How Neru Became the Voice of a Generation 

Bleh, got copyright claimed for the ending. The quality drops for about the last 3 seconds for the audio. But I figured that was better than just straight muting or blocking the video. Sorry about that folks. Thanks for watching!

blasting neru in middle/highschool is the equivalent of the emo phase for weebs. in the best way possible.

Neru manages to ease my anxieties and simultaneously create new ones, I adore it

Lost One’s Weeping straight up made me cry the first time I heard it

Neru: *makes emotional and hard-hitting lyrics* Also Neru: MY FAthER WAS KiLLED By SUMMER. NEED Money FoR KARAtE LESSONS

My first introduction to Neru was Tokyo Teddy Bear and when I listened to it, it was so different and uneasy yet it yet comforting. Idk if it’s just me but Neru music is something we can all relate to even some of us can’t speak Japanese. It’s like a feeling

Lost Ones Weeping is a song that speaks to me.

I love how neru is really capable to write such a deep and meaningful lyrics, yet as a person he's a huge meme

So apparently like 90% of my favourite songs are by Neru and I didn’t even know this

My god. Your channel is criminally underrated. It’s so good to see people keeping this side of the fandom alive. You deserve a lot man. Keep up the good work, and I hope you’re doing great on your first job!

Heck yeah neru The reason I'm into vocaloid: Tokyo Teddy Bear and Depression. That's the song that clicked inside of me and touched my heart Also Lost One's Weeping got me through school

Huh, I never knew he was 17 when he started out. God, Neru and Wowaka truly are amazing.

To me, Lost One's Weeping is way more than just about school and how it crushes a kid's mind. Whenever I look at the lyrics, I also see it as showing that school is not only stressful, but also useless in many ways. In the chorus, you see regular school activities being compared to things about the heart, mainly stuff related to dark and suicidal thoughts. The second half especially doesn't pull any punches. "Can you solve the equation on your abacus? Can you also undo the choker on that kid?". The official wiki translation translates it as "choker" but most translations I've seen use the word noose. It's not just about school causing stress, it's also about school not teaching you how to help others or yourself when the emotionally weak is in need. I feel like that's an aspect a lot of people generally overlook.

i think it was even smarter to use rin’s voice for a song like lost one’s weeping. she has the voice of a kid that is trying their hardest, and the fact that she is meant to be so young just portrays the amount of stress on such young, impressionable minds even better. i love neru.

Lost ones weeping: was my favorite vocaloid song in middle school, and a l w a y s will be

11:11 finaly someone said it. Same with success, you do not need it. a plain job is enougth to be happy. what matters is how you aproach the matter thats all. nothing else does.

Neru is so inspiring. I used to think things like „in my next life I wanna become a musician.“ because I used to think you cannot make music if you haven’t been playing an instrument since you were like 4. Even tho I’m still kind of scared and ashamed of telling people about my dream of producing music, I might be on a good way to ask my parents for guitar lessons... Thank you for making this video! edit (may 2021): due to covid, I didn’t manage to get guitar lessons last year and I was afraid I would buy the "wrong" guitar and equipment without help, but now I’m sick of it. I don’t want to wait any longer so I‘ll probably get myself a Les Paul soon and start practicing on my own as good as I can!! edit (august 2021): I have been playing for around 2 months now!! Best decision ever, I have 0 regrets update, april 26th 2022: a lot happened last year which lead me to really hate playing the guitar and from one day to the next, i dropped everything. i have barely even touched my guitar since september of last year, but right now i just want to pick it up again, i want to practice again for me and myself only. it took me a long time to regain trust in me and my abilities, but now my goals are clear set.

dude. i have NEVER seen or heard someone explain neru's music as good as you do. your video gave me *chills.* you are so underrated, it's insane. i'm so glad i found your channel. keep up the good work :] also, what's your favorite song by neru? in my opinion, idola circus is one of the best songs i've ever listened to, and that's saying a lot. but at the same time, i really relate to abstract nonsense. like, a lot.

