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Deep Blue
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3 years later and I genuinely have no idea why I wrote this (super bored I guess)
Usually my reviews are a bit longer, and a bit more structured, but since this is a short music video I’m going to do more of a ‘my thoughts’, than a proper review. Usually I’m reviewing an anime or manga with hours of material, artwork, animation, and world building, and this is a single song almost short enough that I could hold my breath for the entirety of it. Why, you may ask, am I still reviewing this? Two reasons, one: I felt like it. Two: it is still art, even if it’s short.
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The song starts off melancholy, almost nostalgic, and then starts to get more upbeat and the percussion subtly picks up. At this point you can clearly hear the raw emotion in the singer's voice, but, to me at least, I was unsure exactly what that emotion was, kind of like when you’re smiling but also crying, only this was more intense. There was a lot of focus on the camera in the first half, and looking through it, I can guess he’s seeing memories of his dad through the lens of the camera, a camera, which I assume represents memories and moments. I don’t know, I’m not an English teacher. The part that really struck me and brought the whole thing together was when he’s falling, reaching up at the surface, he sees his younger self and chokes him, like he’s trying to kill the memory of his past. The bottle he finds on the shore, he puts a picture in, as if it’s all his memories of his father, and prepares to throw it, but suddenly he’s embraced from behind by his younger self. The man stops and sinks to his knees, letting out his emotions through tears.
“Can someone find it
Crying you are in front of you
My voice does not reach
Even though you are so much”These were the only lyrics repeated in the song. Together with the rest of the lyrics it seems like it means “I wish I could’ve said goodbye.” All of these things symbolize both wanting to let go of the past, and yet not throwing it away entirely. It may hurt, but that’s what makes it so precious. It’s almost like an out of order five stages of grief. But honestly, it’s a four and a half minute long animated song, there’s not much to analyze, let’s get real here. The music itself is pretty good, as is the directing. Both the music and animation incite strong emotions, the music a bit hopeful sounding with sad lyrics, and the animation nostalgic and also sad. I think music works better than anything else in really getting people to feel something, and usually it supports the animation, but in this case, the animation supported the music, which worked way better. I’m not very good at rating music, but I’d say the vocals complimented the rest of the song and brought out the feelings of the video. I feel like it’d make a good outro in an anime.
