Me!Me!Me! Sequel

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Do you remember that weird ass anime music video that came out over a year ago? No, not that one. The other one. Of course you do. Well, apparently Anno and the good people over at Anime Expo decided to curse our dreams with a sequel.

So what do you think? Was it a symbolic work of art? More senseless 2deep4you bate? An annoying anime song with moderately tolerable visuals? What do you think the message was, if there was one?

Personally, I didn't think there was quite as much there, but it was certainly an experiance. I get the impression that it may be the story from the girls point of view, since we got the guy last time. Alternatively, since there were two girls in the last video, maybe there was a love triangle, and this girl got cut out of the picture. Perhaps the protagonist is trying to escape her problems in a sort of dream land in her imagination. Or maybe it's nonsense, and it's just trying to cash in on MeMeMe's success.

What do you think?
 

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It looks like a prequel to me since the guy in the original is still with his girlfriend, the bit in the city looks like a criticism of how everyone is on their fuckin' phones 24/7, the main girl is lonely and looks like she wants a fantasy prince to save her/be with her, maybe implied that the people in the city are too preoccupied to notice her? Looks like a happy ending though surprisingly.

Overall it looks a lot more all over the place than ME!ME!ME! Which I thought was really freaking good. MMM was (as I and a decent amount of people interpreted it as) about how one guy is struggling with the desire to be with his girlfriend who he broke up with vs a severe phobia of women. Ultimately losing to his phobia as he eventually sees his girlfriend as synonymous with his fear of women. Girlfriends tend to be y'know, girls afterall.

This looks like it's kind trying to tell multiple stories instead of one concrete story and it's not as good as the original. Still I might look up some articles later if someone finds a really cool interpretation of this.
 

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The Wykydtron said:
It looks like a prequel to me since the guy in the original is still with his girlfriend, the bit in the city looks like a criticism of how everyone is on their fuckin' phones 24/7, the main girl is lonely and looks like she wants a fantasy prince to save her/be with her, maybe implied that the people in the city are too preoccupied to notice her? Looks like a happy ending though surprisingly.

Overall it looks a lot more all over the place than ME!ME!ME! Which I thought was really freaking good. MMM was (as I and a decent amount of people interpreted it as) about how one guy is struggling with the desire to be with his girlfriend who he broke up with vs a severe phobia of women. Ultimately losing to his phobia as he eventually sees his girlfriend as synonymous with his fear of women. Girlfriends tend to be y'know, girls afterall.

This looks like it's kind trying to tell multiple stories instead of one concrete story and it's not as good as the original. Still I might look up some articles later if someone finds a really cool interpretation of this.
I kind of agree, I thought MeMeMe stood out more. However, I did look up the lyrics of MeMeMe to see if the new video changed my interpretation, and to my surprise, it actually did.

http://newvagabond.tumblr.com/post/107924032107/mememe-translation-by-newvagabond

There was definitely a love triangle, apparently. I think the MeMeMe song was being sung by the girl in this video, and she was being cheated on. Or maybe he was cheating on the other girl with her.

MeMeMe:
So good, so good
That girl looks fun
That girl I hate
So good, so good
That girl looks fun
That girl I hate

I don't think the video is as great on its own, but it did change the way I viewed the original. If you put them together their pretty good, I think.
 

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I don't think this will turn into a danke meme like the first one did.

Also, I thought the first video was quite a bit better because of the dark nature of the subject matter. There's a distinct addiction/masochist theme to ME!ME!ME! where the main character is obviously chasing after a dark sexual fantasy that is dangerous and destructive for himself. I think that's what makes it work - juxtaposition of the sexual imagery against the knowledge that it's leading the character directly into a personal type of hell.

