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Nue's theme. ...Fascinating. Whatever you imagine her to be, that's what you see. Often, your imagination can make things even more frightening than the truth... But, once you imagine it, that becomes a new truth. Be careful!
"Change them all from how they started: is that still your ship?" ...This line is a reference to a famous philosophical paradox called "The Ship of Theseus." It's the question of whether an object can still be considered the same object once you've replaced all its individual components. It feels pretty relevant, especially since TH12 just happens to involve a literal shapeshifting ship...
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Touhou Project 12, Undefined Fantastic Object
Nue Houjuu: "Heian Alien"
Original music by ZUN.
English lyrics and fandub vocals by me.
Art from the official art book, Symposium of Post-Mysticism.
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(What are you looking at?)
Peer into this dark horizon, through these shadows hiding me.
Keep that blind up. Make your mind up: what you get is what you see.
Piece by piece, a puzzle forms, whose missing pieces won’t be missed.
Strictly, while they’re missing, you can say they don’t exist.
Close the door and then reopen, never knowing what you’ll find.
Till you seek it, purely secret: absolutely undefined.
Over time, you fix your vessel, changing worn out planks and strips.
Change them all from how they started: is that still your ship?
I’m standing here before you as a pure blank slate,
And you’re desperate to make it whole.
All or nothing- what’s the goal?
Once, nobody knew, all thoughts were new, oh what a curious world.
Go back to the start, before the light- before the story unfurled.
Go back to the start, empty and dark- wasn’t it fun back then?
Say, wasn’t it fun? Wasn’t it fun?
(Let’s do it again.)
Peer into this dark horizon, through these shadows hiding me.
Keep that blind up. Make your mind up: what you get is what you see.
What is left of any being, once its truth is sealed away?
Are you any different from a fiction, anyway?
My alien world, alien face, misshapen alien wings…
You’re alien too, foreign to me, foreign to so many things.
Try leaving the rest, leaving it all, up to imagination.
Oh, didn’t you know? Reality lies in the observation.
Once, nobody knew, all thoughts were new, oh what a curious world.
Go back to the start, before the light- before the story unfurled.
Go back to the start, empty and dark- wasn’t it fun back then?
Say, wasn’t it fun? Wasn’t it fun?
(Let’s do it again.)
It's been over 7 years and to this day I still reference the line about Theseus' ship any time the philosophy comes up in conversations. It's just such a beautiful, poetic line that lives rent free in my head.
^^ That's so great to hear...! I'm really proud of bringing that concept to light (ironically, in a song about darkness and vagueness). It's a fascinating thing to be able to think about in all kinds of contexts. Thank you very much for taking the time to come back and leave nice comments!
@@lyrica-live why does this theme remind me of "U. N. Owen was her?"
Distractable has changed my look on the ship of Theseus
@@lyrica-live what is light without darkness they both compliment each other
@@Comeoniwantaccount probably because they're both extra boss themes, Nue is an extra boss in TH12, Flandre is an extra boss in TH6
"Is that still your ship?" *_Yes._*
Theseus might disagree!
@@Psydkik Is Theseus still Theseus if every cell in his body is replaced after a while?
@@1r587 I don't know. Or even in a different one? *Has been inspired to write a story*
@@1r587 Are you still the same person if you cannot stay in the same place, cannot be made of the same atoms, cannot stay the same mentally from cultural osmosis, don't have the same habits etc ?... The question, while irrelevant in a day-to-day basis is truly fascinating.
@@sakkuyniron9756 My idea of "me" will say that I will stay the same "me" wherever I go, but in reality, you can say a person "now" is often different from a person "then", even in minutes, perhaps by the most miniscule differences. I mean, we constantly identify ourselves with our ideas of "us", which is why "we" "are", but what is to "be"? It most certainly is a fascinating question, and I confused myself while thinking of it. Thaaaaaat's philosophy!
