Interpretations on "part of Me" PV
 

Ok, this is another PV from ayu that finally has things that can be interpretted and isn't as random as Moments was.


The PV has a very strong connection to the lyrics.

Basically, the PV talks about the feeding chain, and how materia is recycled from one being into another. If you look at it, the mantis has a part of the butterfly, and the snake now has a part of the mantis AND the butterfly.
ayu dies, her body decays, and it become into roots (the hair) which will grow into the plants with flowers. Yeajh, the feeding chain. So what does it have to do with the lyrics?

In the lyrics she mentions her feelings are so connected to her lover's that she actually thinks they had to have been part of the same being into another life. She feels part of her has to belong to her lover because their feelings are so mutual, they're almost like one person, one love. It also shows, how much she depends on the love of her lover to feel complete, as if she's feeding on his love, the same way the mantis had to feed on the butterfly in order to survive.

Oh well, there's much to it like all those other people but I'm too lazy to strain my brain for that now, so let's just read more opinions!


The lyrics translation by masa can be found here: http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55908

i believe this pv and the lyric are talking about "SOULMATE"
you're part of me, and i'm part of you...

Wow, it's Ming Dao/183Club guy. D:

This PV has that momentum-y feeling of her "being" there but not really.

Like, when they're sort of "praying" and she's kind of just dying next to the tree..

yeah, definitely about soulmates, the lyrics and the PV. Reason why I think she makes a metaphor with the feeding chain as in life is interchangeable between living beings, and so is love between soulmates.

hahaha yes yes, it's MING DAO.. my current crush..hihihi :D

anyway...
the red kimono she's wearing on the PV reminds me of one of her TV-CM or a cover... i can't remember anymore..

Yeah, a very unique way to express what she feels in the song.

TV-CM AND Cover.

The cover for Ayu-mi-x IV Acoustic Orchestra version and the CM as well~
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/463...cousticdt1.jpg

And..

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7023/ayumixivio2.png

I got beaten to it D:

i love your interpretations ImpactBreaker good job...
hmm feeding chain...ayu really thoughtful about something

nice one ImpactBreaker...ITS SO MEANINGFUL...mannn, i love this PV and song more now..
have been waiting for this...i knew there was something to do with the life cycle...

i think the death and life cycle is related to her theme of "reincarnation" as well?

but...some pts..
1) the chinese palace maids and servants
2) horse

you are what you eat.

lol ayu ate hair before she died then

The question is whose hair?

the pv shows ayu decaying????
OMG this is scary! i am not sure i want to wach the pv now

ayu's a princess in the PV, right?

ShI AhWaiZ Un ~*~PriNCEsS~*~

I totally agree. And also I think it's about how we, as humans, are part of the cylical sphere of life too--thus Ayu becoming one with the tree, etc XD

Maybe, those people, were there to umm, see the death of ayumi or something? What do the people symbolize? I also think the white-ish Ayu is the dead one...and she's reflecting?

Oh I'm just lost

Dunno but definitely someone with a very ugly hair dye. (From the japanese artists I can think of that have used bad hair dye, koda kumi pops to my mind -not trying to compare or clash both, it's just that it ended up being a coincidence LOL-...koda can have some ugly hair dyes XD)

I like to this of it like this:

She's alone at the tree waiting for someone for a very long time.. her life is almost over and she knows it, but she keeps holding out and waiting for the person to arrive.

Eventually, she accepts death and lets herself go. In the other side, she is reunited with the person she was waiting for; he already died and she didn't know.. As she accepted death as a part of life, she freed herself from the despair...

Another concept in the PV is that life leads to more life. The mantis could live because the butterfly died, and then the snake could live because the mantis died. The flowers blossomed because Ayumi died... It might be wrong, but I remember hearing one time that in Bhuddism, everything is reincarnated... This goes along with the theme of the lyrics; having loved someone in a past life...

I wouldn't think that she died, since she was up there the whole time..

It was more: She knew that he was always "there," and when the time finally came for him to come up to where she was, she was right there waiting..

So was he the snake? And was she that bug thing? o.o

And why did he have to eat her like that? That was rude.

LOL maybe she's into rough guys? :laugh

LOL you're so naughty :swink

But yeah I didn't get that part o.o And also the whole growing of the hair thing.