Those exams must have rlly struck him after his hiatus.. Edit: Can you possibly do PinocchioP next? I’d absolutely love it if you did! Keep up the good work~

Lost one's weeping is the first ever vocaloid song i heard and the reason why i listen to vocaloid to this day. The strong lyrics of neru's song helped me a lot, and seeing songs like i-ya makes me finally feel like i grew up while still remaining the same inside.

You hit the nail with the last part, the reason why I love Neru's music so much is because is relatable, I can see myself on the lyric and melody, I feel a connection to Neru because how timeless his music is, how I felt even 10 years ago that I found a rope that help me grow and keep going despite my anxiety and depression, Neru means a lot to me as he is my favorite composer and someone who makes me feels understood and comfortable without allowing stagnation, Neru help me grow and mature and keeps maturing with me. Kudos for your amazing work!

Ah, I remember the first time I searched google "Vocaloid rock songs", then I got abstract nonsense in a Yahoo Answers page.

Neru's re education got me into the vocaloid fandom, and till this day is my favorite vocaloid song. You have succesfully described the unexplainable. When 11 yr old me was addictively captivated by neru's works. Good friggin job my dude.

I love appreciate just how real Neru is. How he expresses his feelings and experiences even if it makes people uncomfortable. There’s just something so amazing about how he conveys messages, wether they are fictional or not.

I remember back in middle school we had an assignment to create a poetry book and we got to illustrate our own cover. I did mine based on ‘The Lost One’s Weeping.’

Because of the corona virus, my middle school exam got cancelled. My generation were lucky, lmao

Neru's songs were a little refuge I had in my school days, (10 to 18 years old) that helped me keep my cool, I felt too much empathy with them. You know, the typical story where your parents can't help pay for your studies so part of your family does it with very good intentions, but being reminded every day and being pressured to get at least 9/10 is a headache. I was relieved to hear things like World dominatio How to But if I had to choose the one I have come to identify with the most, "Lost one weeping", even after so much, right now it hits me enough to make me sensitive. I thank him from the bottom of my soul.

Abstract Nonsense was the first Vocaloid song that made me hooked up to Vocaloid. XD

Thank you for covering neru. I love His music so much. He's one of my favorate if not the favorate vocaloid producer

5:02 "Cat Food" by doriko from the album "Romeo and Cinderella" was released on November 2010, while "Tokyo Teddybear" was released on December 2011. So not only is "Cat Food" a song that also features an organ as an instrument, it is also 'technically' a first one.

Can I just say, I love your videos? When I saw your wowaka video, I loved it and binged all of your other videos. Keep it up! The Vocaloid fandom needs more people like you.

Neru is for us what the discovery of Hard Rock and Metal was in the 1970. He just screamed out what we wanted to scream out. He made Rin scream with his instrumentals, when her voice couldn't and we felt it. It was like the first time a Vocaloid has screamed and we wanted to scream with her.

thank you for covering Neru! as an aspiring vocaloid producer that’s currently a student, his growth as a songwriter is really inspiring to me. if you’re looking for more producers to cover, i’d suggest Harumaki Gohan or sasakure uk. it would be interesting to your take on their musical/visual aesthetics.

I just finished binge watching all of your vids (took me a while cause i would stop halfway to listen to every song or album you mentioned) and I love all of your content

“Only 17 and had no background in music” Yeah. Same here.

YES I WAS EXPECTING THIS AHHH

I love seeing how my favorite producers rose, thank you for these videos.

Neru is the producer that got me into vocaloid lost ones weeping connected with me so much that I had to find more Growing up with dyslexia made things like education and even social situations really hard and teachers would push me and put me down and I thought that's just how life is and didn't question it but when I herd lost ones weeping (jubyphonics cover I dont know Japanese) it made me question everything I had been taught It may seem hella melodramatic but vocaloid originals and covers connected with me in a way I don't think any other artist can

after 6 years of being introduced to vocaloid, abstract nonsense is still my favorite song...

