I'd love to hear more on the authorial intent, but far as I'd interpreted, this seems to be telling the story loss, grief, and the tragedy that can perpetuate if left unchecked. The dragon isn't meant to be a literal creature, but an expression of extreme emotion. (particularly rage, grief, or helplessness) What's telling is how the king/emperor and princess/queen are characterized. Throughout most of the song, the princess is displaying anything from mild discontent ([She] tries to hide that something is wrong, She sings a sad song for the bird in a cage) to open resentment of the king for his actions, (Take up arms and make him atone for the massacre) meanwhile the king is shown to be putting on a mask to hide his own grief. (What you want to say now ... That your pain's not what the world needs) The visuals also give us a lot of telling information for the story, particularly the scenes depicting war, puppeteering people on strings, and most importantly, the depiction of what I presume to be the previous queen. With all this, I think the story it tells begins to be a lot clearer, and works as thus; The king has his armies go to war, his pawns and puppets that he would use as the means to his own ends, causing the senseless deaths of countless individuals. His actions eventually lead to the death of his wife, which causes him intense grief. Despite this, as a king he needs to keep up appearances, and thus puts on both a literal and metaphorical mask and hardens his heart to keep his grief in check. The king then marries another princess, but shows her no love due to his heart of stone, even going to far as to continue his campaigns of violence to the princess' displeasure. As such, she harbors no love for the king, but she tries to make the best of her time with him. However, no matter how long she remains, their relationship never manages to improve, and she begins to see herself more as a prisoner; a bird in a cage. Eventually she discovers the fate of the previous queen and begins to feel both pity and resentment towards the king for his actions. So she enacts a ritual to confront him with his late queen, which causes his façade to crumble and he begins to truly show remorse for everything he's done. The princess accepts the king's apologies, but the damage he dealt has already been done, and the payment for the ritual comes due, costing the princess her own life in the end. All the king can do is look on to the woman he pushed to these lengths, surrounded by the lifeless forms of the pawns he sacrificed as they're hung up by their strings. I've no doubt this interpretation is imperfect, as there are still some elements of the song that don't _quite_ click into place with this, and I'm sure there are themes I'm missing. Nonetheless, I really enjoy the presentation and expression clearly shown in this work! Absolutely wonderfully done!

@freyjacooper9082

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This makes a lot of sense! I do hope an official explanation is released, but until then I'm going with this one

Jello said I should come here. I am definitely not disappointed

So fascinated but confused by the story that unfolds here

Really good music and visual but the fycking whiplash of hearing this after watching the 4 hour anime Campaign video of you playing a crazy old man is very funny. Again really good.

BABE WAKE UP NEW PLASTERBRAIN SONG DROPPED

This cured my anxiety and depression and now I’m going to have my own place to live!

@dav3234

Жыл бұрын

Wow I love ti too so I don't have a big deal but I'll be fine I'll be home soon

Seeing the way this story and song has progressed has been an absolute treat, and oh my gosh, the final product was entirely worth all of the work and wait!! The art is amazing, the song is beautiful, and the story is so compelling. That last note hits the soul so hard 😭 Every expression conveys so much, and the paralleled imagery between the characters is just 💘

@privateerliew5177

Жыл бұрын

Whats the story please tell mee pleasee

I was just about to watch a new episode of anime campaign and then be productive but now I just wanna lie down and cry 🥲

the production quaLity on this is insane!

@purpleisdebeste

Жыл бұрын

WAIT PLASTER DREW THIS?? Holy shit i'm impressed

THE RETURN OF THE GOAT 🤯🤯🤯

The Story is pretty interesting, the animation is pretty good and the song is beautiful. 20/10 Perfect :D

Now I’ll wait with bated breath for this to go on Spotify too

THAT'S A VOCAL SYNTH??????????? I can hear it now but WOW the tuning is so good I listened to it twice and thought that was a human singing

this is super interesting! 👍 and as someone who's been in the vocaloid trenches for a loooong time, i hope you won't feel like this was a waste or anything! i know a lot of creators feel that way when they compare themselves to big vocaloiders but this is a great song with a good hook! keep going, there are so many people already interested and who want to hear more of your stories!

The orchestration is so rich! Those strings sound alive! Great stuff!

The whole video looks and sounds so beautiful! Absolute goosebumps at 2:43, the vocals and music strike so well

New plasterbrain let's gooo

Beautiful tuning on this one!!!

@PhoebesHere

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Thank you!!

oh damn, new plasterbrain!

commenting for algorithm, love your music!

@PhoebesHere

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(*•̀ᴗ•́*)و ̑̑

Your music is so good ^_^

THIS IS SO GOOD!!!

