Remember when summer break seemed so long it might as well have been an entire half a year? Remember when you had so much carefree life to enjoy that you'd run out of the classroom at the end of the day, with not a second to waste? Remember when that one new video game you got completely occupied your mind, how you completely immersed yourself in it, how you phantasized about "wouldn't it be cool if _this_ was in the game? How about if I try to do _that_, maybe something cool will happen" The more you learn about how the world works, the more you lose touch with the magic of those days. When did a month become what used to be a week? When did you start walking slowly because you had nowhere in particular to be? When did you stop spending hours trying to jump across the little bits of rock that stuck out of the mountain, trying to reach the top of a too-steep mountain? How many invisible walls did it take? Do you remember running around a game playing make-believe, pretending to do things that weren't actual actions in the game without a care in the world? The world was your canvas and your mind was your brush, until they started telling you "now's not the time for that" more and more often. Again and again they said "that's not the right way to do it". Your canvas has become a wipeable whiteboard, your brush has become a stamp. The only source of excitement in your life now comes from events out of your control, and you try to minimize those as much as possible. With each thing that becomes routine for you, time starts moving a little faster. You have no more need for the compass of your heart, the GPS of your mind has your route all planned out for you, cruising the well-paved highway with no bumps in the road, no curves and designated cookie-cutter franchise rest stops every year if you can afford to take a vacation. Why don't you download a copy of that one game, you know the one? The one you basically had no idea how to play because you couldn't read a lot yet and the audio was half words that you had no idea what they meant and what your parents(who still saw video games as little more than very simple affairs with two different types of enemies being the height of technology) told you they meant didn't make sense in context. But who cares about explainations? You wanted to play, and play you did! You tried every button and figured out what they did. You took to it like a fish to water. You explored every nook and cranny of the first level(having no idea that the concept of "levels" even existed, for all you knew, *this* was the game!), trying to open every door that was just a texture, trying to sit on every chair, trying every possible button combination on every piece of level geometry that looked it should be useable? The telephone, the lever to the drawbridge, the car(maybe you can drive the car if you find a hidden key somewhere? That gate over there could open and reveal a secret racetrack!). You'd take the game as a basis to enable your own way of playing. If the game wouldn't let you do something, you'd just act it out in your head and move on like no problem. If the game's core mechanics didn't interest you at the moment, you'd just completely forget about them, maybe stand behind something vaguely counter-like and pretend you were pouring drinks for thirsty patrons for an entire afternoon. Remember that game. Get yourself a copy and act out the silliest thing you can think of. Boot up Oblivion and play a character that needs to sniff the butt of everybody he comes across and when he gets seen doing it, he has to hide in some bushes until the make-believe fartguards stop looking for him. Play Stardew Valley as a lumberjack that doesn't give a hoot about growing anything on their farm, all you do is cut trees all day. Pop in GTA:SA, activate No Wanted Level and just start driving around without any goal in mind, every crossroads you just take the direction that you feel you haven't gone before or something. Play BF2 as a pacifist trying to convice everybody on the server that they should stop fighting and work together to keep the peace on the map, uniting against the "rogue elements" that join the server, aren't in on the joke yet and start shooting people like usual. Games can't enable your imagination anymore because you've known them long enough to know, upon first starting up a game, what the game expects you to do and also exactly how it's going to respond to your actions. You're just going though the motions, like a dead relationship. You have to completely think outside the game design. Don't go for "this is this game's main focus, let's do that(e.g. shooting in shooters)", think "Hmm, I wonder how complete a bowling alley I can build out of friendly npcs for pins and maybe some physics objects from all over the map to build some walls?" or "Maybe I could see how many of those birds that're flying around as decoration on this map I can shoot down before the sky is completely empty?" If you want your imagination to fly free, you can't just take the easy obvious way of playing and settle for that, or else your imagination will feel useless and just not come out to play with you anymore. In summary: Let's all try to find the innocent magic we buried deep inside ourselves under layers upon layers of silly worries, insecurities and the facade we put up to get through our days with minimal friction with other people, and stoke its fire! Let's set each other ablaze with the our imagination and start helping each other live lives that are fun to live, where every day is an adventure in and of itself, not just lives "worth living". Fuuuck, my keyboard kinda started running away with me there. Adderall is some serious shit. TL;DR it's not too late to become as happy as you were when you were a kid Also, Okusenman would be better translated as "countless", as far as I know it's a figure of speech along the lines of "a ridiculously huge number", not necessarily literally 110 Billion
Holy crap, this is inspirational. I really like how instead of just talking about the problems we face and the past we enjoyed, you offer a solution that can help revive our imaginations and our happiness. On a side note, you mentioning doing things entirely opposed to game mechanics or completely unrelated to them resonated with me. I remember how often I used to play games as a kid and pretend that characters were on screen who weren't (and perhaps never appeared in the game), making them have conversations and do unrealistic actions that had nothing to do with the game. And this type of thing would somehow entertain us for hours on end. But now? Life feels hollow - speeding by at an incomprehensible pace with actions that are painful and borderline scripted. We're not being our true selves, we're not achieving our dreams. If we allow ourselves to be carefree and spend our time wisely (but without too much stress), perhaps it is possible to reach that happiness again.
