Hatsune Miku - Persona Alice

[KizerKat]

PERSONA! *crush card*

"Die for me!"

[oOTobiumeOo]

@KizerKat Persona 4? XD

[KizerKat]

@oOTobiumeOo At least someone got it.

[BerrySubs]

I was listening to "Bouquet and Burial at Sea", and from 2 : 36 in that song to 2 : 53, it sounds as if there are some musical excerpts of "Persona Alice". And there's also a reference to a lighthouse.

Could it be that "Bouquet and Burial at Sea" is what happens to Ecila?

[AmberTonerre]

@BerrySubs I watched it after you rote that i believe that is a prequel because she went with the man it could be that the man she went with after the end of persona alice could be the rabbit and she is wonderland but i like to think that "Bouquet and Burial at Sea" is the prequel and she lived happily ever after :)

[BerrySubs]

@AmberTonerre

That's all good and well for Alice, I suppose, but "Bouquet and Burial at Sea" is probably what happens to Elica, the reflection who was tempting Alice to drown in the lake, as Alice abandoned Elica once she was rescued.

[LostMusicalMeanings]

The instrumentals are kind of creepy in the beginning ;o

[YonkaiatHMacademy]

...Is it bad that I just realized that in the description D'nal Red Now is Won Der Lan'D backwards? :'D

[16xXNaruHinaXx]

Now i get it!!!!!!!!!!

Alice=Ecila--> and is pronounced like Eshila, and if you pronounce it backwards, its Lashie=Lacie the tittle of the song in Pandora Hearts :DDD

[Coananlover]

Hmm this reminds me of when I was small... I used to sit infront of my pond and talk to my reflection because I felt like it was my only friend until a boy came up behind me and decided to sit with me... were married now.

[InfamousPistachio]

*Cries* AND I'M A GUY!!!

[qwerfvtgb53]

Video Uploader guy, do you actually talk to Hachi about this or do you just sub them?

[zeusiemom1]

I think it us ment to be sung by two people since it says it from elica's point of view ,....

[TheVocaProject]

are there any other song like this and qualia

[lucy5676]

@TheVocaProject Lots! personally, i like 'worlds end umbrella' its a bit sad, but its a sweet song. just search around in the suggestions and stuff and there should be mroe like this.

[TheVocaProject]

@lucy5676 ok thanks

[yunohoshi]

ecila alice

OMG THEIR ANAGRAMS!

(Slow)

[shiyufnjd1]

love the story!!!

[ExcruciatingAnime]

then:in the end when it says Ecila is no more, that means Ecila switched places with Alice

and now Alice is all alone at the bottom

lastly: Ecila takes Kaito's hand and leaves because she hated that cold place down there but looks back because she feels bad

More stuff

-its flipped upside down, she took her place

-for what i had lost i took this hand, she hadnt seen warmth in so long

-perhaps the image on the water is just me

- walked along a puzzling road, she had never seen the outside world

[awesomegirls10]

@ExcruciatingAnime .... I like MEGHAPSY's version better, just because it doesn't seem so.... evil... The version you posted sounds evil, like she drowned Alice.

[MEGHAPSEY]

@ExcruciatingAnime

I like your take on it!

[ExcruciatingAnime]

@MEGHAPSEY

ahh thank you

[TheUltimateJinxlet]

reminds me of persona from gakuen alice :P

[SakuratheHealer]

I just notice:

"Ecila is in D'nal Red now"

"Alice is in wonder land."

8|

[senrilanka]

cant get enough of this song

[VocaloidGirlx]

I thought when she said "I saw nothing," she became blinded, breaking the curse and Elica, because if she's blind she can't see anyone's face. Correct me if I'm wrong because I don't know (*- m -)

[mimioncrak]

I just got your sentece *fail*

"Ecila is in D'nal Red now."