The Wykydtron said:
Overall it looks a lot more all over the place than ME!ME!ME! Which I thought was really freaking good. MMM was (as I and a decent amount of people interpreted it as) about how one guy is struggling with the desire to be with his girlfriend who he broke up with vs a severe phobia of women. Ultimately losing to his phobia as he eventually sees his girlfriend as synonymous with his fear of women. Girlfriends tend to be y'know, girls afterall.
That's a very positive reading on it. I always thought it was very clear that the MC is struggling with otaku fetishism and how it's destroying his relationship with his girlfriend. It's a pretty dark video in that context where he destroys himself due to his fixations on otaku culture and perversion.
 

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Jake Martinez said:
I don't think this will turn into a danke meme like the first one did.

Also, I thought the first video was quite a bit better because of the dark nature of the subject matter. There's a distinct addiction/masochist theme to ME!ME!ME! where the main character is obviously chasing after a dark sexual fantasy that is dangerous and destructive for himself. I think that's what makes it work - juxtaposition of the sexual imagery against the knowledge that it's leading the character directly into a personal type of hell.

The Wykydtron said:
Overall it looks a lot more all over the place than ME!ME!ME! Which I thought was really freaking good. MMM was (as I and a decent amount of people interpreted it as) about how one guy is struggling with the desire to be with his girlfriend who he broke up with vs a severe phobia of women. Ultimately losing to his phobia as he eventually sees his girlfriend as synonymous with his fear of women. Girlfriends tend to be y'know, girls afterall.
That's a very positive reading on it. I always thought it was very clear that the MC is struggling with otaku fetishism and how it's destroying his relationship with his girlfriend. It's a pretty dark video in that context where he destroys himself due to his fixations on otaku culture and perversion.
You could look at it that way but I don't see the otaku stuff doing much of anything except being in his room. I don't see the guy doing the destroying, if we look at the guy's actions on their own a lot of it is either running away from women, attempting to fight women and getting his shit ruined by women. Yeah he does admire how cute the girls are but only for like the first 30 seconds before shit gets fucked and we get to distorted dubstep land.

If he was destroying himself in that kind of way, his own actions would have more to do with it but almost everything he does is entirely reactionary. He's doing zero chasing. He's fucking legging it in the opposite direction. You could argue that the women are a representation of otaku culture or whatever but I don't see enough evidence of it. There's no otaku stuff in the dreamscape, only in his room. I think we might see a giant mecha Rei or Asuka lookalike in there if that was the case but no.

He finds women sexually attractive but he cannot deal with them and finds them terrifying yet alluring. The women in that video are so, so aggressive even before they drown and eat him, the red room shows women as having strings attached under the surface and the scary mask the main chick wears symbolised that he finds women to be two faced (cuz she takes it off at one point) and/or impossible to read, hell even them being aggressively sexy scares him. Even his attempts at fighting back, which is symbolised in his sci-fi shooting section has them laughing at him even when they get liquidised.

I think the only part the whole figurines and anime stuff in his room mean is that he can only deal with 2D girls and figurines, things that only he can control and cannot possibly hurt him because real girls frighten him but he's still attracted the the female form. If his pieces of otaku culture were destroying him, I can't help but feel that his girlfriend and how he obviously still wants to be with her deep down wouldn't have been featured so prominently in the second half. She would probably have been shown as a villain denying him his anime or something.
 

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I always thought the first one was about a man who suffered delusions from watching to much anime. Envisioning himself as a sex god with a huge harem, being the guy in a love triangle with two beautiful women, and being a bad ass action hero. I considered the whole love triangle, but preferred the other one.

Best guess for this one, is that this is a sequel to the first one. The first one was also about a man leaving his girlfriend for another woman, only to regret the choice and fall into a delusions and depression. The girl in this video is the girl that the guy left his old girlfriend for, who he broke up with. So she started to do the exact same thing as him and envision herself in a happier world, with princes and where she is a magical girl. Only to have that shattered when she see's him with his old girlfriend all happy. My Japanese is non-existent, but the lyrics around the point she saw the couple seemed to say "Ski". Which could be short for "daski"[footnote]If some Japanophile, looking at you Van, comes along. I'm not too worried about the spelling.[/footnote]. Which whenever I've heard it used in a sentence is usually "I love/like you" and the fact that it's repeated so much and so quickly makes me think she's saying something like "No, No, No". So yeah, sequel.

