Just for the record, this is entirely an original song. There is no source material behind it. The avatars that the singers chose are mainly for theatrics as this is a cover of the original song which was originally done using the 10 vocaloids. And to explain the story, basically, mankind offended God with the reckless expansion and pollution of the world, and to save the crumbling world, 9 people needed to be sacrificed with the one remaining, the messiah, being able to make the wish to do so. However, all but the Messiah herself actually knew the truth of the "blessings" and her friends instead, pretending to be consumed by greed and anger, sacrificed themselves to give the Messiah the chance to save the world. The Messiah herself only found out the truth once she reached the top and saw how her 9 friends were being tormented in those chambers. Once that happened, she couldn't help but give a hysterical smile at how powerless she was even as she reached out to the altar to save the world which she succeeded. For the record, there are plenty of Vocaloid songs like this that have really impressive stories and settings. This song in question is actually rather old now, from 2016. As a suggestion, I would recommend the Houkago Stride (After-School Stride) series by Last Note for another song series that actually got an anime adaptation.
Thank you for this info! It makes a lot more sense now that you've explained the story - and man, what an emotional story it is. At the time of watching it, it looked like the MC was betrayed by her friends but it always felt like there was more to it, and we were missing something (on the first watch anyway). Glad to see that this is the case! Such an amazing story and the song was so good as well - extremely catchy and I couldn't get it out of my head (which I'm okay with lol). I didn't know this was released in 2016 - thank you for the other song recommendation! I'll definitely be checking that out as I'm interested in these style of songs, and even more so since it was adapted into an anime (something I'll also be giving a look at). Thanks again!
For the record, the reason why its called the tower of Ai is due to wordplay in Japanese. It cant be copied in english, so Ill just place some Japanese here. The full name of the song is 祝福のメシアとアイの塔[Shukufuku no Meshia to Ai no Tou] アイ[ai] has different meanings but the most common meaning is Love or 愛[ai] So you can assume that its called the Tower of Love It can also be translated as the Tower of Encounters because アイ can also be translated into 合い[Ai] However,the final lyrics go ９つの「哀」を生みて [Kokonotsu no "Ai" wo Umite] Gave birth to 9 sorrows So in reality, this is the Tower of Sorrow 哀 is read as Ai They named it the Tower of Ai to keep it a mystery until the end of the song for those who know Japanese
Ahaha thank you for watching! Hope you enjoyed. We definitely wanna do more of these so more will be coming :) I personally loved this song so I'm looking forward to listening to more.
Hello! I am very happy to see the reaction of my favorite song! I enjoyed it very much! If it's good, the same person made "Misutorou ~Reincarnation Tree" is one song that draws you into the world view, so I definitely want you to see it! *I may be wrong because I use translation.
Glad you enjoyed the video! We sure had a blast with this song, absolutely loved it. And thank you for telling us about this song! I'll definitely be listening to this - the one we listened to here was great so I can only imagine how good the other one is.
🏅 Subscribe for more anime reactions and challenges! ▶ bit.ly/VeloCitySub Thank you to Iroha for requesting us to do this! We never would've found this video otherwise, and man are we glad that this was brought forward to us. The song, the vocals, the visuals... guys you just HAVE to see this! When I was editing this video, the song was stuck in my head for hours (not that I'm complaining lol, I love this song). Absolutely in awe with how good everything was, and I would love to see more collaborations done so we can listen to more of these masterpieces, honestly. A massive, massive shoutout to SirHamnet and the team for putting this amazing collaboration together! Please do check out the original video here! ua-cam.com/video/WODrHNrpfYw/v-deo.html :D
If you liked that song you should check the Evillious Chronicles series (a series of around 50-60 songs) or at least to begin with, the Story Of Evil, a little part of the series, composed of 5 songs (10 in fact but it's if you like the 5 other first): Daughter of Evil, Servant of Evil, Millenium Wiegenlied - Maiden of the Tree, Regret Message, Bystander. For Daughter of Evil and Servant of Evil and Regret Message there are really good english covers if you prefer them instead of the Vocaloids originals
The video watched (sirhamnet's) is a cover of the original song, which was made by Hitoshizuku-P x Yama. The avatars are just characters from the song, not the persona of the singers of this cover or anything like that. The art was done by Suzunosuke and i agree her works are absolutely beautiful
Ahh yeah so this was the English cover of the original Japanese song! Thank you for this. The song was such a delight to listen to! Ahh so Suzunosuke is the genius behind the designs. They looked just amazing. I'd love to see more songs by both the original and cover artists!
