Week 35 Day 6 - Just be Friends

This next song is back to Megurine LUKA. I give you the ever famous:-



Song: Just be friends by 巡音ルカ
Just be friends by Megurine LUKA
[Note: The original nico link to the song is temporarily down, hence why youtube is used instead]


This song talks about a couple wanting to be "just be friends" rather than furthering their relationship. There is a strong divided opinion on who's perspective the song is about, LUKA or her 'boy' (Random Guy A). Some PVs attempt to make sense of it, but no one is clear on the thoughts of the composer.

Well, romanji lyrics can be found here. I have translations and kanji from my usual source though.

Additional videos:-


[Miku's thanksgiving concert, 3rd song from LUKA's segment. OH yea for hologram!]


[The song also appeared in Project Diva 2nd.]

And now, stuffs from NND


[First up, it's nico kara as always]


[The best cover version of the song. By halyosy]


[GERO covering the song with a piano arrangement. Beauty!]
[Note: Sadly the vid with the piano arrangement got taken down ><"]
[Found the piano arrange on youtube, so all is good :P]


[Nico-chorus. Always works for me]

The above chorus features halyosy (look above), ちょうちょ (choucho), yue, 【蓮】 [Len], amu, and finally 【ピコ】[PICO].
Pico deserves special mention as HE has quite an androgynous voice. He's also the voicebank to Utatane PICO (who was featured in Day 4 in samfree's night series).


[Another nico chorus, featuring the additional vocals of Re:, うさ・ぷろれ (usa & burure), and プリクマー (Purukumaa). I love the musical box intro in this.]


[Cover by usa, along with a band-edition]

Zebura apparently is quite popular too.


[Not 100% sure what the WANKO version is, but this cover by Kettaro is great]


[Apparently the 'original' WANKO ver. singer. I'm still not 100% sure]


[This is too good to be just linked. Nico chorus, WANKO version]


[An interesting version of the song, where he sings MIKU's トリノコシティ (TORINOKOSHITEI) to the tune of Just be friends. The original MIKU song in question here. (Worth a listen) This version is hence dubbed TORINOKOFURENSU (トリノコフレンズ)]


[Live performance by Choucho & Sariya-jin]


[Mint edition? watch and find out about it]

ARGH! I'm still in the vid dumping mode from Tuesday. I shall limit myself to here, eventhough there are tonnes more that are great. Please find more yourselves here. And here IF you wanna navigate through tonnes of irrelevant stuff in youtube.

One last video for the road:-


[Nico chorus by SAMFREE! Just putting it in for fun]

Oh, I forgot, this version exists, so this will have to be the last in the post:-


[EXIT Trance version!]

Tomorrow I'll conclude the week, the month and the year with another Kagamine RIN song. I hope the December monthly review will not be as delayed as the October and November one. So look forward to the final post of 2010 (this project will still continue into 2011).
See yaz

Note: I am... partially emo after listening to the good versions. And then EXIT trance saved me from it :P (Hey, at least I don't feel so shitty before I sleep)