Wow! How did I just find this channel?! I love everything you’re making. It’s so well done and written. You deserve so many more subs

is funny to click on this video, so hyped and thinking that i was isolated in my love for neru, then reading the coments and paying all of my attention to the video, and not feeling so alone in this admiration for neru and his work it have been years since the first contact i got with neru, i dont remember well which song was exactly, but i remember, and keep hearing to these days, tokyo teddy bear, that song meant to me so much for years, during my adolescence i related to the song deeply and changed me, the same way a lot of ppl relate to evangelion, that talk about seemed subjects, and i found in neru some form of company and support, in a pointof my life in where i feel completely alone. I loved every neru song heard, even hearing them for the first time without knowing the artist and saying to myself "hey, this is really good, is this from neru?" and then realizing i was right i apreciate a lot that you covered neru! for all that it meant to me, i also love specially his evolution, that i didnt knew a lot about, those first songs before abstract nonsense, i really admire how he started with such a complex subjects about school, war and anxiety and he didnt got stuck on that, evolving to have a new style that fits the social problems that he talks about today in "whatever whatever whatever" and "snobbism" i love how you capture and express all the feelings that made neru important, and well, talking about something so "underground" but special to ppl that conected with it it seems like your channels is vocaloid artists centered so i will give it a look, and i wanted to ask, since someone else in the comments asked for pinocchiop, are you interested in covering other artist in the media related to vocaloid? ppl like kairiki bear or maretu, or maybe ppl not so directly related to vocaloid but with something interesting to say, like mafumafu, eve or miyashita, if you dont know them, take a look to their music, is really really good, again, this was a really great videom thank you!

I'm amazed at how Neru isn't much older than me. I don't know how old I thought he was but it's still wild

Crazy how all of us can relate to Last One's Weeping the same way while having different backgrounds and stages of life. Many here heard it first in middle school. I heard it first in my last year of high school when I didn't listen to vocaloid anymore. I'm 23 now and that song still strikes me hard.

Okay, being brand new to vocaloid & literally pausing this video to listen to these songs for the first time, could you plz give me a starting place for Neru's music. It just seems so vast & overwhelming that I don't want to just leap out into the void on my own & miss the good stuff, or just hit the popular stuff & miss the hidden gems. Thanks for any help you might be able to give me. I really appreciate it! I feel like vocaloid, & the anime culture, in general, is the very first thing in my entire life that I discovered & became engrossed in entirely on my own, & didn't just "inherit," like my Mom's love of reading or my Dad's love of classic rock. I literally don't know another soul who is into the anime culture (I'm calling it that cuz it's all I know to call it. Plz forgive me if I'm wrong) & that makes it very special to me. It's the 1st thing that is mine & mine alone & I want to know as much about it, & in my own shy, closed-off way, be a part of it as I can.

Neru has great songs for people going through hard times and I'll always appreciate that

Tbh, the first vocaloid song I've heard was Neru's Lost One Weeping... that time, ive been pressured with a lot of problems, school, friends, family and even myself to the point of breaking. Then i saw the word vocaloid in my youtube recommendation, so i searched up the word and the song was the first that caught my eyes. Then, BAM!! The whole song hits me like a bucket of cold water and i swear that time i cried for the first time in 7 years that my roommates and friends started to worry for me cos I've rarely show any sign of distress whatsoever. I dont know how but that song just gave me some kind of enlightenment and hope despite it's lyrical content and i managed to pull through those days Thank you for this video✨ :’)

Bro I love your channel and your video essays, I’ve been a fan of of vocaloid for a while but your videos have helped me put feelings into words, and introduced me to music that I really love!

The channel i need in my quarentine,I love so much neru (it's my composer fav in my adolescence) i'm a fan vocaloid about 12 years! Pls talk about niki!!! PD: sorry my bad englsh i'm from spain.💜

Abstract Nonsense was the first song of his I heard and cut deep into me in a way only one other song had before. Even now, knowing the song a lot better, it still cuts as deep as it used to.

Such a fantastic video! I like to pride myself on knowing different kinds of Vocaloid songs by various artists, but hearing the story behind the artists makes the songs mean so much more than they used too, I really appreciate what you do with this channel! Keep up the good work! I'm already anticipating the next video!

