Opera Singer Reacts: EXEC_METEMPSYCHOSIS/. (Ar Tonelico 3 OST)

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:20 Music
02:12 Interjection
03:22 Music pt 2
04:25 Interjection
06:15 Music pt 3
07:22 Post Discussion
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Composer: Ken Nakagawa
Developers: Gust Co. Ltd., Banpresto
Publishers: BNE Entertainment, Nippon Ichi Software, Banpresto, NIS America

[@trainaurion]

An Ar Tonelico song? You have summoned the fan base out from the depths of time obscurity

[@AsutoraSeiji]

Man, props to whoever suggested one of the most eccentric Hymmnos (sic) pieces as your entry point for the Ar Tonelico franchise. That said, the sense of unease and urgency in the song is justified even on a Gameplay level because the Player is actually tasked to finish the Boss Fight it's played on before said song completes its runtime in order to not be locked out of AT3's best endings. For more context, the party learned they needed to revive the Final Main Heroine, the Tower Server's Administrator and Local Divine Figure, into a physical body so she can save the lives of two of the other Heroines and by extension their post-apocalyptic world; and the ordeal adds the fact they only have one shot after convincing the only singer with the permissions to execute the program because said program and the Boss-shaped defense routine it came coupled with eat way too many resources than what can be provided by a Centuries-old Tower-of-Babyl-shaped Magic Computer that's really close to break down permanently. On another note, I really hope you can have fun reacting to other melodies of the Ar Tonelico games. I'd love to see you comparing and contrasting both versions of AT1's EXEC_PAJA/PURGER, or reacting to the progression of the METAFALICA songs from AT2 (in the order of EXEC to METHOD to EXECwithMETHOD for better effect).

[@zeru5195]

Glad to see Ar Tonelico music getting some well deserved appreciation. I'm more of a fan of the songs from Ar Tonelico 1 like Chronicle Key, but all the games in this series are amazing. As for the nature of Ar Tonelico songs, "not human" is very accurate, Ar Tonelico songs are sung by Reyvateil, who are artificial beings created to use the settings "Song Magic" which works a lot like computer programs for the massive towers the games take place in. The songs have the odd names they do because they are execution to initiate/perform a function.

[@MarcoMeatball]

👀👀👀👀

[@Evilriku13]

@@MarcoMeatball also alot of the language in the series is done by mixing real world languages together and creating something new out of it, having a unique alphabet and converging alot of emotions through that that is actually key to the lore of the games.

[@RratRemi]

@@Evilriku13 also known as hymnos... Which has been translated and can be used on computer as a font :)

[@CelticBotansDigitalArt]

Yes!! Welcome into the rabbit role of the extremely specific genre of "japanese fantasy music composers that use vocalizing/made-up languages in an ethereal manner"! Other famous examples are Kajiura Yuki (one of my my all-time favorites) and KOKIA! I'm not super familiarized with Ar Tonelico in general, but Ive heard some tracks because of Akiko Shikata, one of the composers/singers for ArTon music, and whom is also an example of the very specific "genre" I mentioned above. Though, I'm not entirely sure she's the one singing in this one you just react to, but sounds a lot like her and her style - the chaotic chanting, the rhythmic, almost ritualistic vibes with clear inspiration from other cultures, the electronic components, a bajillion layers of sound and voices. The one song written/sung by Akiko from the ArTon I really really like is one called _"Infelious Rhaplanca. Heavenly Prayers ~Rhaplanca~Earthy Atonement -Maoh-"_ (jesus, the titles for ArTon songs, I swear haha); it has all the elements mentioned, it's awesome!

[@bandiriatraveler8343]

Chouwa Oto ~With Reflection~" by KOKIA is so cool, with that down and style of singing. KOKIA also did the singing on Dks3's and Demon's Souls (Return to Slumber) ending themes too btw.

[@CelticBotansDigitalArt]

@@bandiriatraveler8343 CHowa Oto is a freaking favorite, that song and the way she sings it is such a masterpiece! I had no idea she sang to Dark/Demon Souls, I'll definitely check it out!

[@arapaimagold8088]

It's called "neoclassical dark wave".

[@NippleTechnology-cc8bg]

here we go, the ar tonelico rabbit hole!

[@ChrisGrump]

The songs in the games are basically like code for a computer for giant towers that execute said code. Also, a lot of the songs are sung in a made up languages. There are several languages with alphabet that can be translated. On another note, the mechanical aspect you mentioned is due to the character singing the song. It is sung that way out of efficiancy (in the context of the game of course) and to reduce "execution time" for the code. Not ornamental in any way, simply pragmatic. There is a whole lot more about the music in the games, but it gets confusing sometimes.

