Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai - Interpretations on "part of Me" PV

Ayumi Hamasaki Sekai (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/index.php)

- Ayu Chat-Room (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=20)

- - Interpretations on "part of Me" PV (http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55909)

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

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Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 1024637)

IMO, it wasn't that complex.. it seemed pretty simple to me anyway. A tree with a background, and Ayu. With some random animals. :p

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~

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Originally Posted by truehappiness (Post 1025005)

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

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Originally Posted by Endlessoul (Post 1024097)

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

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

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:

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In Japanese folklore there are tales told of people who turned into snakes after death because of their evil ways and their miserly habits. A male becomes a serpent because his desires are not satisfied in life. A female snake appears as an attractive woman who marries a human: if rejected by her lover, her jealously will cause disaster. Women are often associated with snakes because of tales told of them being fierce and possessive towards their lovers. [...] Some people are reborn in the guise of snakes after death when they wish to avenge wrongful deeds. [...] Snakes were not always thought of as symbols of evil, but also of love with no bounds. "Long ago in Keicho era, there lived a beautiful girl in Senju in the province of Musashi. A bachelor called Yaichiro fell in love with her and sent her many missives of love to her; but she did not respond. Yaichiro died of sorrow, and the girl married someone else. On the morning after the wedding, the couple didn’t emerge from their room. When the bride’s mother entered, she found the bridegroom dead, and a snake crawling out of one of the bride’s eyes. The villagers believed that the snake was none other than the heartbroken Yaichiro." [...] Immortals are also depicted carrying a three-legged frog, or pictured riding on a giant carp or a horse.

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*