it gives kikuo vibes. this sooo good.

[@Homulazuli]

This will always be my all time favorite, i love just sitting around listening to this on rainy days babuchan supremacy

[@clarice6047]

한국어 자막 해놨어요! I’ve put up korean subtitles!

[@clarice6047]

Miku Hatsune maybe, bc I actually don’t understand Japanese; I took these translations from another person (credible) bc I only understand korean. I’ve also timed it correctly. Also, it is possible to put up eng sub, but the translations might not be as accurate because I’m translating from that korean translation to English. I fear there might be miscommunication. I can try tho if you want lol.

[@clarice6047]

ill look at it and compare it to the korean translation to check accuracy

[@앍앍-r7w]

오오..자막 어떻게다나요??

[@nlie39]

this is my first time hearing the song and oh my God, the first chorus hits so hard i got goosebumps all over. the way babuchan mixes up all these instruments into one chaotic sound manages to send a wave of emotions over me. i feel like crying, but the tears won't come out. i can't believe this is my first time listening to the song. it's a masterpiece.

[@スマホ編集者ばにーの]

ぼ　く　の　え　に　っ　き　の　元　ネ　タ　や　ん

[@SpicySweetsTLs]

I've listened to this song too many times already

[@ザ藻付]

調教最高です………🤤 聴き終わったのに心臓がドキドキしてますぅ〜…❤

[@todenmo6872]

Thank you babuchan

[@isotypic]

WIG GONE WIG GONE WIG GONE!!! I LOVE BABUCHAN

[@Hatsune-Miku_Fan]

I think the theory of this song being about a war is true, this sounds and feels really disturbing

[@okayunyu]

おはよーうでちゅ

[@めむ-e3y]

暖かさと切なさが感じる

[@naduki1216]

もうほんと好きです 毎日聞いております……

[@bianca2407]

OBRA DE ARTE.

[@matthewlacey2770]

This is creepier than any previous vocaloid song so far.

[@猫より猫背]

3:20ここくるくるしてんのかわいいw

[@user-iw1lo3fq2b]

is it about the hiroshima bombing? 1:20 shows August 6th, which was also when the hiroshima bombing happened many people say its this or something else so i'm confused

[@molinathrower]

it is

[@tsubakishoujo]

yep about dying of radiation poisoning in Hiroshima

[@WorldofCosplay1]

it looks like all the lyrics are written in hiragana and that's super creepy 👀💕

[@たこやき-r1d]

マジでこれ好きで5年くらいずっと聞いてる

[@stillwaitingforgodot3341]

Is there any off vocal version? I'd love to make a cover of this song -it's too awesome

[@mememachinedayo]

しゅき

[@deathbyfrost8085]

If you ignore the lyrics. The mv is somehow metaphorical to guts from berserk. Like especially the later half of the part. Does anyone get what i mean?

[@rozhsoh-muh]

i want to translate this in french and SING IT GODDAMNIT

[@Mr.CrowEntertainment]

Is the most terrifying song I heard

[@無印ナメクジのおみくじ]

最期の歌詞で「ハッ！」としたww

[@svp_society_edit7741]

The my mood, brain and heart it is combined like this 🖤

[@hiroibwah]

Time: *Stops* Kid: "Ta ru ra ri ra ru" Men of culture: "Oh yeah, it's game time boys"

[@cocomongmizuki1298]

This song has been on replay for me for DAYSS I love it sm

[@ダメ天使ー]

好きすぎる…。絵と歌…全部好みです！

[@0danshi0]

You're my favorite Vocaloid producer! Looking forward to every new release from you!

[@mashry42]

i really love this one

[@dianemullaney3490]

This is so great, that my entire wig flew off!

[@ocha-eating-show]

これが｢ぼくのえにっき｣の元ネタか…(多分)

[@아름다운계삭]

와아..진짜 소름돋고도 좋은노래...♡ㅜ 감사합니다ㅜ♡

[@pinaxeh5050]

Thank you KZbin for bring me here, This is awesome aaaaaa

[@tuna-p]

came here because someone told me that this is like how kikuo produces dayum

[@tawasi_cleaner]

｢もう明日は 来ないのね｣ _____｢結合性少女｣より

[@ronaldreaganhater6982]

I jumpscared myself by accidentally skipping from a quiet part to the chorus I got chillllw

[@v01156]

babubabu DECHU! love this track!!!!

[@raccoonchild]

It was first time listening to this and 造花の雫 but I accidentally played both of them at the same time... I couldn't bring myself to stop either video because your music is so good I just didn't want it to stop even if it was all mixed up lol

[@yolandabanger2833]

Hell yes I'm excited now!

[@kendallnguyen5004]

I love ❤️ your drawings Babu!

[@Paolo_A]

this is EPIC!! i love this style!

[@iLoVe_vocaloid]

holyyyyyyyy~~~❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@OMORI00143]

This song honestly reminds me of Kikuo ngl

[@clarice6047]

I’m bald. This too good. 😩👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@きらりら]

夏休みの日記の感じ…好き💗 サビが最高💕 8月32日があったらいいな…33日も34日も

[@배추-k1x]

❤❤❤❤❤I love this........ and babuchan

[@動物大好き-x4s]

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