2022/07/18 Rust

This was a bit longer than normal so it might be a bit rushed and there are probably more sections slightly off than usual.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=363
6:03 - Live Reactions on Twitter
After her greeting she asks if everyone enjoyed the Live. When she was egosearching she got an even better response than she was expecting so she's as happy as can be. She saw people saying it was emotional, the setlist was godly, a lot of stuff like that, it was good she worked so hard. She thought of making a Live zatsudan stream to thank everyone but that's a bit embarrassing and she's addicted to Rust right now so she wants to play that while talking about the behind the scenes and why she chose certain songs. She's intending on exploring in Rust for a bit then ending early and having a c-part where she can talk more in depth. Also earlier she uploaded a video with the group that sung Coconuts. The MC parts were so short this time around she's going upload some videos she made with them here and there. The first was about a strategy meeting with Polka and Korone discussing what they should do for their MC part. If you were wondering why she yelled that Korone was slow during the MC part, watch that and you'll understand.

The live was so fun, there's so much she wants to say. When egosearching everyone was wondering why she chose certain songs, like about sankisei's bonds. She spent two or three hours scrolling through Twitter reading those, like "ahh... this..."

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=1240
20:40 - The Medleys
This time the songs, setlist, format, all of it was thought up by Usada Pekorrrrrrra. She told management how she wanted to cameras to act and asked all the holos if the songs she picked would be good for them which they were happy to accept and it's thanks to all that that it became such a great Live. It's her third anniversary so she thought a lot on this, recently there's been a lot of Lives, she's already done multiple herself and other holos have been doing them as well, so because of that she didn't want to do the same thing as always so when she was thinking about doing a Live she thought about how there really hadn't been any medleys before. When she asked management if it'd be ok to put a medley in their response was "Ahh... we'd have to confirm a lot of stuff for that..." Full songs need permissions too but they needed to make sure they had permissions to put short versions of the songs in the medleys and just that could have made it impossible. They also weren't allowed to make arrangements of the songs such as by connecting one song to another. When she was thinking of a medley she was imagining programs like "Hit Songs Of The 90's Medley", "Hit Songs of the 2000's Medley" and that requires being able to connect the songs to each other but she was told they weren't able to do that. If they just cut the songs and left a space between them however it'd be fine, so that's how they did it. She thinks it'd be good to do one with other holo's songs since Cover owns the rights to them and there wouldn't be an issue but this time she wanted to do other artist's songs since the theme was summer. She really did ponder the idea of doing Hololive songs but she wanted to combine nostalgic songs (natsu melo) with summer (natsu) for a natsu melo medley.

The medleys were a new idea but she was also worried if people were going to know the songs since it had a lot of old songs. Still she was surprised by how many of the songs sankisei didn't know since they had to learn them for her. She also thought a lot about the order of the songs. She was constantly thinking about it for a whole day, which might make you think it's just a single day but she was seriously worried about it. It was so hard to pick since they were all good songs. What should go at the start, what should go at the end, she didn't know what the correct answer was. She'd come up with an order than decide it wasn't right and try something else and in the end landed on what was in the Live. Everyone's been saying it was so emotional and yeah, that was the result of a lot of thought.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=1635
27:15 - Why She Chose Lovely Angel For Luna
Someone asks where Lovely Angel came from. When she was thinking what she wanted to sing with Luna, that's what came to mind. She was thinking of something that fit Luna's voice and she's liked Lovely Angel for a long time and when considering songs she thought it was the song that fit best with Luna's voice so she went with it. There were a lot of non-summer songs too, she put in a lot of songs that were hits for her when she was thinking of them, that's also why this time there's a lot of Nogizaka songs. People mention that Lovely Angel is the song that plays when you win at slots* but she didn't know that, it was just something that was popular on NND a long time ago.

