i love how pearl and frye are directly insulting each other but marina and shiver are justr being really passive agressive

People are saying Marina isnt catching Shiver's passive aggresiveness, but i get the impression that shes fully aware of it and simply isnt giving her the reaction she wants.

Frye: "You suck. You suck and your jordans are fake and you're a loser. lmao" Pearl: "Check out my wife." *drops mic*

Shout out to Deep Cut for leaving their main lyricist behind and then challenging Squid Eminem to a diss track.

Fun fact: big man was actually supposed to have a spot here, but he kept spitting compliments instead of insults so he was eventually cut

Frye really said "Pearl your yapping levels are atrociously high"

this song becomes funnier when you keep in mind that off the hook are globally renowned pop stars, and deep cut are a really good local act. no wonder deep cut got BTFO'd lmao

For people who don't speak Southern Kindness, Marina is basically backhanding Shiver directly, everything she's saying is nearly the complete opposite unless she can tune it into an insult: • You're so kind! I love your vibe! - absolutely hates it, says it reeks • I can just learn so much from your style - "You know fashion dos and don'ts? You're a don't." • Glad you approve-Your Praise has left me moved. - "Full Disrespect, who even asked you for your opinion." • Thanks to your notes, I'll find my own groove - "Your insults have been received and placed in the trash as they belong." And to the whole Shiver saying wrap it up to Marina saying "i could do this all night", I took it as Shiver realizing she's outclassed but Marina being "nono, keep going, show me what you got.". Marina is challenging her lmao

Pearl: "Haha, no friends" Frye: *TODAY'S YAPPING LEVEL: YAPPASTROPHIC*

Pearl: *genuine insults* Frye: BRO IS WINNING THE YAPPATHON!!!!!

Weak- Shiver and Marina are being kind to each other Strong- Shiver is being passive agressive and Marina doesn't get it Reality - Marina is well aware, she's just being passive kind back

Context: Shiver has a stereotypical Kyoto personality where they use a lot back handed compliments and passive aggression. (Or at least that’s how her dialogue is written in Japanese) It’s not really working on Marina, who’s very earnest. Pretty fun dynamic there.

Translation for people who doesn’t understand Kyoto language, what shiver is saying is: “Even your fans are tired of your annoying voice” “Your style is BASIC and childish” “LEAVE. You’re wasting my time”

To the people saying that Marina isn't getting Shiver's sarcasm, please pay attention to her tone she's being JUST as sarcastic and sassy with her answers (and I love her for that, octo on octo violence)

Okay but the fact they basically wearing their concept art outfits makes me soo happy, they look soo good and I really hope to see this design at their future concerts.

I actually think Marina FULLY understands the passive aggression, she's just clearly above it and I LOVE IT

top 10 rappers Eminem is afraid to diss

Very clear evidence for Marina actually knowing what's going on and is being sarcastic, is the fact she INSTANTLY cut off shiver when she talks about it being late. Marina is legitimately going "Oh, you scared? You gonna cry? Gonna run? Come back here I ain't done with you"

I like how Nintendo was like "Ok we'll give you a translation for some of this ONLY because its a back and forth conversation....but nothing else, enjoy your jibberish chorus lol"

Marina not getting Shiver's slight passive-aggressiveness is the cherry on top to this song and I love it

OMG🎉🎉 finally🫶✨ I'm Marina's VA🐙Alice Peralta💜I'm so excited to hear this song in splatfest battle🙌🐙🤍 Good Luck guys💕🫶xoxo

1:57 I just realized what Shiver just said, “Oh, look at the time. Isn’t it getting late?” Because it’s at the two-minute mark, the song would usually cut to Now or Never during the battle, which is so clever 😊

I am Japanese. Silva is modeled after Kyoto people's personalities. People in Kyoto say this when they want their customers to go home early. "Let's eat together at my house." What it really means is "I'm busy, so please go home early."

not frye dissing pearls yapfest 😭 also, that "WAIT YOUR TURN!" was amazing BWHAHAHA

MARINA NOT UNDERSTANDING PASSIVE AGGRESSION IS SO CUTE LMAO

Marina taking the passive aggressive insult from shiver about her voice quality, refusing to acknowledge it and being nice while also copying her exact vocal cadence, and then shrugging off shiver calling her a little copycat. Incredible.

Marina 100% understands, because even if she’s not a native inklish speaker, it doesn’t matter. Shiver is LITERALLY A OCTOLING TOO 😭 I feel like ppl keep forgetting that

"where's your big buddy to help you pass the test" love the big man shout out, he really does get along with everyone

🔥 🔥 🔥 WE’RE STAYING OFF THE HOOK WITH THIS ONE!