Note: I've been up a long time and just got off an eight hour shift. Take it easy if this comes off as downright stupid.
 

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While this one is certainly very pretty and tones down the sexual imagery, which some people might prefer, and I still really like it, it lacks the edge of the first video to really leave a big enough impression, and I don't think it will have as big of a following.

I will say, the first video I was able to get and understand on the first viewing, mostly because it was dealing with an issue I was familiar with. This one is gonna take some time for me.

I am looking forward to a possible third video, though.
 

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I just viewed the first video as the guy in a self-destructive loop of pleasure (resulting in suffering, of course) perpetuated by the sexual imagery he was consuming, negatively affecting and ending his relationship with his girlfriend and showing how he ultimately tried to fix things, failing miserably. So he gets horribly chewed out by her and can't bring himself to come out of his room. The only girl I view as tangible in the entire thing is his (presumably) ex-girlfriend.

I guess there are certain ways you could interpret it as a criticism of the sexual imagery that sometimes pervades "modern anime" but I'm not sure if that's how I personally choose to interpret it.

This second one was pretty weird and I'm not really sure how to interpret it. Would probably make more sense if you did interpret it as a "love triangle" going on where both girls seem to feel betrayed in some way by the guy. With my interpretation I think it gets a little less...understandable.
 

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Solaire of Astora said:
I just viewed the first video as the guy in a self-destructive loop of pleasure (resulting in suffering, of course) perpetuated by the sexual imagery he was consuming, negatively affecting and ending his relationship with his girlfriend and showing how he ultimately tried to fix things, failing miserably. So he gets horribly chewed out by her and can't bring himself to come out of his room. The only girl I view as tangible in the entire thing is his (presumably) ex-girlfriend.

I guess there are certain ways you could interpret it as a criticism of the sexual imagery that sometimes pervades "modern anime" but I'm not sure if that's how I personally choose to interpret it.
I don't think it's criticism so much as it's just a portrayal of someone becoming a hikimori. It's obviously dramatized, right? Very few people, even genuine otaku, prioritize fake relationships over real relationships. Let me put it this way - the number one complaint on 4chan isn't "Boy, I wish my hot girlfriend would leave me alone so I can spend time with my 2d waifu."

I like the imagery in the video because I think it works on a dark level, but I don't for one second buy into the idea that the premise is sensible. I don't think it's meant to be a cautionary video, just someone exploring some ideas set along to music. Ergo: don't read too deeply into the premise.
 

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Okay, I'm going to give this my best shot. Please note that I watched, and agreed with, Gaijin Goomba's take on the original video, so that colors my take on this.

I do not know if this is a prequel or a sequel. If I had to bet, I'd say prequel, but here's what I got out of it.

The first girl isn't real. She is just an idea, probably your typical anime/manga sweetheart girl. Notice how she's wearing regular clothes i.e. a long sleeved sweeter, collar shirt, a mini-skirt done in sailor style, and those lovely thigh-high socks. This is the outfit that so many girls in manga and anime are always wearing. Because of this, she doesn't really seem to stand out (perhaps it's a way of saying the manga she's in isn't selling wildly), but in the back of her mind, there is this hyper-sexual version of her. That's the version we see singing, and the reason she exists is because of what happens to ALL anime girls: fans turn them into sexual objects. You know it's true. No matter the anime or manga, there are fans our there that want the girls to be in a swimsuit, underwear, or nothing at all.

