Opera Singer Listens to Drift (Happy Chaos theme) || Guilty Gear Strive OST

[@anhilliator1]

AKA Daisuke Ishiwatari declaring that time signatures are a social construct.

[@MrFutago87]

I mean...they are.

[@icetide9411]

To quote Happy Chaos: "What came first, the chicken or the egg? The omelette."

[@monstrosity598]

The omelette came first so the farmer could live and raise chickens

[@Fryguystudios]

Weirdly enough, there's a theory in contemporary continental philosophy that expresses that exact sentiment, it's called "hyperstition".

[@luckystarplays1837]

@@Fryguystudios honestly, he probably knows what that is.

[@DrRESHES]

birds aren't real.

[@Jo_youwhatmate]

​@@Fryguystudios I can be whatever you want or nothing at all, but... I do exist.

[@MrEpicDwarf]

The funniest thing about Happy Chaos is that he's canonically Irish.

[@melynxforce8918]

Wait really? The Original was Irish?

[@NameIsDoc]

@@melynxforce8918 yeah he's Irish

[@olianims]

Makes sense

[@jameswilliams3416]

Also he’s supposed to be Kurt Cobain

[@ryan_1099]

And Bridget is English.

[@WillGlacier]

Fun fact about Happy Chao's design. He is meant to look like a blue demon but more specific a "blue Oni". There is a very famous story about a red oni who was sad and didn't like being a monster and all he wanted to do was befriend humans (sol badguy) and the red oni's friend, the blue oni who decided to help him out (happy chaos). The blue Oni went into town and attacked the townsfolk, making himself the hero and when the red Oni saw him and tried to stop him the blue Oni ran away, thus making the red Oni seem like the "hero who saved everyone". This story fits happy chaos character as well since his one goal is to use his immense powers to cause mayhem and make himself the "bad guy" so that "heroes" will arrive and defeat him. In other words giving everyone a common enemy they can unite in defeating together. He longs for the beautiful blue sky that comes after the violent storm ("when the violent storm is over. The Blue sky is more beautiful than ever")

[@proudlarry8225]

Ahhh... so that's kinda why he's the biggest Sol and Jack-O shipper on the cast...

[@fitraharyaramadhan3653]

Sorry to interrupt you, pal. But if you pay attention more to the design, happy chaos face, expression and glasses look like Nirvana's band logo

[@balintkristof8442]

@@fitraharyaramadhan3653 Things can have multiple sources of inspiration .

[@jackezzpanzer]

He aint wrong, there can be multiple inspirations to character creation :D

[@Matt_the_ratt8349]

Damn... he would get along with garou well

[@DissedRedEngie]

In short. Happy Chaos is the type of guy to hold world leaders hostage and hack their nations ICBMs to be fired at each other. Then giving the leaders a button that safely detonates them in the air to avoid a world war, with not strings attached. Then a bit later just let's them leave. Just because it would be fun to learn in a history class.

[@patrickcarter2829]

Ah, like that scene from that G.I. Joes film.

[@philosiraptorjr4912]

In case anyone who hasn’t watched the story reads the main comment… Yes, Happy Chaos actually does that in the story.

[@Unotuchable]

Happy Chaos wants to live in the cool zone of history.

[@RoyalTfrii]

​@Unotuchable he's the type of person that plays on both sides of history just to make it interesting

[@music79075]

​@@RoyalTfrii"I play both sides so I always come out on top"

[@xSnowdrift]

My favourite thing about Happy Chaos is that in the actual game he nerfs himself... By using a gun.

[@vernaltear]

His gun needs to be turned into a nerf gun, goddamn is he annoying to fight

[@ataegis5924]

One of them basically is, he has a legendary gun of which only like 6 exist across all dimensions, but he mainly just uses a replica

[@NameIsDoc]

He is using forbiden "black tech" revolvers so it's not entirely toothless

[@daggercatz7297]

He not only mainly uses the replica.. HE ONLY USES THE REPLICA. The real one he just uses for his 2s and Js... He just hits people with the legendary gun lmao@@ataegis5924

[@Breaking.bad.online]

@@vernaltearL plus (I’m not overpowered everyone else is underpowered)

[@borisshnitkov7600]

Happy Chaos is an absolutely insane character. Basically he was the first person to discover magic and taught it to the human race. Then he proceeded to discover every possible thing in existence, like he literally became omniscient. So now his problem is - he's bored, so he plays around with people to try and make a new interesting story as if he's writing a book. The line "there's hundreds of me" isn't deep, he literally just made hundreds of himself. Also in-game - despite being the strongest mage in the world, he just fights with a random gun he found and his main mechanic is trying to make him pay attention to the fight and not get bored.

