[MV] Raven's Paradigm - Banzoin Hakka (Original Song)

My single Raven’s Paradigm - Now Available on Youtube and all platforms!
Lend me your power..

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Hakka Hakka Hola!

Banzoin Hakka here, the coolest exorcist of all Xenokuni, at your service!
Please enjoy my first original song “Raven’s Paradigm”
Remember that in order to reach illumination, you have to embrace your inner darkness.

Vocals & Lyrics: Banzoin Hakka
Music & Lyrics: JunbugP
Illustration: Xiayou
MV: BabyMeltdown
日本語訳：Gomadare
日本語訳確認：arc_, Yuri
Traducción: Isara
Revisión de traducción: BecauseOfReasons
Subtitling: T-chan

🔽TEMPUS New Members🔽
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🎩Gavis Bettel / ガビス・ベッテル🎩
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🪫Machina X Flayon / マキナ・X・フレオン🪫
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🔅Banzoin Hakka / 万象院ハッカ🔅
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🏹Josuiji Shinri / 定水寺シンリ🏹
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🔽TEMPUS Current Members🔽

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🎇Regis Altare / リージス・アルテア 🎇
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🧤 Magni Dezmond / マグニ・デズモンド🧤
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⛓️Axel Syrios / アクセル・シリオス⛓️
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📗Noir Vesper / ノワール・ヴェスパー📗
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🔽 HOLOSTARS ENGLISH Official🔽

📢 VTuber Auditions! We await your application!📢
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[JunbugP]

It was great working with you on this song, Hakka! Thank you for everything!

[JosuijiShinri]

this little birb has so much talent! can't wait to see more from you, Hakka! 🥖🥖🥖

[RegisAltare]

you knocked this OUT OF THE PARK!!! AMAZING 🔥🔥🔥

[NovaKnight]

Speaks English, Japanese, and Spanish?

Sings METAL?

WRITES HIS OWN METAL?!

Truly, the pinnacle of birb evolution.

[sinisterpanda]

Hakka can speak English, Spanish & Japanese.. and is also a METAL singer! The fact that he also wrote the lyrics is insane!! Kudos to everyone thay worked on this masterpiece 🔥

[eyqykfz]

クソかっけえぜこの曲！
ホロスターズも盛り上げてどんどん重てぇ曲増やしてくれ！！

[Sumi]

Raven's Paradigm Lyric & Lore breakdown:
- The vengeful spirits are​ ​​​​​passing right through me​ ​, ​living ghosts walk the earth and only I see​ ​ -
According to his bio from the Tempus website, Hakka is the last from a line of exorcists. Only he possesses the power to see yokai/ ghosts that haunt the streets in his daily life, and hence only he can exorcise them.
edit: Shinri revealed that there are corruption beasts in xenokuni, so it may refer to that too.

- The hunger, wrath, and resentment​ ​​​​growing stronger​ ​, the same feelings inside me​ ​​​​are getting harder to stop​ -
These are the traits of vengeful ghosts, or malignant yokai, and Hakka seems to have one inside of him. According to his bio, his right hand is being eroded by the Records Corruption, and inherited Karasutengu data-- Karasu is crow, and Tengu are yokai specifically referred to as 'heavenly sentinels who are, at their worst, disruptive demons and harbingers of war'. This data allows him to leap and endure beyond the normal capacities of humans. Altare is fighting the Records Corruption btw.

-​​​ ​The people cry out my name--​ ​​​​ ​they need a savior​, and in this moment of darkness I can’t waver​ -
Hakka is desperate for power to perform his duty. He's struggling with his inner darkness (the hunger, wrath and resentment from his right hand), but he must still be strong and use this power to fight to save the people.

- ​They think I walk in the light​, ​​​​but they just don’t know​​, ​​​the darkness inside about​ ​​​​to overflow out of me -
The people being saved have no idea that their savior is constantly battling the same darkness within himself. Hakka literally can't contain the dark power within his right arm. This instability might be what caused Hakka's initial scuffle with Bettel and Flayon, where he allegedly "stabbed Flayon with his spear". Whenever he puts on his mask, the guild members say he become wild, meaning Hakka has a state where he is either more attuned to his corrupted Karasutengu data or is overtaken by it.

-​​​ ​I call on you, my servant!​ ​​Grant me your strength!​ -
This servant likely refers to a Karasutengu, the crow shown in the MV. This means the corrupted data is sentient at least inside Hakka's head and assumes a form alike a crow in his consciousness. Whether the Karasutengu exist as a crow outside Hakka's body is yet unknown, but Hakka calls on it to grant him strength to fight vengeful spirits.

-​ I am the cursed, I burn in your fire​. [These wounds won’t heal; let me back in the light] -
Theory: Hakka having been corrupted in return for power becomes part Yokai and burns in the same exorcism fire he and others use to purify the world. He is forever stuck in perpetual darkness and struggles with the realization that his body is no longer human when the wounds from his erosion on his right arm won't heal, or, the usual holy healing can't heal his battle wounds and he gets hurt by the light instead.

-​ Your vessel shatters, am I what you desire? [I’m breaking down, is there even time left] -
The vessel may refer to the Karasutengu's previous material body- the crow, before it possesses Hakka and corrupts his arm. Naturally, as its previous crow body can't contain its powerful Records Corruption, it desires Hakka's body as a new vessel. In turn, Hakka starts breaking down, and he wonders how much time he has left before the erosion spreads from his right arm to the rest of his body. (or, the bracketed lyrics are spoken by the crow, and it echoes what Hakka says about its vessel shattering).

