yuuichi Nov 27, 2025 5:23pm

Your art is downright magical. I truly love how expressive everything you draw appears to be, alongside your use of markers in your coloured traditional works. :D
P.S. What is your favourite P-Model song? I like Harmonium, off One Pattern.

mouse Nov 27, 2025 10:23pm

Thank you so much!! I pride myself on exactly these strengths, so I'm glad others do too (^^)
Harmonium is a great choice. My favourite changes with time, but lately I'm obsessed with the entirety of ENOLA, from which Spiritus and COLORS are probably my top picks.

yuuichi Dec 06, 2025 12:27pm

My personal favourite P-Model album has always been One Pattern. I have a soft-spot for god-awful new wave. xD and, I simply like Nakano Teruo a whole lot... P:
other than this, I honestly would have to say Enola is my 2nd favourite, as well. I like Affirmation the best.

mouse Dec 06, 2025 2:51pm

God awful New Wave fans rejoice! I recently preordered an album that the (like mid to late 40s) guys behind have been giddy over the fact that Kera praised it, and I realise now that basically everything I listen to us either New Wave or inspired by it (Japanese or not).
And yesss, Nakano is amazing. He's a bit of a genius AND his voice is so lovely... so awesome... While driving across the country a few months ago I listened to so much of his solo works that I think I almost got sick of it.

yuuichi Dec 07, 2025 9:05pm

I... legitimately do not listen to anything except new wave and prog from the late Showa era (and projects from musicians who were active during that time period). and, a handful of Vocaloid producers, too. It's honestly kind of embarrassing. I got the subsect of 'tism which causes you to be incredibly narrow and stubborn in your interests. Px

I have always been most attracted to the more experimental, zolo-y side of new wave tunes. A lot of full-on new wave is too poppy for my tastes, and a lot of full-on prog is too pretentious. I tend to be most attracted to cute, happy, childish, poppy-sounding type songs with nonsensical time signatures, offputting/overly cheerful lyrics, dinky synths, and just general noisy experimental weirdness.

Which album are you mentioning here? Speaking of Kera, I have recently listened to Uchoten's 2016 release "Kafka's Rock/Nietzche's Pop" for the first time. I was reluctant to listen to these for the longest time, because, as is the case with many musical acts from this era doing a little comeback, I feel their music tends to lose nearly everything which made their older stuff so special in the first place. :( But, I was rather pleasantly surprised, it's exactly like their stuff from the 80s, just with more updated-sounding production! and Vocaloid cameos! I'm glad. You can live forever, and never lose your soul~!

mouse Dec 08, 2025 12:26am

I totally get it, and gosh it can be embarrassing but I think that's Okay in the end because there are some people who don't listen to music at all and they still get on fine. I'm always attempting to listen to new stuff, but in general, I can't stop returning to the same groups of musicians... it doesn't help that I'm really into picking apart the ways said musicians interact, and the "new stuff" I pick up usually has to be linked in some way ("this guy was buddies with that guy who was in a band with whatshisname!"). The benefit of such a narrow field is that I've somehow become the person my friends go to when they want to know something LOL.

Experimental is fun! To be honest I always had a thing against proper prog. I think I was just mad at Pink Floyd, for some reason? But a couple of years ago I realised: This vendetta is useless!
I love upbeat stuff, and I love stuff that gets a little weird, and I love it when a melody draws me, and I love it when fun synths are involved. Best of all is when the composition is a bit layered so I can pore over a song a thousand times to really take it in. I'm a bit easy to please though and will fall in love with bands easily. (Also, you mentioned odd time signatures--for whatever reason, this song is in 19/8 for the majority of the time. I learned this just this morning from the band's vocalist and it's already driving me mad.)

The album in question is Restart Your Computer! by MicroLlama. It comes out in two days, and should be at my doorstep a few days after that at most thanks to the magic of CDJapan and DHL shipping!
I actually remember being extremely shocked the first time I listened to Kafka's Rock/Nietzche's Pop and heard the Vocaloid stuff. 幽霊たち gets stuck in my head more often than I'll admit. I find it's fresh while still being distinctly Uchoten, and I think that sets them apart from bands who simply do The Same Album But Again for decades.

rego Nov 24, 2025 10:36am

i like the way you draw eyes it looks like they're going to do something mischievous

mouse Nov 24, 2025 6:03pm

Thank you!! I think they're one of the most distinctive parts of my style in a way. I was first inspired to draw them in this way by Osamu Tezuka, if I remember right. B-)

corvid Oct 31, 2025 5:12am

paws at u

ugpsyclone Oct 31, 2025 4:20am