Oh my GOSH the amount of art in here, that must've taken so much work jsdlfkjdkl

came here from anime campaign, just realized your songs come up on my spotify a lot lol. No clue what is happening here, but it looks and sounds good

It is insane how overlooked this masterpiece is

Leaving a comment for algorithmic purposes, but I have to say I adore how this video was animated

I avoided watching Anime Campaign Episode 2 until I read Prison of Plastic, and I'm mad I waited now because it linked to this beautiful song! The tuning on Solaria is gorgeous and the MV is wonderful. Awesome work!!

THIS IS SO EPIC!! I am still in awe of how much work you can put into just one project!

@candarus_collective

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OH I JUST REALIZED YOU RELEASED THIS ON "APPRECIATE A DRAGON DAY??" YOU MUST'VE BEEN PLANNING THIS

Underrated

It's really beautiful, you did so well for mastering solaria, the draw is cool, the story is awesome i love it

Lovely and memorizing.

I did not expect this in my notifications, instantly made my day better knowing you're still around making absolute bangers

Aaaaaaaaaaaa! I love this!

Very nice, I like that the process of walking down the dungeon stairs starts the refrain

Pretty good song but one thing.... WHERE ARE THE DRAGONS!!!!!!!!1!!!1111

@PhoebesHere

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oh crap i have to remake it now i forgot to put them in!!! 😱

NEW PLASTERBRAIN SONG ❗️❔

THIS IS SO PRETTY WAUUUGHH

this is absolutely incredible!! the tuning is so so good holy

Just came from the anime campaign thing,yeah I admire your work and it's a crime this isn't more well known

Wow, I cannot imagine how long it took to draw and render each of these frames, amazing work!

wow plaster this is really good. Big 2009 "vocaloid ballad" vibes

love this!

SOLARIA??? YOOOO MY GIRLLL *waves Ultra Fan card around*

Good job plaster! :D

YEAAAAHHHHHHHHH BABY SLAY!!!!!

This is incredible, the song and the story it tells are amazing and the visuals are beautifully planned and drawn.

I just want to say you did amazing on this song, I picked it up on itunes so I can listen to it while I travel around town

Woah! The singing and visuals are excellent! Really a beautiful music video overall!

this RULES oh my god

Here from the anime campaign reupload to say this rules!

This is very underrated, great production for such a small artist, good job!

WOOOOOOOOO glad jello recommended this, I like this a lot

Omg, that was beautiful, both the song and animation ♥

This is gooder than good!

Another plaster banger!!!

Damn, vocaloids are so good now. This one sounds like it has a cover channel on KZread. Like Annapantsu lieandlie type of shit. Really good.

@PhoebesHere

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It's SynthV! (By Dreamtonics; technically not a Vocaloid). Shame they're not more well-known because all the SynthV voices sound really good!

@LemonMoon

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@@PhoebesHere it really does. I imagine part of it is skill on the user too, so good job there.

This is really good!

This song is really beautiful ;o;

Bloody Lovely

Love, love, love it!

Yay Plasterbrain! Such a fabulous song!

This is amazing! Please keep putting out content!

That was a beautiful melancholy.

Love this, and the animation looks wonderful! Excellent song and video.

That was so amazing! Great work on that animation and on top of that the melody of the song was so pretty ☺️

Nice

MAN! This is really good!

What a delightful animation and song, good job 👍.

nice :)

Really good!

Fantastic composition

Another Plasterbrain banger omg!!!

Ayo, it's brain plaster

you have such a beautiful voice!

yoooooooooo this is so rad and nostalgic

The ending actually made me transcend humanity itself.

❤❤❤❤

Good.

I do not understand the end of the story that well. Pretty much everything that happens after "Men and gods will not condone". I do like it though and want to understand.

Nice song. Don't really have much else to say.

Vocaloid is that you?

Im confused!

@privateerliew5177

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Me too

@PhoebesHere

Жыл бұрын

same...

@privateerliew5177

Жыл бұрын

@@PhoebesHere what.....🥲

Does anyone actually understand the story here? Watched this five times and I am still confused. Who is the second women? What is the dragon or the massacre, why would one of them have to die? Any context?

Sent here by anime campaign

Kind of hate to bash on this, but... wow, I really didn't get the lyrics at all. It felt like reading an AI-generated poem. You can sort of tease out themes from each individual sentence, but taken together they really don't convey a coherent story.

@PhoebesHere

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I'm actually part AI on my dad's side so that checks out.

@Olivman7

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Sorry for the negative feedback though ^^

@purpleisdebeste

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I think the context is that the orange haired girl is an assassin who falls in love with her target (who was cursed to be evil). At least that’s my reading. I definitely agreed when I first heard it tho, it took a lot of analysis to make it make sense!