IA - Imagination Forest (想像フォレスト)

It's a monster! IAAAAAAAAAA!!

Jin's fifth song! If only it were Number 7. (If anyone actually gets that, good on them.)

According to a tweet Jin made, when the girl tells the boy "you'll turn to stone," the boy hears it the wrong way; the Japanese sentence doesn't explicitly say "you," so he thinks it's the girl who will be "petrified" with shyness. Thus, a better translation of that part would be: ""If I look you in the eye... turn to stone..." I stammered, but they just smiled."

The hood and the iPod are worn by members of the Blindfold Gang, who originated in one of Jin's other songs, Blindfold Cord. (The girl from it, Kido, appears at 4:02.)

Jin has explained numerous external things about the song on Twitter and whatnot, so here goes:
The girl's name is Mary. She's 5 years old in the parts where she looks like a kid, but 140 for most of the song.
While her parents told her that looking at people would turn them to stone (just to be safe), her power is actually more of a temporary freezing due to being only quarter-Medusa.
However, some boys attacked Mary one day, and her mom (Shion) was forced to turn one to stone, dying in the process. (Since she's only half-Medusa, she probably had to strain herself to do this.) Mary thus never learned anything about her power, and lived alone fearing it.
Over a hundred years later, a boy from the Blindfold Gang (Seto) visits Mary, thinking she's just a shut-in. (Well, not like he's wrong.)
He invites her to join the Blindfold Gang, giving her a hood and iPod, and Mary is glad to learn she won't turn someone to stone just by looking at them.

Original video: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm16846374
Lyrics: http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/lyrics.php...

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[CitronAppleberry]

I love this song :3

[shane gabriel Jancinal]

hahaha.. u really like Losstime memory do you..

(actually it's Losstime not Lost time.. but dont feel bad.. many people actually know it lost time... even me.. ) or like, is it Loss or lost? oh god..what am i doingf in my life?!...

[Jen945SE]

you mean Marys mom Shion? :3

[Yena Velasco]

Seto x Mary. T w T

[ceejay1230]

did IA's mother here die?

[gaahcats]

Ah. Actually, the kagerou days manga is based off the songs, so this came before the manga.

[HotenFif]

SOOO SAD!!!

[EliteDubGamer]

the video is based on the manga Kagerou Days, that girl's name is Mary, has the ability to paralyze anyone she comes into eye contact, she is extremely shy and generally hates being around other humans, the guy who befriends her name is Seto, essentially he recruits her and joins a group called the Mekakushi Dan, I think IA is simply narrating the story

[accisia987]

i love the song and her hair :3

[TheEvilZucchini]

and don't forget Ayano no Koufuku Riron ;)

[rmarchhare]

I ship setoxmary to the max. Theyre just so cute ^-^

[Kagamine Len]

So... What's the story of this song?

I'm kinda getting this feeling that IA's albino or something...?