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I dunno why I suddenly have this change of taste for music, especially metal. To be honest, I've never liked metal genres, but this band took my interest in first listen. Famous for their talent in fusing heavy metal with different genres of music, such as; rap, idol, and some rock and electronic, this band is really got me crazy for metal till now. Their self-titled album consists of many famous singles like "Megitsune", "Gimme Chocolate", "Doki Doki Morning", and "Ijime, Dame, Zettai". If you're a lover of "not super heavy metal", I'm pretty sure you'll love them. Try some of these songs...

Expelled from Paradise, a Japanese animated sci-fi movie released on Dec 2014.

"Expelled from Paradise" poster

I'm still unsure if many have watched it or not, but I do believe this is definitely one film I need to share out. But before I begin, of course, SPOILERS!

PLOT
Angela Balzac is an agent at the space station DEVA, whose inhabitants have no physical bodies, their minds digitized and processed into a virtual reality environment. After failing to track down the hacker known as "Frontier Setter", who had infiltrated DEVA's systems dozens of times to gather allies for his cause with no success, she is tasked to look for him down on Earth, now a barren planet where the rest of the humans live. After being given an organic body and sent to the surface, Angela meets Dingo, her contact on Earth, who cuts off all communications with her base, in order to prevent Frontier Setter from discovering their location as well, despite her protests.

Angela and Dingo's investigations lead them to an abandoned city, where they meet Frontier Setter, who is revealed to be an AI developed to supervise the construction of Genesis Ark, a ship designed for deep space travel, and somehow developed a conscience, continuing its work long after its masters perished. Realizing that Frontier Setter intends to do no harm at all, Angela leaves her body and reports to her superiors at DEVA, who order her to destroy it, fearing that it may eventually become a threat, but she refuses. Angela is then sentenced to have her mind stored into an archive forever, but Frontier Setter hacks into the system to rescue her. Once Angela returns to Earth and her body with supplies and weaponry, she and Dingo join forces to hold back DEVA's other agents long enough for a rocket carrying Frontier Setter and the final module to complete the Genesis Ark to be launched, and run away afterwards, while Frontier Setter starts its journey though space.
(Source: Wikipedia)

Critics..
This is one amazing movie I should've watched the first time my friend recommended me, but I still got a spare time to watch it anyways. First off, the story of the film is good in a sense it doesn't bore me, but what makes me wonder is how a hot appealing 16 year old girl walking in a sexy spacesuit (I think that's what they call it) doesn't get anyone's attention in the town. I mean, she is super annoying and wearing a sexy suit, how can no one notice that?! Anyways, musically, the film sure has a way with using simple "according to the scene" that makes you feel related. The animations are somewhat amazingly colorful yet disturbingly 3D, I'm not saying that the 3D animation is bad, is just that they might've brought the animation a bit too realistic, and sometimes, I feel like the calm scenes just doesn't stand out much. Character development is one of the best things I find so far in this film, and I'll admit that I love all 3 of the main characters in the film, and really... you gotta watch this film if you love animated films 'cause this one is colorful and technological at the same time. Overall, a good film that describes what being human is like, and literally one of my favourite Japanese films.

Before I begin, this video contains graphics of nudity and gore. Not recommended for everyone!
First off, my interest on this music video wasn't because of the nudity and such, but rather than the meaning behind it. There's so much possibilities of interpretation of the music video, and since I can't understand the lyrics at first sight, it just made me even more curious to watch it again.

My first impression was that the main character (guy) was once in a relationship with the colourful girl, but since he wanted "something more" from her, he started to lose her due to his addiction (the demon girl might be represented as "Addiction"). But again, there is a possibility that the "demon" represents his new girlfriend, which is far worse than his previous caring girlfriend, and controls over him instead of loving him, and there was a scene in where the guy fights the demon to get the girl back, but unlike the typical American endings, he lost not only the girl but everything he owns. However, that's my point of view if the guy was once coupled with the girl.
The other possibility I could've think of is that the colourful girl represents his colourful childhood memories, and again, the demon represents anything evil. There's a scene in where the guy leaves the colourful one (which started fading colors, and like real life, childhood memories fades), but then again, he wants to go back to her (but was too late and gets taken control by the demon within him).
There are still a lot of interpretations going on about this MV, and since I'm still unsure what the lyrics are saying. It's probably best to relate the lyrical meaning to the video. Still, this video is really artistic in a sense of sending message. Although nudity might've been one of the major problem why this MV gets backed off, I think people should see the video in a deeper sense instead of seeing it in a shallow manner and mark it "p**nography".
Musically, this song is (just as expected from Japan) super electronic, and if you simply listen to the music without watching the video, it's actually really good (athough there's going to be a part where the song turns dark all of a sudden). Lyrically, I still don't understand the meaning that much, so I'm going to take some time understanding it.
What do you think the MV means? Share your thoughts below!