Glorious Day
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Project VOLTAGE 18 Types/Songs
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Glorious Day (Japanese: Glorious Day Glorious Day) is a song from Pokémon feat. Hatsune Miku Project VOLTAGE 18 Types/Songs produced by Eve.
The song and music video were released on March 9, 2024.
Lyrics
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Plot
The music video loosely tells the story of two Hatsune Mikus on their Pokémon journeys, a protagonist and a rival.[1]
The video begins with a sweeping pan over a Pokémon battle stadium, before zooming in on the protagonist Miku standing on the pitch. She strikes a pose and the camera follows her thrown Poké Ball high into the air, before the title card for the music video is shown. The title text glints several times before dissolving into a shower of sparkles, and a singing Meloetta briefly sweeps past before the scene transitions.
Rock-type Miku and Fighting-type Miku are seen relaxing with their partner Pokémon in a forested environment as Steel-type Miku meditates cross-legged in front of a waterfall between them. The camera pans over to show the protagonist gathering firewood with her Ralts as they stroll along a nearby forest path.
The scene jumps to the interior of a cave, where the rival Miku is attempting to push a large boulder alongside her Gible while Bug-type Miku and Normal-type Miku converse nearby, with Fairy-type Miku turned away fiddling with her smartphone.
The protagonist is then shown giving a lively greeting to her evidently shocked rival in the lobby of a brightly-lit building, as Electric-type Miku, Ghost-type Miku, and Poison-type Miku and their partner Pokémon are visible in the background. The camera shifts to show Ralts and Gible cheerfully greeting each other, before a series of quick cuts to the Psychic-type, Dragon-type, and Dark-type Mikus alongside their partner Pokémon on black backgrounds.
A grainy point-of-view sequence of a person ascending a darkened staircase is shown, before they reach a set of large double doors at the top opening into a bright light. Ground-type Miku is shown grabbing the arm of Flying-type Miku on a weathered stone rooftop, running and pulling her along as Rayquaza's tail is seen smashing into the ground close behind them, kicking up a massive dust cloud. The two continue running from Rayquaza and jump from the roof, falling until they are both safely picked up by their Flygon and Altaria, respectively. As the camera cuts to them flying away, revealing the stone tower to be the Sky Pillar, they breathe a sigh of relief at their escape from the Sky High Pokémon before sharing a glance and laughing raucously.
In a scene on the open water, a Skeledirge, Primarina, and Rillaboom (the former and latter stood on Let's Go! inflatable rafts) are seen cheering, before their trainers Fire-type Miku, Water-type Miku, and Grass-type Miku are seen racing using the Sharpedo Jet Poké Ride. The three girls blast past Ice-type Miku reclining and using her laptop astride her Lapras, kicking up a wake that sprays both Pokémon and trainer. Ice-type Miku calmly dries her face with a handkerchief as she sees a logo displayed on her laptop's internet browser.
The scene returns to a forest with the Fighting-type, Steel-type, and Rock-type Mikus as they all peer down at a letter extracted from a bottle, marked with the same logo from the prior scene. At the mouth of a cave, Fairy-type Miku shows a notification on her smartphone with the same logo yet again to Normal-type Miku and Bug-type Miku, before Ghost-type Miku appears on a screen in the bright building, presenting the logo to Electric-type Miku and Poison-type Miku. Finally, Psychic-type Miku is shown on a pitch with her Meloetta, as Dark-type Miku and Dragon-type Miku appear to watch her from the stands.
The protagonist Miku and her Ralts are shown walking in profile in an abstract grey space, as background stills show various moments of their Pokémon journey: her waving towards the screen alongside her Ralts, Pichu, and Rowlet; seemingly giving a battle command to her now-evolved Kirlia; and shopping in a boutique alongside her Gardevoir and Raichu (as each progressive image appears, Ralts in the foreground fades into its next evolutionary stages). Miku suddenly stops walking and sinks into a crouch, staring at the ground as Gardevoir looks on curiously.
The scene transitions back to the stadium, where spectators cheer for the protagonist standing on the pitch as a Drone Rotom films her tightening her grip on a Poké Ball. The view of the drone pans to a large jumbotron, which shows the same logo from the previous scenes before indicating an upcoming Pokémon battle between the protagonist and rival.
