Music / cosMo

cosMo, also called Bousou-P or Kuroneko Antique, is an animator and prominent Vocaloid composer. He has become famous in the Vocaloid community for producing a vast number of extremely fast-tempo songs (often over 200 bpm), pushing the software to its limits. He has composed music sung by Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len, Megurine Luka, Gumi, and Kamui Gakupo; while most of cosMo's works are Miku songs, he claims that his favorite Vocaloid is Kagamine Len.

He does a number of his illustrations himself, and also has personally covered a number of Vocaloid songs. cosMo is said to have an unusually "cute" voice for a male singer. (Judge for yourself.) In fact, he released a Vocaloid cover CD called "What Do You Mean You're Gonna Sing?!!", in which he covers a number of his own works.

cosMo has produced three song series—the Fantastic Garden series, its sequel The Star Girl and the Illusion Paradise, and The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku, which is responsible for his leap to fame. He has produced a number of mini-albums, and his songs are often included in Miku compilation CDs. Fantastic Garden is known for being extremely surrealist, and The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku chronicles the experience of what life is like for an actual Vocaloid program with a merciless eye. The Disappearance series, along with a few new songs, has been released as a full-length CD which will also be cosMo's major debut. The album has also spawned a light novel written by cosMo himself in 2013. cosMo has also provided theme songs for some of Miku's concerts, most notably Magical Mirai 2021.

In addition to Vocaloid songs, cosMo also produces songs for Doujin music label Diverse System and several BEMANI games, including SOUND VOLTEX and beatmania IIDX. While he does produce some BEMANI songs featuring Vocaloids, some of his other songs are completely original works with no Vocaloids, sometimes instrumental works (such as the majority of his Diverse System works), most notably "For UltraPlayers", which was used for the final round of the Sound Voltex tournament at Konami Arcade Championship 2013 and is one of the hardest songs in the entire game.

Here is his official Niconico and his Youtube account.

cosMo's Discography

Full Albums

• InfinitY (2008)
• Shoujo no Kuusou Teien -The fantastic garden- (2008)
• InfiniteHOLiC (2009)
• The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku (2010)
• Breaktime -Futago + α na nakamatachi (2010)
• Star Girl and the Fantasy Cinema (2012)
• BPM 200ijou wa Oyatsu ni Fukumaremasu ka? (2014)
• For UltraPlayers (2015)
• The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku -Real & Repeat- (2018)
• Gossip Sea (2020)

Songs in the Disappearance series

• New World ^note  also in the Fantastic Garden series
• 0 -Zero- (The Birth of Hatsune Miku)
• Let's Play with Hatsune Miku!
• A.I.
• The Rampage of Hatsune Miku
• The Confusion of Hatsune Miku
• The Division → Destruction of Hatsune Miku
• Bye-Bye World of Common Sense
• The Demise of Hatsune Miku -Worst End-
• The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku -DEAD END-
• Hyper∞LATiON
• ∞ -True END-
• The Intense Voice of Hatsune Miku -Infinity HAPPY END-
• Our Milestone
• Leap from 0→∞
• I Sing ^note written as an insert song for the novelization of "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku"

Songs in the Fantastic Garden series

• The Girl's Fantastic Garden
• Miku, Piano, and Fantasy (Titled "Cat, Piano, and Fantasy" in albums)
• Anti The Fantastic Garden
• Forgotten Capital
• Capsule
• ANTI THE ∞HOLIC
• At the Ruins of Ateliesta
• Dependence On the Fantastic Garden
• Story x Teller
• The Twintastic Gardens of Destruction and Creation^note Written for the Drama CD of the Fantastic Garden series

Songs in the Star Girl and the Illusion Paradise series

• Solitary Confinement, Stellar Theater
• The Star Girl and the Illusion Paradise
• The Runaway Boy and The Lost Girl
• The Nun and the Idol Girl
• The Childish Girl and the Grown-Up World
• Our Cosmology
• Dr. Realist
• The Adventurous Girl and The Miniature Garden Game
• The Radio Girl and the Fantastic Garden
• The Reincarnated Girl and The Reincarnated Boy
• The A.I. Girl and her Deep-Sea Heart
• Lavender End Roll
• Another Lost Girl
• Anti the Euphoria Holic ^note Written for the novelization of the Star Girl series
• Colorful Voice
• Monochrome Voice

Collab Songs/Commissioned Work

• Magical Kitty Len Len duology (collaboration with Owata-P)
• Evans VolteX Pf arrange (remix)
• neu BSP style (remix)
• Sadistic.Music∞Factory
• The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku -Cinematic Edit-
• For UltraPlayers
• Monopole.
• Distorted † Happiness
• xxxx/xx/xx
• Hatsune Creation Myth (theme for Magical Mirai 2021)
• Imaginary Friend
• Machine Gun Poem Doll
• Yaminabe!!!! (winning entry for the Proseka ULTIMATE contest)
• Battle! Hatsune Miku
• Let's Mikusercise!!