[@LivingShdw]

From what I recall, this piece was the background for a timed boss fight. You had to beat the boss before the music finished and whether you did or not determined which plot you continued on. One interesting thing is what's going on 1:30 - 1:50. I'm sure you noticed that they have different things happening in each ear. If you look at the lyrics, both are actually combined into one sentence, roughly alternating syllables. With this series being heavily influenced by computation, it seems that they were making a reference to multi-threading with that section. For someone with your background, I think you would be interested in Rebirthia=Protocol. IIRC Kokia also has formal training, you can really tell with her excellent control.

[@kridtinarth6283]

Imagine the world where there's a huge tower at the center that manage everything. Regulate weather, create land mass, release the monster or even fire laser beam to other planet by rely on girl ritual singing her "magic" which is literally a computer program. So the song would sound like A Japanese ritual + other worldly stuff + cybernetic/machine noise at the same time because it is actually singing 3 languages simutaneously. EDIT: Also "Ar no surge" The latest of series (late PS3 game) also got many good one too.

[@v1n5aja]

The way Ar Tonelico's songs has harmonious layering yet sometime not at the same time still baffled me, wondering how many time they need to record the entire song in studio

[@arapaimagold8088]

Akiko Shikata used to record 1000 parts and mixed everything by herself. I don't think another singer in the project can do everything alone like her.

[@RinTheSpaceDragon]

Ar Tonelico??? Nice to see someone talk about its music after so long. I have many favorites. Exec_Metafalkca (Haruka Shimotsuki’s version) is great, and so is the 15 minute song by Yuko Ishibashi. I forgot what it’s called but it sounds like a lullaby opera.

[@ZaMaBa]

15 minute song... May be EXEC_HAIBANATION/.

[@stef96ify]

Exec_Hibernation/. or Haibanation, the longest song of the series (or the second longest if Sublimation is considered as whole)

[@HadeaRin]

It'll be EXEC_HAIBANATION/. From Ar Tonelico 2.

[@mochizukin]

I'd actually love to see Marco react to written hymmnos as well, given that the structure of it is entirely phonetic/ sound based

[@dracorider111]

I'm super exited someone requested Ar Tonelico. I'm guessing we will see a few more in the following week as these things kinda spread like a chain reaction. One importing thing about the music is one of the main singers of the series, Akiko Shikata has songs in her albums where she sings in Hymmnos and are considered part of the game lore (she also has orgel version of some songs). Not to mention drama CD's having their own songs, extra songs made for anime OVA and album compilation, music circle Stellatram making fanwork songs mentioned in lore and Noriko Mitose singing *the original* version of Exec_Harmonious in some of her live concerts (Why is there no recording!!!), getting the full experience can be hard but its so fulfilling. Seriously, it made me wish I was born in Japan just to get my hands on some of those stuff.

[@aquagondrag]

There are recordings available now of Mitose's original Harmonious...

[@arapaimagold8088]

If you born in Japan, you will ended up studying and working like mad just for surviving🤣

[@stef96ify]

I'd so like to listen to Mir's original Harmonius too.

[@StroppyFilly4]

@@aquagondrag hmm i can't seem to find the recordings. can you link me to it? thanks

[@mocharoll3486]

YES! All these years being an Ar Tonelico series player for its music, I've waited for this moment! Hoping to see you cover more songs from the series!

[@Evilriku13]

You really need to listen to "XaaaCi" from Ar Tonelico 3 which is for one the final boss theme of that series while also having raw emotions and pain in it, basically it's a rollercoaster of emotions. I think you would enjoy it or depending how you felt before listening to that song you may start crying.

[@masdrionalt]

I'm so glad that Ar Tonelico has made its way onto this channel. Its such an underrated series, and it has one of the most brilliant soundtracks to come out of a game in my opinion. Hope some more tracks from it get requested. I'd say the most interesting thing about the songs is that a lot of them are made to tell a story or convey certain emotions, sometimes even more than they're made to be musical. They also make use of a combination of Japanese and a constructed language called Hymmnos that's extremely in depth. If you're interested in checking out more, another really fascinating track I would recommend is "~Ar=Ciel Ar=Dor~" from Ar Tonelico 3.

[@lancetheguybeingadude7432]

I have literally no context to this but I can tell its an incredible feels rollercoaster that I may want to ride till the end

[@EmileTherese]

Yay, Ar tonelico! One of my most favorite game series osts. Now you just have to do all the rest of the hymns lol. Some of my favorites are Method_Metafalica and Chronicle_Key (Akiko Shikata tends to be my favorite singer, although they're all awesome).

