u/Cuttlefishbankai

Asking this question out of curiosity at why Qianlong's cultural figure as a "Patron of the Arts" is much stronger than his reputation as an ambitious military leader, or as the head of a corrupt court in his later years. While he was (probably undoubtedly) a good emperor, the historical impression I have of similar emperors (capable emperors presiding over golden ages) are fierce, severe men ruling harshly but fairly, while Qianlong's reputation is more of an affable eccentric who liked putting his own name on artworks, engaged in witty banter with his officials and spent his free time either playing with his grandchildren or scheming of ways to arrange another Jiangnan tour.

Obviously these impressions are mostly created by folklore and novels, but is there any reason why these stories all have him as a subject/similar stories were not written about other Chinese emperors?

Haven't seen people discuss this before, but I thought it's pretty cool that there are at least 2 parts. You have the lead guitar that comes in with the C-G-C-G(8va) pattern when the vocals are at "-tte hora nigarenaiwa", but you also have the barre chords that you can actually see Mutsumi strumming in the anime during the chorus.

At the same time, there's also that short overdriven riff that ends with the high C at 2:48 of their video on youtube, that seems to be going on parallel with everything else.

Does anyone know what all this means? I'm assuming it's a hint of Mutsumi originally faking her performance and just doing the motions over a prerecorded track, but started improvising over the track when their personalities merged (this doesn't line up with the staff member pushing the volume up on her amp though...)? Or is it Saki playing something with a guitar sound effect on her synth/Umiri hiding a les paul in her ass?