Nue's always been fascinating to me: She's the embodiment of humanity's fear of the unknown, which, when you think about it, is one of humanity's greatest fears, from which almost all others stem. Heck, a great deal of why we fear death is, no matter how sure we are of our religion and beliefs, there is no true way to know what happens after we die, except dying. It's just something interesting to me.
And yet, for some reason. Nue has among the most lewd fanart. People are odd.
Canon thigh highs, duh. Cmon, that one wasn't even hard.
Yet there is no art of Nue reading Lovecraft's works or meeting him like cmon...
So you're interested in that stuff eh? Well you're gonna love this: www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2718 Welcome to the SCP foundation my friend
Sans the Skeleton geh? Never expected you to like SCP’s
I considered making a pun, but that'd be nothing new, eh?
At first I didn't get it but then I remembered how her name is pronounced. Very clever.
Though, isn't her name pronounced "noo-ey", at least in Japanese? Good try though
@@marble-soda-pop-pop That's what the "eh?" in the end is for.
@@marble-soda-pop-pop They said "new, eh?"
Nice one
Once, nobody NUE, all thing were NUE, oh what a curious world.
actually according to Japanese pronunciation, Nue should be said as "Noo-eh" nice try, but not puny enough
Reeto And we pronounce Marisa differently than the Japanese, who pronounce it ‘Mareesa’. So your point is -moot-
@@therealcactoos9457 How do you pronounce "Marisa" actually? I've always prounce it as 'Mareesa' so i can't see any other pronounciations...
Yatagarasu 015 Well, just “Muh-Ris-a.”
Good one
To be honest we're pretty much alien to everything if you think about it
"Close the door and then reopen, never knowing what you'll find" seems like an Okina reference. I'm starting to think Lyrica Live predicted her and didn't realize it
Which is ironic, because she initially HATED Okina for daring to basically be Yukari's equal.
@@WatcherCCG nue or the singer ?
@@aicy5170 The singer. She talks about it in her Okina video.
Doubly funny coincidence since, according to Okina's statements in Grimoire of Usami, Nue channels power from "the behind" for her "Danmaku X from a Wandering Star" Spell Card.
Nah zun takes inspiration from Lyrica live.
I'm quite surprised to see the Ship of Perseus paradox reference here, nice one!
And maybe also a Shrodinger's cat theory? "Close the door and then reopen, never knowing what you'll find. Till, you seek it, purely secret: absolutely undefined.
Some Dumbshit That's what I was thinking.
Ship of Theseus, you mean.
I was thinking : since Yukari can manipulate borders, including the border between "what's defined" and "undefined", if she happened to be unaware of Nue's existence and/or powers, (she certainly is not but what if), could she still be able to reverse Nue's "undefined" state and make it "defined" if they met?
It would be like ripping apart a camo suit, so yes.
I consider Nue's ability not to be "The boundary between Defined and Undefined", but more closer to removing that boundary. Undefined, Nameless, without an exact form - Maybe Yukari isn't the denial of her power, but a gods "Giving names" ability could be?
@@BadApplePC98 well, isn't that what boundary manipulation is? The abstract boundaries between ideas and objects?
once nobody NUE all thoughts were NUE I'm sorry
Oh what a curious world...
So everyone just thought "Nue" at all times? That is a curious world 0-0
I know XD I was joking. I understood the pun, but I'm the queen of ruining puns with logic because I'm mean in that way.
XD not at all! It was a simple mistake, all text can be misinterpreted
sounds like me every day
You know, I've been watching Touhou videos and listening to Touhou music for about 5 years, but your songs really are something special. I listened to all of them tonight, one by one, just to realize how there are very talented people out there. I wish I knew English better, to express myself better and tell you what your songs mean to me. In short, you are amazing and I hope more people get to know you.
I... Oh gosh... ;-; The talent of the greater Touhou fandom is something I've always deeply admired and always been inspired by... so, to even be considered among that sort of talent is the most amazing compliment. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen and send me such kind words. It means a lot to me, knowing it means something to you.