[@thewallsspeaktome3507]

No I'm pretty sure the '200 eyes on me, there's a 100 of me' line is talking about how 100 different people all seeing the same thing will each have a different experience. Hence 'the truth is not always real'. Because each of those 100 people experience the truth in a different way

[@having765]

@@thewallsspeaktome3507 This, the line is actually tremendously deep. Again with "100 people speak on me, 100 of me will be born" again tying in to 100 people with a different interpretation of happy chaos will birth a new variation of existence as everyone's interpretation different, not necessarily true but not false either

[@enslaved_depresso]

I think that his lore really contextualizes the lines "When the violent storm is over, the blue sky is more beautiful then ever. You see, I want that, I want that, that's all I want" because it's literally him saying "LETS START SOME DRAMA FOR THE SAKE OF SOMEONE ELSE'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! That sounds like a grand ol' time"

[@rosenrot234]

He's literally all of us when we make a OC lol

[@Vikaryous21]

For me it's one of the best songs in the album just for how it changes once you've watched the story and understand what HC /is/. He's omniscient and if not omnipotent he's at least one of the most powerful characters in the canon with straight-up reality-warping power; All of it attached to a mind and morality that's no longer human. He orchestrates wars and atrocities out of simple boredom, in the story mode of Strive he vaporizes a skyscraper full of people without care or thought just because it was built on top of something he wants. He lays out his only real motives in the song; He doesn't expressly want to kill people per se (Can you hear it, the pulses of the living...it's a grand orchestra...who wants to stop this?"), but pushing people to the brink brings out emotions and stories in them that he relishes ("when the violent storm is over, blue sky is more beautiful than ever...that's all I want"). He's a villain because there's powerful heroes to "stop" him, he uses magic guns because he thinks they're cool and using his real power would be too easy. If the situation was reversed he'd just as happily play the hero. First time you listen it's "haha care-free happy meme man". Coming back after the story it's "God is a madman and we're his favorite comic book".

[@kevingriffith6011]

Hell, it even lays that out in the very first line of the song. "It took me 10 years to find the answer to something, but I forgot about it in 2 seconds." Essentially, what he's saying here was that he didn't want the answer, what he wanted was the excitement of the mystery. He's the living embodiment of "the journey is more important than the destination.", which he even further highlights by constantly alluding to not wanting things to stop.

[@Vikaryous21]

@@kevingriffith6011Oh absolutely it was just an already very long comment and I didn't want to write an essay lol

[@kusanagi3579]

I love that he even purposely leaves flaws in his plans so people can exploit them. He really is just toying with everyone.

[@storyofus3943]

​@@kusanagi3579it could be also to give the people he's fighting with an "eureka" moment to find his weakness because he relishes those kind of emotions too

[@tripdrakony869]

His name is lieraly what he is. A omnipotent beeing that does things just for fun and giggles. Creating chaos everywhere he his just because he can.

[@Galavantworks]

Drift thematically pairs well with Asuka’s “Gravity”, Axl Low’s “Out of The Box”, and I-No’s “Requiem” in the sense that Happy Chaos is character with god level power and unparalleled knowledge. But said power and knowledge gives Happy Chaos a pure nihilistic view of the world given that seeking a definitive meaning would render and limit things with their definitive value. Gaining the knowledge of the Backyard and the reality warping potential it contains could’ve possibly gave Chaos an existential crisis and drove Chaos mad. It thematically opposes Asuka’s theme, Gravity. Where Asuka’s theme expresses the necessity and value in existential and essential things to bind thoughts, ideas, and people together. While Chaos is truly alone and adrift while essentially free being the finite and the infinite. Edit: also if you listen closely both themes essentially start almost with the same core notes but with polar opposite delivery

[@yikes6758]

There's also Ramlethal's theme, which is a dialectic between the universal will's ideology she was raised in, and a rising voice expressing a profound rejection of nihilism and a celebration of the beauty of life and all its requisite parts; suffering as counterpart to love and joy, that none can exist without the other. Reading the comment from @Vikaryous21 made me realize the "room without a sky", being a world without conflict, is therefore a world with no violent storm of beautiful blue sky that follows it. A contained world without conflict or suffering, but consequently no joy nor love. It's inharmonious, because there is no dichotomy; harmony requires two separate parts communicating with each other. The UW is an entropic force against dichotomy and harmony, while happy chaos is a screaming voice desperate to create that harmony by any means necessary. His actions are by our measure evil, but they're an evil that rejects the UW's entropy. Happy Chaos plays the role of the catalyst for suffering, followed by conflict, triumph, and joy. He is a foil in the grand play, setting himself up to fall so that the beautiful blue sky can be made. Ramlethal's growing love for life and humanity is a celebration of essentially what Happy Chaos represents, but not necessarily his actions. Happy Chaos is an artificial wrench in the gears, but his actions a reflect a natural truth of the behavior of the world, and it's that natural tendency toward conflict and harmony which Ramlethal comes to understand is worth more than a world theoretically without suffering.