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Tropes utilized in cosMo's songs:

• A God Am I: Miku in "Disappearance".
  • Radio Girl also occasionally displays a God complex when she's inside her Fantastic Garden.
• All There in the Manual: The novelizations of the Infinity, Fantastic Garden and Illusion Paradise series give more concrete details about the events of the series as well as its characters.
  • Its revealed that the girl from Capsule and the protagonist of the Fantastic Garden are twin sisters and authors of their own "Fantastic Gardens".
• Alternate Character Reading: "Anti The Fantastic Garden" is spelled with the kanji for "The Girl's Fantastic Garden" in reverse.
• Anti-Villain: Dr. Realist is a Type IV, as he simply aims to free the inhabitants of the Illusionary Theater from Fantasy to Reality. The results are...one trip short into disaster to say the least.
• Anti-Escapism Aesop: The Star Girl and Fantastic Garden series have heavy themes against escapism, as most of the girls that come into contact with the Garden are escaping something or other from their real lives, and when they remember what that was they all fall into despair. The only person who enters the Garden and doesn't do this is Radio Girl, but she's also the only girl to end her song happier than when she started out.^note Notably, Adventurous Girl also was able to escape to reality relatively unscathed, but she ends up dying as soon as she leaves.
• Anachronic Order: On the Disappearance CD, "0" is track 8, and is presented as Miku remembering her own first startup.
• Arc Symbol: The infinity symbol pops up a lot in both the Disappearance series (where it's most seen) and in the Star Girl/Fantastic Garden series, where it seems to represent immortality. Stars also pop up a lot in the Star Girl series (fittingly enough), representing the star mascot of Dr. Realist.
• Arc Word: "Fantasia" is how Radio Girl refers to the Fantastic Garden and is littered in her songs.
• Ax-Crazy: The resurrected virus-infected Miku in "Hyper∞LATiON".
• Bittersweet Ending: The end of the "Star Girl" series. Stella finally returns to the form of Lambda and reunites with Rho, finishing their quest to liberate everyone stuck in her illusions. However, all of the girls from the previous songs are still dead.
• BSoD Song: You could say that this is a specialty of his. "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" of course is his most famous.
• Body Horror:
  • The creation of Append is described as some unholy mix of rape and vivisection.
  • The PV artwork for the Cinematic Edit of Disappearance, which features a lovely shot of Miku's severed robotic arm.
  • Not to mention the album artwork for "Hyper∞LATiON", which shows Miku's body full of holes.
• Butt-Monkey: Len has it rough in ''Magical Kitty Len Len" and his "Bousou" parody. His producer is a pervert, he keeps getting stuck in lewd and embarrassing clothing, and when he gets to sing it's either about said embarrassment or being forced to sing lewd things.
• Call-Back: If you listen closely after the first chorus of "Adventurous Girl", you can hear the melody from "Demise of Hatsune Miku". Considering what happens to Miku in "Demise", this is foreshadowing Adventurous Girl's death from her illness.
• Came Back Wrong: Miku in "Hyper∞LATiON" isn't quite the same anymore...
• The Cameo: "Runaway Boy and the Lost Girl" features short cameos by the Fantastic Garden writer, Rin and Len from "Ateliesta", the girl from "R-18", and Lucy from "Capsule".
  • In "Dystopia Rock Hero" and "Escape From Dystopia", an emblem for the Sadistic Music Factory can be seen.
  • The thrown-away chibi Miku from the album illustration of "The Demise of Hatsune Miku" can be seen in the piles of junk in "The Childish Girl and the Adult World".
  • The gym leader Miku in "Battle! Hatsune Miku" has a great resemblance to her "Infinity" form/module from the Disappearance series.
• Canon Welding: The Fantastic Garden is mentioned in "Hyper∞LATiON", implying it's where Miku went after her death in "Disappearance". Also, the writer in Fantastic Garden, who originally had a cameo in "Runaway Boy", turns out to be another real resident of Stella. Stella herself was the singer of a one-shot song, but then popped up again in the Star Girl series as one of the masterminds behind it.
• Chekhov's Gunman: The protagonist of "The Reincarnated Girl and the Reincarnated Boy" shows up again in "The A.I. Girl and her Deep-Sea Heart", where she is not only revealed to be the same person as Rho, but also ends up liberating Stella and everyone who was stuck in her town, succeeding where Dr. Realist always failed.
• Concept Album: Most of his albums are these, serving as compilations of his story-based songs.
• Creator Cameo: cosMo himself voices Gonbuto in "Magical Kitty Len Len".
• Creator Thumbprint: His thumbprint is making Vocaloids sing VERY fast, and in his more recent songs, bunnies.