Moving on. At first, she fights that temptation, or it doesn't bother her. But notice that things start to change when she takes a bite of the apple--and I'm sure most of us know what a girl taking a bite of an apple symbolizes. Anyway, she starts to change. Suddenly, she has a wand. A wand that looks a lot like those magic wands that magical girls always have. I take it that this is her, or at least the idea of her, trying to get more appeal (perhaps the author of the manga changing things, adding a touch of magic in hopes that more guys will pick up the work). Also note that she has a cat, another cliche in magical girl stuff.
Anyway, once she gets her wand, we see the sexual image of her again, probably saying "Hey, I'm still here, but if you think this will work, go right ahead..." Thus, she creates a whole world with her wand. She made up all this stuff, trying to make herself stand out (perhaps the author making the world to show its appeal).
What she does next is create her companion, which if I had to guess, is usually the boy character in these animes and mangas. Notice how it doesn't really have form, personality, or...anything. That's true of a lot of guys in these types of stories. They are presented almost as blank slates so that the reader can put himself in their shoes. That's supposed to be the reader she's leaning on.
Anyway, she looks over and sees the sexual image again, but ignores it and decides to wait. And for a moment, it seems the waiting will pay off. Her comes her knight in with his horse. Her story is finally doing well, and she's getting fans. Or, it could be her imagining what will happen, I'm not sure.
Whatever it was, it doesn't work. Her world fails and no one is interested in her (perhaps this is the author being told that no company wants to run the story because no one will want to read it). Enter the sexual version again. Notice how it pans down her barely-covered body, and then it stops...where it stops. Note how she has her fingers aligned. That...is a very suggestive pose for a girl, and I'm sure the next shot of it cutting to her face and her seeming to do "stuff" is not an accident.
This is her giving up. "Fine. I'll be hyper sexual, just like all the other girls!" (Fine, I'll make it a fan service story, and then I'll sell it no problem.) Her regular clothes disappear and she enters the real world. My take is that now the story she is in is published and it's out there. And what does she do once she's there? She DESTROYS the world. She turns girls into flowers, something that is meant to be seen as beautiful and nothing more, symbolizing how guys that get sucked into these things view all girls as nothing but pretty objects. Then, we see a guy get stripped down to nothing, and he starts tearing his chest out in the shape of a heart, but then he crumbles. I take this to mean that girls like this fill an imaginary hole in guys. They think they're in love and they want a girl exactly like this girl from the story, but she can't fill that hole and they fall apart.
She ends up creating her whole world in the real world, destroying a lot of lives (I think it means she's done this to a lot of guys), but then along comes the guy and his girlfriend.
The girlfriend, the real girl, is everything this fake girl is, plus more. She's cute, she's devoted to her boyfriend, but she has one thing the fake girl doesn't: She's REAL. She can really love her boyfriend, she can actually be there for him.

This destroys the fake girl and her world. She realizes that she'll never be like that, and she flees, heartbroken. Her spell won't work on this guy she thinks, and in that brief moment, she sees everything she'll never have.
We now see her stripped naked, crying. She's showing everything, using all of her tricks now, and it doesn't work. Or does it? We see a shadow appear over her, and suddenly this girl has emotion on her face.

What I think happened is that the boyfriend went, "Hm...this looks interesting," and the girlfriend, feeling perfectly secure in her relationship, said, "Good ahead, sweetie". Thus, the shadow we see at the end is the boyfriend starting down the dark path that he ends up on in the first video.


Anyway, that's my take on it. Again, I must remind people that I agreed with Gaigin Goomba's take on the first video, so that makes me see this video in a certain way. I could totally be wrong on everything here for all I know. I also am well aware that I don't speak Japanese and thus the lyrics could paint a very different picture.
 

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This seemed like the Rise of an Empire to the first Me!Me!Me!'s 300... This girl finally went for the dude after constantly daydreaming about her future boyfriend only to find out he already has a girlfriend... Meanwhile, while she was having her fantasy moments, the dude was debating about continuing his relationship with his current girlfriend and this video showed that he finally choose an answer, at least, instead of continuing his constant debate about relationships and shit...