Thank you so much for watching! :) Glad you enjoyed our reaction. I'd love to react to more songs like these! Will be checking it out for sure. Thank you again!
I would've liked it if you had red the description entailing that this was indeed a cover of hitoshizuku X yama song blessed Messiah and the tower of ai The original song featured 10 different vocaloids and the art was drawn by suzunosuke Hitoshizuku creates the stories herself and all the characters you see are just the portrayal of the vocaloids in this setting
the name of the Vocaloids in order Messiah: Miku first one: Kaito Second: Meiko Third: IA Fourth: Mayu Fifth: Gakupo Sixth: Gumi Seventh: Luka Eighth: Rin Ninth: Len
This is actually not the original version of the song. heres the link to the original japanese version by Hitoshizuku and Yama: ua-cam.com/video/CiEC329xPos/v-deo.html The characters are the designs of the japanese vocalsts, which are actually all vocaloids, a type of vocal synthesizer software that sings if you put in lyrics and notes and adjust the parameters. Different vocaloid softwares have different voices and character designs. The character figure for vocaloids r meant to be a visual representation of their voices but in most cases, those who use vocaloids to sing their songs have adopted the design by the software companies and just use them. So characters featuring in this song actually are: Kaito as the village chief (the young man with blue hair); Meiko as the swordsman; IA as the older sister; Mayu as the younger sister; Camui Gackpo as the monk, Gumi as the poet; Luka as the dancer; Kagamine Rin as the twin sister; Kagamine Len as the twin brother, and Hatsune Miku as the Messiah. This song has gained popularity slowly as it took four years for it to enter the Vocaloid Hall of Legend.
YOOOOOO, found your channel through stray kids reactions, but this is such a pleasant surprise to see that you did a vocaloid reaction too! You’re my favorite reaction channel now hahahhaha
Aww thank you so much for the kind words and support :D We're so glad you're enjoying all sorts of our content haha! Honestly means the world to us! Thank you once again! :D
It's so rare to find a vocaloid reacting video on youtube! Please do more! Subbed! It would be even better to do some research on the song since a lot of vocaloid songs have a background story and it's not always easy to understand only through the music video. And maybe you could try the original japanese version next time (most of the time there's gonna be fan eng sub). Some of my personal recommendations: Seasonal Feathers, Suki Kirai (giga remix), the dream of a girl doll, the 13th apocalypse I have a lot more but I don't want to make this comment a vocaloid playlist, do you have anywhere for recommendations XD? And do they need to have a music video cause many of them just have a single illustration. What kind of videos do you react?
Thank you so much for this! Welcome aboard :) And we really had such a fun time with this video so we're grateful that we were requested to do it! It really is one of my favourite songs now (plus this cover is just brilliant)! The story is awesome as well and you're right - it'd be really helpful to do some research on it so we can understand it more. We appreciate all the recommendations! Will be looking into these :) And we do note down any of the requests that we get so we can prioritise the ones that have a higher volume, so feel free to add to this list! :) We react to both Anime and Kpop videos (and also play challenges lol) but this video here was actually a Patreon request! We always react to videos that are requested this way because it's a show of appreciation for everyone's support in the particular tier as well :) Thank you so much again!
@@velocityofcl Oh that's cool! I'd like to see your reactions. And would you also react to some Nikki series clips? it's a game (series) with an art style that's quite a mix of digital painting & celluloid anime (I'd also like to see your opinions on that) But the sources are a bit messy if you don't know a lot about the fandom, so if yes I could send you links?
I'm a fan of Hitoshizuku×Yama△ who wrote this song. Please listen PARTY×PARTY too! The song also takes a bit of a surprising turn, but its ending is very cute😆💕
it's all original piece the song and the art, there isn't source material. if you love this one, you will love Mistletoe The Tree of Reincarnation, give it a try too. it's amazing song and art!
just for the record, this is a vocaloid song and those characters are from vocaloid (like the messiah or miku) and this song is one of the many amazing songs from vocaloid
I really want you to see russian cover of this song (channel "Harmony team"). There are no subs, sorry, but voices are amazing. Maybe not on camera, but watch it, plz💚 you won't be dissapointed
Actually, RadiantRecords has, in my opinion, a better version of the Russian cover. The lyrics sound so much more natural... and the voices are incredible as well.