[@FrazzleCat]

I'm tickled that you more-or-less nailed it. That's a great job by the performers, the musicians et al, as well as yourself. 👍

[@rainichan]

i stumbled on your channel from the Flow analysis, and imagine my surprise to see a track from one of my top fave series! i hope you delve into more of the Ar tonelico/Ar nosurge/Ciel nosurge music too, they all have a lot of fun, different melodies and musical tones that you may love. hope to see more of the music from AT on your channel :)

[@MarcoMeatball]

You will :)

[@mechanomics2649]

Ar Tonelico, its music, and its lore are woefully underrated and underappreciated. I'm glad to see people with backgrounds in music weigh in on it.

[@octopuddle6933]

Thrilled to see Ar tonelico stuff! This has already been said a lot in the comments, but it'd be great to see more reactions to these. I almost any single track would be cool tbh, but either listening through the entire sublimation set (the final boss music of AT2) or comparing the AT2 Metafalica/AT1 Harmonius tracks would be extremely rad, if *quite* lengthy. Edit: quick add, it might be worth adding the translations into any ar tonelico reacts because there's often a LOT happening lyrically in these songs, the syntaxes of the constructed language includes emotion as almost a prefix to any statement and sometimes the feelings directly contradict other things happening in the lyrics, etc. ....the people who said ar tonelico is a rabbit hole were 100% right, speaking as someone who knows a decent amount of people who have participated in creating entire fan-albums for this series 😂

[@LavvyWuff]

Definitely check out more Ar Tonelico music! :) This one was one of the more strange ones, they branched out a lot with the soundtrack for the third game. I highly recommend: Ec Tisia (Ar Tonelico 3) Exec_Rebirthia=Protocol (AT3) Exec_ Viena (AT2) Exec_Chronicle Key (AT1) Method_Replekia (AT2) Method_Hymmeli (AT3) Just to name a few XD Though they're all great :D Exec_Metafalica and Method_Metafalica (along with the duet, Exec_with_Method_Metafalica) are also super Exec_Paja (Misya Extracting) and Exec_Paja (Orica Extracting) are two very different versions of essentially the same song, and both are awesome~

[@Hamster7678]

welcome to my musical hyperfixation fun fact: theres a didgeridoo in this song. they really did go crazy with the instrumentals and im here for it

[@hatguyfan22]

Omg how did I miss this video? I love your analysis on this series and I’m enjoying this one and the info on the intone speech!

[@crimsonritual]

So, so happy to see your reaction to this. It’s amazing, the music in this series. I’ve never even played it but my friends showed me tracks and I fell in love with it. It takes you on a ride and watching your expressions and hearing what you had to say is so fun. It’s fun no matter how many times you listen to it or how many times you get someone’s first reaction. Thank you to the person who requested this!

[@1707cast]

You are really cute haha thanks for reviewing Ar Tonelico, I love it's songs and their meaning, it's filled with emotion. I hope you liked it!

[@ph433]

yes that was i waiting for, ar tonelico have many Orchestra music that is unique... my favorite one is EXEC_SPHILIA/. and EXEC_RIG=VEDA/.

[@pavelkolmakov8278]

Great to see Ar Tonelico music here. My favorite is EXEC_COSMOFLIPS, for which it might be especially interesting to hear the opinion of _opera_ singer (I believe, maybe wrongly, that cosmoflips is closest to opera in entire Ar Tonelico series). In other comments people suggested a number of other good pieces as well. Aside from official OST I also would recommend "EXEC_CHRONICLE=KEY/.Lyune extracting" and "EXEC_with_METHOD_METAFALICA/.at A.D. 3310" by Stellatram, might be interesting to hear the impression of a person who does not know what these songs represent and what's happening (plot-wise) as they are sung.

[@stef96ify]

I agree, Lyune's Chronicle Key is wonderful

[@pidgeadlawan6136]

Yoooooo! Nice to see someone reacting to an Ar Tonelico song!! I also saw your Phantasmagoria one and I love your commentaries about this! I hope we would see more of your reactions from this series! Personally recommending Ec Tisia, EXEC_FLIP_ARPHAGE/., and EXEC_REBIRTHIA=PROTOCOL/. To put more into context as to why it is toned like that, the character who sang this has only accessed a certain level of their consciousness which is also responsible for creating songs with stronger feelings (like if it is to be sung by someone who has a deeper access to their consciousness/"Cosmosphere", then the overall tone of this song would change as well). And the tonal setting of the Program (aka the song) is that of a festival of offering and rebirth. As for the actual function of the Song, we'll be going too technical by there ehehe.

[@lilangelx09]

I love seeing these! I want to make a suggestion if that's okay? I believe one of the best songs of Ar Tonelico 3 is EXEC_Flip_Arphage! I'd love to see your take on how it starts and the build up because it's absolutely amazing! Also it was the Hymmnos they teased in the trailer 😊

[@namelessnpc6689]

Wow. This was unexpected. This series is a hidden gem(s).

