Plants Vs. Zombies - Epic Orchestral Medley [ Kāru ]

When Crazy Dave's Taco is stolen by the Dr. Edgar Zomboss, this sends him into a fit of rage. Zombies approach his home and with the help of a mysterious friend from the Bloom and Doom Seed Corporation, he cultivates an elite brigade of plants to fend off these zombies, Day and Night, Lawn and Pool, Ground and Roof. Although as the battles progress, not everything is what it seems, and a conspiracy begins unravelling.

Misairu's Orchestral Forces presents it's most action-packed symphonic operation ever! "Plants Vs. Zombies - Epic Orchestral Medley" featuring nostalgic tracks from a beloved franchise given a complete blockbuster make over! The medley features exclusive artwork and a story set in a darker PVZ alternate universe!

I wish to give a special thanks to Allen Hao, and Corvus B. who helped with a few parts in this medley with their skills and talents! ✨

I'd like to also give a warm thank you to my close friends, Blix, Rin, Timekeeper, Vance, and Refresh"sko" for keeping me sane during the almost year's worth of production of this medley! 💛

Note: I was editing at 3 AM, and Laura Shigihara's name was accidentally misspelled in the credits. Very sorry about that! 😅

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🎼 What is Misairu's Orchestral Forces? 🎼
Misairu's Orchestral Forces is a virtual band/orchestra. They are divided into instrument regiments commanded by sixteen fictional characters. They all answer to Misairu, and Raiko, both of whom don't exactly get along with each other too well. Despite this, they do their best to work together (to some extent) in order to bring you these defiantly epic orchestrations and symphonic operations.

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Chapters:
00:00 Campaign Introduction
01:49 Crazy Dave Theme (Overture)
04:44 Campaign Interlude 1
05:38 Grasswalk
08:21 Grasswalk (Final Wave)
10:17 Campaign Interlude 2
10:37 Loonboon
12:53 Campaign Interlude 3
13:41 Moongrains
16:44 Moongrains (Final Wave)
18:48 Campaign Interlude 4
19:55 Watery Graves
21:56 Watery Graves (Final Wave)
25:35 Campaign Interlude 5
26:05 Rigor Mormist
28:29 Rigor Mormist (Final Wave)
30:44 Campaign Interlude 6
31:32 Graze The Roof
34:17 Graze The Roof (Final Wave)
36:50 Campaign Interlude 7
37:18 Ultimate Battle (Penultimate)
40:04 Campaign Interlude 8
41:08 Finale - Braniac Maniac
46:14 Campaign Ending (Final Battle)
49:41 Epilogue
50:28 Zombies on Your Lawn
53:55 After Credits Scene
56:08 Credits
58:43 ???

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Thank you for listening to my Epic Orchestral Medley of Plants Vs. Zombies! If you did enjoy it, please do consider sharing or supporting me on KoFi. This took almost a year to make. Aside from creating the entire musical arrangement, I had to do all the artwork myself and a little bit of voice acting as Bloom and Doom CEO, Ryker Johns! Thanks, and remember, Immerse, Take Heart, Inspire! 🌻💛🎵


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Fun Facts and Little Details:
- Aside from my usual musical composition stuff, I do digital art as a hobby! Hence I was able to create all the artwork of this medley myself, which of course took a bit of time, but I am very happy with the results!
- I never really thought of creating a story for this medley until I saw a comment saying how they loved how the recent works of mine incorporated a story. This comment inspired me and I took the story telling to the next level, complete with mission briefing style cutscenes and voice acting!
- I have to give props to my good friend Allen Hao for the epic guitar riff of the victory theme at the end of the Final Battle. He's a brilliantly talented individual who I met on my Music Business course in my college who is a member of a local band "12th street", make sure to check them out!
- Shawn Michael is another fantastic individual who voices the news anchor in this medley. I met him during Journalism class, and we were both radio broadcasters for our university's radio broadcasting team! I'd reckon his voice was perfect for the role.
- Ryker Johns was voiced by... well... me!
- Zombies on Your Lawn was originally going to have vocals but I never went ahead with it due to time constraints.
- The Japanese chanting in the finale is called Kakegoe (掛け声) It usually refers to shouts and calls used in performances of traditional Japanese music, Kabuki theatre, and in martial arts such as kendo.
- The Overture is inspired by 2WEI's cover of "Kickstart My Heart", the song used from Battlefield 2042's reveal trailer.
- One of the Mission titles is called "Akyat Patay Bahay", a play on the Filipino phrase "Akyat Bahay" which roughly translates to a burglar who climbs houses, and "Patay" which just means "Deceased".
- I "splashed" some Attack on Titan references as usual! (Also Genshin Impact because why not? Oh! and Godzilla too!)
- I had the unique idea of having the music go underwater before the final wave of Watery Graves.
- Despite this being an dark alternate universe of PVZ, most of it is still grounded in some cannon lore. I did a ton of research to make sure Ryker Johns made sense (Hint: his surname) to the establishment of Bloom and Doom, and the speculated Geographic location of Neighborville!
- The most major plant design overhaul I did was of the Cob Cannon, since I thought the original PVZ 1 version didn't look badass enough.
- Yes, IN THIS universe, Green Shadow and Solar Flare are together in a relationship. I saw some peeps in the comments not too happy about that, I just hope that this very small miniscule thing doesn't ""ruin"" your entire musical experience! ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Gatling Pea has seen some things...
- The Overall artwork was also inspired and based from one of Battlefield 2042's first posters, while the Mission Briefings were inspired by Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
- The story is inspired BY the original PVZ games, but IS NOT 100% based on it. This is a darker alternative universe I made to settle the atmosphere of it better. I didn't want to stick to the original lore too much since I think it's been done to death already and I wish to add a fresh new spin on it!
- There is a secret first version of this medley that was around six minutes long into production, but I was never happy with it. So, I decided to scrap it and rework it into the final result you see now! P.S. I still have the original six minute file, let me know if ya'll want to hear it!