[@scooterberry0605]

Gotta love the "intentionally play the villian to keep people motivated and changing" brand of villian

[@Laerei]

In Guilty Gear there's this guy known as That Man who is believed to be behind every major catastrophe past the hundred years in Guilty Gear. For example, he appeared in Japan and what followed in his wake was the destruction of the entire nation and cursing every living japanese with superhuman abilities. It was believed that Asuka, the scientist behind creation of the Gears, artificial magical creatures that turned on mankind, was That Man. While Happy Chaos is an all new character in Guilty Gear, it was revealed that there were actually two That Men. One was indeed Asuka who was thought to be a villain. But Happy Chaos is the other one. And he's the actual villain behind the catastrophes. And Asuka just took the blame for it all and actually has been fighting Happy Chaos behind the scenes.

[@kaialone]

Well it's not quite like that, Asuka was fighting the Universal Will, and didn't know about HC until Strive it seems - HC briefly possessed the Universal Will, but not the whole time. The crimes attributed to "That Man" were done by both of them - most notably HC was the one who destroyed Baiken's home, but it was Asuka who blew up Japan (but he didn't want to)

[@kbrxion5620]

@@kaialone Asuka knew about HC because he was Asuka's teacher

[@kaialone]

@@kbrxion5620 Asuka knew the man HC used to be, but he didn't know he transformed into HC and continued to do stuff. Everyone thought his master died or smth.

[@kevingriffith6011]

10:14 I love how you say that this section sounds like Beauty and the Beast, a lot of people have pointed out that this is practically a Disney-style "I want" song, so naturally Happy Chaos must be a Disney princess.

[@NameIsDoc]

Fans call it the "Disney princess" part of the song

[@rodrigorosa4419]

“Yeah, let the princess come and ask me to do any crazy shit, I’m not gonna rescue her for the sake of the story going like normally, in this story I’m shooting the next fucker I see”

[@TehNoobiness]

Happy Chaos is not only immortal, he's also all-knowing--and he's _bored._ That's his primary motivation--moreso than regaining his lost half, even though that's what he tries to do during the story. He talks up how he's one half of a dichotomy between mere existence and pure desire, and how both halves of that dichotomy are suffering without the other, but--at the end of the day, Happy Chaos does things because he wants the universe to surprise him. Spoilers ahead: . . . . . So when he kidnaps a bunch of government officials, _this_ happens (paraphrased): Official: "Let us go." HC: "Why?" Official: "Because it would be _really funny."_ HC: "...you son of a bitch, I'm in" It's a bit more drawn-out and philosophical than that, but yeah, Happy Chaos is the man who knows everything, desperate to find a story that he doesn't know the ending to. (I'm totally stealing him for a tabletop campaign.)

[@skyc-1375]

FINALLY I've been waiting for this reaction for months Also, that "200 eyes on me There's a 100 of me" And "100 mouths speak of me 100 of me will be born" In my opinion basically means that different people see and describe him differently. And he basically doesn't care that there's many versions of him being described, and actually enjoys finding out how other people perceive him as opposed to how he really is: "The truth is not always real I don't want any conclusions"

[@soewithanumber]

I really like this take. It fits in with the philosophy of "one's perception is what gives things value, not the thing itself"

[@GrzegorzSobkowicz]

"Oh, don't get me wrong. I take no joy in seeing people suffer. I want to see them struggle." "Semantics" "Not a all! A wax figure and a human being: at a glance, it's hard to tell the difference but the two are entirely different, no? Let's say my goal was to create the strongest shield ever. How would I go about doing that? By creating the strongest sword. A sword justifies the existence of a shield. Humanity has always exhausted every possibility. That's the exact sort of drama I want to see." "What was the motive behind your initial goal, then? Without the sword, the shield would be unnecessary." "The motive? Sorry, to me the very idea of a motive is nonsense. Cause I'm a wax figure, you see."

[@patrickcarter2829]

That really does feel like something HC would say. Although, I may be forgetting if this actually comes from Strive?

[@GrzegorzSobkowicz]

@@patrickcarter2829 Yeah, find story mode on KZbin and it should be at about 2h 40m.

[@bwgiraffe3105]

​It is actually his dialogue​@@patrickcarter2829

[@lonelylark7584]

@@patrickcarter2829 This is a quote from the story mode.

[@user-leet37598]

While i don't really know if the jazz in particular is his 'true' theme as you were suggesting, I did arrive at a thought some time ago that the song is supposed to be divided into two perspectives. One from him, of course, and the other from everybody around him. First half of the songs portrays Happy Chaos as... well... chaotic and like someone who has gone mad. The 'right right right...' is portraying the carelessness that people see in him. And then there's even the chorus(?) singing about drifting, further suggesting the notion of his lack of care. BUT THEN we notice towards the second half that lyrics are becoming a bit more complete. HC is explaining further his goals and after the last 'right right right' section we get an almost seemingly 'mad' side of him, where he is tired and anxious that people don't understand him. He CARES. He very much cares about what he is doing, about the people around him. About the world. And after it, finally, he gets the time to sing without any kind of interruption with a beautiful simphony behind about what EXACTLY he wants. He finally gets to fully express his feelings and we get to understand him. I love Happy Chaos.