[@Raphael-gd4ht]

I am very glad to see more reactions for the Ar tonelico OSTs, and as always, you were able to nearly perfectly layout the feeling of the song itself. Thank you very much for this video! This is a game literally centered around songs, songs that literally shaped planets. Hopefully you get to react to the other songs too.

[@jpegwarrior5431]

Ar Tonelico soundtrack has such an otherworldly feel to it, it feels really entrancing to listen to. Especially fond of XaaaCi from the third game.

[@Saviliana]

It is meant to be otherworldly, after all, they are existing on an alien world over 7 light year away, and is at least 4 layers of dimension higher then reality.

[@atoli16]

Xaaaci is my favorite. Especially due to the lyrics.

[@ChargeQM]

For any uninitiated reading this, XaaaCi is the rage, love, and pain of a planet declaring it must, regretfully, destroy you.

[@cokerpilot]

Oh wow, you are reacting to Ar Tonelico music that's really cool. And once again you are eerily accurate with the takes on the music's point. I hope you get a chance to listing to METHOD_REPLEKIA/. and EXEC_SPHILIA/. as one of those tells a story with its song while the other is both a story and a conversation between its singers and I would really like to see what you make of them. EXEC_METAFALICA is also great and a whirlwind of emotions and purpose that I would like to see your reaction to.

[@stef96ify]

Man Replekia is both crazy and majestic, while Sphilia is so great in emotionality

[@sagalesage]

Ar tonelico was such a delightful classic. I only played the first one. The music was amazing.

[@BrunoCAquino]

The cyborg part is actually quite on point, in the game the songstress are special woman who can cast magic using songs, but those songs are called Hymmnos and are something similar to a computer language where they use the songs to comunicate with the gigantic towers computer system where humans live when the surface of the world turned poisonous, its been a while since I've played but its something like that

[@AegisKHAOS]

Well, now that I have seen your reactions to Phantasmagoria and Metempsychosis (to which both your expressions to how unexpected they turned out were priceless), I now must recommend you the three Singing Hills intros (Eolia, Frelia, and Tilia) to listen to. Each under or around three minutes, yet somehow left a deep impression on me when I listened to them.

[@marar8045]

I came for Genshin and I’m so happy to see Ar Tonelico here! You’re right, it’s not entirely human. This is a post-apocalyptic game where ppl live in towers, the hymnos are basically code which they use to communicate with the towers. Ar Tonelico 3 is by far the most mechanical of the 3 towers, since the Rayvetails are the ones in control. Rayvetails are basically girls that can communicate with the tower. Each tower has a different social stratus with how they regard the Rayvetails. My favorites are the songs from Ar Tonelico 2.

[@drpaimon2369]

I've have never even heard of this game, but this sounds pretty good.

[@Terranigma23]

Ar Tonelico soundtracks are so good. These games are made by the same team from the "Atelier" series. 😁

[@AdamInTheZone]

Ar Tonelico 1&2 was godly especially the OST, and can we ignore 3 twas so bad 🤣

[@Terranigma23]

@@AdamInTheZone I agree that Ar Tonelico 3 is really bad (especally the combat system) if we compare it with 1&2, hovewer there was still a lot of interesting lore.

[@AdamInTheZone]

@@Terranigma23 well Lore and Story wise was not that bad, but the fanservice bruh it was so cringe , ArTonelico 1&2 were Perfect.

[@Terranigma23]

@@AdamInTheZone I agree, even in Ar Tonelico 1&2 sometime I was like "oh that's weird", but in Ar Tonelico 3 it's cringe level 9000. 😅

[@YukitoOnline]

Try "Ar Tonelico" series A game where the magic is "Song Magic" which has huge impact on the game's lore. Heck the game has it's own language for it's songs. Chronicle Key Singing Hills Rig=Veda Rustling Throb ~Cloche~ Flip Arphage Suspend Rebirthia=Protocol

[@KoziiMedia]

SO glad to see the Ars series getting some recognition!! My personal recommendations and favorites from the series are the tracks from Ar Nosurge. Namely: - em-pyei-n vari-fen jang - CIEL_N_PROTECTA - Class::XIO PROCEED - Class::EXPAJA Might make a Patreon request for some of these. And as some background, the language that these song's are sung in is called Hymmnos, it's a sort of song language. They can only be sung by artificial girls called Reyvateil's. As others have already explained what they are I won't go into that much detail. But interesting to note, Hymmnos has it's own alphabet and is an entirely made up language for the games. Hymmnos is a language also used to convey the emotions/feelings of the singer. That's why Reyvateil's, in the games story and history, have male partners who they are USUALLY a couple with, as they feel a stronger bond and connection with that person, and thus, creates stronger Song Magic. However, alot of later music in the Ar's series, most notably Nosurge, start to combine languages in the music such as Japanese, Russian and Hymmnos of course.

