"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

(EDIT 2/22/22: Noticed recently that the YouTube upload for this was copyright-blocked by 4KMedia/KonamiCrossMedia–just reuploaded this to my backup Videa.hu account, if you want to watch this)

So, a while back, I’d helped Mark de Groot/JorporXx out with lyrics for a few of his upcoming covers [one of which I thought would already be out… lol], and I asked if he happened to have his vocals for Teardrop lying around.  As I’d been bored, I’ve been wanting to mash his cover with an instrumental to the TV version of the song and not the full released version, but it’d been hard to get a decent-sounding vocal rip of said TV version because of the echoes.  But since working with the DVD rips for my subbing, having access to the vob files meant I could work with cleaner audio, so I was able to work a better instrumental out.  He provided his vocals as thanks for my help, and I finally got around to trying to put it together! 

The reverb from the main vocals is still mostly around, but it still works well enough with Mark’s vocals there to obscure them a little bit (though some of the instruments in the first verse were slightly removed).  I had to speed up some of his singing to match the quicker tempo in the TV-size version of the song (and when I snuck in the official instrumental, I had to speed that up too to match the pacing of the opening), so I played it alongside the original version to pick out where to do so.

I was going to just slap the video on, but to make it look a little better I’m a perfectionist, I also thought I’d do it with a cleanly translated version of this opening based on how I translate my OP/ENs (crediting Mark and Hiltonium for singing and lyrics, respectively, in the OP Theme credits; I wanted to add a little link there but lol YouTube stopped doing annotations and there’s all this newfangled end card junk I haven’t uploaded to my YouTube in a while).  The result does look nice, and ugh, Mark’s singing is phenomenal for this.

Enjoy! And go subscribe to Mark for some more of his awesome covers!