Like did her hair turn into plant food or something? So that the flowers could grow and look pretty? O.O

Or maybe the tree was lonely and needed flowers for friends. Like how ayu needed that guy to join her wherever she was...

But then the snake thing... weird... and then he was part of her... his hair was blond just like hers with a black streak...

UGH I don't know :dead2

I think that "she" created new life..

So the flowers = her..?
And if the mantis is her, then so is the butterfly that got eaten by the mantis.. D:

The snake eating mantus really remind me of animal planet or Nature program.

But the guy in the end remind me of Titus from FF-X for some reason. I think it's the hair.

I think it makes sense now, sorta, Shuya is there in a different time period, and ayumi is there at a different time period...and at the end, they are together


erm......yeah....?

the part that doesn't make sense for me is about the "snake", the "alive hair" eating the grasshopper (right?), as it's squeek to death..it seems pretty scare...
then ayu's covered by her own hair...

what are the different between ayu in red kimono and ayu in white kimono in the end hugging the prince acted by Shuya?

i only can make sure that the lyric of this song is somehow about soulmate~

i'll give it a try...

butterfly, mantus and snake scene:
no matter how beautiful or powerful u r, something/someone is better thn u. ayu's trying to say that no matter how many powerful things she had done in the past, something would eventually replace her.

people with lantern scene:
those are the ones ayu missed. from the start till the very end, ayu's always alone and its quite obvious to prove that point with ayu's expressions.
when those people are introduced, they seems to be at the same place but cant c ayu. so this created that "so near yet so far" kinda feeling.

ayu dying scene:
ayu, a geisha is always so beautiful for the sake of the audience. so she had enough n gave up(letting down of hair). when she do this, she sacrifices everything she gained (cutting of blossoms).
after she "dies", she finally get to spend time with her loved ones again.

flowers and horse scene:
the flowers are the result of ayu's dead body. this means that when she's gone, it doesnt means there's no beauty left, beauty generates itself.
the horse is wad brings ayu up to this beautiful place. so in the end, when ayu's gone, it waits for its next owner n bring he/she to another beautiful place. this may imply that ayu sets a level in the media. so when she's gone, someone is going to continue the route to another level.

so this pv means a "goodbye" or "let me have some private time first" PERSONALLY

I don't think that she was portraying a geisha..

Damn deep PV
I would cry watching it
It chained and chained

^ geisha-like...

It's a mixture of Moments, Will and aymix 4 to me.

It is said that the PV plot is based on an old tale in Japan. When a beautiful woman(ayu and also the butterfly) was killed by an evil (the mantus), she died and turned into a snake to revenge. (the snake eating the mantus) The horse stands for the guy played by Shuya who defended the butterfly. Through thick and thin they were finally together. And that's what the PV tries to show: Jack shall have Jill.

That is what I've heard.

ooh i see, thanks for the impretations, now i understand

i love this pv :D

so what's the meaning of showing shuya at the end embracing full of love with ayu?

ehm..
i think ayu in the PV represents a princess whose life is prohibited/controlled by law since the setting is liked in the emperor era where she can't freely go outside to see the world and even have relationship with men or with her loved ones.
she always wanders around alone only in the area of the emperor's garden with the horse beside her.

then, she somehow can't stand anymore with the pressure like that, she falls apart and rotten to death and she leaves a message by having flowers (is it?) grow from her grave which means that she'll never give up or something.

and finally, in another life, she comes back again and finally, she meets again with the one she loves, it's SHuya...

this PV probably means that "no matter how big obstacles keep on separating us with our loved ones, but with all our strenghs and beliefs, we'll always be together in the end"

it's somehow like "faith can't be beaten by humans"

Has anyone figured out what the horse is about other than what Endlessoul has said??? XD

oh also,
Geisha are the one only woman that dress that with that hair....as in, in Japanese history...

Didn't Heian high class court ladies also wore those heavy kimonos?

Yeah, cause the horse must have a pretty big meaning since it's the last thing shown...along with the flowers.

probably that horse means SHUYA???
and the flowers are AYU?
coz the blonde hair ayu and the blonde hair SHUYA are somehow like meeting again at HEAVEN?

then on the earth, it only left for the horse and flowers?

*why the song's lyric has a meaning like HEAVEN ? ehmmmm~*

Maybe the horse was there just to look pretty, just like the sakura trees? LOL

I think that Anthony caught most of it in his quite simple post in the other part of Me thread...

