What is my account name, "Magical Sound Shower"?
First of all, for those of you visiting my social media page for the first time, I imagine that upon seeing the account name "Magical Sound Shower," you might have thought things like, "That's a long, wordy account name," "How do you even read that?," "What a strange account name," or "Is this a suspicious foreigner🤔?" 😊
This is a game developed by the arcade company Sega Enterprises (now Sega),
It is a motion-based arcade game called "Out Run" that began operation in September 1986, about 38 years ago from now.
As shown in the cover image, you select one of three songs by turning the dial on the in-game car radio.
①PASSING BREEZE
②SPLASH WAVE
③MAGICAL SOUND SHOWER
Yes, my account name is the name of the music from the game. 🎶
Being able to choose your favorite sound at the start was also very innovative. 😄
This is the original song, "MAGICAL SOUND SHOWER." 😌
I would be happy if you could listen to just the first 2-3 minutes.
I have posted this as a reference image.
It still gives me chills even now when I listen to it! 😭
Below is a version of "MAGICAL SOUND SHOWER" that uses a very clever light arrangement without altering the original song at all.
Please give it a listen, even if you think you might be "tricked." 😲 😌
I have also posted this as a reference image.
To those who thought, "I was tricked after all! 🤣," I apologize. 🙏🙇
While I'm sure there's some nostalgia involved, I believe it is a "god-tier game soundtrack" that still holds up perfectly well in the Reiwa era.
All three songs are masterpieces, but the one I always chose was, of course, this "MAGICAL SOUND SHOWER." ✨🌴🚗🌈🌴✨
I was even able to clear it with one coin. 🤗✨👏👏
I have no idea how much money I spent in total, though. 😅
I was in my second year of high school when I played this "Out Run" at the arcade every single day, which was also the time when my behavior, attitude, and speech were at their most rebellious.
Back then, I...
"Thought that not going to school was a major status symbol."
"Being crazy is a status"
"Living more like an outlaw is a status"
"Having a different hairstyle or uniform from others is a status"
I held such unbelievable and trivial policies. 💦
I committed numerous scandals that led to police involvement, the kind that would get you suspended or nearly expelled (if caught openly).
A follower on Note suggested, "Since the statute of limitations has passed, why don't you write about the Magical-san of those days? I'm very interested."
However, as for the charges and the details of my many misdeeds... 😅💦💦
The lyrics to Kishidan's One Night Carnival, "ph": "Anyway, I don't want to go back to school or home anymore" and the final lyrics "Let’s Get Free…"
It was exactly like that. 😅
…If I were to express it just a little, if I were walking through a crowded street, everyone would never meet my eyes and would spontaneously clear a path for me... walking with a swagger... that was the kind of appearance I had. 🫱🫣
Please forgive me with just this. 🙏😅💦
I think I was fully radiating an aura that said, "This is someone you absolutely shouldn't get involved with." 😱
In any case, I chose a song from those rough memories for my account name and have been using it since I first started using various social media. It reflects my nostalgic thoughts about the reckless "me" of those days and my trivial tales of bravery... no, even more than that, it is also an account name used with a deep sense of repentance and an unforgettable need for atonement toward my late mother, to whom I continued to cause trouble and worry through apologies and other things in various ways.
The article about my thoughts on my late mother is here.
I have also entrusted this account name with the "past that cannot be changed" and the "future that can be changed." 😌
I have those thoughts, but since everyone has come to know me as "Magical," I will continue to cast a magical 🪄🧙☄️✨🪄 on everyone's hearts as both the "Showa-era Magical who is like the me in my memories" and the "funky, playful Reiwa-era Magical who lives for his hobbies."
…It would be nice if I could become something like that. 😅💦