Akuno-P

Akuno-P, aussi appelé mothy, est un compositeur et producteur utilisant le logiciel Vocaloid. Il est le créateur d'Evilious Chronicles et son succès le plus connu est L'Histoire du Mal. Il a produit plus de cinquante musiques en utilisant différents vocaloids et à écrit plus de douze light novels pour quatre différentes séries.

Histoire

Début

Intéressé par la musique depuis son plus jeune âge, les parents de mothy lui on acheté une guitare folk en milieu de scolarité et a joué de la basse pour un groupe au collège. Bien qu'il travaillait pour devenir batiste professionnel pour son groupe, celui-ci a fini par se séparer quand il avait dans la vingtaine d'années, et par la suite, il prit un travail dans les bureaux.

Pendant ce temps, il regardait des vidéos de MEIKO postées sur Nico Nico Douga. Il devient vite inspiré par l'engouement produit par la parution d'Hatsune Miku pour les personnages vocaux synthétiques en Août 2007, et est inspiré pour composer sa propre muisque sur le logiciel Vocaloid. Voyant comment Miku était beaucoup utilisée à l'époque, mothy décide d'acheter Kagamine Rin et Len en décembre 2007 et commence à expérimenter avec leurs banques de voix au début 2008.

Le Coin de Paradis

Après avoir publié ces premières chansons sur Nico Nico Douga, mothy a créé son premier majeur succès, La Fille du Mal. Bien qu'il ne gagne que peu d'attention, la chanson devint populaire après la sortie de sa suite, Le Serviteur du Mal. mothy a ensuite réalisé Regret Message, afin de créer des connections entre ses deux dernières chansons.

En Juin, le populaire producteur de Vocaloid accepte son alias "Akuno-P" dans les commentaires de fans. Il commence à poster les bases de l'histoire dans son blog "Le Coin de Paradis" (The Heavenly Yard en anglais). Pendant ce temps, il a déjà commencé à conceptualiser une histoire plus sombre et à développé l'idée d'une série au caractère plus monstrueux.

Avec la sortie de sa septième chanson, mothy commence à penser à des connections entre ses différentes musiques et histoires dans un univers commun. A la fin de l'année, son idée devient plus claire dans son esprit avec la sortie de Re_Birthday. Après avoir finalement formulé le concept, mothy a commencé à assombrir l'histoire avec Conchita, la Gloutonne Démoniaque, comme la seconde chanson de la Série des Sept Péchés Capitaux, et La Fille du Mal est attachée directement avec la nouvelle série comme étant la musique de l'"Orgeuil". Basé à partir du succès de l'Histoire du Mal, mothy a continué avec de nouvelles chansons pour ses différentes séries.

On May 17, 2009, the producer released his first album, entitled Evils Theater, that began telling another tale about the Collector who built a movie theater featuring his collectibles, led by his most beloved Clockwork Doll. The following year, mothy released two other albums, Prelude to Forest and Evils Forest, which further expanded upon the story of the theater. On July 29, 2010, following the success of The Lunacy of Duke Venomania, Akuno-P announced that The Daughter of Evil would be published as a light novel.

Revealing Evillious

After the release of The Daughter of Evil: Clôture of Yellow, mothy began promoting his next big release, Evils Kingdom, for the end of the year. Several months after the album was released in December of 2010, mothy uploaded one of its songs, Chrono Story, to Nico Nico Douga.

Having alluded to connections in the past, especially with Evils Kingdom, mothy confirmed that Chrono Story was chronologically tied to Moonlit Bear, Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night, and The Lunacy of Duke Venomania, and that the character Elluka Clockworker from Chrono Story was the same as the character seen in The Daughter of Evil light novels.

Having revealed that all his series had been connected to the same world, the Vocaloid producer uploaded a PV for another song from Evils Kingdom, Judgment of Corruption. Not long afterward, he posted Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep and Fifth Pierrot. In August 2011, mothy confirmed the release of Entr'acte of Evil: The Daughter of Evil Worldguide to elaborate on the connections between all his songs to his "Evillious" series and The Daughter of Evil. In early September, Evils Court was released and continued to elaborate on the story begun in Evils Theater and one of its new tracks, Capriccio Farce, was posted on Nico Nico Douga on October 29 of that year.