To me 99% of what's in this thread is pretty much over thinking, although I'm sure there is meaning to the PV a lot that has been said in here is quite crazy. Sorry for not contributing very much, but I also didn't like the PV very much.

No no, someone said that it was too gaudy or w/e and could've been simpler..

I was just saying that it didn't seem that "packed with effects/scenes"~ Not that the symbols and stuff weren't there.. :O

I think everyone may have different Interpretations on the pv~
Perhaps thats what ayu wants to do..
This makes the pv inspiring~

Yeah, but I still think it fit my thoughts for this thread :). I'm sorry I didn't clarify the context of the post, I should have.

whatever it is..
the PV is so beautiful as well as its lyric..

check youtube out for another guy's interpretation

um... I also think in that way ^^

Here is my understanding:

First, we have 2 Ayu: white and red.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...nap-504527.png
The white Ayu:

Why her hair is white? It’s not blone, actually the background is yellow so we see her hair is blone, but it’s white. She has been waiting for her lover for a long time, maybe a whole of her life, that’s why her hair changes from black to white.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...nap-500244.png
The red Ayu:

From my thinking, I’m not sure she is still alive or not. Sometimes I think she is already dead, what we see is just a footage show us about her dead. Anyway, it’s one of my opinions. Maybe she is still alive and she always stands under the maidenhair tree (no cherry tree here) with the horse until she is dead. Why I think in this way? You should see the background, it’s red. The red color is the color of hell, of blood, of dead.

- The butterfly for me is a symbol for a short life of people. And the mantus was the time, also destiny. When mantus kill the butterfly means you can’t resist the destiny. And the snake is a god of revenge. As I remember, snake in Japan is a symbol of Shinto (kami – God) means about the reincarnation – the wheel of distiny. When you dead, you will become another one – born again in another thing – the new life in second life.

- The horse symbolize for freedom. Why the horse is tied up with the tree? Maybe Ayu wants to say that she likes the horse, she choose the promise with her lover, stay and wait for him forever. She ties herself with the promise like the horse, in place of freedom.

The most beautiful scene in this PV for me is when Ayu falls down after she draw out 9 brooches hairpin. I think this action means she finally decide to accept the dead comes to her. After dead, Ayu’s body becomes one with the tree. She still here, her soul, continue waiting her lover. She is blossom to improve that.

Maybe :D I like this way of thinking ^^

The butterfly also is Ayu. Eventhough how long she is waiting, when the time pass by, she becomes old and have to die. Her life is short like a butterfly, can’t resist the power of time.

Nothing is exist forever although tree, soul and love.

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Sorry for my bad English :P

miayu: no your english is understandable..i love ur interpretation..
well let's say that this PV is about SOULMATE..
it doesn't go nowhere..

great analogy. thanks :) i couldn't figure it out.

miayu: I agree with your interpretation :), though I'm still a little unsure about the animal creatures presented in this PV, there are many possibilities..

It's like Voyage film I think, isn't the first time that Ayu talks about the soulmates and the reincarnation

I found this, is very interesting:

Is Ayu the snake? If this is true, Ayu is also the butterfly... then, who killed the butterfly? Who's the mantis?

I think maybe she was deeply sad about an old love and she felt died, but now her new love make feel reborn.

She=Butterfly
Old love=Mantis
Reborn=Snake

Immortality=Horse?

Ayu turn to nature like the butterfly turn to snake, and the horse is the symbol of these immortality.

wow arigatou for your interpretations!! ^_^
Now when I'll watch the PV I will be thinking about what you guys said!! ^_^

nice finding sakamoko!

I also think that when ayu.s hair is growing is like time passes while she waits her true love, then she dies and never finds him.

OoO Very interesting!

At first I thought the PV was sort of boring, but I think after 2 or 3 times it really started to make me think. I hadn't read the lyrics until I started going through this thread, so I still don't know if I can come up with some good analysis XD

Do u think that this PV thinking all about is... is it??

Do ayu really have a complicated PV??

I think that for Japanese people or everybody that know a lot the Japanese folklore is easy to interpret.

But yes, even so is a complicated PV, but don't forget that for Avex/Ayumi is the A BEST 2 PV, must be special, more than others.

I still have my own thoughts about this PV in my mind..
I just cant write it out...
*sigh*