@@Kayta-Linda ну, сравнивать эти каверы сложно, но я все же считаю, что Хармони тим справились лучше. Хотя сколько людей, столько и мнений, так что нет смысла спорить
AAAHHH this is such a throwback! Thank you for checking this out with us Pam! 😭🙏 We genuinely enjoyed this performance so much and you could tell that we're pretty new to the scene back then 🤣 It's such a brilliant song right?! Loved it big time!
We will definitely check this one out! Thank you for telling us about it (and thank you for watching) :) English subs should make this a lot more interesting as well!
Just for the record, this is entirely an original song. There is no source material behind it. The avatars that the singers chose are mainly for theatrics as this is a cover of the original song which was originally done using the 10 vocaloids.
And to explain the story, basically, mankind offended God with the reckless expansion and pollution of the world, and to save the crumbling world, 9 people needed to be sacrificed with the one remaining, the messiah, being able to make the wish to do so. However, all but the Messiah herself actually knew the truth of the "blessings" and her friends instead, pretending to be consumed by greed and anger, sacrificed themselves to give the Messiah the chance to save the world. The Messiah herself only found out the truth once she reached the top and saw how her 9 friends were being tormented in those chambers. Once that happened, she couldn't help but give a hysterical smile at how powerless she was even as she reached out to the altar to save the world which she succeeded.
For the record, there are plenty of Vocaloid songs like this that have really impressive stories and settings. This song in question is actually rather old now, from 2016.
As a suggestion, I would recommend the Houkago Stride (After-School Stride) series by Last Note for another song series that actually got an anime adaptation.
Thank you for this info! It makes a lot more sense now that you've explained the story - and man, what an emotional story it is. At the time of watching it, it looked like the MC was betrayed by her friends but it always felt like there was more to it, and we were missing something (on the first watch anyway). Glad to see that this is the case! Such an amazing story and the song was so good as well - extremely catchy and I couldn't get it out of my head (which I'm okay with lol). I didn't know this was released in 2016 - thank you for the other song recommendation! I'll definitely be checking that out as I'm interested in these style of songs, and even more so since it was adapted into an anime (something I'll also be giving a look at). Thanks again!
Honestly I would recommend the evillius chronicles.
@@theonewayroad3867 They're going to have a brain-plosion following the series, pay mercy
But the animations in the video is actually the original music video for the song though? not just this English cover.....
ua-cam.com/video/CiEC329xPos/v-deo.html
the original ^^
loves your videos keep going also.can we be a youtube friends ? :D
It feels like you'd like the Bad End Night vocaloid song series.
Yesss, also the kagerou project song series
Ooh thank for these recommendations! We'll definitely see if we can check these out some time!
For the record, the reason why its called the tower of Ai is due to wordplay in Japanese. It cant be copied in english, so Ill just place some Japanese here.
The full name of the song is 祝福のメシアとアイの塔[Shukufuku no Meshia to Ai no Tou]
アイ[ai] has different meanings but the most common meaning is Love or 愛[ai]
So you can assume that its called the Tower of Love
It can also be translated as the Tower of Encounters because アイ can also be translated into 合い[Ai]
However,the final lyrics go
９つの「哀」を生みて
[Kokonotsu no "Ai" wo Umite]
Gave birth to 9 sorrows
So in reality, this is the Tower of Sorrow
哀 is read as Ai
They named it the Tower of Ai to keep it a mystery until the end of the song for those who know Japanese
Oh wow I never thought I'd see vocaloid on this channel. It's a pleasant surprise though. 💚
Ahaha thank you for watching! Hope you enjoyed. We definitely wanna do more of these so more will be coming :) I personally loved this song so I'm looking forward to listening to more.
This was a surprise to see you guys reacting to Vocaloid songs
Edit: To clarify, this is a cover, the ones who made this song is teamOS
We wanna do more of these! Had a lot of fun with this one. And thank you for the info! We knew were missing something lol.
