Ok... well I loved it up until she started rapping in Japanese at 1:45. It didn't flow that well, and you could tell that it was not native, pretty heavy. The mixing was great imo though for the style she was going for. Gives you the 'yandere loli predator' vibes that seem to be like what she was going for on the cover.
I question making it mostly Japanese. Granted that is how alot of the songs have been so far, and maybe its expected because weeb audience, but I think Gura in particular could have made full english, or mostly english, work. She has that potential and has demonstrated it, and I think she is the 1 vtuber in the gen who has somewhat broken into a normie segment of the market at least.
Others have said this song was more a personal song for her, then I'll have to say, as a matter of release goals, I think she should have held off on that. Her first song should have been her coming out for her audience, something that would be meant first and foremost to wow us, something that plays to her explicit demonstrated strengths. This song comes out of left field with the direction she takes it, and is supposedly more about her coming to terms with her old and new identity. Its a 2nd or 3rd song to make, not a first impression. If it was her 3rd original, I'd applaud her exploring her past and coming to terms with it.
So ultimately I have lots of issues with the path she chose to go down, but its more a difference of strategy and personal opinion than something actually wrong with the music, aside from the bad Japanese rapping segment. Even in Japanese her voice flowed very well when she was flowing with the music. The Japanese and English translations don't exactly match, but I suppose it does its job well enough, if anything the Japanese gives less information than the English. If the English is the original intent and the Japanese is Nekohacker's translation, I'd say I think he may have done a bad job. I know Japanese is supposed to be a vague language compared to English, but I don't think you could infer alot of the things stated in English in the Japanese provided. Overall i'd say as a first original song to a huge audience...7.5/10, upgraded from 6.5 after listening to it a few times. Its good, and I think it will grow on you after listening to it multiple times, especially without particularly focusing on it, but it doesn't have any business being above 5 million views in the first year considering the size of her fanbase. If she was looking for this song to define her rise, it won't do that, it's not her Please RIP. If this isn't intensely personal for her and was a character song then I don't think the direction she took it was the best. For a first song play to the facet everybody knows, don't reveal a 'new side' of yourself. Could probably make some good lore with it, but this isn't a a story first, its music first.
