Shibuya HAL Takes Nostalgic Vocaloid Requests Mid-Stream, Ends on “Lost One’s Weeping”

NEO-PORTE — Shibuya HAL, a member of Neo-Porte’s 0th Generation, took requests for nostalgic Vocaloid songs partway through a singing stream on Thursday and then sang several of them, finishing the night with “Lost One’s Weeping.”

She opened with IRIS OUT, then moved on to “Sparkle.” She had meant to pick the shorter movie version, she said, but had loaded the longer original, and she joked that viewers could enjoy a long instrumental interlude. Chat reacted to the long break in the song with laughter, and a wave of applause followed when it ended.

“If people only listened for skill, the world would need just one singer.” — Shibuya HAL, in her opening remarks

Before she began, she joked that too many good singers had appeared online lately and asked them to stop. Skill is not the only thing people listen for, she said, and she planned to compete on personal taste instead. She said she had been practicing steadily ahead of a live performance at the end of the year, but that improvement takes time.

Around the midpoint she said she wanted to sing Vocaloid songs, which she had not done much lately, and asked chat for nostalgic ones. She scrolled through the suggestions and through a Niconico playlist of songs she can sing, naming titles as she went. When a viewer asked whether requests would be sung, she answered that sometimes she would and sometimes she would not.

After one song she felt was pitched too high, saying she should have lowered the key, she chose Proto Disco as a chance to make up for it. She followed with “Babylon” and “The Boy of Defeat,” and closed with “Lost One’s Weeping.” The stream drew three Super Chats.

Signing off, she said she hoped the next singing stream would not be six months or a year away, and asked viewers to look forward to the live show.