Another old interview from the magazines I bought specifically for BUTAOTOME articles! This one focuses on Comp as a bassist, and the bass techniques he used for Trauma Recorder. A strange-looking multi-creator who loves the bass A mixed-species group consisting of Ranko (vocals) the human, Comp (bass) the polar bear, Paprika (piano) the cat, and Ranko no Ane (performance, artwork)… Read more »
I started to write this article a couple of months ago after I was mindlessly browsing the Lost Media Wiki. Then, the other day, I found out that lost and disappeared media is extended even to gacha games and thought about finishing it. Because even the small doujin circles have their own share of mysteries! Here is a list of… Read more »
Original This is an interview with Ranko, Hotaru Murasaki (EastNewSound), and Sakiko (Watashi Kisama, Girls Logic Observatory) that was posted on the website Touhou Garakuta Soushi last week. The three of them talked about a variety of topics related to Touhou: how they got into it, how they started singing Touhou arrangements, and so on, but also things about the… Read more »
On August 4, Garakuta published a very small interview with the performing Flowering Night circles, so here is the BUTAOTOME part. How did you like the stage for Flowering Night 2020? Ranko: I was really looking forward to doing Flowering Night again and being able to perform again.Even though it’s ended up like this (streaming without an audience) this time,… Read more »
Original link This is an interview that was published around Furubokko’s release. It’s more light-hearted than the usual, as it was done in a dog café (so there are a lot of pics of the four Butamembers playing with dogs). There are some of the usual topics we’ve already heard in almost every interview (like the obligatory circle formation stuff… Read more »
An old interview with Comp from the magazines I bought specifically for BUTAOTOME articles. Now it has been finally translated! This has been challenging since some specific words are used and I know absolutely nothing about music-making, recording, and that kind of stuff. But it was fun to research them, and I hope it’s clear to read. Sound Designer was… Read more »
This interview was published on Rolling Stone Japan’s website around Furubokko’s release. It was sitting in my backlog for too much time, just like 95% of BUTAOTOME interviews. Now, here it is! Main topics are the usual formation stuff, how the major debut impacted the Pig and how things changed over the course of the years, some production stuff about… Read more »
One of the most fun things with Touhou songs is that you can do pretty much anything you want with the same theme, and have fun doing different things with each one of ZUN (and Uni Akiyama)’s compositions. And over the years, BUTAOTOME managed to make arrangements of 90% of the Touhou themes. There are some themes the Pig never… Read more »
This post was updated on December 9, 2023. The translation has been improved (?) and more official links have been added. On a sleepless night, Ranko decided to do one of those “for every like I will tweet about something” hashtags. She tweeted 44 songs. Since most of them are Japanese non-doujin music, I thought it was interesting to translate!You… Read more »
Original article Due to me feeling sick, I decided to focus on some translations instead of finishing a certain rank(o)ing (will I be able to finish it before the end of the year?). I went back through my interview backlog and found this one. For some context, this short interview was made around the time of the BUTAOTOME Fanbook release… Read more »