Lost One's Weeping legit made me cry when I first listened to it. I was on a lot of educational pressure and it was just- really relatable.

I love Neru so much, and this video is great 💚

Tokyo Teddy bear was so jarringly beautiful when I first heard it, even if I didn't know the words and when I did it became even better than before 💕 not to mention all his songs are such good works of music it's crazy

NERU is my favorite artist and all of his music is relatable (life prolonging nostalgia aside ((still makes me cry tears of joy tho))), and this video just makes me so happy and excited. Thank you

Oml, Neru inspired me a lot :')

Neru was a big part of my time in this fandom and helped me with all my anxieties and my bad thoughts

I think The Lost One Weeping is almost all of us asians experience in school. I'm not japanese, but I'm experiencing that. Like your parents told you to go to this school and despite you don't want to and they still enroll you in there. And in my country there's a hierarchy between The science and social studies classes. The science one is deemed superior compared the social study one, so all parents want their kids to enroll there one of them is my parents. Despite knowing that I sucks at the most subject in there they're still enroll me there. I end up having a breakdown because I can't keep up with the materies and my grades aren't the best either. And I do tell them that I can't do it, I mean surviving in there for 3 years. I do know my parents want me to push myself. But yeah, I snapped in the 2nd year. I still remember that day, it was nightmare. I was afraid to go outside because I feel their judging me because I can't do a simple formula or because the last test score is garbage. It was scary and I still felt like that when I make mistake even it was a small one. It was the worst feeling that you can feel. Like you just want to bury yourself alive every time. And it happened to me again when I was applying to university, well this time I do have some liberties to choose but there are still some majors that my parents don't want me to pick and one of them is my choice HELL it was my first choice. So yeah... You all know the continuation of this :)) and yes, it's stressful, but this is the only thing that I can do for my parents. And it's not like I don't like the thing that I studied right now. But seeing someone from the my first choice major doing their own thing I still get jealous sometimes and I still get to study it, but not in a formal way its just self study and a hobby and my parents supports it by providing books for my self study. It is stressful but I think, if you do talk it to your parents I think they'll understand and change their mind or at least somehow ease your suffering by a bit wwww.

Keep up the great work. Can't wait to see your next vid!

Neru before: :( Neru now: _still sad but_ :)

Love your channel man. Such a blast from the past.

My first song by Neru was Lost One's Weeping. Back then when I was busy scrolling through a news feed full of vocaloid posts I saw this some kind of song from him then people kept on saying how sad it is (or relatable) then when I listened to it I never really understood what was the definition of "sad" was in this song (because of the catchy tune) then I kinda saw another version of it with English lyrics. This was the third song that totally hit me (my first was Rolling girl and Just be friends was my second) And during rainy days I would usually listen to it whenever I feel depress because it just eases it up and it cheers me up telling be that whenever you feel like breaking just remember, there is still good waiting for you at the end of the road.

Thank you so much for this, really, awesome video!

i stumbled on this video, took one look at your channel, and instantly subbed because i didn't know how badly i needed analysis on vocaloid music until i found it. im going to watch all of your videos. thank you for making this, it was very fascinating!

oh my god, I just found your channel recently as I've been getting back into vocaloid. and boy, am I happy lol. ANYWAYS, this video was beautifully done and really impressive! thank you for this

I'm really happy I found your channel, I feel like this is the first time someone thorughly analizes the vocaloid scene !!

neru got me into vocaloid sure i had seen a few other good songs like purple butterfly but neru was the first i followed

I legit cried at the end of your explaination. Instant sub from me. I'm going on a marathon watching every single video you have on vocaloid as much as I can. I have been in love with vocaloid since I was 12 and I remember I left it behind because I thought it wasn't popular or good anymore and now as a 19 year old I wonder why I even did that. The lyrics even hit more from Neru's songs because of the expectations but on me as the eldest child that I'm constantly worried about my future especially my second thoughts of becoming an artist and to own my own business it's something I dream of to do and contribute to my country but reaching there is harder than I thought especially in Jamaica. However, I still find myself trying and receiving comfort from the persons who already have been there and this video sums it up for me.