No need to be better at English. What you just said is beautiful as it is.
touhou veteran 0-0
This song kinda reminds me of a video game. When she says “Back to the start” it reminds me of restarting a video game to the beginning and starting over. And when she says “Before the story unfurled” and “Before the light” it reminded me of how all the progress in the game someone made is now all gone. And finally when she said “All thoughts were new” it reminded me of when you first play the game, all your thoughts were thinking about what to do next and how exciting to see what happens next is, but since someone restarted the game they now already know what’s gonna happen.
Reminds me of how badly I want to experience Untitled Goose Game and Minecraft for a the first time again
2021 dweller here to provide some thanks. I found this song a long time ago (maybe 3-4 years ago) and it sure sparked my imagination for some of my stories (which I try to fit in some rpg campaigns). In fact, it is the line "What is left of any being once its truth is sealed away?" which made me think about what wound happen if someone would have its being deprived of name (being a name something to shout out to the reality to claim your right to existence). It truly helped me and I built a couple characters around that concept. This comment might get unseen by many, but I had to write it nonetheless. Thank you for reading this.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this, seriously. ;v; It makes me really happy, and it means a great deal to me to be a small influence in people's lives from a distance. I love this concept too (original credit to Nue herself, obviously), so I'm really glad you were inspired, and that you made so much more out of it! As I often say, that really feels like the spirit behind Touhou fanwork culture, always making connections with other art and building to something new!
Each time you replace a piece with a new one, it becomes part of a whole. It blends with all the other parts as The Ship. You can replace all the parts, and the whole that they make still will be The Ship. Replacing all the parts at once would be equivalent to getting a whole new ship, so to keep it yours you can replace thrm sll, but gradually. That is my opinion on the paradox
Okay But what if you were to take all the old parts and rearrange them back into their original shape?
@@uboa8060 You Now have Two Ships!
@@enyafeckenham5730 I think they meant without the new materials
I'm NUE to this channel, but I already love these videos. Seriously, every time I find one that I think is the best, I just look at another, and it suddenly becomes substantially harder to mark the best one. xP
Nice pun.
Flandre is the queen of puns. Even Marisa can't beat her.
dat pun tho m8
please, contiNUE with the puns :3
You must be NUE here
0:06 why did my brain think this would say “It’s free real estate” instead?
hroni!! *BEGONE*!!!! go to horni
Still kinda mad I just found out touhou lyric on boss themes exist; you’re my first, and it’s pretty darn good; you’ve set a very good first impression, my friend.
is this the best lyrica production song at this time? i can't really decide you guys, help. ayy lmao
Nevermind, I don't like it. Lyrica Live's laughs are terrifying.
I wonder if she referenced "2hu weird things" with "what are you looking at"
Well, it wasn't meant as a reference. It's a sassy line to establish personality, while also -cleverly- introducing the entire song by legitimately asking, "What are you looking at?" (When you look at me, what do you see?) since the song is all about how you see her in different forms depending on how you think about her.However, looking up "2hu weird things" for the first time I'm amazed by the coincidence and I feel that bizarreness suits Nue as well.
@@lyrica-live lmaoo
Unidentified Flying Girl ~ Flying Object
This is a masterpiece. A truly amazing masterpiece. I cannot stop listening to it. Help.
SarSaraneth ikr is there something wrong with me
If this was Clownpiece's song I would say it would be a Clownpiece.
Have you ever listened to "Galaxy collapse?" It's a remix of this but much more of the hype factor
so nue is my main waifu in Touhou universe so I discovered this lyrical video about her theme and I was shocked how long it has been since this video made like it's 2019 then this video is in 2014 bruh 5 years?? can't believed that i will found a worth 3 minute music video on my life like this XD
How dare you!, now i cant get the song out of my head!!
After personally experiencing touhou arrangements for 7 years, and arranging it for 2 as a pianist, I have to say you are one of, if not the best at lyrically arranging the original compositions of the series. Keep at it
I especially like the ssssss sound at 0:42 After all Nue is apparently part snake
"All or nothing, what's the goal?" in the teseus(proably wrong writed) ship, the parts changes,whats the goel, to construct the whole ship again,or to replace thw whole ship again?
