Additional Memory

Additional Memory (アディショナルメモリー Adishonaru Memorī) is the seventeenth main song of the series.

Background
Ayano has just found out that Snake of Clearing Eyes is planning to sacrifice her and her friends and siblings to revive their dead mother under their father's wish. Vowing to never let this happen she decides to commit suicide and enter the Heat Haze, and prevent the final piece needed to complete the plan, The Snake of Favoring Eyes, from manifesting the real world in hopes of not hurting her friends and siblings

Ayano is falling with her life flashing before her eyes. She knows suicide will only bring her misery, but she is too afraid to pursue her own happiness and sacrifice everyone she cares about. She ponders upon all of her regrets, and how much it pains her to kill her own emotions and deny her own love for Shintaro, but vows to erase this truth, and "delete herself from the story."

Ayano is then trapped in the Heat Haze sitting alone watching events transpiring in the real world. She realizes she can't go home anymore and starts to question whether she made the wrong decision, her days are filled with emptiness, crying, and possibly regret.

The world is reset after Marry had reset the timeline, and Ayano finds out that she played right into the snake possessing her father's plan. The snake can only exist by possessing people and fulfilling their desires, so if Ayano's mother was to revive it would cease to exist. So he manipulated events so that this couldn't come to pass, forcing him to reset the timeline to try (and fail) again, thus being able to live forever in this repeating time loop.

Finally coming to terms with having failed her original mission and having trapped herself in the Heat Haze, she nonetheless vows to fight on by watching all the gruesome events transpiring and "write this story." Thus were she ever to escape she could tell all that had happened and help her friends breakout of the time loop, but instead has to hope that the snake will not come with another plan to reset the timeloop once again, and will not try to hurt her friends and siblings to bring the snakes to the real world.

Her unrealized love for Shintaro was what kept her going and sane throughout all the time loops, and that no matter how hard she tried she could never kill her own emotions, still staying optimistic and happy. She vows to return, save everyone and confess to Shintaro, one day.

Information

 * Words / Music / Guitar：Jin
 * Movie：Sidu
 * Arrangement：Jin / Hideyuki Gushimiyagi
 * Special Thanks ：Highspeed Fujimori, Fanyong Ren Xing AS-02
 * Guitar：Hideyuki Gushimiyagi
 * Bass：Mashirou Shirakami
 * Drums：Yuumao
 * Strings：Shika Udai Strings
 * Violin : Sachiko Oki / Mikiko Ise / Miho Shimokawa
 * Viola : Shouko Miki
 * VOCALOID Edit：Jin / Sakana
 * Recording Engineer：Nagie

Lyrics & Translation

 * -|Japanese Lyrics=


 * -|English Lyrics=

(Unofficial Translation)

Floating up, it’s an endroll met when tumbling and falling down Distorted, it’s a revolving lantern of the future that’s been changed It’s already over; the curtains closed upon the daydreams did nothing but blur out the voids

It makes me remember the sunset sky and the spreading melody “Let’s go home, so we don’t take the wrong path…” Becoming cowardly as we leave our tightly-held hands in the air

It makes me embrace, it makes me wish The extravagant revolving lantern Lighting up the red that confirms my love before the evening calm Passing by, rotting away The true feelings that dissolved away are a story that denies existential proof

“See you tomorrow” or words like that I didn’t want to say The tears I can’t wipe off and my words are lies and lies I didn’t want us to be “just friends” or things like that These words probably won’t reach you “I’m sorry, I love you.”

If this was a misunderstanding, I don’t want to take it in The tears that overflow are soaked into the sky I can’t return anymore, I can’t go back anymore Now, it aches, you know — it become all upside down

Falling down, realizing it all The broken revolving lantern Beyond the evening glow, I painted my feelings into a poem of regrets

Don’t erase them, remember them The true feelings left behind are a story that denies all “happiness”

I didn’t want to end as “just friends” The tears that won’t reach you dissolve into the sky I know that this is wrong… I know that this is wrong… But I’ve always wanted to tell you, “Goodbye, I love you.”

Trivia

 * The "revolving lantern" mentioned throughout the song also commonly refers to the "life flashing before one's eyes" phenomena before death.
 * In the scene of the minute 1:00, there is a reference to the first chapter of the sixth volume of the light novel. "Daze 01", where Shintaro at first is in a completely white space, seeing the final credits of a movie, where apparently the same was the protagonist.