[@alucas705]

I think the queen part almost perfectly fits the idea that hes literally "playing" a villain in the story mode or making a villain for the heroes to beat, he might be doing it because he knows the most change in the world comes from these moments every time. Every time some major event happens that needs Sol and the rest of the cast to step in the world changes for the better because of it.

[@howaboutross]

Every time guilty gear mentions "there's hundreds of me" or something like that, I typically believe its referring to how many different perspectives people have about one person. If one person sees him as good and another sees him as bad, that's two of him etc.

[@ilavain]

I absolutely love this song so much. I hope you'll eventually react to "Like a weed, naturally, as a matter of course", the only song that I prefer to "Drift"

[@NeIIy]

Yes!!!! I love that theme so much! Testament my beloved

[@alexithemia9746]

One of the best parts of this character and this theme is that I feel it's one of the only themes where, instead of helping you understand the character, you have to know the character completely before the song makes any sense.

[@Softlol]

he learned the answer to everything, and thats what made him go insane and forget about it all the second he learned it? If i remember correctly. One of my favourite villains of all time. He just want to make some drama all the time lol

[@malakarvonstroheim5372]

8:55 Considering his character, this entire section can actually be taken at face value, no deeper meaning, he actually means all of this verse

[@itsmaxey4597]

I always love the fact how the characters develop within their themes and how that's reflected in the music. "The Town Inside Me" really made me realize that when each time the chorus plays there are more instruments and it sounds more confident all together. Same goes for Drift after listening to it with you and I think that makes all of these Themes special, every time they release a new character the most exciting part to me is the music they come with. Would love to hear your reaction on Johnny's theme "Just Lean"!

[@manjiimortal]

Yeah, the Broadway Musical/Disney I Want Song is Happy Chaos spelling out what his motivation is. He searches for the Blue Sky, More Beautiful Than Ever, for himself and for Mankind's sake, he's the Violent Storm that challenges Mankind to surpass itself so that it can find the Beautiful Blue Sky, he's an agent of change, of entropy, of truly Chaos, but one that deeply loves The Pulses of the Living.

[@senounatsuru6453]

He is quite literally the villain as a hypeman. He just wants humanity to be better, and is quite alright with being a villain to force that to happen.

[@Rhombusreal]

Honestly im hoping for Potemkin's theme, armor clad faith, probably my favourite song in the ost

[@crogan5141]

200 eyes on me, there's a hundred of me- everyone that sees me sees a different person. A hundred mouths that speak of me, a hundred of me will be born- Everyone that speaks of me creates and passes along a different idea of me.

[@karboy101]

Basically Happy Chaos just goes around starting shit so he can enjoy the dramatic journey

[@thunderborn3231]

i totally get the 'i searched for an answer for 10 years and forgot abut it in 2 seconds' sometimes when you get the answer to your question, the question becomes meaningless especially when the answer is disappointing, and thus you move on and forget the question ever meant anything to you in the first place.

[@kayame18]

10:00 It really has strong musical duet vibes. What I really enjoy about HC is that after obtaining all of the knowledge his story didn't go nihilistic but instead still finding beauty in human hearts

[@Zalian]

Happy Chaos is indeed a very shattered existence and broken mind, pulled in all sorts of directions and bored out of his skull from knowing entirely too much. Lost in an ocean of information, a plethora of perspectives, finding himself both lost in the static and embodying said noise. He craves a drama intense enough to pull him to a single point, and the cathartic conclusions that'd come out of it. Such a fascinating motivation for a character.

[@RuinedMessiah]

him dissecting the plot of happy chaos knowing nothing of him is so cool. i did this myself then went down the rabbit hole of happy chaos and it made him my fav ggst char

[@dominicius77]

In case of emergency, break glass. Behind the glass: Guilty Gear Music.

[@koagz]

I love how throughout most of the song the vocals are almost questions, or he doesn't want to accept himself and just goes with the "flow," but towards the end, when Happy Chaos finds meaning and knows what he wants, you hear the confidence and resolve in the vocals. Goes from "Am I?" to I *am.*

[@VoidHxnter]

“Hmmm, do I want to fuck with stuff? HELL YES I WANT TO FUCK WITH STUFF!”

[@ridjf]

That whole line about the truth is now always real probably has to do with a viewpoint on rejecting objectivity in judging events and actions, which would go with his 'screw everything just have fun with life' attitude

[@bluestormpony]

One interpretation of "there are 200 eyes on me, there are a 100 of me the truth is not allways real." Is that looking at him 100 people see each a different person. And that the truth of what he is is not nessarily real to who he is.