Basically, if you changed everything inside of you, it couldn't be considered you as it's not your parts of origin(somebody else's parts and not yours)
@@GruigiTheFirst5008 but,they still has a conection,lets thing,neurons and memory is the same,how? does the electric interactions make it mine again? then,make the theseus ship will actually..... i dunno,but this sounds like revolution :v
Well, i rediscovered this song, never forgot about the channel, just these older songs… I used to fall asleep to this, just so ya know how much I like this one, hell, i vividly remember sleeping on a cold winter night, having this playing in my ears the whole time.
Hehe, what a spooky choice to surround you as you fall asleep...! Hope you didn't have nightmares about primordial darkness morphing into your deepest fears... But I'm really glad you like it. ^^ Thank you very much for listening!
@@lyrica-liveNo problem, and no, i did not have any sort of freaky nightmare, luckily for me
You're the reason why I'm both terrified and so intrigued in Nue.
Recently got into Touhou and I've listened to most of your songs, and this is still by far my favorite. The lyrics are masterful and you execute it excellently! Thank you for this!
When people make all of those Nue puns, but then Nue is actually pronounced “New-eh” so it invalidates everyone
I'm new-eh around here, don't suppose you could show me around
THANK YOU i was just thinking if i pronounced it right
I pronounce nue as "new-eee"
I pronounce u pronounce
I pronounce no-e
Okay, so I bless KZhead for randomly putting this in my mix. Holy crap. Your voice perfectly matches the original song. When the video started in the background, I wasn't at all expecting a voice to come in, but it did, and it was wonderful. Too few people use the original soundtracks as their instrumentals ! And the lyrics are great too !
^^ Thank you so much for the nice comments, and I'm really happy you like it! I'm sorry you joined at a slow time, but I want to try to start posting more soon!
@@lyrica-live You don't have to be sorry for having a slow time ! That's perfectly okay. Everybody has active and less active times. Don't put too much pressure on yourself, okay ?
It's amazing going through your videos and hearing your improvement, both in writing and in singing. I don't think I've ever heard lyrics more fitting for their respective characters.
2:10 "Are you any different from a BIG-SHOT ANYYYYWAAAYYY?~"
Spamton moment
Now I cant unhear it -_-
its been years and this STILL goes hard
“You’re alien too, foreign to me, foreign to so many things.“ Could Nue be referring to the fact that we (people of the outside world) are foreign to her and the other people of Gensokyo..?
I see it as using the reverse theory of the Seija philosophy.
GreenCookieWolf and what is Seija's philosophy again?
@@derpyamu6453 From Reverse Ideology: "Tell me your dreams and I’ll show you your nightmares~ That's my philosophy..."
You're alien to Nue, but then Nue is also alien to something else, but then that something else is also alien to me, then I am also alien to you, then you are also alien to me, then everything is also alien because we do not know anything.
GreenCookieWolf You’re not like Nue, as far as she’s concerned you’re the odd one out.
Galaxy collapse but made before galaxy collapse and has lyrics
This is basically the Touhou character who escaped the Umineko realm
request: kanako's theme, suwa foughten field!
So much yes
Well, after 6 years it came true!
i dont know why in my country touhou cant popular T_T (indonesian people)
Salah tempat lahir doang (You're just born in the wrong region)
Cause touhou has too many porn
I'm an Indonesian, and I like it :D
@@alexandrah.6336 popularity /= how much you like it
@@VividNorman Oh, I don't mean it that way. I'm just letting them know that although it may not be popular in Indonesia, there are some peeps who know and like it. Like me :D
Damn, I stumbled upon this masterpiece completely by chance - such a beautiful voice! I regret finding it so late, but now I'm your fan) I'm thrilled that you continue to create divine videos after so much time
Капец , неожидал что это так круто
The chorus resonates deeply with me. Really hurts listening to this one.
