All Ritual Purification Tracks + where they play.

Yoshiro's vocals could be 'keihitsu', signalling movement of the Goddess.(she's coming/descending) 

It's also vocalized during purification rites and when moving sacred objects. 

But it has many uses... 

Keihitsu meaning "to warn and clear the way." 

Articles: English | Japanese

A video on it: The priest's roar

Youtube AI summary:

Keihitsu (警蹕) is a solemn vocalization or ritual cry used in Shinto ceremonies to herald the movement of a deity (Kami), mark sacred transitions, or invoke a sense of awe and reverence.

Key Characteristics and Uses

• The Sound: It is typically a long, drawn-out vocal sound like "oooooo".

• Heralding Deities: Priests use it to announce when a deity is being summoned to or sent away from a temporary shrine or altar (himorogi).

• Ritual Moments: It is voiced during major ceremonies such as opening or closing inner shrine doors, purification rites (Oharahi), imperial processions, or when moving sacred objects (goshintai).

• Significance: It creates an atmospheric interval of solemnity, serving as a sign for participants to bow their heads and maintain sacred order.

Her vocals disappear(and become muffled) after she begins to petrify, with said petrification beginning at Kamukura Shrine where the Goddess is said to have once descended. 

 Do they disappear because there's no need to signal the Goddess is coming because she's here now?

The reversed vocals in Kunitsu-Gami are from Kunitsu-Kami.

A video showing the reversed vocals are from Kunitsu-Kami.

Cursed Soh, who can only be fought on NG+, has long nails. I wonder...?

Here are the lyrics. In the video I cut out the repeated lyrics so here's the full thing:

昼は良い良い夜は怖い
宵々来るは世の罪か
眠らぬ童は手を引かれ
陰に蠢く蟲となる

季節の中に消えようと
今は畏れないで

十二の面は舞い踊り
笛と哭声鳴り響く
畏れを成せば夜に掴まれ
穢れの花は世を乱す
指折り数える御霊を持ち
畏れを祓い罪の血を絶てば
常しえの暁が訪れ
天つ雲居の平らかな
世を照らす日明り

季節の中に消えようと
今は畏れないで

十二の面は舞い踊り
笛と哭声鳴り響く
畏れを成せば夜に掴まれ
穢れの花は世を乱す
指折り数える御霊を持ち
畏れを祓い罪の血を絶てば
常しえの暁が訪れ
天つ雲居の平らかな
世を照らす日明り

 陰に隠れず出ておいで
畏れないで畏れないで
ほら爪の伸びた手の平を
しっかり握って行きましょう

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The daytime is fine, but the night is frightening.

Is it the sins of the world that bring night after night?

The sleepless child is led away by the hand,

and becomes a worm lurking in the shadows.

Even if we disappear into the seasons,

do not be afraid now.

Twelve masks dance and fret, and the sounds of flutes and weeping resound

If you fear, you will be seized by the night

The flowers of defilement disrupt the world

Hold onto the spirits you count on your fingers, and if you dispel fear and sever the blood of sin, the eternal dawn will arrive, and the light of the sun illuminating the world, the calm of the heavenly clouds

Even if we disappear into the seasons,

do not be afraid now.

Twelve masks dance and fret, and the sounds of flutes and weeping resound

If you fear, you will be seized by the night

The flowers of defilement disrupt the world

Hold onto the spirits you count on your fingers, and if you dispel fear and sever the blood of sin, the eternal dawn will arrive, and the light of the sun illuminating the world, the calm of the heavenly clouds

Come out, don't hide in the shadows

Don't be afraid, don't be afraid

Now, let's firmly grasp the palm of your hand with its long nails

and go.

This english translation is different to the video but it's saying the same thing really. Subjects can be vague so the translation can be a little strange sometimes.

Forces but I'm cursed | Kunitsu-Gami GMV

A vanity project. The second Forces video I made. 