The rival Miku is seen preparing for the battle in a locker room before a fiery wipe transition, flashing back to a dreary, rainy scene in which she is implied to have lost a Pokémon battle to Red, who departs as she remains despondent on the ground among her scattered Poké Balls. The protagonist appears and extends a friendly hand to help the other girl up, and the two are overlain in silhouette as they recall their first meeting as children, followed by their various meetings during their Pokémon journeys: the protagonist gifting the rival a hair ribbon, the two meeting in passing in the bright building, the two camping together in the wilderness, and the protagonist watching the rival from the stands of a stadium; finally, the two girls as children are shown napping in a playroom lit by the afternoon sun as their silhouettes from the rainy scene sweep past the camera, transitioning back to the stadium in the present where both are standing ready on the pitch.
The protagonist commands an attack from her Gardevoir, and it manifests a ball of green energy before firing it in the direction of Garchomp. The rival commands a counter, and Garchomp manifests pillars of earth to block the attack, kicking up a huge cloud of dust over the battlefield. Garchomp bursts out of the dust cloud at high speed before transitioning into a spinning tackle in Gardevoir's direction, and the latter prepares a retaliatory blast of pink energy as the scene fades to white.
The camera pans across the Project VOLTAGE logo in a closeup and zooms out to show it ringed by a collage of art of all 18 typed Hatsune Mikus, before a fade transition into a view from what appears to be the window of a Pokémon research lab, then showing a view of three Poké Balls resting in a receptacle; a hand slowly fades into view resting on the middle Poké Ball. A series of quick cuts shows the typed Mikus in their prior mentioned groups once again, before the video ends on a still of the protagonist and rival conversing and walking alongside the pre-evolved forms of their partner Pokémon.
Characters
Humans
- Hatsune Miku (protagonist)
- Hatsune Miku (rival)
- Hatsune Miku (all typed variants)
- Red (cameo)
Pokémon
- Meloetta (Aria Form)
- Aurorus
- Jirachi
- Sirfetch'd
- Ralts
- Kirlia
- Gardevoir
- Gible
- Gabite
- Garchomp
- Kricketune
- Chatot
- Jigglypuff
- Rotom
- Mismagius
- Toxtricity (Amped Form)
- Miraidon
- Obstagoon
- Rayquaza
- Flygon
- Altaria
- Skeledirge
- Primarina
- Rillaboom
- Sharpedo (multiple; Ride Pokémon)
- Lapras
- Pichu
- Raichu
- Rowlet
- Decidueye (cameo)
- Charizard (cameo)
- Glimmet
- Glimmora (cameo)
- Larvesta
- Volcarona (cameo)
- Quaxly
- Quaquaval (cameo)
- Metagross
- Milotic
- Haxorus
- Dragonite
- Swablu
- Trapinch
Video
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Staff
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| Director/Storyboard/Unit Director 監督・コンテ・演出 |
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| Animators アニメーター |
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| In-Between Animators 動画 |
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| Finishing Animators 仕上げ |
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| Background Artist 美術 |
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| Design デザイン |
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| Motion Graphics モーショングラフィックス |
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| Photography 撮影 |
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| Editing 編集 |
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| Production Assistants 制作進行 |
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| Producer プロデューサー |
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| Animation Production アニメーションプロダクション |
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Gallery
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| Hatsune Miku concept art by LOOM/Zhibujiloom[1] | |
Trivia
- This song was released on Miku Day.
- This song includes several references to Champion battle themes from the core series games, including The Battle at the Summit!, Battle! (Champion Iris), Battle! (Steven), and Decisive Battle! (Champion Leon), as well as Battle! (Champion) from Pokémon X and Y, Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, and Pokémon Diamond and Pearl.
- An arrangement of Battle! (Gym Leader—Kanto Version) can also briefly be heard.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://x.com/Zhibujiloom/status/1766401732488339487 Tweet by the music video's character designer LOOM
Related articles
Project VOLTAGE 18 Types/Songs Volt Tackle • Electricity Forecast • What Kind of Future • The Pokémon Inside My Heart • Battle! (Hatsune Miku) • Fly With You • I GOT YOU! • JUVENILE • Volt Tackle (Jewel Remix) • I'm a Ghost Type • GO! Team BIDOOF • Awoo • Encounter • Eon Ticket • PARTY ROCK ETERNITY • Journey's Prequels, Journey's Traces • Psychic Psychic • MELLOMELLOID • Glorious Day • After Epochs • Champion • Electricity Forecast (bachibachi Remix) • Journey's Prequels, Journey's Traces (tabitabi Remix)
Project VOLTAGE High ↑ EVOLVE EVOLVE EVOLVE • Facade Question • OOPÁRTS • Heart-Pounding! • Departure Song • Spiral Melodies • Crossroad • Facade Question (Yuri Kuriyama Remix)
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