[@swiggityswooty-qr2pp]

SING WITH MEEEE IT TOOK ME TEN YEARS TO FIND A ANSWER TO SOMETHING!

[@juanpavalladares264]

I FORGOT, ABOUT IT IN TWO SECONDS, THATS ABOUT IIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!!!!!

[@swiggityswooty-qr2pp]

@@juanpavalladares264 *epic guitar riff*

[@WabbitHunter47]

Yeeeaaaaah, Baby, right right...

[@Hazielangelo]

@@WabbitHunter47 (Yeah baby, right right right right right right)

[@2HalfSandwiches]

You should def do Baiken's theme (Mirror of the World) soon. Absolute banger.

[@Hostefar]

Does she have a theme?

[@santarow4206]

​@@Hostefaryes everyone does

[@Hostefar]

@@santarow4206 damn I never heard it, thought it was just ambient guitar noises

[@santarow4206]

@@Hostefar search up mirror of the world

[@santarow4206]

@@Hostefar prob the start of it. The good part actually starts around 0:51 i think

[@JunglierDennis]

Lore professional here so happy chaos is literal god with ADHD. yeah i dont have anything i could add man he is GOD with ADHD

[@Mrinsecure]

It's interesting to compare the characters of Happy Chaos and Asuka, given they are technically kinda sorta the same person. "The truth is not always real, I don't want any conclusions" vs. "The reality of truth, what fact should we accept?"

[@GarethXL]

Happy Chaos can be describe in the first verse that's about it

[@aralanstradivari2841]

Happy Chaos is such a fun character. Also the Black Sea is perhaps a bit of a reference for storms, as he cherishes the drama and the tension, and will be the rocky waves and heavy storms to see humanity triumph. He also is pretty happy to really just mess around, for example, opting to fight with a gun, rather than his absurd powers, or having people deliberately poke holes in his plans

[@icepl831]

he drifts carried by waves but hes also the sea, hes finite, but also infinite. hes a character that lets himself be carried by fate, that aderes to the flow of the world, even if he has the power to dictate it himself. he can be the sea, but he chooses to let himself drift instead. and since after a storm the blue sky is more beautiful than ever, he chooses to be the storm, the villain, so that once someone rises to the occassion to stop him, he can see the the world bettered by this struggle... against him. he doesnt want to see the world burn, he wants it to become more beautiful trough struggle. thats how i see it.

[@SLORB857]

happy chaos is essentially an allegory for philosophical absurdism. its funny how someone who knows nothing of the character can deduce so much accurate information simply through an analysis of the music and lyrics. really impressive both on the part of marco and the composer.

[@valberg8290]

I think the use "I will just be a black sea" is interesting. Mainly because it's not necessarily something so dark you can't see into, but if we relate it to the Black Sea in our world (which is known for being a hot spot for tourists to bathe and float in), Happy Chaos could also imply that he will be someone that will help float/ carry others c:

[@Iammmeyoufool469]

how i see the line "the truth is not always real" is that before he became what he is now, he was given this sense of reality but now that he has unlimited knowledge and how he quite literally knows everything, he sees the world in a depressing and empty tone that need light where the line "when the violent storm is over blue sky is more beautiful then ever" fits in

[@JaftenLKA]

Happy Chaos desires the catharsis that comes from the resolution of a "conflict", but he isn't seeking the stillness that comes from "peace". It's the catharsis he mentioned when he referenced how beautiful the blue sky is after a violent storm-but that feeling is fleeting and rare, only occurring after a "violent storm" ends. So, chasing that feeling, Happy Chaos ends up being the kind of chaotic evil character who will gladly become the "villain" (or whatever he needs to be, there's 100 versions of him for every 100 people who observe of him after all) and commit horrible atrocities to innocent people just so that "heroes" will rise up and stop him; and in the same vein, he's someone who could on a whim decide to fight for the "sake of justice" just because it's the more interesting option in that instance. He's an insane but brilliant man who puts no value on good nor evil, just a shit-stirrer for the fun of it, because peace is dreadfully boring. And because he's insane, brilliant, immortal and extremely powerful, he's responsible (whether directly or indirectly) for the vast majority of crises in the Guilty Gear universe.

[@ninja011]

@MarcoMeatball I can't wait for you to do "What do you fight for" Nagoryuki's theme. That song has a special place for me; it got me through my battle with cancer. Which I am now four months in the clear as of 11/07/2023.

[@MarcoMeatball]

LETS GO BABY CONGRATULATIONS

[@ninja011]

@@MarcoMeatball Was not expecting a reply, but thank you! And also love this channel. You are one of the few people on this site I find that truly gets the music. Not just as one who makes it, but as an audience to it, and the type of audience. It's refreshing to see.