* It's from a series of pachislot machines called Kaitou Tenshi Twin Angel.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=1766
29:26 - Why She Invited The Members She Did
Someone asks how she decided the members. PEBOT is PEBOT... so obviously they'd sing together. As for sankisei it's because it was her third anniversary, she also thinks this was probably the first time she's invited all of them to her own live. With Luna they had their once a year tanabata stream and she thought it'd be fun to sing with her. She was a part of Azki's gyaku totsu and they talked about how they wanted to collab sometime and from that she asked Azki if she'd be ok with being in her live. Azki's singing is amazing so she's always wanted to sing with her, hence the invite. As for Laplus, she just wanted to sing with her. Polka and Korone were a rare combination, like you wouldn't expect those three to get together. When she decided on doing summer songs she knew she definitely wanted to include Momoiro Clover's Coconuts since it's so hot. Once she knew she wanted to do that she wanted to do it with high energy, fun people and when she was thinking about that Polka and Korone popped up in her head. The three of them don't seem like they'd do a collab stream so she wanted to try singing with them. Korone's parts in Coconuts were amazing but Polka was too good as well. She really loves Korone's slightly lewd "Coconuts~" and Polka screaming "FEVERRR!" The dance was really cute too, they had the choreographer come up with it for them. They had the part where they were shaking their butts, the dance was so cute, wasn't it? She told the choreographer that she wanted to do a dance that was both idol-like but also energetic and fun and it turned into such a cute dance.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=2065
34:25 - Sankisei Were Worried About Messing Up The Medleys And Having To Restart
She said it was a summer themed Live but around half of it wasn't summery at all, sorry about that, but the medleys were there so it's fine. She reads a comments saying the sankisei medleys were the best. Honestly since they were medleys that meant that if they messed up they'd have to restart from the beginning. The songs themselves were short but she was in all of them so it was so hard. The other members of sankisei were also anxious about that, thinking like "If I fail it's back to the start, if I fail it's back to the start..." since they did them all in one go. That's also why they were happy to do such simple choreography. Someone asks if it wasn't cut. It wasn't, they did them in one take since they were medleys.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=2269
37:49 - Pekomama's Reaction To The Live
Someone asks if her mom said anything about it. Her mom said she was looking forward to next year and that she was so moved and about how Pekora's been working so hard for 3 years. It's always over LINE. She decides to open LINE and reads an exact message her mom sent: "Thanks for your hard work in your Third Anniversary Live Chu Summer Party and Encore Live. It's a blessing to have everyone supporting you. Please keep moving forward full of energy. Eat your beloved melon, ok?" She hasn't eaten it yet... Her mom always gives her something she likes like that when she's celebrating something, for her birthday it was cake.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=4904
1:21:44 - Wants To Raid The Underground With Other Members And Share The Loot
While discussing harder areas in the game to go to, someone tells her if she wants to go to the underground she should do it with multiple people. In that case she'd like to go with everyone and they could share the loot. It's true though, if she went alone her aim is so bad she'd panic. If they got something really good though doesn't it seem like a dispute would happen? The instant someone gets something everyone wants the look in their all their eyes would probably change, it's scary... And then she'd start shooting with the gun she was hiding. Bang. Right at the end she'd betray them and take all the loot home.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=5305
1:28:25 - Has To Take Jiru Outside
It's good the weather cleared up today, recently the rain has been pretty bad so it's really great it cleared up. Earlier today she took Jiru outside to bask in the sun for a bit. If Bushbabies don't get enough sun they can be prone to a bone disease so she gets him exposure often. She has clothes for him that let her attach a lead so he doesn't get away, she knows he kind of dislikes them but if she doesn't put them on him she can't take him outside so she has to.

https://youtu.be/Y6TAb2jziAM?t=6999
1:56:39 - More Live Talk
In the end she didn't talk much about the live despite there being a lot she wanted to say. She invited so many people this time that the MC sections were short but personally she's totally satisfied, she saw everyone's responses and how pleased they were with it so she's happy about that. But now she's worried about what she should do next, she's worried if she can surpass this. As for Nogizaka46's songs, the reason she knew them is that after doing Silent Majority with PET Bottle she went to search for other songs she might like by the 48 and 46 groups and ended up finding some, she thought Influencer and Kaerimichi wa Toomawarishitakunaru were great and definitely wanted to sing them. She thought there might be people who were hearing them for the first time but they might end up liking them just like she did so she put them in the Live. They were famous from the start so there's probably a lot of people who know them but she only recently found out about them so she thinks there's probably others who didn't know about them too. There's also a behind the scenes story from the last sankisei medley. As a part of the songs they were supposed to look at each other and every time with Noel they weren't able to line up their gazes, the same happened with Flare sometimes too, that was fun. They were so anxious though, if they failed it was back to the start. She didn't get to talk about everything so in a future C-part she'll talk more and she'll also be releasing more of the short videos like she did earlier.