- ​If this is the path that we walk together​.​​​​​ ​[You’re here with me, this is your only choice]​ I give in, take my hand and give me strength​ -
The Karasutengu joins Hakka, and they become one as Hakka finally gives into the darkness and allow it to take over in return for the strength he needs to fulfill his duty as a hero of the people, or he also just really like fighting on the frontlines. This is where his MV bio comes into play- "Remember that in order to reach illumination, you have to embrace your inner darkness." I love this because it's an ideology seen in traditional Japanese literature and in Buddhist spirituality, where one has to embrace the chaos of the world and their non-self to reach spiritual enlightenment, maybe it has nothing to do with it but edge be deep.

- The vengeful spirits they fall to me so easily​, ​I don’t know myself, what have you done to me?​ ​This new power you gave me; is it worth it​ -
The results of his embracing the darkness is overwhelming powahh, so much power that it even scares Hakka himself. He starts to doubt himself, whether he still is him, and he feels unfamiliar in his own body. He wonders if he had made a mistake accepting the Karasutengu.

- ​I’m fighting myself but I can’t get it to stop​, ​I’m losing my mind, all I see is red, This wasn’t part of the deal--​ ​​​​ ​do you want me dead??​ -
As uncertainty settles in, Hakka begins to lose himself and give into the disruptive and war-mongering Tengu corruption data that is slowly cracking his mind and body. Hakka realizes he's been tricked, and the corruption hurt so bad he felt like he might even die.

- I don’t want this to end, but it’s killing me​ ​, ​Is there even a way for me to break free?​ Suzaku, Genbu, Byakko, Kochin, ​ ​​​​Teigo, Santai, Gyokujo, Seiryu -
Despite everything, Hakka wants the power, but he searches for a way to survive. The japanese names he mentions refer to sacred spirits in Eastern Asia mythology, the 4 Gods especially stand out, but I'm not familiar with them overall. These sacred spirits/gods may represent illumination/light and Hakka's way to contain the corruption or break free from it.

- [Don't be restrained let yourself out, Redeem your past from the outbound​, Release yourself let the beast out​, Inside yourself there's an outlaw​] -
He uses the screamo voice here to i assume it is the Karasutenga talking, or corrupted!Hakka, but it pursuades him to embrace the innermost part of himself that's a wild beast and let it out.

- ​Don't try too hard to contain me -
This is the moment where Hakka's normal voice shines through within the screamo voice, repeating the same lyric and indicating Hakka's being persuaded and the Karasutengu is actually becoming a part of his personality, or they are starting to fall in line with each other and walk on the same path. The importance of this line is also clear because Hakka foreshadows his original song days ago on Twitter with this exact lyric.

- [Senseless, you want to reframe me, This curse I put within you, ​ ​​One day you will found out the truth]-
Foreshadowing?

- Give it all up​, two hearts bound together​ ​, ​if this is the path that we walk together​ ​, ​I give in, be my spear, and pierce the way!​ -
The conclusion of the song leads straight into Hakka's place in his current journey, with his cursed right arm and double personality! I can't wait for more original songs in the future, thank you so much to Hakka and everyone who worked on this super cool super hardcore anime song!

[SUNNY-zsyw]

THE VOCAL RANGE???? THE THE SCREAM???? THIS IS FUCKING DIVINE

[jakegroot]

As a metal fan this is unironically the best song in all of holostars and hololive (in my opinion), reminds me of linkin park in the best way

[Handinmapocket]

His vocal range is crazy! Not just in range, but also technique.
Going from falsetto, to vocal fry, to straight op growling in the same song is mental.
Most metal bands have 2 vocalists to cover such a range.

[EienNoSetsuna]

He just debuted today, and he already has his original song; Hakka is on fire!

[Kaoru_MaiAmeTsuchi]

朱雀＜SUZAKU＞：A bird-shaped divine beast that has the characteristics of an oriental phoenix. Its basic attribute is fire. It is said to protect the south direction.
玄武＜GENBU＞：A divine beast that looks like a gigantic tortoise and snake combined. The basic attribute is earth. It is said to protect the northern direction.
白虎＜BYAKKO＞：A divine beast in the shape of a tiger with huge white and black striped fur. The basic attribute is wind. It is said to protect the west.
青龍＜SEIRYU＞：A divine beast in the shape of a dragon with blue scales like lapis lazuli. The basic attribute is water. It is said to protect the east.
勾陳＜KOUCHIN＞：A divine beast in the form of a golden snake. It is said to protect the center of the capital.
帝后＜TEIGOU＞：Another name is Tenkou. Although her characteristics are not stated, she has the appearance of a goddess. The basic attribute is winter. It is said to be responsible for the safety of voyages.
三台＜SANTAI＞：General name for the three guardian stars, Jotai, Chutai, and Getai.
玉女＜GYOKUJO＞：A term used to describe a heavenly goddess or female angel. From there, it is also a word that expresses "a beautiful woman like a polished pearl."

[WckedSl]

PORFIN UN METALERO QUE GRITA EN HOLOLIVE NO PUEDE ESPERAR A ESCUCHAR LO QUE TIENES HAKKA!!!!

[daborial]

How many voices do u want in your song?
Hakka: yes

[xiayou]

Thank you Hakka-san, Jun-san and BabyMeltdown-san for working so hard on this.

Hope you guys will enjoy and love the song, vocals and visuals of the video.

[tyresefinney]

Never would've guessed upon first sight this guy being a metal singer.

[KingOfDepravity]

I’m so excited for this type of music to be injected into the bloodstream of our collective community, not enough metal around here😅

[Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

Headbangers, unite!

With Hakka, the dreams of HoloES and an actual metal singer in holo have finally come true!

[JPuffin]

*misses debut, sees original song* Alright let’s see what we’ve got he-



Song: amazing. Now to watch the debuts (:

[dudeguy]

Ever since that poledancing competition, I can't listen to this the same way...