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japanese captions "glitching" to spell out the names of all 6 of the matsuno brothers: oso, kara, choro, ichi, jyushi, todo. it's so deliberate that they're even bolded and italicized lmfao. "don't be scared", or OSOranaide, becoming 恐れないで, "wired in the the CRT"/buraunkan ni KARAmatta ego -> ブラウン管に絡まったエゴ, "never seems to take it slow"/CHOROchoro to sewashiku -> ちょろちょろとせわしく (which is particularly noteworthy because it should normally be written in katakana, which is also how choromatsu's name is spelled, but they deliberately glitched FROM katakana to hiragana), "in studio seats"/ICHI ni tsuitara -> 位置についたら, "out-manic"/JYUSHou no soujou -> 重症な躁状, and "we'll stay another day"/mou ichinichi TODOmaruyo -> もう一日留まるよ. these are the ONLY characters that get glitched. and most of them are not even standalone nouns just chunks of kana that in and of themselves don't have meaning… outside of osomatsu san that is!!!!! already pretty damning evidence. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE

the background colors in the chorus literally cycle through the 6 matsuno bros colors. IN THE CORRECT ORDER. red, cyan (blue), green, indigo (purple), yellow, pink. it'd be one thing if it was just the colors, but it being in the correct order is too coincidental

ricedeity from flavor foley, literally the composer and lyricist of the song AND the animator of the video, IS A KNOWN OSOMATSU SAN FAN (i know what you are….. /pos). they have re-animated MULTIPLE osomatsusan skits crossed over with vocaloid over the years, so yeah i could definitely see them doing this

the visual style fits the original 60s/80s children show osomatsu-kun closely, same eras (we get both b/w and 80s era color). also miku's outfit literally looks like the classic osomatsu-kun suit jackets down to the same big bowtie and big buttons. there's also a moment (2:28) where miku is drawn as a full grown adult in a more detailed style. a dichotomy just like the matsu blobs vs their F6 bishounen bodies.

the recurring phrase "this is how it should be", or "これでいいのだ", is a VERY iconic catchphrase from bakabon, a different series by the same author of osomatsu-kun, and there was a lot of crossover. when i say it's iconic i mean it's like the showa era equivalent of homer simpson's "d'oh" lol. tbh even when i first listened to static i noticed this repetition and made the connection to bakabon too even without the japanese captions, but i just thought it was a funny coincidence. boy do i look like an idiot now! lmao

miku splits into 6 in the chorus. sextuplets. it'd be a complete coincidence if it weren't for everything else

the overall theme, story, and message of the song, of miku being desperate to keep you watching, parallels the pilot plot of osomatsu-san (the 2016 reboot) really closely, in which the 6 bros as kids from the black and white showa era osomatsu-kun anime are like "wait we got rebooted? it's 2016? what the hell do we do to keep people watching??? we'll do ANYTHING to keep people watching us on TV! (including violate a lot. i mean a lot of franchise copyrights. to the point where they had to remove the episode from the blu ray release and pretend it never existed)". this desperation to do anything to keep viewers watching is a concept so built in to the show that they run it back as the season 2 first episode too lmao.

like i mentioned at the top, this was posted on the matsunos' birthday, may 24th

hell. there's probably even more that i missed. all of this is to say holy moly. what an incredible song and incredible tribute, and i bet most of the 11 million views didn't even think about this, at least not the english ones. i mean hell even with constant deep karamatsu brainrot that i have i didn't fully make the connection until i read the comments from jp viewers, they did get lots of hints though haha. but man, as if i couldn't love this song any more, now i find out it's all deeply entwined with ososan…. it's just so peak 😭 i desperately need to re-animate this as osomatsu-kun/san… i need to so bad……. FUCK IT'S JUST SO GENIUS! RICE! YOU'RE A GENIUS!!!!!!

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that's the end of the comment i wrote on youtube (gimme thumbsy uppies btw pls or i'll cry). but seriously....

I'M DEFINITELY GONNA DO THIS ONCE I... once i have time... i just... i just need to move first... and do the work... and all the big events i have to run and trips in august... OUGH!!!! OUGH!!!!!!