It's Masaaki Endoh and he actually can sing, just that the high parts are out of his range. When JAM Project performs this song a woman sings that part; usually Masami Okui.
I had the joy of doing this song for my final project for music tech class back in my final semester of high school. Got three of my friends together to record the vocals for it. I'm not sure a couple of them knew what exactly the words they were singing meant, but I couldn't think of a better song to close out your last chance to call yourself a kid.
The first time I saw this I was probably about 18. I didn’t really sympathize with it and thought it was catchy because Mega Man 2 is dope. Now that I’m 28, I’m identifying more with this than I ever did before. Fuck. I’m not crying, you are.
Always loved the detail of the MC looking through the window, seeing a kid that reminds him of when he was younger, while the schoolgirls look at him like he's some kind of weirdo but change their expression when he starts tearing up
I've always loved that style of scream-singing that feels like nothing but raw emotion, and I wonder if this video was where it started for me when I was a kid. Like, it doesn't matter how hard it is to get out or how ugly it might be, it is nothing but the purest, truest message you can get.
I had a shitty childhood, but... this. Listening to this makes me wanna go back to those days that I just booted up the ps2 with no worries and played some Sly, GTA SA or some WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007. I didn't have friends, but it was ok bc the videogames and my lil bro kept me company... I'm 24yo now. I don't want to grow up 😔 The real world is just cruel and it sucks.
I see that original video em 2011, (i guess) , and, still, makes me cry, MEGA/ROCKMAN meens the world too me, and describe exactly my life, in every point, it increadible how, the MEGAMAN FANS have lives so much similar : The separate ways that friends going , some "lifemate" doenst seem to undestands you, the lifetime empty, the loneliness, maybe, if , the game real imitate life, will be, like this happi ending after all, "EVERYLASTING PEACE REACHING"
I may be a kid (15), but I totally feel this. On top of just finishing Clannad, I also have to move pretty often and understand wanting to go back to when things were simpler. Just something that happens the older you get, I suppose.
Hold on to the days now, too! While being 15 wasn't all that to me, there are some parts I miss. As I am now, I appreciate the present, because I know I'll miss some of it too, and so the cycle continues.
@@TheLugiaSong yeah, I totally understand. I worry about the future and the uncertainties it holds, and in the eight months since posting this, I've definitely learned to appreciate the now.
Two idiots existed in this world so far... hopefully that's the final count. The last part got me most... so touching... first love may never be your eternal other half, but it will always be one of the sweetest memories of life....
I had loved Mega Man 2 as a child, then listened to this song when I was a teenager on the internet. Now I'm twice as old and listening to it again really rocks my energy tanks. Sad, true, beautiful in it's own punk rock-ish way.
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I first listened to this as a high schooler... and now I'm close to hitting my 30's . I cry every time I watch this.
Already 30, I feel ya m8
The dude singing this song gets so into it. No matter how weird he may sound, this song's just amazing :D
This...As an adult...hurts like a rock buster to the face. Although the tone was upbeat, the message is just pure feels...