[@jackslader4060]

It'll always amaze me how spot on you can intuite a character just from their theme alone. I'd be interested to see what you gleen from Hellfire, Leo Whitefang's theme.

[@zetsumeinaito]

4:36 - 5:00 The lyrics actually make much more sense when you consider the Buddhist influence in Japan. One of the thoughts on reality in Buddhism is "Reality is only ever what you think it is." In such context you or me, seen by a hundred people will have a hundred different versions of us exist in those people. In Happy Chaos' case, he's a very reality bending quantum type individual. So for him, others seeing him could possible actually spawn other versions of him. Thus he is an antagonist who will never die even when killed. He drifts because he's not really got a choice. His existence changes based on observation. He's been pigeon holed into the role of a villain from creating gears, so his post mind blown self reflects what people see in him instead of him being able to determine himself. People think of him as a genius, arrogant, a man playing god, a demon, and reckless, and so he is that way. I think he's the villain who wants the heroes to win, so he sets people up to create heroes would could possibly grow to end the backyard and by extension have the power to end him. (At least that's my theory on the guy)

[@sonybrale317]

dude the ending of whiplash is so good

[@angel__king]

I always took the finite and infinite one line as “I’m going to do what I want and go down in history and be immortalized”

[@Ashurion-Neonix]

One thing I love is how lore, character, and music wise, chaos is the opposite of asuka. For example asuka is constantly pondering over the truth and the meaning of existence, meanwhile chaos considers truth fake and thinks eggs exist so that the omlette can be invented. Or how asuka is focused on control while chaos does whatever is interesting and frequently gives up control

[@GlacierFox523]

I am glad you like Disney Princess Happy Chaos section

[@austroids1598]

Finally my favorite game. I’ve been wanting you to react to this soundtrack for so long

[@platypuspracticus2]

4:49 'understanding why we say what we say' absolutely on track for this. the lyrics may not always be apparent on the surface for Strive but they are absolutely relevant to the story of each character. guilty gear strive is a very story-rich game despite just being a fighting game...but the game also comes with a full feature-length movie (and the DLC has *another* movie with it!) and all the character themes are lyrically relevant to their mindsets.

[@fredt1983]

Sometimes a name is exactly what it sounds like. Happiness through chaos.

[@simplythecat4068]

I like how you analyzed the lyrics and actually looked into the lore behind the character the song is themed after, do you have any reactions on Mili and their songs for Library of Ruina or Limbus Company? If not, then you definitely should check them out! They have some of the most emotional and thought-provoking themes that are heavily intertwined with the games stories and characters. Songs like "Between two worlds", "Children of the City", "Iron Lotus" and some others. As a person who pays so much attention to lyrics, you'll LOVE mili, bet.

[@Goomenstein]

"Two hundred yes on me, theres hundred of me" and "A hundred mouths that speak of me, a hundred of me will be born" I personally interpret as Happy Chaos having a distaste for prejudice and rumours. Like every one of the hundred people looking at him sees their own interpretation of him, and then carries that idea to their peers, and that idea may or may not be wrong or biased. I'm unsure how consistent that is with his lore, as far as I remember he has no issue with playing the villain, that was his whole stick, he chose to become the heel so that mankind could blossom.

[@r3dsauc3.]

I recommended Necessary Discrepancy last time (I still do) but I would also recommend Hellfire, it is easier to understand but a little unexpected depth. Both great narrative / personality describing songs.

[@idiosyncraticRyugu]

Didn't gekkosquirrel do the same on all these songs?

[@justinx.8949]

From a pure instrumental standpoint, I'd have to say Necessary Discrepancy is my favorite track in the game. The way the song seems to...just fluctuate is just awesome to me, especially when you realize how manufactured it all feels - fitting for the theme of someone who is an artificial lifeform.

[@HazeEmry]

@@idiosyncraticRyugu Yeah but not as in depth

[@VelvetHexUwU]

With Happy Chaos never focusing on something specific and instead quickly losing interest in things, in turn simply finding something new to obsess about -- I feel like a constantly changing genre of his theme perfectly captures that

[@malzenorixfgc]

You should do a video or a series of you reacting to the entire Guilty Gear Strive story

[@thatoneguyJambee]

personally i think that the song shows his different colors like the first time when the corus was sung and the second time but the 3rd time was truly him and how he was

[@Danothyus1]

The two parts that i most like in the song are the "a two hundred eyes on me,/ 1 hundred mouths speak of me, there as hundred of me/a hundred of me will be born. The truth is not always real" and the "i don't have anything that is important to me, thats why everything is beautiful". The first one the way i interpret is that even when 100 hundred people see or talk about something(in this case Happy Chaos), they all perceive different things, yet while what they might see is the true, they don't know what is the real version of it. Therefore the truth is not always real. The fact that this ends with "i don't want any conclusions" makes me feel Chaos does not want ppl understanding or taking assumptions on why he does what he do. The second one is imo one of the most interesting takes on the phrase. When you have a character that says "i don't have anything that is important to me", normally this character is some edgy, nihilistic person who goes to say "everything is meaningless", but Chaos goes the complete opposite and says "nothing is important to me because everything is equally beautiful", which have such a nicer conotation to it, and makes a picture of a character who loves everything around him instead of hating it. Lastly i would also like to talk about the "when the violent storm is over" part. it makes me think that what he wants is to cause strife (he is the violent storm) so when ppl defeat the storm, the feeling right after that is the best feeling ever, and that is what he wants, to ppl to feel great at the end of a bad situation.