[@aquagondrag]

The songs from Ar nosurge don't use Hymmnos at all. They use an entirely separate set of languages called Emotional Song Pact and REON-4213.

[@KoziiMedia]

@@aquagondrag Your right, mixed up my wording a bit after talking about it. I get extremely excited when i see someone react to Ar's music considering how niche it is but it's so fantastic.

[@HadeaRin]

Anyway, the song in Ar Tonelico (No Surge games excluded) are compromised of their original language that is actually functional language so you can actually translate it. This language is called as Hymmnos. In Ar Tonelico 3 there is an inclusion of Ar Ciela but that one is closer to Nier's Chaos language in the way you can't translate it manually and need to trust the composer for it (it is translated). I see people also recommended some song that come from No Surge series, which have different language system than Tonelico series actually so it'll surprise you. Songs from No Surge series are divided into literal program song and one that is more culturalized. They're using rule that is different to Tonelico too XD. Well the two series song have the similarity of song used by the singer to use magic. It really is interesting how one can go so far to create a whole world from Song.

[@facto3exsito352]

part of the song is in Hymmnos language. have you ever have to sing in unknown language? i wonder how do the composer express to the singer how he want such song to be delivered, does he have to sit 1 on 1 with the singer and explain it word by word?

[@EmileTherese]

I remember seeing something called "feelings contained in the song" on the Ar tonelico wiki or somewhere. It was like a description of the story they wanted expressed in the song that they gave to the singers, and then the singers would come up with the lyrics and/or the melody? I just remember the one for COSMOFLIPS was really weird lol.

[@mechanomics2649]

@@EmileTherese Yes, Hymmos is an emotion based language. Emotions are core to the all of its dialects such that most lines include the emotion the singer feels for the object of that line.

[@rei-miyazaki]

Ah, its been a decade since i hear this music. Nice to hear your insight in this piece.

[@hillarycheng3391]

I did not expect you to react to artonelico! I was thinking of recommending it to you, but didn't know if it would be okay even though you've already reacted to chaos language songs from nier too. I recommend you to try the song chronicle keys. Seeing you react to this song has made my day! Thanks for reacting to it and posting a video on it!

[@thunderhogTH]

Not everyday you see someone giving Ar tonelico music a try, and boy this is probably the strangest intro to it, but glad to see you put your thoughts on it. Should it ever peak your interest there's a song in the same line of games titled "Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;" that you might be enjoy giving a listen to. I can't really go into detail on what the song is in context, but the best description I can give is "an innocent light being violently taken over by darkness"

[@wormmon2006]

If you’re interested in more Ar Tonelico music to check out, you should check out Xaaaci from AT3, or any/all 3 of the EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/ phases from AT2.

[@EagleCeres]

One song I STRONGLY recommend from AT2 is "The Heart Speaks", it's a duet between two of the in game characters as part of _their_ ending. Also cannot unsee ATLAS PIKACHU

[@VoctorVideo]

The comments about being a 'war cry' are very accurate. Many of the songs in these games are combat programs. If you can imagine at the start of a fight a woman begins singing (complete with layered vocals and instrumentation which she can do because she's not human), and when she stops singing a lightning bolt comes out of the sky and strikes down her enemy. It's a strange setting, to say the least.

[@moalboris239]

Weirdly enough in the lore the reason she can the layered vocals and the likes is more because of the tower then how human she is. If my memory is right the tower basically reads what emotions she is having then translates into sound to make it easier on her. This is why they can sing song magic in combat while still singing the boss music. As long as she keeps her thoughts on her emotions she can sing parallel to the towers translations.

[@RinTheSpaceDragon]

Another song I recommend is Exec_Flip_Arphage (really love the layered chanting in that one), ViiBaci (forgot the title of it but it’s by haruka shimotsuki, lots of layered vocals), and there was another but I forgot. I will comment any more I remember under this one! and maybe the mini songs like Flower Pattern Actual and the dream pattern songs.

[@theangeloid7865]

Very cool, just recently got the game so was a weird coincidence that you reacted to the music at the same time :D. Ffxiv innocence theme or any of the ffxiv music is also a good pick for some reactions ;)

[@MarcoMeatball]

You’ll be happy next week ;)

[@devilneji]

oh ar tonelico. this series imo has the best ost. thanks for bringing the game to new people!