D'nal Red now is Wonderland backwards.. XD;;

[Azuchan6]

wow this is an amazing video its so amazing really

[moon999penguin]

this song is so cute and sad at the same time. ;A; ♥

[SakuratheHealer]

This song really gets me thinking, and what makes me think and ponder even more are the parts that you left subtitled. I wanted to see if I could decipher it to the best of my ability, even if I have no clue in what I'm actually doing.

p\a 4'i ka mM dzi 4a 4o m'i 4a Ji ka

pa rii ka mu dui ra ro mi ra ni ka

kani rami rora dui muka riipa

and

wa do 4a p\M dzi 4a mM Ji 4a mi ka

wa do ra fuyu dui ra mu ni ra mi ka

kami ranimu radui furura do wa

\ = Yen sign

[SakuratheHealer]

@SakuratheHealer

Basically I got nothing. :/ All I did was put down how it originally looked [though it wouldn't show yen sign] and then a translation of the japanese next to the senseless phrasing that was in parenthesis. Below that all I did was flip the phrasing around. You'd probably have to do even more specific flipping arounds, as in, flipping individual letters around hoping to get something, but I was lazy. Most I can find in what I did is "kami"

Kami-sama = God

Hope that helps ;3;

[Sweetnasizum]

When the man came Ecila tried to get Miku to say with her by drowning her, but the man intervenes and save Miku from truly being stuck there forever. Out of dispair, the witch Ecila, fades away, causing the curse to fade with her, and freeing Miku who decides to leave with the man.

[Sweetnasizum]

I just had a crazy idea! What if Ecila was actually the witch and she curse Miku because she was the lonely. Ecila could have been tied to that pond/lake and could only leave every so often before she had to return, so this time she brought someone back with her. (continued)

[yonkonkeroo82]

What hachi is doing is writing concrete poems right?

[Ribbonescence]

I really enjoy how the Japanese characters form some of the pictures, like the smile and the hand.

[Lilytooth]

I'm beginning to think the story is more than it appears. My idea of the plot:

Miku is a girl who is odd and teased a lot, and so she withdraws, and spends most of her time in daydreams. Whenever she's certain that she can be happy forever in her daydreams, part of her sees she isn't realy happy. One day a boy tries to befriend her, and she doesn't know what to do. She thinks she'll be hurt, and tells him to go. When she sees he cares, she leaves her fantasy, and begins to live in the real world

[PapyMandarine]

@Lilytooth Man you seem concerned by the reflexions of genjitsu/nijigen = real world, fictive world - like mot of us here. I think you're interpretation is relevant.

I thought about another thing too.

In nijigen - what you call "daydreams" - you're not really alone, and you're with yourself. It's consciousness : you realize who you are. But in genjitsu, this power disappears. You can see your friends and the real world, but you loose this part of yourself, following the others (mainstream).

[Lilytooth]

@PapyMandarine Okay, that makes sense. I was thinking that because THE WORLD END UMBRELLA and Qualia are so simmilar. They're all a bit like this: Girl is lonely but content in some world that that's missing something -> Guy comes and brings her to regular world -> She's much happier in regular world. I took that plot, and thought maybe it might be some metaphor of Hachi's life... um... and that's what I came up with.

[MyuNekoi]

@Lilytooth

Old comment, yeah, but that makes so, so much sense. If you've read Hachi's story Days of Happiness, you'll know what I'm talking about. He did it again.

[vgperson]

@MyuNekoi You have a point, except DoH goes the opposite way. The caribou's busy life (the "real world") wasn't exactly missing anything - despite being "troubled," he actually says that thanks to his lover, he's happy - but the chicken convinces him that he would be better off "without unhappiness." But without unhappiness/sympathy/giving a care/etc. (the "fantasy world"), he loses his lover and it seems unlikely he'll find love again.

[MyuNekoi]

@vgperson

Yes. My previous comment was pretty ambiguous. I guess I should have said that the different notions of "happiness" is one of Hachi's favorite themes to work with, or something like that.

[MadAnime963]

can someone explain this to me?!!!

