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Music
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 presence as an experimental music producer. Here is the tracklisting of the music with the English translations on the right:
- 1000BPM — 1000BPM
- 2000BPM — 2000BPM
- エイズ — AIDS
- モノラル — Monaural
- mommom～∞ — mommom～∞
- cfc.12 — cfc.12
- エブリシング It's You ~君に思いを ~ — Everything It's You ~Thoughts for You~
- 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!
- こめつぶ大事 — Rice Grains are Important
- GB — GB
- 私を殺してから先に進んでね。 — Kill Me Before You Move On.
- MY SONG — MY SONG
- たわし — Scrubbing Brush
- ニワトリ たまご生まれたよ — Chicken, An Egg Was Born
- 赤の8号 — Red No. 8
- 放課後の校庭 — Schoolyard After School
- プレゼント — Present
- I Love Rock You 愛 LIVE — I Love Rock You Love LIVE
- ゆったり さようなら..... — Slowly, Goodbye.....
- 今この山頂に永遠に響け！ — Echo Forever on This Mountain Top Now!
- 〇カ〇ュウ現象 — Pkahu Phenomenon
- クレイジークレイジーマザーファッカー — Crazy Crazy Motherfucker (yes that's the title.)
- 光化学スモッグ — Photochemical Smog
- 愛してるんだよ君のこと........ — I Love You, You Know........
- 96回聞くと死ぬ。 — You Die if You Listen 96 Times.
- 寒雲 — Cold Clouds
- 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~
- 快楽青空自殺 — Pleasure Blue Sky Suicide
- MissingDay — MissingDay
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.[1][2] His style are often bizarre and strange. As for his own work Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dreams, he built this site during his years as a teenager while studying about HTML.
History
The website for Goodbye to the Dolphin's Dreams 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5]