Anyway, at this point, we just need one more video, only this time from the perspective of the girlfriend... and then we find out that the first video makes the second video look sadistic by comparison to the third video or some shit like that... I don't know... m:p
 

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Jake Martinez said:
I don't think it's criticism so much as it's just a portrayal of someone becoming a hikimori. It's obviously dramatized, right? Very few people, even genuine otaku, prioritize fake relationships over real relationships. Let me put it this way - the number one complaint on 4chan isn't "Boy, I wish my hot girlfriend would leave me alone so I can spend time with my 2d waifu."

I like the imagery in the video because I think it works on a dark level, but I don't for one second buy into the idea that the premise is sensible. I don't think it's meant to be a cautionary video, just someone exploring some ideas set along to music. Ergo: don't read too deeply into the premise.
I'm probably inclined to agree with you there. I just see the idea that it's critical to some degree of "otaku" culture floated around occasionally on the internet, which is why I mentioned that view on things. But for me it's still largely just the story of a fictional individual's experiences with his relationship and his descension into a shut-in lifestyle after it turns sour and isn't intended to be any sort of greater comment on fans of "anime" or "otakus."
 

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Fox12 said:
More senseless 2deep4you bate? An annoying anime song with moderately tolerable visuals?
I would say both.

It's just a shallow attempt at being meaningful, cuz look, society is bad with its cellphones and sex stuffs. It's made purposefully vague so that you can extract any meaning you want from it. Maybe they just made to make Me!Me!Me! look better in hindsight.
 

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Ehhh...

The reading I took from the original ME!ME!ME! (which I fucking loved, by the way) was this; He's broken up with or otherwise lost his girlfriend, perhaps over his pre-existing obsession with teh 2D, or for some other reason, and is lying in bed, zoning out, awash in escapism. The easy titillation with little to no input required on his part is a welcoming means of removal from the situation...a means to self gratification without the inherent struggles associated with teh 3D...to get away from the pain.

But he goes too far. He fills his life with it. Fills his time and, by extension, the void left by her with it. More and more until he's reached the tipping point. It's consuming him. The fun, happy facade crumbles away, leaving behind a rabid, raw, fetishized core. And it eats away at him. Literally (in terms of health) and figuratively (in terms of loss of interpersonal relationships).

He remembers the relationship he had. His failures during it. Her attempts to reach him and his subsequent dismissals. He realizes then, too late, that she'd been trying to help. That she was, for lack of a better word, 'real.' He regrets his actions, but can't do a thing about it...but, no! It can't be like that, can it? He can fight to get out of this rut, fight his way out of the escapist nature of his hobbies and work his way back, maybe to be with her once more-

But, no. He's too far gone. It's too easy to slink back and it just overwhelms him. And he wakes up again, to repeat the daily cycle once more.

Which is where the video begins again. And we do the "cycle continues" dance. :D


As for this one?

I've been putting off watching it, but I'll sit down and give it a good, hard oggle a bit later. Perhaps tomorrow. When I'm not so preoccupied with other stuff.
 

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I looked into the lyrics of the song for this one (actually, there's two. The video switches songs halfway through). Translated a small fragment of it.
It definitely seems to be from the girl's perspective, which fits with the video I guess.
The japanese version of the lyrics is listed on the original site for the video, but translating the whole thing would be a lot of work.
Also the end result is a little hard to interpret if, like me you mostly rely on google translate for it.

Still, these are the results of my translation efforts - The last lines of the second song:

ないものねだりなあとし
Desiring too much of it was after
いつから壊れて いたんでる
Or it is damaged and broken from time
ゆめみてたのあたし
I of dreamed
ゆめでもせれて嬉しかうた
Happy or song is not even in a dream


Obviously, with only such a small fragment of it, it doesn't give you much of a picture of what it's about overall, but definitely interesting.
And I didn't try and fix the grammar here, that's raw output from google translate, essentially.