Heh... I see what you did there. But yeah, it really does speak to just about anyone, huh?
Remember when summer break seemed so long it might as well have been an entire half a year?
Remember when you had so much carefree life to enjoy that you'd run out of the classroom at the end of the day, with not a second to waste?
Remember when that one new video game you got completely occupied your mind, how you completely immersed yourself in it, how you phantasized about "wouldn't it be cool if _this_ was in the game? How about if I try to do _that_, maybe something cool will happen"
The more you learn about how the world works, the more you lose touch with the magic of those days.
When did a month become what used to be a week?
When did you start walking slowly because you had nowhere in particular to be?
When did you stop spending hours trying to jump across the little bits of rock that stuck out of the mountain, trying to reach the top of a too-steep mountain? How many invisible walls did it take?
Do you remember running around a game playing make-believe, pretending to do things that weren't actual actions in the game without a care in the world?
The world was your canvas and your mind was your brush, until they started telling you "now's not the time for that" more and more often. Again and again they said "that's not the right way to do it".
Your canvas has become a wipeable whiteboard, your brush has become a stamp.
The only source of excitement in your life now comes from events out of your control, and you try to minimize those as much as possible.
With each thing that becomes routine for you, time starts moving a little faster. You have no more need for the compass of your heart, the GPS of your mind has your route all planned out for you, cruising the well-paved highway with no bumps in the road, no curves and designated cookie-cutter franchise rest stops every year if you can afford to take a vacation.
Why don't you download a copy of that one game, you know the one? The one you basically had no idea how to play because you couldn't read a lot yet and the audio was half words that you had no idea what they meant and what your parents(who still saw video games as little more than very simple affairs with two different types of enemies being the height of technology) told you they meant didn't make sense in context. But who cares about explainations? You wanted to play, and play you did! You tried every button and figured out what they did. You took to it like a fish to water. You explored every nook and cranny of the first level(having no idea that the concept of "levels" even existed, for all you knew, *this* was the game!), trying to open every door that was just a texture, trying to sit on every chair, trying every possible button combination on every piece of level geometry that looked it should be useable? The telephone, the lever to the drawbridge, the car(maybe you can drive the car if you find a hidden key somewhere? That gate over there could open and reveal a secret racetrack!). You'd take the game as a basis to enable your own way of playing. If the game wouldn't let you do something, you'd just act it out in your head and move on like no problem. If the game's core mechanics didn't interest you at the moment, you'd just completely forget about them, maybe stand behind something vaguely counter-like and pretend you were pouring drinks for thirsty patrons for an entire afternoon.
Remember that game. Get yourself a copy and act out the silliest thing you can think of. Boot up Oblivion and play a character that needs to sniff the butt of everybody he comes across and when he gets seen doing it, he has to hide in some bushes until the make-believe fartguards stop looking for him. Play Stardew Valley as a lumberjack that doesn't give a hoot about growing anything on their farm, all you do is cut trees all day. Pop in GTA:SA, activate No Wanted Level and just start driving around without any goal in mind, every crossroads you just take the direction that you feel you haven't gone before or something. Play BF2 as a pacifist trying to convice everybody on the server that they should stop fighting and work together to keep the peace on the map, uniting against the "rogue elements" that join the server, aren't in on the joke yet and start shooting people like usual.
Games can't enable your imagination anymore because you've known them long enough to know, upon first starting up a game, what the game expects you to do and also exactly how it's going to respond to your actions. You're just going though the motions, like a dead relationship.
You have to completely think outside the game design. Don't go for "this is this game's main focus, let's do that(e.g. shooting in shooters)", think "Hmm, I wonder how complete a bowling alley I can build out of friendly npcs for pins and maybe some physics objects from all over the map to build some walls?" or "Maybe I could see how many of those birds that're flying around as decoration on this map I can shoot down before the sky is completely empty?"
If you want your imagination to fly free, you can't just take the easy obvious way of playing and settle for that, or else your imagination will feel useless and just not come out to play with you anymore.
