﻿Z MAINFRAME REVIEWS
THE ROAD WE GOT WRONG:
THE MAKING OF THE DEATHLY LONELINESS ATTACKS CORRECTION

REFERENCE AND PRODUCTION GUIDE

Prepared for the companion making-of feature.

IMPORTANT EDITORIAL NOTE

This file separates:
1. Primary and official sources.
2. Strong first-party creator sources.
3. Secondary corroborating sources.
4. Production references for the five-second demonstration.
5. Claims that should NOT be overstated.

The purpose is not to prove that "most Americans" or "most Zelda fans" believed the song was official Zelda music. No reliable survey evidence supporting that prevalence claim was found.

The supported conclusion is narrower and stronger:
Hifumi created "猛独が襲う / Moudoku ga Osou" independently as a Vocaloid song. InvaderT later created a human cover. MeLay later used that cover in a Breath of the Wild fan animation. SirHamnet later created an English adaptation. The Zelda association is real fan history, but it is not the song's point of origin.


SECTION 1 — OFFICIAL VOCALOID SOURCES

1. Yamaha VOCALOID — 20 Years of VOCALOID History
Official source:
https://www.vocaloid.com/en/anniversary/history/

Use for:
- Yamaha began development of the technology around 2000.
- VOCALOID was publicly revealed in 2003 and launched commercially in 2004.
- Hatsune Miku was released in 2007 for VOCALOID2.
- Yamaha describes the rise of a culture in which large numbers of songs used VOCALOID for main vocals.
- Yamaha describes piano-roll interfaces like those used in DAW software.
- Yamaha places its public announcement of deep-learning-based VOCALOID:AI in 2019.
- VOCALOID6, released in 2022, added a newer AI-based engine while retaining the previous synthesis engine.

Why it matters:
This prevents the 2017 Hifumi production from being inaccurately explained through today's prompt-based generative-AI mental model.


2. Yamaha VOCALOID — Let's Have Fun with VOCALOID, Volume 1
Official source:
https://www.vocaloid.com/en/creator/tryvocaloid_001/

Use for:
This is the strongest official source for the five-second teaching demonstration.

Yamaha's tutorial:
- begins by looking at a musical score;
- enters a melody as notes;
- distinguishes note pitch and note length;
- then enters lyrics;
- automatically assigns lyrics to notes;
- plays the resulting synthesized vocal.

Why it matters:
This directly supports the story's simplified mental picture:
score or note data + timing + lyrics + voicebank = synthesized singing performance.

The story intentionally simplifies the technology for a general audience. This Yamaha tutorial demonstrates that the simplification is grounded in the actual workflow.


3. Yamaha VOCALOID — Voice Bank history
Official source:
https://www.vocaloid.com/en/anniversary/voicebank/

Use for:
- Hatsune Miku appears in Yamaha's official historical list of VOCALOID2 voicebanks.
- The page documents the long history and variety of Vocaloid voicebanks.

Why it matters:
Supports explaining Hatsune Miku as a vocal voice/voicebank in the technology ecosystem rather than as the human composer of Hifumi's song.


4. Yamaha VOCALOID — 20th Anniversary
Official source:
https://www.vocaloid.com/en/anniversary/

Use for:
Yamaha describes VOCALOID as a tool that became a catalyst for creators and developed into a culture around making and enjoying music.


SECTION 2 — HIFUMI AND THE ORIGINAL SONG

5. Hifumi / 一二三 — Piapro instrumental
Title: 猛独が襲う off vocal
Creator: 一二三 / Hifumi
Date: June 13, 2017
Length: approximately 4:12
URL:
https://piapro.jp/t/O5gy

Use for:
- First-party evidence close to the original publication.
- Confirms Hifumi as creator.
- Identifies the file as the off-vocal/karaoke version of "猛独が襲う."

Production note:
This is a reference source. Do not assume the audio itself is public domain or cleared for broadcast merely because it is accessible on Piapro. Follow the site's license/creator terms before using audio.


6. Original Hifumi / Hatsune Miku video
Title: 猛独が襲う／一二三 feat.初音ミク
Creator: 一二三 / Hifumi
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mgfv-kYc10

Credits associated with the original:
Music and lyrics: 一二三 / Hifumi
Vocal: 初音ミク / Hatsune Miku
Illustration: 休符 / Kyuufu
Support guitar: じゅみ / Juumi

Use for:
This is the original song/video lineage referenced by later cover artists.

Production note:
Do not use copyrighted audio in the five-second technology demonstration. The demonstration should use the public-domain melody described later in this file.


