Source: Piapro by Agi
“Kagamine San Dai Higeki” (鏡音三大悲劇) is a compilation of 3 animated movies based on the twins.
This collaboration project was started last year, and a CM of the project was released in December, coinciding with the twins’ birthday.
As the title implies, the main theme is tragedy, so expect bad endings. The scenes are way too short to comprehend, however. It might have been the intention of the artists to target Rin & Len fans who are familiar with the songs and stories behind them. For those of you that aren’t, however, I’ll just conveniently embed the songs and some summarised plot in here.
The first clip (after the movie poster scene) is based on “proof of life” and “soundless voice” by Hitoshizuku P (ひとしずくP). “proof of life” is Rin singing about her slow loss of her senses and her eventual and inevitable death, while “soundless voice” is about Len unable to cope with her absence and being willing to sacrifice his own voice to hear hers again.
(via DT’s Vocaloid Fanblog)
The second is based on “Prisoner” and “Paper Plane” by shuujin P (囚人P). The songs are intertwined, and the gist of the story is that Len is confined in a concentration camp (think Nazi), and communicates with a girl (Rin) using paper planes. Eventually, both of the twins die without knowing of the other’s fate.
This clip is rather short though, and only uses “Prisoner” as its BGM. Strange. :/
(via the video description in this English dub)
The third is based on “Servant of Evil” and “Daughter of Evil” by Akuno P (悪ノP). The stories behind the songs differ slightly, and by the looks of it, the animation itself is using the story behind “Servant of Evil”. I’ll quote DT directly this time around, since there’s no better way to put it:
The story of the song is told through the views of the evil princess’s servant, Len, who is actually her twin brother. The evil princess has done many cruel things and is cold by nature, but her brother only sees the nice and innocent side of her, serving her whole-heartedly all the while. Then, while on a trip to another land, Len sees a woman with green colored hair (Hatsune Miku) and falls in love with her instantly. However, the Daughter of Evil, being jealous of what she saw, orders Len to have her killed, in which Len obeys without any hesitation.
Later, the woman’s partner (Kaito) as well as an uprising army (lead by Meiko) attack the castle in which the evil princess is living in wanting to take the evil princess’s life. It was then her servant came up with an idea to save her by exchanging each other’s clothes and trade places instead. As they are identical twins, no one would be tell that the “evil princess” is actually a fake. Unsurprisingly, everyone fell for the trick and the servant, disguised as the princess, was sent to the execution table and beheaded, as the princess watches and grieves for her brother. However, Len says that he has no regrets and and was glad to be of service to her princess even till the very end.
(via Vocaloidism)
Let’s not forget the (fortunately) uplifting credits! The song is “Wadachi” by Hikutsu P (卑屈P), and the short animation at the end was by Yuuju. I’m not entirely sure who drew and animated the rest, however. Here’s the collaboration staff listing:
- Sonnaamashou (そんな甘蕉)
- Agi (アギ)
- Najio (なじょ)
- Nazekoreo P (何故これをP)
- Momogi (モモギ)
- Madoromi (まどろみ)
- Yuuju (悠樹)
The video is admittedly still slightly rough on the edges and hasn’t exactly escaped that “home-made” feel, but the quality’s definitely there. My current favourite is the first clip (“proof of life”/“soundless voice”). Rin’s body giving up the ghost and falling into the snow made me weep tears of sorrow. ( ;A;)
In fact, I can’t bring myself to watch this too many times, since all of the scenes are just too friggen’ depressing. Rin and/or Len dying thrice must have something to do with that. (; *A*)
While the title of the original video posting on Nico Nico Douga implies that it was just an attempt (してみた), the CM posting indicates that it’s complete (完成版アップです!). If that’s true, then that really sucks. I would love to see a more complete product. =(
Oh well.
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I watched Daughter of Evil before and only now did I find out that there was a Servant of Evil. Seeing Slave after Daughter helped make it more depressing….
I’ve listened to Soundless Voice and Prof of Life multiple times, and I always feel like crying…