In summary: Let's all try to find the innocent magic we buried deep inside ourselves under layers upon layers of silly worries, insecurities and the facade we put up to get through our days with minimal friction with other people, and stoke its fire! Let's set each other ablaze with the our imagination and start helping each other live lives that are fun to live, where every day is an adventure in and of itself, not just lives "worth living".
Fuuuck, my keyboard kinda started running away with me there. Adderall is some serious shit.
TL;DR it's not too late to become as happy as you were when you were a kid
Also, Okusenman would be better translated as "countless", as far as I know it's a figure of speech along the lines of "a ridiculously huge number", not necessarily literally 110 Billion
Thank you.
How I wish...
Holy crap, this is inspirational. I really like how instead of just talking about the problems we face and the past we enjoyed, you offer a solution that can help revive our imaginations and our happiness.
On a side note, you mentioning doing things entirely opposed to game mechanics or completely unrelated to them resonated with me. I remember how often I used to play games as a kid and pretend that characters were on screen who weren't (and perhaps never appeared in the game), making them have conversations and do unrealistic actions that had nothing to do with the game. And this type of thing would somehow entertain us for hours on end.
But now? Life feels hollow - speeding by at an incomprehensible pace with actions that are painful and borderline scripted. We're not being our true selves, we're not achieving our dreams.
If we allow ourselves to be carefree and spend our time wisely (but without too much stress), perhaps it is possible to reach that happiness again.
Thank you. I needed a reminder and thank you very much for it.
At first i thought it is just a hype song but when i read the lyrics it made me cry.
This sounds so punk, with that dude not knowing how to sing and just screaming the lyrics furiously.
Sounds awesome.
+Eduardo Ramos
it gives the song feeling, because it feels raw and emotional when he screams it.
That's how they sing, lol
I think he was very good at it
It's Masaaki Endoh and he actually can sing, just that the high parts are out of his range. When JAM Project performs this song a woman sings that part; usually Masami Okui.
Yeah you can hear that he sings pretty well when hes low or mid
I had the joy of doing this song for my final project for music tech class back in my final semester of high school. Got three of my friends together to record the vocals for it. I'm not sure a couple of them knew what exactly the words they were singing meant, but I couldn't think of a better song to close out your last chance to call yourself a kid.
That's poetic as shit, I love it.
青春だねぇ
Screaming is the only way this man can hold back the tears. This is some real feeling right here.
The first time I saw this I was probably about 18. I didn’t really sympathize with it and thought it was catchy because Mega Man 2 is dope.
Now that I’m 28, I’m identifying more with this than I ever did before. Fuck. I’m not crying, you are.
Same here. It's just something you carry with you.
Welcome to adulthood
I'm 15, this relates to me more than it should. I'm probably gonna need therapy when I reach 18.
@@doozy5184 hello windows 7 logo, you're probably 18 now, so... are you in therapy / do you think you need therapy?
Always loved the detail of the MC looking through the window, seeing a kid that reminds him of when he was younger, while the schoolgirls look at him like he's some kind of weirdo but change their expression when he starts tearing up
I've always loved that style of scream-singing that feels like nothing but raw emotion, and I wonder if this video was where it started for me when I was a kid. Like, it doesn't matter how hard it is to get out or how ugly it might be, it is nothing but the purest, truest message you can get.
Time is sooo fast, i can't lisen this song without tears.
Me too.
hit me in da kokoro
I'm not crying ok?
Something fell on my eye.
"It's liquid pride, a totally different thing"
@@shiningarmor2838 I love that episode
My best friends and I are all moving to different countries within six months. This song is making me cry so hard right now.
+Liliana Portello Best of luck out in the different parts of the world!
I had a shitty childhood, but... this. Listening to this makes me wanna go back to those days that I just booted up the ps2 with no worries and played some Sly, GTA SA or some WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007. I didn't have friends, but it was ok bc the videogames and my lil bro kept me company... I'm 24yo now. I don't want to grow up 😔 The real world is just cruel and it sucks.