People aren't understanding Shiver and Marina's passive aggression 😓 (or at least Marina's) Shiver is basically saying "Even your fans are tired of your horrible voice. You're a childish copycat. Leave, you're wasting my time (or alternatively, 'isn't it your bedtime?')." While Shiver is passive aggressive, Marina is shutting her down by pretending to take them as compliments. Additionally, she's being sarcastic, which is shown through the tone of singing (same tone as Shiver's) and the way the subtitles are emphasized. "You're *far* too kind. I *love* your vibe. I could learn *so much* from your style." She also says that she can go on all night long, implying that Shiver can't.

I love how they both realize Marina is Pearl's soft spot and target her. But as it turns out, the soft spot goes pretty hard herself.

the way Marina holds Pearl... what good friends

Marina: The kind mom Shiver: The passive-agressive mom Pearl & Frye: The two arguing children

I kinda feel Shiver was dissing in a VERY passive-aggressive way, but Rina was too pure to understand the subtext and just complimented her genuinely lol

It's actually kind of ironic how Shiver calls Marina's voice "haunting" because when Shivers sings she kind of has a siren like sort of voice to me personally.

frye: "I..." Pearl: "Did i say you can talk?"

Frye keeps getting interrupted? A potential tie-in to how she keeps losing the Splatfests, she's being picked on by other idol? Oh, Nintendo is making this real.

Pearl : self hype, but no diss the Rina. Frye : straight up doubting the duo's relationship. Shiver : passive aggressive gal. Marina : full on sarcastic. Ok this chemistry is great ngl.

"Octo see, Octo do." SHIVER THAT IS FRIENDLY FIRE STOP!

We can really see Pearl’s amazing lyricism in 0:38. She uses both end rhyme and internal rhyme. On the end she’s rhyming test, -less, stressed, pests and mess. For internal rhyme she does tune, too, true, two. Like that’s just so cool. And the diss is amazing, she’s basically just calling them out for being carried musically and lyrically by Big Man lmaoo

I love how this sort of mirrors Liquid Sunshine when Big Man collabed with the Squid Sisters, but now it’s Shiver and Frye collabing with Off the Hook

people are saying that marina doesn't understand shiver's passive-aggressiveness, i think the opposite. marina knows exactly what shiver means and is responding innocently to mess with her.

Shiver's "Oh my look at the time, isn't it getting late?" hits at the moment the song will swap to "Now or Never!"

All of Frye's lines are so rhythmic, all the consonants are delightful. I can't get over it

LOL Shiver is trying to backhand compliment and Marina's just like "Thank you!"

Seeing Pearl’s actual dissing skills here makes me VERY curious as to what she was saying during [REDACTED] Dudes Be [EXPUNGED] Sleepin’.

Love how Frye just went “What is mans yapping about?”

Translation for the Shiver vs Marina part: "Wow, your fans must be SO happy hearing such haunting voice!" "Thanks, not as haunting as yours though!" "How adorable! You reminded of that lil kid next door who likes to play COPYCAT!" "You got me! Looks like I have to find a better source material!" "Is that all you got?" "I still got plenty, but only if you can handle it!" Pearl: "Yeah, hit 'em babe!"

Marina are showing her ears on this one 😭❤ usually she hides them because she’s an octoling but I guess she gained confidence over time eventually

Squid Sister and Ian BGM: Yay lets have fun!! Off the Hook and Fira & Ice: I will destroy you by the end of the night

I love that even during a diss track Pearl finds an excuse to go "my wife is better than all of you btw"

Too many people think that Marina is just being nice or oblivious. If you listen to the lyrics AND the singing, you can see why this isn't true. Listen and hear that Marina's first verse uses almost the exact same notes as Shiver's. Her lyrics say "I love your vibe. I can learn so much from your style." Marina is being sarcastic and showing that she can sing something better than Shiver can. That's why Shiver then says "Octo see, octo do." She's saying Marina is just copying her and isn't original. Then in Marina's 2nd verse, she says "Thanks to your notes, I'll find my groove!" This part is multi-layered and honestly impressive. On the surface it sounds like she's genuinely thanking Shiver for the feedback and will improve. In reality, "your notes" refers to Shiver's music notes in her 2nd verse, and "my groove" refers to how Marina doesn't copy Shiver this time. She builds off what Shiver sung and shows that she does have her own skill and originality. Marina's 3rd verse is most obvious. She's saying that she can sing like this all night long, implying that Shiver cannot. This is why Pearl concludes with "Had enough yet?" It's because Marina was fighting back the whole time. This is Marina's turf! She ain't no pushover!