Something else worth noting:
The titles of the two songs are:
Side A - 「さみしいかみさま」-> "Lonely god(ess)"
Side-B - 「ゆめみてたのわたし」→ "I had dreamed"

So... That seems a bit of a clue really.

The full japanese version of the lyrics can be seen with the original source for the video: http://animatorexpo.com/girl/
Maybe you can get a bit further with it than I did? XD
(There's two sets. A side, and B side. The video goes through both in order, just so you have a better idea of what you're looking at. I did confirm this. My japanese isn't good, and my knowledge of kanji sucks, but I can follow it well enough to know that the lyrics written there ARE what is in the video.)

Incidentally, I get the feeling in the end these may just be music videos for a particular artist.
Notice if you pay close attention both of them have songs by the same performer.
Is there a meaning? Or is it just a music video?

You know, the more of the songs I translate, the more disturbing the picture gets...

Here's what I have so far:

DAOKO Girl! lyrics

Side-A「さみしいかみさま」
"Lonely god(dess)"

触れたら崩壊 仮想の世界
Furetara hōkai kasō no sekai
World of Touch When collapse virtual
→ Virtual world collapses/crumbles when touched
?
?
?

さみしいかみさま
Samishī kamisama
Lonely god(ess)
あたしのこといってんの
Atashi no koto itten no
And are you doing saying things I
→ I am doing, and saying things
さみしくなんかない
Samishiku nanka nai
Lonely not something
→ not something lonely
さみしいとか考えない
samishii toka kangaenai
It is not thought to Toka lonely
→ It is not something like a lonely thought



To me, it suggests the girl in this video is very lonely, but got involved with a guy online. (see the guy from the first video)
Unfortunately, he already had a girlfriend in the real world.

His girlfriend finds out what he was up to online, and gets really upset but...

OK, so the theory here has a few holes in it.
Even so...
It's kind of scary what the lyrics seem to be implying.

actually, made a slight translation error.
changes the meaning somewhat, considering it means the song title is 'lonely god' (or more likely 'lonely goddess')
 

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It was entertainingly well animated, and I think I get the message (maybe). So there's this chick who is surrounded by all this fantastic scenery but ain't happy about it because she's all alone, with no human contact. A lonely paradise of sorts. Eventually she decides to go out to the real world and get to know it, interact with it. Only it's useless because everyone is preoccupied with their own little imaginary worlds and don't look at what surrounds them. That's probably what I imagine is the most difficult for people trying to break out of loneliness, the experience that the real world is big and empty with nothing there for you, making the imaginary experience preferable. And she also decides to do just that, and just imagines the world as she likes it, even if it isn't really like that. AND THEN she sees a guy who lives in the real world and has a happy relationship with another woman (I think that's the same guy who was in the previous short). Seeing them have something like that tears into her completely, and to cope she goes completely inside her own world again, where her dashing prince is of course waiting for her. I think the reason we don't see him is because it's not important what he would be to us, but what he means for her, a sort of Edward like in Twilight.
Also there might be something about female sexuality what with the masturbating and the vagina boats, but I don't know.
 

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Casual Shinji said:
Fox12 said:
More senseless 2deep4you bate? An annoying anime song with moderately tolerable visuals?
I would say both.

It's just a shallow attempt at being meaningful, cuz look, society is bad with its cellphones and sex stuffs. It's made purposefully vague so that you can extract any meaning you want from it. Maybe they just made to make Me!Me!Me! look better in hindsight.
When I think about it, there is a worrying possibility that maybe the case. It is absolutely possible to throw some shit together and film it a certain way so it appears meaningful. Though that's the case with a lot of (maybe most) art.
I remember seeing a painting once, and spent a good 15 minutes analysing it until I came to the conclusion that it was about how chaos and order are two sides of the same coin and one cannot really be without the other. Then I thought about it again for less than a minute and came to the conclusion that the painter could have painted it that way just because he thought it would look cool and people would analyse it and give him street-cred. I don't know anything about the artist or the painting, so I'll probably never know if either of those explanations fit.
 

