Talk:スチールワンダー (Steel Wonder)/@comment-9098478-20191119013921

This is my very favorite Harumaki Gohan song! ^.^ Anyone else notice how most of the song is shown through how she perceives the world to be? It's pretty easy to miss and took me several watch-throughs to notice. For most of the song, the flower she has looks like a scribble or a blur, rather than a flower, because she is unable to conceptualize of the flower's beauty. In the first verse, she is looking at a book about flowers, showing that she /wants/ to understand on an intellectual level what she cannot grasp on a spiritual or psychological level. She knows it's a "flower" and that it's supposed to be beautiful, but cannot see its beauty for herself (all the other flowers in the video are also squiggles, like when she wakes up in the forest). The people are also depicted as squiggly and indistinct, as they are unknown to her, but the one human she does take interest in looks normal. When the little girl gives her the clip, she is able to see the world as it truly is, full of color, life, and beauty. The bond she established with another person allowed her to notice things she'd never noticed before. It could be said that ultimately she gained a "heart" through the power of love and friendship (cliche but true). This newfound reality is best shown when at the end of the song she returns to her home and the flower in the vase that was once a squiggle now looks like a flower.

Honestly, noticing this made me love the song even more ^.^