No joke, it's Portal's 'Still Alive' in Japanese

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No joke, it's Portal's 'Still Alive' in Japanese

Posted Jun 14th 2008 12:15PM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: Fan stuff, Videos

Nearly every fanboy knows about Portal's hit song "Still Alive". A Jonathan Coulton original song performed by Aperture Science's artificial intelligence GLaDOS that has been so popular, it made its way onto Rock Band. Well, now Japanese and not so Japanese Portal fans can experience "Still Alive" a new way, translated into Japanese and sung by Hatsune Miku, a character voice that's included as part of the Vocaloid software package. What more can we say? It's "Still Alive", it's Japanese, it's odd and it's hella' entertaining.

Tags: orange-box, portal, still-alive, the-orange-box, valve

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6-14-2008 @ 12:22PM

Raul said...

AH-PA-CHA SCIENCE!

I rofl'd... this is awesome. can we get this one on rock band now?

6-14-2008 @ 12:37PM

Magic Whiskey said...

I dunno what's so funny...but it's pretty kawaii! :)

6-14-2008 @ 12:35PM

Magic Whiskey said...

I love the Hatsune Miku 'Levan Polkka' song and I still think it's cooler, but this pretty sweet too. :)

6-14-2008 @ 12:40PM

Scott said...

あのケーキはうそだよ！

6-14-2008 @ 12:48PM

DBoyFlex said...

wow. What more can I say?

6-14-2008 @ 1:11PM

Brave said...

amagad that's freaking awesome!

6-14-2008 @ 2:05PM

BananaBoat said...

Cakey wa uso da!!!!!!!

or perhaps...

Sono cakey no USO!!!!

Or something like that. I don't speak moon (more than what little moonish I was taught in Japanese 101)

6-14-2008 @ 2:05PM

Kamizar said...

This has been on my hard drive for a good 6 or 7 months...

6-14-2008 @ 2:25PM

Arno said...

Want a cookie?

6-14-2008 @ 2:12PM

zombienutz said...

That is great. "Still Alive" is awesome in every form.

6-14-2008 @ 2:25PM

Arno said...

Please, Dustin, don't say "hella" again. What are you from Cali or something... just stop, please, while you're ahead!

6-15-2008 @ 7:22PM

Dustin Burg said...

hella, hella, hella!

6-14-2008 @ 3:31PM

ZombiesRPplsToo said...

i'm sorry but "Ah-Pa-Cha Science"? Really it's like an extreme asian stereotype.

6-14-2008 @ 7:03PM

nelsonman90 said...

a pa cha (アパチャ) is converting the word into katakana...that's not stereotyping.

6-14-2008 @ 4:02PM

wtfwazthat said...

Miku Hatsune is taking over!.. I think lolz

6-14-2008 @ 4:16PM

NitroFrost said...

Well I didn't know about it so |.P

I think its awesome

6-14-2008 @ 4:55PM

Teabag said...

Hhaha this is cool! Still Alive is great!!

Maybe i can do an Hindi version (Indian). Not sure if i can sing.

6-15-2008 @ 1:07PM

NukeAssault said...

Id listen to that. =P

6-14-2008 @ 6:38PM

Lyndon said...

Now if we could combine the Japanese version of the song with the really cool video created by the VG Cats creator.

That would truly be the icing on the cake! Well if the cake wasn't a lie, though :)

http://lyndonology.blogspot.com/

6-14-2008 @ 7:25PM

gaymerxbox360 said...

Eh?!?? KAWII !!!!!!!!!1

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