7. Apple Music Japan — Hifumi single
Title: 猛独が襲う (feat. 初音ミク) - Single
Artist: 一二三
Release date: August 28, 2017
URL:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/moudoku-ga-osou-feat-hatsune-miku-single/1272532878

Use for:
Commercial catalog corroboration of the Hifumi / Hatsune Miku release and date.


8. MusicBrainz — Hifumi release record
Title: 猛独が襲う
URL:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/51a4c4cd-0699-49bc-bdf6-4488e50f92d1

Use for:
Independent catalog corroboration of the commercial release and credits.


SECTION 3 — THE HUMAN COVER AND ZELDA BRANCH

9. InvaderT — Japanese human cover
Title: 猛独が襲う Cover / InvaderT(インベーダーT)
Published: August 3, 2017
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tTWpnpfMx4

Use for:
- Establishes InvaderT's human cover.
- The description credits and points back to Hifumi's original.
- This is the vocal performance associated with MeLay's later Breath of the Wild animation.


10. MeLay / 米雷 — creator project page
Page title: 猛独が襲う
Creator/site: MeLay / 米雷, Scissors
URL:
https://melaykh.weebly.com/2946729420123643518612358.html

Use for:
- Strong first-party evidence for the fan-made nature of the Zelda project.
- MeLay describes the project as a Zelda fan-made MAD video.
- The associated art/settings book is described as NOT an official setting book.
- MeLay states that Hifumi gave permission for the song title to be used as the book title.

Important limitation:
The private permission exchange itself was not independently retrieved. Attribute the permission statement to MeLay's page.


11. MeLay / 米雷 — Breath of the Wild fan animation
Japanese title:
【ゼルダ手書き】猛独が襲う【BotW】

English-facing title encountered by many users:
[The legend of Zelda] Deathly Loneliness [BotW]

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j78ua9fpJ70

Published:
November 2018 according to indexed metadata used in the original correction research.

Use for:
This is the critical work that creates the Zelda branch of the song's history.

Important interpretation:
The Japanese title includes "ゼルダ手書き," signaling a hand-drawn Zelda fan work to readers familiar with the convention. An English-facing title dominated by "The Legend of Zelda," "Deathly Loneliness," and "BotW" does not necessarily communicate the same fan-work convention to an unfamiliar English-speaking viewer.


12. Filmot indexed metadata for MeLay video
URL:
https://filmot.com/sidebyside/j78ua9fpJ70/en/ru/English/Russian/%E3%80%90%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%80%E6%89%8B%E6%9B%B8%E3%81%8D%E3%80%91%E7%8C%9B%E7%8B%AC%E3%81%8C%E8%A5%B2%E3%81%86%E3%80%90BotW%E3%80%91/%E7%B1%B3%E9%9B%B7

Use for:
Secondary preservation/corroboration of indexed metadata including the publication period and InvaderT association.


SECTION 4 — ENGLISH ADAPTATION

13. SirHamnet / ham — SoundCloud
Title:
Deathly Loneliness Attacks 猛独が襲う english cover by ham

Published:
March 25, 2019

URL:
https://soundcloud.com/hamxham/deathly-loneliness-strikes-english-cover-by-ham

Use for:
First-party evidence from the English cover artist. The description identifies the song as by Hifumi and links to the original.


14. SirHamnet — YouTube version
URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZyOMZaOFRc


15. SirHamnet — official/current artist link page
URL:
https://linktr.ee/sirhamnet

Use for:
Current artist identity and links to SirHamnet's work.


16. Apple Music — SirHamnet single
Title:
Deathly Loneliness Attacks - Single

Release date:
May 6, 2023

URL:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/deathly-loneliness-attacks-single/1685251113


17. Spotify — SirHamnet single
URL:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2po7ocNxg7K3Xyb6B48vLf


18. Shazam — SirHamnet track metadata
URL:
https://www.shazam.com/song/1685251114/%E7%8C%9B%E7%8B%AC%E3%81%8C%E8%A5%B2%E3%81%86

Use for:
Corroborates SirHamnet as performer and continuing composer credit to Hifumi/Hihumi on the English recording.

Copyright note:
Do not reproduce full copyrighted lyrics from this page in the feature.


SECTION 5 — ZELDA TIMELINE ANALOGY

19. Nintendo — Official Legend of Zelda history
Official source:
https://zelda.nintendo.com/about/

Use for:
Nintendo's official Zelda site presents Hyrule's history as branching paths.