Absolutely hilarious to hear Frye practically yell "SHUT UP!!"

Shiver's sustained enka singing vs. Marina's powerful legato vocals, what a matchup!!

frye calling marina a groupie is insane

1:35 OMG SHE ATE WITH THOSE NOTES

Props to the Nintendo employee for translating Inklish to English for us to understand

Marina taking Shiver's disses as genuinely complements is by far the best thing in this video (aside from the jams of course)

Can't wait for the collab between Ian BGM and this new duo Fire & Ice. I think their voices would work well together.

Pearl: *Pointing out every flaw of Frye* Frye: stop yapping.

Fire & Ice? What did they do to big man!?

"check behind-she's divine, one of a kind, voice so fine, BIG mind!" not pearl dedicating a whole bar to simping for marina 😭😭😭 edit bc i dont wanna make a new comment: frye screaming "WAIT YOUR TURNNNN" is so iconic

Deep cut went from “I hate you let’s sing anarchy rainbow together” to “I will collab with you as long as I can insult you”

We all know pearls yelling “HOLD ME BACK MARINA HOLD ME BACK” in the group shot

The way Off the Hook ate them up by just snapping a finger is crazy.

In love with Marina and Shiver's part- A lot of people think Marina doesn't get that Shiver is being passive aggressive, but I don't think that's the case (she's smart, and they're literally having a rap battle). The most savage way to deflect passive aggression is by taking it as a genuine compliment. If the subtle jabs don't get under your skin, you've won. (And Marina's lines, while far sweeter, are also a bit passive aggressive: "I can learn so much from your style"? True, and softened by the fact Marina most likely genuinely likes Deep Cut - but she never said Shiver's style was better. Or even good.)

It’s really amazing how much you can learn about the characters’ personalities and even some lore just from one song! Kind of like Big Betrayal.

1:48 MY JAW DROPPED NO WAY SHE SAID THAT 😭😭😭😭😭😭

The fact that Shiver and Frye have a different band name when it's just them proves Deep Cut is a unit. Big Man is as equal as Shiver and Frye!

FRYE'S HAIRSTYLE HERE IS FIREEEEEE 🔥🔥🔥

Pearl: lmao you have negative friends Frye: OH MY GOODNESS, A YAPATHON AT THIS TIME!?

0:50 “check behind-she’s divine, one of a kind, voice so fine, BIG mind!” PEARLINA FANS ARE DEVOURING 2024

I love how they brought back some of their concept designs from the artbook for this,,, they're serving looks i must say

Lol, love how shiver and rina just complimented eachother

My favorite part about this song is how Off the Hook is schooling Fire & Ice, literally teaching them how it's done. Starting with Pearl v Frye Pearl opens slow and simply, taunting Frye into losing her temper. Frye's a great performer, but lacks presence, and Pearl is great at getting a reaction. By cutting her off, she forces Frye to be more aggressive and more vocally forward, which Pearl acquiesces to, going at Frye's pace, matching the rhythm of the song like Frye does, fishing for the Marina insult with the "where's your buddy". Then, when fry does try and take a pot-shot, Pearl uses the advantage to hype Marina up with the fastest and hardest line in the song, baiting one more insult to transition to the chorus (sung by Marina primarily) with even more hype. Pearl goes through the entire verse showcasing how Frye is out of her league, while demonstrating how to set up a killer song: play along, hype yourself up, and target you attacks specifically to get the best reaction. You come across as more confident and more competent through this. Then we get to Shiver v Marina In contrast to Pearl, Shiver starts horribly. She tries to lean into her country gimmick by passive-aggressively mocking Marina while making fun of her singing style, but does so in such a way that both sounds terrible and makes her seem less aggressive. In a rap battle. Again, terrible start. Marina takes advantage of this by keeping the vibes going and showing off at the same time, countering the passive-aggressive lines with her own, more subtle ones, all while singing the same tune in her usual, inkredible, fashion. As such, she not only sounds better, and states she can do whatever Shiver does, but better, she also retroactively has Shiver making a fool of herself, which Shiver doubles down on by telling Marina to stop copying her, as Marina had baited her to do. Marina mostly obliges, by singing a more complex and auditorially interesting line than Shiver's more by-the-beat verse, flourishing her lines with a soulful high note before a syncopated stop at the end, all while maintaining that passive aggressive style (it also functions as a "yeah, I am better at this than you are" in conjunction with the "stop copying me" line). The moment Shiver says she's heard enough, referencing the time while also mocking Marina's long-winded verses (finally using that passive aggressive style to her advantage), Marina drops the facade, sounding stronger and directly telling Shiver that she ain't done, only for Pearl to interject with a "had enough yet?" simultaneously mocking Shiver's earlier line about it getting late, playing to her attention-seeking persona and heavy boasting, and disengaging Marina, which gives the impression that Marina was holding back the whole time and was about to let loose on a Shiver. This also reframes Shiver's earlier line as her giving up. Basically, Shiver got brutalized in this battle, and only has herself to blame. Meanwhile, Marina comes across as a genius to those who get it, and adorable to those who don't. She couldn't have come out of the verse looking bad. Effectively, Off the Hook used this as both a means of maintaining their own hype, while simultaneously needling at the new kid's flaws, and following with examples of how to effectively use their own styles, plus how to effectively rap battle. It also shows Off the Hook's skill both as a team and individually. Pearl can play the hypeman and abrasive teacher that she excels at, while Marina can be passive and throw ruthless counterattacks while still coming across as sweet. As a team, they run the conversation, with Pearl leading the tone, even when she's off the mic, and serving as the bridge to Marina, who dominates the song via her constant presence in the chorus and instrumentals. Everyone's mind is on them while Shiver and Frye don't even interact. Frye refuses to mention Shiver, even when brought up, while Shiver's verse is entirely focused on (unsuccessfully) dissing Marina. They come across as disoriented and isolated compared to their opponents, who work as well together as a married couple (which they might as well be). There's a reason everyone says Off the Hook wins in a landslide.