[@funeralgirl2]

Something else I want to add, too, his personality as seen in the theme and story is even reflected in his gameplay. He's a very technical character, arguably the hardest in the game, but he's also consistently the one of, if not THE strongest characters competitively. But as someone who mains him, there is definitely a flow to his gameplay that, once he gets started, you're effectively fighting a boss character,. If you don't manage his resources properly (Concentration gauge, bullets, curse, meter, burst) he loses focus and is thrown off balance. His "flow" has been interrupted. He has no reversal moves, and most of his strong points revolve around his very strong offense rather than defense. His negative edge gunshot mechanic allows you to control exactly hen to aim and when not to aim, even if you're already in the middle of an attack, allowing for a lot more varied ways to pressure your opponent on block, confirms off of virtually any hit, and even incredibly unique and strong combos that couldn't be done otherwise. You could even talk about how he's one of the only characters who utilizes wallslump resets, situations where it's better to drop the combo than to break the wall. He doesn't want a conclusion. He just wants his flow, god dammit. tl;dr, please don't stop his flow

[@arieldieguez3821]

Oh man I love the guilty gear react series, your analysis are really good, I hope that you also do Baiken's "Mirror of the world" and Testament's "Like a weed, naturally as a matter of course" not only they are really unique but are themes for og characters

[@dorkdude]

I believe the 200 hundred eyes on him refer to all of his spectators, and the hundred of him are the versions of him that will be told by those spectators' stories; therefore, "the truth is not always real I do not want any conclusions," could be in reference to stories of him spread that aren't exactly accurate or from the right perspective and he doesn't want assumptions of him being made off of false narratives.

[@rapture_bishop]

I've been waiting for this, it's the best GGST track and I will die on this hill.

[@Vektorien545]

CloudDrop is an unreliable source for lyrics. While this one in specific follows the official source other DLC characters' themes have considerable errors. No official source for Season 2 and 3 songs exists but the Guilty Gear wiki is the closest to reliable we have. Other than that we have CapnBooker on youtube who checks lyrics according to official sources and online posts by the singer Naoki Hashimoto.

[@AHylianWarrior]

This is one of the videos that was reuploaded with the lyrics matching the song. It's why some sections have a "ghost" effect behind the lyrics (because those were the old ones)

[@indifferent4904]

best way to put it, imagine a completely careless omniscient adderall addict that puts like 3 nations of the world against each other just for a gag out of it and nopes it out all like nothing ever happened

[@scrollkeeper5272]

My boi is finally listening to Drift! This song is epic!

[@regaimukwamba2570]

Happy Chaos is like a favorite character in Guilty gear strive and he is chill bro

[@bluevaito4643]

black sea = the universe, space or the reflect of the sky in the sea peraphs...

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

The best description of Happy Chaos I saw was a comment on CloudDrop's lyrics video, you can find it pretty quickly when scrolling, that said "Happy Chaos is the type of person who would hold up a bank, taking everyone inside hostage, put money inside the vault, and then leave." (paraphrased)

[@AsterothRayet]

Happy Chaos (HC) in lore is critical in the plot happening at all, though his intentions were actually to help protect the world. HC created an extra dimensional being, who's mission was to protect humanity for all time and this was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back in history. Flash forward this being, The Universal Will, goes rouge. Having determined that humanity in all of it's flaws and infighting was not worth saving, believing that we were not actually the humans it was meant to save at all. It attempting to manifest into our world is what starts the plot of Guilty Gear. The universal will having at that point making their own creations without those problems, IE true humans, and what it should protect. (There are only 4, and one of them is made dead by Sol) Once HC starts showing his head, he himself is somewhat disillusioned with protecting humanity, or any particular person specifically, but rather cherishes life itself, and true freedom. This is where we get "I dont have anything important to me, that's why everything is beautiful." Chaos doesnt see the individual anymore, and doesnt believe it matters either. The ironic part being that humanity's attempt over the course of the series (largely because of things championed by Ky Kiske and you should 10000% listen to roar of the spark) better itself and avoid conflict that the universal will's basis for trying to kill everyone.HC however, doesnt believe a endpoint in progress is real and anything less than an arbitrary construct by leading viewpoints. To strip away conflict and one's rights to live as they fit is to make the system of life dull and predicable. He'd be happy to see everyone go full caveman and have control on their own future. As long as something is breathing and struggling/living by its own values it's worth it. This is how Chaos can also side on being good. Someone bent on killing everyone/ruling the world via tyranny is not cool by him either, or at least once it looks like they might win. TLDR HC is basically "Burn it down and start over" made into a person.

