Re: Japan | 日本 | WV78: Mystery internal selection
I live! Time for a bunch of haphazard catch-up, as has become a bit of a tradition in this green room lately. I've been snowed under by a lot of stuff at university, and it's not quite over yet; my apologies to all those who had lovely-looking NFs that I just couldn't get around to voting in. That said, I'll be (hopefully) done with university in a month, so I expect June onwards to be filled by long periods of nothing, and as such WV, while I search ineffectively for a job!
Anyways, Wagakki Band narrowly missed out (by only four points!) on reaching the finals. I was hoping I'd make it, as I love the song and was thrilled to see it win the NF, but... 9th ain't too bad, eh? Thanks to everyone who voted for the song, or otherwise supported it. I was going to compile a bunch of cool cover versions as a celebration if I made it, but... well, I didn't. So you get this version instead.
You brought this upon yourselves.
For WV78, I ended up deciding to just go with an internal entry, rather than sending the runner-up of the WV77 NF or something. As such, I can now reveal those NF results:
As you can see, Senbonzakura barely scraped away with a win, and - well, the rest is history. Things were super-tight around the top, though, and I felt rather guilty upon realising that my own votes in the NF had changed the winner; as the right-most column shows, the winner without my votes would've been [MENTION=9441]RainyWoods[/MENTION]' suggestion
Tonight. And in general, it feels a bit odd that my own top three ended up as the overall top three (I submitted my own votes first, but now it looks like I shuffled them around afterwards to calculate the winner I wanted! I'm innocent, officer, I swear!)
Regardless, the winner was sent, the usual NQ result was achieved, and the edition ended. As fate would have it, though, Rainy went on to win WV77 - and so, I thought, why not kill three birds with one stone and send a Rainy-styled entry* a) to repent for my sins, b) because he's hosting and it seems fun to copy his style and c) because it's a great song and I love it anyway? And so, I came upon my internally selected entry for WV78. I won't reveal anything else for now, apart from saying it's rather different to my usual style and quite a risky entry, but... look forward to it!
*In before either I've jinxed things and he hates the entry, or the mods reject it for some reason and go with my backup, which is a completely different genre and would mark the beginnings of #hipZobo.
It's only just hit me that it's thanks to you I won WorldVision... I would have taken my break and probably not have brought forward this entry which I was actually saving for around Christmas time. Yup, it's all thanks to you............
I HATE YOU! I'm having to make 70 glitter gifs when I should be focusing on Eurovision. Absolutely outrageous
Yes, your win was clearly all thanks to me. I demand that you reward me with a PQ and the glitteriest of all glitter gifs.
Best of luck Zobo! 
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My gut instinct is that Aimer will win.