[@Yilue]

Waoh this really blew me away. Reminds me of some of nier a little juwith the lyrics but it also sounded a little indian. In the back you can hear the instrument that makes it sound indian, I dont know what it is, but I imagine its a drum. But yeah very interesting piece. Edit 1: Listening to it again it is pretty hard to hear. Dont know if I'm hearing things lmao. Edit 2: Ok no I can sure hear it in part 2

[@AusSP]

Great to see Ar Tonelico getting some love. (Too bad I don't remember enough about the plot...) In the setting, special enhanced humans use "Song Magic", in combination with the Tower of Ar Tonelico, which is essentially a massive supercomputer that makes magic happen. (Which is why song titles have things like "exec", underscore, forwardslash, etc, as well as the electronic vibe) Using Song Magic involves singing ones feelings and intentions. And most of it is sung in an artificial language. In particular, this is a song of sacrifice, and resurrection of another. The repetitive part where the chorus is saying "VAN" something "VAN", is them listing out what they're sacrificing, "Even misfortune, even hope, even desire, even mercy".

[@DT-bo1zk]

I never play Ar Tonelico games but their songs opened me up to a new genre of music, If anyone already interesting in Emi Evans's songs you might as well give Ar Tonelico some tries. Very highly reccommend Method_Metafalica, Exec_Chronicle_Key and Exec_Flip_Arphage

[@HadeaRin]

Finally the era has catch up with Ar Tonelico music. I personally would want to hear opinion from the Hymmnos Musical one since people rarely talk about it. Especially Infellious Rhaplanca that is basically two song in one XD

[@Kuribohcoast]

oh man Ar Tonelico!!!!!

[@alejandrotti10]

Man, this series are a wild ride music-wise. As you and some of the other comments said, this series takes place on Reyvateil, literally another world with another culture rounded up on the Song Magic; a will of the singer that (correct me if I'm wrong), if it is totally aware and sure of what they plead for, its prayer will be manifested into reality. These songs have their own language, which are also based in codifications to "execute" a program, but they also let run their feelings throughout each lyric, which also gives them their own belief, their own ethnicity, and thus, their own folk.

[@sanctus9857]

Yoooo, I've never heard of this game but this slaps! Maybe I ought to check this game out for its music.

[@Yuzuriha-938]

This had me excited, I've thinking I wanted to watch you react to a Hymmnos song. So many different songs I like to see you react to and others already made some great suggestions. Personally, I feel like EXEC_FLIP_ARPHAGE or Ec Tisia would be my picks. I think I'll consider donating for them.

[@kns6958]

Chronicle key is a good one too. Method hymelli and rebirthia protocol are my faves!

[@TBoneTony]

Ar Tonelico 3 was the game that I first played since I only had a PS3 and never had the PS2 to play the first two games. The first impression outside of the outstanding music of this series was the comedy and the Japanese humor of the series especially with the guy mistook one of the characters for being a Man when he soon realized that this Muscle Bound person in a dress was in fact a Cute Girl in her real form.

[@Kairikey]

CAN WE HAVE MORE FROM THIS GAME SERIES BECAUSE I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH. I wish you listen to METHOD_REPLEKIA/. and all the Akiko Shikata's work on this game because of her somewhat classical background. Or better yet, the whole suite of Metafalica consists of 3 songs: EXEC_METAFALICA/. METHOD_METAFALICA/. and its final duet culmination EXEC_with.METHOD_METAFALICA/. For this song, EXEC_METEMPSYCHOSIS/. is purposefully made to feel cyborg-y. This game's OST is somewhat digital-y cybernetic in nature, but this song is especially so. The in-game explanation was the the person singing this song is deficit in expressing her emotion and value efficiency over all else. I see this reflected in a way that the singing sounds cybernetic and almost sprechstimme, layered upon each into cacophonous and the song deny us to latch on to specific melody which is what I interpret as the element that "express emotion" the very thing that the character singing is bad at. One of the aspect that make this song one of may favorite from this game is that it mixed some tribal element of chanting into this layered of cybernetic-esque choir. It definitely make it sounds like, you know, if the AI can express something through some sort of programming language, it would probably sound like this. I hope you can experience more of this game soundtracks. It took you to some weird places and vibes that you can't wrap your head around easily and it's really awesome.

[@miiaoi879]

Ah, yes! ArTonellico Qoga, have been 10 years since I played this one, the music always reminds me of some kind of mix from code geass and tsubasa chronicles songs, the cool whit this series is that you need to adjust your timing in attacks so you can match the rythm whit your singer(Reyvateil) so your synchro attacks can be stronger, it was the first RPG series I found this kind of combat, til last year whit Neptunia Virtual Stars that implemented a similar method for the boss fights and there you can also change the songs betwen the battle to adjust to the kind of attacks you want to perform and get a different bonus and power ups

[@Kaimax61]

Wow, did not expect someone to react to Ar Tonelico songs. Great job. I would suggest if you're doing another Ar Tonelico song - EXEC_PAJA/ - EXEC_PHANTASMOGORIA - EXEC_COSMOFLIPS or - EXEC_Z a very completely different type of song in the Ar tonelico series due to it's lore.

