Hakos Baelz just dropped a full 3D music video cover of ReawakeR, teaming up with veteran utaite 超学生 (Chogakusei) on a track that’s been sitting in production for over a year and a half. For a project that ambitious, the timing tracks — this isn’t a quick cover, it’s a full-scale reproduction of one of the biggest anime themes of the last two years.

The Original: LiSA and Felix’s Solo Leveling Anthem

ReawakeR was never a small song to begin with. LiSA’s original — featuring Felix of Stray Kids — served as the opening theme for Solo Leveling Season 2: Arise from the Shadow, composed and arranged by Sawano Hiroyuki. It’s a track built on scale: soaring vocal runs, a “back in this game” defiance running through the lyrics, and a collaboration that paired one of anime’s most recognizable voices with a K-pop idol’s guest verse. Covering it means matching that scale, not just the melody.

Baelz and Chogakusei: An Unlikely Pairing That Works

That’s exactly why pairing Hakos Baelz with 超学生 (Chogakusei) makes sense on paper and in execution. Baelz has never shied away from big, technically demanding covers, and Chogakusei — a veteran utaite with over a million subscribers and a reputation for intensity — is a natural stand-in for Felix’s role in the original. Where LiSA and Felix traded English and Japanese across the verses, Baelz and Chogakusei do the same across hololive-EN and the Japanese utaite scene, which is its own kind of crossover moment.

The Production: A Year and a Half for One Music Video

The credits explain where the time went. This wasn’t a quick karaoke-track cover — it’s a full 3D production, with LMNQ handling movie production, LUMINA on direction and edit, and bu-chan overseeing the 3D supervision. Instrumental work came from アズキ (Azuki), mixed by さんかくずわり (Sankaku Zuwari), with sound production through FLAIR MASTERING WORKS and mastering by 小島康太郎 (Koutarou Kojima). That’s a full pipeline of specialists, not a bedroom cover — and it shows in the fact that this took over eighteen months to reach release.

Why This Cover Matters

A year and a half is a long time to sit on a single cover, and choosing ReawakeR specifically says something: this is a song built for two distinct voices to collide, and Baelz picking Chogakusei as her counterpart is a deliberate move, not a random collab. For hololive-EN fans who’ve watched Baelz take on increasingly ambitious vocal projects, this is the payoff of that trajectory — and for Chogakusei’s audience, it’s a rare crossover into the VTuber space done at full production value instead of a quick guest verse.

Track Credits

• Title: ReawakeR
• Vocals: Hakos Baelz & 超学生 (Chogakusei)
• Original: LiSA feat. Felix of Stray Kids
• Instrumental: アズキ (Azuki)
• Mix: さんかくずわり (Sankaku Zuwari)
• Sound Production: FLAIR MASTERING WORKS
• Mastering: 小島康太郎 (Koutarou Kojima)
• Movie Production: LMNQ
• Direction & Edit: LUMINA
• 3D Supervision: bu-chan
• Thumbnail Art: 先崎真琴 (Makoto Senzaki)

▶ Watch: Hakos Baelz x 超学生 (Chogakusei) — ReawakeR (Cover MV) on YouTube