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Halla Burrica said:
Casual Shinji said:
Fox12 said:
More senseless 2deep4you bate? An annoying anime song with moderately tolerable visuals?
I would say both.

It's just a shallow attempt at being meaningful, cuz look, society is bad with its cellphones and sex stuffs. It's made purposefully vague so that you can extract any meaning you want from it. Maybe they just made to make Me!Me!Me! look better in hindsight.
When I think about it, there is a worrying possibility that maybe the case. It is absolutely possible to throw some shit together and film it a certain way so it appears meaningful. Though that's the case with a lot of (maybe most) art.
I remember seeing a painting once, and spent a good 15 minutes analysing it until I came to the conclusion that it was about how chaos and order are two sides of the same coin and one cannot really be without the other. Then I thought about it again for less than a minute and came to the conclusion that the painter could have painted it that way just because he thought it would look cool and people would analyse it and give him street-cred. I don't know anything about the artist or the painting, so I'll probably never know if either of those explanations fit.
I like the short for what it is, but I feel like it undermines the original. Everyone assumed it was criticizing the otaku culture, and it's addiction to pointless fan service and escapism. Then I see all the fan service in this, and wonder if MeMeMe wasnt just about a guy with relationship problems.

It's like when I watched Angels Egg, and I looked up the interpretations, only to discover that most people watched it and got completely opposite messages. Sometimes I think artists just throw imagery together, and tell the audiance to figure it out for themselves. Which is a little disappointing, since the images sometimes contradict one another.
 

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OK, I've got translations for the lyrics now.
I'd love to take credit for it, but most of the VanQ did most of the translating for me.
Thanks for that. ^_^

触れたら崩壊 仮想の世界
It crumbles when you touch it. Imaginary world
何度も創りなおして
Doesn't matter how many time I rebuild it
ずっと待ってた 身体甘くして
I've always been waiting, alluring body
月の裏側から
From the dark side of the moon
さみしいかみさま
Lonely God
あたしのこといってんの
Are you talking about me?
さみしくなんかない
I'm not lonely
さみしいとか考えない
I don't think I'm lonely
ねえ きみの生まれた世界は
Hey, the world you were born in
きみの過ごしてる味は
Your excessive flavour
甘い 辛い しょっぱい 苦い
Sweet, spicy, salty, bitter
それとも 酸っぱいの?
Maybe even, sour?
どれくらいの愛情を
How much affection
この世界に向けてんの?
Are you turning toward this world?
影 嘘くさいな
Silhouettes, seem like a lie
仮面舞踏会みたい
Like a masquerade ball (This line I'm not entirely sure about. I think masquerade ball is what that means)
ぐるぐるぐるぐる まわる
Spinning round and round and round and round
すぐすぐすぐすぐ空いちゃう
Becoming free soon soon soon soon
ぽっかり空いた穴から
From the gaping void
甘い 淡い 痛い 溢れる
Sweet, faint, painful, overflowing
触れたら崩壊 仮想の世界
It crumbles when you touch it. Imaginary world
何度も創りなおして
Doesn't matter how many time I rebuild it
ずっと待ってた 身体甘くして
I've always been waiting, alluring body
月の裏側から
From ythe dark side of the moon
触れたら崩壊 妄想の果て
It crumbles when you touch it. Imaginary fate (果て could also mean limit or end)
何度も創りなおして
Doesn't matter how many times I rebuild it
ほらみて触れて
Here look, touch it
何か感じて 本当のアタシを
I can feel it. The real me?
触れたら崩壊 妄想の果て
It crumbles when you touch it. Imaginary fate
何度も創りなおして
Doesn't matter how many times I rebuild it
触れた途端に崩れて消える
The instant it's touched, it crumbles into nothing
あたしの中のアタシ
My inner self
I 愛 I 愛 I 愛 しりたい
Love, love, love, I want to know
I 愛 I 愛 I 愛 あいして
Love, love, love, I want to Love
I 愛 I 愛 I 愛 アイがなくちゃ
Love, love, love, without love
この世界は破滅よ
This world will fall to ruin

