Shiina Ringo easter eggs
 

There apparently is a list of hidden messages, easter eggs that Shiina Ringo has incorporated in her songs. Does anybody have this list, or know any of them?

I just know of one where if you run Honnou through a spectrum analyzer, there's an "XXX" during the transisiton between the second chorus and second verse.

Hm... maybe she threw her birthdate into one of them also. Like she did in her Mayonaka eye.

I'm getting a feeling she's trying to hint her birthday hard. Probably to someone who keeps forgetting it.

really? Any tips on how to reproduce it? Tried using winamp and couldn't really see any. I could see a very rough one but didn't think that was intentional... EDIT: And i think you mean oscilloscope. Spectrum analyzer is the one with bars isn't it?

what do you mean by "xxx"?

^ The visualizer thing translates the notes played as "XXX" during that part.

really? screenshot or something, i gotta see that.

Yea if someone could get a screenshot of that, it would be awesome :)

I tried to take a screenshot of it using Windows built-in screenshot thingy, but it doesn't capture it apparently.

You have to use the Nullsoft Tiny Fullscreen plugin, and set it to "Spectrum Analyzer + Voiceprint" (it's the voiceprint you want.. you can also use "Sexy Scrolling Voiceprint").

The X's start at about 1:53, just after the second chorus. There's actually 4 of them.

Windows' screenshot thing does work, but it reduces the amount of colors you can see, so the screenshot looks really horrible. I circled the X's; they're hard to see here, but they're a lot more pronounced when you see it via the voiceprint.

If you look closely, you can also see the Virgin Mary. Staring at the vision long enough will cure leprosy.

LOL.

Anyway, that is pretty cool, I'd love to see the actual thing though :(

That is really cool. I wonder what the significance of X's is? Why not actually put a text message in there?

*easter egg* XXX means naughty bits. */easter egg*

And is the sound affected by this easter egg? I don't understand how the spectrum analyizer generates it's images or what they represent... but I would guess that the sound would be affected by this little egg, right?

It would affect the sound, but not very much if the sound is subtle enough.

The voiceprint is basically a graph plot of all the frequencies found in the song. The brighter areas means there's more of that frequency.

I think the XXX is in reference to the PV for the song. It's during that verse where you see a little XXX action going on. (:

How many songs did you run through the spectrum thing before finding out about the XXX?

I didn't see any XXX >_<

Ringo expressing her secret love for Vin diesel/Ice Cube? Seriously though, can SR really come up with something like this? or some techno wizard lvl70 at Toshiba thought it would be cool?

It's probably quite easy as long as it's not done in an analogue way. I'd like to see that.

Cool easter egg! i took some photos of it in audition.. (for those who dont have it)
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/835/honnouxxx3ki7.png (with arrows)
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3...nouxxx2fq0.png
it does affect the sound, since "the sound of the x" needs to be louder than the rest of the sounds to show up and "stand out" on the spectrum.
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0pers5

Got it in Cool Edit too:

Whoa, that's too crazy to be a coincidence, right?? @_@ I also wonder if she intended that herself.

*looks for more Easter eggs*

^I think its safe to say yes, it was very intentional.

^ Again is this something too technical for our SR? Could she possibly woke up one day and thought "I'm gonna write something in spectrum..."? Or is this a pretty simple and common thing to do?

^ It's not like Shiina was the only person in the studio. She maybe saw someone looking at that kinda thing and asked an engineer "Ooh, can we get it to show something neat during the song?"

Or maybe Ringo isn't part of it. Could be a joke by Kameda, or just some random guy and Ringo doesn't know of it to date.

^If its a joke by Kameda, it would've been "I <333333 Hirai!!111!!>

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I think it's possible for Shiina to do this; some things look a lot harder than it is. I haven't done it myself, but I would just think she would just have to take a sample that would blend in the background very nicely, and gradually shift the tone up. Then take the same sample, and gradually shift the tone down for the same amount of time. Lastly, mix the two together.

Image stenography (hiding an image within another image) is a lot more complicated involving math but is its the same concept, and I was able to do it without former expertise in image processing.

She probably was influenced to do it by someone else though..

Woww, if she really did that, I wonder how many other songs she did it in, too! >_< Ringo, you're so wonderful!! <3

Muahhaha, the Kameda/Ken jokes never get old. XDD

How did those start? I don't think I was posting in the Ringo Jihen forums when Kameda fell in love.

