Kuusou Forest

Imagination / Fantasy Forest (想像フォレスト Souzou/Kuusou Forest) is the fifth song of the series.

Background
This song has also received a million views on Nico Nico Douga, making it the first IA song to do so. It is also known as 空想フォレスト/Kuusou Forest (Fantasy Forest) or Imaginary Forest. Jin later decided to officially call it "Fantasy Forest" instead of "Imagination Forest", but it's still more commonly known as it's previous name. The song summarizes Mary's life.

Mary Kozakura is a girl living in the forest. Mary says that this world is simple, but she doesn't fit in. She says that no one understands. Since no one ever notices her house, no one comes to visit. With a hard heart she resigns to loneliness. She is seen with her mother, then alone, growing up. Since she is away from society everything she knows comes from reading her books. She longs for the real world and asks for forgiveness. Knowing there is life somewhere inside of her, she imagines a wild future. She wishes for the future to knock on her door. Lost in a daydream she suddenly hears a voice. Out of panic she spills her tea and is lost about what to do.

In the next scene, Mary's past is shown again, where her mother tells her not to look into anyone's eyes or they'll turn to stone. This makes the viewer think she is a Medusa, which she only is for 1/4. The younger her looks at her eyes in the mirror. Wanting to know about what she is, she looks into her books and sees the story of Medusa and that people fear them. She gets upset that she was born this way and throws both the book and the mirror on the floor.

Back to the present, Mary hears the person who owns the voice knocking at the door. Its the first knock she ever heard. As she tries to pretend she didn't hear the knock she trips over a book, when the door suddenly opens.

Another flashback shows Mary as a kid, playing with some flowers, while her mother, Shion, is inside the house organizing. Two humans come and hurt/bully Mary. Shion comes to save Mary but one of the boys grabs her leg to attack her. To protect her daughter, Shion turns both boys into stone. The stress on Shion's body is too much and she dies as a result, leaving Mary alone.

Back to the present, Mary hides under a table and covers her eyes. The person is surprised. Mary tells him that if he looks into her eyes he'll turn to stone. The person, not knowing that she is a Medusa, takes it the wrong way. He thinks that she is afraid and scared. He thinks she's scared of living and tells her that he was afraid too. The boy puts headphones into Mary's ears and plays music. Mary is inspired by technology. She had forgotten that she can control her power. The boy puts his hood on her head as a present.

In the last scene Mary is looking up at her house when the wind blows through her hood that now has roses on it. She turns around and smiles at Kido and the boy who is revealed to be Seto.

Lyrics & Translation

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The summer breeze knocks, And when I open up the window, I hear the chirps of birds wandering from afar. I put a half-read book aside, And say with a smile, "Where did you come from?" With my blindfold still on, three in the afternoon... The world is surprisingly simple, But it's me who's bizzare, With complication Which no one ever understands... Outside the town, in the forest, In this house beyond people's notice... Yes, that's why none ever come to visit.

Don't make eye contact! With a hardened heart, I resign to loneliness, Living out my days seeing only "things"... All I know is what's in stories, And if I long for the world, Just a bit, will you forgive me for it?

It faintly flowed along; Even in this irrationality I was born into, Surprisingly, there was life, Somewhere inside me. Tell me, won't that wide world In which I imagine a wild future, Whether it be today or tomorrow... Won't it knock on my door?

As I was having such fantasies, And gazing outside, I suddenly heard someone speaking... I knocked over my half-drunk herb tea, Spilling it all over the desk. "What am I to do...?" I thought, staring past the door.

"Look anyone in the eyes, And they'll turn to stone..." That's what my parents had heard, And it seemed my eyes were the same... And the way that always goes in stories Well, such people are to be feared. I knew that, and that's why.

A thumping sound echoed out, The first knock I'd ever heard. And to say I was nervous... It wouldn't be quite enough. Let me say, that wild world That I imagined to knock In reality, it opened the door Much more easily than I expected.

Finding me cowering, covering my eyes, The person was surprised; "If I look you in the eye... turn to stone.", I stammered, but he just smiled. "I've been living afraid as well, Afraid I'd turn to stone... But wouldn't the world be so much better Without that fear?"

Reverberating peacefully, My heart overflew with imagination, And a bit of it rang out into the world. And tell me, you who came to me To teach me about a wild future. That if I'm ever lost again, You'll be here waiting for me.