These videos are gold, you deserve more views.

Love this video! I just watched your amazing Wowaka video and was thinking how I wished you did one on Neru too and I saw you did! Loving your videos!

The lost one weeping was the first song that got me into vocaloids

wonderful analysis. great job! i agree with you wholeheartedly-- i see Neru's CYNICISM album as a concept album focused on the very perspective of cynicism itself, particularly as satirical commentary on the 21st century social condition. it's pessimistic, it's disillusioned, and it's oh-so-very Neru. just as Abstract Nonsense marked a turning point in realizing the power of his music to make statements on society with astounding emotional impact, i think "modern" Neru's works mark where his messages transition from being about adolescence (you notice school-related imagery in a lot of his older works-- World Domination How-To, Lost One's Weeping, Abstract Nonsense, etc.) to being about adulthood. there's an ongoing progression in his music about the hell that is growing up through an emotionally-intense teenagehood then being thrown out into the "real world" and how people cope with their feelings of distrust against the world, whether that be shrugging everything off like in Whatever Whatever Whatever or finding a sick sense of comedy in how fu*ked everything is like in SNOBBISM. if you haven't guessed already, i'm doing my own analysis on Neru and his work, haha. again, wonderful video and you've got yourself a new subscriber. cheers man!

Neru was one of my favorite producers at the type, I still get chills every time I hear Tokyo teddy bear. Tokyo teddy bear still holds strong and so does last ones weeping, back then and now it fits so we'll into a music scene that you can say no matter what time that this song was made a week ago and anyone would accept that. That's as far as I see it that is.

Awesome video and I'm so happy to see you talk about one of my favourite producers! As someone who prefers rock over pop Nerus songs just fit my taste more than many other vocaloid songs. When Tokyo Teddy Bear and Abstract Nonsense were released back then I immediately fell in love with them. I've always loved his kinda obscure style in art and music. While his songs show a lot of diversity there is always this certain essence that makes his works very recognizable. Abstract Nonsense, The Disease Called Love and Whatever, Whatever, Whatever all sound very different but they still sound like Neru. In my opinion that's the most important thing for a very good producer. By the way I'm happy we didn't have to wait long for the next video and I hope everything is going well with your job situation right now :)

I really enjoyed this video. It brought insight to one of my most favourite producers. Keep up the good work

I’m in love with your channel, please never stop 💙

Comentario random en español (?) Acabo de descubrir tu canal y me encanta, hace 8 años conocí Vocaloid, lo amaba, no puedo decir que ya lo dejé porque siempre vuelvo y escucho las canciones y vuelvo a emocionarme. El que te dediques a hablar de todos los artistas o canciones que marcaron algunas cosas es precioso, por fin encontrar a alguien que habla y cuenta de vocaloid de está forma me impresiona porque por años había querido compartir estas mismas opiniones pero siempre quedaban guardadas. Hay tantos artistas de los que me gustaría que hablaras pero está bien, disfrutaré esto. 👌

Keep up the good work! Loving these vids. Spread the love!

Great vid I appreciate all you had said for Neru. And, you mentioning that stories he wrote relates to everyone around the world actually beyond my thought. I first heard lost one's weeping and it's too catchy that I can't forget, it's also in the days I'm fighting societal expectancies. Keep on, and I just found your channel. This is the best vocaloid essay channel I'd ever seen.

The fact i'm the most positive and most childlike kid at my school and listen to such depressing stuff is very ironic. To be honest i dont understand a lot of my self.

I would love one on circus-p/vocacircus/cheezitsareyummy these videos have been so informative and so well researched love it thank god for people like you who add such needed recognition

Thank you Ubnub for this channel,I really like knowing more about the Vocaloid universe, even though Vocaloid is diying am happy to have been part of this fandom.

Pls do Kyaami, the god of covers. Anything she makes makes much more or comparable level to the original

Nice vid!! Your vids so informative! You need 1000x more subs!!! Edit: added another 0 because it's still be low. Definite sub. You sir have awakened my love for vocaloid.