I'm in my 40s, and this song always hits me in tears.. imagine a grown man crying like a baby - that's me after the song.
I see that original video em 2011, (i guess) , and, still, makes me cry, MEGA/ROCKMAN meens the world too me, and describe exactly my life, in every point, it increadible how, the MEGAMAN FANS have lives so much similar : The separate ways that friends going , some "lifemate" doenst seem to undestands you, the lifetime empty, the loneliness, maybe, if , the game real imitate life, will be, like this happi ending after all, "EVERYLASTING PEACE REACHING"
I dont know why, I'm 25yo grown ass man, sitting here crying like a little girl to the song I always always thought it's Megaman OST.
Well, it IS mega man OST...
Fk, now I'm 30, married and about to have a kid in the next few months, listen again and still cry like a little girl :(((
Pour one out to all the homies who ended up like 2:09 since this video came out.
I watched this over and over again when I was 9, 10, back in 2009. I ended up like that.
I may be a kid (15), but I totally feel this. On top of just finishing Clannad, I also have to move pretty often and understand wanting to go back to when things were simpler. Just something that happens the older you get, I suppose.
Hold on to the days now, too! While being 15 wasn't all that to me, there are some parts I miss. As I am now, I appreciate the present, because I know I'll miss some of it too, and so the cycle continues.
@@TheLugiaSong yeah, I totally understand. I worry about the future and the uncertainties it holds, and in the eight months since posting this, I've definitely learned to appreciate the now.
Watching this after Clannad is a sob fest man
I don't know how I got here, but I'm leaving with a new video on my favorites list, a subscription of a channel, and tears in my eyes. lol
We all feel that youth-self singing like this every time we have growing pains.
What an video about nostalgia, i really miss the old days though.
Two idiots existed in this world so far... hopefully that's the final count. The last part got me most... so touching... first love may never be your eternal other half, but it will always be one of the sweetest memories of life....
When you actually know the deep. Meaning of this animations
He just wanted to be a kid again
Dang the deep meaning of this song.
Over 7 years since I first watched this, wild.
I had loved Mega Man 2 as a child, then listened to this song when I was a teenager on the internet. Now I'm twice as old and listening to it again really rocks my energy tanks. Sad, true, beautiful in it's own punk rock-ish way.
That was the greatest thing I ever fucking saw....
cool song, i realy enjoyeded this! ;)
i first saw this when i was still a kid, maybe 12 years old. now this hits so differently. but it still slaps!
I'M NOT CRYING! YOU ARE!!
This song provoked so many emotions
THIS VIDEO INSPIRED ME... WHILE HURTING ME AT THE SAME TIME..
i didnt know these lyrics were so sad...
Holy fuck this song is like a fully charged X buster straight to the feels.
This song shouldn't make me cry... But it does... ;~;
i would honestly would feel really guilty for myself if i bullied this guy when he was a kid, not knowing he would make a song so powerful
THE FEELINGS ARE ONE HUNDRED TEN BILLION
this is how singing with your life sounds like
I miss the time when I was able to laugh innocently and was unaware of impure things.
涙出てきた
Awesome *ç*
I'm not crying. Somebody's cutting Onions
The guy singing sounds like Larry the Cucumber speaking Japanese.
WAIT
Ouch...
where do the lyrics in parentheses appear? I didn't hear them.
Epic
whew
okkusenman okkusenman
...
haan ;-;
so he already got a gf then he reunited with his school days' first love?
Isn't the singer Yoffy from Psychic Lover?
Isn't it 110 million?
Okksenman=110 million, not billion
Song: "Omoide wa Okkusenman!" by JAM Project
Actualy this one is the original version, JAM Project made their own version because it's a good song :V.
I like Jojo's medley's spin on this song a lot more. WRY! xD
what does this have to do with mega man. Still good tho
It's dr wily's stage theme in megaman 2
Dunno. I guess Megaman 2 was a big part of the singer’s childhood.
mm2wily.mid
Tbh I preferred the jam project version
This is better because it sounds like the singer is drowning his sorrow away in a drunk karaoke session
Jam Project sounds better, original feels better. That's how I'd put it.