One thing that’s been on my mind lately is the “message videos” I’ve never managed to release.
In early 2024, roughly between January and March, I recorded around eighteen message videos. I used a church sanctuary, and I didn’t just shoot video — I set up microphones and properly recorded the spoken audio as well.
Then, about a year later, in early 2025, I think I recorded one or two additional episodes. My memory isn’t completely clear. I could check the files on my disk and confirm it, but I haven’t yet.
In the end, though, I’ve only been able to publish the very first episode, the introductory one.
Because I was busy.
Well, saying I was busy might just sound like an excuse.
But the truth is, I didn’t know when or where to release something like that — content with a fairly heavy message, combining music, faith, and spiritual themes, and carrying a very personal tone.
Either way, it’s a shame that after putting real effort into filming nearly twenty message videos, only the opening one has ever seen the light of day.
Rock and roll. Freedom. Faith.
Those were the core themes of the messages.
If I remember correctly, I gave it an over-the-top title like “How to Change the World with Rock Music.”
I was planning to release it on YouTube, or as a podcast, or maybe a videocast.
For me, it’s an important message.
And given the state of the world right now, it could easily be an important message for someone else too.
So why not just put it out already?
The problem is, once you start talking about editing the video, cleaning up the audio, and adding English subtitles before publishing it, it quickly becomes a massive amount of work. With the workload and schedule of doing music as an independent artist, I simply couldn’t get around to it.
I do have the written scripts — the actual words I spoke — so part of me thinks I could just upload them to my website or blog and be done with it.
But if possible, I want to release them properly.
With care.
At the right timing.
And lately, I’ve started to feel that the right timing might be now.
Or rather, this year.
Still, realistically speaking, I don’t think I’ll be able to handle all of it on my own.
Will they end up staying unreleased forever?
I think I say some pretty good things in them, and the narration has a certain atmosphere to it. If I edited them down into shorter clips, they might even work well as Instagram or TikTok shorts.
They’re extremely earnest, almost painfully sincere messages, so there’s a good chance people would laugh at them. Some might make fun of them.
But honestly, that’s half the point.
If things go well, maybe they’ll even become legendary. (laughs)
I wish someone would lend me a hand.
With the editing.
And with getting them released.
(Originally written in Japanese. Translated by Mr.GPT.)