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     Fade into the sunset
 
     I'm with you in the dark
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>ruby:</i>
+    I originally intended to touch up an old remix of the DELTARUNE main theme I had done back in 2022.
+
+    Then, the DELTARUNE Nintendo Switch 2 trailer dropped, which used [[track:deltarune-nintendo-switch-2-announce-trailer-music|an arranged version]] of the [[track:game-main-theme-piano-sketch|piano demo]]. I've always been a huge fan of the main theme demo, and a little disappointed it never made it past the demo stage, so hearing a more produced version for THE DELTARUNE release date trailer, it definitely gave me some feelings.
+
+    So, instead of including an old remix, I re-transcribed the song, including the additional strings and EarthBound piano.
+
+    (someone bug me whenever this commentary makes it onto the wiki, I can include some wips and screenshots.)
+
+    at some point, I decided to increase the tempo, add guitars, basically make it way more J-Rock-like. I really liked how it sounded so I kept working on it.<br>
+    I decided I wanted to make it a full-lenght song, and even write lyrics for it. Great ideas, but let's first try to finish a demo.
+
+    I had the full structure in my head, I knew I wanted to use the lyrics of [[track:dont-forget|Don't Forget]]. then, I knew I wanted to have cool imagery in the lyrics, some lyric concepts I wrote down in the moment made it to the final song even!
+
+    I really had a concrete vision, at the time I literally said:<br>
+    "I can't stop thinking about it, all I know is i have to make this song a reality. now I know how [[artist:toby-fox|Toby]] felt after his fever dream, but I was awake when I conjured this concept. I need to make it.........."
+
+    After Chapters 3+4 released, I did end up updating the bridge section to include the [[track:guardian-deltarune|GUARDIAN]] melody. Before, the bridge always felt like it was missing something. The overall arrangement was done, I could focus on writing guitar parts, and mixing.
+
+    I'm not a guitarist, but I tried to make it realistic, something [[artist:jun-senoue|Jun Senoue]]-like or something.
+
+    As the lyrics were slowly reaching completion (there were a lot of lines where I couldn't think of anything and they only really came together last minute lol), [[artist:jebb|Jebb]] was just like:
+
+    "Ok but consider
+    Miku for vocals.
+    Or teto."
+
+    now, I hadn't done much vocaloid or synthv stuff before, I had only played with [[artist:hatsune-miku|Miku]] a bit earlier this year, but it was the perfect suggestion. I also had been listening to some [[artist:jamie-paige|Jamie Paige]] music with my partner, specifically Constant Companions, which has [[artist:kasane-teto|Teto]] on various tracks. so, I decided I would just try it...
+
+    and it... worked!
+
+    so the last month of working on this song was me finishing the guitars, finishing the lyrics, and programming Teto.
+
+    that's awesome and everything, I am very proud of what I managed to achieve with this song. there are parts of the production I think are lacking, but considering I also had to put time into stuff like writing lyrics, I think it was a fair trade-off.
+
+    maybe some day I will make a version with live vocals, or maybe guitar or something... that'd be cool!
+
+
+    despite all this, I still didn't have a title. I just called it the "deltarune anime opening", which isn't really a satisfying title for a track with this much effort lol.
+
+    so then I saw the final art by [[artist:selan-pike|SelanPike]], which said it...
+
+    デルタルーン
+
+    it's just the Japanese name for deltarune, but that's just perfect for a hypothetical anime opening for the game, so I adopted it as track title too.
+
+    I really hope you enjoy the track! and, if you read through all this, I hope this was a neat insight into the song's creation!
+
+    PS        as the title is デルタルーン, if you want to translate or "localize" it to English... as it's just the Japanese name for the game, it's just "DELTARUNE" lol
+
+    <i>Selan Pike:</i>
+    Originally I was going to do the usual jokey UwU school anime thing, but the more I looked through inspo images, the more I wanted to base it on 90's fantasy anime. In the end, I based this image heavily on a specific manga illustration from Magic Knight Rayearth, which was a huge inspiration to me when I was a kid.
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