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Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream (イルカの夢でさようなら, Iruka no Yume de Sayounara) is a Japanese screamer website, considered to be one of the words you shouldn't search on Google. The author of this site is actually the Vocaloid music producer “ATOLS”: he made this site when he was a teenager and was studying HTML.

When the page is opened, a girl with pink hair says "Please go ahead after killing me!" in a lovely voice. If you start clicking on her illustration, she is violently killed, and strangely she will regenerate too. The strangest thing that you can notice after killing the girl is that the blood pool has a shape of a dolphin, probably referencing the site's title.

The website was taken down due to the end of GeoCities on Japan on March 31, 2019.

Content

A sliding vertical selection of black squares will be displayed on the main page. The result of clicking one of them will be these:

(Please note the order of the first four links swapped throughout the years)

First square

A hand is displayed.

Second square

There is a comic (マンガ) of the aforementioned girl and a stuffed rabbit. The girl eventually beheads the rabbit. The rabbit farts (オナラ) and then the girl screams that he is not her friend, and beheads him. If the user keeps clicking, some abstract art drawn in black ink shows up.

Third square

A low quality animation of the girl with red irises talking with no sound. Clicking on the animation leads to another similar animation of the girl moving her mouth more aggressively and with mostly black eyes. A strange quiet sound loops in the background.

Fourth square

A rapidly flashing square with loud music.

Fifth square

Now, more things to click on. This page seems to mostly contain links to listen to the site owner’s experimental (or deliberately bad) music. Every link contains different audio.

Here's the description of each link's audio:

  • <Behind (<背後, <Haigo): A robotic voice saying "3...2...1..." and then some strange noises will be heard. This song is called "Monaural".
  • まんこからウンコ (Manko kara Unko): A "chipmunk" voice speaking inaudibly before becoming an extremely loud growling sound.
  • I am 17 years old (私は、１７歳, Watashi wa, 17-sai): A chipmunk voice inaudibly singing with a cute robotic beat.
  • DieDieDie (死ね死ね死ね, ShineShineShine): An extremely loud offtime chiptune song with a chipmunk voice singing inaudibly. This song is called "If you listen 96 times, you will die."
  • ................................................. ......: A loud speedcore beat.
  • Medicine (お薬, Okusuri): A slow-tempo song with a voice promoting a medicine, probably the most normal audio on the site.
  • ※: A fast song accompanied by a unintelligible singing.
  • I still love you and think about you every day. (今でも君のことが好きなんだよ毎日思ってるよ。, Imademo kimi no koto ga suki nanda yo mainichi omotteru yo.): It starts with a cute voice singing "I always loved you for a long time" (君のことずっと前から好きだったの), but then it gets distorted and faster after repeating "I always always always always loved you" (ずっとずっとずっとずっと愛した) and a voice whispering "I loved you..." (愛してたのに) can be heard. After this, it will just be a ear-rape music repeating "I loved you! I always loved you" (愛してたんだよ！ずっとずっと愛してたのに) until the end.
    • The use of noni (のに) carries the implication of unexpectedness or dissatisfaction and is often used for complaint. So the literal translation of this song could be "I always loved you..." or "Even if I always loved you...", as both can represent a complaint or dissatisfaction.
  • ※: A voice singing to extremely fast music.
  • <Goodbye (<さようなら, <Sayounara): A cheerful chiptune song. Another normal audio. This song is called "Again".
  • >＊: Strange quiet sounds.
  • >Mouth (>口, >Kuchi): A loud speedcore beat.
  • <Shi (<し, <Shi): You will be redirected to a page repeating "death" (死) in Japanese, just like in the seventh square.

Sixth square

More squares here. You will only be redirected to four pages after clicking on the squares: one that displays a fast array of some random images, a bandage that says Japanese text, the page repeating "death" in Japanese, and one that will redirect you to the fourth square page, so be careful.

Seventh square

A picture of a tulip will appear. If you click on it, you will be redirected to a page with "death" (死) repeating in Japanese, and moving around the screen similar to the squares.

Eighth square

You will be redirected to a page called "rapeme.org". Despite the URL, the site is actually harmless and there are only some beautiful yet shocking illustrations by an artist called Ryuko Azuma.

Ninth square

You will be redirected to ATOLS's website.

Tenth square

Again, you will be redirected to another site called MMLAB.