This person is very very good at making lyrics
I came here from reddit, r/touhou, as there was a thread posted there. Love your singing!
The foreshadowing for future songs is amazing!!!
"Hey! An alien!"
Wow, I remember discovering this one on your tumblr around the time it was released and instantly loving it a LOT - memories are flooding in, suddenly listening to it again, tempted by KZhead recommendations that just begged me to do it! * - *
Whoah, amazing vocals and lyrics! :D Also I love the concept of this channel!! Doujin/fanmade works are my life and no matter the community, it's always a delight when I find out about a new channel or a new fan making things with Passion ^.^ Keep up the great work!
What you get is what you see, eh? Well, when I think of "nue" I think of a certain lovable character who is a nue...and who I want to hug. So Nue's gonna get hugged by me. (She would anyway, I've grown to really love nues)
Seriously love your lyrics to this song. They're great. I sing them to myself all the time.
I listen to this song for hours on loop and sometimes I barley even notice how long I've been listening to it, it's so good!
*H E Y A N A L I E N*
I was gonna make a pun, but then remembered everybody already did, so that be nothing nue, eh.
I am glad I came across this channel. This just goes to show that there is always something new to discover in the amazing world of Touhou. As long as the uploads continue to come, I will continue to show my support. LIKE
"I S T H A T S T I L L Y O U R ship...?" --Nue Houjuu
0:05 every girl in your class when you look at them for half a second
Love this!!!
I'm quite Nue to your channel. I'm glad I found it though. Your work is very original and it's simply fantastic! :D I can't wait for the next release, so for now, I'll listen to each of your uploads. :D You have a very lovely singing voice too! Keep up the great work~! :DD
I see what you did there
I like how she asked what are you looking at when her ability is to make sure that you don't know what you're looking at.
A lot of people seem to think that Nue Houjuu is the only Nue in the Touhou-verse. A certain Evil Eye begs to differ.
Changing out the planks until you've replaced every plank. The question of if it is still your ship has been answered by one of the characters. One Raiko Horikawa would say yes~
just came across this, giving you a sub for this even though videos are being posted real slowly
Just realized what this reminds me of, a concept from the SCP Foundation universe, the "pattern screamer". Basically, the human drive to make sense of the unknown, to detect patterns, is so strong that when confronted with actual, genuine emptiness, humans automatically begin trying to assign order and sense to things that are devoid of both. From the perspective of the void, this registers as an attack, an invasive force that imposes limits on the limitless, and destroys potential modes of existence simply by perceiving them as impossible. And so, when humans attempt to define the undefined, the undefined fights back...
You're getting better! Keep it up!
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This is amazing!
It’s you! 10 years later Despite everything it’s still you.
Your singing awesome and beautiful keep up the good work you gained a sub ;)
0:30 This transition gave me chills! Well done!
Super glad that you referenced Theseus' Ship!
Touhou Reddit lead me here. You're very good!
Yep, I agree, Gopherlad brought me here.
Say wasn't it fun? Wasn't it fun? *LET'S DO IT AGAIN!* You're amazing Lyrica
"You're alien too, foreign to me, foreign to so many things" makes me more transgender than any amount of estrogen ever will,, thank you Lyrica
Amazing
You have a absolutely beuteful voice
im listened to this song so many times and im still doesn't really understand whats going on in this song, but i love it
OMFG.... I SHOULDNT HAVE WATCHED THIS AT 1 aM!!! I FEEL LIKE IM BEING WATCHED THE LAUGHING AND EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS CREEPY!!! I USUALLY LIKE CREEPY BUT THIS.... THIS IS TO MUCH, at night at least
rip nue will be watching you forever ayy lmao
Lunaspiritpaw try galaxy collapse. Its a remix.