[@shyguycharley4935]

Been waiting for this one for awhile now~ Can't wait for him to get to I-No's theme, Requiem and see what he thinks of that

[@wallycastagnir]

happy chaos is thegod of change he wants to see everything

[@Hamurator]

That soundtrack is just crazy (good).

[@kitsunick5696]

Always love the Guilty Gear reactions and. Keep up the excellent work, Marco

[@BigbossShoshka]

This is one of those games where I got nearly every song on my daily playlist.

[@joltionunivers]

Marco Im gonna need a cover of this by you. You hit those notes in the operatic section a little to well.

[@MarcoMeatball]

omg could you imagine an opera slowed down version!? hjahahah...wait...

[@joltionunivers]

​@MarcoMeatball haha Ikr.... but what if?

[@Vencillis]

My guy is a straight up JoJo character the way he figures everything out so easily 💀

[@watyll6070]

still holding out hope for armor clad faith one day. absolute favorite strive theme

[@wubble4045]

Please- Please listen to necessary discrepancy! Its the theme of Ramlethal Valentine from Guilty Gear Strive!

[@grayrook8637]

I have always viewed this as a conversation with himselves. He is omnipresently aware of his own existence and the true nature of reality. Which really fucked him up, resulting in a godlike intelligence that is so aware of everything that nothing matters and everything matters resulting in like, well, chaos.

[@kestrelynn]

This song is so perfect as a theme for the character

[@flingza1798]

Tonight is the finite on but he is the infinite one

[@cptguerreiro1253]

It's the third time i see Drift on your chanel yet it nevers fails to amuse me. So... what about Testament next ?

[@taylorwright7428]

Late comment, but a line in Happy Chaos' theme actually goes along with but against a line in Asuka's theme, which makes sense with Chaos being a corrupted version of Asuka's old mentor. *Asuka: The reality of truth* *Happy Chaos: The truth is not always real* It's really neat!

[@ezmercopal5416]

we drifting tonight :>

[@tortaal9878]

What is happy chaos? Well according to him he is "more than 100% pure undiluted syrup" with syrup being the human desires and water their survival instincts. I also like this question from him: " Say someone is locked up in a small, pure white room with no doors or windows. For a year. No, maybe even longer. They've got food and drinks, no illnesses or injuries... They can even make calls to whomever they'd like. A voice speaks to them from above! "You must not leave. Nobody else can, so you mustn't either!" Then one day, a door to the outside suddenly appears! And now, my question: What would a "sane person" do?" he's insane and he knows it

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Happy Chaos is the most musical theme of all time!!

[@leonshirogane5541]

you are 90% spot on about the guy. he is immortal and he didn't care much. he just hate that at the moment he hate but that don't last long. he lack attachment so he just move and do what even he want.

[@leonshirogane5541]

i forgot...he also love his gun there only 7 total of it in all of every version of the universe. what ever happen to the universe he don't gave a shit he just do stubs because is fun. there is nearly not reason to what he do...he just feel like it at the moments. even he have a reason he already forgot it by that point.

[@megamann32]

Наконец-то реакция на тему Хаоса. Мнения об этой песне я хотел услышать больше всего.

[@sutoriimmortal2177]

Chaos and I-No together embody the true antagonistic force of Guilty Gear I think: Nihilism. Because the only difference between "Nothing matters" and "Nothing matters" with a happy tone, is just the face you're wearing when you say it. Happy nihilism and nihilism are exactly the same destructive force.

[@patrickcarter2829]

True. Although, I'd say HC leans more towards absurdism. He's a lot like Aha, the Elation.

[@oct91988]

​@@patrickcarter2829yeah but HC actually wants a happy ending

[@lucar3620]

The mass amounts of drums seems to me like he is trying to block something out, like he doesn't want to hear it and that's why he has such a "carefree" attitude

[@ghostshrimp5006]

Essential, nothing in life matters 😢 to nothing in life matters 🤩

[@Pr0stak1000]

I don't know if you did a video about Dead Cells ost, but if not I recommend you to do that, because ost of this game is just incredible. My favourite one of them is a Clocktower. Also animated trailer great as well. Sorry if I made mistakes in this comment, I'm not good English speaker right now.

[@KarazolaX]

Happy Chaos is like I’d Jesus got turned into the Joker, and he just went along with it

[@AhmedZwawininja]

Im so looking forward to you reacting to roar of the spark