Lily Starts a Band

**Lily Starts a Band** is the forty-first installment in *Silylily - The Story*.

## Summary

Lily asks Gumi how to become famous, but Gumi has difficulty answering and tells Lily to ask Luka. Lily visits Luka, who is training a band called Leo/need, and is inspired to create her own band. Lily convinces Cocorobo and kokone to join it, but since none of them know how to play instruments, they visit Luna to ask her to teach them. At her house, the group finds Luna eating honeydew, a stimulant that mellows the consumer out. This inspires Lily to write a song about honeydew as Luna teaches her to play lead guitar, Cocorobo to play bass, and kokone to play the drums.

Sometime in the future, Lily's band "Enlightenment" is assisted backstage by their roadie Sonika before performing their first major concert. Before they start, Lily announces they will be performing a genre of music called "vocagrunge." Their concert is met with glowing praise and news reporter Anri Rune credits it with killing every other vocaloid genre. In an interview with Ueki-loid, Lily is called "bigger than Hatsune Miku." Podcasters YOHIOloid and ARSLOID call vocagrunge the biggest rebellion against popular vocaloids they have ever seen.

In the "Famous Vocaloid Club," flower, Fukase, and Kagamine Len see a recording of an Enlightenment concert. They decide to create their own vocagrunge band, Diamond Jelly, and quickly outsell Enlightenment. Diamond Jelly becomes the biggest band in the world and flower is credited as being "bigger than Lily from anim.o.v.e." Infuriated by already famous vocaloids stealing their genre, Lily goes to vent to Luna. To calm herself down, she asks Luna for honeydew. The two become inebriated on the substance and Lily eventually blacks out. When she wakes up, she is in Gumi's arms, the latter having rescued her from trying to walk on water. Lily vents to Gumi about her situation, but Gumi explains that all things grow without their creator, but that does not erase the creator's influence on the world. These words get through to Lily and she decides to continue performing without despair.

The next day, Lily greets flower, but finds out Diamond Jelly has split up. flower cites vocagrunge as being outdated and tells Lily to get with the times. Lily returns to kokone and Cocorobo to declare that they have become the definitive vocagrunge band. Elsewhere, a hooded figure speaks to their minions Namine Ritsu, SpongeBob SquarePants, Scourge, and a second hooded figure. They instruct the second hooded figure to go after Lily, claiming they will strike her where it hurts while observing a photo of Lily with Cocorobo and kokone.

## Characters

* Lily from anim.o.v.e
* Gumi
* Megurine Luka
* Hoshino Ichika *(Debut)*
* Hinomori Shiho *(Debut)*
* Mochizuki Honami *(Debut)*
* Tenma Saki *(Debut)*
* kokone
* Cocorobo
* Luna
* Sonika
* Anri Rune
* Hiyama Kiyoteru *(Mentioned)*
* Namine Ritsu
* Ueki-loid
* Hatsune Miku *(Mentioned)*
* YOHIOloid *(Debut)*
* ARSLOID *(Debut)*
* flower
* Fukase
* Kagamine Len
* Hooded Figure
* Hooded Figure #2
* Scourge
* SpongeBob SquarePants

## Trivia

* During Anri Rune's news report, a bulletin reads "Song criticizes Kiyoteru's teaching methods." This is possibly a reference to "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" by Pink Floyd, as well as a reference to an ongoing meme on silylilyanimove about Kiyoteru being a terrible teacher.
	+ Another bulletin reads "'Who am I?' asks red UTAU," referring to Namine Ritsu's amnesia.
* The band "Enlightenment" is a parody of Nirvana and "Diamond Jelly" is a parody of Pearl Jam.
* This marks the first appearance of Lily's "grunge" outfit.
* While Lily and Luna are taking honeydew, Luna can be seen holding Pink Floyd's *The Dark Side of the Moon*.