I remember watching this years ago. Man I loved this song...
It's so amazing, isn't it?! Wish I could've heard about this sooner because I loved every bit of this.
私は日本人ですが、この曲は本当に素晴らしいので、みなさんにも気に入ってもらえてすごく嬉しいです！
Hello! I am very happy to see the reaction of my favorite song! I enjoyed it very much! If it's good, the same person made "Misutorou ~Reincarnation Tree" is one song that draws you into the world view, so I definitely want you to see it! *I may be wrong because I use translation.
Glad you enjoyed the video! We sure had a blast with this song, absolutely loved it. And thank you for telling us about this song! I'll definitely be listening to this - the one we listened to here was great so I can only imagine how good the other one is.
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Thank you to Iroha for requesting us to do this! We never would've found this video otherwise, and man are we glad that this was brought forward to us. The song, the vocals, the visuals... guys you just HAVE to see this! When I was editing this video, the song was stuck in my head for hours (not that I'm complaining lol, I love this song). Absolutely in awe with how good everything was, and I would love to see more collaborations done so we can listen to more of these masterpieces, honestly.
A massive, massive shoutout to SirHamnet and the team for putting this amazing collaboration together! Please do check out the original video here! ua-cam.com/video/WODrHNrpfYw/v-deo.html :D
If you liked that song you should check the Evillious Chronicles series (a series of around 50-60 songs) or at least to begin with, the Story Of Evil, a little part of the series, composed of 5 songs (10 in fact but it's if you like the 5 other first): Daughter of Evil, Servant of Evil, Millenium Wiegenlied - Maiden of the Tree, Regret Message, Bystander. For Daughter of Evil and Servant of Evil and Regret Message there are really good english covers if you prefer them instead of the Vocaloids originals
The video watched (sirhamnet's) is a cover of the original song, which was made by Hitoshizuku-P x Yama. The avatars are just characters from the song, not the persona of the singers of this cover or anything like that. The art was done by Suzunosuke and i agree her works are absolutely beautiful
Ahh yeah so this was the English cover of the original Japanese song! Thank you for this. The song was such a delight to listen to! Ahh so Suzunosuke is the genius behind the designs. They looked just amazing. I'd love to see more songs by both the original and cover artists!
他の仲間達はそれは祝福ではなく人類に対する罰だと知っていた。心優しいメシアを悲しませないため、裏切ったふりをして仲間達は罰を受け入れていった。自分たちの結末を知っていながら…😢
Hitoshizuku x Yama are my favorite vocaloid producers. They always have such amazing stories and songwriting
Sameee i always cry
i’m so happy you guys reacted to a vocaloid cover ! i d love to see u react to the bad end night series english covers from murasagiyt :)
Thank you so much for watching! :) Glad you enjoyed our reaction. I'd love to react to more songs like these! Will be checking it out for sure. Thank you again!
I would've liked it if you had red the description entailing that this was indeed a cover of hitoshizuku X yama song blessed Messiah and the tower of ai
The original song featured 10 different vocaloids and the art was drawn by suzunosuke
Hitoshizuku creates the stories herself and all the characters you see are just the portrayal of the vocaloids in this setting
You'd definitely love the Bad End Night Series!! :D
Or Sister's Mercy + Vampire Pathos. Those two make the story whole
the name of the Vocaloids in order
Messiah: Miku
first one: Kaito
Second: Meiko
Third: IA
Fourth: Mayu
Fifth: Gakupo
Sixth: Gumi
Seventh: Luka
Eighth: Rin
Ninth: Len
This is actually not the original version of the song. heres the link to the original japanese version by Hitoshizuku and Yama: ua-cam.com/video/CiEC329xPos/v-deo.html
The characters are the designs of the japanese vocalsts, which are actually all vocaloids, a type of vocal synthesizer software that sings if you put in lyrics and notes and adjust the parameters. Different vocaloid softwares have different voices and character designs. The character figure for vocaloids r meant to be a visual representation of their voices but in most cases, those who use vocaloids to sing their songs have adopted the design by the software companies and just use them.
So characters featuring in this song actually are: Kaito as the village chief (the young man with blue hair); Meiko as the swordsman; IA as the older sister; Mayu as the younger sister; Camui Gackpo as the monk, Gumi as the poet; Luka as the dancer; Kagamine Rin as the twin sister; Kagamine Len as the twin brother, and Hatsune Miku as the Messiah.