Everyone knows Ken is gay and that Kameda has a firm ass, so it goes without saying.

Here are a few cool thing. The end of ringo catalouge, when you run the thing backwards, the end is the starting of ichijiku no hana and at a certain part, when it's backwards you hear a guitar part from meisai. When on cool edit pro, taking out the vocals on ringo catalouge will also reveal the start of tsumiki asobi in the part they play stuff from muzai moraiturium. Taking out the vocals will help reveal things a bit, and in the same song ringo catalouge part of the ksk vesion of stem is present with vocal cut.

Aww cool, you use cool edit pro too? then if you know what to do try my easter eggs out.

And around that part in the song starts these odd noises like the ones in the start of thew ksk version of ishiki, so maybe it's the same for ishiki.

Morse codes..? :P

I found these odd noises on the second half of Doppelganger too

this thread is so funny, i burst out laughing at school read about this virgin mary and leporsy stuff. in the first pic i barely see it but the 2nd pic is cool.
i think shiina knows about it but then again maybe not, i wanna see some more stuff in other songs. find a 666 lol.

this is in Shuukyou XDDDDDDDDDDDDD

is it really? :blink:

not really
it's just that Shuukyou means religion XD

:P oh i see, i need to read the translations..i mean i do but i just forget them afterwards >_<

XD
the truth is that I read poltergeist, sakana and more songs that I couldn't remember anything right after read it

Can someone recap this thread for me?

4 pages and we've only got 1 (one) "easter egg" on record (the "XXX" thing)?!?!?

Where are the Ringo Catalog wonks? The music video detectives? The "symmetry" hounds?

We're not trying, friends!

Okay. The ringo catalog parts: The first one with tsumiki asobi is at the section with mm after the first vocal part. The one with the guitar part is at the bit where ksk and some parts of ss are playing. And the ichijiku no hana part is at the complete end of the song. Playing it backwards makes the inh part first.

The XXX honnou thing is when you do something to the song and some notes show as xxx around the part with the xxx action in the video.

Is that better?:)

track 8 of heisei fuzoku(meisai)
listen to it loudly(i was in the car)
fast forward to 3.30 and listen...it's the strings
at exactly 3.33 you will hear a voice. when i noticed this, i was going thru an intersection and thought i had heard another car, then i replayed it a few times...thinking maybe just feedback, but it's clearly a voice. take a gander and see if anyone can figure anything out....maybe i'm just crazy

I'll set up my rear speakers and try again later. ; )

my friend, who may i add couldnt hear this craziness said that he'd try breaking the song down and singling it out.
also, i tried listening on my computer and i was unable to hear the noise i could hear in my car. i dont know if it's my back speakers that were picking it up or what...

I just noticed something pretty interesting while watching the Ichijiku no Hana video. I beg your pardon if this has been mentioned before, but I've never noticed it.

If you go to the part where little Ringo is standing next to her friend (when the dot on the screen finally matches up to the mole on her little face -- [3:11 - 3:24]), you'll notice a painting in the background. Now, if you skip ahead to the second time it shows the same photograph ([3:34 - 3:40]), you'll notice that, in addition to the removal of her mole, the painting has been changed. Curious!

I don't have a program that will allow me to take screencaps, but I'm sure someone will be able to take care of that (taking the screenshots, not providing me with a program to do it :p).

There was an entire thread about that video in the old forums. Maybe somene could transfer the info here?

I thought I did transfer it, but I can't think of where I put it...

What was the basic idea of the thread? Was there any explanation for the painting?

I just watched it. The painting is a different color, isn't that weird? And also I don't know if it's just me or did the woman in white on the left shift a slightly different position?

(edit) oh and also someone commented on the video ' 1:05, it looks like she is mouthing "Good boy' i noticed this too


also, in meisai during the part after the first chorus in part of it you hear an odd snapping or ripping noise, not an easter egg but an odd noise

The painting got changed to Ringohime in her nurse outfit! I forget which version of the Ichijuku PV it is, I think the broadcast one, but almost all of the PV is flipped like it was in a mirror.

I loved that vid, it was so creepy. (Everyone at the time quickly wrote it off as boring ='( )

ichijiku no hana was always my fave. it was like a big story/movie. i love it!!

