This MV is very special for me: it was the first Gackt disc I ever owned - bought it in Hong Kong in a cramped and grubby secondhand disc shop (where I was rummaging for Cantonese films) and then played it on the laptop in my hotel room whilst eating a huge muk gwa (papaya - maybe you call it something else)!
I didn't have subtitles and made up my own story for a poem called "Returner" which I pasted against a still from the MV. Can't cram it into the 400 pixel width here but I'll email it to you in case you're interested
This song and the other secondhand disc I bought with it (the Kimi no tame ni dekiru and CubeEP) made me realize that Gackt wasn't just a Sanzo-lookalike (Sanzo = character from the Saiyuki manga) but had real musical talent and original ideas. The song has a wonderful quality of adventure and noble failure which (cos I knew nothing of Kenshin or Gackt's Kenshin role at the time) I didn't understand but liked very much. This atmosphere was what I tried to capture in the narrative of the poem.
Thanks for posting this and bringing back the excitement of discovering Gackt for the first time!
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Date: 2008-09-19 12:00 am (UTC)I didn't have subtitles and made up my own story for a poem called "Returner" which I pasted against a still from the MV. Can't cram it into the 400 pixel width here but I'll email it to you in case you're interested
This song and the other secondhand disc I bought with it (the Kimi no tame ni dekiru and CubeEP) made me realize that Gackt wasn't just a Sanzo-lookalike (Sanzo = character from the Saiyuki manga) but had real musical talent and original ideas. The song has a wonderful quality of adventure and noble failure which (cos I knew nothing of Kenshin or Gackt's Kenshin role at the time) I didn't understand but liked very much. This atmosphere was what I tried to capture in the narrative of the poem.
Thanks for posting this and bringing back the excitement of discovering Gackt for the first time!