Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Another Face to Ten-Faced

There is something else I should admit. I love Vocaloids, almost all of them. But there is on song I have heard recently that I find interesting: that would be Megapoid Gumi's Ten-Faced. Note: The rest of this post will contain spoilers about this song/video. But I have a video provided so you can hear this song for yourself.



Basically the idea of the song is that Gumi had her heart broken by a guy she liked, which causes her to create new personalities to cope with the pain. Eventually she ends up with 10 different personalities (including the original one), none of them know that these other personalities exist and share no memories. However, all these personalities start to fall in love with the same man. The man realizes that Gumi has all these different personalities inside and gives all the personalities an ultimatum: he will only love one personality. Eventually he tells the original Gumi personality this ultimatum and she realizes that she has developed multiple personalities.

Most people interpret that Gumi discards her extra personalities and ends up with the guy or realizes all the personalities are a part of her and melds them together. However, I would like to propose an alternate interpretation: I think that the original Gumi discards her love for this guy and accepts her extra personalities. This might seem weird, but here's what I see. Near the end of the song she realizes that she obtained her extra personalities because of her denied love before, and says that it's her duty to get her hands on one love and "then I guess I'm already done". Seems fine and normal, except that during the video a white flag is shown during that part which often signifies surrendering. She also mentions how her other personalities have already realized the others' existence. So I feel like Gumi has surrendered her right to this guy because she feels like she is late to the game. Then she mentions "Well for the end, let's laugh together." Then she says goodbye, and welcome back: Basically saying goodbye to her would-be-lover and welcomes her new personalities, hoping that they can all be friendly with each other.

So that is my interpretation of Ten-Faced. If you have any other interpretations or disagreements you can comment on it down below.