What about the weird garbled messages at the end of Identity and.....I think Doppelganger? I know they're not really Easter Eggs, but does anyone know what they're about? In Identity you can hear something like "Let's see if we can predict.....what will be required of him next" in English sped up and then slowed down.
And then (I can't remember which song it was), I got really freaked out at the end where you hear something repeated over and over, like "Have....Have you....Hab". It just sounded really creepy.

^ U mean Yami ni Furu Ame?

Oh and Welcome Kishi!!

Bumping up another old thread!

I'd be surprised if no one ever played her songs backwards to see if there's anything there? Sorry I'm just into creepy stuff like backmasking, it's so cool (yet creepy)

This was mentioned some time ago (in the old forum?) but you can hear a bit of "Pink Lady's" UFO in Jazz A Go Go (in the part where she scats).

Wouldn't have noticed it if not for the Jihen Ondo Video someone posted on youtube some time ago. I'm still hoping to see it again though.

For those people interested there was a post in pariscombo (or was it Op2?) 's blog about the entire breakdown of Ringo Catalogue.

http://www.thetokyoincidents.com/arc...catalog_b.html

Ah, also there was the unresolved issue of the backmasked vocals in shiroi kobato.

Hello, Kanzaki!! :D "Ringo Catalouge" is an amazing song. *_*

Hmm, have we figured out the time reference in "Shuraba" (adult ver) yet? Or what about the faint clips during the guitar/piano interlude in the "Shuraba" PV? That song's a big easter egg itself. @_@

I'm not sure if these qualify as easter eggs or what, I just have no other thread to post this in, this being the best place to do so.

Anyone ever thought about the lyrics in 17? I think they're about ringo, or at least what she used to be. I'd be interested in seeing a breakdown of lyrics, close to that ringo catalouge thing up there (which, by the way, is a great find).

And also about Izonshou AND Kyogenshou...

Izonshou: From the title, we can kinda see what she's going for as a theme. But, who is she writing about? Is it about her? I know this sounds dumb, but I can't help but wonder.

Kyogenshou: Again, the title is the theme, I would think. Still, I have those same questions as I wrote in Izonshou.

Aisaika no Choushoku: Here, I wonder if it's about Junji. Maybe, the reason for the devorce? I dunno, it could be just a song.

Again, I don't mean to sound dumb. These are just things that are possible,perhaps, something she wants to hint to someone, a secret message, or just a coincidence. Thanks for reading.

IMO:
Izonshou is about her feelings after she and Asai Kenichi broke
Kyougenshou is about one of her relationships in the colege

and in other thread somebody said that SR said that Aisaka lyrics are a story that her create, like Kabukichou

That reminds me, could someone show me where it says that she and Kenichi went out? I want to read what she says about it. *_*

A thought just occurred to me about this season's batch of Tokyo Jihen products.

There's two CD singles.
One CD album.
One DVD.
One LP.

That's five total products. All of them except the album, have a hand holding a remote.
There is also a total of five band members (or four, if you exclude Shiina Ringo).
Therefore...
On each product cover with a hand holding a remote, it's a different band member's hand everytime...

My half-assed guess is that...
Ukigumo's hand is on the OSCA cover.
Izawa's hand is on the Killer Tune cover.
Hata's hand is on the DVD cover.
Kameda's hand is on the LP cover.

I'm not yet back home to check this in-depth, so would someone else like to confirm or deny whether I'm onto something here?

Yeah, their clothing matches up to this:


Except Hata's is the LP, and Kameda's is the DVD.

I think what would've made the most sense for Tokyo Jihen to do, would be to have a remote-holding photo on the CD instead of the LP, since there's nothing a remote can do with LPs aside from change the volume level, and that's not even a function built-in to any real turntable itself.

There's always Laser Turntables (which scan for gaps when you first put the vinyl in - then memorize the locations for an optional track skip), but then again, not everyone has tens of thousands of dollars of disposable income.

and in the live dvd???
maybe SR's hand will appear in the cover

Hmm a while ago I posted something about Shiroi Kobato...it's here.

Waxringo: ok now that you have mentioned the exact time you heard the voice, I think it's only the violin...

That plus Glath's theory would perfect it! *_* I think Hata's hand should've gone on the album since he didn't get to compose any songs. T_T

you're nuts!!! nuts i tell you!! someone speaketh....

i wish i had machines to help me...or robots. but neither are present.
dang it!

ok, i'm not sure if its an easter egg or if everybody knows it but.. stoicism lyrics are tsumi to batsu lyrics reversed...

