Hello and welcome to "Mio finally covers one of their favorite Hachi songs, and it only took the entire weight of the ten year ZOLA anniversary to get them to publish it" w

So!! In all honesty, I legitimately did not have anything planned for the ZOLA anniversary after my VRoid project fell apart. My goal was to just celebrate on my own and hope I could make up for missing their tenth by doing something intense either next year or the following.

Except then the ZOLA countdown on twitter made me unexpectedly emotional, ZOLA talk banks got announced, the entire ZOLA fandom rose from the dead, and Yamaha dropped ZOLA V6. I was legitimately so overcome by agony and regret that I couldn't help but frantically try to put something together in spite of the mere days I had before the deadline—and what better song to use than the one song that reminds me most of the height of summer?

This cover is actually an old one—I started it in early 2020 and actually had my "final" mix done by December of the same year, but my PV plans had been so ambitious (read: I had a whole animatic storyboarded and then some) that I burnt out and ended up tabling it for a long while. Sometime in 2022 I realized the mixing was nowhere near where I needed it to be, so I scrapped it and hoped one day I'd have the strength to try again from scratch.

Except then 5 days before the ZOLA anniversary I frantically unearthed it, polished it as fast and as hard as I could in Logic (a process that was complicated by the fact that I'm finally using new, proper HD studio headphones), and then all but tripped over myself trying to slam dunk it into AviUtl with a bit of artwork.

(It's a wonder I didn't hit my head—/smacked)

So now you're hearing it ! ! ! With a PV that is nowhere near as ambitious as the one I'd planned, but arguably is much more fun and aesthetically pleasing w. I challenged myself to stick to the visual style as much as possible (meaning no flashes, soft glows, or other "halfway there" effects), and I feel that it all worked out for the better and made a really visually cohesive PV.

And a PV that's built entirely using AviUtl at that!! No MME, stock footage, or AnimeEffects used—just Krita assets animated using AviUtl presets which, frankly, was an interesting task to tackle considering how often I rely on other software to "spice up" AviUtl's look. It kind of makes me want to make more PVs that rely on specific vanilla animation presets rather than trying to cobble together more advanced once using all manners of AviUtl alchemy.

In any event, that's enough of my rambling for now. Ten years of ZOLA Project gone by in a flash, and now a whole future ahead of them on a new engine. I don't know if the me of 2013 could have ever predicted how the ZOLAs would be faring a decade later, but I have no doubt they'd be overcome by just how many people now love and cherish them.

Thank you all for being residents of KYO hell! I have no idea what the future holds for the ZOLAs and I, but I look forward to it nevertheless.

Have a happy (belated) ZOLA anniversary!!

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