Gallery

  • The picture of the girl.
    The picture of the girl.
  • The main menu page.
    The main menu page.
  • Fifth Square.
    Fifth Square.

Music

A CD vinyl for Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream found from a record store.
A high quality, cover art for Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream.

The music is meant to be deliberately loud, high-pitched, distorted, or metallic as part of the site’s ARG; this reflects the artist's style of experimental, breakcore-like music (or just say, Aphex Twin). Here is the track listing of the music with the English translations on the right:

  1. 1000BPM — 1000BPM (0:00)
  2. 2000BPM — 2000BPM (1:39)
  3. エイズ — AIDS (2:50)
  4. モノラル — Monaural (3:26)
  5. mommom～∞ — mommom～∞ (4:05)
  6. cfc.12 — cfc.12 (5:06)
  7. エブリシング It's You ~君に思いを ~ — Everything It's You ~Thoughts for You~ (7:34)
  8. アイラブラブラブスキスキスキスキ！ — I Love Love Love Love Like Like Like Like! (9:23)
  9. こめつぶ大事 — Rice Grains are Important (11:11)
  10. GB — GB (13:17)
  11. 私を殺してから先に進んでね。 — Kill Me Before You Move On. (15:10)
  12. MY SONG — MY SONG (15:45)
  13. たわし — Scrubbing Brush (17:36)
  14. ニワトリ たまご生まれたよ — Chicken, An Egg Was Born (19:18)
  15. 赤の8号 — Red No. 8 (21:21)
  16. 放課後の校庭 — Schoolyard After School (23:05)
  17. プレゼント — Present (23:46)
  18. I Love Rock You 愛 LIVE — I Love Rock You Love LIVE (25:04)
  19. ゆったり さようなら..... — Slowly, Goodbye..... (27:24)
  20. 今この山頂に永遠に響け！ — Echo Forever on This Mountain Top Now! (29:01)
  21. 〇カ〇ュウ現象 — Pkahu Phenomenon (32:02)
  22. クレイジークレイジーマザーファッカー — Crazy Crazy Motherfucker (32:36)
  23. 光化学スモッグ — Photochemical Smog (34:03)
  24. 愛してるんだよ君のこと........ — I Love You, You Know........ (35:09)
  25. 96回聞くと死ぬ。 — You Die if You Listen 96 Times. (35:46)
  26. 寒雲 — Cold Clouds (36:55)
  27. ファンタジー ～愛と冒険の彼方に希望を求めて～ — Fantasy ~Seeking Hope Beyond Love and Adventure~ (39:42)
  28. 快楽青空自殺 — Pleasure Blue Sky Suicide (41:58)
  29. MissingDay — MissingDay (42:43)

Soundtrack

With due respect, try lowering your volume down at the start of this album.

Sequel

A sequel album, titled Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream...2 (イルカの夢でさようなら...2), was released on Spotify and across different streaming services on December 13th, 2023.[1] The music stays within that same signature sound found throughout the first album. The following track listing for the album:

