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There's another new Marine Benefit spinoff album being released by MB's composer, Kuroha. Once fully released, it'll have over 20 tracks in game-soundtrack style, plus a written story accompanying it. As with the previous album (Servants of the Feast), I'm translating the story and related materials at this tumblr here (http://kaikeidou-backstage.tumblr.com/masterpost).
1-1. A Wide Variety of Kaikeidou Tales (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30607955)
1-2. The Goddess's Capricious Shrine Migration (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30609358)
1-3. New Land Inquiry ~ Sea of Stratagem (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30609386)
1-4. Miss Shrine Maiden of Watatsumi (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm30696755)
2-1. Kaikeidou Ibun (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31372572)
2-2. Just Who Are These Maritime Incidents For? (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31397485)
2-3. Indolent Sea Guardian ~ Lazy Siren (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31494086)
2-4. Seabed Search Party ~ Curiously Deep Field (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31502158)
2-5. Inequitable Enthalpy (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31513985)
2-6. The Kaikeidou's Tenpyō-Era Thoroughfare (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31529645)
2-7. An Unheard-of Kaifūsō ~ Oumi's Lost Page (http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm31529718)
(More to come as the release schedule progresses. Girls are now diving...)
It's A Pretty Good Music once again, if you ask me! And I like it a lot and want it to get more attention.
Now: another thing that I like about Kuroha's story albums is that they include "user participation" fourth-wall stuff. Servants of the Feast, for example, requires you to access the Extra Stage via something hidden in the accompanying story. (...Or it used to, at least, since the original setup on Kuroha's blog has been deprecated and the Extra Stage text is now publicly available. I really liked the setup, though-- it's the reason went so far as to replicate the blog-post structure in the first place-- so there's still an equivalent version on my translation blog for readers to find.)
Migration to the Conceptual Sea goes one step further: the written story will be posted on its own, but in order for the accompanying videos and music downloads to be posted, viewers have to help out the story's protagonist by providing her patron god with faith. ...In the form of views, comments and faves on Nicovideo. It's like a fun little pseudo-game with "bosses" and "spell cards" and everything. I've translated the details of it in these (http://kaikeidou-backstage.tumblr.com/post/162485854988/mcs-tale-of-sea-searching-game-explanation) two (http://kaikeidou-backstage.tumblr.com/post/162486027048/mcs-tale-of-sea-searching-status-index) blog posts.
(The 'user participation' thing is, uh, also part of why I'm making this thread despite the previous album's thread hardly getting any attention lol. I'm proselytizing!! Convert to Lord Watatsumi now and get a one-week discount on rad tunes!!)
(also, like, i get how the nicovideo faith might come across as a 'hold the music hostage in exchange for attention' sort of thing but A. honestly i can relate lol, and B. it's got fun set dressing on it!! it's like a little mini touhou game, come onnnn, play in the spaaaace)