Meto's Fanbox
Meto has a Fanbox, where she publishes blog posts, background information, and other similar content. For 300 yen (around $2 / 2€) per month, you can support her activities and gain access to all posts.
There is a new post every Friday, usually near the end of the day in Japan (so around 12:00 - 16:00 UTC). On the first Friday of every month, Meto publishes a freely available progress report, containing the schedule of planned Fanbox posts for the rest of the month. There is usually also an “idle talk” (雑談) section, containing news about past or future activities, recently finished artwork or music, or anything else Meto decides to talk about.
On other Fridays, she almost always writes about previously released music, in one of three formats:
- “Album concept”: freely available posts detailing the general concept, production process, and other details about a specific Metomate album.
- “Liner notes”: background information about a specific Metomate song. Usually contains four main sections:
- “Production process”: the story about how the song came to be, often including unused rough drafts in mp3 format.
- “Personality portrait”: personality traits of the character(s) described in the song.
- “Lyrics interpretation”: Meto's personal interpretation of the song's lyrics, stanza by stanza. (She often points out that there is no “true interpretation”; anyone else's interpretation is just as valid as her own!)
- “Musical image”: musical aspects of the song, and how the music fits together with the story told by the lyrics.
- “Hi-res audio”: remastered versions of select Metomate songs, available in high resolution (24 bit / 88.2 kHz wav), as well as CD-quality (16 bit / 44.1) and 320 kbps mp3. Also includes a short explanation of the changes made when remastering.
Note: at any particular time, only the most recent hi-res song is available for listening! If you subscribe to Meto's Fanbox now, the old hi-res posts will still be accessible but will no longer contain download links for the audio files.
- “Binaural”: binaural/stereophonic mixes of select instrumental tracks.
With these posts, she follows her discography in reverse chronological order. For each album — starting with the most recent one in mid-2021 — she first publishes an album concept post, then liner notes for all songs from the album's first tracks to the last, interspersed with hi-res posts for select songs (usually 4 per album).
This regular schedule is sometimes interrupted, like at the end of 2021/beginning of 2022, when she released several posts about her newly released original vocaloid song Mei to Mei.
Most of the posts are not freely available, so I will not translate or repost them on this site. However, I aim to translate all the album concept posts. The following is an index of all of Meto's Fanbox posts, with the ones I have translated marked as such. In addition to these, I have also translated the introduction to her Fanbox page.