  • He's also known for the reoccurring theme of him deconstructing the concept of Vocaloid characters in themselves.
  • His earlier songs had a thumbprint of sporting a hexagon-patterned background with the illustration. They show up in his collaborations with fellow producers Owata-P and Deadball-P as a mark of his participation. This got discarded after the creation of the Star Girl series.
• Crossover: He was a participant in the 2023-2024 Vocaloid/Pokemon collab Project Voltage. In his song, "Battle! Hatsune Miku", a gym leader Miku is nearly unbeatable, until she goes toe-to-toe with another Miku who is still a young Pokemon trainer. The main leitmotif of this song is various battle themes from the Pokemon franchise, sped up to match his signature style of creating incredibly fast songs.
• Darker and Edgier: The Cinematic Version of "The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" created for Taiko no Tatsujin is much darker than its original version, taking a more horror-themed interpretation of Miku's deletion.
  • "ΘΘ Capsule for when you wanna die ΘΘ" is a remake of "Capsule" that in contrast to the original, has the protagonist be aware of the suicidal connotations that the capsule gives and still choose to go through with it out of her hatred for the world. In the end it turns out to be a placebo, but she still ends up taking her own life.
• Death by Cameo: Lucy's cameo in "Runaway Boy and Lost Girl". She's shown sitting on top of a skyscraper - she's so enamored by her drug-induced hallucinations that she falls off.
• Downer Ending: Doesn't the last few seconds of Adventurous Girl and the Miniature Garden Game" sound familiar? That's right. It's her own electro-cardiogram. "The AI Girl and Her Deep-Sea Heart" confirms her death, as Miku sings about not being able to think while dying while an image of the character lying still in the hospital gown she wore at the end of "Adventurous Girl's" PV appears on screen.
• Driven to Suicide: The end of a number of Star Girl songs.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: In spite of everything up to that point, Miku finally gets hers in "The Intense Singing of Hatsune Miku" and "Infinity" endings of the Disappearance series, finally coming to accept her fate as a Vocaloid.
• Evil Counterpart: The "Lost/Train" Girl and "Sister/Idol" Girl from the Illusion Paradise series become this to Rho and Lambda in "Monochrome Voice", attempting to brainwash the masses and getting into a fight with the pair. The song's subtitle "Anti the 'FAKE' HOLIC" makes it even more apparent.
• Final Boss:
  • The Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA games love setting cosMo songs as these. The first game kicked it off with The Disappearance of Hatsune Miku as its Final Boss. Then its sister song The Intense Voice of Hatsune Miku ejected Disappearance from its position in the second game and its Updated Re-release (and this version of the song remains one of the hardest songs in the series). F threw in the original song Sadistic.Music∞Factory as its Final Boss. F 2nd finally broke the trend by nerfing Intense Voice and setting the Final Boss to 2D Dream Fever. X then brings this back in full force with The Ultimate Medley, which is not only remixed by him, but is a Boss Rush which include all of the aforementioned tracks.
  • For UltraPlayers was one of the final round songs in the Sound Voltex II section of Konami Arcade Championship 2013. Furthermore, while the series' difficulty to that point peaked at level 15, it was one of the first two songs to have a chart rated a 16. ^note The fourth installment of Sound Voltex expanded the rating scale to 20, and For UltraPlayers became a 19. At the time, though, there was only one 20, and it still ranks up among the most difficult songs in the series.
  • And then yet again in Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage!, with "Disappearance" and "Intense Voice" taking up the spots as the hardest songs in the game at all difficulty settings in the early game. And that's saying nothing on the later songs he made that were added.
• The Gadfly: The protagonist of "R.I.P. in the Gossip Sea" is enamored by gossip, believing it to be more addictive than music.
• Gayngst: Reincarnated Girl is in love with her best friend, but she knows a relationship between them can never happen because both of them are girls, and one of them is heterosexual. Her Garden involves "resolving" this issue by Jumping the Gender Barrier, but she slowly realizes that a Gender Flip would prove her real self would never get the attention she's getting in this fake world.
• Hardcore Techno: His music has gradually shifted from fast-paced denpa to proper hardcore and speedcore in recent years, with "Yaminabe!!!!" and "Machinegun Poem Doll" in particular breaching 300 BPM and higher.