[MEGHAPSEY]

A girl named Alice is cursed by a witch, and so she is banished to a place far away from her family. ( Either because seeing another person will kill her, or other people die by seeing her, it's not clear. ) Driven by extreme loneliness, she sees her reflection in the water and thinks it is another person, who she names Ecila ( which is Alice backwards. ) She often dreams of being together with Ecila as a real person, as her reflection is the only person she has seen for years. (continued)

[MEGHAPSEY]

A friendly man, ( who reminds her of the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, ) finds her one day, and urges her to leave the lonely place with him, but she can't. That's because she can't look another person in the face because of her curse, and also because she doesn't want to leave Ecila.The pressure gets to her, and she goes into the water to drown herself and be together with Ecila, who she imagines is welcoming her warmly; but the man pulls her out of the water. (continued)

[MEGHAPSEY]

Ecila disappears into the water after that, and her curse was broken as well. She leaves with the man, having nothing to stay for. In the end, she figures Ecila may have only been her own reflection, after all.

I love this story. ♥

[MadAnime963]

@MEGHAPSEY

oh thats kinda sweet, thanks!

[yaminomeli]

@MEGHAPSEY

Her curse wasnt broken, I think... the way I see it, she must have had an accident when she almost drowned, and went blind from it. Thus, since she couldnt 'see' the person, the curse was ineffective.

[CreamRocks1]

@MEGHAPSEY

Alice just decided to dunk her feet into the water for a moment, but Ecila, whom was evil all along, shouts in joy. "Hello! Hello! I've been waiting for this!" And pulls her under. The man saves her.

[chikuela]

what other videos has hachi done?

[vgperson]

The ones I've subtitled are THE WORLD END UMBRELLA, Qualia, and Mrs. Pumpkin's Ridiculous Dream.

He's also done Rakshasa and the Corpse, The Princess Sleeps to Electronics, and In a Rainy Town Balloons Dance with Devils. While I didn't make videos for those, I put translations for them on the lyrics page in the description. There are other translations on YouTube, too.

[corntate]

oh wow! i've never seen "In a Rainy Town Balloons Dance with Devils" do you know a place where i can find it? there was none on youtube

[vgperson]

@corntate Search "Fuusen wa Akuma to Odoru" on YouTube and you should find it. It's not especially notable, other than Hachi apparently making it in a day and it supposedly being a prequel Princess Sleeps to Electronics. (Still don't know how that works, really.)

[AnimeObsessed333]

@chikuela Panda Hero and Matryoshka, too.

[Kaizykat]

Is it bad that it took me two days to realize that Ecila is Alice spelt backwards? XD

Would you mind if I translated your translations into Spanish and posted them on my livejournal (I'll give you the link if you allow me)? I haven't seen a Spanish translation to this song.

Thank you for your translation! :)

[vgperson]

Well, it's not the first I've heard of it. And if it weren't for the comments I saw on the MikuWiki when I got the lyrics, I might've called her "Eshila" or something and almost nobody would have realized it.

Sure, use my translations for whatever.

[Kaizykat]

Ah, thank you. I'll send my livejournal link in a message.

[isawrluna]

@Kaizykat very very bad...

[teruru83]

2:18

"I don't like you." →"No, l don't."

「嫌(きら)いだ」→「嫌(いや)だ」

Totally well done. Awesome.

But too bat.

[teruru83]

bat →bad

(^_^;)sorry

[vgperson]

Yeah, that makes more sense. I don't know why I assumed it would be her, um... hating herself.

[crazieness3392]

nice translation! like the song ^^

[KokoroKiseki]

I just realized that Ecila is Alice spelled backwards. Am I that slow? ;A;

[HikaruHikariKage]

Thank you so much for doing the translation! It's really well done.

[Yarento]

nice traslation i seriosly love the music and the meaning of it... uhm did u miss something at 4:36~4:37?

[vgperson]

Check the description - "ran row zee la ge ryu ji la." I (and apparently everyone else) have no clue what it's supposed to mean, unfortunately.

[Yarento]

only the creator know... o.o,

[Woideuan]

if you hear the song in reverse, it some how sound like "alice in wonderland jounal"

[Woideuan]

* in japanese way reading English~

[MitXDEX]

A beautifully composed flash and song. And very fitting subtitling work to boot. You did it proud :V

[hohoyeri]

A fantastic job once again. :3

[TheBBQSquad]

1st comment :D

Nice song. :D