  1. 君が愛してくれるなら　何処までもキックをロールし続けるよ。 — If You Love Me, I'll Keep Rolling the Kick Forever (0:00)
  2. いやぼーん — Iyaborn (1:15)
  3. 呪いの手紙は、フローラルな花の香り — The Cursed Letter has a Floral Scent (2:06)
  4. 原宿系 Ｏｰ１５７ — Harajuku-style O-157 (2:41)
  5. コンピュートピア — Computopia (4:28)
  6. DJ アマゾネス による超絶プレイ！ — Superb Play by DJ Amazones! (5:04)
  7. 死後の迷宮 — Labyrinth After Death (6:01)
  8. Again — Again (7:28)
  9. クレヨンと下敷き魔音の野望 — The Ambition of Crayon and Plastic Board Demon Sound (8:04)
  10. 電脳おはじき — Cyber Ohajiki (10:03)
  11. アビス — Abyss (11:34)
  12. ピアニカの捕食シーン — Pianica Predation Scene (13:14)
  13. 夜のアライグマ — Raccoon at Night (14:44)
  14. 昼のアライグマ — Raccoon in the Daytime (15:59)
  15. 電脳おはじき電王戦 — Cyber Ohajiki Denou-sen (18:00)
  16. ロックマン — Rockman (19:30)
  17. みどりゴミ — Green Trash (21:33)
  18. クォークくん — Quark-kun (23:05)
  19. 呪い I — Curse I (24:23)
  20. 大体戦闘シーン — Mostly Battle Scenes (25:04)
  21. なんちゃらジャックス — Something-or-other Jacks (26:24)
  22. 今まで可愛がってくれてありがとう...... — Thank You for Loving Me Until Now...... (27:24)
  23. ドリルンベース — Drill 'n' Bass (29:24)
  24. 呪い II — Curse II (30:38)
  25. オヨヨョョヨヨョョヨヨォォオ — Oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo (31:20)
  26. 放課後の音楽室 — Music Room After School (32:20)
  27. 真夏のシュワちゃん — Midsummer Arnold Schwarzenegger (34:25)
  28. 綿棒ライト — Cotton Swab Light (35:30)
  29. ＭＩＤＩで遊ぼう — Let's Play with MIDI (36:57)
  30. 卒業式 — Graduation Ceremony (38:13)
  31. ダライアスなツイン — Darius-like Twin (39:24)
  32. ブニュブニュ・イノベーション — Bunyu-Bunyu Innovation (39:57)
  33. 水面の小鳥たち II — Small Birds on the Water Surface II (41:30)
  34. 宇宙の果ての言葉 — Words from the Edge of the Universe (42:12)
  35. 初恋 — First Love (42:45)
  36. ゼリー落下 — Jelly Falling (44:06)
  37. 国民保護サイレン — Civil Protection Siren (45:22)
  38. 見知らぬ街で夢占い — Oneiromancy in a Stranger's Town (46:08)
  39. 死後の生誕 — Birth After Death (47:31)
  40. 春風 — Spring Breeze (48:41)
  41. そこへ向かうと何も無くなる。 — When You Head There, Everything Vanishes. (50:18)
  42. この世は、無い — This World Does Not Exist (53:19)

Soundtrack

Creator

ATOLS is a Japanese electronic music composer and Vocaloid producer who began experimenting with video art and animation in the early 90s. By 1995, he was self-taught in electronic music, using rhythm machines and cassette recorders to create visualized sound. In 2001, he began posting music under the name better on the Japanese indie music site muzie.co.jp (where the website often links to), participating in rock bands' tours and providing tracks to rappers.[2][3] His style are often bizarre, random and strange. As for his own work Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream, he built this site during his years as a teenager while studying about HTML.

History

AnimeComic-Cell from Yahoo! Japan GeoCities around the time the site was made.

The website for Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dream started as a site for personal use by ATOLS. It stayed under the AnimeComic-Cell section inside Yahoo! Japan GeoCities during the year 2000. It showed messages like "Stepping over the window. Sorry, I haven't shouted yet" and "Towards the time for moving!". These messages are paired with images featuring "Dolphin Girl" along with her other variations. The site included a reference to the Japanese light novel series Sister Princess ending ("Sister Princess has ended..." シスプリおわっちゃったね...) before changing in 2004 into a major alternate reality game horror website.

Media

The website was part of the list in "Words You Should Not Search" series, according to Lesathpool on October 25, 2010.[4] The earliest foreign mention of Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dreams came through an English-speaking YouTuber SomeOrdinaryGamers. After a few months, Austrian YouTuber, Luigikid Gaming uploaded his own gameplay recording to YouTube, which gained toward 142,000 views by March 2026.[5] The website was also covered in a Thai commentary involving Japanese horror websites like Red Room; it gained around 100,000 views in less than five months.[6]

References

  1. ↑ linkco.re/PNXU1c5T
  2. ↑ vocaloid.fandom.com/wiki/ATOLS
  3. ↑ https://atols.net/light/profile.html
  4. ↑ youtube.com/watch?v=5b6INOFpJTU&t=59s
  5. ↑ youtube.com/watch?v=YyqyvgrO5jg
  6. ↑ youtube.com/watch?v=8-xi4_vkl-k

Links

NOTE: The following website contains lots of screamers!

  • Current Mirror: iruka459.web.fc2.com/bettert.html
  • Archived: web.archive.org/web/20040820151857/geocities.co.jp/AnimeComic-Cell/9459/bettert.html

Music

Links

NOTE: The following website contains lots of screamers!

  • Current Mirror: iruka459.web.fc2.com/bettert.html
  • Archived: web.archive.org/web/20040820151857/geocities.co.jp/AnimeComic-Cell/9459/bettert.html

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