*TRY 3 AM I HEARD IT WORKS BETTER*
When everyone around makes puns or comments other people doing so but you're like *S O M E B O D Y S C R E A M*
Oooh i get that one
it just me or when this song start in hallowen sound creepy to me if we just edit a bit
Do vocal vers. of Okuu's theme. I just want to see if it's possible. :^))
it's here you're welcome
👀
OMG I love this song
The Game she debut in was called ''Undefined Fantastic Object'' U.F.O
Can you do true administrator
Hey, the lines: Once, nobody knew, all thoughts were new, oh what a curious world. Go back to the start, before the light- before the story unfurled. Go back to the start, empty and dark- wasn’t it fun back then? Say, wasn’t it fun? Wasn’t it fun? (Let’s do it again.) made me think of a good antagonist for an RPG. If I start an RPG project, would you be offended if he/she used these lines?
+ChouChous Loyal Soldier You were inspired by this song to create an RPG antagonist, too? Me and some friends are playing a self-made RPG taking place in Asian settings and this song inspired me to elaborate upon the nature one of my antagonists. Originally she was basically a half-youkai Rumia homage who covered herself in darkness and used humanity's primal fears of predators lurking in the shadows against them. But after I heard this song I also gave her the ability to use her opponents' own imagination against them (what they think is hiding in her darkness is what she becomes... and she's really good at producing the kind of suggestive ambiance that makes people think that _really_ nasty things are hiding in the darkness) with one additional twist: Her sealed human half (she had to seal it or her instincts would've driven her to devour herself, so, no, removing her seal does not make her enter an EX-boss state... the fact that Nue's family name is Houjuu, Sealed Beast, is a coincidence) is also afraid of her youkai half's tactics and antics, so whoever fights against her has to both fight their own fears as well as her own. Of note is that the lore of the youkai in our RPG, which the other guys are not privvy to; they have to find the lore out on their own, is that youkai are not entirely naturally occuring monsters but rather products of human emotion, imagination and ghost stories (which makes them pretty hostile to humans in general since humans themselves have, through the stories, appointed youkai to be their tormentors, robbing the youkai of the ability to give their own lives purpose in the process, something the youkai in turn envy and resent mankind for) and her current nature makes her the epitome of what a youkai _is_... I'd say that if the guys figure out her true nature, they'll probably figure out the details of the youkai lore as well.
@@GrahamChapman I'm late, but Evil Rinnosuke lore be banging
Omg so good
I am glad I watched this with the lights on.
I really like your voice, Miss Lyrica! Its so versatile and i think it can adapt to any sound.(In my opinion) Keep up the awesome work, Miss Lyrica! Tell your sisters that I love their musical creations! P.S:I has a suggestion. :3 I know this song is INCREDIBLY old in the Touhou franchise, but do you think you can do Romantic Children. If you do, I could die happy!
THE BEST~~
It's this... Galaxy Collapse?
galaxy collapse is a remix of this music (the theme of the boss Nue Houjuu from touhou UFO)
This is fucking amazing!
1:24, When I heard that I exited out of YT and went onto EOSD and beat Remilia. Then after played the video again.
1:04 Nice reference to the classic thought experiment of the ship of Theseus.
From the second the song started, I *NUE* it was gonna be good.
New upload! ^^
u r awesome
TBH the way you made the lyrical rhythm really reminds me of Into The Woods, idk why
IM LOOKING AT YOU HOUJUU NUETELLA
ONCE NOBODY NUE ALL THOUGHTS WERE NUE
GO BACK TO YOUR BASEMENT
I hope this song will play on new AvP movie
Will people find her in Area 51? 'Cause she's an alien, right? Get it? I'll see myself out.
"If I don't see Nue when I raid Area 51, I'll be disappointed."
no Nue :( (YET)
Seriously, just.... wow.
"Say,wasn't it fun? (Lets do it again!)" me to my friend at night after we threw a firecracker into the garden of a former friend 🤣 (Said former friend turned into a fuckin' snitch and we cut contact with the bastard because we don't roll with snitch fuckers) Update: i was high on weed when i wrote this