Happiness Series

The Happiness Series is an exteremely popular ongoing series of songs by Utata-P (music) and Torii Hitsuji (lyrics), and illustrated by wogura.

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The songs, while having different topics, all deal with Happiness, whether it be their own, or someone else's.

They also all have the same type of thumbnail in NicoNicoDouga (shown in the pictures below).

All four songs will be featured on Utata-P's upcoming album, Minna Shiawase Ninare!.

こちら、幸福安心委員会です. (Kochira, Kōfuku Anshin Iinkaidesu. / This is the Happiness and Peace of Mind Committee)
Sung By: Hatsune Miku
 * Nico Video Broadcast
 * YouTube Broadcast (official)

The most popular song in the series, reaching over 1,000,000 views.

The song tells of "The Happiness and Peace of Mind Comittee", which focuses on making people happy. Miku appears to be the spokesperson for the Committee, forcing their citizens to pretend to smile and be happy. "Its Your Duty" is repeated throughout the song. Anyone who fails to comply is executed, you can hear roaring brainwashed crowds behind Miku. The song's tone changes dramatically at the beginning and end to sing the truth of how people feel.

The lyrics mention Undine/Ondine, a creature that is a water elemental/water nymph of Greek and German legend. In the myths they sing with beautiful voices, and seek to marry a human to gain a soul. However in some stories those who are unfaithful to an undine are cursed with death. This appears to have been the fate of the knight in the song. Miku may represent an Ondine.

This song also received a novel adaptaion, which was released on January 16th, 2013.



永遠に幸せになる方法、見つけました. (Eien ni Shiawase ni Naru Houhou, Mitsuke Mashita. / I Found it, a Way to Become Happy Forever)
Sung By: Hatsune Miku This song also became very popular, with over 900,000 views to date.
 * Nico Video Broadcast
 * YouTube Broadcast (official)

The song begins with a new bride talking of how she has found the way to the 'town of hope' where the ritual takes place, where she wishes to obtain a way to live forever. The second part of the song shows similarities with a game show, where the host says she will grant the bride's wish in what is called 'The Original Sin Game.' The bride must recite a sequence of words correctly.

It is implied that although the bride gained the power to live forever, she is unhappy with immortality, possibly caused by the groom's death. She returns to the town, repeats the ritual and wishes for eternal happiness. She is transformed into a zombie and in that way, remains serene forever.

Utata-P was inspired by voodoo to turn Miku into a Voodoo Goddess.



一途な片思い、実らせたい小さな幸せ. (Ichizu na Kataomoi, Minorasetai Chiisana Shiawase. / An Earnest Unrequited Love, Wanting to Make it Bear a Little Happiness.)
Sung By: MAYU This song, like the first two, has become popular, reaching over 200,000 views on the first day of it's release, and over 500,000 views to date.
 * Nico Video Broadcast
 * YouTube Broadcast (official)

The song is about a seemingly normal schoolgirl, starting her day and anticipating the meeting with her "beloved person". Even though she doesn't really approach them, she is happy to just see them from afar. As the girl speaks about the person she loves though, the song takes an unexpected twist and its revealed she is in fact a stalker, obsessed with her crush to the point of planning on killing everyone that gets close to them.



夢じゃない、嘘じゃない、目の前にある幸せな情景. (Yumejanai, Usojanai, Me no Mae ni Aru Shiawasena Joukei. / Not A Dream, Not a Lie, A Happy Scene Before My Eyes.)
Sung By: Hatsune Miku This song was also well received, with over 300,000 views.
 * Nico Video Broadcast
 * YouTube Broadcast (official)

It tells a tale of two twin sisters who were princess' in a kingdom. Since they looked so much alike, they liked to switch places frequently. When it came to things like archery and swordsmanship, the younger twin would switch places with the older twin, since she was better at things like calligraphy and tea ceremonies. A war was going on that had nothing to do with the twins. The younger twin was to married into a far-off family to lower the enemy's guard. The older twin takes her place, as the younger one is needed at the kingsom, since she is a warrior. The younger sister tells the older one to take their kitten with her. The battle began, and the enemy approched the family that the "younger sister" was married off into. The younger sister realizes that the older one will die unless she does something. She reached her sister and told her to run as her, taking the cat with her. The younger one takes the place of the older one. She prepares herself for death. She sees her sister, and says that she is happy in the dream

The song then takes a completely different change of pace, revealing that the older sister has become Nobunaga. She asks if it would be better if she had died, saying that it would be better if "she didn't know about any of this". It seems as though the cat she had taken with her had the spirit of Nobunaga in it, and is now channeling through her by being placed on her head. When taking the cat off she becomes her normal self. The song ends with the phrase "I like cats.".