The official page identifies:
- a split around the fate of the hero following Ocarina of Time;
- later Child and Adult timeline paths after Ocarina of Time.

Why it matters:
This supports the feature's Zelda timeline analogy without relying on fan-created chronology.

Important editorial note:
The feature uses the Zelda timeline only as an analogy. It does NOT claim that the song literally occupies Nintendo's fictional chronology.

Suggested TTS-friendly explanation:
"The official Zelda history is not one perfectly straight line. Around Ocarina of Time, the chronology branches into different paths. You do not need to memorize the games. The important idea is that different paths can still belong to one larger history."


SECTION 6 — FIVE-SECOND PUBLIC-DOMAIN DEMONSTRATION

20. IMSLP — Mozart, 12 Variations on "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman"
Reference:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Ah%21_vous_diraije%2C_Maman_%28Mozart%2C_Wolfgang_Amadeus%29

Use for:
Historical/public-domain score reference for the familiar melody associated in English with "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

IMSLP identifies multiple historical scores as public domain, including old editions and manuscript material.

IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT / PRODUCTION RULE:
The underlying old melody is public domain, but a modern recording can have its own copyright.

For the feature:
- create a new piano recording;
- create a new human vocal recording;
- create a new synthesized-vocal recording;
- do not lift five seconds from a commercial or YouTube recording simply because the composition is old.

The three clips should use the same short phrase so the audience hears what changes and what remains the same.

Suggested production sequence:

*** insert approximately five seconds of our own simple piano recording of the opening melody of the public-domain tune commonly known in English through Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; use only a newly created Z Mainframe Reviews recording, not a commercial recording ***

*** insert approximately five seconds of our own human vocal recording singing the same opening melody and familiar public-domain Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star words; keep the melody and timing as close as practical to the piano example ***

*** insert approximately five seconds of a newly created synthesized-vocal demonstration of the same opening Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star phrase; use legally available singing-synthesis software and a voice we have permission to use; this clip is an educational demonstration and should not imitate Hifumi's recording ***


SECTION 7 — SECONDARY CROSS-CHECKS FROM THE ORIGINAL CORRECTION

21. Hatsune Miku Wiki / atwiki
Title: 猛独が襲う
URL:
https://w.atwiki.jp/hmiku/pages/36396.html

Use for:
Japanese Vocaloid-community cross-check of credits and creator-associated description of the song's theme.


22. Vocaloid Wiki
Title:
猛独が襲う (Moudoku ga Osou)

URL:
https://vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/%E7%8C%9B%E7%8B%AC%E3%81%8C%E8%A5%B2%E3%81%86_%28Moudoku_ga_Osou%29

Use for:
Secondary cross-check for original Hatsune Miku version, credits, publication period, and later fan works.


23. Real Sound interview with Hifumi
Published:
August 2025

URL:
https://realsound.jp/2025/08/post-2135893.html

Use for:
Retrospective creator context. Hifumi discusses 2017 as an important period and names "猛独が襲う" among significant works.


24. The 'Shroom / Super Mario Wiki — Mario's Boombox
Issue 171
URL:
https://www.mariowiki.com/The_%27Shroom%3AIssue_171/Palette_Swap

Use for:
Secondary English-language discovery/corroboration source tracing the cross-cultural history. Do not use as the sole basis for major provenance claims.


25. MyGO!!!!! official cover
Title:
猛独が襲う / MyGO!!!!! cover ver.

Published:
July 16, 2022

URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrOg6rQx9wI

Use for:
Later corroborating example showing the song continuing to have a life independent of Zelda while crediting Hifumi's original.


SECTION 8 — HOW TO DESCRIBE THE TECHNOLOGY ON AIR

Recommended simplified mental model:

"Imagine a musical score. The score tells a performer what notes to sing and how long to sing them. With singing-synthesis software, the creator can enter notes and lyrics into the computer and use a voicebank to produce the singing performance. The creator can then shape that performance. For Moudoku ga Osou, Hifumi created the song and Hatsune Miku supplied the synthesized vocal voice of the original production."

Avoid:
"It's basically an AI-generated song."

Reason:
That phrase invites a modern prompt-to-song mental model and is historically misleading for a 2017 Vocaloid production. Yamaha's official history places its public deep-learning VOCALOID:AI announcement in 2019.

Useful comparison for technically experienced listeners:
"It is closer to the mental model of programming a performance in a piano-roll or MIDI-style editor, except the instrument is a synthesized singing voice and lyrics are assigned to the notes."

Important:
This is an analogy, not a complete technical specification.