Continued Work

Finishing off his Story of Evil with The Daughter of Evil: Praefacio of Blue on March 23, 2012, mothy already announced a follow up light novel series for the Seven Deadly Sins, starting with The Lunacy of Duke Venomania. In July of that year, mothy also announced a manga related to the light novel would be released to promote the new series.

By the time Epic of Evil: The Daughter of Evil Fanbook was released in August, The Daughter of Evil series sold over 800,000 copies total.Shifting focus more to the events preceding his last novel series, mothy released his first album for the Original Sin Story in August 2012, and later released the first of his Deadly Sins of Evil series in December.

In July of 2013, mothy revealed another new novel series independent of Evillious: Torture Tower Doesn't Sleep; to promote the reveal and the series' first light novel, he posted a new song featuring VY1 to show off the three sisters of torture. The month after, Akuno-P released the second act of his Original Sin Story, followed by the light novel elaborating on the tale of his popular Evil Food Eater Conchita.

Later in December, the first guidebook for the series was released, including the short story Heavenly Yard penned by mothy; the guidebook similarly advertised the next two iterations of Deadly Sins of Evil for the summer of 2014. As part of the promotion, mothy penned a collection of short stories relating to the changing season for select purchasers of the guidebook emailed to registrants from mid-February to March, 2014. To commemorate the release of the first manga volume adapting his The Daughter of Evil novels, mothy took part in a livestream with the manga's artist, Ichika.

Seven Sins Complete

In March of 2014, mothy posted a poem on twitter entitled "Nemesis", though discrediting its importance. Later on in June, he announced that a new album would be released at Comic Market that summer with a new song in Seven Deadly Sins series, soon after confirming that he would be uploading the song for "Wrath" to Nico Nico Douga during the same season.

After the release of The Muzzle of Nemesis and its subsequent album during August, mothy published his third Deadly Sins of Evil light novel for Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep later that month. As part of the promotion, mothy penned a new short story relating to the story of the novel for its purchasers, emailed to registrants throughout December, 2014.

In mid-November, mothy announced he would have a line up of releases in each month from December until March, leading up to the release of Deadly Sins of Evil: Fifth Pierrot. On November 29, Akuno-P teased a potential announcement for a new release in mid-December. On December 12, mothy announced a new album entitled "Seven Crimes and Punishments" featuring all seven songs in his Seven Deadly Sins series to be released at the end of February, 2015. Promoting it as his second major album release since Evils Kingdom, mothy advertised a limited edition of the album including a new 160-page short story written by him.

Later on December 14, mothy took part in a livestream with artists Ichika and Tamara to promote the release of The Daughter of Evil: Act 2 and Quartets of Evil. Later on during Christmas, mothy posted a preview of the prologue for the album's limited edition story. At the start of the New Year, the song producer tweeted his plans to upload videos for one or two songs for promotion of his newest album. Akuno-P later tweeted pictures on January 28 of his "secret" recording session with Asami Shimoda, the voice provider for Kagamine Rin and Len.

Several days later, he uploaded a PV for The Portrait Glassred Drew from the album. Following the song's release, mothy tweeted confirmation that another song video would be uploaded to celebrate the seventh anniversary of his song career. On February 13, the song PV for Seven Crimes and Punishments was posted, labeled as Clockwork Lullaby 7.

Less than a week later, mothy posted another video featuring Asami Shimoda's reading of a chapter excerpt from the Seven Crimes and Punishments story, including in the album that would be made available on iTunes. After the album and limited edition story were released on February 25, natalie posted its transcribed interview with Akuno-P. During the interview, mothy confirmed he currently planned to end his Evillious series in roughly five years. The month afterward, on March 19, mothy's light novel adaptation of Fifth Pierrot was finally published.

Afterward, mothy announced he would be releasing a new light novel unrelated to Vocaloid software, titled "Unlock City", and began advertising a new song to coincide with the album. On June 13, Akuno-P tweeted he would be attending Comic Market 88 and sell a new "Original Sin Story: Complete Edition" album at the convention. He finally published Unlock City on July 3 of 2015.

During a livestream for the upcoming Deadly Sins of Evil: The Tailor of Enbizaka in December, mothy confirmed he was working on a new PV for Ma Survival. In celebration of Seven Crimes and Punishments' first anniversary, the album's limited edition story was released in e-book format with a new extra chapter. Akuno-P finally uploaded the Ma Survival PV on May 4. A month later, Akuno-P announced he would release a new album at Comic Market 90.