• Ironic Echo: In "Disappearance", Miku says the name "VOCALOID" as she describes her empty existence as one, seeing herself as only being only a "toy" used for singing. In "Infinity", Miku says "VOCALOID" again, this time in reference to her more positive discovery of the meaning of her existence as a medium for others to express themselves with.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Reincarnated Girl/Boy does this for Lost Girl, when she realizes that whatever relationship she has in the Garden is only her escapism.
• Laughing Mad: Miku in her horribly ressurrected form in "Hyper∞LATiON". Len also has a stint of laughing crazily while on his stress-induced road roller rampage in "Kagamine Len no Bousou".
• Last Note Nightmare: "Demise" (the album version) and "Runaway Boy and the Lost Girl".
• Lucky Charms Title: "Hyper∞LATiON", "Capsule" (which is spelled officially as the Greek letter theta), "Sadistic.Music∞Factory", "0", "∞", "ANTI THE ∞ HOLiC", and "Leap from 0→∞".
• Mind Screw: Fans are already whacking their brains out which came first: "Radio Girl and the Fantastic Garden", or the Fantastic Garden series. Or that either are just very coincidentally the same. As of the release of "Story x Teller", it looks as if Radio Girl and the Fantastic Garden girl are twins.
• Mission Control: Luka in "Rainbow Adventure NTG Remake".
• Motor Mouth: Possibly the most famous implementation of it in all of Vocaloid music, with some of his most famous songs featuring singing so impossibly fast that humans were never meant to replicate in real life. Amusingly, they aren't the fastest rap-style segments ever performed, and real people have successfully covered his songs.
• Multiple Endings: The Disappearance series has a few, splitting from "The Division → Destruction of Hatsune Miku":
  • "Demise" is the Worst End, in which Miku is abandoned by her master in the forest.
  • "Disappearance" is the Dead End, in which Miku is deleted. "Hyper∞LATiON" serves as this end's sequel, but things manage to get worse for her as she is horribly resurrected.
  • "∞" is the True End, in which Miku decided to throw away her ego to keep singing.
  • "Intense Song" is the INFiNITY Happy End—both songs involve Miku finally accepting her fate as a Vocaloid.
• Nintendo Hard: cosMo's songs has an infamous reputation for being exceptionally hard, even for rhythm game veterans. "Machine Gun Poem Doll" for Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! even came with a message from him taunting the players. He then does it again for his winning entry for the Proseka ULTIMATE contest, "Yaminabe!!!!", which has the added condition of having the note speed adjust to the song's BPM on the hardest difficulty.
• Orwellian Retcon: The 2020 Music Video of "Anti the Euphoria Holic" found on YouTube actually has a few subtle changes to the 2014 version found on NicoNico Douga. The Nun/Idol Girl and Lost/Train girl change into their "Monochrome Voice" designs halfway through the song and Kamui's line is replaced by a rant from the Nun/Idol Girl about being dealt a "Bad Ending" and wanting to rewrite history.
• Refuge in Audacity: "Capsule" is about an entire kingdom that's falling into ruin because all the adults spend their days in a drugged haze, from the perspective of a little girl who only manages to find happiness by joining them in the pill-popping action.
• Self-Deprecation: Both Miku and Len's Bousou songs have them addressing cosMo as something of a pervert with delusions of grandeur (Len even asks straight-out if he thought he was buying an eroge when he bought them!). Also, the lines of nonsense kanji that Miku screams in "Hyper∞LATiON" could also be lampooning how little sense all those high-speed lyrics tend to make.
• Shout-Out: The official art for Sadistic.Music∞Factory has Miku's eyes replaced by Project DIVA note markers.
• Split Personality : In "The Division → Destruction of Hatsune Miku", Miku's Append voicebanks are portrayed as "shadows" of the original Miku, with Sweet particularly telling her to forget everything.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome : "The Real Disappearance of Hatsune Miku" rather bluntly describes how Hatsune Miku would die in real life: she would lose her charm and be forgotten, and the world will move on to the next fun thing, much as it had done in the past.
• Take That!:
  • "Dr. Realist", meet Radio Girl. It's implied at the end of the song that her attitude towards Dr. Realist is a bad thing, however, since he's really trying to help the residents of the Fantastic Garden (in his own weird way) and she wholesale rejected him. He's more annoyed than anything after the ordeal.
  • "Real Disappearance" is this towards Vocaloid fans who only care about the Vocaloid singing the music they listen to, not the producer behind it.
• Tsundere: Rin. Also the girl in "I Can't (Mar)Read the Situation" and "Asymmetry".
• Villain Song: "Dr. Realist".
• Villainous Breakdown: Towards the end of Sadistic.Music∞Factory. The rhythm also has a breakdown to go with it.

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