Lost One’s Weeping was the song that really got me into vocaloid and made me realize how so many songs on the scene spoke to me in such a way, the melody and fast pace of neru's songs make me feel at ease. Now that I am older and interested in vocaloid again, I can't believe that the songs that I used to blast in middle school would speak truth to me even more, almost 6 years later.

while I haven't listened to much of neru's music, lost ones weeping was so emotional for me since i really related to how i prefer math and science due to there being a simple right and wrong answer, and the pressure to do well or not be accepted into a good school, or just accepted in life. whatever whatever whatever is something that i love listening to, again since I can relate to it and i love the newer music with the more vibrant colors in the music videos and upbeat melody with the deeper, meaningful lyrics. oh my god i used to listen to tokyovania control, which i thought was an undertale song, and i never knew it was a remix of tokyo teddy bear-

Lost Ones Weeping and Tokyo Teddy Bear was what got me into Vocaloid, and they still remain as my favorite song

To this day World Domination How To and Lost Ones Weeping still get to me for their lyrics, music and videos. Thank you Neru for two of my favorite vocaloid songs ever!

Oh god dude I just came across ur channel yesterday and im loving your videos TT o TT Keep it up. I really miss Vocaloid

Me alegra haber encontrado tu canal y me alegra mas que tenga subtítulos generalmente en mi idioma no hay muchos videos de este estilo,realmente haces un buen contenido!

Neru, Wowaka, and MARETU. The Holy Trinity of intense music that comforts you for reasons you can't explain.

ooh! i just found your channel thru this video! i love your contents

This is so useful, learning so much about the background of vocaloid

thanks for the analysis and proper research done. as a music/vocaloid nerd for a decade who didn't really have much people to discuss such topics with, finding your channel has made me so so happy. please do Siinamota/PowapowaP.. His death anniversary is coming up in July... you mentioned in another video about how Wowaka's death had impacted you much.. Same goes for me with regards to Siinamota... Thank you.

Wow hombre, haces videos muy buenos, me gusta tu contenido, sigue así!!

When they had their first Expo in Europe, a german newspaper wrote an article about it asking people about it. One person answered that Mikus music really reflects her inner feelings. We (me and three people i met that day) were laughing about that. Not about the person or the sentence, more about the fact that it can't be more cliche right? "Why do you like this music?", "It really shows how i feel inside". Right after it, we were talking about our favourite songs and producers. When i answered (honestly) wowaka and Neru, the girl in the group gave me a look that i'll never forget. Obviously she was thinking that Neru reflects my inner feelings and got frightened immediately. To be honest: It kind of does.

I usually don’t know creators, i have a hard time remebering stuff and, because of that, I didn’t realize that Neru was such a great composer, and didn’t realize that he is the producer of possibly my favorite song: the last one’s weeping. I genuinely made an essay for no one in particular about this song because of how much i love it and how it captures me in ways other songs never could. Not only that, but it also describes me well. I didn’t realize how much i loved neru’s style. I am so happy that this was recomended to me.

I genuinely had no idea that Neru was so young! I found him through Tokyo Teddy Bear, which helped get me through middle school along with other songs from people like wowaka and ryo.

And I'm here, asking myself... WHY DIDN'T I FIND THIS EARLIER, THIS VIDEO IS A MASTERPIECE Seriously, I've never seen someone explaining Neru's songs better then you did, this video is definitely one of the best videos I've ever seen in my life...

I remember sending some Neru songs to my aunt back in the day, when I was going through my (very) silent emo phase. She told my mom because she was worried about me being suicidal. Safe to say, that has not occurred!

I didn't know the name 'Neru' until YEARS after I'd already been listening to his music. The one that definitely stuck with me the most but also makes me sad at how underrated it is, was 'Jailbreak' :((( Also, not sure if you'll see this or if you know him, but I'd love to see you do a video on Niru Kajitsu! He's relatively new to the vocaloid scene (appearances beginning in only 2018) but he quickly became one of my favorite producers.