This song has gained popularity slowly as it took four years for it to enter the Vocaloid Hall of Legend.
YOOOOOO, found your channel through stray kids reactions, but this is such a pleasant surprise to see that you did a vocaloid reaction too! You’re my favorite reaction channel now hahahhaha
Aww thank you so much for the kind words and support :D We're so glad you're enjoying all sorts of our content haha! Honestly means the world to us! Thank you once again! :D
It's so rare to find a vocaloid reacting video on youtube! Please do more! Subbed! It would be even better to do some research on the song since a lot of vocaloid songs have a background story and it's not always easy to understand only through the music video. And maybe you could try the original japanese version next time (most of the time there's gonna be fan eng sub).
Some of my personal recommendations: Seasonal Feathers, Suki Kirai (giga remix), the dream of a girl doll, the 13th apocalypse
I have a lot more but I don't want to make this comment a vocaloid playlist, do you have anywhere for recommendations XD? And do they need to have a music video cause many of them just have a single illustration. What kind of videos do you react?
Thank you so much for this! Welcome aboard :) And we really had such a fun time with this video so we're grateful that we were requested to do it! It really is one of my favourite songs now (plus this cover is just brilliant)! The story is awesome as well and you're right - it'd be really helpful to do some research on it so we can understand it more.
We appreciate all the recommendations! Will be looking into these :) And we do note down any of the requests that we get so we can prioritise the ones that have a higher volume, so feel free to add to this list! :) We react to both Anime and Kpop videos (and also play challenges lol) but this video here was actually a Patreon request! We always react to videos that are requested this way because it's a show of appreciation for everyone's support in the particular tier as well :) Thank you so much again!
@@velocityofcl Oh that's cool! I'd like to see your reactions. And would you also react to some Nikki series clips? it's a game (series) with an art style that's quite a mix of digital painting & celluloid anime (I'd also like to see your opinions on that) But the sources are a bit messy if you don't know a lot about the fandom, so if yes I could send you links?
Omg Seasonal Feathers is really good, especially in that silent solo poart of Rin. Also, the Dream of the Doll Girl resonates so much with me.
I'm a fan of Hitoshizuku×Yama△ who wrote this song. Please listen PARTY×PARTY too! The song also takes a bit of a surprising turn, but its ending is very cute😆💕
it's all original piece the song and the art, there isn't source material.
if you love this one, you will love Mistletoe The Tree of Reincarnation, give it a try too.
it's amazing song and art!
just for the record, this is a vocaloid song and those characters are from vocaloid (like the messiah or miku) and this song is one of the many amazing songs from vocaloid
I really want you to see russian cover of this song (channel "Harmony team"). There are no subs, sorry, but voices are amazing. Maybe not on camera, but watch it, plz💚 you won't be dissapointed
Actually, RadiantRecords has, in my opinion, a better version of the Russian cover. The lyrics sound so much more natural... and the voices are incredible as well.
@@Kayta-Linda ну, сравнивать эти каверы сложно, но я все же считаю, что Хармони тим справились лучше. Хотя сколько людей, столько и мнений, так что нет смысла спорить
Synchronicity!! >u
I didn't expect to see this in my recommended, I love this song SO MUCH, so great to see your reaction!!
AAAHHH this is such a throwback! Thank you for checking this out with us Pam! 😭🙏 We genuinely enjoyed this performance so much and you could tell that we're pretty new to the scene back then 🤣 It's such a brilliant song right?! Loved it big time!
Ive never thought of everlasting sun would cause a drought
I'm so glad you like the melody! The composers of that song makes really good songs.
For those who want more feels - the cycle repeats itself....each time you press repeat.
Great reaction! I would love for you to check out stray kids new song! God’s menu mv ( with eng subs)!!
We will definitely check this one out! Thank you for telling us about it (and thank you for watching) :) English subs should make this a lot more interesting as well!
Please react to both daughter of evil and servant of evil, English cover.
Velo, i hope they'll put goku and hibiki in grand summoners :)
This would be dope dude lmao
Nice vid 👍
Appreciate it dude - hope you enjoyed this song as much as we did!