Inspiration and Style

Usually, mothy comes up with his ideas while doing his regular activities such as walking, eating, and bathing. He has also been inspired by video games and books he enjoys. Often, his works include elements of tragedy or macabre and commonly employ themes of escape, free will vs fate, and evil, the latter of which appears regularly in his Evillious series. He also draws upon historical and mythological figures, events, and concepts when developing his stories.

When asked about the creative process for writing the novels, mothy describes that he first writes out a rough synopsis of the plot and a list of all the characters that appear in the story, elaborating on their likes and dislikes, appearance and personality, strengths and weaknesses, even if they only play a supporting role in the overall plot. Afterwards, he develops the environment and locations as well the current history and relationships between the different countries before delving more into the city and country mainly comprising the setting.

Once the plot elements are interlaced, he rewrites a longer and more detailed synopsis, giving proper attention to which story elements he wishes to foreshadow when, and then begins dividing the events by their individual scene. If the final draft is too large, unnecessary scenes are cut to make the page allocation; the rough process is similarly employed to develop the stories for his songs.

When developing the series themselves, Akuno-P conceptualized a rough flow of the plot and how his series will play out, saying he uses a general schedule for his overall plans for his series. Despite this, mothy admits that several small and large portions of the plot were developed at the "spur of the moment" and built upon afterwards. Due to the use of the Vocaloid software in his works, mothy often ties his characters' names and certain aspects to a certain Vocaloid or related software.

Discography

Songs

• Ten Minutes of Love
• Wordplay
• Clockwork Lullaby
• The Daughter of Evil
• The Servant of Evil
• Regret Message
• Miniature Garden Girl
• Tale of Abandonment on a Moonlit Night
• South North Story
• Re_birthday
• Evil Food Eater Conchita
• Moonlit Bear
• Screws, Gears, and Pride
• Heartbeat Clocktower
• To the Reticent You
• The Tailor of Enbizaka
• The Daughter of White
• The Frog's and My Love Romance
• Full Moon Laboratory
• The Last Revolver
• Master of the Graveyard
• Wendy
• Twiright Prank
• The Lunacy of Duke Venomania
• Desert Bluebird
• Flame of Yellow Phosphorus
• Madam Merry-Go-Round
• Chrono Story
• Judgment of Corruption
• Lu Li La, Lu Li La, The Resounding Song
• Red Shoe Parade
• Recollective Musicbox
• Gift from the Princess who Brought Sleep
• Fifth Pierrot
• Master of the Court
• Tree Maiden ~Millennium Wiegenlied~
• Capriccio Farce
• The Letter She Kept Waiting For
• Flower of the Plateau
• Handbeat Clocktower
• White Brick and Black Mourning Dress
• Escape of Salmhofer the Witch
• Project 'Ma'
• Blood-Stained Switch
• Watching Us
• Torture Tower Doesn't Sleep
• Ma Survival
• Whereabouts of the Miracle
• The Muzzle of Nemesis
• Master of the Hellish Yard
• And Then the Girl Went Mad -Ending Tale on a Moonlit Night-
• The Journey of Two Mages ~Great Wall and Watchman~
• Blink
• The Portrait Glassred Drew
• Seven Crimes and Punishments
• Drug of Gold
• The Weathered Head at Onigashima
• Ending Boy Hänsel
• Unlock Black Box
• Queen of the Glass
• Barisol's Child is an Only Child
• The Song I Heard Somewhere
• HalfBlood
• A Hero's Armor is Always Crimson
• Neomaria of the Inverted Gravestone
• Swear an Oath on that Bridge
• That King was Born from Mud

Trivia

Conceptualization and Origin

• The name Akuno-P (悪ノP) is derived from his early works for Story of Evil, making his name literally mean the "Producer of Evil".
• The name mothy is an abbreviation of Master of the Heavenly Yard, shared with the character of the same name; humorously, his blog is dubbed as "The Heavenly Yard".

Curiosities

• Kagamine Rin is mothy's favorite and most used Vocaloid.
• Dans un entretien, Mothy a révélé que son personnage préféré dans la série La Fille du Mal était Mariam Phutapie parce qu'elle « ne sert strictement à rien alors qu'elle est un des Trois Héros. »

External Links

• The Heavenly Yard (blog)
• Twitter Account
• Nico Nico Douga Account (mylist)
• Youtube Account
• Piapro Account