
Pusu (クズ), formerly known as Zips (じっぷす) is a VOCALOID producer mostly known for his famous utattemita song "Asagao no Chiru Koro ni".
He started covering songs in 2014 with the first cover "Umiyuri Kaiteidan" on NND, considering as an utaite who has a nasal, cool voice and ikemen look. Despite this, he often sang songs in parody style and did some weird, sometimes perverted, live action movie for his cover, such as in his self-cover of "Pantsu Hero" . It is noted that he posts a lot of professional "one man did all" short covers on his twitter but never makes any full version from them.
In late 2015, he decided to change his name from Zips to Pusu before releasing his utattemita CD Phantasm Hero with other utaite in Comiket 89. Then, he deleted or set all his previous covers in private.
In late 2016, he made the duet unit with his fellow utaite Miyakawa-kun become officially, named Miyapusu, and has more activities under this unit in recent.
At present, his most popular cover is "Charles" which quickly gained 75k views in 10 days.
For more information on Pusu as a producer, please visit his article here on the VOCALOID wiki.
In April 2019, the closing song of Heisei Project, Heisei Sayonara Bye Bye was released. On May 23 of the same year, Pusu has expressed that he would like to retire as an utaite to focus on music production[3][4]. This which lead to the disbandment of ShakePusuTan.
A month later, on June 12, Pusu formed the new musical unit TUYU, which consists of him as the music composer and guitarist, Rei (礼衣) on the vocal, omutatsu (おむたつ) as the illustrator, AzyuN as the video maker, and miro as the pianist. Additionally, he is also an independent producer who does songwriting, arrangements, etc.
In September 2022, it was announced that Pusu would be commissioned to make a song for the game Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! feat. Hatsune Miku.[5]
Arrest and disbanding
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On May 31, 2024, Pusu was arrested[6] for the attempted murder of a teenage girl he was dating. The girl was stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife in the apartment Pusu and she shared. She was rushed to the hospital, and Pusu was subjected to an emergency arrest by law enforcement after he admitted that he "stabbed her once in the left chest with a knife." He also made a comment about the incident: "I wanted to stab her to death and then commit suicide."[7] As a result of his arrest, TUYU disbanded.[8]
On August 31, Pusu revealed that he was not prosecuted for attempted murder and instead had been forcibly hospitalized for over two months. He admitted to having extreme auditory hallucinations and paranoia and how he had been diagnosed with ADHD after a psychiatric evaluation, and that he will continue pursuing music only as a hobby.[9]
On September 30th, 2024, Pusu came back with a tweet about his girlfriend's letter and decided to continue his activities just as a hobby.
On January 1, 2025, TUYU's current management stated that Pusu has resigned from TUYU.
Information sources: Pusu and TUYU official x account
Affiliations and Collaboration Projects
- Phantasm Hero (Released on December 31, 2015)
- Connecting / Nico Link (Released on March 29, 2016)
- Summer Riot (Released on August 05, 2016)
- High End Prince (Released on December 29, 2017)
Collaboration Units
- Miyapusu with Miyakawa-kun
- ShakePusuTan with Shakemii and Stungun
List of Covered Songs
as Zips
- "Umiyuri Kaiteidan"
(Water Lily Undersea Story) -Parody- (2014.05.08) (set in private)
- "Terror"
-Parody- (2014.06.17) (set in private)
- "Migi ni Ma Girl"
(Girlving on the Right) (2015.01.15) (set in private)
- "Ai no Scenario"
(Love's Scenario) feat. his younger sister (2015.02.21) (set in private)
- "Asu no Yozora Shoukaihan"
(Night Sky Patrol of Tomorrow) (2015.05.01) (set in private)
- "Asagao ni Chizu Koro ni"
(When the Glory Morning Falls) (2015.09.12) (Deleted)
as Pusu
- "Pantsu Hero" (2015.09.02)
- "Usa Mimi Tengoku"
(Rabbit Ears Paradise) (2016.04.03)
- "Andromeda Andromeda"
feat. Pusu and Miyakawa-kun (2016.12.05)
- "Kimi no Yozora Shoukaihan"
(Your Night Sky Patrol) feat. Pusu and Miyakawa-kun (2016.12.29)
- "Charles"
(2017.02.05)
- "Romeo"
feat. Pusu and Miyakawa-kun (2017.03.19)
- "Suisei Honeymoon"
(Comet Honeymoon) (2017.04.12)
- "Handicap"
(2017.05.17)
- "Haikei Doppelganger"
(Dear Doppelganger) (2017.06.03)
- "HIBANA"
(2017.08.08)"
- "Byoumei wa Ai datta"
(The Disease Called Love) (2017.09.21)
- "Non-fantasy"
(2017.12.02)
- "Tokyo Teddy Bear" (arrange ver.) (2018.01.19) (YT only)
- "Sayonara Elegy" (Goodbye Elegy) (2018.03.04)
- "Roki"
feat. Pusu and Urata (2018.04.04)
- "Poko-Poko Tanuki to Pusu Usagi"
feat. Urata and Pusu (2018.04.07)
- "Outsider"
(2018.04.12)
- "Myoujou Gyarakutika"
(parody cover) feat. ShakePusuTan (Pusu, Shakemii, and Stungun) (2018.06.02)
- "Love so sweet" (Arashi cover) -Acoustic arrange ver.- feat. ShakePusuTan (Pusu, Shakemii, and Stungun)(2018.09.26)
- "Dareka no Shinzou ni Nareta Nara"
(2018.09.28)
- "Salmon Rabbit Electrical"
feat. ShakePusuTan (Pusu, Shakemii, and Stungun) (2018.10.03)
- "Happy Halloween"
(parody cover) feat. ShakePusuTan (Pusu, Shakemii, and Stungun) (2018.10.30)
- "Aoi Bench" -Electric arrange ver.- feat. ShakePusuTan (Pusu, Shakemii, and Stungun) (2018.10.31)
- "Bousou Tenshi 卍 Pusu Usagi"
(2018.11.08)
- "Eine Kleine" -Electric arrange ver.- feat. ShakePusuTan (Pusu, Shakemii, and Stungun) (2018.11.29)
- "Full Name Anti" (2019.02.28) (Original Song)
- "Gekokujou" (2019.05.23) (Original Song)
Discography
For Pusu compilation utattemita albums see here
Gallery
Trivia
External Links
References
- ↑ Twitter Profile
- ↑ Offical tweet regarding retirement as an Utaite
- ↑ Official statement regarding Utaite retirement
- ↑ Final utaite song announcement
- ↑ https://x.com/i/status/1573285740913786881
- ↑ https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/26514166/
- ↑ https://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/26514166/
- ↑ https://x.com/TUYU_official/status/1799380850414330008
- ↑ https://x.com/TUYU_official/status/1841465242884448408