>>Tsumi to batsu (0:52)
あ た し の な ま え を ち ゃ ん と よ ん で
a ta shi no na ma e wo chi ya n to yo n de

>>STOICISM (0:14)
で ん よ と ん ゃ ち を え ま な の し た あ
de n yo to n ya chi wo e ma na no shi ta a

------------------
>>Tsumi to batsu (0:40)
ふ お ん な ひ め い を あ い さ な い で
fu o n na hi me i wo a i sa na i de

>>STOICISM (1:06)
で い な さ い あ を い め ひ な ん お ふ
de i na sa i a wo i me hi na n o fu

Yes I think someone mentioned this before. SR likes to make palindromes, she talked about her strange hobby on a Music Station appearance or something before.

Still, you're pretty crazy to figure all that out on your own.

nah ... its just that the first time I heard Shouso STRIP I was too obsessed with STOICISM, then I searched for lyrics and... wtf? kirei? suteki? >O I WANT LYRICS PORRA! I reversed the song, removed vocals and nothing.. so one day i tried to write down the lyrics in hiragana when I noticed it made any sense in japanese o_O =O so I noticed it should be reversed and even doing that i only got the phrase "atashi no namae" ... then sometime laaaaaater I was listening to tsumi to batsu and thought: omg its that <o>!

And I believe the hand in the menu of the DVD belongs to Shiina....

I was hoping her hand to be in SPA&TREATENT DVD cover :(

maybe all their hands will be on S&T dvd cover

maybe their feet :D

It'd be awesome if they had a bunch of pictures of the band themselves from that photoshoot, I really wanted a higher quality image of the picture where they are pointing at us :(

^ I'm looking for that one too. Shiina is soooooooooooo hotttttt in that pic with her straight long hair. *drools*

oh there are pics of them from variety in the variety photobook but im not sure if those pics are from the same photoshot than the singles/analog/dvd cover or the album cover @_@

Your car... is haunted!

@Yahiko: I didn't know that about stoicism and tsumi to batsu..
Thanks a lot for that!

1. it's not a photobook, it's bandscore book, which does contain, like..err.. 4~5 pics
2. those pics aren't from that photoshoot, they're all from the "variety"-show... but in these pics I recognized Hata wearing a shirt saying "how'd you like a big wet one?" at the shoot... xDD
what a pervert =P (I wonder, what Kameda said, when he saw it.. xDD)

oh yeah its true i meant scorebook XD but i knew there was some pics there coz i read somwhere i just didnt know it was from the variety show shot :~

hey, weren't the variety scans posted before here?

the scorebook scans?

no
album scans

^ Hedo san did didn't he?

^hahah, yeah I uploaded it here:

http://forums.electricmole.net/showthread.php?t=442

I think she says "Shiina Ringo" reversed in the end of doppelganger

You mean like Ringo Shiina? Maybe she was speaking English.

no, like ognir aniihs

summon the dark looooord, OGNIR ANIIHS bwa hahaha

maybe if we chant this together all in unison together on the night of walpurgis we can resurrect the dark Mother and KSK part 2 will be ours bwa haha

http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=T3pDaeOzmpw

I think it's Shiina Ringo ( in this order ) indeed...

and well, should the name Shiina Ringo be reversed when it's translated into english? Cause Ringo is her nickname ... well i don't know ;;

^ so more like gorin naishi??

well it would be like OGNIR ANIIHS like kuro_neko said

:lol::lol::lol:
It's worth a shot I'd say... :D


also, I'm not hearing it at all.. o_O

you need special powers to do that

special powers eh?

might be shocking! ---v

these kind of special powers?

-_- yes sure

I don't hear it at all either...

OHHHHHHH gosh I listen some other songs inside doppelganger! I'll try to figure all out and then i'll put a list... identity is one of them

edit:
kabukichou no joou/remote controller/tsumiki asobi/???/???/identity/

*trying to figure out*

Yeah, I noticed that a while back. I've never been able to figure out exactly which songs are inside it though, just that I know they're from old songs.

i found an article about that in wikipedia and it says

kabuki chou/rimokon/honnou/identity/so cold

but i cant hear honnou o_O