P.S. It's been only five days and ya'll already made a Villain Fannon Wiki Entry on Ryker, Ya'll the best I swear 😆:

Note: I was editing at 3 AM, and Laura Shigihara's name was accidentally misspelled in the credits. Very sorry about that! 😅

[jakeorb]

"You have a Pool right?"
"Drown em'."

GOES SO FING HARD MAN, IDK WHY!

[carpyet]

13:12 Missed opportunity to call the Doom Shroom a "Weapon of GRASS destruction" 🤣🤣🤣

[robodogmech]

Me first 10 minutes: oh cool they got narrative in the soundtrack.
Me half an hour in: OMG IM SO INVESTED IN THIS STORY!!!

[AARonHDYT]

I don’t know why YouTube didn’t show me this earlier! This is CRAAAAZY!

[mustaghfiry]

Ryker : "don't do anything crazy"
Dave : "bullshit.. "

[JoseViktor]

The fact that you added a little "war" story on this make the medley 10 times better. Incredible.

[Mongueleitor]

Doom Guy: Kills the literal hell beacuse of the death of his rabbit
Crazy Dave: Kills a army of zombies, a lab, and a gigant tech robot just for find his taco

[ivanbernard]

This made me realise how much potential pvz has for a movie. Especially following the genetic experimentation vibe, giving them intelligence and stuff. Really awesome!

[Pheonix_]

First, Reeds and Seeds, and now this. I don't think I would live in a time where I could listen to *TWO* hour long medleys of Plants vs Zombies. What a blessing it is to be alive right now.

[Jenkinator]

You're by far one of the best musical artists I've seen on YouTube. Good stuff, dude.

[northerncapra]

I came expecting an epic orchestral medley of PVZ music, not a full PVZ meets COD movie. Great work to everyone who helped put this together

[Gabi-ddbq]

PvZ always lacked a considerable amount of high quality remixes, which is disturbing knowing how EPIC the OST is.

Can’t wait for this!!!

[iDSG.]

Came for the music, stayed for the story. WHAT A MASTERPIECE!

If I could leave a million likes on this video, I would. Damn it, YouTube!

[carpyet]

I'm so mad. I was looking for a chill PvZ playlist to put on while I was studying, but the orchestration, storyline, voice acting, and artwork were so gripping that I watched the whole video on it's own. Truly a work of passion. As a PvZ fan, I thank you!

[thatonecrimsonecho]

48:43
No matter how many times I watch it, Ryker’s line here always gives me the chills. Combined with the music tying into the climax of the Zombot getting destroyed, it invokes real human emotion from me, which is insane.
Absolutely amazing medley, Kāru 👏

[nitrocore]

I was not expecting a Plants VS Zombies X Call of Duty collab but I’m very happy I got it. Seriously great job, you really knocked it out of the park with this one!💜

[Meme_Enjoyer]

This is pure gold...
As a person who loved PVZ as a kid this is one of the best things I've ever seen. The music is honestly FIRE. It's even better backed up with the story and dialogue. I actually really like this version of the lore. Also the moment Ryker's name turned orange I was like "Oh shit." I also love how you connected it to PVZ 2 at the end with Penny saving Dave. 10/10 music and story. I need to see a PVZ 2 version of this.

[ZakoZeWacko]

Karu is the only artist I know to add LORE to a music video. Absolutely banger medley btw, looks like the 1 year of work paid off!

[PepeValenzuela]

If my 12 year old ass heard this I would haven been 100% sure this songs came from the cancelled DreamWorks movie