[@ydatura]

The part which you said is intoned speaking is basically what the singer feeling/thinking. How songs in Ar Tonelico works are that they are 'command words' for a tower, and the intoned speaking is the singer's individuality. In this song, the singer is basically pleading for her best friend to not disappear ('kienai de' is Japanese for 'don't disappear') while she is controlling the tower to weaken the security so the protagonist and his team can release the one who can rescue their friends.

[@bandiriatraveler8343]

Kind've reminds me of the Evergrace OST. Thats another interesting soundtrack!

[@M0narch1024]

Wow this was nothing like I expected, I am definitely interested now. Also Day seven (sorta, I didn't get to join any of the streams) of recommending Stay Gold from the Arknights OST

[@ChargeQM]

It's kinda funny that... this song seems like a war chant, when the actual song that was meant to be a war chant was turned into a story about cats fighting because the singer doesn't have any violent urges whatsoever.

[@endlessblaze5065]

Nope, wrong song. Your thinking of EXEC_EP=NOVA/. Which is essentially the activation key for an anti-magic anti-magitech EMP. This is the song that controls the Rinkernator.

[@Lugia21]

Ar Tonelico and Ar no Surge are some of my favorite games due to the music alone, if you read the lyrics you would understand there's several different meanings to them, one to tell a story, others to express emotions and the most important is unironically script commands to execute programs.

[@Voitan]

TELL ME YOU HAVE MORE REACTIONS TO AR TONELICO PLANNED.

[@MarcoMeatball]

I HAVE MORE PLANNED

[@nicodalusong149]

Oh heck yeah! This game series has some crazy good music using an original language made or japanese, german and english (from what I remember). Very out of this world.

[@laurarodriguez-bf7qp]

A few days ago I was thinking I was thinking about the music of this game and that it would be great if you reacted xD and here it is, it would be great if you could react to others in this game like EXEC.over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION~ ee wassa sos yehar from Ar tonelico 2 and thanks for the videos, I love to see how you enjoy music in addition to your knowledge, it's the first time I've run into someone who feels the music, greetings!

[@mechanomics2649]

No, we gotta have him go through all four movements of SUBLIMATION lmao

[@AegisKHAOS]

And before even that, Replekia! That scene with Replekia in the background before the final boss and Sublimation playing made it all the more epic.

[@Reggie21]

Wow you cover my holy trinity series! Ace combat, Ar tonelico, and Xenoblade!!! Please react to exec purger aurica extracting since it featured a musical instrument from my country

[@thomasschafer5939]

The simpelest way to describe whats going on here: Imagen being a spellcaster and casting a spell to revive a very ancient magical being close to a god in power. If you succeed, congrats you have a chance to save the planet. If you fail, well, basically every spellcaster in the land looses the ability to use magic any many just outright die. So theres alot riding on this song.

[@syzLETMEREGISTERGOD]

As far as I know a lot of the music in the series is composed by the singers themselves, many of whom are pretty classically trained. As mentioned in other comments already it's a mix of Japanese and a language they made up for the games. In-game the hymns are entirely(?) diegetic, acting essentially as executable files that are "sung by" (or more often "executed by") characters for practical purposes. Even just beyond the musical element they do some fascinating things with their songs, using them to carry out a conversation or to portray inner conflicts, etc. M My favorite example of the latter is EXSPHERE_NOSURGE from Ar nosurge, which coincidentally has a good translation here on KZbin that shows off how the language works. The song is designed to kill anyone who hears it and is being "executed" through someone who doesn't want to sing it, so both the music and the lyrics reflect how the singer is trying to fight against the song.

[@pyopyonyo3222]

Gives me strong Zone of the Enders vibes not sure which game was first though. ZOE songs are more melodic but maintain the same high quality of these fantasy Japanese vocals. Not gonna be surprised is people will ask you to listen to ZOE songs, they are very memorable :)

[@Chooie6]

If you might be looking for more songs to look at I remembered a game I play and forgot that it has a massive orchestral soundtrack. Its a series of very sci-fi and epic songs and oh man there is a lot of them, there are two playlists on youtube one is from the singleplayer portion of the game and is about 64 songs and the other is from the multiplayer portion of the game is a whopping 242 songs. Here are the youtube playlist links as for a specific song to pick i honestly can say anything on there that is more than 2 minutes long is worth listening to. kzbin.info/aero/PLLcod52t0kpch_W3JG1ujZ5O7TVeyBLfy kzbin.info/aero/PLLcod52t0kpdZJxdds7VF3NX-XzM3tmb8

[@KingKamor2]

Great to hear some Ar Tonelico commentary from you. If you want to hear the epitome (in my opinion) of the trilogy, then I suggest the 17-minute, 4-part song from Ar Tonelico II called Sublimation, which goes in this order: EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION. ~ emptiness EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/.~lamenza EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/.~ee wassa sos yehar EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/.~omness chs ciel sos infel All of these are played at different points of the final boss battle of that game.

