| Information |
| Shinigami Record | |
|---|---|
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| Name | |
| Kanji | シニガミレコード |
| Rōmaji | Shinigami Rekōdo |
| English | Death God Record |
| Song Information | |
| Music and lyrics | Jin |
| Characters | Main: Azami Minor: Tsukihiko Shion Kozakura |
| Sung by | IA Miku Hatsune |
| Album | Mekakucity Days |
| Stream links |  MCD MCD MC M's MCD MC M's MCD MC M's MCD MC M's MCD MC M's MCD MC M's MCD MC M's MC M's
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| Album Release Order | |
| Previous | Next |
| Konoha no Sekai Jijou | Kaien Panzermast |
| “ | The story of showing kindness.[note 1] | ” |
—Jin's Song Introduction | ||
Shinigami Record (シニガミレコード Shinigami Rekōdo, lit. "Death God Record") is an album exclusive song, which is featured on the Mekakucity Days album. It's also called "The story of staring with one's eyes".
Background[]
Shinigami Record tells the story of Azami, a medusa, who is living all alone in the woods, starting to think about the meaning of her own existence in this world. As she watches the people coming by now and then, she notices that they age and therefore die very quickly compared to her as a medusa. As she is out one day, she meets a young soldier, who is not afraid of her and gets to know him after some hesitation. The two eventually fall in love, become a couple and decide to spend their life together.
Time passes and Azami gets pregnant. She bears a child named Shion, who makes her value her life with her family more than ever. As her child grows, she starts to notice that her husband has grown older very fast as well and would die soon, while she and Shion are still young. Not able to stand the thought, she decides to create a never-ending world by harnessing the power of her snakes and wishes for that place to be a new home for her family, where no one would have to grow older anymore. She leaves her family for this reason, wanting them to wait for her return.
After she has completed the world known as Kagerou Daze, she continues to wait in front of the door of it, wishing her husband and daughter to come to her to embrace their new life. After a while, as no one seemed to come, she starts to realize that her husband has died by now and that a long time must have passed. Realizing this, she loses interest in the never-ending world for which she has no use anymore. Though she has no reason for going there anymore, she thinks about leaving into the new world alone, since she is no good for humans. But the thought of having lost her husband forces her to break down and she starts to cry. In the end, she leaves into the new world on her own.[1]
Lyrics & Translation[]
存在の意味を考えた
一人ぼっちの化け物は
「人なんてすぐに死んじゃう」と
呆れ顔 続けてた
一人ぼっちの化け物に
恋に落ちてく少年兵
「このまま生涯を暮らそう」と
手を繋ぎ 温めた
始まった日々を噛みしめて
子供も出来た化け物は
「君だけ一人老いていく」
気づいてもう 耐えられない
蛇の力を集めてさ
無くなったってもう構わない
終わらないセカイを作ったんだ
家族だけで行こう
君を待つ ドアの前
いつまでも 現れない
流れる雲数えてた
空はどこか寂しそうで
君が来ないなんて
そんなこと どこかで気付いてた
「それならもう興味もない」
セカイに一人消えようか
許したくもない君のこと
今もまだ、愛してる
Sonzai no imi o kangaeta
Hitoribotchi no bakemono wa
„Hito nante sugu ni shinjau“ to
Akiregao tsudzuketeta
Hitoribotchi no bakemono ni
Koiniochite ku shōnen-hei
„Kono mama shōgai o kurasou“ to
Te o tsunagi atatameta
Hajimatta hibi o kamishimete
Kodomo mo dekita bakemono wa
„Kimidake hitori oite iku“
Kidzuite mō taerarenai
Hebi no chikara o atsumete sa
Nakunattatte mō kamawanai
Owaranai sekai o tsukuttanda
Kazoku dake de ikou
Kimi o matsu doa no mae
Itsumademo arawarenai
Nagareru kumo kazoeteta
Sora wa doko ka sabishisōde
Kimi ga konai nante
Son'na koto dokoka de kidzuiteta
„Sorenara mō kyōmi mo nai“
Sekai ni hitori kieyou ka
Yurushitaku mo nai kimi no koto
Ima mo mada, aishiteru
(Unofficial Translation)
A lonely monster
Thought about the meaning of her life
“Humans die so soon!”
She was continually surprised by this
A young soldier
Fell in love with the lonely monster
Thinking, “Let’s live like this for the rest of our lives,”
They joined hands, warming each other
Contemplating the daily life they’d embarked on
The monster, who had had a child
Realized, “You alone will get old”
Having realized that, she couldn’t stand it
I combined the power of all my snakes
No longer caring whether I would lose it
I made an unending world
So I could go there with just my family
In front of the door, I waited for you
But you never appeared
I was counting the clouds as they floated by
The sky was somehow lonely
Somewhere along the line,
I realized that you would never come
“In that case, I don’t care anymore”
Should I disappear into that world by myself?
I don’t want to forgive you
But even now, I still love you[2][note 2]
Trivia[]
- It was voted as the #24 Kagerou Project song in the KagePro Song Popularity Ranking 2019.[3]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 目を掛ける話。 Me o kakeru hanashi.
- ↑ Translator's note: The switch from third-person to first-person POV is in the original Japanese lyrics, although in a pronoun-dropping language it’s slightly more ambiguous where it happens–the first-person could start the stanza before where I have the shift happening. The “she” of the first part and the “I” of the second part are both the same person, Azami. It may be that she sees her younger self as almost a different person.
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