SECTION 9 — WHAT THE MAKING-OF IS CORRECTING

Correct:
- The song's point of origin.
- The assumption that the Zelda association tells us where the composition began.
- The assumption that "Hifumi's original" requires an earlier Hifumi-sung human recording.
- Confusion between the romanized song title "Moudoku ga Osou" and creator/performer names.

Do NOT erase:
- MeLay's real Zelda fan interpretation.
- The real association that fans developed between the song and Breath of the Wild.
- SirHamnet's later English adaptation.
- A listener's personal memory of discovering the song through Zelda.

Core distinction:
Creation history versus experience history.

Creation history:
Hifumi -> Hatsune Miku original -> InvaderT cover -> MeLay BOTW fan animation -> SirHamnet English adaptation.

Experience history for a listener may begin:
BOTW fan animation -> "Deathly Loneliness" -> Link/Zelda association -> English adaptation -> later discovery of Hifumi's original.

Both histories contain real events.
The correction separates their starting points.


SECTION 10 — RESEARCH AND CHATGPT LESSON

The feature openly states that ChatGPT helped with much of the research.

Do not portray ChatGPT as:
- a perfect authority;
- the sole cause of the mistake;
- a secret source of hidden reasoning;
- a replacement for primary sources.

The useful lesson is observable research practice.

Questions that helped break the mistaken model:
- What is Piapro?
- What is Vocaloid?
- What role does Hatsune Miku have?
- Is "Moudoku ga Osou" a title or a person's name?
- Does Hifumi personally sing the song?
- If not, what does "Hifumi's original" mean?
- Could the individual sources be correct while our relationship between them is wrong?
- Are the sources actually independent?
- What assumptions are we importing from American popular music?

Recommended general research prompts:
- "What assumptions are we making?"
- "Could these sources all be correct while our conclusion is wrong?"
- "Explain this term as if I know nothing about it."
- "What evidence would make this interpretation wrong?"
- "Are these sources independent, or do they trace back to the same source?"

Core lesson:
Fact checking can establish that puzzle pieces are genuine. It does not automatically prove that the puzzle has been assembled correctly.


SECTION 11 — CLAIMS TO AVOID

Do not claim:
- "Most Americans think this is official Zelda music."
- "Most U.S. Zelda fans believe this is a Nintendo song."
- Any measured prevalence without survey evidence.
- That all secondary sources copied one another.
- That every fan misunderstood the origin.
- That MeLay's fan work is official Nintendo material.
- That Hifumi personally sang the original unless a reliable first-party recording is found.
- That 2017 Vocaloid production was the same thing as modern prompt-based generative AI.

Safer language:
- "The presentation makes the misunderstanding easy."
- "Some English-language fan discussion treats the song as strongly Zelda-associated."
- "A listener encountering the work through the BOTW animation could reasonably remember it as a Zelda song."
- "The Zelda association is real fan history, but not the composition's origin."


SECTION 12 — RESEARCH LIMITATIONS

1. Some original Japanese social-media posts from 2017 through 2019 are difficult to retrieve reliably today.

2. MeLay's page is strong first-party evidence for the fan project. The private permission exchange with Hifumi was not independently retrieved; attribute that statement to MeLay.

3. No reliable survey was found measuring how many U.S. listeners believed the song was official Zelda music.

4. English renderings of Japanese titles can vary. "Deathly Loneliness Attacks" is the established English title used by SirHamnet and many English references, but translation is not unique.

5. The making-of deliberately avoids reproducing copyrighted lyrics.

6. The public-domain status of an underlying composition does not automatically make a modern recording public domain. Create new demonstration recordings.

7. The Zelda timeline analogy is supported by Nintendo's official branching chronology, but the song's two "timelines" are an editorial analogy, not Nintendo canon.


SECTION 13 — ONE-SENTENCE SUMMARY

"We were not correcting the fact that Zelda became part of the song's history; we were correcting where Zelda entered that history."


SECTION 14 — COMPANION CORRECTION

The uploaded correction used as the factual guide for this making-of is:

LOST IN TRANSLATION:
HOW "DEATHLY LONELINESS ATTACKS" BECAME A ZELDA SONG THAT WAS NEVER A ZELDA SONG

Its core conclusion remains the factual backbone of this feature:

"We had the destination right in front of us. What we had wrong was the road that led there."

The making-of does not replace that correction.

The correction explains what happened.

This feature explains how the research went wrong, how the missing Vocaloid context changed the interpretation, how ChatGPT helped both reinforce and later challenge the model, and why the Zelda association remains a real part of the song's later history.