ゆめみてたのあたし
The me that saw a dream
天と地の丁度真ん中
In between heaven and earth
浮遊する揺るがないあたし
The me that floats without swaying
誰もが羨むんだ
Everyone envied me
唯一 絶対的な存在
Unique, an absolute existence
こんにちは
Hello
こんばんは
Good evening
おはよう
Good morning
はじめまして ありふれていて
Nice to meet you, it was mundane
当たり前でないふれあいを 知りたいの
I want to know an unusual meeting
求めているから
I'm wishing for it
対等の 価値ある何かを ありったけ あたしにだけ
Something equal, all that you have, give it just to me
運命 奇跡 導きがあって
I have fate, miracles, and guidance.
あたしに会えたあなたは幸せ
You've been happy since you met me.
足りないものしかない
With only lacking things (tarinaimono is really hard to translate to english. damn.)
足りないものしかみえない
I see only lacking things
あたし以外のすべて
All except for me
きらめいてみえるのなんで?
Why does it sparkle so?
楽しいな 楽しいよね
How fun, isn't this fun?
嬉しいな 嬉しいよね
How happy, aren't you happy?
あなたもそうならみんな同じ
If you are too then everyone's the same
話しましょう 何から話そう
Let's talk, what should we talk about?
ワクワクするね ドキドキするね
Are you trembling? Is your heart throbbing?
今が一番 幸せ
Now is the happiest I've ever been
みんなと出会えて良かった
I'm glad to have met everyone
あたし ひとりじゃないんだ
I'm not alone
満たされた願望
Satisfied desires
これが求めてたきもち
Is this the feeling I wished for?
あたしもみんなと同じ きらめいてみえるはず
I should sparkle, like everyone else
叶ったはずの夢だ
A dream that should have been fulfilled
これが求めてた居場所?
Is this the place I wished for?
まだあたし以外がすべて
Still, everything but me
きらめいてみえるの
Seems to sparkle
叶ったはずの夢だ
A dream that should have been fulfilled
足りないものしかない
With only lacking things
足りないものしかみえない
I see only lacking things
あたし以外のすべて
Everything but me
きらめいてみえる理由
Why does it sparkle?
すき、スキ、好き、大好き。
Like, like, like, LOVE
ないものねだりなあたし
The me that asked for too much
いつから壊れていたんだろ
Since when have I been broken?
ゆめみてたのあたし
The me that saw a dream
ゆめでもみれて嬉しかった
It was just a dream, bit I'm glad I saw it

I can't say it really makes it all that much clearer, but it does give a bit of a sense of what it's about.

It does somewhat mirror the video though.
The girl is lonely, tries to build a world of her own, but it crumbles if she touches it.

Something about having fun in 'our' world, only to realise she still didn't find what she was looking for.
Then she found it, but realised it was something she could never have...

It's a tricky one. Very confusing.
Is the girl in the video, real, or imaginary? (Like the worlds she apparently makes that crumble apart)

If she isn't quite real herself, then it kind of makes sense how she couldn't find anyone that can love her for real...

Definitely seems to have some issue around real or imagined worlds, finding what you're looking for...
And... Never being satisfied even when you think you've found it?

In some ways I guess it could still reflect a similar concept to the most prevailing theory about the first video.
It's not quite as confusing with the lyrics, but it still isn't exactly clear.
Probably never will be. XD
 

Zhukov

The Laughing Arsehole
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a) Music videos get sequels?

b) Looks like a fairly conventional pop music video to me. Except with anime.

c) Kitten!