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Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242
The interludes did do their jobs, but "a cup of tea" sucks lol
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Given that I don't really care about this interlude, I've always thought that they way it sounds + its title point to an "alice in wonderland" landscape which would introduce the sound which comes after it and the way themes are going to be treated from now on. Both in ESM and the next love the voice who's talking seems that of an alicesque ayu. In ESM she's supposedly a little girl who doesn't really understand what's going on around her and the few things she CAN understand get obliviated in a wonderland-like way: eyes, smoke and then magic. She doesn't want to see it probably and instead refuges in a world of magic, fantasy. Everything is sublimated in some way. in The next love we have again the figure of a little ayu (she again talks about mama, how she used to tell her that she'd find a prince and so on.) who, looking herself in her mother's mirror (
looking-glass anyone?) thought she could become "anything she wanted to" (again an escape into a wonderland through the "looking-glass"). In here though ayu takes the distance from that little girl and does the point of the situation. She's not little anymore, she has to deal with her own problems... (thus the series of question. When Did I last believe in something I couldn't see? When did I start hating myself? Am I an adult now?") The wonderland is shattered, she's a grown up, lonely, sad woman ("where is it possible to find love? what's its form? Where did you (written with the kanji for female, so she's referring to women)
buy it?) no longer believing in the illusion of the charming prince who would have woken her up from her sleep, according to mama's words, she feels the depression of the reality. That's what I think