[@AdamInTheZone]

EXEC_Hibernation next 👀

[@APrinnyDood]

I stumbled in here and just wanted to say I very much enjoyed your confused expressions. For some added context your close on the inhuman voice trying to become human. The lyrics are going on about chains, downloading, rebirth, and pleas to not disappear. In Ar Tonelico the third tower's god is "missing" cuz she executed a program to become the Tower. This song is to create a new body for her, the last hope of a dead planet.

[@MarcoMeatball]

❤️❤️

[@AgehaLady]

So you finally reach Ar tonelico, huh ? Please listen to some if not all to this song. I prefer the songs from Ar tonelico 1 and 2 but 3 also have some good songs. I'm not from Patreon, but if someone read this comment and follow him on patreon, please recommend these songs to him (suggest him to listen and read the lyrics too, hahaha ~) : - EXEC_CHRONICLE_KEY/. - EXEC_over.METHOD_SUBLIMATION/. omness chs ciel sos infel (last part only because the prev parts might shock him lol) - EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/. There are more than these, like phantasmogaria, exec with method metafalica, exec sphilia, method replekia, exec flip arphage, etc etc. but anything from the series i'll enjoy it

[@jani5418]

Hey man great stuff (just found your channel)! You should really check out Ace Combat 7 - Daredevil and Ace Combat 7 - Sol Squadron.

[@hishuisaki6853]

The weirdness (in a good way) reminded me alot of Nier Replicant/Gestalt. Thank you for the insight, I found it really hard to intuitively understand the emotions behind the song.

[@drpaimon2369]

I get a little bit dead can dance vibes at some parts, not everywhere, but from time to time. Anyone else?

[@BattleCattleSA]

i feel buried by complexity

[@saracchi1515]

Hello brother, amazing videos as always. I would like to suggest this crazy wild song from the game Punishing Gray Raven - [GhostFinal] Dust.

[@mewimi]

Try Exec_Arphage :3

[@hessianqrow7977]

Personally love Exec Cosmoflips the most from this game ^~^

[@wwklnd]

I have never, ever played an Ar Tonelico game, and likely won't. But a friend posted a link to the song EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/. years and years ago and I've always come back to that song specifically now and then. It's absolutely fascinating.

[@Glasyara]

Class::EXPAJA; is also a good one

[@unlimited971]

May i recommend you ...? suikoden 2 opening title. Reminiscence

[@exoticTaebiased]

I never heard of the game but I think the music might be by Kokia, she is usually the one who sings with such choir like vocals (I love her music) but man the soundtrack is pretty cool!

[@CelticBotansDigitalArt]

Im thinking it is Akiko Shikata, but I am not entirely sure (I love Akiko Shikata's work and voice, but I'm not familiarized with Ar Tonelico stuff aside from a couple of tracks Ive heard here and there). Kokia also kicks ass though!!

[@exoticTaebiased]

@@CelticBotansDigitalArt oh yeah! AKiko shikata stuff is also awesome !!!

[@AsutoraSeiji]

Well, AT3 did a thing where, aside of KOKIA and the franchise's Big 3 Songstresses (Akiko Shikata, Haruka Shimotsuki & Noriko Mitose), it brought a lot of Guest Singers with only one in-game song under their name and METEMPSYCHOSIS ended up being the case for yoko.

[@elfinchai125]

Try out METHOD_METAFALICA and METHOD_IMPLANTA, i think you might can comment on it more in Opera singing.

[@ChiefRagingSheep]

You should give "QuelI-_EX[cez]-_{kranz};" from Ciel Nosurge a try if you find yourself interested in this franchise's works; it's my personal favorite. kzbin.info/www/bejne/amjVY4msn9yKeqc - a lyric video for it so you can read along.

[@RratRemi]

Ar Tonelico is such a great game, especially since all the songs are basically like this for the "song magic" It makes me sad that they ruined AT3 with WAY too much fan service

[@xLeenix]

That was...I dont know even a exact word for it.? weird? totally different from what you usually hear? Not in bad way though

[@Terranigma23]

Ar Tonelico music is so good, but you clearly didn't choos the best one ahah. ;)

[@MarcoMeatball]

It was a patreon request.

[@Terranigma23]

@@MarcoMeatball ahah it's fine. I was just surprised to see this song from Ar Tonelico. 😁

[@battlecubes4762]

This is such a weird song lol

[@eysel_]

I love the music from Tonelico. Hymmos is my favorite track, would highly recommend if you look to continue music from their ost.