I love Frye’s “WAIT YOUR TURN” so much 0:32

Two-eyed Shiver isn't real. She can't hurt you. Two-eyed Shiver:

Can we just talk about how awesome their outfits are? Not trying to sound weird or anything, but they just look so GOOD!

Marina wasn't being "naive" she removed all impact from the diss by taking it at face value, so she took the "back-handed compliment" as an actual compliment on PURPOSE. She isn't dumb, she knows that Shiver's insulting her, but she's deciding to be entirely passive aggressive by accepting it entirely

Pearl: Haha loser with no friends. Frye: LOCAL YAP FORECAST CALLS FOR EXTREME YAPPING, METEOROLOGISTS RECOMMEND WEARING HEADPHONES BEFORE GOING OUTSIDE‼️‼️‼️🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

my brain chemistry has been permanently altered with this one, the "Spata ratikunda VA~DA-!" part IS SO GOOD

I love how Pearl wasn’t letting Frye get a word in

Wait - are we ignoring the fact that Frye called Marina a “grouper”, which is a fish pun on “groupie”, AKA a fan that hangs around to sleep with the band… Frye implying their relationship is sexual??

Shivers and Marina are MindGaming so well they got the whole comment section confused 😭

Fry's fit is actually gas, they cooked with that hair style

Glad that we get to listen to Off the Hook again during splatfests

i love how pearl just starts praising marina instead of attacking frye in that part, and is like ''yeah whatever check out my wife's beautiful voice!!''

“Dion dangari dangara” 🔥🗣️💯🥶

We all know M and P gonna eat this up Edit: PEARL IN FACT ATE THIS SHI UP

i like that the line "oh, look at the time. Isn't it getting late?" is near 2:00, so when shiver says that now or never will start playing

Nah Frye and pearl were ripping each other to shreds while shiver and Marina were giving each other backhanded comments

1:57 Shiver: "Isn't it getting late?" Marina: "Not at all I could do this all-" The game: *ONE MINUTE LEFT*

I find it hilarious that Shiver and Frye got so mad about Off the Hook performing, they just decided to just barge into the green room and have a rap battle lmao

Has anyone else noticed that this is actually the first time for marina showing her ears?

proof that you simply cannot beat The Lesbians.

It's funny when you look at the idols. The squid sisters are deadly experienced agents trained by captain cuttlefish that have a song with healing powers. Pearl is a banshee God that saved the world with her voice, she can also turn into a drone and reign chaos, Marina is an ex-soldier that is one of the smartest beings of her time and would probably be too dangerous if she turned evil. Deep cut? A very good local act

Not Frye with the "yap-yap-yap" 😭😭

"Check behind -Shes divine, one of a kind, voice so fine" They arent even TRYING to hide it anymore ☠️

Nawh Shiver and Frye are so hypocritical. They have their own duo (Fire & Ice) and act like it’s no one’s business; meanwhile, Big Man (Ian BGM), collaborated with the Squid Sisters and they got so mad they forced him to write his own diss track 💀

pearl: gets bullied also pearl: ok but i have an awesome girlfriend and you have L rizz