If you’ve checked out Twitter anytime just lately, you may’ve caught a glimpse of Project Voltage, The Pokémon Company’s ongoing artwork and music collaboration with the Vocaloid teen idol Hatsune Miku. So far Voltage has launched 18 illustrations (one for each kind of Pokémon) imagining Miku as different kinds of trainers, and as of this week, it’s persevering with the mission by debuting 18 authentic songs from varied artists.
The just-released first track, “Volt Tackle,” is hyperactive pop rock from Vocaloid producer DECO*27, who has been making music that includes Miku since 2008. The music video hyperlinks pigtailed Miku to electric-type ball of solar Pikachu, who crackles round very punny lyrics about surprising somebody into love: “Yeah, you! I wanchu, wanchu more! Zzzzzzzzzap!” the English captions say.
Its music video alternates between illustrations by frequent DECO*27 collaborator omutatsu, who attracts Miku as a devastated little woman with a Pikachu-shaped bandaid on her cheek (a bodily manifestation of her inside wounds!), and Pikachu itself because the stubby ray of sunshine that bolts her again to her toes.
By the tip of the track, Miku is extra decided than ever. “All your shooing can’t harm me, I’m in invincible mode!” she beeps whereas guitars wail. “This love zip zap zooms and the chu chu chu’s just won’t stop / You give me whiplash when you put on your aversion sash / […] Aiming my Volt Tackle to the middle of your heart / It’s not very effective…Why not!? Come on!!”
Pikachu grimaces in an illustration, and you’ll see lightning mirrored in Miku’s eyes. I’m getting type of scared, and I’m upset that the track presents multi-hyphenate Miku as not more than a lovesick college woman. You ought to let this love go, Miku, there are different fish within the Poké Ball.
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International pocket monster followers can sustain with Project Voltage on Twitter (or X), however solely these positioned in Japan can entry its official web site. Time to bust out that VPN?
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