- -password Is Niconico-.rar — Nico Touches The Walls

Listening to -Password is niconico- feels like finding an old flip-phone in a drawer. The battery is dead. The screen is cracked. But the photos inside show you who you were before you grew up.

This is the holy grail. The album version on Who Are You? is polished to a mirror shine. This demo is filthy . Tatsuya Mitsumura’s guitar feedback bleeds into the vocal track. You can hear a chair squeak at 0:43. It feels like you’re standing in their cramped Tokyo rehearsal room.

Password is niconico. Have you found a different version of this file? Did you attend the Shibuya O-East show in 2008? Let me know in the comments. I’m looking for the "Omake" folder that allegedly contains a .mov of them covering The Pillows. NICO Touches the Walls - -Password is niconico-.rar

Thus, the file name was a literal instruction manual: To open me, type the password. After finally finding a mirror that wasn't hosted on a Russian geocities clone, I cracked the password (shocker: it’s niconico in all lowercase). Here is what has been hiding in the dark for 14 years.

This .rar file represents the last moment NICO Touches the Walls was truly "underground." Six months after this rip hit 4chan’s /mu/ board, they released Giant Steps , and they became anime royalty. Listening to -Password is niconico- feels like finding

Let’s break down the lore.

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Yes, the irony is intentional. This track never made it to streaming. It’s an 80-second punk explosion where the chorus is just Mitsumura screaming "Password wo wasureta!" (I forgot the password!). Considering the file is locked, this feels like a cruel joke from 2008.

But historically?

I am, of course, talking about the file cryptically named: The Enigma of the File For the uninitiated, finding this specific .rar file feels like stumbling upon a cursed tape in a horror movie. The naming scheme alone raises red flags—and eyebrows. Why are there two hyphens? Why is "Password is niconico" inside the title? Is the password actually "niconico"?

However, in 2009, a fan ripped this demo tape, compressed it to 128kbps MP3, and packed it into a WinRAR archive. To prevent the label from taking it down via automated crawlers, they password-protected it. The password? .