Translation: 07 Aoki Hakushaku no Shiro (Sound Horizon 7th Story "Märchen")

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I'm sorry, this one is not as 'pretty' as the others! This is the "video-translation" of brand new "Märchen"'s seventh song, Aoki Hakushaku no Shiro. It is provided with helpful notes and nice graphics to make the whole thing more understandable.

The rights of this song belong to Sound Horizon, KING RECORDS and Rap Products, no copyright infringement intended (just spreading the word and making SH accessible to everyone!)

07 Aoki Hakushaku no Shiro (The Blue Earl's Castle)

Translation by Defade
Some revision by Kurobara
Editing by Kurobara (that's me)
Pictures by Yokoyan

Any questions or doubts, just ask!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sound
• Horizon
• 7th
• Story
• Märchen
• Revo
• Minami
• Kuribayashi
• Akio
• Ohtsuka
• Aoki
• Hakushaku
• no
• Shiro
• Translation
• English
• Revenge
• Tragedy
• 2010

[VileVava]

@2:18: Shouldn't it be "Why was IT that his kind gaze was tinged with darkness?"

Forgot the 'it', mon ami. xD

[soichirokun]

@VileVava not really. The 'it' is not absolutely necessary there.

[Simpathal]

Ok..so um..

call me immature I just think the lyrics was meant like this, if god had an.."opening" per say., does he mean would would rape him as well? Is that so? If not please help me understand that lyric. I think by spear, or Longinus, he means his penis, or groin.

How I always translated it was if god had a "hole" he would rape it as well. If not please help me understand. o.o

[soichirokun]

@Simpathal Yes, it goes more or less like this. And the word translated as 'enemy' in the lyrics avobe can also mean 'partner'. Perturbing, isn't it? hehe

[joe021093]

Why do I feel that Marchen is actually disgusted with those hanging corpse?

And personally I think she is actually the 6th wife instead of the 1st one. =v= The pictures of corpse shows women who has turned to skulls and mere bones, but she still has her body intact.

Anyway, maybe there are some part which you could added to the video you didn't, but still, you are way too awesome for doing this. Long live Kurobara! >A<)9

[soichirokun]

@joe021093 You mean, the one before the last one? Well, maybe you're right, and actually it could be any of the dead wives who sings the story (and being the 6th the most 'recent' one, it would have sense). Anyway, since Märchen says 'you were hanged' in plural in the interlude, we can consider that the 'narrators' are all the dead wives, or just not one in particular.

Which parts did I miss? I can add them as long as you let me know ^^.

[poissony]

"Still, why can't humans distinguish love from lust? How disgusting!"

For once, I agree with Elise

[SylviaPQ20]

Jeesh, I finally get it. It does't agree with the art, but I think the first wife is actually singing this. It's the story of how Blue Beard started killing his wives. He didn't really loved his first wife and because of this she eventually cheated on him in the forbidden room, where he would later hang the corpses. He says ''Was it out of irritation of a broken vow or out of love? Perhaps my reasons died along with my fist wife when I killed her." He's talking about the woman who sang this! :P

[VileVava]

@CokeTump They're gone... This is the only one left... It's a little unfair.

[CokeTump]

OMFG!

Where r the rest? :o

[VileVava]

This video looks nice with the youtube winter-snow effect... Sure am gonna miss it... xD

[0814Hong]

Very loved style of Music video with words/lyrics

Simple-beauty!

[MSRICCO88]

I am liking the voice that said "Nii-san!" at the end when the brothers were killing bluebeard. @ 7:03

[poissony]

@SylviaPQ20 If I may. To further reinforce your point, in the live version, right before Bluebeard said that line, his wife was shown doing some...questionable actions towards the narrator, along with Bluebeard staring furiously

[G0ldenButterfly]

@TheFuzzyOfDoom Well, of course there are most likely multiple different adaptions of the story, more then likely Sound Horizon took some liberty to change things up in their retelling.

[TheFuzzyOfDoom]

I think it's somewhat weird. I dunno if this is a different version or something but i have the blue beard story and instead of calling out to her brothers the last wife calls out to her sister Anne who tells her if she sees them on the horizon.

[xPinkButterflyx]

"I won't forgive those ungrateful pigs who judged you as a witch!"

Could this be a reference to Therese's death? O.o

[ClothoidDoll]

someone keeps flagging these videos for deletion T_T