The third and final one I have yet to upload was delayed in hopes new game footage would come.
But there has been nothing new...so I suppose I will finish it. It was the first one I made! So it might be odd that it's posted last...

My other Forces video and the third one of three I finished: Forces

Youtube created this one for me. 

Why does it look so good...? I might use it on the A/B test. Although I still prefer the one I made...

Then there's this next one which is...cursed beyond all reason.

Why...? Who is this man? Why is Yoshiro's kimono open?

Why do these villagers not have masks?

Another discovery.

These characters never have masks in this cut-scene. It's not pre-rendered as you can see Yoshiro's clothes can be changed.

Even though any villager can equip any mask(except for shaman and sumo wrestler) during game-play, lore-wise only the descendants of an ancestral deity can use its mask.

So..is that what this scene is establishing? That only the descendants may use the mask?

Even though I've put archer on everyone here, only those shown in archer clothes would be allowed to actually use the mask? (but cannoneer and woodcutter will show up on the masked villagers...)

Or are these villagers outsiders who moved here and so would not be able to use the mask?

If the boat capsizes, their cocooned bodies float away (RIP)

Extremely amusing.

A new discovery after 400+  hours. The third clip is me realizing it.

Forces. (Kunitsu-Gami GMV)

It's not lore accurate lol but I liked the idea and felt like making a shorter one too.

This is the third Forces one I made but the first I've decided to post. The very first isn't complete yet. Or rather, I'm not satisfied with it yet.

A simple thumbnail.

Making this video is actually when I noticed that when Soh's powers are stolen by Batsu, it's affecting Yoshiro too. Her silhouette 'doubles', as if she's being pulled.

I make GMVs for myself so I often sit with them for months even years, before posting them. Most times I never post them.

It's just very satisfying to see something actualized.

I hope you enjoy it.

Battle on the Water(with vocals)

The song played on boat battles but with Yoshiro's singing.

I made this very long ago. On my phone!

To hear Yoshiro's vocals cleanly: Yoshiro's Vocals on the Water Track

The End of Yoshiro.

 

The track played during the True Ending. Ripped from the game. 

I chose to call it 'The End of Yoshiro' because the sacrificing of Maidens has come to an end. Therefore there will be no more 'Yoshiros'.

I'm not entirely happy with the thumbnail. It's almost a waste to use this image on this track?

I can always change it.

Making Youtube Thumbnails is hard.

Because of datamining, I have more stuff to share so I've begun using my youtube more.

@blademaiden

I post random gameplay clips from the game or Otherwordly Venture but also things I find in the game files. I've managed to pull a lot including music, vocals and voice lines.

I've posted the vocals only version of the two theme songs but there's still more!

After much thought, I decided to verify my Youtube to get access to custom thumbnails but making them is really hard.

I finished my 'Yoshiro in trouble' vocal compilation and wanted to make a thumbnail.

Here's what I attempted:

the very first...

graphic design is my passion

It's...not working. Frustrated, I asked ChatGPT how can I improve this? It's a mess.

You are so diplomatic lol.

This looks much better but it's a whole different image! And that's AI Yoshiro!!

She's lovely but Yoshiro's face is a little different to that. Alas, I am a sucker for beauty...

(I want to use this one...)

She's so pretty here.

I'm gonna use Youtube's A/B testing where it shows different thumbnail you select to check which is better.

But it's also unfair because ChatGPT's is obviously clearer and more neater than mine so its designs will win. But I'll do it anyway.

I did more edits, one being this:

when will the suffering end?

Gah. You do not want to see the other one I tried making. God help my soul.
(I simply have no eye for such things...)

I asked it make a Yoshiro vocalizations thumbnail for me to look at it.

Don't really like them...

Anyway. my youtube is just a supplement to this blog so I won't get too finicky about it.

I am going to try and make my own still. Maybe I should restart and try and use the aesthetic I used on the 'vocal' thumbnails?